Research Papers
- "Entrepreneurship," Journal of Labor Economics, 23:4 (October 2005): 649.
- “Sorting in Experiments,” with Ulrike Malmendier and Roberto Weber. Draft, Nov 2004.
- “The Slow Assimilation of Mexicans in the United States,” edited by George Borjas, forthcoming NBER 2006.
- "Output-Based Pay: Incentives or Sorting?" Research in Labor Economics, Volume 23, Accounting for Worker Well-Being, (ed. by Solomon W. Polachek), 2005, pp. 1-25.
- “Speeding, Tax Fraud, and Teaching to the Test,” NBER Working Paper, 10932, Nov. 2004, forthcoming Quarterly Journal of Economics.
- “The Structure of Wages and Internal Mobility,” with Paul Oyer, American Economic Review, May 2004.
- “Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship,” American Economic Review, May 2004.
- “Internal and External Labor Markets,” with Paul Oyer, 2003 EALE Adam Smith Lecture, Labour Economics, 2004.
- “The Peter Principle: A Theory of Decline,” Journal of Political Economy 112:1, pt. 2 (2004): S141-S163. Formerly, “Peter Principle: Promotions and Declining Productivity,” NBER Working Paper No. w8094 (January 2001).
- “Firm-Specific Human Capital: A Skill-Weights Approach,” NBER Working Paper No. w9679, May 2003.
- “The Dominance of Retail Stores,” with Alexandre Ziegler, NBER Working Paper No. w9795, June 2003.
- “Teacher Incentives,” Swedish Economic Policy Review 10:2 (2003): 179-214.
- "Educational Production," Quarterly Journal of Economics 116:3 (August 2001): 777-803.
- "Performance Pay and Productivity," American Economic Review 90:5 (December 2000): 1346-1361.
- “The Future of Personnel Economics,” Economic Journal 110:467 (November 2000): F611-39.
- "Personnel Economics and Economic Approaches to Incentives," HKCER Letters 61 (Sept/Oct 2000): 1-8.
- “The Power of Incentives,” American Economic Review 90:2 (May 2000): 410-414.
- "Economic Imperialism," Quarterly Journal of Economics 115:1 (February 2000): 99-146.
- “Culture and Language,” Journal of Political Economy 107: 6 (December 1999): S95-S126.
- “Personnel Economics: Past Lessons and Future Directions,” Presidential Address to the Society of Labor Economists, San Francisco, May 1, 1998. Journal of Labor Economics 17:2 (April 1999): 199-236.
- “Globalisation and the Market for Team-mates,” Frank Paish Lecture to the Royal Economic Society, April, 1998. Economic Journal 109:454 (1999):15-40.
- “Incentives in Basic Research,” Journal of Labor Economics 15:1, Part 2: Essays in Honor of Yoram Ben-Porath (January 1997):S167-S197.
- “Culture Wars in America,” Hoover Institution Essay in Public Policy, July 1996.
- “Hiring Risky Workers.” In Internal Labour Markets, Incentives, and Employment, eds. Isao Ohashi and Toshiaki Tachibanaki (New York: St. Martins Press, 1998). Also NBER Working Paper No. 5334 (November 1995).
- “Relational Investing: The Worker's Perspective,” with Richard B. Freeman, NBER Working Paper No. 5436 (January 1996); also forthcoming in Meaningful Relationships: Institutional Investors, Relational Investing and the Future of Corporate Governance, eds. Ronald Gilson, John C. Coffee and Louis Lowenstein (New York: Oxford University Press), expected 1998.
- “Bait and Switch,” Journal of Political Economy 103:4 (August 1995): 813-30.
- “A Jobs-Based Analysis of Labor Markets,” American Economic Review 85:2 (May 1995):260-265.
- “Peer Pressure and Partnerships,” with Eugene Kandel, Journal of Political Economy 100:4
(August 1992): 801-17.
- “Labor Economics and the Psychology of Organizations,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 5:2 (Spring 1991): 89-110; also forthcoming in Italian from Bollati Boringhieri Editore, Turin, Italy.
- “Job Security Provisions and Employment,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 105:3 (August 1990): 699-726.
- “Pensions and Deferred Benefits as Strategic Compensation,” Industrial Relations 28:2 (Spring 1990): 263-80; also in The Economics of Human Resource Management, eds. Daniel J. B. Mitchell and Mahmood A. Zaidi (Oxford, England and Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1990): 109-26.
- “The Introduction of New Products,” with Debra J. Aron, American Economic Review 80:2
(May 1990): 421-6.
- “Male-Female Wage Differentials in Job Ladders,” with Sherwin Rosen, Journal of Labor
Economics 8:1, Part 2: Essays in Honor of Albert Rees. (January 1990): S106-S123.
- “Pay Equality and Industrial Politics,” Journal of Political Economy 97:3 (June 1989): 561-80.
- “Enhancing Productivity through Compensation: The 1988 Towers/Cresap Lecture,” University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business, Selected Paper No. 68, 1988.
- “Estimating the Personal Distribution of Income with Adjustment for Within-Family Variation,”
with Robert Michael, Journal of Labor Economics 4:3 (July 1986): S216- S239.
- “Salaries and Piece Rates,” Journal of Business 59:3 (July 1986): 405-31.
- “Retail Pricing and Clearance Sales,” American Economic Review 76:1 (March 1986): 14-32.
- “Incentives and Wage Rigidity,” American Economic Review 74:2 (May 1984): 339-44.
- “A Competitive Theory of Monopoly Unionism,” American Economic Review 73:4 (September 1983): 631-43.
- “Intergenerational Externalities,” Canadian Journal of Economics 16:2 (May 1983): 212-28.
- “Severance Pay, Pensions, and Efficient Mobility,” NBER Working Paper No. 0854, February 1982.
- “Rank-Order Tournaments as Optimum Labor Contracts,” with Sherwin Rosen, Journal of Political Economy 89:5 (October 1981): 841-64. Reprinted in M. Kleiner, ed., Industrial Relations: Institutions and Organizational Performance, Dartmouth Publishing, 1994 and in Labor Economics/The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics 47, Vol. II, eds. Orley Ashenfelter and Kevin F. Hallock (Aldershot, England: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1995): 422-45 and in Kevin F. Hallock and Kevin J. Murphy, The Economics of Executive Compensation, 1999.
- “Agency, Earnings Profiles, Productivity, and Hours Restrictions,” American Economic Review 71:4 (September 1981): 606-20. Reprinted in The Economic Value of Education: Studies in the Economics of Education/The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics 17, ed. Mark Blaug (Aldershot, England: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1992): 226-240; also reprinted in Labor Economics/The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics 47, Vol. II, eds. Orley C. Ashenfelter and Kevin F. Hallock (Aldershot, England: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.,1995): 111-125.
- “Real Income Equivalence Among One-Earner and Two-Earner Families,” with Robert Michael, American Economic Review 70:2 (May 1980): 203-8.
- “Family Size and the Distribution of Real Per Capita Income," with Robert Michael, American
Economic Review 70:1 (March 1980): 91-107.
- “Family Background and Optimal Schooling Decisions,” Review of Economics and Statistics 62:1 (February 1980): 42-51.
- “Why Is There Mandatory Retirement?” Orig. Journal of Political Economy 87:6 (December 1979): 1261-84. Reprinted in Labor Economics/The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics 47, Vol. II, eds. Orley C. Ashenfelter and Kevin F. Hallock (Aldershot, England: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1995): 381-404; also reprinted in The Economics of Aging/The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics 51, ed. John Creedy (Aldershot, England: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1995): 90-113. Reprinted in Worth Series of Outstanding Contributions in Economics: Labor Economics. Orley Ashenfelter, Series Editor and Volume Editor: Worth Publishers, Inc., University of Chicago Press, 1999.
- “The Narrowing of Black-White Wage Differentials Is Illusory,” American Economic Review
69:4 (September 1979): 553-64.
- “Education: Consumption or Production?” Journal of Political Economy 85:3 (June 1977): 569-97.
- “Schooling as a Wage Depressant,” Journal of Human Resources 12:2 (Spring 1977): 164-76.
- “Age, Experience, and Wage Growth,” American Economic Review 66:4 (September 1976): 548-58.
