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1999: The Effectiveness of Top Management Groups in Manufacturing Organisations

J Dawson, Stephen Nickell, M Patterson and M West

1999: Overeducation and Skills - Clarifying the Concepts

Francis Green, Steven McIntosh and Anna Vignoles

1999: Unemployment Clusters Across European Regions and Countries

Henry Overman and Diego Puga

1999: Diversity and Specialisation in Cities: Why, Where and When does it Matter?

Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga

1999: A Cross-Country Comparison of the Determinants of Vocational Training

Steven McIntosh

1999: Looking into the Qualifications Black Box: What can International Surveys Tell Us About Basic Competence?

Hilary Steedman

1999: On the Home Market Effect: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Federico Trionfetti

1999: Does Tax Smoothing Imply Smooth Taxes?

Andrew Scott

1999: Productivity Growth, Convergence, and Trade in a Panel of Manufacturing Industries

Gavin Cameron, James Proudman and Stephen Redding

1999: The Currency Denomination of Public Debt and the Choice of the Monetary Regime

E Falcetti and S Milner

1999: Short Employment Spells in Italy, Germany and the UK: Testing the Port of Entry Hypothesis

Bruno Contini, Lia Pacelli and Claudia Villosio

1999: UDROP: A Small Contribution to the International Financial Architecture

Willem Buiter and A Sibert

1999: Path Dependence, Endogenous Innovation and Growth

Stephen Redding

1999: Alice in Euroland

Willem Buiter

1999: The Economic Case for Reforming A Levels

Peter Dolton and Anna Vignoles

1999: Job Reallocation, Employment Fluctuations and Unemployment

Dale Mortensen and Christopher Pissarides

1999: Within-Firm Seniority Structure and Firm Performance

F Kramartz and Sébastien Roux

1999: The British National Minimum Wage

David Metcalf

1999: Pretty Vacant: Recruitment in Low Wage Labour Markets

Alan Manning

1999: The Weightless Economy in Economic Development

Danny Quah

1999: The Reallocation of Labour: An International Comparison Using Job Tenure

Simon Burgess

1999: Fickle Investors: An Impediment to Growth

Andrew Scott and Harald Uhlig

1999: Labour Reallocation, Labour Flaws and Labour Market Institutions: Evidence from Spain

Juan F Jimeno and C Serrano

1999: Just Cant Get Enough:More On Skill-Biassed Change and Labour Market Performance

Marco Manacorda and Alan Manning

1998: The Mercantilist Index of Trade Policy

James Anderson and J. Peter Neary

1998: Labor Supply Dynamics, Unemployment and Human Capital Investments

Etienne Wasmer

1998: Can Labour Supply Explain the Rise in Unemployment and Intergroup Wage Inequality in the OECD?

Etienne Wasmer

1998: Strategic Trade and Industrial PolicyTowards Dynamic Oligopolies

Dermot Leahy and J. Peter Neary

1998: Beat Em or Join Em: Export Subsidies versus International Research Joint Ventures in Oligopolistic Markets

J. Peter Neary and P O''Sullivan

1998: Labour Market Institutions and Economic Performance

Richard Layard and Stephen Nickell

1998: Re-employment Probabilities and Returns to Matching

Barbara Petrongolo

1998: If Youre Happy and You Know It...Job Satisfaction in the Low Wage Service Sector

D Brown and Steven McIntosh

1998: Pre-school Educational Inequality? British Children in the 1970 Cohort

L Feinstein

1998: Grime and Punishment: Job Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation

A Aquisti, Hartmut Lehmann and Jonathan Wadsworth

1998: Regional Imbalances and Aggregate Performance in a Leading Sector Model of the Labour Market: An analysis of Italian data 1977-1991

Marco Manacorda and Barbara Petrongolo

1998: Globalisation, Productive Systems, and Inequalities

Gilles Duranton

1998: The Causes and Consequences of Long-Term Unemployment in Europe

Stephen Machin and Alan Manning

1998: Growing Skills in Europe: the Changing Skill Profiles of France, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden and the UK

A Murray and Hilary Steedman

1998: The Economics of Productive Systems: Segmentation and Skill-Biased Change

Gilles Duranton

1998: Child Development and Success or Failure in the Youth Labour Market

Paul Gregg and Stephen Machin

1998: Sticky Prices and Volatile Output: or when is a Phillips Curve not a Phillips Curve?

Martin Ellison and Andrew Scott

1998: The Real Exchange Rate in Transition Economies

C Grafe and Charles Wyplosz

1998: Technological Innovations Slumps and Booms

Leonardo Felli and Francois Ortalo-Magne

1998: The Demand for Post-Compulsory Education in Four European Countries

Steven McIntosh

1998: Explaining International Differences in Male Wage Inequality by differences in Demand and Supply of Skill

Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek and H van Ophern

1998: Technology in Growth

Louise Keely and Danny Quah

1998: (Not)Hanging on the Telephone: Payment systems in the New Sweatshops

Sue Fernie and David Metcalf

1998: Something in the way She Movcs: A Fresh Look at an Old Gap

Alan Manning and Helen Robinson

1998: The Emergence of the Euro as an International Currency

George Alogoskoufis, Richard Portes and Helene Rey

1998: Do wage subsidies Enhance Employability? Evidence from Australian Youth

J Richardson

1998: Partial De-Regulation: Fixed-Term Contracts in Italy and Spain

P Adam and P Canziani

1998: Basic Competence in Mathematics: Swedish and English 16 Year Olds

Hilary Steedman and Alison Wolf

1998: The New Empirics of Economic Growth

Steven Durlauf and Danny Quah

1998: Mighty Good Thing: The Returns to Tenure

Alan Manning

1998: Pre-School Education and Attainment in the NCDS and BCS

L Feinstein, Donald Robertson and James Symons

1998: Movin On Up: Interpreting the Earnings Experience Profile

Alan Manning

1997: Annual Review 96-97

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1997: Regional Convergence from Local Isolated Actions: II Conditioning

Danny Quah

1997: Regional Convergence from LocalIsolated Actions: I Historical Outcomes

Danny Quah

1997: Agglomeration and Economic Development: Import Substitution versus Trade Liberalisation

Diego Puga and Anthony Venables

1997: How to Compete: The Impact of Workplace Practices and Information Technology on Productivity

Sandra Black and Lisa Lynch

1997: The Wage Curve in Italy and Spain. Are European Wages Flexible?

P Canziani

1997: A Simple Test of the Shirking Model

Alan Manning and J Thomas

1997: The Survival of National Bargaining in the Electrical Contracting Industry: A Deviant Case?

J Druker and Howard Gospel

1997: The Revival of Apprenticeship Training in Britain

Howard Gospel

1997: Incentives

Eric Maskin, Yingyi Qian and Chenggang Xu

1997: Human Capital Investment and Innovation: What Are The Connections?

Stephen Nickell and Daphne Nicolitsas

1997: Competition for Jobs in a Growing Economy and the Emergence of Dualism

Etienne Wasmer

1997: Equilibrium Urban Unemployment

Etienne Wasmer and Yves Zenou

1997: Implications of Skill-Biased Technological Change: International Evidence

Eli Berman, John Bound and Stephen Machin

1997: GCSE Grades and GNVQ Outcomes: Results of a Pilot Study

P Rudd and Hilary Steedman

1997: Caught In A Trap? Wage Mobility in Great Britain: 1975-94

Richard Dickens

1997: The Labour Market over the Business Cycle: Can Theory Fit the Facts?

Stephen Millard, Andrew Scott and Marianne Sensier

1997: Specialisation Patterns in Europe

Mary Amiti

1997: Beyond the Incidence of Training

Sandra Black and Lisa Lynch

1997: The Impact of Employment Tax Cuts on Unemployment and Wages: The Role of Unemployment Benefits and Tax Structure

Christopher Pissarides

1997: Agglomeration in a global Economy: A Survey

Gianmarco Ottaviano and Diego Puga

1997: Job Reallocation: Theory and Workplace Evidence

Karen Mumford and Peter Smith

1997: The Hiring Function Reconsidered: On Closing the Circle

Karen Mumford and Peter Smith

1997: Firing Costs and Stigma: An Empirical Analysis

P Canziani

1997: Imperfect Information

P Canziani

1997: Measure for Measure: A Critical note on the National Targets for Education and Training and International Comparisons of Educational Attainment

Peter Robinson

1997: The Myth of Parity of Esteem: Earnings and Qualifications

Peter Robinson

1997: Recent Trends in Engineering and Construction Skill Formation - UK and Germany Compared

Hilary Steedman

1997: Trade Liberalisation and Factor Mobility: An Overview

Anthony Venables

1997: Long-Run Growth and Business Cycle Volatility

Claudio Michelacci

1997: Demand and Supply: The Relationship between Price Elasticities and Profitability in the UK

Naercio Menezes-Filho

1997: European versus US Unemployment: Different Responses to Increased Demand for skill?

Richard Jackman, Richard Layard, Marco Manacorda and Barbara Petrongolo

1997: Random or Non-Random matching? Implications for the use of the UV 234 curve as a measure of matching effectiveness

Paul Gregg and Barbara Petrongolo

1997: Wage Subsidies for the Long Term Unemployed: A Search Theoretic Analysis

J Richardson

1997: Pitfalls in the Theory of International Trade Policy: Concertina Reforms of Tariffs and Subsidies to High Technology Industries

J. Peter Neary

1997: R&D Spillovers and the Case for Industrial Policy in an Open Economy

Dermot Leahy and J. Peter Neary

1997: Phillips Curves

P Clark and Douglas Laxton

1997: Corporate Governance and Shareholder Rights in Russia

D Willer

1997: Is Europe an Optimum Currency Area? A Reconsideration of the Evidence

M Nikolaki

1997: Attainment in Secondary School

L Feinstein and James Symons

1997: Enterprises in Transition: Macroeconomic Influences on Enterprise Decision-Making and Performance

Willem Buiter, R Lagos and Helene Rey

1997: Some Dimensions of the Quality of Life during the British Industrial Revolution

Nicholas Crafts

1997: Labour Market Policy and the Reallocation of Labour Across Sectors

Richard Jackman and Catalin Pauna

1997: Domestic Jobs and Foreign Wages: Labour Demand in Swedish Multinationals

J Hatzius

1997: Foreign Direct Investment

J Hatzius

1997: Promoting an Effective Market Economy in a Changing World

Willem Buiter, R Lagos and Nicholas Stern

1997: Wage Bargaining in Japan: Why Employers and Unions Value Industry-Level Co-ordination

M. Sako

1997: Aspects of Fiscal Performance in Some Transition Economies Under Fund-Supported Programs

Willem Buiter

1997: Can Active Labour Market Policy Work? Some Theoretical Considerations

J Richardson

1997: Qualifications and the Labour Market in Britain: 1984-1994 Skill Biased Change in the Demand for Labour or Credentialism?

Marco Manacorda and Peter Robinson

1997: True Multilateral Indexes for International Comparisons of Purchasing Power and Real Income

J. Peter Neary

1997: International Trade and Internal Organization

U Patel

1997: Free to Choose? Dimensions of Private Sector Wage Contract Re-Negotiation since 1979

D Brown, P Ingram and Jonathan Wadsworth

1997: The Price is Right: Inflation and Nominal Wage Adjustment in Britain

D Brown, P Ingram and Jonathan Wadsworth

1997: Water Under the Bridge: Changes in Employment in Britain and the OECD

Peter Robinson

1997: International Trade and Currency Exchange

Helene Rey

1997: Empirics for Growth and Distribution

Danny Quah

1997: The Real Exchange Rate in India: Determinants and Targeting

U Patel and P Srivastava

1997: Interpreting the ERM Crisis: Country-Specific and Systemic Issues

Willem Buiter, Giancarlo Corsetti and Paolo Pesenti

1997: A Portfolio Approach to a Cross-Sectoral and Cross-National Investment Strategy in Transition Economics

Willem Buiter, R Lagos and Helene Rey

1997: Marshalls Trees and the Global Forest: Were Giant Redwoods Different?

L Hannah