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  E M P L O Y E E   B E N E F I T S ,   C O M P E N S A T I O N
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                Vol. 4,  No. 22: November 20, 2003
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NEW and FORTHCOMING ARTICLES

"Tax as Gatekeeper: Why Company Stock is Not Worth the Money"
      Virginia Tax Review, Vol. 23, Fall 2003
     MAUREEN CAVANAUGH
        Washington and Lee University
        School of Law


"The Influence of Regular Work Systems on Compensation for
 Contingent Workers"
      Industrial Relations, Vol. 42, pp. 565-588, October 2003
     BRENDA LAUTSCH
        Simon Fraser University
        Management and Organizational Studies Area


"Deferred Compensation Nonqualified Employee Benefits - Their
 Global Effect - Part I"
      Journal of Retirement Planning, Vol. 6, No. 3, May-June
      2003
     LAWRENCE L. BELL
        BISYS
        Potomac


"Labour Market Transitions and the Erosion of the Fordist
 Lifecycle: Discarding Older Workers in the Automobile
 Manufacturing and Banking Industries in the United States"
      Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, Vol. 28, pp. 640-651,
      October 2003
     JILL QUADAGNO
        Florida State University - Pepper Institute on
        Aging
     MELISSA HARDY
        Florida State University - Pepper Institute on
        Aging and Public Policy
     LAWRENCE HAZELRIGG
        Florida State University - Department of Sociology

WORKING PAPERS

"Performance-Based Compensation in Professional Service Firms"
     CHRISTOPHER D. ITTNER
        University of Pennsylvania
        Accounting Department
     DAVID F. LARCKER
        University of Pennsylvania
        Accounting Department
     MINA PIZZINI
        University of Texas at Dallas
        School of Management


"The Impact on Consumption and Saving of Current and Future
 Fiscal Policies"
     KATHERINE GRACE CARMAN
        Stanford University
        Harvard University
        Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences
        (CBRSS)
     JAGADEESH GOKHALE
        Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
        American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
     LAURENCE J. KOTLIKOFF
        Boston University
        National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)


"Welfare Reform and Health Insurance Coverage of Low-Income
 Families"
     ROBERT KAESTNER
        City University of New York
        CUNY Baruch College
        University of Illinois at Chicago
        Institute of Government and Public Affairs
        National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), at New
        York
     NEERAJ KAUSHAL
        Columbia University
        School of Social Work


"A Comparison of Options, Restricted Stock, and Cash for Employee
 Compensation"
     PAUL E. OYER
        Stanford University
        Graduate School of Business
     SCOTT SCHAEFER