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20172: Working on the chain gang? An examination of rising effort levels in Europe in the 1990s

Francis Green and Steven McIntosh

20171: A simple model of the transformational recession under a limited mobility constraint

Stanislaw Gomulka and John Lane

20170: Currency areas, policy domains, and the institutionalization of fixed exchange rates

Peter Kenen

20169: Trade unions and industrial injury in Great Britain

Adam Seth Litwin

20168: Monetary misconceptions

Willem Buiter

20167: Whence reform? A critique of the Stiglitz perspective

Marek Dabrowski, Stanislaw Gomulka and Jacek Rostowski

20165: Wage equations, wage curves and all that

Brian Bell, Stephen Nickell and Glenda Quintini

20163: Factor residuals in SUR regressions: estimating panels allowing for cross sectional correlation

Donald Robertson and James Symons

20162: Unemployment dynamics, duration and equilibrium: evidence from Britain

Simon Burgess and Hélène Turon

20160: Macroeconomic policies and achievements in transition economies, 1989-1999

Stanislaw Gomulka

20159: The viability of trade union organisation: a bargaining unit analysis

Paul Willman

20158: Numeracy, literacy and earnings: evidence from the national longitudinal survey of youth

Christopher Dougherty

20141: A picture of job insecurity facing British men

Stephen Nickell, Tracy Jones and Glenda Quintini

20139: Neighbourhood effects in small neighbourhoods

Henry Overman

20138: Spatial evolution of the US urban system

Yannis Ioannides and Henry Overman

20137: Cross sectional evolution of the US city size distribution

Henry Overman and Yannis Ioannides

20136: Zipf's law for cities: an empirical examination

Henry Overman and Yannis Ioannides

20135: Mind the gaps: the evolution of regional inequalities in the UK, 1982-1997

Gilles Duranton and Vassilis Monastiriotis

20134: Product standards, trade disputes and protectionism

Daniel Sturm

20133: Explaining currency crises: a duration model approach

Maria Mercedes Tudela

20131: Nominal wage rigidity and the rate of inflation

Stephen Nickell and Glenda Quintini

20130: Externalities in the matching of workers and firms in Britain

Simon Burgess and Stefan Profit

20129: Jobs, workers and changes in earnings dispersion

Simon Burgess, Julia Lane and David Stevens

20127: Opinion pooling on general agendas

Franz Dietrich and Christian List

20126: Frustrated demand for unionisation: the case of the United States and Canada revisited

Rafael Gomez, Seymour Martin Lipset and Noah Meltz

20124: British unions: dissolution or resurgence revisited

David Metcalf

20122: Fixed-term contracts and the duration distribution of unemployment

Maia Güell

20121: Education and Italian regional development

Adriana Di Liberto and James Symons

20119: Minimum wages and employment

Manfred Keil, Donald Robertson and James Symons

20116: Why do non-union employees want to unionise? Evidence from Britain

Andy Charlwood

20115: A generalised model of monopsony

Alan Manning

20113: 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

20111: Influences on trade union organising effectiveness in Great Britain

Andy Charlwood

20109: Whither poverty in Great Britain and the United States? The determinants of changing poverty and whether work will work

Richard Dickens and David T. Ellwood

20103: Labor pooling, labor poaching and spatial clustering

Pierre-Philippe Combes and Gilles Duranton

20101: From sectoral to functional urban specialisation

Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga

20100: From 'playstations' to 'workstations': youth preferences for unionisation in Canada

Rafael Gomez, Morley Gunderson and Noah Meltz

20098: Benchmarking apprenticeship: UK and continental Europe compared

Hilary Steedman

20097: Monopsony and the efficiency of labour market interventions

Alan Manning

20095: 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

20093: The long-run labour market consequences of teenage motherhood in Britain

Arnaud Chevalier and Tarja Viitanen

20092: The promise of workplace training for non-college bound youth: theory and evidence from German apprenticeship

Damon Clark and René Fahr

20091: Regional influences on U.S. monetary policy: some implications for Europe

Ellen Meade and Nathan Sheets

20089: It's 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

20086: Give PC's a chance: personal computer ownership and the digital divide in the United States and Great Britain

John Schmitt and Jonathan Wadsworth

20084: Minimum wages and on-the-job training

Daron Acemoglu and Jorn-Steffen Pischke

20083: Managerial ownership and firm performance in German small and medium-sized enterprises

Elisabeth Mueller and Alexandra Spitz

20082: Family-friendly working: what a performance! An analysis of the relationship between the availability of family-friendly policies and establishment performance

Helen Gray

20081: Estimates of the effect of wages on job satisfaction

Reamonn Lydon and Arnaud Chevalier

20080: The structure of wages in what should be a competitive labour market

Stephen Machin and Alan Manning

20079: Has the national minimum wage reduced UK wage inequality?

Richard Dickens and Alan Manning

20078: Intergenerational transfers and household structure: why do most Italian youths live with their parents?

Marco Manacorda and Enrico Moretti

20076: Home bias, transactions costs, and prospects for the Euro: a more detailed analysis

Catherine Mann and Ellen Meade

20073: Spanish unemployment persistence and the ladder effect

Fabrice Collard, Raquel Fonseca and Rafael Munoz

20072: Unions and productivity, financial performance and investment: international evidence

David Metcalf

20071: Testing for localisation using micro-geographic data

Gilles Duranton and Henry Overman

20070: 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

20068: Employment penalty after motherhood in Spain

Maria Gutiérrez-Domènech

20066: It's not what you make, it's how you use IT: measuring the welfare benefits of the IT revolution across countries

Tamim Bayoumi and Markus Haacker

20065: City size distributions as a consequence of the growth process

Gilles Duranton

20064: The hidden costs of fixed term contracts: the impact on work accidents

Maria Guadalupe

20063: Institutional differences and economic performance among OECD countries

Richard Freeman

20062: The labour market in the new information economy

Richard Freeman

20061: Marketization of production and the US-Europe employment gap

Ronald Schettkat and Richard Freeman

20060: Shared modes of compensation and firm performance: UK evidence

Martin Conyon and Richard Freeman

20059: Labour market performance and start-up costs: OECD evidence

Paloma Lopez-Garcia

20058: Does inequality in skills explain inequality of earnings across advanced countries?

Dan Devroye and Richard Freeman

20057: Cross-generation correlations of union status for young people in Britain

Joanne Blanden and Stephen Machin

20056: Factors of convergence and divergence in union membership

Stephen Machin

20055: The provision of training in Britain: case studies of inter-firm coordination

Howard Gospel and Jim Foreman

20053: The impact of the labour market on the timing of marriage and births in Spain

Maria Gutiérrez-Domènech

20052: 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 Paul Willman

20050: The real thin theory: monopsony in modern labour markets

Alan Manning

20047: The performance effects of European demergers

Tom Kirchmaier

20046: Employment after motherhood: a European comparison

Maria Gutiérrez-Domènech

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