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W99/28: Nonparametric tests of stochastic dominance in bivariate distributions, with an application to UK data

Ian Crawford

W99/27: Has technology hurt less skilled workers? A survey of the micro-econometric evidence

Lucy Chennells and John van Reenen

W99/26: The geographic distribution of production activity in the UK

Michael Devereux, Rachel Griffith and Helen Simpson

W99/25: Empirical patterns of firm growth and R&D investment: a quality ladder model interpretation

Zvi Griliches and Tor Klette

W99/24: Self-insurance and unemployment benefit in a life-cycle model of labour supply and savings

Hamish Low

W99/23: Organization, skill and technology: evidence from a panel of British and French establishments

Eve Caroli and John van Reenen

W99/22: Export Market Performance of OECD countries: an empirical examination of the role of cost competitiveness

Wendy Carlin, Andrew Glyn and John van Reenen

W99/21: Valuing quality

Laura Blow and Ian Crawford

W99/20: Wages and the demand for health - a life cycle analysis

Christian Dustmann and Frank Windmeijer

W99/19: Risk pooling, precautionary saving and consumption growth

James Banks, Richard Blundell and Agar Brugiavini

W99/18: Individual choice of pension arrangement as a pension reform strategy

Richard Disney, Robert Palacios and Edward Whitehouse

W99/17: What can we learn from retirement expectations data?

Richard Disney and Tanner, Tanner

W99/16: What can we learn about pension reform from Generational Accounts for the UK?

James Banks, Richard Disney and Zoe Oldfield

W99/15: A non-parametric bound on substitution bias in the UK retail prices index

Laura Blow and Ian Crawford

W99/14: Worker displacement in France and Germany

Stefan Bender, Christian Dustmann, David Margolis and Costas Meghir

W99/13: Interpreting aggregate wage growth

Richard Blundell, Howard Reed and Thomas M. Stoker

W99/12: Getting the unemployed back to work: the role of targeted wage subsidies

Brian Bell, Richard Blundell and John van Reenen

W99/11: Productivity and foreign ownership in the UK car industry

Rachel Griffith

W99/10: Assessing the effect of schooling on earnings using a social experiment

Costas Meghir and Mårten Palme

W99/09: Generalised R-based and S-based taxes under uncertainty

Stephen Bond and Michael Devereux

W99/08: Do R&D tax credits work? Evidence from an international panel of countries 1979-1994

Nicholas Bloom, Rachel Griffith and John van Reenen

W99/07: Qualifications and earnings in Britain: how reliable are conventional OLS estimates of the returns to education?

Lorraine Dearden

W99/06: Using the ARD establishment level data to look at foreign ownership and productivity in the UK

Rachel Griffith

W99/05: Investment, R&D and financial constraints in Britain and Germany

Stephen Bond, Dietmar Harhoff and John van Reenen

W99/04: GMM estimation with persistent panel data: an application to production functions

Richard Blundell and Stephen Bond

W99/03: Individual effects and dynamics in count data models

Richard Blundell, Rachel Griffith and Frank Windmeijer

W99/02: Two-part multiple spell models for health care demand

João Santos Silva and Frank Windmeijer

W99/01: Wages, experience and seniority

Christian Dustmann and Costas Meghir

W98/20: Collective labour supply: heterogeneity and non-participation

Richard Blundell, Pierre Chiappori, Thierry Magnac and Costas Meghir

W98/19: Public and private choice in UK health insurance

John Hall and Ian Preston

W98/18: Labour supply: a review of alternative approaches

Richard Blundell and Thomas MaCurdy

W98/17: Modelling voluntary labour supply

James Banks and Tanner, Tanner

W98/16: The taxation of discrete investment choices

Michael Devereux and Rachel Griffith

W98/15: Trends in household saving: a tale of two countries

Orazio Attanasio and James Banks

W98/14: Ability, families, education and earnings in Britain

Lorraine Dearden

W98/13: Read my lips: the political economy of information transmission

Timothy Besley and Rohini Pande

W98/12: A quality-constant price index for new cars in the UK, 1986 to 1995

Laura Blow and Ian Crawford

W98/11: Does cash flow cause investment and R&D: an exploration using panel data for French, Japanes and United States scientific firms

Bronwyn Hall, Jacques Mairesse and Benoit Mulkay

W98/10: Firm-level investment in France an the United States: an exploration of what we have learned in twenty years

Bronwyn Hall, Jacques Mairesse and Benoît Mulkay

W98/09: The changing distribution of male wages in the UK, 1966-1992

Amanda Gosling, Stephen Machin and Costas Meghir

W98/08: Asset holding and consumption volatility

Orazio Attanasio, James Banks and Tanner, Tanner

W98/07: Horizontal inequity comparisons

Valentino Dardanoni and Peter Lambert,

W98/06: Tax price effects on attitudes to hypothecated increases

John Hall and Ian Preston

W98/05: The impact of expenditure limitations on local government spending: evidence from the United Kingdom

Carl Emmerson, John Hall and Michael Ridge

W98/04: Technology and changes in skill structure: evidence from seven OECD countries

Stephen Machin and John van Reenen

W98/03: The effect of school quality on educational attainment and wages

Lorraine Dearden, Javier Ferri and Costas Meghir

W98/02: Uncovering some causal relationships between inequality and economic growth

Philippe Aghion, Eve Caroli and Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa

W98/01: Efficiency comparisons for a system GMM estimator in dynamic panel data models

Frank Windmeijer

W97/23: Vertical externalities in tax settings: evidence from gasoline and cigarettes

Timothy Besley and Harvey Rosen

W97/22: On a specification test for competing risk models

Stephen Pudney and Jonathan M. Thomas