John S. Heywood

UWM Distinguished Professor

Director of Masters in Human Resources and Labor Relations
Office: NWQ B, Room 4579
Phone: (414) 229-4437
e-mail: heywood@uwm.edu
Web Page: people.uwm.edu/~heywood/

Degrees:

Ph.D., University of Michigan
M.A., University of Michigan
B.A., Swarthmore College

Research Interests:

Labor Economics, Location Theory, Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics

Current Projects:

The determinants and consequences of mergers and the economics of personnel.

Selected Publications:

"Performance Pay and the Black-White Wage Gap," Journal of Labor Economics, 30(2), April 2012: 249-90 (with D. Parent).

"Profit Sharing and the Quality of Relations with the Boss," Labour Economics, 17, September 2010: 859-67 (with C.P. Green).

"Hiring Older Workers and Employing Older Workers: German Evidence," Journal of Population Economics, 23(2), March 2010: 595-615 (with U. Jirjahn and G. Tesertsvadze).

"Mixed Oligopoly, Sequential Entry and Spatial Price Discrimination," Economic Inquiry, 47(3), July 2009: 589-97 (with G. Ye).

"Profit Sharing and Firm Size: The Role of Team Production," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 71, July 2009: 245-58 (with U. Jirjahn).

"Does Performance Pay Increase Job Satisfaction," Economica, 75, November 2008: 710-28 (with C.P. Green).

"The Implicit Wage Costs of Family Friendly Work Practices," Oxford Economic Papers, 59, April 2007: 275 - 300 (with W.S. Siebert and X. Wei).

"Unionization and Plant Closure in Canada," Canadian Journal of Economics, 39, November 2006: 1173 - 94 (with T. Fang).