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2005: Changes in Returns to Education in Latin America: the Role of Demand and Supply of Skills

Marco Manacorda, Carolina Sanchez-Paramo and Norbert Schady

2005: Unequal Pay or Unequal employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps

Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

2005: Apprenticeship in Europe: 'Fading' or Flourishing?

Hilary Steedman

2005: Agricultural Returns and Conflict: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Policy Intervention Programme in Rwanda

Florence Kondylis

2005: Chinese Unions: Nugatory or Transforming? An 'Alice' Analysis

Jianwei Li and David Metcalf

2005: Superstars and Renaissance Men: Specialization, Market Size and the Income Distribution

Richard Walker

2005: Volatility and Development

Miklós Koren and Silvana Tenreyro

2005: The De-Collectivisation of Pay Setting in Britain 1990-1998: Incidence, Determinants and Impact

A Charlwood

2005: Evaluating the Economic Significance of Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity

Michael Elsby

2005: Performance Pay for Teachers: Linking Individual and Organisational Level Targets

Richard Belfield and David Marsden

2005: The Growth of Network Computing: Quality Adjusted Price Changes for Network Servers

John van Reenen

2005: The Log of Gravity

João Santos Silva and Silvana Tenreyro

2005: The Gender Gap in Early Career Wage Growth

Alan Manning and Joanna Swaffield

2005: Products and Productivity

Andrew Bernard, Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

2005: Ex Post Versus Ex Ante Measures of the User Cost of Capital

Nicholas Oulton

2005: You Can't Always Get What You Want: the Impact of the Jobseeker's Allowance

Alan Manning

2005: Factor Price Equality and the Economies of the United States

Andrew Bernard, Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

2005: Cities in the Developing World

Henry Overman and Anthony Venables

2005: The Importance of the Wording of the ECB

Carlo Rosa and Giovanni Verga

2005: The Employment Effects of the October 2003 Increase in the National Minimum Wage

Richard Dickens and Mirko Draca

2005: Productivity Dispersion, Competition and Productivity Measurement

Ralf Martin

2005: Immigrants at Retirement: Stay/Return or 'Va-et-Vient'

François-Charles Wolff and Augustin de Coulon

2005: Labor and the Market Value of the Firm

Monika Merz and Eran Yashiv

2005: Agglomeration and the Adjustment of the Spatial Economy

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton and Henry Overman

2005: The Costs of Remoteness: Evidence from German Division and Reunification

Stephen Redding and Daniel Sturm

2005: How Does Product Market Competition Shape Incentive Contracts?

Vicente Cuñat and Maria Guadalupe

2005: Product Market Competition Returns to Skill and Wage Inequality

Maria Guadalupe

2005: New Survey Evidence on Recent Changes in UK Union Recognition

Joanne Blanden, Stephen Machin and John van Reenen

2005: Capital Mobility and Unemployment Dynamics: Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries

Giovanna Vallanti

2005: Rising Trade Costs? Agglomeration and Trade with Endogenous Transaction Costs

Gilles Duranton and Michael Storper

2005: Is ECB Communication Effective?

Carlo Rosa and Giovanni Verga

2005: Productivity Growth and the Role of ICT in the United Kingdom: An Industry View, 1970-2000

Nicholas Oulton and Sylaja Srinivasan

2005: Crime and Police Resources: The Street Crime Initiative

Stephen Machin and Olivier Marie

2005: The Part-Time Pay Penalty

Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo

2005: Job Security and Job Protection

Andrew Clark and Fabien Postel-Vinay

2005: Evaluating the Performance of the Search and Matching Model

Eran Yashiv

2005: Catching a Wave: the Adoption of Voice and High Commitment Workplace Practices in Britain: 1984-1998

Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez and Tobias Kretschmer

2005: Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry

Nicholas Bloom, Mark Schankerman and John van Reenen

2005: The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages: Evidence from British Panel Data

Lorraine Dearden, Howard Reed and John van Reenen

2005: Inactivity Among Prime Age Men in the UK

Giulia Faggio and Stephen Nickell

2005: Multinationals and US Productivity Leadership: Evidence from Great Britain

Chiara Criscuolo and Ralf Martin

2005: Profit Share and Returns on Capital Stock in Italy: the Role of Privatisations behind the Rise of the 1990s

Roberto Torrini

2005: Fiscal Discipline and the Cost of Public Debt Service: Some Estimates for OECD Countries

Silvia Ardagna, Francesco Caselli and Timothy Lane

2005: Can Comparative Advantage Explain the Growth of US Trade?

Alejandro Cunat and Marco Maffezzoli

2005: Is Poland the Next Spain?

Francesco Caselli and Silvana Tenreyro

2005: Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences

Francesco Caselli

2004: Designing Target Rules for International Monetary Policy Cooperation

Gianluca Benigno and Pierpaolo Benigno

2004: Entrepreneurship: Can the Jack-of-All-Trades Attitude be Aquired?

Olmo Silva

2004: Sinking the Blues: the Impact of Shop Closing Hours on Labor and Product Markets

Maarten Goos

2004: Productivity Growth and Employment: Theory and Panel Estimates

Christopher Pissarides and Giovanna Vallanti

2004: Financial Globalization and Exchange Rates

Philip Lane and G Milesi-Feretti

2004: Do Job Security Guarantees Work?

Alex Bryson, Lorenzo Cappellari and Claudio Lucifora

2004: Unions, Performance-Related Pay and Procedural Justice: the Case of Classroom Teachers

Richard Belfield and David Marsden

2004: How Special is the Special Relationship? Using the Impact of US R&D Spillovers on UK Firms as a Test of Technology Sourcing

Rachel Griffith, Rupert Harrison and John van Reenen

2004: Motivating Employee Owners in ESOP Firms: Human Resource Policies and Company Performance

Joseph Blasi, Robert Buchele, Richard Freeman, Douglas Kruse, Chris Mackin, Loren Rodgers and Adria Scharf

2004: Inflation, Inequality and Social Conflict

Christopher Crowe

2004: The Internationalisation of Public Welfare Policy

James Banks, R Disney, Alan Duncan and John van Reenen

2004: The Self Selection of Migrant Workers Revisited

Eran Yashiv

2004: Disengagement 14-16: Context and Evidence

Hilary Steedman and Sheila Stoney

2004: Globalisation, ICT and the Nitty Gritty of Plant Level Datasets

Ralf Martin

2004: Labor Market Institutions, Wages and Investment

Jorn-Steffen Pischke

2004: Evaluating Urban Transport Improvements: Cost Benefit Analysis in the Presence of Agglomeration and Income Taxation

Anthony Venables

2004: Is There a Market for Work Group Servers? Evaluating Market Level Demand Elasticities Using Micro and Macro Models

John van Reenen

2004: Foreign Ownership and Productivity: New Evidence from the Service Sector and the R&D Lab

Rachel Griffith, Stephen Redding and Helen Simpson

2004: Cities, Matching and the Productivity Gains of Agglomeration

Fredrik Andersson, Simon Burgess and Julia Lane

2004: Monitoring Colleagues at Work: Profit-Sharing, Employee Ownership, Broad-Based Stock Options and Workplace Performance in the United States

Joseph Blasi, Richard Freeman and Douglas Kruse

2004: Is Seniority-Based Pay Used as a Motivation Device? Evidence from Plant Level Data

Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose Galdon-Sanchez and Maia Güell

2004: Crime and Benefit Sanctions

Stephen Machin and Olivier Marie

2004: Are European Labor Markets As Awful As All That?

Richard Freeman

2004: Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Firms

Andrew Bernard, Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

2004: Spatial Determinants of Productivity: Analysis for the Regions of Great Britain

Patricia Rice and Anthony Venables

2004: Zipfs Law for Cities: A Cross Country Investigation

Kwok Tong Soo

2004: We Can Work It Out: the Impact of Technological Change on the Demand for Low Skill Workers

Alan Manning

2004: Monetary Policy and Welfare in a Small Open Economy

Bianca De Paoli

2004: White Hats or Don Quixotes? Human Rights Vigilantes in the Global Economy

Kimberly Elliott and Richard Freeman

2004: Gender Segregation in Employment Contracts

Barbara Petrongolo

2004: Can a Work Organization Have An Attitude Problem? The Impact of Workplaces on Employee Attitude and Economic Outcomes

Ann Bartel, Richard Freeman, Casey Ichniowski and Morris Kleiner

2004: Reconciling Workless Measures at the Individual and Household Level: Theory and Evidence from the United States, Britain, Germany, Spain and Australia

Paul Gregg, Rosanna Scutella and Jonathan Wadsworth

2004: Employment and Taxes

Stephen Nickell

2004: Threshold Effects and Firm Size: the Case of Firing Costs

Fabiano Schivardi and Roberto Torrini

2004: Two Sides to Every Story: Measuring the Polarisation of Work

Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth

2004: Corporate Ownership Structure and Performance in Europe

Jeremy Grant and Thomas Kirchmaier

2004: The Impact of an Innovative Human Resource Function on Firm Performance: the Moderating Role of Financing Strategy

J Dawson, Neal Knight-Turvey, Andrew Neal and M West

2004: A Statistical Framework for the Analysis of Productivity and Sustainable Development

Nicholas Oulton

2004: Short Job Tenures and Firing Taxes in the Search Theory of Unemployment

Vasileios Gkionakis

2004: Balanced Growth With Structural Change

L. Rachel Ngai and Christopher Pissarides

2004: Organizational Climate and Company Productivity: the Role of Employee Affect and Employee Level

M Patterson, Peter Warr and M West

2004: Is There an Impact of Household Computer Ownership on Childrens Educational Attainment in Britain?

John Schmitt and Jonathan Wadsworth

2004: Do Organisational Climate and Strategic Orientation Moderate the Relationship Between Human Resource Management Practices and Productivity?

Andrew Neal, M Patterson and M West

2004: Do Friends and Relatives Really Help in Getting a Good Job?

Michele Pellizzari

2004: The Returns to Apprenticeship Training

Steven McIntosh

2004: The Impact of Vocational Qualifications on the Labour Market Outcomes of Low-Achieving School-Leavers

Steven McIntosh

2004: The Network Economy and Models of the Employment Contract: Psychological, Economic and Legal

David Marsden

2004: Instrumental Variables for Binary Treatments with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects: A Simple Exposition

Alan Manning

2004: Is the Medical Brain Drain Beneficial? Evidence from Overseas Doctors in the UK

Simon Commander, Mari Kangasniemi and L. Winters

2004: Executive Compensation and Product Market Competition

Vicente Cuñat and Maria Guadalupe

2004: Timeliness, Trade and Agglomeration

James Harrigan and Anthony Venables

2004: Comparatively Open: Statutory Information Disclosure for Consultation and Bargaining in Germany, France and the UK

Howard Gospel and P Willman

2004: Relative Wage Variation and Industry Location

Andrew Bernard, Stephen Redding, Peter Schott and Helen Simpson

2004: Unions and Procedural Justice: An Alternative to the Common Rule

David Marsden

2004: The Union Wage Premium in the US and the UK

David Blanchflower and Alex Bryson

2004: Valuing Rail Access Using Transport Innovations

Stephen Gibbons and Stephen Machin

2004: Public Enterprises and Labor Market Performance

Johannes Hörner, L. Rachel Ngai and Claudia Olivetti

2004: Endowments, Market Potential, and Industrial Location: Evidence from Interwar Poland (1918-1939)

Nikolaus Wolf

2004: Publicity of Debate and the Incentive to Dissent: Evidence from the US Federal Reserve

Ellen Meade and David Stasavage

2004: Gender Gaps in Unemployment Rates in OECD Countries

Ghazala Azmat, Maia Güell and Alan Manning

2004: The Geography of UK International Trade

Henry Overman and L. Winters

2004: Looking for HRM/Union Substitution: Evidence from British Workplaces

Stephen Machin and Stephen Wood