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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

2002: The Impact of the Labour Market on the Timing of Marriage and Births in Spain

Maria Gutierrez-Domenech

2002: The Provision of Training in Britain: Case Studies of Inter-Firm Coordination

Jim Foreman and Howard Gospel

2002: Factors of Convergence and Divergence in Union Membership

Stephen Machin

2002: Cross-Generation Correlations of Union Status For Young People in Britain

Joanne Blanden and Stephen Machin

2002: Does Inequality in Skills Explain Inequality of Earnings Across Advanced Countries?

Dan Devroye and Richard Freeman

2002: Labour Market Performance and Start-Up Costs: OECD Evidence

Paloma Lopez-Garcia

2002: Shared Modes of Compensation and Firm Performance: UK Evidence

Martin Conyon and Richard Freeman

2002: Marketization of Production and the US-Europe Employment Gap

Richard Freeman and Ronald Schettkat

2002: The Labour Market in the New Information Economy

Richard Freeman

2002: Institutional Differences and Economic Performance Among OECD Countries

Richard Freeman

2002: The Hidden Costs of Fixed Term Contracts: the Impact On Work Accidents

Maria Guadalupe

2002: City Size Distributions As A Consequence of the Growth Process

Gilles Duranton

2002: Explaining Cross-Country Export Performance: International Linkages and Internal Geography

Stephen Redding and Anthony Venables

2002: Its Not What You Make, Its How You Use IT: Measuring the Welfare Benefits of the IT Revolution Across Countries

Tamim Bayoumi and Markus Haacker

2002: Factor Price Equalization in the UK?

Andrew Bernard, Stephen Redding, Peter Schott and Helen Simpson

2002: Employment Penalty After Motherhood In Spain

Maria Gutierrez-Domenech

2002: Educational Attainment, Labour Market Institutions, and the Structure of Production

Stephen Nickell, Stephen Redding and Joanna Swaffield

2002: Where the Minimum Wage Bites Hard: the Introduction of the UK National Minimum Wage to a Low Wage Sector

Stephen Machin, Alan Manning and Lupin Rahman

2002: Matchmaking: the Influence of Monitoring Environments on the Effectiveness of Performance Pay Systems

Richard Belfield and David Marsden

2002: Consumption and Savings with Unemployment Risk: Implications for Optimal Employment Contracts

Christopher Pissarides

2002: Trade and Industrial Location with Heterogeneous Labor

Mary Amiti and Christopher Pissarides

2002: Testing for Localisation Using Micro-Geographic Data

Gilles Duranton and Henry Overman

2002: Unions and Productivity, Financial Performance and Investment: International Evidence

David Metcalf

2002: Spanish Unemployment Persistence and the Ladder Effect

Fabrice Collard, Raquel Fonseca and Rafael Munoz

2002: Home Bias, Transactions Costs, and Prospects for the Euro: A More Detailed Analysis

Catherine Mann and Ellen Meade

2002: Intergenerational Transfers and Household Structure. Why Do Most Italian Youths Live With Their Parents?

Marco Manacorda and Enrico Moretti

2002: One Third of the Worlds Growth and Inequality

Danny Quah

2002: Matching Demand and Supply in a Weightless Economy: Market-Driven Creativity With and Without IPRs

Danny Quah

2002: Has The National Minimum Wage Reduced UK Wage Inequality?

Richard Dickens and Alan Manning

2002: The Structure of Wages in What Should be a Competitive Labour Market

Stephen Machin and Alan Manning

2002: Estimates of the Effect of Wages on Job Satisfaction

Arnaud Chevalier and Reamonn Lydon

2002: The Union Membership Wage Premium: An Analysis Using Propensity Score Matching

Alex Bryson

2002: Family-Friendly Working: What a Performance! An Analysis of the Relationship Between the Availability of Family-Friendly Policies and Establishment Performance

Helen Gray

2002: Managerial Ownership and Firm Performance in German Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Elisabeth Müller and Alexandra Spitz

2002: Minimum Wages and On-the-Job Training

Daron Acemoglu and Jorn-Steffen Pischke

2002: Give PCs a Chance: Personal Computer Ownership and the Digital Divide in the United States and Great Britain

John Schmitt and Jonathan Wadsworth

2002: Its a Family Affair: the Effect of Union Recognition and Human Resource Management on the Provision of Equal Opportunities in the UK

Sue Fernie and Helen Gray

2002: Globalization in History: A Geographical Perspective

Nicholas Crafts and Anthony Venables

2002: Regional Influences on U.S. Monetary Policy: Some Implications for Europe

Ellen Meade and Nathan Sheets

2002: Technology Dissemination and Economic Growth: Some Lessons for the New Economy

Danny Quah

2002: Spatial Agglomeration Dynamics

Danny Quah

2002: Company Start-Up Costs and Employment

Christopher Pissarides

2002: Taxes, Subsidies and Equilibrium Labor Market Outcomes

Dale Mortensen and Christopher Pissarides

2002: The Promise of Workplace Training for Non-College Bound Youth: Theory and Evidence from German Apprenticeship

Damon Clark and René Fahr

2002: Changes in Intergenerational Mobility in Britain

Joanne Blanden, Alissa Goodman, Paul Gregg and Stephen Machin

2002: The Long-Run Labour Market Consequences of Teenage Motherhood in Britain

Arnaud Chevalier and Tarja Viitanen

2002: Youth-Adult Differences in the Demand for Unionisation: Are American, British, and Canadian Workers All That Different?

Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez, Morley Gunderson and Noah Meltz

2001: Monopsony and the Efficiency of Labour Market Interventions

Alan Manning

2001: Benchmarking Apprenticeship: UK and Continental Europe Compared

Hilary Steedman

2001: From Playstations to Workstations: Youth Preferences for Unionisation in Canada

Rafael Gomez, Morley Gunderson and Noah Meltz

2001: From Sectoral To Functional Urban Specialisation

Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga

2001: Labor Pooling, Labor Poaching and Spatial Clustering

Pierre-Philippe Combes and Gilles Duranton

2001: Measuring the Cost Effectiveness of an R&D Tax Credit for the UK

Rachel Griffith, Stephen Redding and John van Reenen

2001: The Economic Geography of Trade, Production, and Income: A Survey of Empirics

Henry Overman, Stephen Redding and Anthony Venables

2001: Geography and International Inequalities: the Impact of New Technologies

Anthony Venables

2001: Whither Poverty in Great Britain and the United States? The Determinants of Changing Poverty and Whether Work Will Work

Richard Dickens and David Ellwood

2001: Influences on Trade Union Organising Effectiveness in Great Britain

A Charlwood

2001: Does Performance Pay De-Motivate, and Does It Matter?

Stephen French, Katsuyuki Kubo and David Marsden

2001: The Beveridge Curve, Unemployment and Wages in the OECD from the 1960s to the 1990s - Preliminary Version

Stephen Nickell, Luca Nunziata, Wolfgang Ochel and Glenda Quintini

2001: Factor Endowments and Production in European Regions

Stephen Redding and Mercedes Vera-Martin

2001: Labour Law and Social Insurance in the New Economy: A Debate on the Supiot Report

Editors :, David Marsden and Hugh Stephenson

2001: A Generalised Model of Monopsony

Alan Manning

2001: Why Do Non-Union Employees Want To Unionise? Evidence from Britain

A Charlwood

2001: Minimum Wages and Employment

Manfred Keil, Donald Robertson and James Symons

2001: Education and Italian Regional Development

Adriana Di Liberto and James Symons

2001: Fixed-Term Contracts and the Duration Distribution of Unemployment

Maia Güell

2001: Economic Geography and International Inequality

Stephen Redding and Anthony Venables

2001: Union Effects On Managerial and Employee Perceptions of Employee Relations in Britain

Alex Bryson

2001: British Unions: Dissolution or Resurgence Revisited

David Metcalf

2001: Frustrated Demand for Unionisation: the Case of the United States and Canada Revisited

Rafael Gomez, Seymour Martin Lipset and Noah Meltz

2001: Jobs, Workers and Changes in Earnings Dispersion

Simon Burgess, Julia Lane and David Stevens

2001: Externalities in the Matching of Workers and Firms in Britain

Simon Burgess and Stefan Profit

2001: Nominal Wage Rigidity and the Rate of Inflation

Stephen Nickell and Glenda Quintini

2001: Technological Innovation and Performance in the United Kingdom

Stephen Nickell and John van Reenen

2001: Explaining Currency Crises: A Duration Model Approach

Merxe Tudela

2001: Product Standards, Trade Disputes and Protectionism

Daniel Sturm