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Brencic, Vera

Assistant 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.
Vera has a research profile  on the Faculty of Arts website


Teaching Fall 2009

  • Econ 299 - Quantitative Methods in Economics

Teaching Winter 2010

  • Econ 399 - Introductory Econometrics


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. 2008. "On-the-Job Tasks and Performance Pay: A Vacancy-Level Analysis", accepted in Industrial and Labor Relations Review.

  • 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. 2009. "Do Employers Adjust to the Costs of Continued Search?", accepted in Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.

  • 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. 2009. "Employers' Online Recruitment and Screening Practices", accepted in Economic Inquiry.


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).

  • Do Employers Change Job Offers in Their Job Ads to Facilitate Search? (with John B. Norris).

  • Online Matching: Insights from a Panel of Online Job Boards. 


Research In Progress

  • Employers' Use of Pressure and Performance Pay in Teams.