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Contact Information:

Phone: (216) 687-4526
Fax: (216) 687-9206
Email: b.kosteas@csuohio.edu

Address:

Department of Economics
Cleveland State University
Rhodes Tower Room #1707
Cleveland, OH 44115

Publications:

• "Job Level Changes and Wage Growth," forthcoming in International Journal of Manpower.
• "Trade Protection and Capital Imports in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector," forthcoming in World Development.
• "Manufacturing Wages and Low-Wage Country Imports:  Evidence from the NLSY," forthcoming in Economica.
• "Foreign Direct Investment and Productivity Spillovers:  A Quantile Analysis," International Economic Journal, 22 (2008), 25-41.
• Entries in the Encyclopedia of World Poverty, Mehmet Odekon (Ed.), Sage Publications, 2006:
  • "Exploitation"
  • "Free Trade Agreement of the Americas"
  • "Minimum Wage"
  • "Wages"
  • "World Trade Organization"
• "Linkages, Multinationals and Industrial Development," (with Amy Jocelyn Glass and Kamal Saggi) in Multinational Firms and Impacts on Employment, Trade and Technology:  New Perspectives for a New Century (2001), eds. Robert E. Lipsey and Jean Louis Muchielle.

Working Papers:

• "Social Skills, Promotions and Supervisors," February 2008.
• "The Impact of Job Displacement on Employer," February 2008.
• Skill Upgrading and Imports in US Manufacturing," November 2007.
• "The Effect of Career Disruptions on Promotions and Supervisors," October 2007.
• "Manufacturing Employment and Imports:  Low-Wage Country Imports versus Overall Imports," April 2007.
• "Wage Determination and Foreign Ownership in Mexican Manufacturing," October 2005.