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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

2003: Lousy and Lovely Jobs: the Rising Polarization of Work in Britain

Maarten Goos and Alan Manning

2003: Collateral Value and Forbearance Lending

Nan-Kuang Chen and Hsiao-Lei Chu

2003: Is it Good to Talk? Information Disclosure and Organisational Performance in the UK Incorporating evidence submitted on the DTI discussion paper 'High Performance Workplaces - Informing and Consulting Employees'

Helen Bewley, Howard Gospel, R Peccei and P Willman

2003: The Anatomy of Union Decline in Britain: 1990-1998

A Charlwood

2003: Unemployment in Britain: A European Success Story

Christopher Pissarides

2003: Corporate R&D and Productivity in Germany and the United Kingdom

Stephen Bond, Dietmar Harhoff and John van Reenen

2003: Buzz: Face-to-Face Contact and the Urban Economy

Michael Storper and Anthony Venables

2003: The Incidence of UK Housing Benefit: Evidence from the 1990s Reforms

Stephen Gibbons and Alan Manning

2003: The Employment of Married Mothers in Great Britain: 1974-2000

Paul Gregg, Maria Gutierrez-Domenech and Jane Waldfogel

2003: Investment, R&D and Financial Constraints in Britain and Germany

Stephen Bond, Dietmar Harhoff and John van Reenen

2003: Product Choice and Product Switching

Andrew Bernard, Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

2003: Spatial Disparities in Developing Countries: Cities, Regions and International Trade

Anthony Venables

2003: Communication Externalities in Cities

Sylvie Charlot and Gilles Duranton

2003: Why Do Voice Regimes Differ?

Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez and P Willman

2003: Child Labor and the Labor Supply of Other Household Members: Evidence from 1920 America

Marco Manacorda

2003: Why Have Workers Stopped Joining Unions?

Alex Bryson and Rafael Gomez

2003: Trade Shocks and Industrial Location: the Impact of EEC Accession on the UK

Henry Overman and L. Winters

2003: The Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities in the European Union

Pierre-Philippe Combes and Henry Overman

2003: Can We Learn Anything from Economic Geography Proper?

Henry Overman

2003: Falling Trade Costs, Heterogeneous Firms and Industry Dynamics

Andrew Bernard, J. Jensen and Peter Schott

2003: Survival of the Best Fit: Exposure to Low-Wage Countries and the (Uneven) Growth of U.S. Manufacturing Plants

Andrew Bernard, J. Jensen and Peter Schott

2003: Reviewing the Statutory Union Recognition (ERA 1999)

Sian Moore and Stephen Wood

2003: Corporate Restructuring and Firm Performance of British and German Non-Financial Firms

Thomas Kirchmaier

2003: Why is the Rate of Return to Schooling Higher For Women Than For Men?

C Dougherty

2003: Aggregate Growth and the Efficiency of Labour Reallocation

Simon Burgess and Dan Mawson

2003: Poverty and Worklessness in Britain

Stephen Nickell

2003: Renegotiating Performance: the Role of Performance Pay in Renegotiating the Effort Bargain

David Marsden

2003: A Picture of European Unemployment: Success and Failure

Stephen Nickell

2003: Self-Selection and the Performance of Return Migrants: the Source Country Perspective

Matloob Piracha and Augustin de Coulon

2003: The Impact on Firms of ICT Skill-Supply Strategies: An Anglo-German Comparison

Jim Foreman, Hilary Steedman and Karin Wagner

2003: The Costs of Urban Property Crime

Stephen Gibbons

2003: Productivity Convergence and Foreign Ownership at the Establishment Level

Rachel Griffith, Stephen Redding and Helen Simpson

2003: Distance, Skill Deepening and Development: Will Peripheral Countries Ever Get Rich?

Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

2003: Scale Effects in Markets with Search

Barbara Petrongolo and Christopher Pissarides

2003: A Test Between Unemployment Theories Using Matching Data

Melvyn Coles and Barbara Petrongolo

2003: Does Union Membership Really Reduce Job Satisfaction?

Alex Bryson, Lorenzo Cappellari and Claudio Lucifora

2003: Segmentation, Switching Costs and the Demand for Unionization in Britain

Alex Bryson and Rafael Gomez

2003: Employment After Motherhood: A European Comparison

Maria Gutierrez-Domenech

2003: The Performance Effects of European Demergers

Tom Kirchmaier

2003: The Real Thin Theory: Monopsony in Modern Labour Markets

Alan Manning

2003: Digital Goods and the New Economy

Danny Quah

2003: High Performance Workplaces: the Role of Employee Involvement in a Modern Economy Evidence on the EU Directive Establishing a General Framework for Informing and Consulting Employees

Howard Gospel and P Willman

2003: Barriers and the Transition to Modern Growth

L. Rachel Ngai