2026 John H. Pencavel: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	41	2158	1949	1244	1095	148	9797

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Economics and Finance

2158

1949

1244

1095

148

9797

Research.com Recognitions

2009 - Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
2008 - Jacob Mincer Award, the Society of Labour Economics (SOLE)
1993 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
1987 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

John H. Pencavel is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and works primarily in the social sciences. Their research encompasses multiple subfields including public administration, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, general health professions, and strategy and management.

Their work covers several main topics within their fields, including:

Labor Movements and Unions
Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
Employment and Welfare Studies
Cooperative Studies and Economics
Wine Industry and Tourism
Political Economy and Marxism
Income, Poverty, and Inequality

Pencavel has published extensively in the following venues:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership
Industrial and Labor Relations Review
Economica

Frequent collaborations include work with coauthor Niny Khor.

Recent papers authored by Pencavel include:

"The performance of consumers' cooperatives in America" (2020) in the Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership
"Wage Differentials, Bargaining Protocols, and Trade Unionism in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Labor Markets" (2020) in Industrial and Labor Relations Review
"Hours, Employment and Earnings of American Manufacturing Workers from the 19th Century to the 21st Century" (2021) in Economica
"Wage Differentials, Bargaining Protocols, and Trade Unionism in Mid-Twentieth Century American Labor Markets" (2020) in SSRN Electronic Journal

Another recent related paper coauthored by Niny Khor is titled "Measuring Income Mobility, Income Inequality, and Social Welfare for Households of the People's Republic of China" (2024), published in SSRN Electronic Journal.

John H. Pencavel has been recognized with several awards, including:

Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association (2009)
Jacob Mincer Award, the Society of Labour Economics (SOLE) (2008)
Fellow of the Econometric Society (1993)
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1987)

Best Publications

Labor supply of men: A survey

John Pencavel

1761
Citations
Testing between Competing Models of Wage and Employment Determination in Unionized Markets

Thomas E. MaCurdy;John H. Pencavel

472
Citations
American Trade Union Growth: 1900–1960

Orley Ashenfelter;John H. Pencavel

449
Citations
The Extent and Consequences of Job Turnover

Patricia M. Anderson;Bruce D. Meyer;John Pencavel;Mark J. Roberts

423
Citations
Chapter 1 Labor supply of men: A survey

John Pencavel

388
Citations
The Behavior of Worker Cooperatives: The Plywood Companies of the Pacific Northwest

Ben Craig;John Pencavel

386
Citations
Assortative Mating by Schooling and the Work Behavior of Wives and Husbands

John Pencavel

342
Citations
The Productivity of Working Hours

John H. Pencavel

332
Citations
A note on income tax evasion, labor supply, and nonlinear tax schedules

John H. Pencavel

296
Citations
A Bayesian Learning Model Fitted to a Variety of Empirical Learning Curves

Boyan Jovanovic;Yaw Nyarko;Griliches

271
Citations
Wages, Specific Training, and Labor Turnover in U.S. Manufacturing Industries

John H. Pencavel

255
Citations
Participation and Productiviy: A Comparison of Worker Cooperatives and Conventional Firms in the Plywood Industry

Ben Craig;John Pencavel

255
Citations
Wages, Employment, and Capital in Capitalist and Worker-Owned Firms

John Pencavel;Luigi Pistaferri;Fabiano Schivardi

243
Citations
The market work behavior and wages of women: 1975-94.

John Pencavel

232
Citations
Wage and Employment Determination under Trade Unionism: The International Typographical Union

James N. Dertouzos;John H. Pencavel

211
Citations
Trends in Market Work Behavior of Women since 1940

Mary T. Coleman;John Pencavel

191
Citations
The Tradeoff Between Wages and Employment in Trade Union Objectives

John H. Pencavel

189
Citations
Work Effort, on-the-Job Screening, and Alternative Methods of Remuneration

John H. Pencavel

177
Citations
Wages and Employment under Trade Unionism: Microeconomic Models and Macroeconomic Applications

John Pencavel

169
Citations
The Empirical Performance of Orthodox Models of the Firm: Conventional Firms and Worker Cooperatives

John Pencavel;Ben Craig

164
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Orley Ashenfelter Princeton University

Fabiano Schivardi Guido Carli Free International University for Social Studies

Luigi Pistaferri Stanford University

Michael D. Hurd RAND Corporation

John S. Earle George Mason University

Bruce D. Meyer University of Chicago

Bertil Holmlund Uppsala University

Laurence J. Kotlikoff Boston University

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