James B. Rebitzer
John R. Mannix Medical Mutual Professor
and Chair of Economics Department
Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7235
(ph) 216 368 5537. email: james.rebitzer@case.edu

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I. Principal Fields of Interest

· Economics of organizations and incentive systems

· Labor economics, personnel economics and human resource management

· Health economics

· Behavioral economics

II. Academic Positions

· Case Western Reserve University, Mannix Medical Mutual Chair, 08/2007- present.

· Case Western Reserve University, Full Professor, Frank Tracy Carlton Chair in Economics, 12/98-07/2007. 

· Case Western Reserve University, Associate Professor, Frank Tracy Carlton Chair in Economics, 7/97 – 12/98

· Sloan School of Management, MIT, Associate Professor, 1/93-6/97;

· Sloan School of Management, MIT, Assistant Professor, 1/89-12/92.

· Economics Dept., University of Texas at Austin,  Assistant Professor, 9/85-12/88.

III. Education:

· Ph.D. in Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1985)

IV. Teaching Experience

· Economics of Organizations (MBA and Ph.D)

· Labor Economics and Public Policy (undergraduate and Ph.D.).

· Negotiations (MBA)

· Human Resource Management (MBA)

.                 V. Publications

A. Journal Articles (refereed)

[1] Rebitzer, James B., Mari Rege, and Christopher Shepard. "Influence, Information Overload and Information Technology in Health Care." Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, 19, (forthcoming).

[2] Cebul, Randall, James B. Rebitzer, Lowell J. Taylor, and Mark Votruba. 2008. "Organizational Fragmentation and Care Quality in the Us Health Care System." Journal of Economic Perspectives (November 2008).

[3] Javitt, J. Rebitzer, J. and Reisman, L. “Information Technology and Medical Missteps: Evidence from a Randomized Trial,” Journal of Health Economics" 27(23):585-602 (May 2008)

[4] Rebitzer, J. and Taylor L., “When Knowledge is an Asset: Explaining the Organizational Structure of Large Law Firms,” Journal of Labor Economics, 25(2) (April 2007) see the attached Wall Street Journal Article that discusses this research.

[5] Encinosa, W., Gaynor, M. and Rebitzer, J. “The Sociology of Groups and the Economics of Incentives: Theory and Evidence On Incentives in Medical Groups,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations, (February 2007)

[6] Fallick, Bruce, Fleischman, Charles A., et al. (2006). "Job-Hopping in Silicon Valley: Some Evidence Concerning the Microfoundations of a High-Technology Cluster." Review of Economics and Statistics 88(3): 472-481. See a NY Times essay about this research by Virginia Postrel.

[7] Cooper, D and Rebitzer J.  “Managed Care and Physician Incentives: The Effects of Competition on the Cost and Quality of Care?” Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy.  Berkeley Economic Press (July 2006). http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/contributions/vol5/iss1/art16

[8] Gaynor, M., Rebitzer, J and Taylor L. “Physician Incentives in HMOs” Journal of Political Economy (August 2004)

[9] Nagan, D., Rebitzer J., Taylor, L., Sanders, S. “Monitoring, Motivation and Management: The Determinants of Opportunistic Behavior in a Field Experiment” American Economic Review (September 2002)

[10] Landers, R., Rebitzer J., and Taylor, L. “Rat Race Redux: Adverse Selection in The Determination of Work Hours in Law Firms,” The American Economic Review (June 1996).  See a Washington Post essay on this work by Shankar Vedantam

[11] Rebitzer, J. and Taylor, L., “Efficiency Wages and Employment Rents: The Employer Size Wage Effect in The Job Market for Lawyers,” The Journal of Labor Economics (October 1995).

[12] Rebitzer, J. “Is There a Trade-Off Between Supervision and Wages? An Empirical Test of Efficiency Wage Theory.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (1995)

[13] Tsuru T. and Rebitzer, J, “The Limits of Enterprise Unionism: Prospects for Continued Union Decline in Japan,” British Journal of Industrial Relations (September 1995).

[14] Rebitzer, J. and Taylor, L., “The Consequences of Minimum Wage Laws: Some New Theoretical Ideas,” The Journal of Public Economics (1995) Vol. 56.

[15] Rebitzer, J. and Taylor, L., “Do Labor Markets Provide Enough Short Hour Jobs? An Economic Analysis of Work Hours and Work Incentives”, Economic Inquiry (April 1995) Vol. 33, no 2.

[16] Rebitzer, J., “Job Safety and Contract Workers in the U.S. Petrochemical Industry,” Industrial Relations (January 1995).

[17] Rebitzer, J., “Structural, Microeconomic and Institutional Explanations for Union Decline in the United States” Economic Review (January 1994).

[18] Kochan, T., Smith, M.,  Wells, J.,  and Rebitzer, J., “Managing the Safety of Contingent Workers: A Study of Contract Workers in the Petrochemical Industry,” Human Resource Management (Spring 1994).

[19] Rebitzer, J., “Radical Political Economy and the Economics of Labor Markets” Journal of Economic Literature (September 1993).

[20] Rebitzer, J. and Robinson, M., “Employer Size and Dual Labor Markets,” The Review of Economics and Statistics (November 1991).

[21] Rebitzer, J. and Taylor, L., “A Model of Dual Labor Markets When Product Demand is Uncertain,” Quarterly Journal of Economics (November 1991).

[22] Rebitzer, J., “Unemployment, Long-term Employment Relations and the Determination of Unit Labor Cost Growth,” The International Review of Applied Economics (June 1989).

[23] Rebitzer, J., “Unemployment, Long-term Employment Relations and Productivity Growth,” The Review of Economics and Statistics. (November 1987).

[24] Rebitzer, J., “Establishment Size and Job Tenure,” Industrial Relations  (Fall 1986).

[25] Herendeen, R., Kary, T., and Rebitzer, J. “Energy Analysis of the Solar Power Satellite,” Science vol. 205 (August 3, 1979).

B. Articles (Non-refereed)

[26] Rebitzer, J.  “Comment on  Job Characteristics, Wages and the Employment Contract” Review of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis,  Volume 81, No. 2, May/June 1999,

[27] Rebitzer, J. and Taylor, L. “Efficiency Wages and Employment Rents: The Employer Size Wage Effect in the Market for Lawyers,” Industrial Relations Research Association: Proceedings of the Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting January 1993).

[28] Rebitzer, J. and Kochan, T., “The Management of Contract Workers and the Risks of Accidents: Evidence from the Petrochemical Industry,” Industrial Relations Research Association: Proceedings of the Forty-Fourth Annual Meeting January 1992.

[29] Rebitzer, J. “Unemployment, Labor Relations and Unit Labor Costs,” The American Economic Review (May, 1988).

C. Chapters in Edited Volumes.

[30] Cooper, D and Rebitzer J. “The Economics of Physician Incentives in Managed Care Organizations” Consumer Choice: Social Welfare and Health Policy, eds. R Rich and C. Erb.Transaction Press: New Jersey (2005).

[31] Rebitzer, J. “Are Profits Good Medicine for Medicine?  Comments on Cutler and Horwitz and Sloan et.al’s. Studies of Hospital Conversions” in Not For Profit Hospitals, ed. by David Cutler, University of Chicago Press, 1999.

[32] Rebitzer, J. “Job Safety and Contract Workers in the U.S. Petrochemical Industry,”  reprinted in Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition, ed. By Kathleen Barker and Kathleen Christensen.  Cornell University Press: Ithaca NY 1998

[33] Landers, R., Rebitzer J. and Taylor, L. “Work Norms and Professional Labor Markets,” in Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace  edited by Francine Blau and Ronald Ehrenberg, Russell Sage Foundation, 1997.

[34] Landers, R., Rebitzer J. and Taylor, L. “Human Resource Practices and the Demographic Transformation of Professional Labor Markets,” in Broken Ladders: Managerial Careers in the New Economy, Oxford University Press, Paul Osterman, ed.  1996.

[35] Rebitzer, J., “Efficiency Wages and Implicit Contracts:  An Institutional and Historical Evaluation,” in Microeconomic Issues in Labor Economics: New Approaches edited by Robert Drago and Richard Perlman.  Sussex England: Wheatsheaf Books Ltd (1989).

D. Working Papers, Work In Progress and Teaching Cases.

· Cebul, R. Rebitzer, J. Taylor, L. and Votruba, M. “Unhealthy Insurance Markets: Search Frictions and the Cost and Quality of Health Insurance”

· Cebul, R., Herschman, R., Rebitzer, J., Taylor, Lowell J., Votruba, M, “Employer Based Insurance Markets and Investments in Future Health”  (July 2007)

· Rebitzer, J., and Cooper D. “Physician Incentives in Managed Care Organizations” Public Policy Brief, Levy Institute (October 2002)

· “The Effect of IT Based Decision Support on Outcomes and Resource Utilization in a Medicare Population” (in progress)

VI. Grants and Awards.

· Presidential Research Initiative Award, Case Western Reserve University, “Impediments to Improving Health Care Quality: The Role of Insurance Turnover Rates” 6/01/2005

· "Health Care Research Award:" for “Physician Incentives in HMOs” The National Institute of Health Care Management, 11/01/2004

· Research Grant, Levy Institute, Bard College, “Incentive Systems for Physicians” (2000)

· Research Grant,  Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, “Structural Barriers to Shorter Work Hours in Professional Firms,” (1995)

· Research Support, “Determinants of Doctor’s Clinical Decision Making”, Program on the Pharmaceutical Industry (1994)

· Research Grant from the Japanese Institute of Labor, “Causes of Union Decline in Japan” (with Tsuyoshi Tsuru, Hitotsubashi University, 1991).

· Summer Research Award, University of Texas at Austin (1988).

· Research Grant, from Social Science Research Council Program on Latino Public Policy (with Lowell Taylor and Frank Bean, 1987).

· Member, American Economics Association, Industrial Relations Research Association, Society of Labor Economists.

VII. Memberships and Professional Activities.

· Research Fellow IZA, Institute for the Study of Labor, (2005-present)

· Senior Scholar, Center for Health Research and Policy, Case School of Medicine.

· Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research. (1999-Present)

· Affiliate of Sloan Industry Centers Project (2002-present)

· Research Associate, Levy Economics Institute, (2000-present)

· Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research. (1989-1993).

· Editorial Board, American Economic Review (Summer 2002 – March 2005)

· Referee. American Economic Review, Economic Journal, Economica, Economic Inquiry,  European Economics Review, Industrial Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Labor Research, Journal of Political Economy,  Labour Economics, Management Science, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics,  Sloan Management Review, Work and Occupations.

· Member, American Economics Association, Industrial Relations Research Association, Society of Labor Economists.

VII. Conferences and Scholarly Presentations (Since 1989).

A. Presentations

· Organizational Fragementation and Care Quality in the US Health Care System
Petrie-Flom Center Harvard Law School (June 2008)

· Health Insurance Markets and Investments in Future Health:
Public Lecture, Mannix MMO Chair (December 2007)
Oberlin College (December 2007)
National Bureau of Economic Research (July 2007)
IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting (June 2007)

· Pay for Performance: A Cautionary Tale
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation : Economics of Nursing Conference (June 2007)

· Hospitals: An Organizational Economics Perspective
Hospital Project/Health Care Meeting, National Bureau of Economic Research (May 2007)

· Influence, Information Technology and Information Overload in Health Care
Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois (November 2007)
Allied Social Sciences Meetings (January 2006)

· Information Technology and Medical Missteps
Tuck School, Dartmouth College (January 2008)
University of Rochester (October 2007)
Strategy Group, Kellogg School, Northwestern University (May 2007)
Dept. of Economics, MIT. (April 2007)
Wharton, University of Penn. (October 2006)
Princeton University: Labor/Health Seminar (December 2005)
University of Minnesota School of Public Health (December 2005)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (November 2005)
National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute (July 2005)
IZA Conference on Organizational and Behavioral Economics, Bonn Germany (May 2005)
Ohlin School, Washington University in St. Louis (April 2004)
Harvard/BU/MIT Health Economics Seminar (April 2004)
ASSA Meetings (January 2003)

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