Graduate Programs in the Life Sciences

Books

• Mobility and Inequality:  Frontiers of Research from Sociology and Economics, co-edited with David Grusky and Stephen Morgan (Stanford University Press, 2005)
• Monitoring International Labor Standards, co-authored with other members of a National Research Council panel (The National Academies Press, 2004)
• Pathways Out of Poverty, co-edited with Guy Pfeffermann
  (Kluwer, 2003).
• Distribution and Development: A New Look at the Developing World
  (Russell Sage Foundation and MIT Press, 2001)

Articles and Chapters

• Earning and Employment Dynamics for Africans in Post-Apartheid South Africa:  A Panel Study of KwaZulu-Natal, with Paul Cichello and Murray Leibbrandt, Journal of African Economies, June 2005.
• A Welfare Economic Analysis of Labor Market Policies in the Harris-Todaro Model, Journal of Development Economics, February 2005.
• The Microeconomics of Changing Income Distribution in Malaysia,
  in François Bourguignon, Francisco Ferreira, and Nora Lustig, Microeconomics of Income Distribution in East Asia and Latin America, Inter-American Development Bank, 2005.   
• Dualism in the Labor Market, The Manchester School, December 2004.
• "International Labor Standards and Decent Work: Perspectives from the Developing World,"
  in Robert Flanagan and William Gould, eds., International Labor Standards: Globalization, Trade and Public Policy, Stanford University Press, 2003.
• "Household Income Dynamics: A Four Country Story,"
  with Paul Cichello, Samuel Freije, Marta Menéndez, and David Newhouse, Journal of Development Studies, December, 2003.
• "Escaping from Poverty: New Evidence on Household Income Dynamics,"
  with Paul Cichello, Samuel Freije, Marta Menéndez, and David Newhouse, in Gary Fields and Guy Pfeffermann, eds., Pathways out of Poverty, Kluwer, 2003.
• "For Richer or For Poorer: Evidence for Indonesia , South Africa , Spain , and Venezuela ," with Paul Cichello, Samuel Freije, Marta Menéndez, and David Newhouse, Journal of Economic Inequality, April, 2003.
• "Decent Work' and Development Policies," International Labour Review, 2003.
• "Long-Term Economic Mobility and the Private Sector in Developing Countries," with Walter S. Bagg, in Gary Fields and Guy Pfeffermann, eds., Pathways Out of Poverty, Kluwer, 2003.
• "Accounting for Income Inequality and Its Change: A New Method, with Application to the Distribution of Earnings in the United States ," Research in Labor Economics, 2003.

 Working Papers 

• The Many Facets of Economic Mobility, July, 2005
• Does Income Mobility Equalize Longer-Term Incomes? New Measures of an Old Concept, July 2005
• Employer Strategies for Recruitment and Screening:  High-Performance Systems or Diminishing Returns? with Jed Devaro, May, 2005
• Earnings Mobility in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela:  Testing the Divergence of Earnings and the Symmetry of Mobility Hypotheses with Maria Laura Sánchez Puerta, Robert Duval Hernández and Samuel Freije, May, 2005
• Minimum Wages and Poverty with Ravi Kanbur, May, 2005
• How is Convergent Mobility Consistent with Rising Inequalite?  A Reconciliation in the Case of Argentina with Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta, 2005
• A Guide to Multisector Labor Market Models, March, 2005
• Economic and Social Mobility Really are Multifaceted, July, 2004.
• Doing the Right Jobs Right: Which Managerial Competencies and Activities Help and Hurt Profits at Borders?
  with Jed L. DeVaro, July, 2004.
• Waging the War for Talent: Do Recruitment and Screening Strategies Raise Employee Performance?
  with Jed L. DeVaro, July, 2004.
• One Talent or Many?:  Million Dollar Variables and Statistically Insignificant Indexes 
  with Jed DeVaro, June, 2004.
• Regression-Based Decompositions: A New Tool for Managerial Decision-Making,
  March, 2004.
• It Pays To Do It Myself: Managerial Time and Indirect Production,
  with Rachel Kranton.
• Bottom-Line Management
  [book manuscript], February, 2004. 
• Reflections on My Immersion in India, January, 2004
•  Should Poverty and Inequality Measures Be Combined?
  in Alain de Janvry and Ravi Kanbur, eds., Poverty, Inequality and Development: Essays in Honor of Erik Thorbecke, Kluwer, September, 2003.
• Francs or Ranks: Earnings Mobility in France, 1967-1999, with Moshe Buchinsky, Denis Fougére, and Francis Kramarz, March, 2003.
• How Demanding Should Equality of Opportunity Be, and How Much Have We Achieved?,  with Valentino Dardanoni, John Roemer and Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta