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Dr. Jon Neill,
Ph.D, University of Pittsburgh, 1983
Professor
5330, Friedman Hall
Phone: 269-387-5551
Email: Jon.Neill@wmich.edu
 
Areas of Interest:
Public Finance and Environmental Economics
Current Research: Changes in the Education Premium: Indications from the Data on Wages and Earnings by Occupation; Output, Employment and Prices in a Two-Sector Efficiency Wage Model; Welfare Reform in the U.S.: Whatever Happened to the Negative Income Tax
 

Selected Publications:

"Production with an Assembly Line Process", Economics of Innovation and New Technology 14(3), April 2005.

"Technical Progress and Real Wage Stagnation: Theory and Evidence from the U.S. Steel Industry", with Donald Alexander, Economics of Innovation & New Technology, January 2004.

"Production and Production Functions: Some Implications of a Refinement to Process Analysis", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 51 (4), August 2003.

"The Political Viability of a Negative Income Tax", Social Choice and Welfare, 18(4), 2001.

"Valuing the Consumption Benefits from Professional Sports Franchises and Facilities", with William Kern & Donald Alexander, Journal of Urban Economics, (2000).

"The Sacrifice and Benefit Principles of Taxation: A Synthesis", Social Choice and Welfare 17 (1), 2000.

"Fighting Poverty through Negative Income Taxation: The Suggestions of a Computational Model", Proceedings of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Scientists, December 1999.

"Rehabilitating Weak Complementacity," Scandanavian Journal of Economics, 101(1), 1999.

"Poverty and Inequality: The political economy of redistribution" W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1997

"Fueling the Engine of Growth with Investment in Infrastructure", Journal of Macroeconomics, Summer 1996.

"A Theoretical Reappraisal of the Offsetting Behavior Hypothesis," Journal of Regulatory Economics, December 1993.

"Wage Rigidity and the Effect of Monetary Growth on Unemployment," Journal of Economics, February 1992.

"A Welfare Theoretic Evaluation of Unemployment Insurance", Public Finance Quarterly, October 1989.

"Another Theorem on Using Market Demands to Determine Willingness to Pay for Non-Traded Goods," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 15, 1988.

"Bounds on Willingness to Pay for Non-Traded Goods: A Possibility Theorem," Journal of Public Economics, 30, 1986.

 

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