Research
- "Reaching for the Stars: Who pays for Talent in Innovative Industries?” (with Fredrik Andersson, Matthew Freedman, John Haltiwanger, Julia Lane), NBER Working Paper, 12435, Economic Journal, forthcoming.
- “Tenure and Output,” (with Edward Lazear), Labour Economics, 15 (2008): 710-724.
- “Personnel Economics: The Economist’s View of Human Resources,” (with Edward Lazear) Journal of
Economic Perspectives, 21 (4), (Fall 2007): 91-114.
- “How Does Information Technology affect Productivity? Plant-Level Comparisons of Product Innovation,
Process Improvement and Worker Skills,” (with Ann Bartel and Casey Ichniowski), Quarterly Journal of
Economics, 122 (4), (November 2007): 1721-1758.
- “Opportunity Counts: Teams and the Effectiveness of Production Incentives,” (with Brent Boning and
Casey Ichniowski), Journal of Labor Economics 25 (2007): 613-650.
- “Targeting Managerial Control: Evidence from Franchising,” (with Francine Lafontaine), Rand Journal of Economics 36 (1) (Spring 2005): 131-150. Also reprinted in Franchise Contracting and Organization, Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2005.
- “Beyond Incentive Pay: Insiders’ Estimates of the Value of Complementary Human Resource Management Practices,” (with Casey Ichniowski), Journal of Economic Perspectives, 17 (1) (Winter 2003): 155-178.
- “Social Capital and Organizational Change in High-Involvement and Traditional Work Organizations,” (with Jon Gant and Casey Ichniowski), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 11 (2) Summer 2002: 289-328.
- "Industrial Change and Wage Inequality: Evidence from the Steel Industry” (with Patricia Beeson and Lara Shore-Sheppard) Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 54 (March 2001): 466-483.
- “The Dynamics of Franchise Contracting: Evidence from Panel Data” (with Francine Lafontaine) Journal of Political Economy, 107 (October 1999): 1041-1080.
Reprinted in Empirical Industrial Organization, Paul Joskow and Michael Waterson, Eds., Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., (forthcoming), and in The International Library of the New Institutional Economics, Claude Menard, Ed., UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., (forthcoming).
- “The Effects of Human Resource Systems on Productivity: An International Comparison of U.S. and Japanese Plants” (with Casey Ichniowski) Management Science, 45 (May 1999): 704-722.
- “The Effects of Human Resource Management Practices on Productivity” (with Casey Ichniowski and Giovanna Prennushi) American Economic Review, 86 (June 1997): 291-313.
Reprinted in Personnel Economics, Edward P. Lazear and Robert McNabb, Eds., Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., (forthcoming).
- "An Empirical Analysis of Risk Aversion and Income Growth,” Journal of Labor Economics, 14 (October 1996): 626-653.
- "Old Dogs and New Tricks: Determinants of the Adoption of Productivity-Enhancing Work Practices” (with Casey Ichniowski) Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: Microeconomics (1995): 1-65.
- "Intertemporal Labor Supply and the Distribution of Family Income,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 71 (May 1989): 196-205.
- "The Quit Propensity of Married Men,” Journal of Labor Economics, 5 (October 1987): 533 560.
- “Occupational Change, Employer Change, and the Transferability of Skills,” Southern Economic Journal, 54 (January 1987): 702 719.
- "A Formulation of the Earnings Function Using the Concept of Occupational Investment,” Journal of Human Resources, 19 (Summer 1984): 319 340.
Publications—Articles in Books
- “Insider Econometrics: A Roadmap to Estimating Models of Organizational Performance”(with Casey
Ichniowski), Handbook of Organizational Economic, editors Robert Gibbons and John Roberts, forthcoming.
- “Jobs Online,” (with Alice Nakamura, Emi Nakamura, Richard Freeman, Amanda Pyman), Studies of
Labor Market Intermediation, Editor, David Autor, University of Chicago, National Bureau of Economic
Research, forthcoming 2008.
- “Wage Structure, Wages, and Mobility,” (with Edward Lazear), 2008. The Structure of Wages: An
International , Editor Edward Lazear and Kathryn Shaw, University of Chicago, National Bureau of
Economic Research, 2008.
- “International Differences in the Adoption and Impact of New Information Technologies and New HR
Practices: The Valve-Making Industry in the U.S. and U.K.,” (with Ann Bartel, Casey Ichniowski, Ricardo
Correa), International Differences in the Business Practices and Productivity of Firms, Editors Richard
Freeman and Kathryn Shaw, University of Chicago, National Bureau of Economic Research, forthcoming.
- "The Value of Innovative HRM Practices,” in eds. Edward Lawler and James O’Toole, Work in America. August 2006:227-240.
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