Paper #1, due July 19th

 

Here is a list of the areas and articles for each.  If you would like to discuss an article not on this list, please talk to me first:

 

 

Historical Labor Supply

Dora Costa, “The Wage and the Length of the Work Day:  From the 1890’s to 1991,” Journal of Labor Economics. 18 (January 2000): 156-81

 

Claudia Goldin, “The Role of World War II in the Rise of Women’s Employment,” American Economic Review 81 (September 1991): 741-56

 

Claudia Goldin, “Life-Cycle Labor Force Participation of Married Women:  Historical Evidence and Implications,” Journal of Labor Economics 7 (January 1989): 20-47

 

Dora L. Costa, “Pensions and Retirement:  Evidence from Union Army Veterans,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 110 (May 1995): 297-319

 

John Bound and Timothy Waidman, “Disability Transfers, Self-Reported Health, and the Labor Force Attachement of Older Men: Evidence from the Historical Record,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 107 (November 1992): 1393-420

 

Family Labor Supply

Joshua Angrist and William Evans, “Children and their Parents’ Labor Supply: Evidence from Exogenous variation in family size,” American Economic Review 88 (June 1998): 450-77

 

Shelly Lundberg, “The Added Worker Effect,” Journal of Labor Economics 3 (January 1985): 11-37

 

Michael C. Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh, and Phillippe Weil, “The Distribution of Total Work Hours in the EU and US,” in Tito Boeri et al, editors, Are Europeans Lazy or Americans Crazy? New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

 

Linda N. Edwards and Elizabeth Field-Hendrey, “Home-based Work and Women’s Labor Force Decisions,” Journal of Labor Economics 20 (January 2002): 170-200

 

Labor Supply and Public Policy

Nada Eissa  and Jeffrey B. Liebmann, “Labor Supply Responses to the Earned Income Tax Credit”, Quarterly Journal of Economics 111 (May 1996), 605-36.

 

Jeffrey Grogger, “The Effects of Time Limits, the EITC, and Other Policy Changes on Welfare Use, Work, Income among Female-Headed Families,” Review of Economics and Statistics 85 (May 2003): 394-408.

 

Nada Eissa and Hilary W. Hoynes, “Behavioral Responses to Taxes: Lessons from the EITC and Labor Supply,” Tax Policy and the Economy 2006

 

Julie Berry Cullen and Jonathan Gruber, “Does Unemployment Insurance Crowd Out Spousal Labor Supply?,Journal of Labor Economics 18 (July 2000): 546-72

 

Retirement & Disability

Alan B. Krueger and Jorn-Steffen Pischke “The Effect of Social Security on Labor Supply:  A Cohort Analysis of the Notch Generation,” Journal of Labor Economics 10 (October 1992): 412-37

 

Olivia S. Mitchell and Gary S. Fields, “The Economics of Retirement Behavior,” Journal of Labor Economics 2 (July 1984): 84-105

 

Gary Burtless, “Social Security, Unanticipated Benefit Increases, and the Timing of Retirement,” Review of Economic Studies 53 (October 1996): 781-805

 

John Bound and Timothy Waidman, “Accounting for Recent Declines in Employment Rates among the Working Aged Men and Women with Disabilities,” Journal of Human Resources 37 (Spring 2002): 231-250

 

David H. Autor and Mark G. Duggan, “The Rise in the Disability Rolls and the Decline in Unemployment,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 118 (February 2003): 157-205

 

John Bound, “The Health and Earnings of Rejected Disability Insiurance applicants,” American Economic Review 79 (June 1989): 482-503

 

Effects of the Minimum Wage

David Card and Alan Krueger (1994) "Minimum wages and employment: A case study of the Fast-Food industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania", American Economic Review 84, p. 772-793.

 

David Neumark and William Wascher, “Minimum Wages and Employement: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Comment,” American Economic Review 90 (December 2000): 1362-96.

 

Allison Wellington, “Effects of the Minimum Wage on the Employment Status of Youths: An Update,” Journal of Human Resources 26 (Winter 1991): 27-47

 

Zadia M. Feliciano, “Does the Minimum Wage Affect Employment in Mexico?” Eastern Economic Journal 24 (Spring 1998): 165-80.

 

Card, David (1992) “The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market”, Industrial and Labor Relations Review 43, 25-257.

 

Richard V. Burkhauser, Kenneth A. Couch, and Andrew J. Glenn, “Public Policies for the Working Poor:  The Earned Income Tax Credit versus Minimum Wage Legislation,” Research in Labor Economics 15 (1996): 65-109

 

Scott Adams and David Neumark, “The Effects of Living Wage Laws: Evidence from Failed and Derailed Living Wage Campaigns,” Journal of Urban Economics 58 (September 2005): 177-202.

 

Adjustment Costs

Daniel S. Hamermesh, “Labor Demand and the Structure of Adjustment Costs,” American Economic Review 79 (September 1989):674-89

 

Edward Lezear, “Job Security Protections and Employment,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 105 (August 1990): 699-726

 

David H. Autor, “Outsourcing at Will:  The Contribution of Unjust Dismissal Doctrine to the Growth of Employment Outsourcing,” Journal of Labor Economics 21 (January 2003): 1-42

 

Mark Montgomery, “On the Determinants of Employer Demand for Part-Time Workers,” Review of Economics and Statistics 70 (February 1988) 112-117

 

Payroll Taxes and Subsidies

Jonathan Gruber, “The incidence of Payroll Taxation: Evidence from Chile,” Journal of Labor Economics 15 (July 1997, Part 2): S102-35

 

Patricia M. Anderson and Bruce D. Meyer, “Unemployment Insurance Tax Burdens and Benefits: Funding Family Lave and Reforming the Payroll Tax,” National Tax Journal 59 (March 2006): 77-95

 

J. Michael Orzag and Dennis J. Snower, “Designing Employment Subsidies,” Labor Economics 10 (October 2003): 557-72

 

Immigration and the Labor Market

Note:  this list is particularly short because I have not included papers by Borjas

 

Rachel M. Friedberg and Jennifer Hunt, “The Impact of Immigration on Host Country Wages, Employment and Growth,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 9 (Spring 1995) 23-44

 

David Card, “Is the New Immigration Really So Bad?” Economic Journal 115 (November 2005): F300-F323

 

David Card, “The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market,” Industrial Labor Relations Review 43 (January 1990): 245-57

 

Rachel M. Friedberg, “The Impact of Mass Migration on the Israeli Labor Market,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 116 (November 2001): 1373-408

 

Joshua D. Angrist and Adriana D. Kugler, “Protective or Counter-Productive? European Labor Market Institution and the Effect of Immigrants on EU Natives,” Economic Journal 113 (June 2003): F302-31

 

David Card, “Immigrant Inflows, Native Outflows, and the Local Labor Market Impacts of Higher Immigration,” Journal of Labor Economics (January 2001): 22-64

 

Prachi Mishra, “Emigration and Wages in Source Countries: Evidence from Mexico,” Journal of Development Economics 82 (January 2007): 180-199

 

Compensating Wage Differentials

Enrico Moretti, “Do Wages Compensate for Risk of Unemployment?  Parametric and Semi-parametric Evidence from Seasonal Jobs, “Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 20 (January 2000): 45-66

 

Paul Gertler, Manisha Shah, and Stefano M. Bartozzi, “Risky Business:  The Market for Unprotected Commercial Sex,” Journal of Political Economy 113 (June 2005): 518-50

 

Craig A. Olson “Do Workers Accept Lower Wages in Exchange for Health Benefits?”  Journal of Labor Economics 20 (April 2002, part 2):S91-S114

 

Del Bono, Emilia and Andrea Weber (2006), “Do Wages Compensate for Anticipated Working Time Restrictions? Evidence from Seasonal Employment in Austria”, IZA Discussion Paper No. 2242


 Paper #2: due August 9th

Human Capital

Stephen V. Cameron and James J. Heckman, “The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Black, Hispanic, and White Males,” Journal of Political Economy 109 (June 2001): 455-99

 

Emily C. Lawrence, “Poverty and the Rate of Time Preference: Evidence from Panel Data,” Journal of Political Economy 99 (February 1991): 54-77

 

Joseph G. Altonji, “The Demand for and Return to Education When Outcomes are Uncertain,” Journal of Labor Economics 11 (January 1993): 48-83

 

Pedro Carneiro and James J. Heckman, “The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-Secondary Schooling,” Economic Journal 112 (October 2002): 705-34

 

Susan M. Dynarski, “Does Aid Matter?  Measuring the Effect of Student Aid on College Attendance and Completion,” American Economic Review 93 (March 2003): 279-88

 

Stephen V. Cameron and Christopher Taber, “Estimation of Educational Borrowing Constraints Using Returns to Schooling,” Journal of Political Economy 112 (February 2004): 132-82

 

Joshua Angrist and Alan B. Krueger, “Does Compulsory Schooling Affect Schooling and Earnings?” Quarterly Journal of Economics 106 (November 1991): 979-1014

 

Marcus Stanley, “College Education and the Mid-century GI Bills, “Quarterly Journal of Economics 118 (May 2003): 671-708

 

Kelly Bedard, “Human Capital versus Signaling Models:  University Access and High School Dropouts,” Journal of Political Economy (August 2001): 749-75

 

David H. Autor, “Why do Temporary Help Firms Provide Free General Skills Training?” Quarterly Journal of Economics 116 (November 2001): 1409-48

 

The Wage Structure

Piketty, Thomas and Emmanuel Saez (2003), “Income Inequality in the United States: 1913-1998” Quarterly Journal of Economics 118, 1-39.

 

David Card and Thomas Lemieux, “Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men?  A Cohort-Based Analysis,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 116 (May 2001): 705-46

 

John Bound and George Johnson, “Changes in the Structure of Wages in the 1980s: An Evaluation of Alternative Explanations,” American Economic Review 82 (June 1992): 371-92

 

Eli Berman, John Bound, and Zvi Grilliches, “Changes in the Demand for Skilled Labor within U.S.  Manufacturing Industries:  Evidence from the Annual Survey of Manufacturing,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 109 (May 1994): 367-98

 

Timothy F. Bresnahan, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Lorin M. Hitt, “Information Technology, Workplace Organization and the Demand for Skilled Workers:  Firm-Level Evidence,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 117 (February 2002): 339-76

 

David Card and John E. DiNardo, “Skill-Biased Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality: Some Problems and Puzzles,” Journal of Labor Economics 20 (October 2002): 733-83

 

Thomas Lemieux, “Increasing Residual Wage Inequality:  Composition Effects, Noisy Data, or Rising Demand for Skill,” American Economic Review 96 (June 2006): 461-98

 

David Lee “Wage Inequality in the United States During the 1980s:  Rising Dispersion or Falling Minimum Wage?”  Quarterly Journal of Economics 114 (August 1999): 977-1023

 

Adrian Wood, “How Trade Hurt Unskilled Workers,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 9 (Summer 1995): 57-80

 

Intergenerational Income Mobility

Gary R. Solon, “Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States,” American Economic Review 82 (June 1992): 393-408

 

David J. Zimmerman, Regression toward Mediocrity in Economic Stature,” American Economic Review 82 (June 1992): 409-29

 

Bruce Sacerdote, “Slavery and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital,” Review of Economics and Statistics 87 (May 2005): 217-34

 

Anders Bjorkland, Mikael Lindhahl, and Erik Plug, “The Origins of Intergenerational Associations:  Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 121 (August 2006): 999-1028

 

 

Labor Mobility

Leah Platt Boustan, “Competition in the Promised Land: Blacks, Migration, and Northern Labor Markets, 1940-1970,” http://www.econ.ucla.edu/lboustan/research.html

 

Satu Nivalainen, “Determinants of Family Migration: Short Moves vs. Long Moves,” Journal of Population Econjomics  17 (February 2004): 157-75

 

Gordon Hanson and Antonio Spilimbergo, “Illegal Immigration, Border Enforcement, and Relative Wages,” American Economic Review 89 (December 1999): 137-57

 

Deborah Cobb-Clark, “Immigrant Selectivity and Wages: The Evidence for Women,” American Economic Review 83 (September 1993): 986-93

 

Daniel Chiquar and Gordon Hanson, “International Migration, Self-Selection, and the Distribution of Wages: Evidence from Mexico and the United States,” Journal of Political Economy 113 (April 2005): 239-81

 

Manualita Ureta, “The Importance of Lifetime Jobs in the U.S. Economy, Revisited,” American Economic Review 82 (March 1992): 322-35

 

Francis X. Diebold, David Neumark, and Daniel Polsky,” Job Stability in the United States,” Journal of Labor Economics 15 (April 1997): 206-33

 

Henry S. Farber, “What Do We Know about Job Loss in the United States?  Evidence from the Displaced Workers Survey, 1984-2004,” Federal Reserve Band of Chicago Economic Perspectives 29 (2nd Quarter 2005): 13-28

 

Derek Neal, The Complexity of Job Mobility among Young Men,” Journal of Labor Economics 17 (April 1999): 237-61

 

Melvin Stephens Jr., “Job Loss Expectations, Realizations, and Household Consumption Behavior,” Review of Economics and Statistics 86 (February 2004): 253-69

 

Henry S. Farber, “The Analysis of Interfirm Worker Mobility,” Journal of Labor Economics 12 (October 1994): 554-93

 

“Margaret Stevens, “Earnings Functions, Specific Human Capital, and Job Matching: Tenure Bias is Negative,” Journal of Labor Economics 21 (October 2003): 783-806

 

 

Labor Market Discrimination—racial and ethnic

William Darity Jr. and Jessica Gordon Nembhard, “Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality: The International Record,” American Economic Review 90 (May 2000): 308-11

 

William J. Carrington and Kenneth R. Troske, “Interfirm Segregation and the Black/White Wage Gap,” Journal of Labor Economics 16 (April 1998): 231-60

 

Kimberly Baynard, Judith K. Hellerstein, David Neumark, and Kenneth Troske, “Ethnicity, Language, and Workplace Segregation: Evidence from a New Matched Employer-Employee Data Set,” Journal of Labor Economics 21 (October 2003): 877-922

 

Robert W. Fairlie, “The Absence of the African-American Owned Business:  An Analysis of the Dynamics of Self-Employment,” Journal of Labor Economics 17 (January 1999): 80-108

 

Kaivan Munshi, “Networks in the Modern Economy:  Mexican Migrants in the U.S. Labor Market,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 118 (May 2003): 549-97

 

Joseph G. Altonji and Charles R. Pierret, “Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 116 (February 2001): 313-50

 

Marriance Bertrand and Sendhil Mullanaithan, “Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal?  A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination,” American Economic Review 94 (September 2004): 991-1013

 

Roland Fryer and Steven Levitt, “The Causes and Consequences of Distinctive Black Names,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 119 (August 2004): 767-805

 

David Card and Alan B. Kreuger, “School Quality and Black-White Relative Earnings: A Direct Assesment, Quarterly Journal of Economics 107 (February 1992): 151-200

 

June O’Neill, “The Role of Human Capital in Earnings Difference between Black and White Men, “Journal of Economic Perspectives 4 (Fall 1990): 25-45

 

Steven G. Rivkin, “School Desegregation, Academic Attainment, and Earnings,” Journal of Human Resources 35 (Spring 2000): 333-46

 

Kenneth Y. Chay, “The Impact of Federal Civil Rights Policy on Black Economic Progress:  Evidence from the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972,” Industrial Relations Review 51 (July 1998): 608-32

 

Jonathan S. Leonard, “The Impact of Affirmative Action and Equal Emplyement Law on Black Employment,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 4 (Fall 1990): 47-63

 

Harry Holzer and David Neumark, “Are Affirmative Action Hires Less Qualified?  Evidence from Employer-Employee Data on New Hires,” Journal of Labor Economics 17 (July 1999): 534-69

 

William J. Carrington, Kristin McCue, and Brooks Pierce, “Using Establishment Size to Measure the Impact of Title VII and Affirmative Action,” Journal of Human Resources 35 (Summer 2000): 503-23

 

Chinhui Juhn, “Labor Market Dropouts and Trends in Black and White Wages,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 56 (July 2003): 643-62

 

Labor Market Discrimination—gender

David Neumark, Roy J. Bank, and Kyle D. Van Nort, “Sex Discrimination in Restaurant Hiring: An Audit Study,” Quarterly Journal of EconomicsI 111 (August 1996): 915-41

 

Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn, “Gender Differences in Pay,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 14 (Fall 2000): 75-99

 

Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn, “Swimming Upstream: Trends in the Gender Wage Differential in the 1980s,” Journal of Labor Economics 15 (January 1997): 1-42

 

June O’Neil and Solomon Polachek, “Why the Gender Gap in Wages Narrowed in the 1980s,” Journal of Labor Economics 11 (January 1993, Part 1): 205-28

 

Jane Waldfogel, “The Family Gap for Young Women in the United States and Britain: Can Maternity Leave Make a Difference?” Journal of Labor Economics 16 (July 1998): 505-45

Christopher J. Ruhm, “The Economic Consequences of Parental Leave Mandates: Lessons from Europe,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 113 (February 1998): 285-317

 

Ruben Gronau, “Sex-Related Wage Differentials and Women’s Interrupted Labor Careers—The Chicken or the Egg,” Journal of Labor Economics 6 (July 1988): 277-301

 

David Neumark, “Sex Discrimination and Women’s Labor Market Outcomes,” Journal of Human Resources 30 (Fall 1995): 713-40

 

David A MacPherson and Barry T. Hirsch, “Wages and Gender Composition:  Why Do Women’s Jobs Pay Less?” Journal of Labor Economics 13 (July 1995): 426-71

 

Morton Paglin and Anthony Rufolo, “Heterogeneous Human Capital, Occupational Choice, and Male-Female Earnings Differences,” Journal of Labor Economics 8 (January 1990): 123-44

 

 

Labor Unions

Henry S. Farber, “The Decline of Unionization in the United States:  What Can Be Learned form Recent Experience,” Journal of Labor Economics 8 (January 1990: 75-105

 

Richard B. Freeman, “Contraction and Expansion: The Divergence of Private Sector and Public Sector Unionism in the United States,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 2 (Spring 1988): 63-88

 

Stephen G. Bronars, and Donald R. Deere, “Union Organizing Activity, Firm Growth, and the Business Cycle,” American Economic Review 83 (March 1993): 203-20

 

George E. Johnson, “Work Rules, Featherbedding, and Pareto-Optimal Union Management Bargaining,” Journal of Labor Economics 8 (January 1990, Part 2): S237-59

 

John M. Abowd, “The Effect of Wage Bargains on the Stock Market Value of the Firm,”: American Economic Review 79 (September 1989): 774-800

 

John M. Abowd and Thomas Lemieux, “the Effect of Product Market Competition on Collective Bargaining Agreements:  The Case of Foreign Competition in Canada,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 108 (November 1993): 983-1014

 

Louis N. Christofides and Andrew J. Oswald,” Real Wage Determination and Rent-Sharing in Collective Bargaining Agreements,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 197 (August 1992): 985-1002

 

Susan B. Vroman, “A Longitudinal Analysis of Strike Activity in U.S. Manufacturing: 1957-1984,” American Economic Review 79 (September 1989): 816-26

 

David Card, “Longitudinal Analysis of Strike Activity,” Journal of Labor Economics (April 1988): 147-76

 

Peter C. Cramton and Joseph S. Tracy, “Strikes and Holdouts in Wage Bargaining: Theory and Data,” American Economic Review 82 (March 1992): 100-121

 

Sheena McConnell, “Strikes, Wages, and Private Information,” American Economic Review 79 (September 1989): 801-13

 

John DiNardo and Kevin F. Hallock, “When Unions ‘Mattered’: Assessing the Impact of Strikes on Financial Markets,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 55 (January 2002): 219-33

 

Martin B. Schmidt and David J. Berri, “The Impact of Labor Strikes on Consumer Demand:  An Application to Professional Sports,” American Economic Review 94 (March 2004): 344-57

 

John W. Budd and In-Gang Na, “The Union Membership Wage Premium for Employees Covered by Collective Bargaining Agreements,” Journal of Labor Economics 18 (October 2000): 783-806

 

George Jakubson, “Estimation and Testing of the Union Wage Effect Using Panel Data,” Review of Economic Studies 58 (October 1991):971-92

 

Casey Ichniowski, Richard Freeman, and Harrison Lauer, “Collective Bargaining Laws, Threat Effects, and the Determinants of Police Compensation,” Journal of Labor Economics 7 (April 1989): 191-209

 

Henry Farber, “Nonunion Wage Rates and the Threat of Unionization,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 58 (April 2005): 335-52

 

Thomas C. Buchmueller, John DiNardo, and Robert G. Valletta, “Union Effects on Health Insurance Provisions and Coverage,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 55 (July 2002): 610-27

 

Robert G. Valletta, “Union Effects on Municipal Employment and Wages: A Longitudinal Approach,” Journal of Labor Economics 11 (July 1993): 545-74

 

Janet Currie and Sheena McConnell, “Collective Bargaining and the Public Sector: The Effects of Legal Structure on Dispute Costs and Wages,” American Economic Review 81 (September 1991): 693-718

 

John DiNardo and David Lee, “Economic Impacts of New Unionization on Private Sector Employers: 1984-2001”, Quarterly Journal of Economics 119 (2004), 1383-1442.

 

 

Incentive Pay—Piece Rates

Daniel Parent, “Methods of Pay and Earnings: A Longitudinal Analysis,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 53 (October 199): 71-86

 

Eugene F. Fama, “Time, Salary, and Incentive Payoffs in Labor Contracts,” Journal of Labor Economics 9 (January 1991): 25-44

 

Harry J. Paarsch and Bruce S. Shearer, “The Response of Worker Effort to Piece Rates: Evidence from the British Columbia Tree-Planting Industry,” Journal of Human Resources 34 (Fall 1999): 643-67

 

Jean-Marie Baland, Jean Dreze, and Luc Leruth, “Daily Wages and Piece Rates in Agrarian Economies,” Journal of Development Economics 59 (August 1999): 445-61

 

H. Lorne Carmichael and W. Bentley MacLeod, “Worker Cooperation and the Ratchet Effect,” Journal of Labor Economics 18 (January 2000): 1-19

 

Incentive Pay—Profit Sharing

Douglas L. Kruse, “Employee Stock Ownership and Corporate Performance among Public Companies,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 50 (October 1996): 60-79

 

Omar Azfar and Stephan Dannigar, “Profit-Sharing, Employment Stability, and Wage Growth,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 54 (April 2001): 619-30

 

Casey Ichniowski, Kathryn Shaw, and Giovanna Prennushi, “The Effects of Human Resource Management Practices on Productivity: A Study of Steel Finishing Lines,” American Economic Review 87 (June 1997): 291-313

 

Brian G. M Main, Charles A. O’Reilly III, and James Wade, “Top Executive Pay: Tournament or Team Work?” Journal of Labor Economics 4 (October 1993): 606-28

 

Taye Mengistae and Lixin Colin Xu, “Agency Theory and Executive Compensation:  The Case of Chinese State-Owned Enterprise,” Journal of Labor Economics 22 (July 2004): 615-37

 

Charles R. Knoeber and Walter N Thurman, “Testing the Theory of Tournaments: An Empirical Analysis of Broiler Production,” Journal of Labor Economics 12 (April 1994): 155-79

 

Michael L. Bognanno, “Corporate Tournaments,” Journal of Labor Economics 19 (April 2001): 290-315

 

Brian J. Hall and Jeffrey B. Liebman, “Are CEOs really paid like Bureaucrats?” Quarterly Journal of Economics 113 (August 1998): 653-92

 

John M. Abowd, “Does Performance-Based Management Compensation Affect Corporate Performance, Industrial and Labor Relations Review 43 (February 1990, Special Issue): 52S-73S

 

Nancy L. Rose and Catherine Wolfram, “Regulating Executive Pay: Using the Tax Code to Influence Chief Executive Officer Compensation,” Journal of Labor Economics 20 (April 2002, Part 2): S138-75

 

Robert M. Hutchens, “Seniority, Wages, and Productivity: A Turbulent Decade,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 3 (Fall 1989): 49-64

 

Incentive Pay—Delayed Compensation and Efficiency Wages

Stephen G. Allen, Robert L. Clark, and Ann A. McDermed, “Pensions, Bonding, and Lifetime Jobs,” Journal of Human Resources 28 (Summer 1993): 463-81

 

David I. Levine, “Worth Waiting For? Delayed Compensation, Training, and Turnover in the United States and Japan,” Journal of Labor Economics 11 (October 1993): 724-52

 

Carl M. Campbell III, “Do Firms Pay Efficiency Wages?  Evidence with Data at the Firm Level,” Journal of Labor Economics 11 (July 1993): 442-70

 

Anthony Heyes, “The Economics of Vocation or ‘Why is a Badly Paid Nurse a Good Nurse’?” Journal of Health Economics 24 (May 2005): 561-69

 

Alan B. Krueger, “Ownership, Agency, and Wages: An Examination of Franchising in the Fast-Food Industry,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 106 (February 1991): 75-101

 

Peter Cappelli, and Keith Chauvin, “An Interplant Test of the Efficiency Wage Hypothesis,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 106 (August 1991): 769-88

 

Magnus Allgulin and Tore Ellingsen, “Monitoring and Pay,” Journal of Labor Economics 20 (Spril 2002): 201-16

 

Erica L. Groshen, “Sources of Intra-Industry Wage Dispersion: How Much do Employers Matter?” Quarterly Journal of Economics 106 (August 1001): 869-84

 

Paul Chen and Per-Anders Edin, “Efficiency Wages and Industry Wage Differential:  A Comparison across Methods of Pay,” Review of Economics and Statistics  84 (November 2002): 617-31

 

 

Unemployment and Job Search

David H. Autor and Mark G. Duggan, “The Rise in the Disability Rolls and the Decline in Unemployment,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 118 (February 2003): 157-205

 

Thomas A. Mroz and Timothy H. Savage, “The Long-Term Effects of Youth Unemployment,” Journal of Human Resources 41 (Spring 2006): 259-93

 

Leslie S. Stratton, “Racial Differences in Men’s Unemployment,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 46 (April 1993): 451-63

 

Richard W. Martin, “Can Black Workers Escape Spatial Mismatch?  Employment Shifts, Population Shifts, and Black Unemployment in American Cities,” Journal of Urban Economics 55 (January 2004): 179-94

 

Kristen Keith and Abigail McWilliams, “The Returns to Mobility and Job Search by Gender,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 52 (April 1999): 460-77

 

Peter Kuhn and Mikal Skuterud, “Internet Job Search and Unemployment Durations,” American Economic Review 94 (March 2004): 318-32

 

David Autor, “Wiring the Labor Market,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 15 (Winter 2001): 25-40


Robert Shimer, “The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies,” American Economic Review 95 (March 2005): 25-49

 

S. Lael Brainard and David M. Cutler, “SEctoral Shifts and Cyclical Unempoyement Reconsidered,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 108

 

Unemployment and Unemployment Insurance

Patricia M. Anderson and Bruce D. Meyer, “The Effects of the Unemployment Insurance Payroll Tax on Wages, Employment, Claims, and Denials,” Journal of Public Economics 78 (October 2000): 81-106

 

Audrey Light and Yoshiaki Omori, “Unemployment Insurance and Job Quits,” Journal of Labor Economics 22 (January 2004): 159-88

 

David Card and Phillip B. Levine, “Extended Benefits and the Duration of UI Spells: Evidence from the New Jersey Extended Benefit Program, “{Journal of Public Economics 78 (October 2000): 107-38

 

Peter Dolton and Donal O’Neill, “The Long-Run Effects of Unemployment Monitoring and Work-Search Programs: Experimental Evidence from the United Kingdom,” Journal of Labor Economics 20 (April 2002): 381-403

 

Lawrence F. Katz and Bruce D. Meyer, “Unemployment Insurance, Recall Expectations, and Unemployment Outcomes,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 105 (November 1990): 973-1002

 

European Unemployment

Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent, “The European Unemployment Dilemma”, Journal of Political Economy 106 (June 1998): 514-50

 

Ghazala Azmat, Maia Ghazala, and Alan Manning, “Gender Gaps in Unemployment Rates in OECD Countries, Journal of Labor Economics 24 (January 2006): 1-37

 

Horst Siebert, “Labor Market Rigidities: At the Root of Unemployment in Europe,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 11 (Summer 1997): 37-54

 

Stephen Nickell, “Unemployment and Labor Market Rigidities,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 11 (Summer 1997): 55-74