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Compensation Research and Program Development
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2023
Ouimet, Paige, Tate, Geoffrey. 2023. Firms with Benefits? Nonwage Compensation and Implications for Firms and Labor Markets. National Bureau of Economic Research.
2022
, ichael. 2022. The total compensation gap, wage gap and benefit gap between workers with and without a disability. British Journal of Industrial Relations 60: 3– 31.
2020
Gu, Grace, Eswar Prasad and Thomas Moehrle, New Evidence on Cyclical Variation in Average Labor Costs in the U.S., forthcoming in Review of Economics and Statistics.
Kristal, Tali, Cohen, Yinon, Navot, Edo. 2020. Workplace Compensation Practices and the Rise in Benefit Inequality. American Sociological Review 85 (2):271-97.
Maclean, J. C., Pichler, S., & Ziebarth, N. R. (2020). Mandated sick pay: Coverage, utilization, and welfare effects (No. w26832). National Bureau of Economic Research.
2018
Kristal, Tali, Cohen, Yinon, Navot, Edo. 2018. Benefit Inequality among American Workers by Gender, Race and Ethnicity, 1982–2015. Sociological Science 5:461–88.
Gu, Grace, 2018. Employment and the Cyclical Cost of Worker Benefits. Review of Economic Dynamics 28:96-120.
2015
Gittleman, M., & Pierce, B. (2015). Pay for performance and compensation inequality: Evidence from the ECEC. Industrial & Labor Relations Review, 68(1), 28-52.
2013
Gittleman, M., & Pierce, B. (2013). An improved measure of inter-industry pay differentials. Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 38(3), 229-242.
Gittleman, M., & Pierce, B. (2013). How prevalent is performance-related pay in the United States? Current incidence and recent trends. National Institute Economic Review, 226(1), R4-R16.
2012
DeVaro, J., Ghosh, S., & Zoghi, C. (2012). Job characteristics and labor market discrimination in promotions: New theory and empirical evidence. Available at SSRN 2135198.
Gittleman, M., & Pierce, B. (2012). Compensation for state and local government workers. The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 26(1), 217-242.
2011
Dworak-Fisher, Keenan. (2011). Matching matters in 401(k) plan participation. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 50(4), 713-737.
Gittleman, M., & Pierce, B. (2011). Inter-industry wage differentials job content and unobserved ability. Industrial & Labor Relations Review, 64(2), 356-374.
2010
Barkume, A. (2010). The structure of labor costs with overtime work in US jobs. Industrial & Labor Relations Review, 64(1), 128-142.
Gibbs, M., Levenson, A., & Zoghi, C. (2010). Why Are Jobs Designed the Way They Are? Research in Labor Economics, 30, 107-154.
Levenson, A., & Zoghi, C. (2010). Occupations, human capital and skills. Journal of Labor Research, 31(4), 365-386.
Pierce, B. (2010). Recent trends in compensation inequality. In Labor in the New Economy (pp. 63-98). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
2007
Gittleman, M., & Pierce, B. (2007). New estimates of union wage effects in the US. Economics Letters, 95(2), 198-202.
Wozniak, A. K. (2007). Product markets and paychecks: Deregulation's effect on the compensation structure in banking. Industrial & Labor Relations Review, 60(2), 246-267.
2005
Budd, J. W. (2005). The effect of unions on employee benefits: Updated employer expenditure results. Journal of Labor Research, 26(4), 669-676.
2004
Barkume, A. J. (2004). Using incentive pay and providing pay supplements in US job markets. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 43(3), 618-633.
Gruber, J., & Lettau, M. (2004). How elastic is the firm’s demand for health insurance? Journal of Public Economics, 88(7), 1273-1293.
Lovell, V. (2004). No time to be sick: Why everyone suffers when workers don't have paid sick leave (pp. 4-14). Washington, DC: Institute for Women's Policy Research.
2003
Gruber, J., & McKnight, R. (2003). Why did employee health insurance contributions rise? Journal of Health Economics, 22(6), 1085-1104.
Lebow, D. E., Saks, R. E., & Wilson, B. A. (2003). Downward nominal wage rigidity: Evidence from the employment cost index. Advances in Macroeconomics, 3(1): Article 2.
Lettau, M. K. (2003). New estimates for wage rate inequality using the employment cost index. Journal of Human Resources, 38(4), 792-805.
2001
Barkume, A. J., & Ruser, J. W. (2001). Deregulating property‐casualty insurance pricing: The case of workers’ compensation. Journal of Law and Economics, 44(1), 37-63.
Cannon, S. A., Fallick, B., Lettau, M., & Saks, R. (2001). Has compensation become more flexible?. Research in Labor Economics, 20, 243-269.
Pierce, B. (2001). Compensation inequality. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1493-1525.
2000
Gruber, J. (2000). Health insurance and the labor market. Handbook of Health Economics, 1, 645-706.
1999
Lettau, M. K., & Buchmueller, T. C. (1999). Comparing benefit costs for full-and part-time workers. Monthly Labor Review, 122, 30.
1997
Lettau, M. K. (1997). Compensation in part-time jobs versus full-time jobs What if the job is the same? Economics Letters, 56(1), 101-10