This paper has been prepared for the Jerome Levy Economics Institute Workshop on Earnings Inequality, Technology, and Institutions, June 8-10, 1999. We thank participants for their helpful comments. The authors also wish to thank Michael Piore, Paul Osterman, and other participants in the MIT Industrial Relations Seminar. The views expressed are those of the authors and should not be attributed...

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REVIEW COMMITTEE Todd ABRUZZO Tibor BECSKE Martin BENDZUS Zsolt BERENTEI Edoardo BOCCARDI Giuseppe BONALDI Allan BROOK Patrick BROUWER Winston CHONG Christophe COGNARD Orlando DIAZ Jens FIEHLER Gyula GÁL Pierre GOBIN Jan GRALLA Gábor JANIGA Ferenc KÖVÉR Timo KRINGS Zsolt KULCSÁR Luigi MANFRE Miklós MAROSFŐI Pereira VITOR MENDES Kieran MURPHY Mario MUTO Makoto NEGORO Darren ORBACH Santhosh RAJ G...

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