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20045: Does union membership really reduce job satisfaction?

Alex Bryson, Lorenzo Cappellari and Claudio Lucifora

20043: The costs of urban property crime

Stephen Gibbons

20042: The impact on firms of ICT skill-supply strategies: an Anglo-German comparison

Hilary Steedman, Karin Wagner and Jim Foreman

20040: Self-selection and the performance of return migrants: the source country perspective

Augustin de Coulon and Matloob Piracha

20039: A picture of European unemployment: success and failure

Stephen Nickell

20038: Poverty and worklessness in Britain

Stephen Nickell

20036: Aggregate growth and the efficiency of labour reallocation

Simon Burgess and Dan Mawson

20034: Why is the rate of return to schooling higher for women than for men?

Christopher Dougherty

20031: Corporate restructuring and firm performance of British and German non-financial firms

Thomas Kirchmaier

20029: Reviewing the statutory union recognition (ERA 1999)

Stephen Wood and Sian Moore

20028: 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

20027: Falling trade costs, heterogeneous firms and industry dynamics

Andrew Bernard, J. Jensen and Peter Schott

20024: Can we learn anything from economic geography proper?

Henry Overman

20023: The spatial distribution of economic activities in the European Union

Pierre-Philippe Combes and Henry Overman

20022: Why have workers stopped joining unions?

Alex Bryson and Rafael Gomez

20021: Child labor and the labor supply of other household members: evidence from 1920 America

Marco Manacorda

20017: Why do voice regimes differ?

Paul Willman, Alex Bryson and Rafael Gomez

20016: Communication externalities in cities

Sylvie Charlot and Gilles Duranton

20014: The employment of married mothers in Great Britain: 1974-2000

Paul Gregg, Maria Gutiérrez-Domènech and Jane Waldfogel

20011: The incidence of UK housing benefit: evidence from the 1990s reforms

Stephen Gibbons and Alan Manning

20008: Buzz: face-to-face contact and the urban economy

Michael Storper and Anthony Venables

20006: The anatomy of union decline in Britain: 1990-1998

Andy Charlwood

20005: 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'

Riccardo Peccei, Helen Bewley, Howard Gospel and Paul Willman

20004: Collateral value and forbearance lending

Nan-Kuang Chen and Hsiao-Lei Chu

20002: Lousy and lovely jobs: the rising polarization of work in Britain

Maarten Goos and Alan Manning

19999: Looking for HRM/union substitution: evidence from British workplaces

Stephen Machin and Stephen Wood

19998: The geography of UK international trade

Henry Overman and L. Winters

19995: Gender gaps in unemployment rates in OECD countries

Ghazala Azmat, Maia Güell and Alan Manning

19994: Publicity of debate and the incentive to dissent: evidence from the US federal reserve

Ellen Meade and David Stasavage

19992: Endowments, market potential, and industrial location: evidence from interwar Poland (1918-1939)

Nikolaus Wolf

19989: Valuing rail access using transport innovations

Stephen Gibbons and Stephen Machin

19987: The union wage premium in the US and the UK

David Blanchflower and Alex Bryson

19985: Executive compensation and product market competition

Vicente Cuñat and Maria Guadalupe

19984: Is the medical brain drain beneficial? Evidence from overseas doctors in the UK

Mari Kangasniemi, L. Winters and Simon Commander

19983: Instrumental variables for binary treatments with heterogeneous treatment effects: a simple exposition

Alan Manning

19982: The impact of vocational qualifications on the labour market outcomes of low-achieving school-leavers

Steven McIntosh

19981: The returns to apprenticeship training

Steven McIntosh

19980: Do friends and relatives really help in getting a good job?

Michele Pellizzari

19979: Do organisational climate and strategic orientation moderate the relationship between human resource management practices and productivity?

Andrew Neal, Michael A. West and Malcolm G. Patterson

19978: Is there an impact of household computer ownership on children's educational attainment in Britain?

John Schmitt and Jonathan Wadsworth

19977: Organizational climate and company productivity: the role of employee affect and employee level

Malcolm Patterson, Peter Warr and Michael West

19964: Short job tenures and firing taxes in the search theory of unemployment

Vasileios Gkionakis

19963: A statistical framework for the analysis of productivity and sustainable development

Nicholas Oulton

19962: The impact of an innovative human resource function on firm performance: the moderating role of financing strategy

Neal Knight-Turvey, Andrew Neal, Michael A. West and Jeremy Dawson

19960: Corporate ownership structure and performance in Europe

Jeremy Grant and Thomas Kirchmaier

19959: Two sides to every story: measuring the polarisation of work

Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth

19956: Threshold effects and firm size: the case of firing costs

Fabiano Schivardi and Roberto Torrini

19955: Employment and taxes

Stephen Nickell

19954: 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

19953: Can a work organization have an attitude problem? The impact of workplaces on employee attitude and economic outcomes

Ann Bartel, Casey Ichniowski, Morris Kleiner and Richard Freeman

19952: White hats or Don Quixotes? Human rights vigilantes in the global economy

Kimberly Ann Elliot and Richard Freeman

19950: Monetary policy and welfare in a small open economy

Bianca De Paoli

19948: We can work it out: the impact of technological change on the demand for low skill workers

Alan Manning

19947: Zipf's law for cities: a cross country investigation

Kwok Tong Soo

19946: Are European labor markets as awful as all that?

Richard Freeman

19945: Crime and benefit sanctions

Stephen Machin and Olivier Marie

19944: Is seniority-based pay used as a motivation device? Evidence from plant level data

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

19943: Monitoring colleagues at work: profit-sharing, employee ownership, broad-based stock options and workplace performance in the United States

Douglas Kruse, Joseph Blasi and Richard Freeman

19939: Cities, matching and the productivity gains of agglomeration

Fredrick Andersson, Simon Burgess and Julia I. Lane

19938: Labor market institutions, wages and investment

Jorn-Steffen Pischke

19937: Globalisation, ICT and the nitty gritty of plant level datasets

Ralf Martin

19935: Disengagement 14-16: context and evidence

Hilary Steedman and Sheila Stoney

19933: The self selection of migrant workers revisited

Eran Yashiv

19932: Inflation, inequality and social conflict

Christopher Crowe

19930: Motivating employee owners in ESOP firms: human resource policies and company performance

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

19929: Do job security guarantees work?

Alex Bryson, Lorenzo Cappellari and Claudio Lucifora

19926: Financial globalization and exchange rates

Philip Lane and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

19925: Sinking the blues: the impact of shop closing hours on labor and product markets

Maarten Goos

19923: Entrepreneurship: can the Jack-of-all-trades attitude be acquired?

Olmo Silva

19919: Can comparative advantage explain the growth of US trade?

Alejandro Cunat and Marco Maffezzoli

19915: Profit share and returns on capital stock in Italy: the role of privatisations behind the rise of the 1990s

Roberto Torrini

19914: Multinationals and US productivity leadership: evidence from Great Britain

Chiara Criscuolo and Ralf Martin

19912: Inactivity among prime age men in the UK

Giulia Faggio and Stephen Nickell

19909: Catching a wave: the adoption of voice and high commitment workplace practices in Britain: 1984-1998

Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez and Tobias Kretschmer

19906: Evaluating the performance of the search and matching model

Eran Yashiv

19904: Job security and job protection

Andrew Clark and Fabien Postel-Vinay

19902: Crime and police resources: the street crime initiative

Stephen Machin and Olivier Marie

19901: Productivity growth and the role of ICT in the United Kingdom: an industry view, 1970-2000

Nicholas Oulton and Sylaja Srinivasan

19899: Is ECB communication effective?

Carlo Rosa and Giovanni Verga

19898: Rising trade costs? Agglomeration and trade with endogenous transaction costs

Gilles Duranton and Michael Storper

19897: Capital mobility and unemployment dynamics: evidence from a panel of OECD countries

Giovanna Vallanti

19895: Product market competition returns to skill and wage inequality

Maria Guadalupe

19894: How does product market competition shape incentive contracts?

Vicente Cuñat and Maria Guadalupe

19891: Labor and the market value of the firm

Monika Merz and Eran Yashiv

19890: Immigrants at retirement: stay/return or 'va-et-vient'?

Augustin de Coulon and François-Charles Wolff

19889: The employment effects of the October 2003 increase in the national minimum wage

Richard Dickens and Mirko Draca

19888: The importance of the wording of the ECB

Carlo Rosa and Giovanni Verga

19887: Cities in the developing world

Henry Overman and Anthony Venables

19886: You can't always get what you want: the impact of the jobseeker's allowance

Alan Manning

19885: Ex post versus ex ante measures of the user cost of capital

Nicholas Oulton

19883: The gender gap in early career wage growth

Alan Manning and Joanna Swaffield

19882: Evaluating the economic significance of downward nominal wage rigidity

Michael Elsby

19881: The de-collectivisation of pay setting in Britain 1990-1998: incidence, determinants and impact

Andy Charlwood

19880: Superstars and renaissance men: specialization, market size and the income distribution

Richard Walker

19879: Chinese unions: nugatory or transforming? An 'Alice' analysis

David Metcalf and Jianwei Li

19878: Agricultural returns and conflict: quasi-experimental evidence from a policy intervention programme in Rwanda

Florence Kondylis

19877: Apprenticeship in Europe: 'fading' or flourishing?

Hilary Steedman

19874: Changes in returns to education in Latin America: the role of demand and supply of skills

Marco Manacorda, Carolina Sanchez-Paramo and Norbert Schady

19873: Union free-riding in Britain and New Zealand

Alex Bryson

19872: Do workers' remittances reduce the probability of current account reversals?

Matteo Bugamelli and Francesco Paterno