Brencic, Vera

Associate Professor of Economics 

 

Ph.D., Purdue University, 2005
B.Sc., University of Ljubljana, 2000

E-mail: vbrencic@ualberta.ca
Office: 7-26 Tory
Tel: (780) 492-4407
Fax: (780) 492-3300  

Vera's CV Sept 2011.
Vera has a research profile  on the Faculty of Arts website 

 

Teaching Fall 2011

  • Econ 331 - Labor Economics

  • Econ 598 - Econometric Theory and Application (Grad)

Teaching Winter 2012

  • Econ 399 - Introductory Econometrics

  • Econ 630 - Topics in Labor Economics (Grad)

Research Interests

  •  Labour Economics: Search and Matching, Personnel Economics

Publications

  • Brencic, Vera. 2007. "Employers' Search Prior to Exhaustion of Advance Notice Period", Economics Letters, 94(2), 266-270.

  • Brencic, Vera and John B. Norris. 2010. "On-the-Job Tasks and Performance Pay: A Vacancy-Level Analysis", Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 63(3), 511-542.

  • Brencic, Vera. 2009. "Employers' Hiring Practices, Employment Protection, and Costly Search: A Vacancy-Level Analysis", Labour Economics, 16(5), 461-479.

  • Brencic, Vera and John B. Norris. 2009. "Employers' Online Search: An Empirical Analysis", Industrial Relations, 48(4), 684-709.

  • Brencic, Vera. 2010. "Do Employers Adjust to the Costs of Continued Search?", Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 72(2), 211-245.

  • Brencic, Vera and Denise Young. 2009. "Time-Saving Innovations, Time Allocation, and Energy Use: Evidence from Canadian Households", Ecological Economics, 68(11), 2859-2867.

  • Brencic, Vera and John B. Norris. 2010. "Employers' Online Recruitment and Screening Practices", accepted in Economic Inquiry.

  • Brencic, Vera and John B. Norris. 2010. "Do Employers Change Job Offers in Their Job Ads to Facilitate Search?",  Economics Letters, 108(1), 46-48.

  • Brencic, Vera. 2011. "Wage Posting: Evidence from Job Ads", accepted in Canadian Journal of Economics.

Research Papers

  • Perspiration or Inspiration: What do Grades Measure? (with John M. Barron, Kelly H. Blanchard, Aysegul Sahin).

  • Why Don't Employers Accept Job Applications Online? (with John B. Norris).

  • How Do Online Job Boards Mitigate Search Frictions?

  • Employers' Use of Pressure and Profit Sharing in Teams.

  • Exporting, Skill Upgrading, and Skill Mismatch: Evidence from Employers' Hiring (with Marko Pahor).