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Workplace:	Department of Economics, Boston University, (more information at EDIRC) Institute for Economic Development, Department of Economics, Boston University, (more information at EDIRC) Industry Studies Program (ISP), Department of Economics, Boston University, (more information at EDIRC) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), (more information at EDIRC) Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), (more information at EDIRC)

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Working Papers

2009

1. School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of LATE
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
2. Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
3. The Role of Social Ties in the Job Search of Recent Immigrants
   CLSRN Working Papers, UBC Department of Economics View citations

2007

4. Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   Also in Boston University - Department of Economics - Working Papers Series, Boston University - Department of Economics (2005)

2006

5. Education and Labor-Market Discrimination
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
   Also in Boston University - Department of Economics - Working Papers Series, Boston University - Department of Economics (2006) View citations
6. THE RETURN TO ENGLISH IN A NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRY: RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS AND NATIVE ISRAELIS IN ISRAEL
   Boston University - Department of Economics - Working Papers Series, Boston University - Department of Economics
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2006)
   Boston University - Department of Economics - The Institute for Economic Development Working Papers Series, Boston University - Department of Economics (2006)
   See also Journal Article in The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2009)
7. The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

2005

8. Racial Discrimination in Labor Markets with Posted Wage Offers
   Boston University - Department of Economics - The Institute for Economic Development Working Papers Series, Boston University - Department of Economics View citations
   See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2005)

2004

9. Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston’s Metco Program
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
   See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2004)
10. The Effect of the Payroll Tax on Earnings: A Test of Competing Models of Wage Determination
    Econometric Society 2004 North American Winter Meetings, Econometric Society
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2003) View citations

2003

11. The Pricing of Job Characteristics When Markets Do Not Clear: Theory and Implications
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

2002

12. How Important are Classroom Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program
    Staff Working Papers, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research View citations
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2002) View citations

2000

13. Language-Skill Complementarity: Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    Also in Boston University - Institute for Economic Development, Boston University, Institute for Economic Development (1999) View citations
    See also Journal Article in Labour Economics (2003)

1993

14. Bilateral Search as an Explanation for Labor Market Segmentation and Other Anomalies
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

1992

15. Does the Human-Capital/Educational-Sorting Debate Matter for Development Policy?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
    See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (1994)
16. Labor Market Segmentation Theory: Reconsidering the Evidence
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
17. Labor Market Segmentation, Wage Dispersion and Unemployment
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

1991

18. An Analysis of the Nature of Unemployment in Sri Lanka
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

1989

19. Employee Crime, Monitoring, and the Efficiency Wage Hypothesis
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

1988

20. The Effects of Hours Constraints on Labor Supply Estimates
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (1991)

1987

21. A Goodness of Fit Test of Dual Labor Market Theory
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
22. Constraints on the Choice of Work Hours: Agency vs. Specific-Capital
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
23. Neoclassical and Sociological Perspectives on Segmented Labor Markets
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
24. Why Was there Mandatory Retirement? or the Impossibility of Efficient Bonding Contracts
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

1986

25. Are Efficiency Wages Efficient?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
26. Labor Market Segmentation and the Union Wage Premium
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (1988)

1985

27. A Test of Dual Labor Market Theory
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (1985)
28. Testing Dual Labor Market Theory: A Reconsideration of the Evidence
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

Undated

29. Are All Economic Hypotheses False?
    J. Bradford De Long's Working Papers, University of California at Berkeley, Economics Department
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Political Economy (1992)

Journal Articles

2009

1. The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel
   The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2009, 9, (1)
   See also Working Paper (2006)

2007

2. Inference with Difference-in-Differences and Other Panel Data
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007, 89, (2), 221-233 View citations

2005

3. Racial Discrimination in Labor Markets with Posted Wage Offers
   American Economic Review, 2005, 95, (4), 1327-1340 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2005)

2004

4. Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program
   American Economic Review, 2004, 94, (5), 1613-1634 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2004)
5. Property taxes and property values: evidence from Proposition
   Journal of Urban Economics, 2004, 55, (3), 439-457 View citations
6. THE PRICING OF JOB CHARACTERISTICS WHEN MARKETS DO NOT CLEAR: THEORY AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS
   International Economic Review, 2004, 45, (4), 1111-1128 View citations

2003

7. Language-skill complementarity: returns to immigrant language acquisition
   Labour Economics, 2003, 10, (3), 265-290 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2000)
8. Wage announcements with a continuum of worker type
   Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2003, (71-72), 10 View citations

2001

9. Bargaining Piecemeal or All at Once?
   Economic Journal, 2001, 111, (473), 526-40 View citations

1998

10. Relative Wages, Wage Growth, and Quit Behavior
    Journal of Labor Economics, 1998, 16, (2), 367-91 View citations
11. The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Wages and Employment: The Case of New Zealand
    Journal of Labor Economics, 1998, 16, (4), 792-814 View citations
12. The effect of minimum-wage laws on the distribution of employment: theory and evidence
    Journal of Public Economics, 1998, 69, (1), 67-82 View citations
13. Why are Canadian and US Unemployment Rates So Highly Correlated?
    Canadian Public Policy, 1998, 24, (s1), 56-71 View citations

1996

14. Hours Constraints and the Wage/Hours Locus
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1996, 29, (s1), 71-75 View citations

1995

15. Partnerships as Insurance Devices: Theory and Evidence
    RAND Journal of Economics, 1995, 26, (4), 614-629 View citations
16. The Causes of Hours Constraints: Evidence from Canada
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1995, 28, (4a), 914-28 View citations

1994

17. Does the Human-Capital/Educational-Sorting Debate Matter for Development Policy?
    American Economic Review, 1994, 84, (1), 353-58 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1992)

1992

18. Are All Economic Hypotheses False?
    Journal of Political Economy, 1992, 100, (6), 1257-72 View citations
    See also Working Paper

1991

19. Persistent Wage Dispersion and Involuntary Unemployment
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1991, 106, (1), 181-202 View citations
20. The Contractors' Game
    RAND Journal of Economics, 1991, 22, (3), 329-338 View citations
21. The Effect of Hours Constraints on Labor Supply Estimates
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1991, 73, (4), 605-11 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1988)

1990

22. Efficiency Wage Models of Unemployment: A Second View
    Economic Inquiry, 1990, 28, (2), 296-306 View citations

1989

23. Why was there mandatory retirement?
    Journal of Public Economics, 1989, 39, (1), 127-136 View citations

1988

24. Efficient Estimation of Structural Hedonic Systems
    International Economic Review, 1988, 29, (1), 157-66 View citations
25. Job Signalling and Welfare Improving Minimum Wage Laws: Reply
    Economic Inquiry, 1988, 26, (3), 533-36 View citations
26. Labor Market Segmentation and the Union Wage Premium
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1988, 70, (3), 527-30 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1986)
27. The Reemergence of Segmented Labor Market Theory
    American Economic Review, 1988, 78, (2), 129-34 View citations

1987

28. An economic model of the intake disposition of juvenile offenders
    Journal of Public Economics, 1987, 32, (1), 79-99
29. Pareto Improving Minimum Wage Laws
    Economic Inquiry, 1987, 25, (1), 145-58 View citations

1986

30. A Language Theory of Discrimination
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1986, 101, (2), 363-82 View citations
31. Human Capital versus Sorting: The Effects of Compulsory Attendance Laws
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1986, 101, (3), 609-24 View citations
32. Returns to Schooling, Implicit Discount Rates and Black-White Wage Differentials
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1986, 68, (1), 41-47 View citations

1985

33. A Test of Dual Labor Market Theory
    American Economic Review, 1985, 75, (4), 792-805 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1985)

Chapters

2007

1. Introduction to Poverty and Discrimination
   A chapter in Poverty and Discrimination, 2007

1991

2. Undocumented Mexican-born Workers in the United States: How Many, How Permanent?
   A chapter in Immigration, Trade and the Labor Market, 1991, pp 77-100 View citations