Links to Unpublished
or Forthcoming Papers:
The Long-Term Effects of Unemployment
Insurance: Evidence from New Brunswick and Maine, 1940-1991, forthcoming,
Industrial and Labor Relations Review (with Chris Riddell)
PDF
Consumers and the Brain Drain: Product
Design and the Gains from Emigration, revise and resubmit at Journal
of International Economics (with Carol McAusland) PDF
Changing Levels or Changing Slopes?
The Narrowing of the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap, 1959-1999, revise
and resubmit at Industrial and Labor Relations Review (with
Catherine Weinberger) PDF
The Own and Social Effects of an
Unexpected Income Shock: Evidence from the Dutch Postcode Lottery
(with Peter Kooreman, Adriaan R. Soetevent, and Arie Kapteyn)
PDF
Competition and the Ratchet Effect
(with Gary Charness and Marie Claire Villeval) PDF
Other Publications:
Unions:
"Union Productivity Effects
and Economic Efficiency", Journal of Labor Research
6, Summer 1985, pp.229-248. PDF
"Unions in a General Equilibrium
Model of Firm Formation", Journal of Labor Economics
6 (January 1988), pp. 62-82. JSTOR
"A Nonuniform-Pricing Model
of Union Wages and Employment", Journal of Political Economy
96, (June 1988), pp. 473-508. JSTOR
"Seniority and Distribution
in a Two-Worker Trade Union", Quarterly Journal of Economics
104 (August 1989), pp. 485-505 (with Jacques Robert). JSTOR
"A Theory of Holdouts in Wage
Bargaining", American Economic Review 88 (June 1998):
428-449 (with Wulong Gu). JSTOR
"Centralization and Strikes",
Labour Economics 5 (September 1998): 243-265 (with Wulong
Gu). ScienceDirect
"Unions and the Economy: What
we know; what we should know", Canadian Journal of Economics
31(5) (November 1998): 1033-1056. (Harold Adams Innis lecture)
JSTOR
"Learning in Sequential Wage
Negotiations: Theory and Evidence" Journal of Labor Economics
17 (January 1999): 109-140 (with W. Gu). JSTOR
"Vulnerable Seniors: Unions,
Tenure, and Wages Following Permanent Job Loss", Journal
of Labor Economics 17 (October 1999): 671-693 (with Arthur
Sweetman). JSTOR
Employment Contracts:
"Wages, Effort and Incentive-Compatibility
in Life-Cycle Employment Contracts", Journal of Labor
Economics 4 (January 1986), pp. 28-49. JSTOR
"Mandatory Notice", Journal
of Labor Economics 10 (April 1992): 117-137. JSTOR
"Nonrevelation in Employment
Contracts", International Economic Review 35 (May
1994): 261-282. JSTOR
“Does Pay Inequality Affect
Worker Effort? Experimental Evidence” Journal of Labor
Economics, 23 (4) (October 2007): 693-724 (with Gary Charness)
PDF
Ethnic and Gender Differentials
in Labor Markets:
"Sex Discrimination in Labor
Markets: The Role of Statistical Evidence", American Economic
Review 77 (September 1987), pp. 567-583. JSTOR
"Sex Discrimination in Labor
Markets: Reply", American Economic Review, 80 (March
1990), pp. 290-97. JSTOR
"Demographic Groups and Personnel
Policy", Labour Economics 1 (June 1993): 49-70. PDF
"The Size and Structure of
Native-White Wage Differentials in Canada", Canadian Journal
of Economics 27 (February 1994): 20-42. (with Peter George).
JSTOR
"Gender Differences in Displacement
Costs: Evidence and Implications", Journal of Human Resources
19 (Spring 1994): 461-480 (with Tom Crossley and Steve Jones).
JSTOR
"Employment Equity Programs
and the Job Search Outcomes of Men and Women: Actual and Perceived
Effects" Canadian Public Policy 25 (0) (November 1999):
S27-S45. (with Heather Antecol).
"Gender as an Impediment to
Labor Market Success: Why do Young Women Report Greater Harm?",
Journal of Labor Economics, 18(4), (October 2000): 702-28.
(with Heather Antecol). JSTOR
"Aboriginals as Unwilling Immigrants:
Contact, Assimilation and Labour Market Outcomes" , Journal
of Population Economics, 15(2) (February 2002): 331-355. (with
Arthur Sweetman). PDF
Other Determinants of Wages:
"Leadership Skills and Wages",
Journal of Labor Economics 23(3)(July 2005): 395-436 (with
Catherine Weinberger) PDF
Labor Supply:
The Expanding Workweek? Understanding
Trends in Long Work Hours Among U.S. Men, 1979-2006, forthcoming,
Journal of Labor Economics 26 (2) (April 2008): 311-343
(with Fernando Lozano) PDF
(see also "Incentives and Effort"
below)
Economics of Education:
Incentives and Effort in the Public
Sector: Have U.S. Education Reforms Increased Teachers' Work Hours,
forthcoming, Economics of Education Review 27 (1) (February
2008): 1-13 (with Christiana Stoddard) PDF
Where Class Size Really Matters:
Class Size and Student Ratings of Instructor Effectiveness, forthcoming,
Economics of Education Review 27 (3) (June 2008): 253-265
(with Kelly Bedard) PDF
Immigration:
"International Factor Movements
in the Presence of a Fixed Factor", Journal of International
Economics 22 (1987), pp. 123-140 (with I. Wooton).
"Immigration, Trade and the
Wages of Native Workers", in J. Abowd and R. Freeman, eds.,
Immigration, Trade and the Labor Market. (Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1991), pp. 285-304 (with I. Wooton).
"Assimilation via Prices or
Quantities? Sources of Immigrant Earnings Growth in Australia,
Canada, and the United States Journal of Human Resources 41(4):
821-840 (Fall 2006)) (with Heather Antecol and Steve Trejo) PDF
Public Finance:
"Redistribution, Inheritance,
and Inequality: An Analysis of Transitions", in D. Kessler
and A. Masson, eds., Modelling the Accumulation and Distribution
of Wealth, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), pp. 123-143
(with J. Davies)
"A Dynamic Model of Redistribution,
Inheritance and Inequality" Canadian Journal of Economics
24, (May 1991): 324-344. (with J. Davies). JSTOR
"Social Security, Longevity,
and Moral Hazard" Journal of Public Economics 49,(1992):
91-106 (with J. Davies).
Displaced Workers (cross-lists
some Union papers):
"Mandatory Notice and Unemployment."
Journal of Labor Economics, 13(4) (October 1995): 599-622.
(with Steve Jones). JSTOR
"Wage Loss Following Displacement:
The Role of Union Coverage", Industrial and Labor Relations
Review 51 (April 1998): 384-400 (with L. Arthur Sweetman).
"Vulnerable Seniors: Unions,
Tenure, and Wages Following Permanent Job Loss", Journal
of Labor Economics 17 (October 1999): 671-693 (with Arthur
Sweetman). JSTOR
Losing Work, Moving on: Worker
Displacement in International Perspective.
(Editor) Kalamazoo, Michigan: W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment
Research, 2002.
Information Technology and Labor
Markets:
"Job Search Methods: Internet
versus Traditional", Monthly Labor Review, October
2000: 3-11. (with Mikal Skuterud).PDF
"Policies for an Internet Labour
Market", Policy Options, October 2000: pp. 42-47 PDF link
to journal
"The Internet and Matching
in Labor Markets" (in Derek C. Jones, ed. New
Economy Handbook. Academic Press: 2003 ) PDF
"Internet Job Search and Unemployment
Durations" (with Mikal Skuterud) American Economic Review
94(1) (March 2004): 218-232 PDF
Canada's Labo(u)r Market:
"Labor Market Polarization:
Canada in International Perspective", The Bell Canada
Papers on Economic and Social Policy 4 (1995): 283-322. PDF
"Unemployment, Skill and Labor
Supply: Evidence from Canadian Microdata, 1971-1991", in
M. Abbott, C. Beach, and R. Chaykowski, eds., Transition and
Structural Change in the North American Labor Markets, IRC
Press, Queen's University, Kingston (1997): 41-85. (with A. Leslie
Robb).
"Shifting Skill Demand and
the Canada-US Unemployment Gap: Evidence from Prime-Age Men"
Canadian Public Policy 24 (February 1998): S170-S191. (with
A. Leslie Robb).
"Unemployment Insurance and
Quits in Canada" Canadian Journal of Economics, 31
(August 1998): 549-572 (with L.. Arthur Sweetman). JSTOR
"The Declining Labor Market
Opportunities of the Less Skilled: Can Fiscal Policy Make a Difference?",
Canadian Public Policy, 24(3) (September 1998): 370-377.
"Canada and the 'OECD Hypothesis':
Does Labor Market Inflexibility Explain Canada's High Level of
Unemployment?", in W. C. Riddell and F. St-Hilaire, eds.,
Adapting Public Policy to a Labor Market in Transition.
Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy (2000): 177-209
"Self-Employment Dynamics and
Self-Employment Trends: A Study of Canadian Men and Women, 1983-1998"
Canadian Journal of Economics 34(3) (August 2001): 760-784
(with Herbert Schuetze).PDF Supplementary
tables ("available from the authors on request"): PDF
"The Brain Drain: A View from
Stateside" Policy Options 22(9) (November 2001) 69-73.
PDF link
to journal
"Effects of Population Aging
on Labour Market Flows in Canada: Analytical Issues and Research
Priorities" (commissioned by Human Resources Development
Canada and Industry Canada) PDF
Skills, Human Capital and the Life
Cycle (commissioned by Industry Canada) PDF
Increasing Male Earnings Inequality
in Canada and the U.S., 1981-1997: The role of hours changes versus
wage changes* Canadian Public Policy XXX, no. 3 (June)
2004: 155-175. (with Susan Johnson) PDF
Other:
"Is Monopsony the Right Way
to Model Labor Markets? A Review of Alan Manning’s Monopsony
in Motion" International Journal of the Economics of Business,
Vol. 11, No. 3, November 2004, pp. 369–378 PDF