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20764: Banks, firms, bad debts and bankruptcy in Hungary 1991-4

J. P. Bonin and Mark Schaffer

20722: Budgetary aspects of stabilization and structural adjustment in India: the painful road to a sustainable fiscal-financial-monetary plan

Willem Buiter and U. Patel

20717: Patterns of employee participation and industrial democracy in UK ESOPs

A. Pendleton, J. McDonald, A. Robinson and N. Wilson

20713: Cultural commodity chains, cultural clusters, or cultural production chains?

Andy C. Pratt

20710: Industrial disputes and the law in Spain

S. Milner

20704: Creative cities: the cultural industries and the creative class

Andy C. Pratt

20703: Advertising and creativity, a governance approach: a case study of creative agencies in London

Andy C. Pratt

20702: Trade union strength

S. Milner and G. Nombela

20701: Macroeconomic policy during a transition to monetary union

Willem Buiter

20698: How does financial pressure affect firms?

Stephen Nickell and Daphne Nicolitsas

20687: Would cutting payroll taxes on the unskilled have a significant effect on unemployment?

Stephen Nickell and Brian Bell

20685: Innovation and economic growth

Gavin Cameron

20684: Trade unions and training practices in British workplaces

Francis Green, Stephen Machin and David Wilkinson

20683: The spread of industry: spatial agglomeration in economic development

Diego Puga and Anthony Venables

20680: Beyond interoperability to digital ecosystems: regional innovation and socio-economic development led by SMEs

Paolo Dini, Gabriella Lombardo, Robin Mansell, Amir Reza Razavi, Sotiris Moschoyiannis, Paul Krause, Andrea Nicolai and Lorena Rivera León

20677: Putting training in perspective: a longitudinal case study approach

Christopher Dougherty

20658: Collective bargaining and positive adjustment policies

David Marsden

20656: Urbanisation patterns: European vs less developed countries

Diego Puga

20647: The evolution of individual male earnings in Great Britain 1974-1994

Richard Dickens

20643: The rise and fall of regional inequalities

Diego Puga

20642: Ownership structures, patterns of control and enterprise behavior in Russia

John Earle, Saul Estrin and Larisa Leshchenko

20545: Shop stewards, vertrauensleute, et délégués du personnel / Shop stewards in Great Britain, West Germany and France

David Marsden

20538: Aspects of company organization and industrial democracy: a discussion paper

David Marsden

20537: Industrial democracy and industrial control in West Germany, France and Great Britain

David Marsden

20479: Urban density and pupil attainment

Stephen Gibbons and Olmo Silva

20472: Choice, competition and pupil achievement

Stephen Gibbons, Stephen Machin and Olmo Silva

20403: Urban fault lines in Shangri-La: population and economic foundations of interethnic conflict in the Tibetan areas of western China

Andrew Martin Fischer

20364: Privatisation versus competition: changing enterprise behavior in Russia

John Earle and Saul Estrin

20363: Marshall's 'trees' and the global 'forest': were 'giant redwoods different?

L. Hannah

20361: Interpreting the ERM crisis: country-specific and systemic issues

Willem Buiter, Giancarlo Corsetti and Paolo Pesenti

20360: The real exchange rate in India: determinants and targeting

U. Patel and P. Srivastava

20358: The price is right: inflation and nominal wage adjustment in Britain

D. Brown, P. Ingram and Jonathan Wadsworth

20355: True multilateral indexes for international comparisons of purchasing power and real income

J. Peter Neary

20354: Can active labour market policy work? Some theoretical considerations

J. Richardson

20353: Aspects of fiscal performance in some transition economies under fund-supported programs

Willem Buiter

20351: Foreign direct investment

J. Hatzius

20350: Domestic jobs and foreign wages: labour demand in Swedish multinationals

J. Hatzius

20348: Enterprises in transition: macroeconomic influences on enterprise decision-making and performance

Willem Buiter, R. Lago and Helene Rey

20345: Corporate governance and shareholder rights in Russia

D. Willer

20342: R&D spillovers and the case for industrial policy in an open economy

Dermot Leahy and J. Peter Neary

20341: Pitfalls in the theory of international trade policy: concertina reforms of tariffs and subsidies to high technology industries

J. Peter Neary

20337: Wage subsidies for the long term unemployed: a search theoretic analysis

J. Richardson

20331: Recent trends in engineering and construction skill formation - UK and Germany compared

H. Steedman

20330: Firing costs and stigma: an empirical analysis

Patrizia Canziani

20324: Agglomeration in a global economy: a survey

Gianmarco Ottaviano and Diego Puga

20321: Specialisation patterns in Europe

Mary Amiti

20314: Implications of skill-biased technological change: international evidence

Eli Berman, John Bound and Stephen Machin

20302: The revival of apprenticeship training in Britain

H. Gospel

20301: The survival of national bargaining in the electrical contracting industry: a deviant case?

H. Gospel and J. Druker

20300: A simple test of the shirking model

Alan Manning and Jonathan Thomas

20298: How to compete: the impact of workplace practices and information technology on productivity

Sandra Black and Lisa Lynch

20294: Movin on up: interpreting the earnings experience profile

Alan Manning

20291: Mighty good thing: the returns to tenure

Alan Manning

20280: Do wage subsidies enhance employability? Evidence from Australian youth

James Richardson

20277: Something in the way she moves: a fresh look at an old gap

Alan Manning and Helen Robinson

20275: (Not)hanging on the telephone: payment systems in the new sweatshops

Sue Fernie and David Metcalf

20268: The real exchange rate in transition economies

Clemens Grafe and Charles Wyplosz

20265: Case study 5: Belfast's gasworks employment matching service

Jorg Ploger

20262: Case study 4: Leipzig's municipal job agency

Jorg Ploger

20261: Child development and success or failure in the youth labour market

Paul Gregg and Stephen Machin

20260: Case study 3: Bremen's innovation policy

Jorg Ploger

20256: Growing skills in Europe: the changing skill profiles of France, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden and the UK

Asa Murray and Hilary Steedman

20255: The causes and consequences of long-term unemployment in Europe

Stephen Machin and Alan Manning

20252: Globalisation, productive systems, and inequalities

Gilles Duranton

20251: Grime and punishment: job insecurity and wage arrears in the Russian Federation

Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth and Alessandro Acquisti

20249: If you're happy and you know it...job satisfaction in the low wage service sector

Donna Brown and Steven McIntosh

20248: Apprenticeship: a strategy for growth

Hilary Steedman, Howard Gospel and Paul Ryan

20247: Beat 'em or join 'em: export subsidies versus international research joint ventures in oligopolistic markets

J. Peter Neary and Paul O'Sullivan

20246: Strategic trade and industrial policy towards dynamic oligopolies

J. Peter Neary and Dermot Leahy

20245: Can labour supply explain the rise in unemployment and intergroup wage inequality in the OECD?

E. Wasmer

20242: The mercantilist index of trade policy

James Anderson and J. Peter Neary

20240: Just can't get enough: more on skill-biassed change and labour market performance

Marco Manacorda and Alan Manning

20232: The reallocation of labour: an international comparison using job tenure

Simon Burgess

20231: Pretty vacant: recruitment in low wage labour markets

Alan Manning

20229: The British national minimum wage

David Metcalf

20226: Alice in Euroland

Willem Buiter

20224: UDROP: a small contribution to the international financial architecture

Willem Buiter and Anne Sibert

20221: Short employment spells in Italy, Germany and the UK: testing the 'port of entry' hypothesis

Bruno Contini, Lia Pacelli and Claudia Villosio

20215: On the home market effect: theory and empirical evidence

Federico Trionfetti

20213: A cross-country comparison of the determinants of vocational training

Steven McIntosh

20212: Diversity and specialisation in cities: why, where and when does it matter?

Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga

20211: Unemployment clusters across European regions and countries

Henry Overman and Diego Puga

20209: The effectiveness of top management groups in manufacturing organisations

Michael West, Malcolm Patterson, Jeremy Dawson and Stephen Nickell

20206: The relative economic importance of academic, psychological and behavioural attributes developed on childhood

Leon Feinstein

20204: Nursery cities: urban diversity, process innovation and the life-cycle of products

Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga

20203: The determinants of cross-border equity flows

Richard Portes and Helene Rey

20202: Labour supply, search and taxes

Alan Manning

20201: Financial integration and asset returns

Philippe Martin and Helene Rey

20198: Employment patterns in OECD countries

Stephen Nickell and Luca Nunziata

20197: Financial super-markets: size matters for asset trade

Philippe Martin and Helene Rey

20195: Unions and the sword of justice: unions and pay systems, pay inequality, pay discrimination and low pay

David Metcalf, Kirstine Hansen and Andy Charlwood

20192: The right to know: disclosure of information for collective bargaining and joint consultation

Howard Gospel, Graeme Lockwood and Paul Willman

20191: Union decline in Britain

Stephen Machin

20189: Impact of work experience and training in the current and previous occupations on earnings: micro evidence from the national longitudinal survey of youth

Christopher Dougherty

20188: Gender, motivation, experience and wages

Joanna Swaffield

20186: Tenures that shook the world: worker turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain

Hartmut Lehmann and Jonathan Wadsworth

20184: Per capita income demand for variety, and international trade: Linder reconsidered

Paolo Ramezzana

20181: Fixed-term contracts and unemployment: an efficiency wage analysis

Maia Güell

20178: Optimal currency areas: why does the exchange rate regime matter? (with an application to UK membership in EMU)

Willem Buiter

20177: Employment protection and unemployment in an efficiency wage model

Maia Güell