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Positions I hold.

What I teach

My books

  • How New is the ‘New’ Employment Contract? with Dale Belman, Gary Charness, Erica Groshen, and K.C. O’Shaughnessy, Upjohn Institute, Kalamazoo MI, 2002. [Read the first chapter in PDF or Buy this book.]
  • Evaluation of Carve-outs in Workers’ Compensation Programs in the California Construction Industry, with Cristian Echeverria, Frank Neuhauser, Richard Reuben, and Jeffrey S. Petersen. 2003, Upjohn Institute, Kalamazoo MI. (A related report is here, while an article-length version appeared in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 21, 3, 2002: 467-484.)
  • The American Workplace: Skills, Pay and Employee Involvement, editor, with Casey Ichniowski, Craig Olson, and George Strauss, Cambridge University Press, 1999. [Buy this book.]
  • Working in the Twenty-First Century: Government Policies for Learning, Opportunity, and Productivity, Armonk, NY, M.E. Sharpe, 1998.   (Table of Contents and Concluding Chapter) [Buy this book.]
  • Reinventing the Workplace: How Business and Employees Can Both Win, Brookings Institution, Washington DC, 1995. [Buy this book]

Some policy-oriented writings

·        “Perspectives on Corporate Governance: Executive Compensation” Case in Point Concept Paper, Caseplace.org, May 2007.

·        “Our opportunity to end poverty -- or fail to even try,” San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, May 21, 2006, Page E3.

Musings

These notes are to provoke thought, but are not complete, even lacking basics such as full citations.

 

Some recent working papers and publications

·       Development Economics

·        Indonesian Families

·       American Families

·       American Workplaces

·        Changes in Internal Labor Markets

·        Wages

·        Effects of Diversity

·        Corporate social responsibility

Development Economics

Indonesian Families

American Families

·        “The Growing Importance of Family and Community: An Analysis of Changes in the Sibling Correlation in Earnings,” with Bhashkar Mazumder, Industrial Relations, 46, 1, January 2007: 7-21.

  • “How Much of School Effects is Just Sorting? Identifying Causality in the National Education Longitudinal Survey,” with Gary Painter.  Forthcoming, Economics of Education Review.
  • “The Schooling Costs of Teenage Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing: Analysis with a Within-School Propensity Score Matching Estimator,” [PDF].  With Gary Painter.  Review of Economics and Statistics 85, 4, Nov. 2003: 884 – 900.
  • “Family Structure and Youths' Outcomes: Which Correlations are Causal?” with Gary Painter; Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Summer, 2000), pp. 524-549 JSTOR
  • “Daddies, Devotion and Dollars: How Do They Matter for Youth?” American Journal of Economics and Sociology,  63, 4, October 2004: 813 - 850. 

American Workplaces

·       “The Acceptability of Layoffs and Pay Cuts: Comparing North America with Germany,” with Knut Gerlach, Gesine Stephan, and Olaf Struck. Institute of Industrial Relations Working Paper Series. Paper iirwps-130-06. http://repositories.cdlib.org/iir/iirwps/iirwps-130-06

·       “Intention and Stochastic Outcomes:  An Experimental Study,” with Gary Charness. Economic Journal, 117 July 2007: 1051–1072.

·       “The New ‘Managerial Misclassification’ Challenge to Old Wage & Hour Law or What is Managerial Work?” with David Lewin, in Contemporary Issues in Employment Relations, David Lewin, ed., LERA Research Volume, Cornell University Press, 2006: 189-222.

·       “The Effects of New Work Practices on Workers,” with Michael Handel, in America at Work, Edward E. Lawler III and James O’Toole, editors, Palgrave Macmillan, New York NY: 73-86.  (An earlier version appeared in Industrial Relations, 43, 1, January 2004: 1-43.)

·       “Sabotage! Survey Evidence on when it is Acceptable,” with Gary Charness.  Center for Responsible Business Working paper 12, 2004.

·       “Carving out Construction Employees from the Workers' Compensation System in California,” with Jeffrey S. Petersen, Cristian Echeverria, Frank Neuhauser, and Richard C. Reuben.  Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Vol. 21, No. 3, 467–483 (2002).

·       “Employee Involvement and Pay at American Auto Suppliers,” with Susan Helper and Elliot Bendoly.  Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Volume 11, Number 2, Summer 2002, 329–377.

·       Book Review of Manufacturing Advantage: Why High-Performance Work Systems Pay Off by Eileen Appelbaum; Thomas Bailey; Peter Berg; Arne L. Kalleberg  Industrial and Labor Relations Review  Vol. 55, No. 1 (Oct., 2001), pp. 175-176 JSTOR

·       “Flexibility versus Efficiency? A Case Study of Model Changeovers in the Toyota Production System” with Paul S. Adler and Barbara Goldoftas, Organization Science  Vol. 10, No. 1 (Jan., 1999), pp. 43-68 JSTOR

·       “Computer-Mediated Communication as Employee Voice: A Case Study” with Libby Bishop, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 52, No. 2 (Jan., 1999), pp. 213-233 JSTOR

·       “Ergonomics, Employee Involvement, and the Toyota Production System: A Case Study of NUMMI's 1993 Model Introduction,” With Paul S. Adler and Barbara Goldoftas, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 50, No. 3 (Apr., 1997), pp. 416-437 JSTOR 

·       “Do Corporate Executives Have Rational Expectations?”  The Journal of Business Vol. 66, No. 2 (Apr., 1993), pp. 271-293 JSTOR

·       “Long-Term Supplier Relations and Product-Market Structure,” with Susan Helper, Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Oct., 1992), pp. 561-581 JSTOR

·       “Just-Cause Employment Policies in the Presence of Worker Adverse Selection,” Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Jul., 1991), pp. 294-305 JSTOR

·       “Just-Cause Employment Policies When Unemployment Is a Worker Discipline Device” American Economic Review, Vol. 79, No. 4 (Sep., 1989), pp. 902-905 JSTOR

·       "Reinventing Disability Policy," working paper 65, [PDF] Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley, 1999.

Changes in Internal Labor Markets

Wages

·        “Fairness, Markets, and Ability to Pay: Evidence from Compensation Executives” American Economic Review,  Vol. 83, No. 5 (Dec., 1993), pp. 1241-1259  JSTOR

·       “Worth Waiting For? Delayed Compensation, Training, and Turnover in the United States and Japan” Journal of Labor Economics  Vol. 11, No. 4 (Oct., 1993), pp. 724-752 JSTOR

·       “What Do Wages Buy?” Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Sep., 1993), pp. 462-483 JSTOR

·       “Can Wage Increases Pay For Themselves? Tests with a Productive Function,” The Economic Journal, Vol. 102, No. 414 (Sep., 1992), pp. 1102-1115 JSTOR

·       “Product Quality and Pay Equity Between Lower-Level Employees and Top Management: An Investigation of Distributive Justice Theory,” with Douglas M. Cowherd, Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 2, Special Issue: Process and Outcome: Perspectives on the Distribution of Rewards in Organizations (Jun., 1992), pp. 302-320 JSTOR

Effects of Diversity

·        “The Effect of Diversity on Turnover: A Very Large Case Study,” with Jonathan Leonard.  Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 39, 4, July 2006: 457-572. 

Corporate Social Responsibility

Current evaluations

§        A replication is ongoing with ICDDR,B in Bangladesh.

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