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6211: Labour Contracts and Performance of Cameroonian Firms
Benjamin Fomba Kamga
6210: Height and Cognitive Function among Older Europeans: Do People from "Tall" Countries Have Superior Cognitive Abilities?
Cahit Guven and Wang-Sheng Lee
6209: War and Women's Work: Evidence from the Conflict in Nepal
Nidhiya Menon and Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
6208: The Impact of Alternative Grade Configurations on Student Outcomes through Middle and High School
Guido Schwerdt and Martin R. West
6207: Foreign Ownership and Firm Survival: First Evidence for Enterprises in Germany
Joachim Wagner and John Philipp Weche Gelübcke
6206: Health Selection and the Effect of Smoking on Mortality
Jerome Adda and Valérie Lechene
6205: Immigrant Enclaves and Crime
Brian David Bell and Stephen Machin
6204: Impact of the 2008-2009 Food, Fuel, and Financial Crisis on the Philippine Labor Market
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers and Nidhiya Menon
6203: Updating, Self-Confidence and Discrimination
Konstanze Albrecht , Emma von Essen , Juliane Parys and Nora Szech
6202: Intergenerational Persistence in Income and Social Class: The Impact of Within-Group Inequality
Jo Blanden , Paul Gregg and Lindsey A. Macmillan
6201: The Career Costs of Children
Jerome Adda , Christian Dustmann and Katrien Stevens
6200: Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Chihmao Hsieh , Simon C. Parker and Mirjam van Praag
6199: Aggregate Impacts of a Gift of Time
Jungmin Lee , Daiji Kawaguchi and Daniel Hamermesh
6198: Scarring Effects of Unemployment
Øivind Anti Nilsen and Katrine Holm Reiso
6197: Sectoral Shifts, Diversification and Regional Unemployment: Evidence from Local Labour Systems in Italy
Roberto Basile , Alessandro Girardi , Marianna Mantuano and Francesco Pastore
6196: Black-White Marital Matching: Race, Anthropometrics, and Socioeconomics
Pierre-André Chiappori , Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque
6195: Impacts of Rural Electrification in Rwanda
Gunther Bensch , Jochen Kluve and Jörg Peters
6194: War and Stature: Growing Up During the Nigerian Civil War
Richard Akresh , Sonia Radhika Bhalotra , Marinella Leone and Una Okonkwo Osili
6193: Credit Constraints and Productive Entrepreneurship in Africa
Mina N. Baliamoune , Zuzana Brixiova and Leonce Ndikumana
6192: The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery
Graziella Bertocchi and Arcangelo Dimico
6191: Household Finances and the 'Big Five' Personality Traits
Sarah Brown and Karl Taylor
6190: Institutional Reforms and Educational Attainment in Europe: A Long Run Perspective
Michela Braga , Daniele Checchi and Elena Meschi
6189: Rural Labor Absorption Efficiency in Urban Areas under Different Urbanization Patterns and Industrial Structures: The Case of China
Chen Liwen , Xiangquan Zeng and Yang Yumei
6188: Demographic Divide and Labor Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region
Mehmet Serkan Tosun
6187: Costless Discrimination and Unequal Achievements in a Labour Market Experiment
Antonio Filippin and Francesco Guala
6186: Reforming an Insider-Outsider Labor Market: The Spanish Experience
Samuel Bentolila , Juan J. Dolado and Juan F Jimeno
6185: Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA
Eric A. Hanushek , Susanne Link and Ludger Woessmann
6184: Changes in Job Structure and Rising Wage Inequality in Urban China, 1995-2007
Chunbing Xing
6183: Long-term Employment and Job Security over the Last Twenty-Five Years: A Comparative Study of Japan and the U.S
Ryo Kambayashi and Takao Kato
6182: Decomposing the Sources of Earnings Inequality: Assessing the Role of Reallocation
Fredrik Andersson , Elizabeth E. Davis , Matthew Freedman , Julia Lane , Brian McCall and L. Kristin Sandusky
6181: Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model
Bart Leo Wim Cockx , Muriel Dejemeppe , Andrey Launov and Bruno Van der Linden
6180: The New Role of Temporary Agency Work in Germany
Alexander Spermann
6179: The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment: Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments
Alpaslan Akay , Gökhan Karabulut and Peter Martinsson
6178: How Local Are Labor Markets? Evidence from a Spatial Job Search Model
Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo
6177: Is Graduate Under-employment Persistent? Evidence from the United Kingdom
Irene Mosca and Robert E. Wright
6176: Wage Dispersion and Decentralization of Wage Bargaining
Christian Møller Dahl , Daniel le Maire and Jakob Roland Munch
6175: The French Unhappiness Puzzle: The Cultural Dimension of Happiness
Claudia Senik
6174: Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency: The Case of Job Satisfaction
Ada Ferrer--Carbonell , Bernard M.S. van Praag and Ioannis Theodossiou
6173: How Does Education Affect the Earnings Distribution in Urban China?
Le Wang
6172: The Effect of Religiosity and Religious Festivals on Positional Concerns: An Experimental Investigation of Ramadan
Alpaslan Akay , Gökhan Karabulut and Peter Martinsson
6171: Labor Productivity and Vocational Training: Evidence from Europe
Hector Sala and José Ignacio Silva
6170: Multidimensional Well-Being at the Top: Evidence for Germany
Andreas Peichl and Nico Pestel
6169: Migration, Openness and the Global Preconditions of 'Smart Development'
Arno Tausch and Almas Heshmati
6168: Homeownership, Social Capital and Parental Voice in Schooling
Arthur Grimes , Steven Stillman and Chris Young
6167: Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Comparative Advantages, Compulsory Schooling, and Earnings
Christian Belzil , Jorgen Hansen and Xingfei Liu
6166: It's the Opportunity Cost, Stupid! How Self-Employment Responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew
Peter Berkhout , Joop Hartog and Mirjam van Praag
6165: Bargaining Over Labor: Do Patients Have Any Power?
Joshua Gans and Andrew Keith Leigh
6164: The Role of Peers in Estimating Tenure-Performance Profiles: Evidence from Personnel Data
Andries de Grip , Jan Sauermann and Inge Sieben
6163: The Persistence of Informality: Evidence from Panel Data
Alpaslan Akay and Melanie Khamis
6162: Average and Marginal Returns to Upper Secondary Schooling in Indonesia
Pedro Carneiro , Michael Lokshin , Cristobal Ridao-Cano and Nithin Umapathi
6161: The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity
Francisco H. G. Ferreira and Jérémie Gignoux
6160: A Challenge for the G20: Globally Stipulated Debt Brakes and Transnational Independent Fiscal Supervisory Councils
Mathias Dolls , Andreas Peichl and Klaus F. Zimmermann
6159: Ethnic Disparities in the Graduate Labour Market
Aslan Zorlu
6158: Ethnic Disparities in Degree Performance
Aslan Zorlu
6157: Are the Self-Employed Really Jacks-of-All-Trades? Testing the Assumptions and Implications of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data
Daniel S. J. Lechmann and Claus Schnabel
6156: How Partisan is the Press? Multiple Measures of Media Slant
Joshua Gans and Andrew Keith Leigh
6155: Parental Ethnic Identity and Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants
Simone Schüller
6154: Religious Minorities and Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from Rural West Bengal
Pranab Kumar Das , Saibal Kar and Madhumanti Kayal
6153: Revealing Taste-Based Discrimination in Hiring: A Correspondence Testing Experiment with Geographic Variation
Magnus Carlsson and Dan-Olof Rooth
6152: Disability and Job Mismatches in the Australian Labour Market
Melanie K. Jones , Kostas Mavromaras , Peter James Sloane and Zhang Wei
6151: The Financial Crisis, Labor Market Transitions and Earnings: A Gendered Panel Data Analysis for Serbia
Niels-Hugo Blunch and Victor Sulla
6150: Migrant Youths' Educational Achievement: The Role of Institutions
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark , Mathias Sinning and Steven Stillman
6149: Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Care and Education
Christopher Ruhm and Jane Waldfogel
6148: Rubble Women: The Long-Term Effects of Postwar Reconstruction on Female Labor Market Outcomes
Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel , Melanie Khamis and Mutlu Yuksel
6147: Occupational Adjustment of Immigrants
Aslan Zorlu
6146: Contextualised Mobility Histories of Moving Desires and Actual Moving Behaviour
Rory Coulter and Maarten van Ham
6145: The Impact of Immigration on International Trade: A Meta-Analysis
Murat Genc , Masood Gheasi , Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot
6144: Welfare Participation by Immigrants in the UK
Stephen James Drinkwater and Catherine Robinson
6143: The Relative Importance of Local Labour Market Conditions and Pupil Attainment on Post-Compulsory Schooling Decisions
Elena Meschi , Joanna K. Swaffield and Anna Vignoles
6142: The Effect of Education Policy on Crime: An Intergenerational Perspective
Costas Meghir , Mårten Palme and Marieke Schnabel
6141: Financial Incentives, the Timing of Births, Birth Complications, and Newborns' Health: Evidence from the Abolition of Austria's Baby Bonus
Beatrice Brunner and Andreas Kuhn
6140: Does Migration Make You Happy? A Longitudinal Study of Internal Migration and Subjective Well-Being
Beata Nowok , Maarten van Ham , Allan M Findlay and Vernon Gayle
6139: Decline in Social Mobility: Unfulfilled Aspirations among Egypt's Educated Youth
Christine Binzel
6138: Educating Children of Immigrants: Closing the Gap in Norwegian Schools
Bernt Bratsberg , Oddbjørn Raaum and Knut Røed
6137: The Use of Flexible Measures to Cope with Economic Crises in Germany and Brazil
Werner Eichhorst , Paul Marx and José Pastore
6136: R&D Drivers in Young Innovative Companies
Jose Garcia-Quevedo , Gabriele Pellegrino and Marco Vivarelli
6135: Reforms, Growth and Persistence of Gender Gap: Recent Evidence from Private School Enrolment in India
Pushkar Maitra , Sarmistha Pal and Anurag Sharma
6134: Education, Job Search and Re-employment Outcomes among the Unemployed
W. Craig Riddell and Xueda Song
6133: Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development?
Alison Lee Booth , Lina Cardona Sosa and Patrick J. Nolen
6132: Minimum Wage Channels of Adjustment
Barry T. Hirsch , Bruce E. Kaufman and Tetyana Zelenska
6131: Can Money Change Who We Are? Estimating the Effects of Unearned Income on Measures of Incentive-Enhancing Personality Traits
Nattavudh Powdthavee , Christopher J. Boyce and Alex M. Wood
6130: Long Shadows of History: Persecution in Central Europe and Its Labor Market Consequences
Michal Myck and Radim Bohacek
6129: Disparities in Social Assistance Receipt between Immigrants and Natives in Sweden
Björn Anders Gustafsson
6128: Immigrant Participation in Welfare Benefits in the Netherlands
Aslan Zorlu
6127: Job Preferences as Revealed by Employee Initiated Job Changes
Christian Grund
6126: Work Hours Constraints and Health
David Nevin Fraser Bell , Steffen Otterbach and Alfonso Sousa-Poza
6125: Decomposing Changes in Income Risk Using Consumption Data
Richard Blundell , Hamish Low and Ian Peter Preston
6124: The Impact of the Macroeconomy on Health Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the Great Recession
John Cawley , Asako S. Moriya and Kosali Ilayperuma Simon
6123: Firm-Sponsored Classroom Training: Is It Worth It for Older Workers?
Benoit Dostie and Pierre Thomas Léger
6122: "One Muslim is Enough!" - Evidence from a Field Experiment in France
Claire L. Adida , David D. Laitin and Marie-Anne Valfort
6121: Socioeconomic Heterogeneity in the Effect of Health Shocks on Earnings: Evidence from Population-Wide Data on Swedish Workers
Petter Lundborg , Martin Nilsson and Johan Vikström
6120: Inequality during the Early Years: Child Outcomes and Readiness to Learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States
Bruce William Bradbury , Miles Corak , Jane Waldfogel and Elizabeth Washbrook
6119: Sizing It Up: Labor Migration Lessons of the EU Enlargement to 27
Amelie F. Constant
6118: Profit Sharing and Training
Kornelius Kraft and Julia Lang
6117: Family Background, Self-Confidence and Economic Outcomes
Antonio Filippin and Marco Paccagnella
6116: Giving Up Job Search During a Recession: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the South African Labour Market
Sher Verick
6115: The German Manufacturing Sector is a Granular Economy
Joachim Wagner
6114: The Implications of Cultural Background on Labour Market Choices: The Case of Religion and Entrepreneurship
Luca Nunziata and Lorenzo Rocco
6113: A New Approach to Testing Marginal Productivity Theory
Martin Biewen and Constantin Weiser
6112: Medical Marijuana Laws, Traffic Fatalities, and Alcohol Consumption
D. Mark Anderson and Daniel . Rees