| Part I - Prof. Autor |
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Changes in the Wage Structure and Inequality: Laying out Facts and Clearing Empirical Underbrush |
* Acemoglu, Daron. "Cross-country Inequality Trends." The Economic Journal 113, no. 485 (2003): F121-F149.
* Autor, David H., Lawrence F. Katz, and Melissa Schettini Kearney. "Inequality in the 1990s: Reassessing the Revisionists." Mimeo, August 2004.
* Pierce, Brooks. "Compensation Inequality." Quarterly Journal of Economics 116, no. 3 (2001): 1493-1525.
* Card, David, and John DiNardo. "Skill Biased Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality: Some Problems and Puzzles." Journal of Labor Economics 20, no. 4 (2002): 733-783.
* Goldin, Claudia, and Lawrence Katz. "The Returns to Skill in the United States across the Twentieth Century." NBER Working Paper No. 7126 (May 2000).
Goldin, Claudia, and Robert A. Margo. "The Great Compression: The Wage Structure in the United States at Mid-Century." Quarterly Journal of Economics 107, no. 1 (1992): 1-34.
Gottschalk, Peter, and Mary and Joyce. "Cross-National Differences in the Rise in Earnings Inequality: Market and Institutional Factors." Review of Economics and Statistics 80 (1998): 489-502.
* Gottschalk, Peter, and Robert Moffitt. "The Growth of Earnings Instability in the U.S. Labor Market." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (1994): 217-272.
Katz, Lawrence F., and David H. Autor. "Changes in the Wage Structure and Earnings Inequality." In Handbook of Labor Economics. Edited by Orley Ashenfelter, and David Card. Vol. 3A, Amsterdam, Netherlands, New York, NY, North-Holland, Netherlands: Elsevier, 1999. ISBN: 0444501878.
Murphy, Kevin M., W. Graig Riddell, and Paul M. Romer. "Wages, Skills and Technology in the United States and Canada." In General Purpose Technologies. Edited by E. Helpman. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN: 0262082632.
Stephen, Nickell, and Brian Bell. "The Collapse in Demand for the Unskilled and Unemployment across the OECD.'' Oxford Review of Economic Policy 11 (1996): 40-62.
* Piketty, Thomas, and Emmanuel Saez. "Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998." Quarterly Journal of Economics 118, no. 1 (2003): 1-40.
Saez, Emmanuel. "Income and Wealth Concentration in Historical and International Perspective." UC Berkeley mimeo, December 2003. (PDF)
Saez, Emmanuel, and Michael Veall. "The Evolutions of High Incomes in Canada, 1920-2000." UC Berkeley mimeo, December 2002. |
| 2 |
The Theory of Skill Premia with an Application to Wage Structure Changes |
* Acemoglu, Daron. "Technical Change, Inequality and the Labor Market." Journal of Economic Literature 40 (2002): 7-72.
Blau, Francine D., and Lawrence M. Kahn. "International Differences in Male Wage Inequality: Institutions versus Market Forces." Journal of Political Economy 104, no. 4 (August 1996): 791-837.
* ———. "Do Cognitive Test Scores Explain Higher US Wage Inequality?" Review of Economics and Statistics (2004). (Forthcoming)
Card, David, and Thomas Lemieux. "Dropout and Enrollment Trends in the Postwar Period: What Went Wrong in the 1970s?" Chapter 9 in Risky Behavior among Youths: An Economic Analysis. Edited by Jonathan Gruber. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001. ISBN: 0226310132.
* ———. "Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis." Quarterly Journal of Economics 116, no. 2 (2001): 705-746.
Ellwood, David. "The Sputtering Labor Force of the Twenty-First Century: Can Social Policy Help?" In The Roaring Nineties: Can Full Employment be Sustained? Edited by Alan B. Krueger, and Robert M. Solow. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation and Century Foundation Press, 2001. Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 8321 (June 2001).
Freeman, Richard B., and R. Oostendorp. "Wages around the World: Pay Across Occupations and Countries." NBER Working Paper No. 8058 (December 2000).
* Katz, Lawrence F., and Kevin M. Murphy. "Changes in Relative Wages, 1963-1987: Supply and Demand Factors." Quarterly Journal of Economics 107 (1992): 35-78.
Bound, John, and Sarah Turner. "Cohort Crowding: How Resources Affect Collegiate Attainment." University of Michigan mimeograph, July 2003. (PDF)
* Leuven, Edwin, Hessel Oosterbeek, and Hans van Ophem. "Explaining International Differences in Male Skill Wage Differentials by Differences in Demand and Supply of Skill." Economic Journal 114 (April 2004): 466-486.
Rotemberg, Julio J. "Perceptions of Equity and the Distribution of Income." Journal of Labor Economics 20, no. 2, part 1 (2002): 249-288. |
| 3 |
Technical Change, Organizational Change and Skill Demands |
* Acemoglu, Daron. "Why do New Technologies Complement Skills: Directed Technical Change and Wage Inequality." Quarterly Journal of Economics 113, no. 4 (1998): 1055-1089.
———. "Changes in Unemployment and Wage Inequality: An Alternative Theory and Some Evidence." American Economic Review 89, no. 5 (1999): 1259-1278.
* Autor, David H., Frank Levy, and Richard J. Murnane. "The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration." Quarterly Journal of Economics 116, no. 4 (2003).
* Autor, David H., Lawrence F. Katz, and Alan B. Krueger. "Computing Inequality: Have Computers Changed the Labor Market." Quarterly Journal of Economics 113, no. 4 (1998): 1169-1213.
Autor, David H., Frank Levy, and Richard J. Murnane. "Upstairs, Downstairs: Computers and Skills on Two Floors of a Large Bank." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 55, no. 3 (2002): 432-447.
* Bartel, Ann, Casey Ichniowski, and Kathryn Shaw. "The Strategic Investment in Information Technologies and New Human Resource Practices and Their Effects on Productivity: An 'Insider' Econometric Analysis." Mimeograph, Columbia University, October 2004.
* Beaudry, Paul, and David A. Green. "Wages and Employment in the United States and Germany: What Explains the Differences?" American Economic Review 93, no. 3 (2003): 573-602.
Becker, Gary S., and Kevin M. Murphy. "The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs and Knowledge." Quarterly Journal of Economics 107, no. 4 (1992): 1137-1160.
Caroli, Eve, and John van Reenen. "Skill-Biased Organizational Change: Evidence from a Panel of British and French Establishments." Quarterly Journal of Economics 116, no. 4 (2001): 1449-1492.
Bresnahan, Timothy F., Erik Brynolfsson, and Lorin M. Hitt. "Information Technology, Workplace Organization and the Demand for Skilled Labor: Firm-level Evidence." Quarterly Journal of Economics 117 (2002): 339-376.
Doms, Mark, Timothy Dunne, and Kenneth Troske. "Workers, Wages and Technology.'' Quarterly Journal of Economics 112 (1997): 217-252.
* Goldin, Claudia, and Lawrence Katz. "The Origins of Technology-Skill Complementarity." Quarterly Journal of Economics (1998).
* Goos, Maarten, and Alan Manning. "Lousy and Lovely Jobs: The Rising Polarization of Work in Britain." Centre for Economic Performance Working Paper No. CEPDP0604, (2003). (PDF)
Ichniowski, Casey, Katherine Shaw, and G. Prennushi. "The Effects of Human Resource Management Practices on Productivity: A Study of Steel Finishing Lines." American Economic Review 87, no. 3 (1997): 291-313.
* Krusell, Per, Lee Ohanian, Victor Rios-Rull, and Giovanni Violante. "Capital-Skill Complementarity and Inequality." Econometrica 6, no. 5 (2000): 1029-1053.
* Machin, Stephen, and John Van Reenen. "Technology and Changes in Skill Structure: Evidence from Seven OECD Countries." Quarterly Journal of Economics 113, no. 4 (1998): 1215-1244.
* Rosen, Sherwin. "The Economics of Superstars." American Economic Review 71, no. 5 (1981): 845-858.
Spitz, Alexandra. "Are Skill Requirements in the Workplace Rising? Distinguishing Between Skill-Biased Technological Change and Over-Education." Mimeograph, January 2004.
* Tervio, Markö. "Mediocrity in Talent Markets." UC Berkeley Haas School of Business working paper, December 2004. (PDF) |
| 4 |
International Trade and Outsourcing: Impacts on Employment, Workplace Organization, and Technology Adoption |
Acemoglu, Daron. "Patterns of Skill Premia." Review of Economic Studies 70, no. 2 (2003): 199-230.
Bagwati, Jagdish, Arvind Panagariya, and T. N. Srinivasan. "The Muddles over Outsourcing." Journal of Economic Perspectives 18, no. 4 (Fall 2004): 93-114.
* Berman, Eli, John Bound, and Stephen Machin. "Implications of Skill-Biased Technological Change: International Evidence." Quarterly Journal of Economics 113, no. 4 (1998): 1245-1280.
Boras, George, Richard B. Freeman, and Lawrence F. Katz. "How Much do Immigration and Trade Affect Labor Market Outcomes?" Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1 (1997): 1-90.
Feenstra, Robert, and Gordon Hanson. "The Impact of Outsourcing and High Technology Capital on Wages: Estimates for the United States 1979-1990." Quarterly Journal of Economics 114, no. 3 (1999): 907-940.
———. "Global Production Sharing and Rising Inequality: A Survey of Trade and Wages." NBER Working Paper No. 8372 (2001).
Freeman, Richard. "Are Your Wages Set in Beijing?" Journal of Economic Perspectives 9, no. 3 (1995): 15-32.
* Freeman, Richard B. "Trade Wars: The Exaggerated Impact of Trade in Economic Debate." NBER Working Paper No. 10000 (September 2003).
* Johnson, George, and Frank Stafford. "The Labor Market Implications of International Trade." In Handbook of Labor Economics. Edited by O. Ashenfelter, and D. Card. Vol. 3B. Amsterdam, Netherlands, New York, NY, North Holland, Netherlands: Elsevier, 1999. ISBN: 0444501886.
Krugman, Paul. "Growing World Trade: Causes and Consequences." Brooking Papers on Economic Activity 1995-1, (1995): 327-362.
* ———. "Technology, Trade and Factor Prices." Journal of International Economics 50, no. 1 (2000): 51-71.
Lawrence, Robert Z., and Matthew Slaughter. "International Trade and American Wages in the 1980s: Giant Sucking Sound or Small Hiccup." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: Microeconomics (1993): 161-226.
* Melitz, Mark. "The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Reallocations and Aggregate Productivity." Econometrica 71 (November 2003): 1695-1725.
Thoenig, Mathias, and Thierry Verdier. "A Theory of Defensive Skill-Biased Innovation and Globalization." American Economic Review 93, no. 3 (2003): 709-728.
* Topalova, Petia. "Factor Immobility and Regional Impacts of Trade Liberalization: Evidence on Poverty and Inequality from India." Mimeograph, November 2004. (PDF)
* Trefler, Daniel. "The Long and Short of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement." American Economic Review 94, no. 4 (2004): 870-895.
Verhoogen, Eric. "Trade, Quality Upgrading and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector: Theory and Evidence from an Exchange-Rate Shock." Mimeograph, Columbia University, January 2004. (PDF)
Wood, Adrian. North-South Trade, Employment and Inequality: Changing Fortunes in a Skill Driven World. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1994. ISBN: 0198290152.
———. "How Trade Hurt Unskilled Workers." Journal of Economic Perspectives 9, no. 3 (1995): 57-80.
———. "Globalization and the Rise of Labour Market Inequalities." Economic Journal 108 (September 1998). |
| 5 |
Labor Market Institutions and Wage Compression |
* Autor, David H., Lawrence F. Katz, and Melissa S. Kearney. "Rising Wage Inequality: The Role of Composition and Prices." Mimeo, January 2004.
* DiNardo, John, Nicole Fortin, and Thomas Lemieux. "Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages, 1973-1992: A Semiparametric Approach." Econometrica 64, no. 5 (1996): 1001-1044.
* Juhn, Chinhui, Kevin M. Murphy, and Brooks Pierce. "Wage Inequality and the Rise in Returns to Skill." Journal of Political Economy 101, no. 3 (1993): 410-442.
Kahn, Lawrence. "Wage Inequality, Collective Bargaining, and Relative Employment from 1985 to 1994: Evidence from 15 OECD Countries." Review of Economics and Statistics 82, no. 4 (November 2000): 564-579.
* Koenker, Roger, and Kevin F. Hallock. "Quantile Regression." Journal of Economic Perspectives 15, no. 4 (Fall 2001): 143-156.
* Koenker, Roger, and Gilbert Bassett, Jr. "Regression Quantiles." Econometrica 46, no. 1 (1978): 33-50.
* Lee, David. "Wage Inequality in the U.S. During the 1980’s: Rising Dispersion or Falling Minimum Wage." Quarterly Journal of Economics 114, no. 4 (1999): 941-1024.
* Lemieux, Thomas. "Increasing Residual Wage Inequality: Composition Effects, Noisy Data, or Rising Demand for Skill?" Center for Labor Economics Working Paper No. 69, UC Berkeley, May 2004. (PDF)
* Machado, José, and José Mata. "Counterfactual Decompositions of Changes in Wage Distributions Using Quantile Regression." Journal of Applied Econometrics. (Forthcoming)
Smith, Christopher L. "Minimum Wages and Wage Structure." MIT Mimeograph, February 2005. |
| 6 |
Self-Selection and the Labor Market |
Basu, Kaushik. "The Economics and Law of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace." Journal of Economic Perspectives 17, no. 3 (2003): 141-158.
* ———. "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: An Economic Analysis with Implications for Worker Rights and Labor Standards Policy." MIT Department of Economics Working Paper 02-11, February 2002. (Available via SSRN)
* Boras, George. "Self-Selection and the Earnings of Immigrants." American Economic Review 77, no. 4 (1987): 531-553.
* ———. "The Wage Structure and the Sorting of Workers into the Public Sector." NBER Working Paper No. 9313 (November 2002).
Chandra, Amitabh, and Douglas Staiger. "Testing a Roy Model with Productivity Spillovers: Evidence from the Treatment of Heart Attacks." NBER Working Paper No. 10811 (October 2004).
* Hamermesh, Daniel. "Changing Inequality for Workplace Amenities." Quarterly Journal of Economics 114, no. 4 (1999): 1085-1123.
Heckman, James, and Bo Honore. "The Empirical Content of the Roy Model." Econometrica 58, no. 5 (1990): 1121-1149.
Neal, Derek, and Sherwin Rosen. "Theories of Labor Earnings." In Handbook of Income Distribution. Edited by A. B. Atkinson, and F. Bourguignon. Amsterdam, Netherlands, New York, NY, North Holland, Netherlands: Elsevier Science, 1999. ISBN: 0444816313.
* Rosen, Sherwin. "The Theory of Equalizing Differences." In Handbook of Labor Economics. Vol. 1. Amsterdam, Netherlands, New York, NY, North Holland, Netherlands: Elsevier Science, 1986. ISBN: 0444878564.
* Roy, D. A. "Some Thoughts on the Distribution of Earnings." Oxford Economic Papers 3, no. 2 (1951): 235-246.
Salop, Joanne, and Steven Salop. "Self-Selection and Turnover in the Labor Market." Quarterly Journal of Economics 90, no. 4 (November 1976): 619-627. |
| 7 |
Group Differences in the Labor Market: The Evolving Gender Gap |
* Acemoglu, Daron, David Autor, and David Lyle. "Women, War and Wages: The Impact of Female Labor Supply on the Wage Structure at Mid-Century." Journal of Political Economy 112, no. 3 (2004): 497-551.
* Blau, Francine, and Lawrence Kahn. "Swimming Upstream: Trends in the Gender Wage Differential in 1980s." Journal of Labor Economics 15, no. 1 (1997): 1-42.
Fortin, Nicole, and Thomas Lemiuex. "Are Women’s Wage Gains Men’s Losses? A Distributional Test." American Economic Review 90, no. 2 (2000): 456-460.
* Juhn, Chinhui, and Dae II Kim. "The Effects of Rising Female Labor Supply on Male Wages." Journal of Labor Economics 17, no. 1 (1999): 23-48.
* Mulligan, Casey B., and Yona Rubinstein. "The Closing Gender Gap as a Roy Model Illusion." NBER Working Paper No. 10892 (November 2004).
* Topel, Robert H. "Wage Inequality and Regional Labour Market Peformance in the U.S." In Labour Market and Economic Performance: Europe, Japan and the USA. Edited by Toshiaki Tachibanaki. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1994, pp. 93-127. ISBN: 031212273X.
* Welch, Finis. "Growth in Women’s Relative Wages and Inequality Among Men: One Phenomenon or Two?" American Economic Review 90, no. 2 (2000): 444-450. |
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Group Differences in the Labor Market: The Theory of Labor Market Discrimination |
Arrow, Kenneth. "The Theory of Discrimination." In Discrimination in Labor Markets. Edited by Ashenfelter, and Rees. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973. ISBN: 0691041709.
* Aigner, and Cain. "Statistical Theories of Discrimination in Labor Markets." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 30, no. 2 (1977): 175-187.
* Altoni, Joseph, and Rebecca Blank. "Race and Gender in the Labor Market." In Handbook of Labor Economics. Edited by O. Ashenfelter, and D. Card. Vol. 3C. Amsterdam, Netherlands, New York, NY, North Holland, Netherlands: Elsevier, 1999. ISBN: 0444501894.
* Altoni, Joseph, and Charles Pierret. "Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination." Quarterly Journal of Economics 116, no. 1 (2001): 313-350.
* Autor, David, and David Scarborough. "Will Job Testing Harm Minority Workers?" NBER Working Paper No. 10763 (September 2004).
* Becker, Gary. The Economics of Discrimination. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1971. ISBN: 0226041166.
* Coate, Stephen, and Glen Loury. "Will Affirmative Action Eliminate Negative Stereotypes?" American Economic Review 83, no. 5 (December 1993): 1220-1240.
* Farber, Henry, and Robert Gibbons. "Learning and Wage Dynamics." Quarterly Journal of Economics 111, no. 4 (1996): 1007-1047.
Phelps, Edmund. "The Statistical Theory of Racism and Sexism." American Economic Review 62, no. 4 (1972): 533-539. |
| 9 |
Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence |
* Bertrand, Marianne, and Sendhil Mullainathan. "Are Emily and Brendan More Employable than Latoya and Tyrone? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination." American Economic Review 94, no. 4 (September 2004): 991-1014.
Chay, Kenneth Y. "The Impact of Federal Civil Rights Policy on Black Economic Progress: Evidence from the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 51, no. 4 (July 1998): 608-632.
Donohue, John J., III, and Peter Siegelman. "The Changing Nature of Employment Discrimination Litigation." Stanford Law Review 43, (1991): 983-1033.
* Fershtman, Chaim, and Uri Gneezy. "Discrimination in a Segmented Society." Quarterly Journal of Economics 116, no. 1 (2001): 351-377.
Goldin, Claudia, and C. Rouse. "Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of Blind Auditions on the Sex Composition of Orchestras." American Economic Review 90, no. 4 (2000): 715-741.
Hamermesh, Daniel, and Jeff Biddle. "Beauty and the Labor Market." American Economic Review 84, no. 5 (1994): 1174-1194.
Heckman, James, and John Donohue. "Continuous Versus Episodic Change: The Impact of Affirmative Action and Civil Rights Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks." Journal of Economic Literature 29, no. 4 (1991): 1603-1643.
Holzer, Harry, and Keith R. Ihlanfeldt. "Customer Discrimination and Employment Outcomes for Minority Workers." Quarterly Journal of Economics 113, no. 3 (1998): 835-867.
* List, John. A. "The Nature and Extent of Discrimination in the Marketplace: Evidence from the Field." Quarterly Journal of Economics 119, no. 1 (2004): 49-89.
McCrary, Justin. "The Effect of Court-Ordered Hiring Quotas on the Composition and Quality of Police." Mimeo, University of Michigan, Ford School of Public Policy, 2003.
* Neal, Derek A., and William R. Johnson. "The Role of Premarket Factors in Black-White Wage Differences." Journal of Political Economy 104, no. 5 (1996): 869-895.
Persico, Nicola, Andrew Postlewaite, and Dan Silverman. "The Effect of Adolescent Experience on Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Height." Journal of Political Economy 112, no. 5 (October 2004): 1019-1053.
Riach, P. A., and R. Rich. "Field Experiments of Discrimination in the Market Place." The Economic Journal 112 (November 2002): F480-F518.
Various Authors. "Symposium: Discrimination in Product, Credit and Labor Markets." Journal of Economic Perspectives 12, no. 2 (Spring 1998): 23-126.
See especially articles by Yinger, Darity, and Mason, Arrow, Heckman, and Loury. |
| 10 |
Labor Market Responses to Regulation |
Acemoglu, Daron, and Joshua D. Angrist. "Consequences of Employment Protection? The Case of the Americans with Disabilities Act." Journal of Political Economy 109, no. 5 (October 2001): 915-957.
Autor, David. "Outsourcing at Will: The Contribution of Unjust Dismissal Doctrine to the Growth of Employment Outsourcing." Journal of Labor Economics 21, no. 1 (January 2003): 1-42.
Autor, David, John J. Donohue III, and Stewart S. Schwab. "The Costs of Wrongful-Discharge Laws." Mimeo, September 2004. (PDF)
Autor, David, and Mark Duggan. "The Rise in the Disability Rolls and the Decline in Unemployment." Quarterly Journal of Economics 118, no. 1 (February 2003): 157-206.
* Bertrand, Marianne, and Francis Kramarz. "Does Entry Regulation Hinder Job Creation? Evidence from the French Retail Industry." Quarterly Journal of Economics 117, no. 4 (2002): 1369-1414.
* Dankov, Simeon, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer. "The Regulation of Entry." Quarterly Journal of Economics 117, no. 1 (2002): 1-37.
* Greenstone, Michael. "The Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Industrial Activity: Evidence from the 1970 and 1977 Clean Air Act Amendments and the Census of Manufactures." Journal of Political Economy 110, no. 6 (2002): 1175-1219.
* Hsieh, Chang-Tai, and Enrico Moretti. "Can Free Entry Be Inefficient? Fixed Commissions and Social Waste in the Real Estate Industry." Journal of Political Economy 111, no. 5 (2003): 1076-1122.
Jolls, Christine, and J. J. Prescott. "Disaggregating Employment Protection: The Case of Disability Discrimination." NBER Working Paper No. 10740 (September 2004).
* Krueger, Alan B., and Jörn-Steffen Pischke. "Observations and Conjectures on the U.S. Employment Miracle." NBER Working Paper No. 6146 (1997).
* Lazear, Edward. "Job Security Provisions and Employment." Quarterly Journal of Economics 105, no. 3 (1990): 699-726.
* Summers, Lawrence H. "Some Simple Economics of Mandated Benefits." American Economic Review 79, no. 2 (1989): 177-183. |
| Part II - Prof. Piore |
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Introduction and Overview |
Osterman, Paul, Thomas Kochan, Richard Locke, and Michael Piore. Chapters 1, and 2 in Working in America: A Blueprint for the New Labor Market. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001, pp. 1-56. ISBN: 0262151057.
Piore, Michael. "Reconfiguration of Work and Employment Relations in the United States at the Turn of the Century." Mimeo, Dept. of Economics, MIT, Dec. 2005. (PDF)
Additional Recommended Reading
Mishel, Lawrence, Jared Bernstein, and Sylvia Allegretto. The State of Working America 2004-2005. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0801489628. |
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Worker Motivation and Behavior |
McKenna, Richard. The Sand Pebbles. New York, NY: Harper and Row, 1962, pp. 143-149.
Bloch, Marc. Chapter 2 in The Characteristics of Customary Law in Feudal Society. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1961, pp. 113-116.
Lester, Richard K., and Michael J. Piore. Chapter 2-3 in Innovovation-the Missing Dimension. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004, pp. 35-73. ISBN: 0674015819.
Berger, Peter L., and Thomas Luckman. "From The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatice in the Sociology of Knowledge." In The New Economic Sociology: A Reader. Edited by Frank Dobbin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004, pp. 325-348, and 496-517. ISBN: 0691049068. |
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Technology, Job Characteristics and Structure |
Marx, Karl. Chapters 12-15 in Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Edited by F. Engles. Vol. 1, part IV. International Publishers, 1887, 1967, pp. 312-394.
Young, A. "Increasing Returns and Economic Progress." The Economic Journal XXXVIII (December 1928): 527-542.
Marglin, Stephen A. "What Do Bosses Do? The Origins and Functions of Hierarchy in Capitalist Production." Review of Radical Political Economics (Summer 1974): 33-60.
Becker, Gary, and Kevin Murphy. "The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs and Knowledge." Quarterly Journal of Economics 107, no. 4 (1992): 1137-1160.
Kremer, Michael. "The O-Ring Theory of Economic Development." Quarterly Journal of Economics 108, no. 3 (1993): 551-575.
Additional Recommended Reading
Some recent empirical evidence and additional theoretical speculation:
Ichniowski, C., K. Shaw, and G. Prennushi. "The Effects of Human Resource Management Practices on Productivity: A Study of Steel Finishing Lines." American Economic Review 87, no. 3 (1997): 291-313.
MacDuffie, John-Paul. "Human Resource Bundles and Manufacturing Performance: Organizational Logic and Flexible Production Systems in the World Automobile Industry." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 48, no. 2 (1995): 197-221.
Milgrom, Paul, and John Roberts. "Complementarities and Fit: Strategy, Structure and Organizational Change in Manufacturing." Journal of Accounting and Economics 19, no. 2-3 (1995): 179-208.
Osterman, Paul. "Work Reorganization in the Era of Restructuring: Trends in Diffusion and Effects on Employee Welfare." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 53, no. 2 (2000): 179-196.
Piore, Michael J. "The Sweat Shop as a Production System." Labor Standards and Development in the Global Economy, U.S. Department of Labour, Bureau of International Labor Affairs (1990): 35-51. |
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The Social Dimensions of the Labor Force
Social Class
Social Capital
Social and Institutional Networks
Identity and Careers |
Social Class
Marx, Karl. The Communist Manifesto.
Gans, Hurbert. Urban Villagers. New York, NY: Free Press of Glencoe, 1962, pp. 229-262.
Newman, Katherine S. No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City. New York, NY: Knopf, 1999. ISBN: 0375402543. (Skim)
Social Capital
Adler, Paul, and Seok-Woo Kwon. "Social Capital: Prospects for a New Concept." The Academy of Management Review 27, no. 1 (2002): 17-40.
Wilson, William J. Chapters 1-3 in The Truly Disadvantaged. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1990, pp. 3-92. ISBN: 0226901319. (Skim)
Social and Institutional Networks
Granovetter, Mark S. "The Strength of Weak Ties." American Journal of Sociology 78, no. 6 (1973): 1360-1380.
Burt, Ronald S. "From Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition." In The New Economic Sociology: A Reader. Edited by Frank Dobbin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Unviersity Press, 2004, pp. 325-348. ISBN: 0691049068.
Saxenian, AnnaLee. Silicon Valley’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs. San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California, 1999.
Kerr, William. "Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technological Diffusion." Working paper. MIT, Fall, 2004.
Briscoe, Forrest, and Sean Saffod. "Agency in Diffusion: Activism, Imitation and the Adoption of Domestic Partner Benefits Among the Fortune 500." London School of Economics (January 2005).
Ross, Arthur M. "Orbits of Coercive Comparison." In Unemployment and Inflation. Edited by Michael J. Piore. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Press, 1979, pp. 94-111. ISBN: 0873321650.
Eckstein, O., and T. Wilson. "The Determinants of Money Wages in American Industry?" Quarterly Journal of Economics (August 1962).
Additional Recommended Reading
Saxenian, AnnaLee. "Silicon Valley’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Skills, Networks and Careers." Task Force on Reconstructing America’s Labor Market Institutions Working Paper No. WP05, MIT Sloan School of Management (1999).
Identity and Careers
Akerlof, George, and Rachel Kranton. "Economics and Identity." Quarterly Journal of Economics 115, no. 3 (2000): 715-753. (MIT-INGENTA)
Lazear, Edward. "Culture and Language." Journal of Political Economy v107, no. 6 (December 1999): S95-126. (Part 2)
Barley, Steven. "Careers, Identities and Institutions: the Legacy of the Chicago School of Sociology." In Handbook of Career Theory. Edited by Michael B. Arthur, Douglas T. Hall, and Barbara S. Lawrence. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1989. ISBN: 0521389445.
Pavan, Ronni. "Career Choice and Wage Growth." University of Chicago, January 2005.
Sabel, Charles. Work and Politics. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1982, pp. 1-32, and 78-194. ISBN: 0521319099.
Piore, Michael J. Chapter 3 in Birds of Passage: Migrant Labor and Industrial Societies. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1979. ISBN: 0521224527. |
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Labor Market Institutions
General
Trade Unions
Unions in the New Labor Market
Labor Market Institutions in the New Economcy
International Comparison |
General
North, Douglass. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1990. ISBN: 0521397340.
Djankov, Simeon, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silane, Andrei Shleifer, and Juan Botero. "The Regulation of Labor." NBER Working Paper No. 9756 (2003).
Trade Unions
Dunlop, John. Chapter 1 in Industrial Relations Systems. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1977, 1958, pp. 43-61. ISBN: 0809308509.
Thomas Kochan, Harry Katz, and Robert McKersie. Chapters 2-3 in The Transformation of American Industrial Relations. Ithaca, NY: ILR/Cornell University Press, 1994, pp. 21-80. ISBN: 0875463207.
Freeman, Richard B., and James L. Medoff. Chapters 1 and 16 in What Do Unions Do? New York, NY: Basic Books, 1984, pp. 3-25, and 246-251. ISBN: 0465091334.
Piore, Michael. "The Future of Unions." In The State of the Unions. Edited by George Strauss, Daniel Gallagher, and Jack Fiorito. Madison, WI: Industrial Relations Research Association, 1991, pp. 387-410.
Osterman, Paul, Thomas Kochan, Richard Locke, and Michael Piore. Chapter 4 in Working in America: A Blueprint for the New Labor Market. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001, pp. 95-130. ISBN: 0262151057.
Unions in the New Labor Market
Fine, Janice. "Building Community Unions." The Nation 272, no. 0001 (January, 2001).
Labor Market Institutions in the New Economcy
Dobbin, Frank, and John Sutton. "The Strength of a Weak State: The Rights Revolution and the Rise of Human Resources Management Divisions." The American Journal of Sociology 104, no. 2 (1998): 441-476.
Supreme Court of the United States. Circuit City Stores, Inc., Petitioner v. Saint Clair Adams, No. 99-1379, March 21, 2001.
Van Wezel Stone, Katherine. "Labor/Employment Law: Mandatory Arbitration of Individual Employment Rights: The Yellow Dog Contract of the 1990s." Denver University Law Review 73, no. 4 (1996): 1017.
Autor, David. "Outsourcing at Will: The Contribution of Unjust Dismissal Doctrine to the Growth of Employment Outsourcing." Journal of Labor Economics 21, no. 1 (January 2003): 1-42. (PDF)
Piore, Michael. "The Reconfiguration of Work and Employment Relations in the United States at the Turn of the Century." Mimeo, Dept. of Economics, MIT, February, 2005.
Osterman, Paul, Thomas Kochan, Richard Locke, and Michael Piore. Chapter 5 in Working in America: A Blueprint for the New Labor Market. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001, pp. 131-148. ISBN: 0262151057.
International Comparison
Auer, Peter, and Sandrine Cazes. Intro, Chapter 3 (Denmark) and Chapter 5 (Japan) in Employment Stability in an Age of Flexibility: Evidence from Industrialized Countries. Geneva, Switzerland: ILO, pp. 59-105, and 159-217. ISBN: 9221127168.
Krueger, Alan, and Robert Solow. Chapter 4: Bertola, Guiseppe, Francine Blau, and Lawrence Kahn. "Comparative Analysis of Labor Market Outcomes: Lessons for the United States from International Long-Run Evidence." In The Roaring Nineties, Can Full Employment Be Sustained? New York: Russell Sage Foundation; New York, NY: Century Foundation Press, 2001, pp. 159-218. ISBN: 0871548178.
Papers of France, Brazil, Chile and the Dominican Republic, from Conference on Labor Market Inspection, January 2005. |