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
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Econ 299 - Quantitative Methods in Economics
Teaching Winter 2010
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Econ 399 - Introductory Econometrics
Research Interests
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Labour Economics: Search and Matching, Personnel Economics
Publications
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Brencic, Vera. 2007. "Employers' Search Prior to Exhaustion of Advance Notice Period", Economics Letters, 94(2), 266-270.
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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.
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Brencic, Vera. 2009. "Employers' Hiring Practices, Employment Protection, and Costly Search: A Vacancy-Level Analysis", Labour Economics, 16(5), 461-479.
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Brencic, Vera and John B. Norris. 2009. "Employers' Online Search: An Empirical Analysis", Industrial Relations, 48(4), 684-709.
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Brencic, Vera. 2009. "Do Employers Adjust to the Costs of Continued Search?", accepted in Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.
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Brencic, Vera and Denise Young. 2009. "Time-Saving Innovations, Time Allocation, and Energy Use: Evidence from Canadian Households", Ecological Economics, 68(11), 2859-2867.
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Brencic, Vera and John B. Norris. 2009. "Employers' Online Recruitment and Screening Practices", accepted in Economic Inquiry.
Research Papers
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Perspiration or Inspiration: What do Grades Measure? (with John M. Barron, Kelly H. Blanchard, Aysegul Sahin).
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Why Don't Employers Accept Job Applications Online? (with John B. Norris).
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Do Employers Change Job Offers in Their Job Ads to Facilitate Search? (with John B. Norris).
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Online Matching: Insights from a Panel of Online Job Boards.
Research In Progress
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Employers' Use of Pressure and Performance Pay in Teams.