Stephen R. G. Jones

Research Papers

• The Dynamics of US Labor Force Attachment

• Reservation Wages and Job Search Behaviour: How Different are Repeat Users of Unemployment Insurance?

• Unemployment and Non-Employment: Heterogeneities in Labour Market States

• Reservation Wages and Job Search Behaviour: Evidence from the Survey on Repeat Use of Employment Insurance

• Unemployment and Labour Force Attachment: A Study of Canadian Experience 1997-99

Teaching in 2007-08

• I am on research leave in Fall 2007
• Economics 781 Graduate Labour Economics--a core graduate course in labour economics team-taught with Shintaro Yamaguchi (Winter term)

Curriculum Vitae

• c.v.

Family

• Ellen Badone
• Amy Jones (on the left, with Emily Haines who is not family)
• Robin Jones

Some Publications

• "Unemployment and Nonemployment: Heterogeneities in Labor Market States" Review of Economics and Statistics, 88, 314-23, 2006.
(With W. Craig Riddell.)

 

• "The Measurement of Unemployment: An Empirical Approach" Econometrica, 67, 147-62, 1999.
(With W. Craig Riddell.)

 

• "Mandatory Notice and Unemployment." Journal of Labor Economics, 13, 599-622, 1995.
(With Peter Kuhn.)

 

• The Persistence of Unemployment: Hysteresis in Canadian Labour Markets. Kingston & Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995.

 

• "The Measurement of Labour Market Dynamics with Longitudinal Data: The LMAS Filter." Journal of Labor Economics, 13, 351-85, 1995.
(With W. Craig Riddell.)

 

• "A Dynamic Model of Union Membership and Employment." Economica, 61, 179-89, 1994.
(With C. J. McKenna).

 

• "Was There a Hawthorne Effect?" American Journal of Sociology, 98, 451-68, 1992.

 

• "Worker Interdependence and Output: The Hawthorne Studies Reevaluated." American Sociological Review, 55, 176-90, 1990.

 

• "Reservation Wages and the Cost of Unemployment." Economica, 56, 225-46, 1989.

 

• "The Relationship between Unemployment Spells and Reservation Wages as a Test of Search Theory." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 103, 741-65, 1988.

 

• "Unemployment Insurance and Involuntary Unemployment: The Case of Adverse Selection." Journal of Public Economics, 30, 317-28, 1986.

 

• The Economics of Conformism. Oxford & New York: Basil Blackwell, 1984.
 

Stephen R. G. Jones
Department of Economics
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4M4

Telephone: (905) 525-9140 ext.23812
FAX: (905) 521-8232
E-mail: jonessrg@mcmaster.ca

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Last updated September 17, 2007.