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(Updated January 2008)

          In the Right Place at the Wrong Time: The Role of Firms and Luck in Young Workers' Careers
              (joint with Stefan Bender, December 2006, American Economic Review)
             Downloadable Appendices              Longer Working Paper Version (IZA Working Paper No. 1348)

         "Compulsory Schooling and Labour Market Institutions in Germany"
             (joint with Steve Pischke, Accepted, Review of Economics and Statistics)
             (also available as NBER Working Paper No. 11414 )

         "Do Initial Conditions Persist Between Firms? An Analysis of Firm-Entry Cohort Effects and Job Losers
             using Matched Employer-Employee Data"
             (joint with Stefan Bender, published in S. Bender, J. Lane, K. Shaw, F. Andersson, and T. von Wachter (eds),
             "The Analysis of Firms and Employees: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches," University Chicago Press)

         "Following Germany's Lead: Using International Monetary Linkages to Identify the Effect of Monetary Policy on the Economy"
             (joint with Julian di Giovanni and Justin McCrary, Accepted, Review of Economics and Statistics)
             (also available as IMF Working Paper WP/05/86 )

         "Mortality, Mass-Layoffs, and Career Outcomes: An Analysis using Administrative Data"
             (joint with Daniel Sullivan, submitted)
             (same version also available as NBER Working Paper No. 13626 )

         "Estimating the 'True' Cost of Job Loss: Evidence Using Matched Data from California 1991-2000"
             (joint with Andrew Hildreth and Elizabeth Weber)

         "Long-Term Earnings Losses due to Job Separation During the 1982 Recession: An Analysis Using Longitudinal
             Administrative Data from 1974 to 2004"
             (joint with Jae Song and Joyce Manchester)

         "Summary of the Literature on Job Displacement in the US and EU: What we know and what we would like to know"
             (currently under revision, available upon request)

         "Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession: Hysteresis and Heterogeneity in the Market for College Graduates"
             (joint with Phil Oreopoulos and Andrew Heisz, Presented NBER Summer Institute 2005)
             Downloadable Web Appendices

             Featured in                    New York Times, Hello Young Workers: One Way to Reach the Top is To Start There, May 2006
                                                  NBER Digest, The Career Effects Of Graduating In A Recession , November 2006

         "Does a Four-Fold Higher Unemployment Rate Make a Difference?
             Wage Growth and Job Mobility of Young Workers in France, Germany, and the United States"
             (joint with Paola Giuliano)

          "The End of Mandatory Retirement in the US: Effects on Retirement and Implicit Contracts"
              (Center for Labor Economics Working Paper No. 49, University of California Berkeley, 2002)

         "Changes in the Economic Outcomes of Allowed and Denied Applicants to Social Security Disability Insurance from 1978 to 2004:
             An Analysis using Longitudinal Administrative Records"
             (joint with Jae Song and Joyce Manchester)

         "The Effect of Economic Conditions on the Employment of Workers Nearing Retirement Age"
             (prepared for Sandell Grant)