Publications received

Monthly Labor Review, August, 1999

Economic and social statistics

Galenson, David W. and Bruce A. Weinberg, Age and the Quality of Work: The Case of Modern American Painters. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1999, 27 pp. (Working Paper 7122.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Goldin, Claudia and Lawrence F. Katz, The Returns to Skill in the United States Across the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1999, 49 pp. (Working Paper 7126.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Hamermesh, Daniel S., The Art of Labormetrics. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1999, 38 pp. (Working Paper 6927.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

International Labour Office, Yearbook of Labour Statistics, 1998. 57th ed. Geneva, International Labour Organization, 1998, 1,339 pp. Available from the ILO Publications Center, Waldorf, MD.

Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, Monthly Bulletin of Statistics, March 1999, Jerusaleum, Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, 158 pp.

Klette, Tar Jakob, Jarle Moen and Zvi Griliches, Do Subsidies to Commercial R&D Reduce Market Failures? Microeconomic Evaluation Studies. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1999, 35 pp. (Working Paper 6947.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Lazear, Edward P., Personnel Economics: Past Lessons and Future Directions. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1999, 61 pp. (Working Paper 6957.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Mairesse, Jacques and Nathalie Greenan, Using Employee Level Data in a Firm Level Econometric Study. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1999, 29 pp. (Working Paper 7028.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Shapiro, Irving, Matthew D. Shapiro, and David W. Wilcoz, Quality Improvement in Health Care: A Framework for Price and Output Measurement. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1999, 11 pp. (Working Paper 6971.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Economic growth and development

Baker, Dean, Gerald Epstein, and Robert Pollin, eds., Globalization and Progressive Economic Policy. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 514 pp., bibliography.

Brown, Annette N., ed., When is Transition Over? Kalamazoo, MI, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1999, 135 pp. $23, cloth; $13, paper.

Freeman, Richard B. and David L. Lindauer, Why Not Africa? Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1999, 35 pp. (Working Paper 6942.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Gompers, Paul A. and Josh Lerner, What Drives Venture Capital Fundraising? Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1999, 53 pp. (Working Paper 6906.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Sargent, Thomas J., The Conquest of American Inflation. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 148 pp.

Rodrik, Dani, The New Global Economy and Developing Countries: Making Openness Work. Washington, Overseas Development Council, 1999, 167 pp. $13.95. Distributed by Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, MD.

Education

Ashenfelter, Orley and Cecilia Rouse, Schooling, Intelligence, and Income In America: Cracks in the Bell Curve. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1999, 29 pp. (Working Paper 6902.) $10 per copy, plus T10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Costa, Dora L. and Matthew E. Kahn, Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940-1990. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1999, 45 pp. (Working Paper 7109.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Ehrenberg, Ronald G. and Jaroslava K. Mykula, Do Indirect Cost Rates Matter? Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1999, 27 pp. (Working Paper 6976.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Health and safety

Levitt, Steven D. and Jack Porter, Estimating the Effect of Alcohol on Driver Risk Using Only Fatal Accident Statistics. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1999, 36 pp. (Working Paper 6944.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Committee on the Health and Safety Implications of Child Labor, Protecting Youth at Work: Health Safety, and Development of Working Children and Adolescents in the United States. Washington, National Academy Press 1998, 318 pp. $44.95.

Industry and government organization

University of Texas at Austin, Directory of Texas Manufacturers, 1999, Vol. 1: Alphabetical and Geographical Sections; and Vol. II: Product Section and Index, Austin, University of Texas, Bureau of Business Research, Graduate School of Business, 1999, 494 and 686 pp., respectively.