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3495: Taking the Easy Way Out: How the GED Testing Program Induces Students to Drop Out
James J. Heckman , Paul A. LaFontaine and Pedro L. Rodríguez
3494: Immigrants and Welfare Programmes: Exploring the Interactions between Immigrant Characteristics, Immigrant Welfare Dependence and Welfare Policy
Alan Barrett and Yvonne McCarthy
3493: Human Capital Externalities and the Urban Wage Premium: Two Literatures and their Interrelations
Benedikt Halfdanarson , Daniel F. Heuermann and Jens Suedekum
3492: The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality: A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA
Anna Fräßdorf , Markus M. Grabka and Johannes Schwarze
3491: Would a Legal Minimum Wage Reduce Poverty? A Microsimulation Study for Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe and Viktor Steiner
3490: The Lot of the Unemployed: A Time Use Perspective
Alan B. Krueger and Andreas Mueller
3489: Do Migrants Get Good Jobs in Australia? The Role of Ethnic Networks in Job Search
Stephane Mahuteau and Junankar, Pramod N. (Raja)
3488: Mexican-American Entrepreneurship
Robert W. Fairlie and Christopher Woodruff
3487: Fixed Effects Bias in Panel Data Estimators
Hielke Buddelmeyer , Paul H. Jensen , Umut Oguzoglu and Elizabeth Webster
3486: Does Immigration Raise Natives’ Income? National and Regional Evidence from Spain
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina and Sara de la Rica
3485: Social Change
Jeremy Greenwood and Nezih Guner
3484: The Emerging Aversion to Inequality: Evidence from Poland 1992–2005
Irena Grosfeld and Claudia Senik
3483: Imposed Benefit Sanctions and the Unemployment-to-Employment Transition: The German Experience
Müller, Kai-Uwe and Viktor Steiner
3482: Efficiency and Effectiveness of Social Spending
Peter Herrmann , Adjunct Professor Dr. Arno Tausch , Almas Heshmati and Chemen S. J. Bajalan
3481: Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases
Jörg Oechssler , Andreas Roider and Patrick W. Schmitz
3480: Employment Effects of Welfare Reforms: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Life-Cycle Model
Peter Haan , Victoria Prowse and Arne Uhlendorff
3479: The Immigrant Earnings Disadvantage across the Earnings and Skills Distributions: The Case of Immigrants from the EU’s New Member States in Ireland
Alan Barrett , Seamus Mcguinness and Martin D. O'Brien
3478: The Treatment Effect, the Cross Difference, and the Interaction Term in Nonlinear “Difference-in-Differences” Models
Patrick A. Puhani
3477: Hyperbolic Discounting and the Phillips Curve
Liam Graham and Dennis J. Snower
3476: Never the Same After the First Time: The Satisfaction of the Second-Generation Self-Employed
Andrew Clark , Nathalie Colombier and David Masclet
3475: A Pragmatic Approach to Capital Account Liberalization
Eswar Prasad and Raghuram G. Rajan
3474: Quasi-Experimental Estimates of the Effect of Class Size on Achievement in Norway
Edwin Leuven , Hessel Oosterbeek and Marte Rønning
3473: Does the Effect of Incentive Payments on Survey Response Rates Differ by Income Support History?
Juan Baron , Robert Vincent Breunig , Cobb-Clark, Deborah , Tue Gorgens and Anastasia Sartbayeva
3472: Does More Mean Better? Sibling Sex Composition and the Link between Family Size and Children’s Quality
Javier E. Baez
3471: Private Supplementary Tutoring in Turkey: Recent Evidence on Its Various Aspects
Aysit Tansel and Fatma Bircan
3470: What Have We Learned? Assessing Labor Market Institutions and Indicators
Werner Eichhorst , Michael Feil and Christoph Braun
3469: Endogenous Reversals of Fortune
Mark Gradstein
3468: Civil Wars beyond their Borders: The Human Capital and Health Consequences of Hosting Refugees
Javier E. Baez
3467: Between Meritocracy and Ethnic Discrimination: The Gender Difference
Mahmood Arai , Moa Bursell and Lena Nekby
3466: Impact of the 1999 Earthquakes on the Outcome of the 2002 Parliamentary Election in Turkey
Ali T. Akarca and Aysit Tansel
3465: Cost and Benefit of Apprenticeship Training: A Comparison of Germany and Switzerland
Regina Dionisius , Samuel Mühlemann , Harald Pfeifer , Günter Walden , Felix Wenzelmann and Stefan C. Wolter (Samuel Muehlemann )
3464: In Search of Gender Bias in Household Resource Allocation in Rural China
Lina Song
3463: Heterogeneity, State Dependence and Health
Timothy Halliday
3462: The Contribution of Vocational Training to Employment, Job-Related Skills and Productivity: Evidence from Madeira Island
Santiago Budria and Pedro Telhado Pereira (Santiago Budria )
3461: Macroeconomic Policy and Unemployment by Economic Activity: Evidence from Turkey
Hakan Berument , Nukhet Dogan and Aysit Tansel
3460: Shall We Kill or Enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar Model
Guillermina Jasso
3459: Growing out of Poverty: Trends and Patterns of Urban Poverty in China 1988–2002
Simon Mark Appleton , Lina Song and Qingjie Xia
3458: Selective Migration and Health
Timothy Halliday and Michael C. Kimmitt
3457: The Determinants of Female Labour Supply in Belarus
Francesco Pastore and Alina Verashchagina
3456: The Impact of Population Aging on the Labor Market: The Case of Sri Lanka
Milan Vodopivec and Nisha Arunatilake
3455: Modelling the Employment and Wage Outcomes of Spouses: Is She Outearning Him?
Hans Bloemen and Elena Stancanelli
3454: The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China’s Transition
Simon Mark Appleton , John Knight , Lina Song and Qingjie Xia
3453: Was the Mandal Commission Right? Living Standard Differences between Backward Classes and Other Social Groups in India
Ira Gang , Kunal Sen and Yun, Myeong-Su
3452: Too Young to Leave the Nest? The Effects of School Starting Age
Sandra E. Black , Paul J. Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes
3451: Efficient Tax Policy Ranks Education Higher Than Saving
Wolfram F. Richter
3450: International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality
Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmermann
3449: Determinants of Managerial Values on Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from China
Liangrong Zu and Lina Song
3448: Interethnic Marriage: A Choice between Ethnic and Educational Similarities
Delia Furtado and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos
3447: Tax Rates and Tax Evasion: An Empirical Analysis of the Structural Aspects and Long-Run Characteristics in Italy
Bruno Chiarini , Elisabetta Marzano and Friedrich Schneider
3446: Occupational Selection in Multilingual Labor Markets
Núria Quella and Silvio Rendon
3445: Paintings and Numbers: An Econometric Investigation of Sales Rates, Prices and Returns in Latin American Art Auctions
Nauro F. Campos and Renata Leite Barbosa
3444: The “Bologna Process” and College Enrolment Decisions
Lorenzo Cappellari and Claudio Lucifora
3443: Life Satisfaction in Urban China: Components and Determinants
Lina Song and Simon Mark Appleton
3442: Global Business Cycles: Convergence or Decoupling?
Ayhan Kose , Christopher Otrok and Eswar Prasad
3441: From Illegal to Legal: Estimating Previous Illegal Experience among New Legal Immigrants to the United States
Guillermina Jasso , Douglas S. Massey , Mark R. Rosenzweig and James P. Smith
3440: Feedback and Incentives: Experimental Evidence
Tor Eriksson , Anders Poulsen and Villeval, Marie-Claire
3439: The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada
David Jaeger , Esteban F. Klor , Sami H. Miaari and Daniele Paserman
3438: How Viable Are Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts: Simulation Results for Slovenia
Milan Vodopivec
3437: A Caseworker Like Me: Does the Similarity between Unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements?
Stefanie Behncke , Markus Frölich and Michael Lechner
3436: Union Decline in Britain
David Blanchflower and Alex Bryson
3435: Institutions and Contract Enforcement
Armin Falk , David Huffman and W. Bentley MacLeod
3434: Minimum Wages and Welfare in a Hotelling Duopsony
Leo Kaas and Paul Madden
3433: New Evidence on the Dynamic Wage Curve for Western Germany: 1980–2004
Badi H. Baltagi , Uwe Blien and Katja Wolf
3432: The Impact of College Graduation on Geographic Mobility: Identifying Education Using Multiple Components of Vietnam Draft Risk
Ofer Malamud and Abigail Wozniak
3431: Understanding Poverty among the Elderly in India: Implications for Social Pension Policy
Sarmistha Pal and Robert Palacios
3430: Studying Abroad and the Effect on International Labor Market Mobility: Evidence from the Introduction of ERASMUS
Matthias Parey and Fabian Waldinger
3429: The Effect of Intragroup Communication on Preference Shifts in Groups
Michael P. Brady and Steven Wu
3428: The Gender Earnings Gap inside a Russian Firm: First Evidence from Personnel Data – 1997 to 2002
Thomas Dohmen , Hartmut Lehmann and Anzelika Zaiceva
3427: Public Sector Pay Gap in France: New Evidence Using Panel Data
Olivier Bargain and Blaise Melly
3426: Evolution of Capital Structure in East Asia: Corporate Inertia or Endeavours?
Nigel Driffield and Sarmistha Pal
3425: Econometric Causality
James J. Heckman
3424: Incentive Design and Trust: Comparing the Effects of Tournament and Team-Based Incentives on Trust
Robert J. Oxoby and Colette Friedrich
3423: Migration and the Wage Curve: A Structural Approach to Measure the Wage and Employment Effects of Migration
Herbert Brücker and Elke Jutta Jahn
3422: Wage Effects of Recruitment Methods: The Case of the Italian Social Service Sector
Michele Mosca and Francesco Pastore
3421: Women’s Liberation: What’s in It for Men?
Matthias Doepke and Michele Tertilt
3420: Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants and Non-Citizens in the EU: An East-West Comparison
Martin Kahanec and Anzelika Zaiceva
3419: Occupational Mismatch and Moonlighting among Spanish Physicians: Do Couples Matter?
Juan J. Dolado and Florentino Felgueroso
3418: Meta-Analysis of Empirical Evidence on the Labour Market Impacts of Immigration
Simonetta Longhi , Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot
3417: International Business Visits and the Technology Frontier
Steve Dowrick and Massimiliano Tani
3416: Ideology
Roland Benabou
3415: Macroeconomic Effects of Ownership Structure in OECD Countries
Donatella Gatti
3414: Does Employment Protection Help Immigrants? Evidence from European Labor Markets
Filipa Goncalves Sa
3413: Strategic Outsourcing, Profit Sharing and Equilibrium Unemployment
Erkki Koskela and Jan König
3412: Tobacco and Alcohol: Complements or Substitutes? A Structural Model Approach
Harald Tauchmann , Silja Göhlmann , Till Requate and Christoph M. Schmidt
3411: Motivating Politicians: The Impacts of Monetary Incentives on Quality and Performance
Claudio Ferraz and Frederico Finan
3410: Panic on the Streets of London: Police, Crime and the July 2005 Terror Attacks
Mirko Draca , Stephen Machin and Robert Witt
3409: Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism
Richard A. Easterlin
3408: Qualifying Religion: The Role of Plural Identities for Educational Production
Timo Boppart , Josef Falkinger , Volker Grossmann , Ulrich Woitek and Gabriela Wüthrich
3407: How Hurricanes Affect Employment and Wages in Local Labor Markets
Ariel R. Belasen and Solomon William Polachek
3406: Rent-Sharing under Different Bargaining Regimes: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Michael Rusinek and Francois Rycx
3405: Labour Supply and Taxes
Costas Meghir and David Phillips
3404: Individual Incentives in Program Participation: Splitting up the Process in Assignment and Enrollment
Andrea Weber
3403: Does Off-Farm Labor Relax Farmers’ Credit Constraints? Evidence from Longitudinal Data for Vietnam
Marco Stampini and Benjamin Davis
3402: A Primer on the 35-Hour in France, 1997–2007
Philippe Askenazy
3401: What Are the Factors Behind Pay Settlements? Evidence from Spanish and British Data
Bayo-Moriones, Alberto , Galdón-Sánchez, José Enrique and Martinez-de Moretin, Sara
3400: Risk-Taking Tournaments: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Petra Nieken and Dirk Sliwka
3399: The Health Returns to Education: What Can We Learn from Twins?
Petter Lundborg
3398: Brain Drain and its Determinants: A Major Issue for Small States
Michel Beine , Frédéric Docquier and Maurice Schiff
3397: War and Endogenous Democracy
Davide Ticchi and Andrea Vindigni
3396: Life-Cycle Equilibrium Unemployment
Arnaud Cheron , Jean-Olivier Hairault and Francois Langot