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PAPERS FROM 2012

Consensus and Contribution: Shared Status Hierarchies Promote Group Success

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Working Paper No. 145-13
May 2013
Gavin Kilduff, Cameron Anderson and Rob Willer

National Diversity Under Pressure: Group Composition and Expedition Success in Himalayan Mountaineering

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Working Paper No. 144-13
April 2013
Eliot Sherman and Jennifer Chatman

Narcissistic CEOs and Executive Compensation

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Working Paper No. 143-13
March 2013
Charles O'Reilly, Bernadette Doerr, David Caldwell, and Jennifer Chatman

Labor Market Returns to Early Childhood Stimulation: A 20-year Followup to an Experimental Intervention in Jamaica

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Working Paper No. 142-13
March 2013
Paul Gertler, James Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto, Arianna Zanolini, Christel Vermeerch, Susan Walker, Susan M. Chang and Sally Grantham-McGregor

How Reputation Transfers Across Categorical Boundaries

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Working Paper No. 141-13
February 2013
Ming Leung and Weiyi Ng

Using Performance Incentives to Improve Medical Care Productivity and Health Outcomes

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Working Paper No. 140-13
February 2013
Paul Gertler and Christel Vermeerch

Why Blue-Collar Blacks Help Less

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Working Paper No. 139-13
February 2013
Sandra Smith and Kara Young

“Keep Government Out of My Medicare”: The Elusive Search for Popular Support of Taxes and Social Spending

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Working Paper No. 138-12
December 2012
Gillian Lester

An Exceptional Nation? American Political Values in Comparative Perspective

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Working Paper No. 136-12
December 2012
Jerome Karabel and Daniel Laurison

Prices Matter: Comparing Two Tests of Adverse Selection in Health Insurance

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Working Paper No. 135-12
December 2012
Rachel Polimeni and David Levine

The Rising Strength of Management, High Unemployment and Slow Growth: Revisiting Okun’s Law

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Working Paper No. 134-12
November 2012
Michael Reich

The Transformation of Mortgage Finance and the Industrial Roots of the Mortgage Meltdown

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Working Paper No. 133-12
October 2012
Neil Fligstein and Adam Goldstein

Sucker Punched by the Invisible Hand

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Working Paper No. 132-12
September 2012
Neil Fligstein and Adam Goldstein

Teacher Quality Policy When Supply Matters

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Working Paper No. 129-12
September 2012
Jesse Rothstein

The Emergence of a Finance Culture in American Households

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Working Paper No. 131-12
August 2012
Neil Fligstein and Adam Goldstein

The Psychological Basis of Quality Decision Making

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Working Paper No. 128-12
August 2012
Charlan Jeanne Nemeth

Consequences of Beliefs about the Malleability of Creativity

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Working Paper No. 127-12
August 2012
Alexander O'Connor, Charlan Nemeth and Satoshi Akutsu

Why Weak Ties' Help and Strong Ties' Don't: Reconsidering Why Tie Strength Matters

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Working Paper No. 137-12
July 2012
Sandra Susan Smith

Who is Willing to Sacrifice Sacred Values for Money and Social Status? Gender Differences in Reactions to Taboo Trade-offs

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Working Paper No. 124-12
July 2012
Jessica Kennedy and Laura Kray

Why Was Short-Time Work Unattractive During the Crisis?

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Working Paper No. 130-12
June 2012
Pauline Gonthier

Job Categories and Geographic Identity: A Category Stereotype Explanation for Occupational Agglomeration

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Working Paper No. 126-12
June 2012
Ming Leung

ReadyMade Analysis of Berkeley Scholars to Cal Program

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Working Paper No. 123-12
May 2012
Kate Belohlav and Clair Brown

Apples to Oranges: How Category Overlap Facilitates Commensuration in an Online Market Environment

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Working Paper No. 125-12
April 2012
Ming Leung

Minimum Wage Shocks, Employment Flows and Labor Market Frictions

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Working Paper No. 122-12
April 2012
Arindrajit Dube, T. William Lester and Michael Reich

What Impedes Efficient Adoption of Products? Evidence from Randomized Variation in Sales Offers for Improved Cookstoves in Uganda

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Working Paper No. 121-12
March 2012
David Levine, Carolyn Cotterman

The Labor Market Four Years Into the Crisis: Assessing Structural Explanations

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Working Paper No. 120-12
March 2012
Jesse Rothstein

A status-enhancement account of overconfidence

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Working Paper No. 119-12
March 2012
Cameron Anderson, Sebastien Brion, Don Moore, Jessica Kennedy

Does Customer Auditing Help Chinese Workers?

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Working Paper No. 118-12
February 2012
Goujun He, Jeffrey Perloff

ReadyMade Analysis of Hospital de la Familia’s Cataract Surgery Program in Guatemala

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Working Paper No. 117-12
February 2012
Lawrence Thal, Clair Brown, Eric Freeman, Kate Belohlav, Ariel Chait

Cultural Effects on Employee Loyalty in Japan and The U. S.: Individual– or Organization-Level?

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Working Paper No. 116-12
January 2012
James Lincoln and Bernadette Doerr

PAPERS FROM 2011

Unemployment Insurance and Job Search in the Great Recession

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Working Paper No. 115-12
October 2011
Jesse Rothstein

European Integration, Nationalism, and European Identity

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Working Paper No. 114-12
September 2011
Neil Fligstein and Alina Polyakova

Catalyst of Disaster: Subprime Mortgage Securitization and the Roots of the Great Recession

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Working Paper No. 113-12
September 2011
Neil Fligstein and Adam Goldstein

Outlier Nation? American Exceptionalism and the Quality of Life in the United States

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Working Paper No. 112-11
December 2011
Jerome Karabel and Daniel Laurison

The Two-Tiered Politics of Financial Reform in the United States

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Working Paper No. 111-11
October 2011
John T. Wooley and J. Nicholas Ziegler

The Local Ladder Effect: Social Status and Subjective Well-Being

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Working Paper No. 110-11
October 2011
Cameron Anderson, Michael W. Kraus, Dacher Keltner

If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You the Boss? Explaining the Persistent Vertical Gender Gap in Management

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Working Paper No. 109-11
May 2011
Heather A.Haveman, Lauren S. Beresford

Berkeley ReadyMade Impact Assessment: Developing an Effective and Efficient Assessment Template for Social Enterprises

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Working Paper No. 108-11
August 2011
Clair Brown, Ariel Chait, Eric Freeman

Latin America’s New World of Work: Changing Traits of Work and Problem Solving

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Working Paper No. 107-11
May 2011
Ruth Berins Collier and Brian Palmer-Rubin

Where Are all the Immigrant Organizations? Reassessing the Scope of Civil Society for Immigrant Communities

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Working Paper No. 106-11
June 2011
Shannon Gleeson and Irene Bloemraad

Job Creation: A Review of Policies and Strategies

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Working Paper No. 105-11
June 2011
Adam Cray, Tram Nguyen, Carol Pranka, Christine Schildt, Julie Sheu, and Erika Rincon Whitcomb

Do Frictions Matter in the Labor Market? Accessions, Separations and Minimum Wage Effects

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Working Paper No. 222-10
June 2011 Revised Version
Arindrajit Dube, T. William Lester and Michael Reich

Do Minimum Wages Really Reduce Teen Employment? Accounting for Heterogeneity and Selectivity in State Panel Data

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Working Paper No. 166-08
April, 2011 Published Version
Sylvia Allegretto, Arindrajit Dube, and Michael Reich

Compensation Structure and the Creation of Exploratory Knowledge in Technology Firms, 2011

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Working Paper No. 104-11
March 2011
Victor Cui, Waverly W. Ding, and Yoshio Yanadori

Who Are the Entrepreneurs: The Elite or Everyman?

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Working Paper No. 1035-11
April 2011
Heather A. Haveman, Jacob Habinek and Leo A. Goodman

Social Reactions to Overconfidence: Do the Costs of Overconfidence Outweigh the Benefits?

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Working Paper No. 103-11
March 2011
Jessica A. Kennedy, Cameron Anderson, and Don A. More

Gender Bias in Negotiators’ Ethical Decision Making

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Working Paper No. 102-11
March 2011
Laura Kray

Male Pragmatism in Ethical Decision Making

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Working Paper No. 101-11
March 2011
Laura J. Kray and Michael P. Haselhuhn

Business Groups, Networks, And Embeddedness: Innovation And Implementation Alliances In Japanese Electronics, 1985-1998
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Working Paper No. 100-11
March 2011
James R Lincoln and Didier Guillot

Permanent Income and the Black-White Test Score Gap
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Working Paper No. 99-11
March 2011
Jesse Rothstein and Nathan Wozny

PAPERS FROM 2010

Minimum Wage Effects Across State Borders: Estimates Using Contiguous Counties

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Working Paper No. 157-07
November 30, 2010 Published Version
Arindrajit Dube, T. William Lester, and Michael Reich

Is it Labor’s Turn to Globalize? Twenty-first Century Opportunities and Strategic Responses

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Working Paper No. 224-10
October 2010
Peter Evans

Managing Knowledge Workers in Global Value Chains

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Working Paper No. 223-10
October 2010
Clair Brown and Greg Linden

The Living New Deal: The Unsung Benefits of the New Deal for the United States and California

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Working Paper No. 220-10
August 1, 2010
Richard A. Walker and Gray Brechin

The Changing Face of the U.S. Labor Force: The Composition of the Unemployed and Long-term Unemployed in Tough Labor Markets

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Working Paper No. 221-10
July 21, 2010
Sylvia Allegretto and Devon Lynch

How Do Employers React to a Pay-or-Play Mandate? Early Evidence from San Francisco

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Working Paper No. 219-10
July 1, 2010
Carrie Hoverman Colla, William H. Dow, and Arindrajit Dube

Minority Influence Theory

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Working Paper No. 218-10
May 8, 2010
Charlan Jeanne Nemeth

The Within-Job Motherhood Wage Penalty in Norway, 1979-1996

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Working Paper No. 217-10
May 3, 2010
Trond Petersen, Andrew M. Penner, and Geir Høgnsnes:

American Exceptionalism and the Quality of Life in the United States: Some Preliminary Statistical Observations

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Working Paper No. 216-10
April 30, 2010
Jerome Karabel

Overconfidence and the Attainment of Status in Groups

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Working Paper No. 215-10
April 14, 2010
Cameron Anderson and Sebastien Brion

The Impact of Founder Professional Education Background on the Adoption of Open Science by For-Profit Biotechnology Firms

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Working Paper No. 214-10
April 14, 2010
Waverly Ding

Do We Know Who Values Us? Dyadic Meta-Accuracy in the Perception of Professional Relationships

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Working Paper No. 213-10
April 14, 2010
Hillary Anger Elfenbein, Noah Eisenkraft, and Waverly Ding

Press and Pulpit: Competition, Co-operation and the Growth of Religious Magazines in Antebellum America

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Working Paper No. 212-10
April 9, 2010
Adam Goldstein and Heather A. Haveman

The Rise and Fall of the Nonconventional Mortgage Industry

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Working Paper No. 211-10
April 2, 2010
Adam Goldstein and Neil Fligstein

California, Pivot of the Great Recession

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Working Paper No. 203-10
March 31, 2010
Ashok Bardhan and Richard A. Walker

Employee Replacement Costs

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Working Paper No. 201-10
March 4, 2010
Arindrajit Dube, Eric Freeman, and Michael Reich

Commitment is a Two-Way Street: Toyota, California and NUMMI

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Working Paper No. 202-10
March 3, 2010
Harley Shaiken

The Anatomy of the Mortgage Securitization Crisis

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Working Paper No. 200-10
February 23, 2010
Neil Fligstein and Adam Goldstein

Can Joe the Plumber Support Redistribution? Law, Social Preferences, and Sustainable Policy Design

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Working Paper No. 210-10
February 22, 2010
Gillian Lester

Where are all the Immigrant Organizations? Reassessing the Scope of Civil Society for Immigrant Communities

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Working Paper No. 199-10
February 16, 2010
Shannon Gleeson and Irene Bloemraad

Earnings Determination and Taxes: Evidence from a Cohort-Based Payroll Tax Reform in Greece

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Working Paper No. 209-10
February 2, 2010
Emmanuel Saez, Manos Matsaganis, and Panos Tsakloglou

U.S. Health Care and Real Health in Comparative Perspective: Lessons from Abroad

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Working Paper No. 197-10
February 1, 2010
Harold L. Wilensky

Optimal Minimum Wage Policy in Competitive Labor Markets

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Working Paper No. 208-10
January 29, 2010
David Lee and Emannuel Saez

U.S. Navy Promotion and Retention by Race and Sex

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Working Paper No. 198-10
January 5, 2010
Amos Golan, William Greene, and Jeffrey M. Perloff

Toward a General Theory of Strategic Action Fields

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Working Paper No. 207-10
January 3, 2010
Neil Fligstein and Doug McAdam

PAPERS FROM 2009

International Migration, Sex Ratios, and the Socioeconomic Outcomes of Non-migrant Mexican Women

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Working Paper No. 206-09
November 1, 2009
Steven Raphael

Stereotype Threat in Organizations: An Examination of its Scope, Triggers, and Possible Interventions

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Working Paper No. 195-09
October 5, 2009
Laura J. Kray, Aiwa Shirako

"Beyond the Plant Gates": Postwar Labor and the Organizational Substructure of Liberalism

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Working Paper No. 194-09
October 5, 2009
Margaret Weir

The Changing Structure of Employment in Contemporary China

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Working Paper No. 190-09
October 2, 2009
Peter Evans, Sarah Stavetieg

Strategic Alliances in the Japanese Economy: Types, Critiques, Embeddedness, and Change

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Working Paper No. 189-09
September 24, 2009
James R. Lincoln

Whither the Keiretsu, Japan's Business Networks? How Were They Structured? What Did They Do? Why Are They Gone?

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Working Paper No. 188-09
September 24, 2009
James R. Lincoln, Masahiro Shimotani

Choice of Law and Employee Restrictive Covenants

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Working Paper No. 187-09
September 23, 2009
Gillian Lester, Elizabeth Ryan

Sustainability of Engineers' High Performance

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Working Paper No. 193-09
September 14, 2009
Yoshifumi Nakata, Satoru Miyazaki

Does Customer Auditing Help Chinese Workers?

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Working Paper No. 185-09
September 13, 2009
Guojun He, Jeffrey M. Perloff

The Impact of Living Wage Laws on Urban Economic Development Patterns and the Local Business Climate: Evidence from California Cities

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Working Paper No. 184-09
September 10, 2009
William T. Lester

Income and Wealth Concentration in Spain from a Historical and Fiscal Perspective

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Working Paper No. 205-09
September 4, 2009
Facundo Alvaredo and Emmanuel Saez

Striking it Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States (Update with 2007 estimates)

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Working Paper No. 196-09
August 5, 2009
Emmanuel Saez

The Aging Workforce and Paid Time Off

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Working Paper No. 186-09
July 8, 2009
Gillian Lester

Spatial Heterogeneity and Minimum Wages: Employment Estimates for Teens Using Cross-State Commuting Zones

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Working Paper No. 181-09
June 25, 2009
Sylvia Allegretto, Arindrajit Dube, Michael Reich

Avoiding the Consequences of Repeated Misconduct: Stigma’s Licence and Stigma's Transferability

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Working Paper No. 180-09
July 6, 2009 (Updated 1/14/10)
Celia Moore, H. Colleen Stuart, Jo-Ellen Pozner

The Impact of Information Technology on Scientists’ Productivity, Quality and Collaboration Patterns

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Working Paper No. 183-09
July 1, 2009
Waverly W. Ding, Sharon G. Levin, Paula E. Stephan, Ann E. Winkler

Status Disagreement: Consequences for Group Performance and Group Member Behavior

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Working Paper No. 179-09
April 29, 2009
Gavin Kilduff, Cameron Anderson

The Local in the Global: Rethinking Social Movements in the New Millennium

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Working Paper No. 177-09
April 20, 2009
Kim Voss, Michelle Williams

The Impact of Rising Food Prices on Household Welfare in India

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Working Paper No. 192-09
March 1, 2009
Alain de Janvry, Eliisabeth Sadoulet

Racial Bias in the Manager-Employee Relationship: An Analysis of Quits, Dismissals, and Promotions at a Large Retail Firm

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Working Paper No. 178-09
March 1, 2009
Laura Giuliano, David I. Levine, Jonathan Leonard

The Effect of Industrialization on Children’s Education – The Experience of Mexico

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Working Paper No. 175-09
January 5, 2009
Anne Le Brun, Susan Helper, David I. Levine

Commercial Science: A New Arena for Gender Differences in Scientific Careers?

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Working Paper No. 182-09
January 3, 2009
Waverly W. Ding, Fiona Murray, Toby E. Stuart

Long-Run Impacts of Unions on Firms: New Evidence from Financial Markets, 1961-1999

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Working Paper No. 176-09
January 2, 2009
David S. Lee, Alexandre Mas

PAPERS FROM 2008

The Public Turn: From Labor Process to Labor Movement

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Working Paper No. 191-09
November 2, 2008
Michael Burawoy

Comparative Corporate Governance: Findings from a Workshop, March 14-15, 2008

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Working Paper No. 173-08
October 8, 2008
Mark Huberty, Akasemi Newsome, Alex Street, and J. Nicholas Ziegler

Does Outsourcing Reduce Wages in the Low Wage Service Occupations? Evidence from Janitors and Guards

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Working Paper No. 171-08
August 21, 2008
Arindrajit Dube, Ethan Kaplan

Quality Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management Systems Affects Employees and Employers

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Working Paper No. 172-08
August 18, 2008
David I. Levine, Michael W. Toffel

Divergent Paths or Stepping Stones: A Comparison of Scientists' Advising and Founding Activities

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Working Paper No. 204-08
August 1, 2008
Waverly Ding and Emily Choi

Should Australia Copy U.S. Employee Relations Practices?

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Working Paper No. 170-08
July 7, 2008
George Strauss

The "Rules" of Brainstorming: An Impediment to Creativity?

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Working Paper No. 167-08
July 7, 2008
Matthew Feinberg, Charlan Nemeth

Changing Traditions in Industrial Relations Research

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Working Paper No. 160-08
July 7, 2008
Keith Whitfield, George Strauss

Surviving a Changing and Often Hostile Environment: The Berkeley Institute of Industrial Relations

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Working Paper No. 168-08
May 4, 2008
George Strauss

Semiconductor Capabilities in the U.S. and Industrializing Asia

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Working Paper No. 165-08
March 5, 2008
Clair Brown and Greg Linden

At the Nexus of Social Policy and Capital Markets: Pension Reform and Enterprise Governance in Germany

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Working Paper No. 174-08
March 1, 2008
J. Nicholas Ziegler

Reputation, Risk, and Race: Exploring Racial and Ethnic Difference in Personal Contact Use and Receipt of Proactive Assistance
Working Paper No. 164-08
February 25, 2008
Sandra Susan Smith

Alfred Chandler and the Sociology of Organizations

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Working Paper No. 161-08
February 25, 2008
Neil Fligstein

PAPERS FROM 2007

Diversity, Discrimination, and Performance

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Working Paper No. 147-07
November 1, 2006
Jonathan Leonard and David I. Levine

The Male Marital Wage Premium: Sorting Versus Differential Pay

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Working Paper No. 155-07
October 24, 2006
Trond Petersen, Andrew Penner, and Geir Hogsnes

Manager Race and the Race of New Hires

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Working Paper No. 150-07
September 1, 2006
Laura Giuliano, David I. Levine, and Jonathan Leonard

Are Female Workers Less Productive Than Male Workers?

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Working Paper No. 139-06
August 9, 2006
Trond Petersen, Vermund Snartland, and Eva M. Meyersson Milgrom

The Sociology of Markets

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Working Paper No. 145-07
August 1, 2006
Neil Fligstein and Luke Dauter

Do Race, Age, and Gender Differences Affect Manager-Employee Relations? An Analysis of Quits, Dismissals, and Promotions at a Large Retail Firm

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Working Paper No. 151-07
July 1, 2006
Laura Giuliano, David I. Levine, and Jonathan Leonard

Getting the Offer: Sex Discrimation in Hiring

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Working Paper No. 138-06
June 23, 2006
Trond Petersen and Thea Togstad

The Economic Impacts of a Citywide Minimum Wage

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Working Paper No. 111-05
May 18, 2006
Arindrajit Dube, Suresh Naidu, and Michael Reich

The Politics of an Experimental Society: Creating Labor Market Flexibility in Europe

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Working Paper No. 136-06
May 11, 2006
Tobias Schulze-Cleven

The Authoritarian Foundations of Civic Culture: Spain and Italy in Comparative Perspective

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Working Paper No. 135-06
April 1, 2006
Dylan Riley and Juan J. Fernandez

Career-Hopping: Learning and Turnover in an Imperfect Labor Market

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Working Paper No. 134-06
March 18, 2006
Marko Tervio

The Effects of New Work Practices on Workers

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Working Paper No. 131-06
March 13, 2006
Michael J. Handel and David I. Levine

PAPERS FROM 2005

Career Paths and Job Ladders under Economic Turbulence

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Working Paper No. 137-06
December 1, 2005
Clair Brown

Firm Heterogeneity in Capital labor Ratios and Wage Inequality

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Working Paper No. 129-05
October 30, 2005
Marco Leonardi

Impact of Wal-Mart Growth on Earnings throughout the Retail Sector

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Working Paper No. 126-05
October 28, 2005
Arindrajit Dube, Barry Eidlin, and Bill Lester

Growth, Industrialization, and the Intergenerational Correlation of Advantage

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Working Paper No. 125-05
October 6, 2005
David I. Levine and Jon R. Jellema

How Will An Increase From $6.75 to $7.75 in the California Minimum Wage Impact the California Economy?

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Working Paper No. 124-05
August 2005
Amy Vassalotti

The Economic Impacts of a Citywide Minimum Wage

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Working Paper No. 111-05
May 18, 2006
Arindrajit Dube, Suresh Naidu, and Michael Reich

Shifting Interest Regimes of the Working Classes in Latin America

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Working Paper No. 122-05
August 2005
Ruth Berins Collier and Samuel P. Handlin

Examining the Impact of Welfare Reform, Labor Market Conditions, and the Earned Income Tax Credit on the Employment of Black and White Single Mothers

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Working Paper No. 123-05
August 2005
Mary C. Noonan, Sandra S. Smith, and Mary E. Corcoran

The State Health Insurance Program and Job Mobility: Identifying Job Lock among Working Parents in Near-Poor Households

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Working Paper No. 128-05
May 1, 2005
Cynthia Bansak and Steven Raphael

Promising Futures: Workforce Development and Upward Mobility in Information Technology
Working Paper No. 121-05
May 2005
Karen Chapple

Offshoring in the Semiconductor Industry: Historical Perspectives

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Working Paper No. 120-05
May 2005
Clair Brown and Greg Linden

Overworked and Overpaid: The Costs of Learning by Doing

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Working Paper No. 119-05
April 2005
Marko Tervio

The Acceptability of Layoffs and Pay Cuts: Comparing North America with Germany

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Working Paper No. 130-05
March 1, 2005
Knut Gerlach, David I. Levine, Gesine Stephan, and Olaf Struck

Law and Corporate Governance

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Working Paper No. 114-05
March 2005
Neil Fligstein and Jennifer Choo

GMM Estimation of a Maximum Distribution With Interval Data

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Working Paper No. 112-05
March 2005
Ximing Wu and Jeffrey M. Perloff

Friction and the Multiplicity of Equilibria

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Working Paper No. 133-06
February 8, 2005
Larry Karp

China's Income Distribution, 1985-2001

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Working Paper No. 117-05
February 2005
Ximing Wu and Jeffrey M. Perloff

Shareholder Value and Changes in American Industries, 1984-2000

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Working Paper No. 115-05
February 2005
Neil Fligstein and Taek-Jin Shin

Wage Moderation and Rising Unemployment

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Working Paper No. 110-05
January 2005
Lloyd Ulman, Knut Gerlach, and Paola Giuliano

Non-Constant Discounting in Continuous Time
January 11, 2005
Larry Karp

PAPERS FROM 2004

Getting Hired: Race and Sex Differences

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Working Paper No. 105-04
August 2004
Trond Petersen, Ishak Saporta, and Marc-David L. Seidel

Getting the Offer: Sex Discrimination in Hiring

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Working Paper No. 104-04
August 2004
Trond Petersen and Thea Togstad

The End of (Shareholder Value) Ideology?

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Working Paper No. 116-05
August 1, 2004
Neil Fligstein

Property Rights, Mobile Capital, and Comparative Advantage

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Working Paper No. 118-05
June 7, 2004
Larry Karp

Durkheim and Organizational Culture

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Working Paper No. 108-04
June 1, 2004
James R. Lincoln and Didier Guillot

Influence and Persuasion in Small Groups

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Working Paper No. 102-04
April 2004
Charlan Nemeth and Jack Goncalo

Training the Next Generation of Teachers: A Preliminary Survey of California’s Higher Education Programs

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Working Paper No. 101-04
April 2004
Marcy Whitebook, Dan Bellm, Erika Cruz, Michelle Munn, Joon Yong Jo, Mirella Almaraz, and Yuna Lee

The Power of Unofficial Expectations: Shareholder Value Management Strategies and Long Work Hours in California

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Working Paper No. 113-05
February 1, 2004
Neil Fligstein and Ofer Sharone

Government Policy Effects on Urban and Rural Income Inequality

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Working Paper No. 107-04
February 2004
Xuming Wu, Jeffrey M. Perloff, and Amos Golan

China's Income Distribution Over Time: Reasons for Rising Inequality

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Working Paper No. 106-04
February 2004
Ximing Wu and Jeffrey M. Perloff

PAPERS FROM 2003

Working Paper No. 100
Mediocrity in Talent Markets
November 2003
Marko Tervio

Working Paper No. 99
Raising Low Pay in a High Income Economy: The Economics of a San Francisco Minimum Wage
November 2003
Michael Reich
Amy Laitenen

Working Paper No. 98
Living Wage Policies at San Francisco Airport: Impacts on Workers and Businesses November 2003
Michael Reich
Peter Hall
Ken Jacobs

Working Paper No. 96
Firm Volatility and Stock Option Incidence
June 2003
Benjamin A. Campbell

Working Paper No. 95
Local Labor Market Conditions and Stock Options Incidence: A Study of the Information Technology Sector
June 2003
Benjamin A. Campbell

Working Paper No. 94
The Semiconductor Industry’s Role in the Net World Order
June 2003
Greg Linden
Clair Brown
Melissa M. Appleyard

Working Paper No. 93
Why Lead Labor? Projects and Pathways in California Unions, 1984-2001
June 2003
Marshall Ganz
Kim Voss
George Strauss

Dyad and Network: Models of Manufacturer-Supplier Collaboration in the Japanese TV Manufacturing Industry
June 1, 2003
James R. Lincoln and Didier Guillot

Working Paper No. 97
The Advantage of Employing Workers With Short Time Perspectives
June 2003
Thomas Burkle

Working Paper No. 92
An essay on collective bargaining and unemployment in Germany
May 2003
Lloyd Ulman
Knut Gerlach

Creative Collaborations from Afar: The Benefits of Independent Authors
April 29, 2003
Charlan Nemeth and Jack Goncalo

Working Paper No. 90
The liberating role of conflict in group creativity: A cross cultural study
April 2003
Charlan Jeanne Nemeth
Marie Personnaz
Bernard Personnaz
Jack A. Goncalo

Working Paper No. 88
The shareholder value society: A review of the changes in working conditions and inequality in the U.S., 1976-2000
March 2003
Neil Fligstein
Taek-Jin Shin

Diversity, discrimination, and performance
January 10, 2003
Jonathan S. Leonard and David I. Levine

PAPERS FROM 2002

Working Paper No. 86
Effects of Government Policies on Income Distribution and Welfare
February 2002
Ximing Wu
Jeffrey M. Perloff
Amos Golan

PAPERS FROM 2001

Working Paper No. 83
Collinearity in Linear Structural Models of Market Power
December 2001
Jeffrey M. Perloff
Edward Z. Shen

Working Paper No. 79
The Passage of State Fair Employment Legislation, 1945-1964:
An Event-History Analysis with Time-Varying and Time-Constant Covariates
November 2001
Anthony S. Chen
University Of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 82
Price Dispersion on the Internet: Good Firms and Bad Firms
September 2001
Kathy Baylis
Jeffrey M. Perloff

Working Paper No. 80
Return-to-Work in California: Listening to Stakeholders' Voices
July 2001
Juliann Sum
John Frank

Working Paper No. 85
Welfare Effects of Minimum Wage and Other Government Policies
February 2001
Amos Golan
Jeffrey M. Perloff
Ximing Wu

PAPERS FROM 2000

Working Paper No. 78
Are Measured School Effects Just Sorting?
Identifying Causality in the National Education Longitudinal Survey
November 2000
David I. Levine
Haas School of Business, University of California
Gary Painter
School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California

Working Paper No. 77
The Changing Status of Daughters in Indonesia
November 2000
Michael Kevane
Department of Economics
Santa Clara University
David Levine
Walter A. Haas School of Business
University of California at Berkeley

Minimum Wage Laws Lower Some Agricultural Wages
November 1, 2000
Enrico Moretti and Jeffrey M. Perloff

Working Paper No. 76
Keiretsu, governance, and learning: Case studies in change from the Japanese automotive industry
May 2000
Christina L. Ahmadjian
Graduate School of Business
Columbia University
James R. Lincoln
Walter A. Haas School of Business
University of California at Berkeley

Working Paper No. 75
Shukko (Employee Transfers) and Tacit Knowledge Exchange in Japanese Supply Networks: The Electronics Industry Case
May 2000
James R. Lincoln
Walter A. Haas School of Business
University of California
Christina Ahmadjian
Graduate School of Business
Columbia University

Working Paper No. 74
The Costs of Teenage Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing: Analysis with a Within-School Propensity Score Matching Estimator
June 2000
David I. Levine
Haas School of Business, University of California
Gary Painter
School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California

PAPERS FROM 1999

Working Paper No. 73
Daddies, Devotion, & Dollars: How Do They Matter for Youth?
November 1999
Gary Painter
School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California
David I. Levine
Haas School of Business, University of California

Working Paper No. 72
Choosing the Right Parents: Changes in the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality Between the 1970s and the early 1990s
November 1999
David I. Levine
Haas School of Business, University of California

Working Paper No. 71
Employee Involvement and Pay at U.S. and Canadian Auto Suppliers
November 1999
Susan Helper
Case Western Reserve University
David I. Levine
Haas School of Business, University of California
Elliot Bendoly
University of Indiana

Working Paper No. 70
Changes in the Employment Contract? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
November 1999
Gary Chaness
Department of Economics and Business, University of Southern California
David I. Levine
Haas School of Business, University of California

Working Paper No. 69
Family Structure and Youths' Outcomes: Which Correlations are Causal?
September 1999
Gary Painter
School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California
David I. Levine
Haas School of Business, University of California

PAPERS FROM 1998

Working Paper No. 87
Migration and politics: Explaining variation among rich democracies in recent nativist protest
July 1998
Harold L. Wilensky

Working Paper No. 81
Estimating a Mixed Strategy: United and American Airlines
June 1998
Amos Golan
Larry S. Karp
Jeffrey M. Perloff

Working Paper No. 68
Training and Pensions: Substitutes or Complements?
April 1998
Teresa Ghilarducci
Department of Economics
Michael Reich
Center on Pay and Inequality, Institute of Industrial Relations

Working Paper No. 67
Changes in Managerial Pay Structures 1986-1992 and Rising Returns to Skill
February 1998
K.C. O'Shaughnessy
Hayworth College of Business, Western Michigan University
David I. Levine
Haas School of Business, University of California
Peter Cappelli
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Working Paper No. 66
The NELS Curve: Replicating The Bell Curve Analyses with the National Education Longitudinal Survey
February 1998
David I. Levine
Haas School of Business, University of California
Gary Painter
School of Public Administration, University of Southern California

PAPERS FROM 1997

Working Paper No. 65
Reinventing Disability Policy
June 1997
David I. Levine
Haas School of Business, University of California

PAPERS FROM 1995

Working Paper No.63
Immigration, Trade and Austrian Unemployment
December 1995
Josef Zweimuller
Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
University of Linz, Austria
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
University of California, Berkeley
University of Linz, Austria
Centre for Economic Policy Research, London

Working Paper No. 62
Labor and Democratization: Comparing the First and Third Waves in Europe and Latin America
May 1995
Ruth Berins Collier
James Mahoney
Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 61
Social Justice and Social Movements
March 1995
Tom R. Tyler
Heather J. Smith
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley

PAPERS FROM 1994

Working Paper No. 60
Systems Transformation and Labor Market Structure:
The Case of East Germany
April 1994
Holle Grunert
University of California, Berkeley and
Social Science Research Center, Berlin, Germany
(Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fu Sozialforschung - WZB)
Brukart Lutz
Institute for Social Science Research, Munich, Germany
(Institut fur Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung - ISF)

Working Paper No. 59
Union Growth, Recruitment Strategy and Women Workers
March 1994
Louise Thornthwaite
School of Industrial Relations, Griffith University, Australia

Working Paper No. 58
Individual, Collective, and Systems Rationality
In Work Groups: Dilemmas and Solutions
January 1994
Trond Petersen
University of California, Berkeley

PAPERS FROM 1993

Working Paper No. 57
A Minimalist Organization Functioning In A Turbulent Environment
October 1993
Bruce Kieler
Thomas G. Rundall
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 56
Organizational Structural Changes In Danish Local Government
August 1993
Karina Sehested
Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley
Institute of Local Government Studies, Denmark

Working Paper No. 55
Regimes and Wage Dispersion Bargaining
June 1993
Erling Barth
University of California, Berkeley and
Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway
Josef Zweimuller
University of California, Berkeley and
University of Linz, Austria

Working Paper No. 54
Gender Wage Differentials in Private and Public Sector Jobs
June 1993
Josef Zweimuller
Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley
University of Linz, Austria
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
University of Linz, Austria and CEPR, London

Working Paper No. 53
Staffing Patterns and Hospital Efficiency
April 1993
Joan R. Bloom
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
Jeffrey A. Alexander
University of Michigan
Beverly A. Nuchols
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 52
Organizational Demography and Turnover: An Examination of Multiform and Non-Linear Heterogeneity
April 1993
Jeffrey Alexander
University of Michigan
Beverly A. Nuchols
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
Joan R. Bloom
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
Shoou-Yih D. Lee
School of Public Health, University of Michigan

PAPERS FROM 1992

Working Paper No. 51
Partial Retirement and The Earnings Test
November 1992
Josef Zweimuller
Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley
University of Linz, Austria

Working Paper No. 50
The Impact of Labor Disputes On The Fabric of French Society From 1950 To The Mid-80's
October 1992
Monique Borrel

Working Paper No. 49
The Causes of Strikes In Argentina, 1984-1991
October 1992
James W. McGuire
Department of Government, Wesleyan University, CT
Institute of Industrial Relations

Working Paper No. 48
What Do Australian Unions Do?
August 1992
Paul Miller
Charles Mulvey
University of Western Australia, University of Western Australia,
University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 47
Bargaining Structure, Wage Determination, and Wage Dispersion In 6 OECD-Countries
August 1992
Josef Zweimuller
Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
University of Linz, Austria
Erling Barth
University of California, Berkeley and
Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway

Working Paper No. 46
The Origins of Solidarity: Workers, Intellectuals and the Making of An Oppositional Movement
August 1992
Jerome Karabel
Institute of Industrial Relations
Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 45
Becoming a High-Performance Work Organization: The Role Of Security, Employee Involvement, and Training
June 1992
Clair Brown
Michael Reich
David Stern
Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 44
The Case of Cooperative Mixed Duopoly
June 1992
Berit Tennbakk
Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley
Department of Economics, University of Bergen, Norway

Working Paper No. 43
Why Do Some Firms Pay More? An Empirical Investigation of Inter-Firm Wage Differentials
May 1992
Erling Barth
University of California, Berkeley and
Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway

Working Paper No. 41
Manpower Training Programs and Employment Stability
May 1992
Josef Zweimuller
Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
University of Linz, Austria
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
University of Linz, Austria and CEPR, London

Working Paper No. 40
Distributional Principles In Health Care
May 1992
Berit Bringedal
Sogn og Fjordane College, Dep. Of Social Science, Norway
Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 39
Labor Market Institutions and The Industry Wage Distribution: Evidence From Austria, Norway, and The U.S.
May 1992
Erling Barth
University of California, Berkeley and
Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway
Josef Zweimuller
Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
University of Linz, Austria

Working Paper No. 38
Public Or Private Pensions? Pensions and Pension Politics In The Nordic Countries
May 1992
Einar Overbye

Working Paper No. 37
Why Should Human Resources Managers Pay High Wages?
February 1992
Lloyd Ulman
Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley

PAPERS FROM 1991

Working Paper No. 36
Disagreement Points In Wage Bargaining
December 1991
Erling Barth
University of California, Berkeley and
Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway

Working Paper No. 35
HRM In The USA
August 1991
George Strauss
Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 34
Present At The Beginning: Some Personal Notes On OB's Early Days and Later
August 1991
George Strauss
Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 33
The Great American Job Creation Machine
In Comparative Perspective
August 1991
Harold L. Wilensky
Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 32
A Comparison of The CPS and NAWS Surveys of Agricultural Workers
June 1991
Susan M. Gabbard
Richard Mines
Jeffrey M. Perloff

Working Paper No. 31
Agricultural Industrial Relations Bibliography
June 1991
Cheryl L. Brown
Grace Dote
Christopher M. Edmonds
Jeffrey M. Perloff
Howard R. Rosenberg
Nanyan Xiong
Department of Agricultural Resource Economics,
University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 30
Union Democracy
May 1991
George Strauss
Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 29
Union Membership Attitudes and Participation
May 1991
Daniel G. Gallagher
James Madison University
George Strauss
Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 28
Creeping Toward A Field of Comparative Industrial Relations
May 1991
George Strauss
Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 27
Public Policy Implications of Imperfections in The Market For Worker Participation
April 1991
David I. Levine
Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 26
You Get What You Pay For: Tests of Efficiency Wage Theories In The United States and Japan
April 1991
David I. Levine
Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 25
The Nation-State, Social Policy, and Economic Performance
March 1991
Harold L. Wilensky
Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 24
Worth Waiting For? Delayed Compensation, Training and Turnover in The United States and Japan
April 1991
David I. Levine
Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 23
Nursing Turnover and Hospital Efficiency: An Organization Level Analysis
February 1991
Joan R. Bloom
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
Jeffrey A. Alexander
School of Public Health, University of Michigan
Beverly A. Nuchols
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 22
The Effect of The Social Organization of Work On Voluntary Turnover of Hospital Nurses In The United States
February 1991
Joan R. Bloom
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
Jeffrey A. Alexander
School of Public Health, University of Michigan
Beverly A. Nuchols
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

PAPERS FROM 1990

Working Paper No. 21
Active Labor-Market Policy: Its Content, Effectiveness, And Odd Relation To Evaluation Research
May 1990
Harold L. Wilensky
Department of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 20
The Revolt of The Intellectuals: The Origins of The Prague
Spring and The Politics of Reform Communism
May 1990
Jerome Karabel
Institute of Industrial Relations
Dept. of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 19
Worker Representation-An Informal Overview
April 1990
Lloyd Ulman
Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley

PAPERS FROM 1989

Working Paper No. 18
Unemployment and Underemployment In Historical Perspective: Introduction
November 1989
Barry Eichengreen
University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 17
The Impact of Unions In The 1890s: The Case of The New Hampshire Shoe Industry
March 1989
Steven Maddox
University of Virginia
Barry Eichengreen
University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 16
Disposition Is Not Action: The Rise and Demise of The Knights of Labor January 1989
January 1989
Kim Voss
University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 15
Labor Market Analysis and Concerted Behavior
January 1989
Lloyd Ulman
Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 14
Cohesiveness, Productivity, and Wage Dispersion
January 1989
David I. Levine
Haas School of Business, University of California

PAPERS FROM 1988

Working Paper No. 13
Unemployment In Inter-War Britain
November 1988
Barry Eichengreen
University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 12
Interwar Unemployment In International Perspective
April 1988
Barry Eichengreen
University of California, Berkeley
Tim Hatton
University of Essex

PAPERS FROM 1987

Working Paper No. 10
Work, Family, and Organizations: An Untapped Research Triangle
October 1987
Sheldon Zedeck
University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 9
Juvenile Unemployment In 20th Century Britain: The Emergence of A Problem
October 1987
Barry Eichengreen
University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 8
Unemployment In Interwar Britain: Dole Or Doldrums?
October 1987
Barry Eichengreen
University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 7
The Career Dynamics of Self-Employment
May 1987
Glenn Carroll
Elaine M. Mosakowski
University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 6
Employment Variation and Wage Rigidity: A Comparison of Union and Non-Union Plants
April 1987
Jonathan S. Leonard
National Bureau of Economic Research
University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 5
On The Size Distribution of Employment and Establishments
April 1987
Jonathan S. Leonard
National Bureau of Economic Research
University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 4
Technological Change and The Extent of Frictional and Structural Unemployment
April 1987
Jonathan S. Leonard
National Bureau of Economic Research
University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 3
The Future of Human Resources Management
April 1987
George Strauss
Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley

Working Paper No. 2
Worker's Participation In The United States
March 1987
George Strauss
Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley
Tove Hammer

Working Paper No. 1
Who Wanted Collective Bargaining In The First Place
March 1987
Lloyd Ulman
Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley

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