Labour Economics

1993 - 2025

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Volume 3, issue 4, 1996

Long-term employment relationships in the early twentieth century: Evidence from personnel data pp. 357-383

Barton Hamilton and Mary MacKinnon

Bargaining and strikes: Towards an evolutionary framework pp. 385-398

Yanis Varoufakis

Immigration and occupational status: A study of Bangladeshi and Turkish fathers and sons in the London labour market pp. 399-424

Peter Sloane and Saziye Gazioglu

Wage curve, unemployment duration and compensating differentials pp. 425-434

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

Structural unemployment: Wolfgang Franz, ed., (Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1992) pp. 132 + X, ISBN 3-7908-0605-6, DM 65 pp. 437-440

Ante Farm

Volume 3, issue 3, 1996

Introduction pp. 229-231

John Micklewright

Regional mismatch and the transition to a market economy pp. 233-254

Tito Boeri and Stefano Scarpetta

Matching across space: Evidence on mobility in the Czech Republic pp. 255-278

Michael Burda and Stefan Profit

Earnings gains and losses from insured unemployment in Hungary pp. 279-298

Janos Köllő and Gyula Nagy

Job creation and job destruction in a transition economy: Ownership, firm size, and gross job flows in Polish manufacturing 1988-1991 pp. 299-317

Jozef Konings, Hartmut Lehmann and Mark Schaffer

The determinants of chief executive compensation in transitional economies: Evidence from Bulgaria pp. 319-336

Derek Jones and Takao Kato

The gender wage gap in Russia: Some empirical evidence pp. 337-356

Andrew Newell and Barry Reilly

Volume 3, issue 2, 1996

Wage compression, wage drift and wage inflation in Sweden pp. 109-141

Douglas Hibbs and Håkan Locking

Search and discrimination pp. 143-167

Michael Sattinger

Calculating the price of worker reliability pp. 169-188

Melvyn Coles and John G. Treble

A note on the long-run properties of the shirking model pp. 189-195

James Albrecht and Susan Vroman

Selection bias and human capital investment: Estimating the rates of return to education for young males pp. 197-219

Francis Vella and Robert Gregory

Productive Relations?: Robert Drago, Mark Wooden and Judith Sloan, Australian Industrial Relations and Workplace Performance (Allen and Unwin Sydney, 1992), 316 pp., ISBN 186373 1237, A$ 24.95 pp. 221-223

William Brown

Pension Policy for a Mobile Labor Force: John A. Turner (with Tabitha A. Doescher and Phyllis A. Fernandez), (W.E. Upjohn, Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI, 1993), 215 pp., ISBN 0-88099-133-X (pbk); ISBN0-88099-134-8 (cloth), $15.00 paper, $25.00 cloth pp. 223-225

Winfried Schmahl

Labor's Capital: The Economics and Politics of Private Pensions: Teresa Ghilarducci, (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London, 1992), 213 pp., ISBN 0-262-07139-8, $47.25 pp. 225-227

Matthias Beck and Martin Rein

Volume 3, issue 1, 1996

Authority in employment contracts: A bilateral bargaining model pp. 1-23

Alan Manning

The hiring of new labor by expanding industries pp. 25-42

Bruce Fallick

Testing between alternative wage-employment bargaining models using Belgian aggregate data pp. 43-64

Vincent Vannetelbosch

Tax progression is good for employment in popular models of trade union behaviour pp. 65-80

Erkki Koskela and Jouko Vilmunen

Endogenous on-the-job training with moral hazard pp. 81-92

Ekkehart Schlicht

Insider power, market power, firm size and wages: Evidence from Dutch manufacturing industries pp. 93-107

Marcel H. C. Lever and Jolanda M. van Werkhooven

Volume 2, issue 4, 1995

Wage drift and minimum contractual wage: Theoretical interrelationship and empirical evidence for Italy pp. 335-357

Patrizia Ordine

Discrete shocks and fixed duration of labor contracts pp. 359-379

Leif Danziger

Hazard model estimates of the decision to reenroll in school pp. 381-406

Audrey Light

The optimal level of unemployment insurance benefits in a model of employment mismatch pp. 407-420

Helmuth Cremer, Maurice Marchand and Pierre Pestieau

Matching processes in the labour market an econometric study pp. 421-435

Gilles Teyssiere

Book reviews pp. 437-445

Inga Persson

Volume 2, issue 3, 1995

Earnings mobility and distribution: Comparing statistical models on Swedish data pp. 213-247

Mårten Palme

Do unions reduce discrimination? A model of Nash bargaining between a union and an employer with discriminatory tastes pp. 249-274

Gareth Myles and Robin Naylor

Formal and informal sector employment in urban areas of Bolivia pp. 275-297

Menno Pradhan and Arthur van Soest

Lone parenthood and employment: male-female differences in Great Britain pp. 299-317

John Ermisch and Robert Wright

Wage inequalities in East and West: (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992) pp. XII + 216, ISBN 0-521-39531-3, [UK pound]35.00 Translated by Rosemarie Bourgault pp. 320-321

Silvana Malle

Unemployment and macroeconomics: (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993) pp. ix + 201, ISBN 0-262-12175-1, $29,95 pp. 321-324

Edmond Malinvaud

Workers' compensation insurance: Claim cost, prices and regulation: (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston/Dordrecht, 1993) pp. 343, ISBN 0-7923-9170-5, Dfl. 180,-, US$99,50 pp. 324-326

John Treble

Labour market contracts and institutions -- a cross-national comparison: (Elsevier Sciences Publishers B.V., Amsterdam, 1993) pp. vi + 456, ISBN 444-89927-8, US $98.50/Dfl. 185.00 pp. 326-329

Marie Claire Villeval

Migration and economic development: (Springer, Berlin, 1992) pp. 264, ISBN 3-540-55557-9, DM 128,00 pp. 329-332

Nicholas Glytsos

Volume 2, issue 2, 1995

The importance of employer accommodation on the job duration of workers with disabilities: A hazard model approach pp. 109-130

Richard Burkhauser, J. Butler and Yang Woo Kim

Underemployment of production factors in a forward-looking model pp. 131-159

David de la Croix and Jean-Francois Fagnart

Inter-industry wage differentials in Finland: Evidence from longitudinal census data for 1975-85 pp. 161-173

Jari Vainiomäki and Seppo Laaksonen

The determinants of real wage flexibility pp. 175-185

Geraint Johnes and Thomas J. Hyclak

Explicit expressions for the reservation wage path and the unemployment duration density in nonstationary job search models pp. 187-198

Gerard van den Berg

On the mysteries of unemployment: Causes, consequences and policies: (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1992), pp. 500, ISBN 0-7923-1976-1, [UK pound]70.00, US $132.00 pp. 200-206

Danièle Meulders

Employment development and labour market policy: (Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 1992) (Schriften des Vereins fur Sozialpolitik, Band 219) pp. 153, ISBN 3-428-07578-1, DM 84 pp. 206-209

Gunther Schmid

Volume 2, issue 1, 1995

Are women overqualified pp. 3-18

Gusta Renes and Geert Ridder

Wage structure when wage offers are private pp. 19-32

Kit-Chun Lam, Pak-Wai Liu and Yue-Chim Wong

Team production in economics: division of labor or mentoring? pp. 33-40

David Laband and Michael J. Piette

Incentive schemes for investment in human capital by members of a team of decision makers pp. 41-51

Drora Karotkin and Jacob Paroush

Worker absence histories: a panel data study pp. 53-65

Tim Barmby, Chris Orme and John Treble

The wage effects of overschooling revisited pp. 67-76

Elchanan Cohn and Shahina P. Khan

Job displacement, wages, and unemployment duration in Canada pp. 77-91

Mario Houle and Marc Van Audenrode

The empirical status of job search theory pp. 101-101

T. J. Devine and Nicholas Kiefer

Bargaining power and wages: A game-theoretic model of gender differences in union wage bargaining pp. 101-101

J. Sap

Demographic groups and personnel policy pp. 101-102

Peter Kuhn

Evaluating reported determinants of labour demand pp. 102-102

D. R. Ross and Klaus Zimmermann

Efficient contracts are on the labour demand curve: Theory and facts pp. 102-102

Andrew Oswald

Swedish evidence on the efficiency wage hypothesis pp. 102-103

S. Ackum Agell

Monopsonistic wage discrimination, incentives and efficiency pp. 103-103

Agnar Sandmo

Racial differences in the economic advantages of U.S. physician board certification pp. 103-103

M. B. Hampton and John Heywood

Personal contacts and earnings: It is who you know! pp. 103-104

Dale Mortensen and T. Vishwanath

Unions and the pattern of corporate mergers: U.S. evidence pp. 104-104

John Heywood and James Peoples

Union response to mechanization in U.S. bituminous coal pp. 104-104

W. M. Boal

Temporarily asymmetric information and labour contracts pp. 105-105

Åsa Rosén

Market-procured housework: The demand for domestic servants and female labor supply pp. 105-105

Wing Suen

A model of labour demand with linear adjustment costs pp. 105-105

Samuel Bentolila and Gilles Saint-Paul

An econometric analysis of labour market transitions using discrete and tenure data pp. 106-106

Thierry Magnac and Jean-Marc Robin

Effects on earnings of the removal of direct discrimination in minimum wage rates: A validation of the Blinder decomposition pp. 106-106

Paul Miller

Testing for ability when job assignment is a signal pp. 106-107

Tim Perri

Stochastic reservation and offer wages pp. 107-107

W. Groot and Hessel Oosterbeek