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Working Papers

1976

1. On Measuring the Impact of Wage-Price Controls: A Critical Appraisal
   Working Papers, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section. View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article On measuring the impact of wage-price controls: A critical appraisal, Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, Elsevier (1976) View citations (4) (1976)

1974

2. On the Economics of Industrial Safety
   Working Papers, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section. View citations (10)
3. Scientific Manpower Forecasts from the Viewpoint of a Dismal Scientist
   Working Papers, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section. View citations (1)

Journal Articles

1999

1. A View from the Midway
   The American Economist, 1999, 43, (2), 13-18
   See also Chapter A View from the Midway, Chapters, 2004 (2004) (2004)
2. THE HEARTY AND CHEERY STATE
   Contemporary Economic Policy, 1999, 17, (1), 138-146 View citations (3)
3. Workers Are More Productive in Large Firms
   American Economic Review, 1999, 89, (2), 104-108 View citations (162)

1998

4. Gary Becker Expanding the Scope of Economics
   Economic Inquiry, 1998, 36, (3), 444-46 View citations (2)

1995

5. Safety at What Price?
   American Economic Review, 1995, 85, (2), 67-71 View citations (2)

1993

6. Milton Friedman, Starting His Ninth Decade
   Economic Inquiry, 1993, 31, (2), 194-96
7. On Working: Presidential Address to the Western Economic Association, July 11, 1992
   Economic Inquiry, 1993, 31, (1), 1-28

1992

8. Tests, academic competencies, and work: A comment
   Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 1992, 37, (1), 195-204
9. Work for Americans with Disabilities
   The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1992, 523, (1), 159-174

1990

10. Employment Relations in Dual Labor Markets (" It's Nice Work If You Can Get It")
    Journal of Labor Economics, 1990, 8, (1), S124-49 View citations (20)
11. Resume
    Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 1990, 33, (1), 263-268

1988

12. Are Workers Overpaid By Big Firms?
    Australian Journal of Management, 1988, 13, (2), 203-221

1987

13. Comment on the relation between unemployment and sectoral shifts
    Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 1987, 27, (1), 403-420 View citations (1)
14. Heterogeneous Firms: Caveat Emptor [Heterogeneous Firms and the Organization of Production]
    Economic Inquiry, 1987, 25, (1), 181-84

1986

15. NEGLECTED WOMEN AND OTHER IMPLICATIONS OF COMPARABLE WORTH
    Contemporary Economic Policy, 1986, 4, (2), 21-32 View citations (1)

1985

16. Comments on the Layard-Nickell model of unemployment and real wages
    Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 1985, 23, (1), 203-209

1984

17. A comment of the Ashenfelter analysis of labor-market fluctuations
    Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 1984, 21, (1), 157-172

1983

18. Heterogeneous Firms and the Organization of Production
    Economic Inquiry, 1983, 21, (2), 147-71 View citations (89)

1981

19. Slack Capacity: Productive or Wasteful?
    American Economic Review, 1981, 71, (2), 64-69 View citations (6)

1979

20. Book Review: Labor Market: Labour Market Adjustment: Microecononomic Foundations of Short-Run Neoclassical and Keynesian Dynamics
    ILR Review, 1979, 33, (1), 119-121
21. Government labor policies and equilibrium unemployment rates: A comment on Clarkson and Meiners
    Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 1979, 10, (1), 237-252

1976

22. On measuring the impact of wage-price controls: A critical appraisal
    Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 1976, 2, (1), 7-64 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper On Measuring the Impact of Wage-Price Controls: A Critical Appraisal, Working Papers (1976) View citations (3) (1976)
23. Residential Location and Labor Supply
    Journal of Political Economy, 1976, 84, (4), S221-38 View citations (22)

1974

24. The Economics of Product Safety: A Rejoinder
    Bell Journal of Economics, 1974, 5, (2), 689-695 View citations (6)

1973

25. The Economics of Product Safety
    Bell Journal of Economics, 1973, 4, (1), 3-28 View citations (49)

1972

26. The Consumer Does Benefit from Feasible Price Stability: A Comment
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1972, 86, (3), 494-498 View citations (6)

1971

27. A Disneyland Dilemma: Two-Part Tariffs for a Mickey Mouse Monopoly
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1971, 85, (1), 77-96 View citations (172)

1969

28. A Bracketing Rule for the Estimation of Simple Distributed Lag Models
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1969, 51, (4), 445-52
29. On the Relationship among Different Members of the k-Class
    International Economic Review, 1969, 10, (1), 36-46

1962

30. Labor as a Quasi-Fixed Factor
    Journal of Political Economy, 1962, 70, (6), 538 View citations (556)

Chapters

2004

1. A View from the Midway
   Chapter 20 in Reflections of Eminent Economists, 2004
   See also Journal Article A View from the Midway, Sage Publications (1999) (1999)

2002

2. The Pace of Work and Pay
   Chapter 9 in Essays in Economic Theory, Growth and Labor Markets, 2002, pp 159-177

1999

3. Firm size and wages
   Chapter 33 in Handbook of Labor Economics, 1999, vol. 3, Part B, pp 2165-2214 View citations (441)

1996

4. The Welfare Implications of Invention
   A chapter in The Economics of New Goods, 1996, pp 109-142 View citations (7)

1992

5. Productivity in the Distributive Trades: The Shopper and the Economies of Massed Reserves
   A chapter in Output Measurement in the Service Sectors, 1992, pp 161-193 View citations (34)

1988

6. Monopoly, Competition and Variability of Market Prices
   Palgrave Macmillan

1983

7. The Fixed Employment Costs of Specialized Labor
   A chapter in The Measurement of Labor Cost, 1983, pp 63-122 View citations (43)

1961

8. An Index of Motor Freight Rates
   A chapter in The Price Statistics of the Federal Goverment, 1961, pp 103-136