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Kristen Monaco

Publications

 

Journal Articles

 

“Wages and Working Conditions of Truck Drivers at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles,” Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, 2010, 49(1): 23-36.

 

“Inter-county Spillovers in California's Ports and Roads Infrastructure: The Impact on Retail Trade,” with Jeffrey Cohen, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 2009, 2(2-3): 77-84.

 

 “Ports and Highways Infrastructure: An Analysis of Intra- and Inter-state Spillovers,” with Jeffrey Cohen, International Regional Science Review, 2008, 31(3): 257-274.

 

 “Strategic Contracts versus Multiple Plants: Location under Sequential Entry,” with R. Rothschild and John Heywood, The Manchester School, 2007, 75(2): 151-173.

 

“An Analysis of Post-Deregulation Wages in U.S. Freight Transportation,” with S. Habermalz, International Journal of Transport Economics, 2007, 34(1): 133-148.

 

 “The Decreasing Influence of Domestic Market Structure on Racial Earnings Differentials: 1984-1996,” with Jacqueline Agesa, Contemporary Economic Policy, 2006, 24(2): 224-236.

 

“A Time Series Analysis of Wages in Deregulated Industries,” with Taggert Brooks and John Bitzan, Journal of Applied Economics, 2006, 9(1): 105-118.

 

“Are Truck Drivers Underpaid?” with Dale Belman, Applied Economics Letters, 2005, 12(1): 13-18.

 

“Hours of Sleep and Fatigue in Motor Carriage,” with Lindy Olsson and Justin Hentges, Contemporary Economic Policy, 2005, 23(4): 615-624.

 

“The Balance Between Private and For-Hire Carriage and Trends in the Use of Large Trucks (1977 to 1997),” with Stephen V. Burks and Josephine Myers-Kuykindall, Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, 2004, 43(2):159-171.

 

“Trends in the Use of Large Trucks by Truckload and Less-Than-Truckload Motor Carriers in the 1990s,” with Stephen V. Burks and Josephine Myers-Kuykindall, Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, 2004, 43(2): 173-187.

 

      “Industry Racial Employment by Skill Level: The Effects of Market Structure and Racial Wage Gaps,” with Jacqueline Agesa, Journal of Labor Research,           2004, 25(2): 315-28.

 

 

“Delivered Pricing and Merger with Demand Constraints,” with John Heywood and Robert Rothschild, Economic Inquiry, 2004, 42(1): 49-59.

 

“The Pricing of Thrift Conversions,” with Russell Kashian, Journal of Applied Business Research, 2003, 19(4): 25-31.

 

“Wages and Hours of Truck Drivers: An Analysis Across Data Sets,” with Joshua Willmert, Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, 2003, 57(3): 167-177.

 

“How Did Truck Drivers’ Jobs Become So Bad? The Effects of Deregulation, Technology, De-unionization and Human Capital,” with Dale Belman, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2001.

 

“Delivered Pricing and the Influence of Merger on Excluded Rivals,” with John Heywood and Robert Rothschild, Southern Economics Journal, 2001, 67: 672-684.

 

“Examining Industry Effects for Truck Drivers,” Review of Industrial Organization,  2001, 18: 91-103.

 

“Safety among Over-the-Road Truck Drivers,” with Emily Williams, Journal of the Transportation Research Forum , 2001, 40: 105-115.

 

“Assessing the Determinants of Driver Safety,” with Emily Williams, Journal of Transportation and Statistics, April 2000, 3(1): 69-79.

 

 “Spatial Price Discrimination and the Merger Paradox,” with John Heywood and Robert Rothschild, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2000, 30: 491-506.          

 

“Trends in Banking Employment in the 1990’s:  A Regional Analysis,” with Russell Kashian, Growth and Change, Spring 1998, 29(2): 146-156.      

 

Books

Sailors of the Concrete Sea: A Portrait of Truck Drivers’ Work and Lives, with Dale Belman and Taggert J. Brooks, Michigan State University Press, 2005.

 

 

Chapters in Books and Edited Volumes

 

                "Trucking," with Stephen V. Burks in G.Giuliano, L. Hoel and M. Meyers (eds.)  Intermodal Freight Transportation, ENO Foundation, 2011.

 

"Using Behavioral Economic Field Experiments at a Firm: the Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project", with Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey Carpenter, Lorenz Götte, Aldo Rustichini, and Kay Porter, in Stefan Bender, Julia Lane, Kathryn Shaw, Fredrik Andersson, and Till Von Wachter (eds.) The Analysis of Firms and Employees: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches, NBER, University of Chicago Press, 2008.

 

“Port Labor: The Effects of Competition, Devolution, Labor Reform, Trade and Technology,” (with Lindy Olsson and Christine Mulcahy), in P. Ioannou, ed. Intelligent Freight Transportation, CRC Press, 2007.

 

“Truck Drivers in the Age of Information:  Transformation without Gain,” with Dale Belman and Francine Lafontaine,  in Dale Belman and Chelsea White, eds. Trucking in the Age of Information, Ashgate Press, 2006, pp. 183-212.

 

“Market Power and Racial Earnings: A Quantile Regression Approach,” with Jacqueline Agesa, in John Heywood and James Peoples, eds. Product Market Segmentation and Labor Market Treatment, 2006, SUNY Press, pp. 15-38.

 

“An Econometric Analysis of the Impact of Technology on the Worklives of Truck Drivers,” with Dale Belman, In James Peoples and Wayne Talley, eds.  Transportation Labor Issues and Regulatory Reform, Research in Transportation Economics, 2004, 10: 57-78.

 

“Deregulation and Trucking Wages: A Time Series Phenomenon, A Time Series Approach,” with Taggert J. Brooks, in B. Starr McMullen, ed. Research In Transportation Economics, volume 6, 2001, Amsterdam, JAI Press.