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1443: Long-Run Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training in West Germany
Michael Lechner , Ruth Miquel and Conny Wunsch
1442: Co-Determination, Efficiency, and Productivity
Felix FitzRoy and Kornelius Kraft
1441: Normative Evaluation of Tax Policies: From Households to Individuals
Olivier Bargain
1440: The Making of Entrepreneurs in Germany: Are Native Men and Immigrants Alike?
Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann
1439: Specialisation Patterns and the Synchronicity of Regional Employment Cycles in Europe
Ansgar Belke and Jens M. Heine
1438: The (Unexpected) Structure of "Rents" on the French and British Labour Markets
Andrew Clark and Claudia Senik
1437: Separating Uncertainty from Heterogeneity in Life Cycle Earnings
Flavio Cunha , James J. Heckman and Salvador Navarro
1436: Wage Dynamics and Unobserved Heterogeneity: Time Preference or Learning Ability?
Lalith Munasinghe and Nachum Sicherman
1435: Training and Union Wages
Christian Dustmann and Uta Schönberg
1434: Do Migrants Get Good Jobs? New Migrant Settlement in Australia
Pramod N. Junankar and Stephane Mahuteau
1433: Unilingual Versus Bilingual Education System: A Political Economy Analysis
Javier Ortega and Thomas Tangerås
1432: Are There Gender and Country of Origin Differences in Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes across European Destinations?
Alicia Adsera and Barry R. Chiswick
1431: The Size of the Shadow Economies of 145 Countries all over the World: First Results over the Period 1999 to 2003
Friedrich Georg Schneider
1430: Riches to Rags Every Month? The Fall in Consumption Expenditures Between Paydays
David Huffman and Matias Barenstein
1429: On the Returns to Training in Portugal
Santiago Budría and Pedro Telhado Pereira
1428: Minimum Wage Effects in the Longer Run
David Neumark and Olena Y. Nizalova
1427: Technology Adoption and Workforce Skill in U.S. Manufacturing Plants
Timothy Dunne and Kenneth R. Troske
1426: Initial Luck, Status-Seeking and Snowballs Lead to Corporate Success and Failure
Amihai Glazer , Vesa Kanniainen and Panu Poutvaara
1425: Gender Differences Across the Earnings Distribution: Evidence from NLS:86 & HSB:92
Spyros Konstantopoulos and Amelie F. Constant
1424: Employment Regulations through the Eyes of Employers: Do They Matter and How Do Firms Respond to Them?
Gaëlle Pierre and Stefano Scarpetta
1423: On the Notion of Responsibility in Organizations
Dirk Sliwka
1422: Must Skilled Migration Be a Brain Drain? Evidence from the Indian Software Industry
Simon Commander , Rupa Chanda , Mari Kangasniemi and L. Alan Winters
1421: The Effect of Firm-Level Contracts on the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
David E. Card and Sara De La Rica
1420: The Transition from Welfare to Work and the Role of Potential Labor Income
Hilmar Schneider and Arne Uhlendorff
1419: Language Skills and Immigrant Adjustment: What Immigration Policy Can Do!
Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller
1418: A Danish Profiling System
Michael Rosholm , Michael Svarer and Bo Hammer
1417: Do Co-Workers’ Wages Matter? Theory and Evidence on Wage Secrecy, Wage Compression and Effort
Gary Charness and Peter Joseph Kuhn
1416: Fast Times at Ridgemont High? The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births
Sandra E. Black , Paul J. Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes
1415: Recent Developments in Part-Time Work in EU-15 Countries: Trends and Policy
Hielke Buddelmeyer , Gilles MOURRE and Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger
1414: Works Councils, Labor Productivity and Plant Heterogeneity: Evidence from Quantile Regressions
Joachim Wagner , John Addison , Claus Schnabel and Thorsten Schank
1413: Why Is the Public Sector More Labor-Intensive? A Distortionary Tax Argument
Panu Poutvaara and Andreas Wagener
1412: Incentives and Effort in the Public Sector: Have U.S. Education Reforms Increased Teachers’ Work Hours?
Christiana Stoddard and Peter Joseph Kuhn
1411: Crossing the Tracks? More on Trends in the Training of Male and Female Workers in Great Britain
Melanie K. Jones , Paul L. Latreille and Peter James Sloane
1410: European Labour Mobility: Challenges and Potentials
Klaus F. Zimmermann
1409: Private Returns to Human Capital over Transition: A Case Study of Belarus
Francesco Pastore and Alina Verashchagina
1408: On the Political Economy of Social Security and Public Education
Panu Poutvaara
1407: Job Search with Nonparticipation
Paul Frijters and Bas van der Klaauw
1406: Trade Liberalization in a Globalizing World
Riccardo Faini
1405: An Experimental Test of Career Concerns
Alexander Karl Koch , Albrecht Morgenstern and Philippe Raab
1404: The Political Economy of Job Protection and Income Redistribution
Bruno Amable and Donatella Gatti
1403: Turbulence and Unemployment in a Job Matching Model
Wouter J. den Haan , Christian Haefke and Garey Ramey
1402: The Dispersion of Employees’ Wage Increases and Firm Performance
Christian Grund and Niels Westergård-Nielsen
1401: When Migrants Overstay Their Legal Welcome: A Proposed Solution to the Guest-Worker Program
Maurice Schiff
1400: Decomposing the Gender Wage Gap in the Netherlands with Sample Selection Adjustments
James Albrecht , Aico van Vuuren and Susan Vroman
1399: Marital Fertility and Religion: Recent Changes in Spain
Alicia Adsera
1398: How Different Are Immigrants? A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement
Sylke V. Schnepf
1397: Rooms of One’s Own: Gender, Race and Home Ownership as Wealth Accumulation in the United States
Stanley A. Sedo and Sherrie Kossoudji
1396: Income Volatility and Residential Mortgage Delinquency: Evidence from 12 EU Countries
Luis Diaz-Serrano
1395: The Economic Causes and Consequences of Canadian Citizenship
Don J. DeVoretz and Sergiy Pivnenko
1394: Nascent Entrepreneurs in German Regions: Evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM)
Ingo Lückgen , Dirk Oberschachtsiek , Rolf Sternberg and Joachim Wagner
1393: Do Markets Favor Women's Human Capital More than Planners?
Daniel MÜNICH , Jan Svejnar and Katherine Terrell
1392: Is the Household Demand for In-Home Services Sensitive to Tax Reductions? The French Case
Anne Flipo , Denis Fougere and Lucile Olier
1391: Single Motherhood and (Un)Equal Educational Opportunities: Evidence for Germany
Philippe Mahler and Rainer Winkelmann
1390: Religion as a Determinant of Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States
Evelyn L. Lehrer
1389: Information and Racial Exclusion
Shelly J Lundberg and Richard Startz
1388: Do Foreign Firms Really Pay Higher Wages? Evidence from Different Estimators
Pedro S. Martins
1387: Sex Differences in Managerial Style: From Individual Leadership to Organisational Labour Relationships
Eduardo Melero
1386: Self-Employment Dynamics Across the Business Cycle: Migrants Versus Natives
Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann
1385: The Effects of Unions on Wage Inequality: The Italian Case in the 1990s
Daniele Checchi and Laura Pagani
1384: North-South Technology Diffusion, Regional Integration, and the Dynamics of the “Natural Trading Partners” Hypothesis
Maurice Schiff and Yanling Wang
1383: Severance Pay and Corporate Finance: Empirical Evidence from a Panel of Austrian and Italian Firms
Mirko Cardinale and Mike Orszag
1382: Firm-Level Social Returns to Education
Pedro S. Martins
1381: Living in Two Neighborhoods: Social Interactions in the Lab
Armin Falk , Urs Fischbacher and Simon Gächter
1380: Selection Policy and the Labour Market Outcomes of New Immigrants
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
1379: Adjusting Household Structure: School Enrollment Impacts of Child Fostering in Burkina Faso
Richard Akresh
1378: The Use of Alternative Work Arrangements by the Jobless: Evidence from the CAEAS/CPS
John Addison and Christopher J. Surfield
1377: Evidence on Training and Career Paths: Human Capital, Information and Incentives
Eduardo Melero
1376: Rent Sharing Before and After the Wage Bill
Pedro S. Martins
1375: Dividing Justly in Bargaining Problems with Claims: Normative Judgments and Actual Negotiations
Simon Gächter and Arno Riedl
1374: Microeconomic Evidence of Creative Destruction in Industrial and Developing Countries
Eric J. Bartelsman , John Haltiwanger and Stefano Scarpetta
1373: Is There a Glass Ceiling over Europe? Exploring the Gender Pay Gap across the Wages Distribution
Wiji Arulampalam , Alison Lee Booth and Mark L Bryan
1372: Does Outsourcing Increase Profitability?
Holger Görg and Aoife Hanley
1371: Cross-Skill Redistribution and the Tradeoff between Unemployment Benefits and Employment Protection
Tito Boeri , J. Ignacio Conde-Ruiz and Vincenzo Galasso
1370: Employment Determination in Enterprises under Communism and in Transition: Evidence from Central Europe
Swati Basu , Saul Estrin and Jan Svejnar
1369: Shifting Perspectives in Pensions
Marek Góra and Edward Palmer
1368: Job Stability Trends, Layoffs, and Transitions to Unemployment: An Empirical Analysis for West Germany
Annette Bergemann and Antje Mertens
1367: The Importance of Firms in Wage Determination
Max Gruetter and Rafael Lalive
1366: The Chicken or the Egg? Endogeneity in Labour Market Participation of Informal Carers in England
Axel Heitmueller
1365: Income Inequality and Gender in New Zealand, 1998-2003
Kerry L. Papps
1364: Labor Market Institutions and the Employment-Productivity Trade-Off: A Wage Posting Approach
Arnaud Cheron , Jean-Olivier Hairault and Francois Langot
1363: How Changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment
Rafael Lalive , Jan van Ours and Josef Zweimüller
1361: The Determinants of Part-Time Work in EU Countries: Empirical Investigations with Macro-Panel Data
Hielke Buddelmeyer , Gilles MOURRE and Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger
1360: Computer Adoption and Returns in Transition
Yemisi Kuku , Peter Orazem and Rajesh Singh
1359: Tax Evasion and Social Interactions
Bernard Fortin , Guy Lacroix and Marie Claire Villeval
1358: Fly Me to the Moon: The Determinants of Secondary Jobholding in Germany and the UK
Guido Heineck and Johannes Schwarze
1357: Intermittent Employment: Work Histories of Israeli Men and Women, 1983-1995
Shoshana Neuman and Adrian Ziderman
1356: Performance Measure Properties and Incentives
Michael Gibbs , Kenneth A. Merchant , Wim A. Van der Stede and Mark A. Vargus
1355: Is There a Risk-Return Trade-Off across Occupations? Evidence from Spain
Luis Diaz-Serrano and Joop Hartog
1354: Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment: Evidence from Switzerland on Natives and Second Generation Immigrants
Philipp Christopher Bauer and Regina Therese Riphahn
1353: Do Pensions Impede Phased Retirement?
William Edward Even and David A. Macpherson
1352: Fairness and Freight-Handlers: Local Labor-Market Conditions and Wage-Fairness Perceptions in a Trucking Firm
Eric Verhoogen , Stephen V. Burks and Jeffrey Carpenter
1351: Subjective Well-Being and Relative Deprivation: An Empirical Link
D'Ambrosio, Conchita and Joachim R. Frick
1350: Changes in the Distribution of Male and Female Wages Accounting for Employment Composition Using Bounds
Richard Blundell , Amanda Gosling , Hidehiko Ichimura and Costas Meghir
1349: Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition
J. David Brown and John Sutherland Earle
1348: In the Right Place at the Wrong Time: The Role of Firms and Luck in Young Workers' Careers
Till von Wachter and Stefan Bender
1347: Social Reciprocity
Jeffrey Carpenter and Peter Hans Matthews
1346: The Evolution of Income-Related Health Inequalities in Switzerland over Time
Robert E. Leu and Martin Schellhorn
1345: Prize and Risk-Taking Strategy in Tournaments: Evidence from Professional Poker Players
Jungmin Lee
1344: Input versus Output Taxation in an Experimental International Economy
Arno Riedl and Frans A.A.M. van Winden
1343: What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania
J. David Brown , John Sutherland Earle and Daniela Lup