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August 2000, Vol. 123, No. 8

Publications received

Fernandez, Raquel and Richard Rogerson, Sorting and Long-Run Inequality. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 35 pp. (Working Paper 7508.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Gruber, Jonathan and Botond Koszegi, Is Addiction "Rational"? Theory and Evidence. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 52 pp. (Working Paper 7507.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

International Labour Office, Sources and Methods: Labour Statistics, Transition Countries Companion to the Yearbook of Labour Statistics, Vol. 9. 1999, 499 pp. Available in the United States from the Washington branch of ILO, Waldorf, MD.

Israel, Central Bureau of Statistics, Monthly Bulletin of Statistics. February 2000. Jerusalem, Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, 156 pp.

Manski, Charles, Economic Analysis of Social Interactions. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 41 pp. (Working Paper 7580.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Social Security Administration, Annual Statistical Supplement to the Social Security Bulletin, 1999. Washington, 2000, 393 pp. Stock No. 753–001–00017–4. $35. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, SSOP: Washington, DC 20402–9328

Economic growth and development

Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Canada…The Place to Be: Annual Immigration Plan for the Year 2000. Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Communications Branch, Ottawa, Ontario, 1999, 17 pp.

Edwards, Sebastian and Alejandra Cox Edwards, Economic Reforms and Labor Markets: Policy Issues and Lessons from Chile. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 66 pp. (Working Paper 7646.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Freeman, Richard B., Single Peaked vs. Diversified Capitalism: The Relation Between Economic Institutions and Outcomes. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 45 pp. (Working Paper 7556.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Lerner, Josh and Jean Tirole, The Simple Economics of Open Source. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 38 pp. Working Paper 7600.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Education

Acemoglu, Daron and Joshua Angrist, How Large Are the Social Returns to Education? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1999, 42 pp. (Working Paper 7444.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Card, David and Thomas Lemieux, Dropout and Enrollment Trends in the Post-War Period: What Went Wrong in the 1970s? Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 59 pp. (Working Paper 7658.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Hall, Bronwyn, H., Albert N. Link, and John T. Scott, Universities as Research Partners. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 46 pp. (Working Paper 7643.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Krueger, Alan B. and Diane M. Whitmore, The Effect of Attending a Small Class in the Early Grades on College-Test Taking and Middle School Test Results: Evidence from Project Star. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 42 pp. (Working Paper 7656.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Industrial relations

Appelbaum, Eileen and others, Manufacturing Advantage: Why High-Performance Work Systems Pay Off. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2000, 259 pp. $19.95, paper.

Blau, Francine D. and Ronald C. Ehrenberg, eds., Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace. New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 2000, 301 pp. $14.95, paper.

Frenkel, Stephen J. and others, On the Front Line: Organization of Work in the Information Economy. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1999, 318 pp. $19.95, paper.

Ichniowski, Casey and others, eds., The American Workplace: Skills, Compensation, and Employee Involvement. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000, 287 pp. $54.95.

Kennedy, Brenda L. Interest-Based Collective Bargaining: A Success Story. Kingston, Ontario, Queen’s University, Industrial Relations Center, IRC Press, 1999, 20 pp.

Ozaki, Muneto, ed., Negotiating Flexibility: The Role of the Social Partners and the State. Geneva, International Labour Organization, 1999, 157 pp. bibliography. Available in the United States from the Waldorf, MD. Office.

Palokangas, Tapio, Labour Unions, Public Policy and Economic Growth. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000, 237 pp. $64.95.

Rochelle, Chantal de la, Team Training: Does It Increase Satisfaction and Improve Performance? Kingston, Ontario, Queen’s University, Industrial Relations Center, IRC Press, 1999, 19 pp.

Storrs, Landon R. Y., Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers’ League, Women’s Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 2000, 392 pp. bibliography. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.

Wong, Daniel F., Attendance Management Programs: Doing It Right. Kingston, Ontario, Queen’s University, Industrial Relations Center, IRC Press, 1999, 25 pp.

Lerner, Josh, 150 Years of Patent Office Practice. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 44 pp. (Working Paper 7477.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Luger, Stan, Corporate Power, American Democracy and the Automobile Industry. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000, 208 pp.

Labor and economic history

Phelan, Craig, Grand Master Workman: Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 2000, 294 pp. $65.

Labor force

Autor, David H., Outsourcing at Will: Unjust Dismissal Doctrine and the Growth of Temporary Help Employment. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 49 pp. (Working Paper 7557.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Bean, Frank D. and Stephanie Bell-Rose, eds., Immigration and Opportunity: Race, Ethnicity, and Employment in the United States. New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 1999, 425 pp. $39.95.

Bertrand, Marianne, Douglas Miller, and Sendhil Mullainathan, Public Policy and Extended Families: Evidence from South Africa. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 46 pp. (Working Paper 7594.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Bix, Amy Sue, Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs: America’s Debate Over Technological Unemployment 1929–1981. Baltimore, MD, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, 378 pp. $45.

Blau, Francine D., Lawrence M. Kahn, and Jane Waldfogel, Understanding Young Women’s Marriage Decisions: The Role of Labor and Marriage Market Conditions. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 40 pp. (Working Paper 7510.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Card, David and John E. DiNardo, Do Immigrant Inflows Lead to Native Outflows? Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 22 pp. (Working Paper 7578.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Cassoni, Adriana, Steven G. Allen, and Gaston J. Labadie, The Effects of Unions on Employment: Evidence from an Unnatural Experiment in Uruguay. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000,46 pp. (Working Paper 7501.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Costa, Dora L., From Mill Town to Board Room: The Rise of Women’s Paid Labor. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 34 pp. (Working Paper 7608.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Fairlie, Robert W. and Bruce D. Meyer, The Effect of Immigration on Native Self-employment. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 42 pp. (Working Paper 7561.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Freeman, Richard and Ronald Schettkat, Law Wage Services: Interpreting the U.S.—German Differences. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 25 pp. (Working Paper 7611.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

_____,Skill Compression, Wage Differentials and Employment: Germany vs. the US. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.., 2000, 28 pp. (Working Paper 7610.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Rosen, Shwerin and Allen Sanderson, Labor Markets in Professional Sports. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 35 pp. (Working Paper 7573.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, Competing for Federal Jobs: Job Search Experiences of New Hires. (A Report to the President and the Congress of the United States by the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board.) Washington, 2000, 24 pp.

Labor organizations

Lichtenstein, Nelson, What’s Next for Organized Labor? The Report of the Century Foundation Task Force on the Future of Unions. New York, The Century Foundation Press, 1999, 127 pp.

Prices and living conditions

Gruber, Jonathan, Youth Smoking In The U.S.: Prices and Policies. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 45 pp. (Working Paper 7506.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Productivity and technological change

Adams, James D., Endogenous R&D Spillovers and Industrial Research Productivity. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 38 pp. (Working Paper 7484.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

_____, Eric P. Chiang and Jeffrey L. Jensen, The Influence of Federal Laboratory R&D on Industrial Research. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 41 pp. (Working Paper 7612.) $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Cohen, Wesley M., Richard R. Nelson, and John P. Walsh, Protecting Their Intellectual Assets: Appropriability Conditions and Why U.S. Manufacturing Firms Patent (Or Not). Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 42 pp. (Working Paper 7552.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

David, Paul A. and Bronwyn H. Hall, Heart of Darkness: Modeling Public-Private Funding Interactions Inside the R&D Black Box. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 27 pp. (Working Paper 7538.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Dunne, Timothy and others, Wage and Productivity Dispersion In U.S. Manufacturing: The Role of Computer Investment. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 61 pp. (Working Paper 7465.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Keller, Wolfgang, Geographic Localization of International Technology Diffusion. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, (Working Paper 7509.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Lanjouw, Jean O. and Iain Cockburn, Do Patents Matter?: Empirical Evidence After GATT. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 44 pp. (Working Paper 7495.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Lerner, Josh, 150 Years of Patent Protection. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 56 pp. (Working Paper 7478.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Social institutions and social change

Blanchflower, David G. and Andrew J. Oswald, Well-being Over Time in Britain and the USA. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 35 pp. (Working Paper 7487.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Mitchell, Olivia S., P. Brett Hammond, and Anna M. Rappaport, eds., Forecasting Retirement Needs and Retirement Wealth. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000, 373 pp. $49.95, paper.

Venti, Steven F. and David A. Wise, Choice, Chance, and Wealth Dispersion at Retirement. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 69 pp. (Working Paper 7521.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Wages and compensation

Bertrand, Marianne and Sendhil Mullainathan, Do CEOs Set Their Pay? The Ones Without Principles Do. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 56 pp. (Working Paper 7604.) $10 per copy plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Davis, Steven J. and Magnus Henrekson,Wage-Setting Institutions as Industrial Policy. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 57 pp. (Working Paper 7502.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Hall, Brian J. and Kevin J. Murphy, Optimal Exercise Prices for Executive Stock Options. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 14 pp. (Working Paper 7548.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Neumark, David, Mark Schweitzer, and William Wascher, The Effects of Minimum Wages Throughout the Wage Distribution. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 37 pp. (Working Paper 7519.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Ruhm, Christopher J. and Carey Borkoski, Compensation in the Nonprofit Sector. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 43 pp. (Working Paper 7562.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Glaeser, Edward L., Matthew E. Kahn, and Jordan Rappaport, Why Do The Poor Live in Cities? Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 61 pp. (Working Paper 7636.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Gustman, Alan L. and Thomas L. Steinmeier, How Effective Is Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula? Cambridge, MA, national Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 46 pp. (Working Paper 7597,) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

—–Retirement Outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 42 pp. (Working Paper 7588.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Levin, Phillip B. and David J. Zimmerman, Children's Wefare Exposure and Subsequent Development. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 37 pp. (Working Paper 7522.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Neumark, David and William Wascher, Using the EITC to Help Poor Families: New Evidence and a Comparison with the Minimum Wage. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 43 pp. (Working Paper 7599.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

_____,and Scott Adams, Do Living Wage Ordinances Reduce Urban Poverty? Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 44 pp. (Working Paper 7606.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Social Security Administration, Earnings and Employment Data for Workers Covered Under Social Security, by State and County, 1996. Washington, 2000, 279 pp. SSA Publication No. 13–11784.

Worker training and development

Autor, David H., Why Do Temporary Help Firms Provide Free General Skills Training? Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 59 pp. (Working Paper 7637.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

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