Daniel S. Hamermesh

Publications

REFEREED ARTICLES

“Same-Sex Couples and the Gains to Marriage: The Importance of the Legal Environment, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2021, forthcoming (with. S. Delhommer)

“Racial/Ethnic Differences in Non-Work at Work,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, March 2021 (with M. Burda and K. Genadek).

“Life Satisfaction, Loneliness and Togetherness, with an Application to Covid-19 Lock-downs,” Review of Economics of the Household, December 2020.

“Income, Wages and Household Production Theory,” Economics Letters, 2020 (with J. Biddle).

“Unemployment and Effort at Work,” Economica, July 2020 (with M. Burda and K. Genadek).

“Wages and Hours Laws: What Do We Know? What Can Be Done?” Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, December. 2019 (with C. Brown).

“Labor Supply Elasticities: Overcoming Nonclassical Measurement Error Using More Accurate Hours Data,” Journal of Human Resources, Winter 2019 (with G. Barrett)

“Why Are Professors ‘Poorly Paid?” Economics of Education Review, October 2018.

“The Stress Cost of Children on Moms and Dads,” European Economic Review, October 2018 (with. H. Buddelmeyer and M. Wooden).

“Co-authorship in Economic History and Economics: Are We Any Different?” Explorations in Economic History, July 2018 (with A. Seltzer).

“Theory and Measurement: Emergence, Consolidation and Erosion of a Consensus,” History of Political Economy, Annual Supplement, 2017 (with J. Biddle).

“Does Labor Legislation Benefit Workers? Well-Being after an Hours Reduction,” Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, June 2017 (with D. Kawaguchi and J. Lee).

“Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination,” Economic Journal, August 2016 (with J. Feld and N. Salamanca).

“Long Workweeks and Strange Hours,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, October 2015 (with. E. Stancanelli).

“’Beauty Is the Promise of Happiness’?” European Economic Review, November 2013 (with J. Abrevaya).

“A Gift of Time,” Labour Economics, November 2013 (with D. Kawaguchi and J. Lee).

“Wage Discrimination over the Business Cycle,” IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2013 (with J. Biddle).

“How Do Immigrants Spend Time? The Process of Assimilation,” Journal of Population Economics, April 2013 (with S. Trejo).

“Age, Education and Earnings in the Course of Brazilian Development: Does Composition Matter?” Demographic Research, March 2013 (with E. Amaral, J. Potter and E. Rios-Neto)

“Total Work and Gender: Facts and Possible Explanations,” Journal of Population Economics, January 2013 (with M. Burda and P. Weil).

“Tall or Taller, Pretty or Prettier? Is Discrimination Absolute or Relative?” IZA Journal of Labor Economics, Summer 2012 (Vol. 1 No. 1)

“The Timing of Labor Demand,” Annales d'Économie et de Statistique, 2012 (with A. Cardoso and J. Varejao).

“Charity and Favoritism in the Field: Are Female Economists Nicer (To Each Other)?” Review of Economics and Statistics, January 2012 (with J. Abrevaya).

“Reputation and Earnings: The Roles of Quality and Quantity in Academe,” Economic Inquiry, January 2012, (with G. Pfann).

“Strike Three: Discrimination, Incentives and Evaluation,” American Economic Review, June 2011 (with C. Parsons, J. Sulaeman and M. Yates).

“Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production,” Economics Letters, May 2010, (with M. Burda)

“Incentives, Time Use and BMI: The Roles of Eating, Grazing and Goods,” Economics and Human Biology, March 2010.

“A Structural Model of the Fixed Time Costs of Market Work,” Economics Letters, September 2009, (with S. Donald).

“Two-Sided Learning, with Applications to Labor Turnover and Worker Displacement,” Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, December 2008, (with G. Pfann).

“The Demand for Variety: A Household Production Perspective,” Review of Economics and Statistics, August 2008 (with R. Gronau).

“The Effect of College Curriculum on Earnings: An Affinity Identifier for Non-Ignorable Non-Response Bias,” Journal of Econometrics, June 2008 (with S. Donald).

“Cues for Timing and Coordination: Latitude, Letterman and Longitude,” Journal of Labor Economics, April 2008 (with C. Myers and M. Pocock).

“Direct Estimates of Household Production,” Economics Letters, January 2008.

“The Economics of Workaholism: We Should Not Have Worked on This Paper,” Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, January 2008 (with J. Slemrod).

“Time to Eat: Household Production under Increasing Income Inequality,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, November 2007.

“Stressed Out on Four Continents: Time Crunch or Yuppie Kvetch,” Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2007 (with J. Lee).

“Changing Looks and Changing Discrimination: The Beauty of Economists,” Economics Letters, December 2006.

“What is Discrimination? Gender in the American Economic Association,” American Economic Review, September 2006, (with S. Donald).

“Time vs. Goods: The Value of Measuring Household Production Technologies,” Review of Income and Wealth, March 2006 (with R. Gronau).

“Beauty in the Classroom: Instructors’ Pulchritude and Putative Pedagogical Productivity,” Economics of Education Review, August 2005 (with A. Parker).

“Routine,” European Economic Review, January 2005. Also in D. Hamermesh and G. Pfann, eds., The Economics of Time Use , 2005.

“The Determinants of Econometric Society Fellows Elections,” Econometrica, January 2003 (with P. Schmidt).

“Timing, Togetherness and Time Windfalls,” Journal of Population Economics, November 2002.

“Dress for Success: Does Primping Pay?” Labour Economics, October 2002 (with M. Xin and J. Zhang).

“Tools or Toys? The Impact of High Technology on Scholarly Productivity,” Economic Inquiry, October 2002, (with S. Oster).

“12 Million Hourly Employees Are Missing,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, July 2002.

“How Grievous Was the Biblical Famine?” Economics Letters, February 2002.

"The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction," Journal of Human Resources, Winter 2001.

"The Craft of Labormetrics," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, April 2000.

"Business Success and Businesses' Beauty Capital," Economics Letters, April 2000, (with G. Pfann, J. Biddle and C. Bosman).

“The Demand for Hours of Labor: Direct Evidence from California,” Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2000, (with S. Trejo), (reprinted in J. Addison, Recent Developments in Labor Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007).

"Changing Inequality in Markets for Workplace Amenities," Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1999.

"Policy Equilibria in a Federal System: The Effects of Higher Tax Ceilings for Unemployment Insurance," Journal of Public Economics, November 1999 (with D. Scoones).

"Crime and the Timing of Work," Journal of Urban Economics, March 1999.

“The Timing of Work over Time,” Economic Journal, January 1999.

"Age and Productivity Among Economists," Review of Economics and Statistics, February 1998, (with S. Oster). (Reprinted in Joshua Gans, Publishing Economics: Analyses of the Academic Journal Market in Economics. Elgar, 2000)

"Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination: Lawyers' Looks and Lucre," Journal of Labor Economics, January 1998 (with J. Biddle).

"Turnover and the Dynamics of Labour Demand," Economica, August 1996, (with G. Pfann).

"Labour Demand and the Source of Adjustment Costs," Economic Journal, May 1995.

"Beauty and the Labor Market," American Economic Review, December 1994 (with J. Biddle). (Reprinted as “La belleza y el Mercado de trabajo,” Revista Economía y Desarollo, 2002; in J. Addison, Recent Developments in Labor Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007; in L. Guererro and M. Hecht, The Nonverbal Communication Reader, Waveland Press, 2008).

"Gender Discrimination by Gender: Voting in a Professional Society," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, July 1994 (with A. Dillingham and M. Ferber).

"Hedonic Price Indexes for Personal Computers: Intertemporal and Interspatial Comparisons," Economics Letters, April 1994 (with Z. Griliches).

“A General Model of Dynamic Labor Demand," Review of Economics and Statistics, November 1992.

"Taxes, Fringe Benefits, and Faculty," Review of Economics and Statistics, May 1992 (with S. Woodbury).

"Sleep and the Allocation of Time," Journal of Political Economy, October 1990 (with J. Biddle). (Reprinted in S Zamagni and E. Agliardi, Time in Economic Theory. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003; in J. Addison, Recent Developments in Labor Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007; and in E. Hsu, Sleep: Critical Concepts, Routledge, 2016).

"Labor Demand and the Structure of Adjustment Costs," American Economic Review, September 1989 (reprinted in O. Ashenfelter and K. Hallock, eds., Labor Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, 1995; and in J. Addison, Recent Developments in Labor Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007).

"Why Do Individual Effects Models Perform So Poorly? The Case of Academic Salaries," Southern Economic Journal, July 1989.

"What Do We Know About Worker Displacement in the United States?" Industrial Relations, Winter 1989.

"Plant Closings and the Value of the Firm," Review of Economics and Statistics, November 1988.

"Inflation, Indexation and Wage Dispersion," Economics Letters, December 1987 (with A. Drazen).

"The Costs of Worker Displacement," Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 1987.

"Planned and Unplanned Bequests," Economic Inquiry, January 1987 (with P. Menchik).

"Inflation and Labour Market Adjustment," Economica, February 1986.

"Expectations, Life Expectancy and Economic Behavior," Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1985.

“Food Stamps as Money and Income: The Macroeconomics of a Transfer Program,” Journal of Political Economy, January 1985 (with J. Johannes).

"Life Cycle Effects on Consumption and Retirement," Journal of Labor Economics, July 1984.

"Consumption During Retirement: The Missing Link in the Life Cycle," Review of Economics and Statistics, February 1984.

"Does Perception of Life Expectancy Reflect Health Knowledge?" American Journal of Public Health, August 1983, (with F. Hamermesh).

"Scholarship, Citations and Salaries," Southern Economic Journal, October 1982, (with G. Johnson and B. Weisbrod).

"Minimum Wages and the Demand for Labor," Economic Inquiry, July 1982.

"Social Insurance and Consumption: An Empirical Inquiry," American Economic Review, March 1982.

“Labor Market Competition Among Youths, White Women and Others," Review of Economics and Statistics, August 1981 (with J. Grant).

"Factor Market Dynamics and the Incidence of Taxes and Subsidies," Quarterly Journal of Economics, December 1980.

"Unemployment Insurance and Labor Supply," International Economic Review, October 1980.

"Econometric Studies of Labor-Labor Substitution and their Implications for Policy," Journal of Human Resources, Fall 1979 (with J. Grant).

"Entitlement Effects, Unemployment Insurance and Employment Decisions," Economic Inquiry, July 1979.

"New Evidence on the Incidence of the Payroll Tax," Southern Economic Journal, April 1979, and "reply." Ibid., April 1984.

"Estimating Fiscal Substitution by Public Service Employment Programs," Journal of Human Resources, Fall 1978, (with M. Borus); reprinted in Evaluation Studies Review, 1980.

"A Note on Income and Substitution Effects in Search Unemployment," Economic Journal, June 1977.

"Econometric Studies of Labor Demand and their Application to Policy Analysis," Journal of Human Resources, Fall 1976.

"Economic Considerations for Trends and Policies in Job Satisfaction," Industrial Relations, February 1976.

"Interdependence in the Labor Market," Economica, November 1975.

"The Economics of Black Suicide," Southern Economic Journal, October 1974. "Economic Formulae for Manpower Revenue Sharing,

" Industrial and Labor Relations Review, July 1974, (with H. Pitcher).

"An Economic Theory of Suicide," Journal of Political Economy, January/February 1974, (with N. Soss); in Mercurio as "Una Teoria Economica del Suicidia."

"Who Wins in Wage Bargaining?" Industrial and Labor Relations Review, July 1973; also in I.W. Zartman, ed., The 50 Percent Solution (Doubleday, 1976), and J. Baderschneider et. al., eds., The Collective Bargaining Process, 1983; "Reply," Ibid, July 1975.

"Price and Quantity Adjustment in Factor Markets," Western Economic Journal, March 1973.

"Market Power and Wage Inflation," Southern Economic Journal, October 1972; also in Mercurio, September 1973, as "Variazioni dei Salarie e Potere di Mercato."

"The Labor Market Under Central Planning: The Case of Hungary," Oxford Economic Papers, July 1972, (with R. Portes).

"White-Collar Unions, Blue-Collar Unions and Wages in Manufacturing," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, January 1971.

"Manpower Programs in a Local Labor Market: A Theoretical Note," American Economic Review, September 1970, (with R. Goldfarb).

"Wage Bargains, Threshold Effects and the Phillips Curve," Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1970, and "Reply," Ibid, May 1972.

"Spectral Analysis of the Relation Between Gross Employment Changes and Output Changes, 1958-1966," Review of Economics and Statistics, February 1969.

"White-Collar Unionism: A Comment," Industrial Relations, Fall 1966.

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS

Spending Time: The Most Valuable Resource. 2019. Oxford University Press. (Translations in Japanese, Korean, Turkish and Vietnamese).

Demand for Labor: The Neglected Side of the Market, 2017. Oxford University Press.

Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful. Princeton University Press, 2011. (Translations in Chinese simplex, Chinese traditional, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Brazilian Portuguese).

The Economics of Time Use, edited volume, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005 (with Gerard Pfann).

Economics Is Everywhere, McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2004; 2nd edition 2006; Worth Publishers, 3 rd edition, 2010 (also in Mandarin, Truth and Wisdom Press, 2011); 4th edition, 2012, 5th edition, 2014.

Help or Hindrance? The Economic Implications of Immigration for African-Americans, edited volume: Russell Sage, 1998 (with Frank Bean).

Workdays, Workhours, and Work Schedules: Evidence for the United States and Germany, Kalamazoo, MI: The W.E. Upjohn Institute, 1996

Labor Demand, Princeton University Press, 1993. In Spanish, La Demanda de Trabajo, Spanish Ministry of Labor, 1995.

Dynamic Labor Demand and Adjustment Costs, Elgar, 1992, edited volume (with G. Galeazzi).

The Economics of Work and Pay, 3rd edition, New York: Harper and Row, 1984, 4th edition, 1988; 5th edition, 1993 (with A. Rees); 6th edition, 1996 (with R. Filer). In Spanish, Economia del Trabajo y los Salarios, 1985.

Unemployment Insurance and the Older American, The W.E. Upjohn Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan 1980.

Study of the Net Employment Effects of Public Service Employment: Econometric Analyses, National Commission for Manpower Policy, (with M. Borus), 1978.

Jobless Pay and the Economy, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977. (Part reprinted in L. Reynolds et. al., Readings in Labor Economics and Labor Relations, 1978, 1982).

Labor in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors, edited volume, Princeton University Press, 1975, and "The Effect of Government Ownership on Union Wages," in this volume.

Economic Aspects of Manpower Training Programs, Lexington, Massachusetts: D. C. Heath and Company, 1971.

Manpower Policy in the Economy, General Learning Press, 1971.

NON-REFEREED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

“H. Gregg Lewis: Perhaps the Father of Modern Labor Economics,” in Robert Cord., ed., The Palgrave Companion to Chicago Economics. London: Macmillan, 2021.

“Loneliness, Happiness and Love in Times of Covid-19,” Vox, Nov. 19, 2020, http://www.voxeu.org/

“Measuring Success in Economics,” in Ugo Panizza and Sebastian Galiani, eds., Publishing and Measuring Success in Economics. CEPR Press, 2020.

“Ageing and Productivity; Economists and Others,” in Ugo Panizza and Sebastian Galiani, eds., Publishing in Economics, CEPR Press, 2020.

“50 Years of Teaching Introductory Economics,” Journal of Economic Education, Summer 2019.

“How Prices, Incomes and Discrimination Affect the Ways We Use Time,” Vox, Jan. 26, 2019, http://www.voxeu.org/

“Time Use—Economic Approaches,” Current Opinion in Psychology, April 2018.

“Citations in Economics: Measurement, Uses and Impacts,” Journal of Economic Literature, March 2018.

“Replication in Labor Economics: Evidence from Data, and What It Suggests,” American Economic Review, May 2017.

“Age, Cohort and Co-Authorship,” in M. Szenberg and L. Ramrattan, Collaborative Research in Economics: The Wisdom of Working Together. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

“The Labor Market in the US, 2000-2016,” IZA World of Labor, 2017 (revised 2019).

“What’s to Know about Time Use,” Journal of Economic Surveys, 2016.

“Measuring Success in Economics,” Vox, Dec. 14, 2015. http:/www/voxeu.org/

“[Get] Credit Where It’s Due,” CSWEP Newsletter, Fall 2015.

“Kids and Stress,” Vox, July 16, 2015. http://www.voxeu.org/

“Americans Work Long, and at Strange Times,” Vox, Sept. 29, 2014. http://www.voxeu.org/

“Not Enough Time?” American Economist, Sept. 2014.

“Does Labor Cost Affect Companies’ Labor Demand?” IZA World of Labor, 2014, updated 2021.

“The Time of Our Lives,” Insights (University of Melbourne), April 2014.

“Los Horarios Españoles (otra vez),” Nada Es Gratis (http://www.fedeablogs.net/economia/), March 6, 2014.

“Cyclical Variation in Labor Hours and Productivity Using the ATUS,” American Economic Review, May 2013 (with M. Burda and J. Stewart)

“President Obama and the Minimum Wage—A Politico-economic Bargain,” Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy, March/April 2013.

“Six Decades of Top Economics Publishing: Who and How?” Journal of Economic Literature, March 2013.

“Age and Productivity: Economists and Others,” Vox, February 20, 2013. http://www.voxeu.org/

“Aggregate Impacts of a Gift of Time,” American Economic Review, May 2012 (with D. Kawaguchi and J. Lee)

“Time Use” NBER Reporter, Spring 2012.

“I Have Seen the Past—and It Doesn’t Work,” Chronicle of Higher Education, September 2, 2011.

“Discrimination and Development: The Case of Beauty in China,” in Gordon Liu et al, eds., Investing in Human Capital for Economic Development in China, World Scientific Publishers, 2010.

“Teaching Labor Economics,” in Simon Bowmaker, ed., The Heart of Teaching Economics: Lessons from Leading Minds. Edward Elgar, 2010.

"It's Time to 'Do Economics' with Time-Use Data," Social Indicators Research, August 2009.

“Fun with Matched Firm-Employee Data: Progress and Road Maps,” Labour Economics, June 2008.

“The Distribution of Total Work in the EU and USA,” in Tito Boeri et al, Working Hours and Job Sharing in the EU and USA: Are Europeans Lazy? Or Americans Crazy? Oxford University Press, 2008 (with M. Burda and P. Weil).

“The Economics of Time Use,” in Jean Kimmel, ed., How Do We Spend Our Time? Evidence from the American Time Use Survey. Kalamazoo: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2008.

“Viewpoint: Replication in Economics,” Canadian Journal of Economics, August 2007.

“The Value of Peripatetic Economists: A Sesqui-Difference Evaluation of Bob Gregory,” Economic Record, June 2006.

“Overtime Laws and the Margins of Work Timing,” in Philippe Askenazy, Damien Carton, Frédéric de Coninck and Michel Gollac, eds., Organisation et Intensité du Travail. Paris: Octares, 2006.

“Data Watch: The American Time Use Survey,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2005 (with Harley Frazis and Jay Stewart)

“An Old Male Economist’s Advice to Young Female Economists,” CSWEP Bulletin, Winter 2005.

“Maximizing the Substance in the Soundbite: A Media Guide for Economists,” Journal of Economic Education, October 2004.

“Subjective Outcomes in Economics,” Southern Economic Journal, July 2004.

“Labor Demand in Latin America and The Caribbean: What Does it Tell Us?” in J. Heckman and C. Pages-Serra, Law & Employment: Lessons From Latin America and The Caribbean, Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2004.

"Timing, Togetherness and Time Windfalls," Journal of Population Economics, November 2002. (Reprinted in K. Zimmermann and M. Vogler, eds., Family, Household and Work, Springer, 2003)

“International Labor Economics,” Journal of Labor Economics, October 2002.

“Micro Principles Teaching Tricks,” American Economic Review, May 2002.

“Quite Good—For Now: The Economic Status of the Profession,” Academe, March/April 2002.

"Demand for Labor," in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Pergamon Press, 2001.

“Labor Demand and a Wage-tax Trade-off,” in N. Gruen, ed. Rebuilding the Safety Net. Sydney: Business Council of Australia, 2000.

"Changing Inequality of Injuries and Work Time," Monthly Labor Review, October 1999. (Reprinted in IAIABC Journal, 2000, Vol. 37, No. 1).

"Unemployment Insurance and Household Welfare: Microeconomic Evidence, 1980-93," Research in Employment Policy, 1998 (with D. Slesnick).

"LEEping Into The Future of Labor Economics: The Research Potential of Linking Employer and Employee Data," Labour Economics, March 1999.

“When We Work,” American Economic Review, May 1998.

“Immigration and the Quality of Jobs,” in D. Hamermesh and F. Bean, eds., Help or Hindrance? The Economic Implications of Immigration for African-Americans, Russell Sage, 1998.

"Some Thoughts on Replications and Reviews," Labour Economics, Spring 1997.

"Adjustment Costs in Factor Demand," Journal of Economic Literature, September 1996 (with G. Pfann).

"The Timing of Work: Evidence from the U.S. and Germany," Konjunkturpolitik, 1996.

"Doing Applied Economics: Normative and Positive Aspects," in S. Medema and W. Samuels, eds., Foundations of Research in Economics: How Do Economists Do Economics? Edward Elgar Press, 1996.

"Not So Bad: The Economic Status of the Profession," Academe, March/April 1996.

"Job Turnover and Labor Turnover: A Taxonomy of Employment Dynamics," Annales d'Économie et de Statistique, January/June 1996 (with W. Hassink and J. van Ours).

"Labour Demand: Status and Prospects," in E. K. Grant et al, eds., Aspects of Labour-Market Behavior, University of Toronto Press, 1995.

"Nonprice Rationing of Services, with Applications to Refereeing and Medicine," Research in Labor Economics, 1995.

"What a Wonderful World This Would Be: Comment on Card and Krueger," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, July 1995.

"A Ray of Sunshine? The Economic Status of the Profession," Academe, March/April 1995.

"Policy Transferability and Hysteresis: Daily and Weekly Hours in the BRD and the US," in F. Buttler et al, eds., Institutional Frameworks and Labor Market Performance: Comparative Views on the US and German Economies, Routledge, 1995.

"Plus Ça Change: The Economic Status of the Profession," Academe, March/April 1994.

"Facts and Myths About Refereeing," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1994, reprinted in Joshua Gans, Publishing Economics: Analyses of the Academic Journal Market in Economics. Elgar, 2000.

"Employment Protection: Theoretical Implications and Some U.S. Evidence," in C. Buechtemann, ed. Employment Security and Labor Market Behavior, Cornell University, ILR Press, 1993.

"Professional Etiquette for the Mature Economist," American Economic Review, May 1993.

"Treading Water: The Economic Status of the Profession," Academe, March/April 1993.

"Spatial and Temporal Aggregation in the Dynamics of Labor Demand," in J. van Ours, G. Pfann and G. Ridder, eds. Labor Demand and Equilibrium Wage Formation, North-Holland, 1993.

"Diversity within Adversity: The Economic Status of the Profession," Academe, March/April 1992.

"A Young Economist's Guide to Professional Etiquette," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1992, reprinted as, "Consigli dagli USA ai Giovani Ricercatori," in La Questione Agraria, No. 51, 1993, and in Joshua Gans, Publishing Economics: Analyses of the Academic Journal Market in Economics. Elgar, 2000.

"The Effects of Free Trade on the North American Labor Market," in C. Reynolds, ed. Dynamics of North American Trade and Investment, Stanford University Press, 1991 (with M. Gunderson).

"Data Difficulties in Labor Economics," in E. Berndt and J. Triplett, eds., Fifty Years of Economic Measurement, University of Chicago Press, 1991.

"Wage Concessions, Plant Shut-downs, and the Demand for Labor," in J. Addison, ed. Job Displacement: Consequences and Implications for Policy, Wayne State University Press, 1991.

"Aggregate Employment Dynamics and Lumpy Adjustment Costs," Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, Fall 1990.

"Compensating Wage Differentials and the Duration of Wage Loss," Journal of Labor Economics, January 1990 (with J. Wolfe).

"Shirking or Productive Schmoozing: Wages and the Allocation of Time at Work," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, January, 1990.

"Unemployment Insurance, Short-time Compensation and Labor Demand," Research in Labor Economics, 1990, also in U.S. Department of Labor, National Commission on Workforce Quality and Labor Market Efficiency, Investing in People, 1989.

"Outside Markets Inside Academe," Footnotes, Fall 1989.

"Salaries: Disciplinary Differences and Rank Injustices," Academe, May/June 1988.

"The Demand for Workers and Hours and the Effects of Job Security Policies: Theory and Evidence," in Robert Hart, ed., Employment, Unemployment and Labor Utilization, Unwin Hyman, 1988.

"Compensation for Displaced Workers - Why, How Much, How?" in P. Chinloy and E. Stromsdorfer, eds., Labor Adjustment in the Pacific Basin, Kluwer-Nijhoff , 1987 (with R. Goldfarb and J. Cordes).

"Overtime Hours and the Demand for Labour, Workers and Hours," in M. Gunderson, ed., Proceedings of a Symposium on Hours of Work and Overtime, Ontario Task Force on Hours of Work and Overtime, 1987.

"Payroll Taxes," in J. Eatwell and P. Newman, The New Palgrave, 1987.

"Social Security as Longevity Insurance," in P. Liu, ed., Economic Development and Social Welfare in Taiwan, Academia Sinica, 1987.

"The Demand for Labor in the Long Run," in O. Ashenfelter and R. Layard, eds., Handbook of Labor Economics, NorthHolland Press, 1986. Reprinted in Manual de Economia de Trabajo, Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social, Spain, 1991.

"Incentives for the Homogenization of Time Use," in B. Balassa and H. Giersch, eds., Economic Incentives, Macmillan, 1986.

"Permitting Professors to Retain Tenure Past Age 70 Could Threaten the System," Chronicle of Higher Education, June 25, 1986.

"Substitution Between Different Categories of Labour, Relative Wages and Youth Unemployment," OECD Economic Studies, Autumn 1985.

"The Costs of Increased Life Expectancy," Challenge, September 1984.

"The Variable Employment Elasticity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence," Research in Labor Economics, 1984 (with A. Drazen and N. Obst).

"New Measures of Labor Costs," in J. Triplett, ed., The Measurement of Labor Cost, University of Chicago Press, 1983.

"What is an Appropriate Benefit Level for the Unemployed?" in P. Sommers ed., Welfare Reform: Goals and Realities, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1982.

"The Interaction Between Research and Policy: The Case of Unemployment Insurance," American Economic Review, May 1982.

“Goals and Effects of Social Insurance,” NBER Reporter, Fall 1981

"Unemployment Insurance and Consumption," in National Commission on Unemployment Compensation, Studies and Research, 1980.

"Employment Demand, the Minimum Wage and Labor Costs," in Minimum Wage Study Commission, Report, Volume V, 1981.

"Taxes, Transfers and the NAIRU," in L. Meyer, The Supply-Side Effects of Economic Policy, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 1981; reprinted with changes in R. Haveman and J. Margolis, eds., Public Expenditures and Policy Analysis, 3rd. edition, 1983.

"Income Maintenance and Full Employment," in Paul Burgess, ed., High Unemployment: Problems and Solutions, Arizona State University Press, 1980.

"Substitution and Labor Market Policy," Challenge, January 1980.

"Unemployment Insurance, the Workweek and Short-time Compensation," in National Commission for Employment Policy, Work Time and Employment, Special Report No. 28, 1979.

"Do Employers Substitute Workers of Different Ages, Races and Sexes, and What Does This Imply for Labor Market Policy?" in National Commission for Employment Policy, Expanding Employment Opportunities for Disadvantaged Youth: Sponsored Research, Special Report No. 37, 1979.

"Subsidies for Jobs in the Private Sector," in J. Palmer, ed., Creating Jobs: Public Employment Programs and Wage Subsidies, The Brookings Institution, 1978.

"Unemployment Insurance and Unemployment in the United States," in H. Grubel and M. Walker, eds., Unemployment Insurance: Global Evidence of its Effects on Unemployment, The Fraser Institute, 1978.

"Economic Aspects of Job Satisfaction," in O. Ashenfelter and W. Oates, eds., Essays in Labor Market Analysis, J. Wiley & Sons, 1977. "Prospects for Integrating Unemployment Insurance and Employment Policy," Labor Law Journal, August 1977.

“Advanced Applications of the Theory of the Bar-Chart,” Journal of Irreproducible Results, Fall 197 (under the name Picrocole Rashcalf, with E. Stromsdorfer).)

"Potential Problems in Human Capital Theory," Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association, 1973.

"The Secondary Effects of Manpower Programs," in M. Borus, ed., Evaluating the Impact of Manpower Programs, Lexington, Massachusetts: D. C. Heath and Company, 1972; also in Economic and Business Bulletin, Summer 1972.

"A Disaggregative Econometric Model of Gross Changes in Employment," Yale Economic Essays, Fall 1969.

INVITED COMMENTS

“Comment on Peri et al, “The Wage Gap in the Transition from School to Work,” in Tito Boeri, Eleonora Patacchini and Giovanni Peri, eds., Unexplored Dimensions of Discrimination. Oxford University Press, 2015

“Comment on Pierce, “Recent Trends in Compensation Inequality,” in K. Abraham, J. Spletzer and M. Harper, eds., Labor in the New Economy, University of Chicago Press, 2011.

“General Comment,” in J. Siegfried, Better Living Through Economics. Harvard University Press, 2010.

“A (Very Slightly Critical) Encomium to the SOEP,” Vierteljahresheft zur Wirtschaftsforschung [Quarterly Journal of Economic Research], June 2008.

"Comment on Stafford, `Early Education of Children by Families and Schooling,'" in P. Menchik, ed., Household and Family Economics, Kluwer, 1996.

"Comment on Brown and Medoff, 'Employer Size, Pay, and the Ability to Pay in the Public Sector,'" in R. Freeman and C. Ichniowski, eds., When Public Sector Workers Unionize, University of Chicago Press, 1988.

"Comments: The American Labour Market," in Morley Gunderson et al, eds., Unemployment: International Perspectives, University of Toronto Press, 1987.

"Comment on Borjas," in R. Freeman and H. Holzer, eds., The Black Youth Employment Crisis, University of Chicago Press, 1986.

"Comment on Morgan," in M. Moon, ed. Economic Transfers in the United States, University of Chicago Press, 1984.

"Comment on F. Brechling, 'Layoffs and Unemployment Insurance,'" in S. Rosen, ed., Studies in Labor Markets, University of Chicago Press, 1981.

"Comment on Stafford and Kwoka," in J. Siegfried, ed., The Economics of Firm Size, Market Structure and Social Performance, Washington, FTC, 1980.

"Comment on Mott and Macke, 'The Impact of Maternal Characteristics and Significant Life Events on the Work Orientation of Adolescent Women'," in Research in Labor Economics, 1980.

"Comment on Lampman, "Labor Supply and Social Welfare Benefits in the United States," in National Commission on Employment and Unemployment Statistics, Counting the Labor Force, Appendix, Volume 1, 1980.

"Comment on Bishop and Haveman," in National Commission for Employment Policy, Increasing Job Opportunities in the Private Sector, Special Report No. 29, 1979.

"Comment on Two Papers on Manpower Training," in F. Bloch, ed., Evaluating Manpower Training Programs, Greenwich, Connecticut, JAI Press, 1979.

"Comment on Estimates of State New Hire Rates," in U.S. Employment Service, Proceedings of the Employment Service Potential Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1978.

“Comment on Dunlop, “Policy Decisions and Research in Economics and Industrial Relations,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, October 1977 (with R. Ehrenberg and G. Johnson).

"Discussion of Charles McLure, 'Shifting of the Tax for Unemployment Insurance'," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, July 1977.

"Comment on Three Empirical Studies of Bargaining," Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association, 1977.

"Comment on Finis Welch, ' Minimum Wage Legislation in the United States'," in O. Ashenfelter, and J. Blum, eds., Evaluating the Impact of Labor Market Programs, Princeton University, Industrial Relations Section, 1976.

BOOK REVIEWS

Economics Rules by Dani Rodrik. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, August 2017.

The Making of an Economist Redux by David Colander, Journal of Economic Literature, June 2008.

Economic Events, Ideas and Policies, George Perry and James Tobin, in Journal of Economic Literature, March 2002.

A Guide for the Young Economist, William Thomson, in Southern Economic Journal, October 2001.

Rewarding Work, Edmund Phelps, in Economica, February 1999.

The Costs of Worker Dislocation, Louis Jacobson et al, in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, January 1995.

The Overworked American, Juliet Schor, in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, January 1993.

Working Time and Employment, Robert Hart, in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, January 1989.

The Funding Crisis in State Unemployment Insurance, Wayne Vroman, in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, July 1988.

How to Beat Unemployment, Richard Layard, in Journal of Economic Literature, March 1988.

Workers, Jobs and Inflation, Martin Baily, in Southern Economic Journal, October 1983.

Jobs for Disadvantaged Workers, Robert Haveman and John Palmer, in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, July 1983.

Unemployment in Western Countries, Edmond Malinvaud and Jean-Paul Fitoussi, in Journal of Comparative Economics, 1982.

The Federal Supplemental Benefits Program, Walter Corson and Walter Nicholson, in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, July 1982.

The Market for Labor, John Addison and Stanley Siebert, in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, April 1980.

Research in Labor Economics, Ronald Ehrenberg, in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, April 1978.

Union Growth and the Business Cycle, George Bain and Farouk Elsheikh, in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, October 1977.

Relative Wage Differentials in Canadian Industries, Pradeep Kumar, in Journal of Business, 1976.

Econometric Wage and Price Models, A. Askin and J. Kraft, in Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1975.

Manpower Programs in the Policy Mix, Lloyd Ulman, in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, January 1974.

Do Unions Cause Inflation? Dudley Jackson et al, in Monthly Labor Review, July 1973.

Fringe Benefits and Overtime Behavior, Ronald Ehrenberg, in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, January 1973.

Economic Statistics and Econometrics, Edward Kane, in Journal of Business, July 1969

Grants and Contracts

Department of Agriculture, “Goods, Grazing and Girth,” 2006-10.

Thyssen Foundation, “Workshop on Nonmarket Time in Economics”, 2006-07.

Volkswagen Foundation, “Workshop on the Well-Being of the Elderly” 2005-06.

Department of Agriculture, “How Americans Eat: Time and Goods Inputs Into Meals,” 2004-06.

Department of HHS, Social Security Administration, “Time Use of Older Americans,” 2004-05.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, “An Economic Approach to the ‘Time Crunch,’” 2002-04.

Andrew Mellon Foundation, “Does College Major Matter?” 2002-05.

National Science Foundation, Grant No. SBR-9904699, "Timing and Time Use," 1999-2003.

United States Israel Bi-National Science Foundation, "The Allocation of Time: What, When and With Whom," 1999- 2002.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, "Implications of the Changing Timing of Work," 1999-2001.

Russell Sage Foundation, Grant No. 85-97-03, "The Changing Distribution of Workplace Disamenities" 1996-99.

National Science Foundation, Grant No. SBR-9422429, "The Timing of Work: A Research Agenda," 1995-99.

Employment Policy Institute, "The Effects of Raising the Tax Base for Unemployment Insurance," 1995-96.

Advisory Council on Unemployment Compensation, "The Adequacy of Unemployment Benefits," 1995-96.

W.E. Upjohn Institute, Grant No. 93-28, "New Dimensions of Work Time," 1993-95.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, "Labor Demand," 1990-91.

National Science Foundation, Grant No. SES-8821399 "Discrete Adjustment of Labor Demand," 1989-91.

Department of Labor, Contract No. 99-9-4767-75-020-04, "Experience Rating and Labor Demand," 1989.

National Science Foundation, Grant No. SES-8408206, "Microeconomic Studies of Labor Demand," 1984-86.

University of Wisconsin, Institute for Research on Poverty, "Worker Displacement," 1983-84.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, "Studies of Wage Dynamics," 1982-83.

National Science Foundation, Grant No. DAR-8008458, "Consumption, Retirement, and Changing Life Expectancy," 1980-82.

Minimum Wage Study Commission, Contract No. J-9-M-0-0078, "Measures of Labor Costs," 1980-81.

National Commission on Manpower Policy, Purchase Order No. 99-9-2264-5-36, "Labor Market Substitution," 1979.

W.E. Upjohn Institute, Grant No. 78-04-10, "Unemployment Insurance and the Older American," 1978-80.

National Commission on Unemployment Compensation, Grant No. 99-9-826-29-5, "Unemployment Insurance and Consumption," 1978-80.

Department of HEW, Social Security Administration, Grant No. 10-P90313/5-a, "Two Studies in the Shifting of Taxes on Labor," 1976-78.

National Commission on Employment Policy, "Jobless Pay," 1975-77.

Department of Labor, Contract No. DL 74-52, "The Economics of Job Satisfaction," 1973-74.

Department of Labor, Grant No. 91-34-72-51, "The Optimal Timing of Training Subsidies," 1971-73.

Professional Societies

American Economic Association.

Society of Labor Economists.

European Association of Labor Economists

Royal Economic Society

Courses Taught

Microeconomic Principles

Economics of Labor (All Levels)

Economics of Life

Undergraduate Statistics

Undergraduate Econometrics

Macroeconomic Principles

Intermediate Microeconomics

Intermediate Macroeconomics

Applied Econometrics

Graduate Production Theory.

Educational Administration

Director, Center for Applied Research in Economics, University of Texas at Austin, 1993-98.

Chair, Committee Z (Economic Status of the Profession), American Association of University Professors, 1991-96; 2001-02.

Chairperson, Department of Economics, Michigan State University, 1984-88.

Director of Graduate Programs in Economics, Michigan State University, 1976-80.

Government and Related Service

IZA Network Coordinator and Editor-in-Chief IZA World of Labor, 2016-2021.

Member, Board of Trustees, ΟΔΕ, 2014-18.

Member, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Technical Advisory Committee, 2012-2015.

Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee, and Member, ex officio, Board of Trustees, German Institute for Economic Research, (DIW), 2003-2009.

Member, Panel on Design of Nonmarket Accounts, National Academy of Sciences, 2002-04.

Member, Advisory Board, German Socioeconomic Panel, 1998-2004; chair, 2000-04.

Member, Committee on Attracting Science and Mathematics Ph.D.s to Secondary School Teaching, National Academy of Sciences, 1999-2000.

Member, Committee on Methods of Forecasting Demand and Supply of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers, National Academy of Sciences, 1997-99.

Member, Advisory Board, Employment Policy Institute, 1997-2002.

Consultant, Interamerican Development Bank, 1997-2000.

Consultant, World Bank, 1990-94. Consultant, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 1983-85.

Member, Full Employment Advisory Committee, Michigan Department of Labor, 1980-82.

Member, Technical Advisory Board, National Commission on Unemployment Compensation, 1978-80.

Director, Office of Research-ASPER, U.S. Department of Labor, 1974-75.

Keynote Speeches and Endowed Lectures

Keynote Lecture, Conference on the Economics of Sleep, Bonn, Oct. 2021.

Keynote Lecture, German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) Annual Meeting, Halle, Sept. 2019.

Keynote Lecture, World Bank Human Development Forum, Washington, June 2019.

Adam Smith Distinguished Speaker Lecture, University of Glasgow, June 2019.

Keynote Lecture, Belgian Day of Labor Economics, Maastricht, May 2019.

Speech, Münchener-Seminare, May 2019.

Keynote Lecture, Perspectives on (Un)-employment, University of Nuremberg, January 2019.

Keynote Lecture, Consumer Protection Economics Symposium, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, Dec. 2018.

AEA—CTREE, San Antonio, May 2018

World Bank Conference on Jobs and Development, Bogotá, May 2018.

CEPR Conference on Discrimination in the Labor Market, Bern, Sept. 2017.

H.O. Hartley Lectures, Humboldt University Berlin, Oct. 2016.

Goldsmith Lecture, Australian National University, Sept. 2016.

Lamont Lecture, Amherst College, April 2016.

SKI-Note Lecture, Alp(ine-Pop(ulation) Conference, Ollon sur Villars, Switzerland, Jan. 2016.

Plenary Lecture, History of Economics Society Annual Meeting, June 2015.

Martin C. Speichler Endowed Lecture, IUPUI, April 2015.

Willis Group Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Houston-Victoria, Nov. 2014.

Endowed Lecture, University Speaker Series, South Dakota State University, Sept. 2014.

Keynote Lecture, Conference on Time Use, National Institute for Demographic Studies, Paris, May 2014.

Inaugural Lecture, Royal Holloway University of London, Jan. 2014.

Steine Lecture, Vanderbilt University, Sept. 2013.

Downing Lecture, Melbourne University, Aug. 2013.

Keynote Speech, Northwest England Ph.D. Conference, May 2013.

Keynote Lecture, Potsdam Ph.D. Workshop in Empirical Economics, March 2013.

Principal Speech, Festival dell’Economia, Trento, Italy, June 2011.

Keynote Speech, Ruhr Graduate School Doctoral Conference in Economics, Feb. 2011.

Keynote Lecture, Workshop in Labour Economics, University of Mainz, Febr. 2011.

Plenary Speaker, Economics Teaching Workshop, Wrightsville Beach, NC, Oct. 2010.

Humboldt Lecture, Humboldt University Berlin, July 2010.

Inaugural Lecture, Maastricht University, April 2010.

Keynote Speech, ATUS Research Conference, June 2009.

Joe Tiao Lecturer, Kansas State University, April 2009.

Athenaeum Lecturer, ClaremontMcKenna College, March 2009.

Keynote Address, International Association for Time Use Research, Oct. 2007.

Keynote Address, New Zealand Association of Economists, June 2007.

Van Dyck Lecturer, Franklin and Marshall College, Nov. 2006.

Keynote Address, Conference on the Analysis of Firms and Employees, Nuremberg, Germany, Sept. 2006.

Grossman Lecturer, Colby College, April 2006.

Georgescu-Roegen Lecturer, University of the South, March 2006.

Keynote Address, Work Pensions and Economic Study Group Conference, York, England, Summer 2005.

Keynote Address, Chinese Economic Society, Chongqing, China, Summer 2005.

Hightower Lecturer, Emory University, April 2005.

Keynote Address, National Council on Economic Education, Little Rock, Fall 2004.

Invited Address, Aarhus School of Business, Denmark, Spring 2004.

Honors Convocation Address, University of Texas, College of Liberal Arts, Spring 2004.

Association Lecture, Southern Economic Association, San Antonio, Fall 2003.

Hooker Distinguished Professor, McMaster University, Canada, Spring 2003.

Keynote Address, 10th Anniversary Celebration, New Economic School, Moscow, Dec. 2002.

Keynote Address, Labor Markets in Transition and Developing Countries, San Jose, Costa Rica, April 2002.

Presidential Address, Society of Labor Economists, Austin, Spring 2001.

Keynote Address, European Society of Population Economics, Bonn, Summer 2000.

Keynote Address, NSF-World Bank Conference on Linked Employer-Employee Data, Washington, Spring 1998.

Erickson Lecture, Southwest Texas State University, Spring 1998.

University Forum Distinguished Speaker, University of Southern Mississippi, Spring 1998.

Keynote Address, European Association of Labor Economists, El Escorial, Spain, Fall 1991.

Editorial Service

Advisory Board, Research in Labor Economics, 2011-.

International Editorial Board, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011-.

Editorial Board, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1999-2004; Associate Editor, 2004-11.

Associate Editor, European Economic Review, 2003-2005.

Associate Editor, Labour Economics, 1991-96, 2000- ; Co-Editor, 1996-2000.

Editor, Journal of Population Economics, 2001-04.

Co-Editor, Economics Letters, 1994-98.

Board of Editors, Journal of Economic Integration 1994-2002.

Board of Editors, Labour, 1991-96.

Board of Editors, American Economic Review, 1990-94.

Editorial Board, Journal of Economics and Business, 1983-86.

Editorial Board, Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, 1979-89.

Awards

John R. Commons Award, International OΔΕ (Economics Honor Society), 2014 (awarded biennially).

Jacob Mincer Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Field of Labor Economics, Society of Labor Economists, 2013 (awarded biennially).

IZA Prize in Labor Economics, 2013.

Professor of Excellence, University of Texas at Austin, 2012.

Humboldt Foundation Research Prize, 2011.

University of Texas President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award, 2007-08.

Texas Blazers, Faculty Excellence Award, 2007.

American Economic Association, Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, 2003-06.

Fellow, Society of Labor Economists, elected 2003.

American Economic Association, Committee on Economic Education, 2000-06.

Society of Labor Economists, President, 2000-01; 1st Vice-President, 1999-2000; 2nd Vice-President, 1998-99.

Research Fellow, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit IZA), 1998- ; Program Director, 2001- 2008; Research Director, 2008-2009.

Fellow, Econometric Society, elected 1996.

Outstanding Professor Award, 1995-96, University of Texas, Department of Economics.

Outstanding Teacher of Freshmen, 1996, University of Texas Freshman Honor Societies ΦΕΣ and ΑΛΔ.

Economics Advisory Panel, Natl. Science Foundation., 1995-97.

American Economic Association, Nominating Committee, 1996.

University of Texas Parents' Association Centennial Teaching Fellow, 1995-96.

Michigan State University, Distinguished Faculty Award, 1992.

Member, National Academy of Social Insurance, 1990- .

Program Committee, Econometric Society, 1989 Summer Meetings.

Best Economic Inquiry article, 1987.

Midwest Economics Association, President, 1988-89; 2nd Vice-President, 1982-83.

WHO'S WHO IN ECONOMICS, all editions.

WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA, editions since 1982-83.

Member, Conference on Income and Wealth, 1980- Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1980- .

Ford Dissertation Fellow, 1967-1968.

Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1965-1966.

Phi Beta Kappa.