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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

19868: Trade liberalization and industrial restructuring through mergers and acquisitions

Holger Breinlich

19867: The impact of uncertainty shocks: firm level estimation and a 9/11 simulation

Nicholas Bloom

19866: A gold rush theory of economic development

Ralph Ossa

19865: What do unions do to executive compensation?

Rafael Gomez and Konstantinos Tzioumis

19864: Knowledge flow and sequential innovation: implications for technology diffusion, r&d and market value

Sharon Belenzon

19862: Basic research and sequential innovation

Sharon Belenzon

19859: The incidence of an earned income tax credit: evaluating the impact on wages in the UK

Ghazala Azmat

19857: Productivity, exporting and the learning-by-exporting hypothesis: direct evidence from UK firms

Gustavo Crespi, Chiara Criscuolo and Jonathan Haskel

19856: Trade and growth with heterogeneous firms

Robert Baldwin and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

19853: Patterns of work across the OECD

Giulia Faggio and Stephen Nickell

19850: What voice do British workers want?

Alex Bryson and Richard Freeman

19849: Unions, within-workplace job cuts and job security guarantees

Alex Bryson and Michael White

19847: Off-shoring of business services and de-industrialization: threat or opportunity - and for whom?

Frederic Robert-Nicoud

19845: Competing technologies in the database management systems market

Tobias Kretschmer

19844: The early career gender wage gap

Sami Napari

19843: Co-opetition and prelaunch in standard-setting for developing technologies

Tobias Kretschmer and Katrin Muehlfeld

19842: Capital markets, ownership and distance

Wendy Carlin, Andrew Charlton and Colin Mayer

19841: Unions, job reductions and job security guarantees: the experience of British employees

Michael White and Alex Bryson

19840: Assessing the effects of local taxation using microgeographic data

Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon and Henry Overman

19823: Intertemporal tradeoffs priced in interest rates and amounts: a study of method variance

Daniel Read, Mara Airoldi and G Loewe

19800: Information and communication technologies in a multi-sector endogenous growth model

Evangelia Vourvachaki

19799: Lowering child mortality in poor countries: the power of knowledgeable parents

Peter Boone and Zhaoguo Zhan

19798: Gross worker flows in the presence of informal labor markets. The Mexican experience 1987-2002

Mariano Bosch and William Maloney

19797: The impact of immigration on the structure of male wages: theory and evidence from Britain

Marco Manacorda, Alan Manning and Jonathan Wadsworth

19796: International financial integration and entrepreneurship

Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton

19794: Exploring the detailed location patterns of UK manufacturing industries using microgeographic data

Gilles Duranton and Henry Overman

19793: Fat city: the relationship between urban sprawl and obesity

Jean Eid, Henry Overman, Diego Puga and Matthew Turner

19789: The CEP-OECD institutions data set (1960-2004)

William Nickell

19785: Job creation and job destruction in the presence of informal labour markets

Mariano Bosch

19782: Search and matching frictions and optimal monetary policy

Carlos Thomas

19779: The effect of trade liberalization on informality and wages: evidence from Mexico

Benjamin Aleman-Castilla

19777: The impact of central bank announcements on asset prices in real time: testing the efficiency of the Euribor futures market

Carlo Rosa and Giovanni Verga

19775: American economic development since the civil war or the virtue of education

Fabrice Murtin

19774: Shifts in economic geography and their causes

Anthony Venables

19772: Accounting for collective action: resource acquisition and mobilization in British unions

Paul Willman and Alex Bryson

19771: Term limits and electoral accountability

Michael Smart and Daniel Sturm

19767: The effect of trade on the demand for skill - evidence from the interstate highway system

Guy Michaels

19765: The plant size-place effect: agglomeration and monopsony in labour markets

Alan Manning

19762: Union organization in Great Britain

Paul Willman and Alex Bryson

19759: Is numérairology the future of monetary economics?: unbundling numéraire and medium of exchange through a virtual currency and a shadow exchange rate

Willem Buiter

19754: Decomposing the growth in residential land in the United States

Henry Overman, Diego Puga and Matthew Turner