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1140: The Distribution of Wages in Belarus
Francesco Pastore and Alina Verashchagina
1139: Factor Endowment and Market Size in EU-CEE Trade: Would Human Capital Change the Actual Quality Trade Patterns?
Anna Maria Ferragina and Francesco Pastore
1138: Measuring State Dependence in Individual Poverty Status: Are There Feedback Effects to Employment Decisions and Household Composition?
Martin Biewen
1137: Fairness, Reciprocity, and Wage Rigidity
Truman Bewley
1136: Political Variables as Instruments for the Minimum Wage
Sara Lemos
1135: The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Wages, Employment and Prices
Sara Lemos
1134: What a Difference a Y Makes: Female and Male Nascent Entrepreneurs in Germany
Joachim Wagner
1133: Preferences for Rigid versus Individualized Wage Setting in Search Economies with Frictions
Tito Boeri and Michael Christopher Burda
1132: Non-Linearities in the Expansion of Capital Stock
Sher Verick , Wilko A. Letterie and Gerard Pfann
1131: Understanding the Effects of Early Motherhood in Britain: The Effects on Mothers
Greg Warren Kaplan , Alissa Goodman and Ian Walker
1130: Self-Employed Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden: A Way to Economic Self-Reliance?
Pernilla Andersson Joona and Eskil Wadensjö
1129: Evaluating Labor Market Reforms: A General Equilibrium Approach
César Alonso-Borrego , Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde and Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez
1128: Wages and Employment Growth: Disaggregated Evidence for West Germany
Jens Suedekum and Uwe Blien
1127: Unemployment, Growth and Fiscal Policy: New Insights on the Hysteresis Hypothesis
Xavier Raurich , Hector Sala and Valeri Sorolla
1126: Real Options Effects on Employment: Does Exchange Rate Uncertainty Matter for Aggregation?
Ansgar Belke and Matthias Göcke
1125: On Vertically Challenged and Horizontal Equity – Reassessing Anti-Discrimination Rules
Tomer Blumkin , Yoram Margalioth and Efraim Sadka
1124: Explaining the Growth of Part-Time Employment: Factors of Supply and Demand
Rob Euwals and Maurice Hogerbrugge
1123: Executive Compensation and Competition in the Banking and Financial Sectors
Vicente Cuñat and Maria Guadalupe
1122: The Effect of Extra Funding for Disadvantaged Pupils on Achievement
Edwin Leuven , Mikael Lindahl , Hessel Oosterbeek and Dinand Webbink
1121: Child Care Subsidy Receipt, Employment, and Child Care Choices of Single Mothers
Erdal Tekin
1120: Race, Performance, Pay and Retention among National Basketball Association Head Coaches
Lawrence Kahn
1119: Is the New Immigration Really So Bad?
David E. Card
1118: International Comparisons of Work Disability
James Banks , Arie Kapteyn , James P. Smith and Arthur van Soest
1117: The Effects of Vocational Training Programmes on the Duration of Unemployment in Eastern Germany
Reinhard Hujer , Stephan Lothar Thomsen and Christopher Zeiss
1116: Is There Such a Thing as a Family Constitution? A Test Based on Credit Rationing
Alessandro Cigno , Gianna Claudia Claudia Giannelli , Furio Camillo Rosati and Daniela Vuri
1115: Who Is Against Immigration? A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants
Anna Maria Mayda
1114: The Supply of Child Labour
Alessandro Cigno
1113: Child Poverty in English-Speaking Countries
John Micklewright
1112: Targeting and Self-Targeting in a New Social Assistance Scheme
John Micklewright , Aline Coudouel and Sheila Marnie
1111: New Mothers' Labour Force Participation in Italy: The Role of Job Characteristics
Massimiliano Bratti , Emilia Del Bono and Daniela Vuri
1110: Rising Occupational and Industry Mobility in the United States: 1968-1993
Gueorgui Kambourov and Iourii Manovskii
1109: The Gender Earnings Gap in Britain
Karen A. Mumford and Peter N Smith
1108: Real Time Econometrics
M Hashem Pesaran and Allan Timmermann
1107: The Diffusion of Computers and the Distribution of Wages
Lex Borghans and Bas ter Weel
1106: Lockerung des Kündigungsschutzes: Ein Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung?
Holger Bonin
1105: Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments
Thomas K. Bauer , Stefan Bender and Holger Bonin
1104: Selection or Network Effects? Migration Flows into 27 OECD Countries, 1990-2000
Peder J. Pedersen , Mariola Pytlikova and Nina Smith
1103: The Take-Up of Social Benefits
Janet Currie
1102: How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed
Solomon William Polachek
1101: Motivation, Expectations and the Gender Pay Gap for UK Graduates
Arnaud Chevalier
1100: The Success of Job Applications: A New Approach to Program Evaluation
Armin Falk , Rafael Lalive and Josef Zweimüller
1099: A Conceptual Framework for the Evaluation of Comprehensive Labor Market Policy Reforms in Germany
Michael Fertig and Jochen Kluve
1098: Nonparametric Bounds on the Returns to Language Skills
Libertad Gonzalez
1097: Single Mothers and Work
Libertad Gonzalez
1096: Using Happiness Surveys to Value Intangibles: The Case of Airport Noise
Bernard M.S. van Praag and Barbara E. Baarsma
1095: Regional Treatment Intensity as an Instrument for the Evaluation of Labour Market Policies
Markus Frölich and Michael Lechner
1094: The Self-Selection of Migrant Workers Revisited
Eran Yashiv
1093: Iatrogenic Specification Error: A Cautionary Tale of Cleaning Data
Christopher R. Bollinger and Amitabh Chandra
1092: The Effect of Economic Crises on Nutritional Status: Evidence from Russia
Steven Stillman and Duncan Thomas
1091: Youth Minimum Wage Reform and the Labour Market
Dean Robert Hyslop and Steven Stillman
1090: Temporary Employment Agencies: A Route for Immigrants to Enter the Labour Market?
Pernilla Andersson Joona and Eskil Wadensjö
1089: The Effects of the Minimum Wage in the Formal and Informal Sectors in Brazil
Sara Lemos
1088: The Economic Experiences of Refugees in Canada
Don J. DeVoretz , Sergiy Pivnenko and Morton Beiser
1087: The Political Economy of Social Exclusion with Implications for Immigration Policy
Mark Gradstein and Maurice Schiff
1086: Wage Mobility: Do Institutions Make a Difference? A Replication Study Comparing Portugal and the UK
Ana Rute Cardoso
1085: Job Tenure in Britain: Employee Characteristics Versus Workplace Effects
Karen A. Mumford and Peter N Smith
1083: On the Specification of Mincerian Wage Regressions with Heterogeneity, Non-Linearity, Non-Separability, and Heteroskedasticity
Christian Belzil
1082: A Search Model of Marriage with Differential Fecundity
Eugenio Pedro Giolito
1081: And in the Evening She's a Singer with the Band – Second Jobs, Plight or Pleasure?
René Böheim and Mark Philip Taylor
1080: Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and Unobserved Ability: Siblings Evidence from Five Countries
Anders Bjorklund , Bernt Bratsberg , Tor Eriksson , Markus Jantti and Oddbjørn Raaum
1079: Estimating the Probability of Leaving Unemployment Using Uncompleted Spells from Repeated Cross-Section Data
Maia Güell and Luojia Hu
1078: Work-Related Training and Wages: An Empirical Analysis for Male Workers in Switzerland
Michael Gerfin
1077: Firm-Sponsored General Training in Frictional Labour Markets: An Empirical Analysis for Switzerland
Michael Gerfin
1076: Employment Effects of Early Interventions on Job Search Programs
Andrea Weber and Helmut Hofer
1075: Are Job Search Programs a Promising Tool? A Microeconometric Evaluation for Austria
Andrea Weber and Helmut Hofer
1074: Regional Unemployment and its Persistence in Transition Countries
Fabian Bornhorst and Simon Commander
1073: The Changing Demand for Skills: Evidence from the Transition
Simon Commander and Janos Kollo
1072: The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Prices
Sara Lemos
1071: The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Prices in Brazil
Sara Lemos
1070: Are Wage and Employment Effects Robust to Alternative Minimum Wage Variables?
Sara Lemos
1068: Earnings Mobility Among Italian Low Paid Workers
Lorenzo Cappellari
1066: Why Are European Countries Diverging in Their Unemployment Experience?
Gilles Saint-Paul
1065: Identification and Estimation of Economic Models of Outmigration Using Panel Attrition
Charles Bellemare
1064: Wage Effects on Immigrants from an Increase in the Minimum Wage Rate: An Analysis by Immigrant Industry Concentration
Kalena E. Cortes
1063: Are Refugees Different from Economic Immigrants? Some Empirical Evidence on the Heterogeneity of Immigrant Groups in the United States
Kalena E. Cortes
1062: Dynamic Treatment Assignment – The Consequences for Evaluations Using Observational Data
Peter Fredriksson and Per Johansson
1061: The Dynamics of Local Employment in France
Pierre-Philippe Combes , Thierry Magnac and Jean-Marc Robin
1060: Complex Production Processes and Wage Inequality
Tuomas Pekkarinen
1059: Can Gerhard Schröder Do It? Prospects for Fundamental Reform of the German Economy and a Return to High Employment
Irwin Collier
1058: Equilibrium Unemployment and Investment Under Product and Labour Market Imperfections
Heikki Kauppi , Erkki Koskela and Rune Stenbacka
1057: Redesigning Teams and Incentives in a Merger: An Experiment with Managers and Students
Claude Montmarquette , Jean-Louis Rullière , Marie Claire Villeval and Romain Zeiliger
1056: Air Pollution and Infant Health: What Can We Learn From California's Recent Experience?
Janet Currie and Matthew Neidell
1055: Agglomeration Effects on Employer-Provided Training: Evidence from the UK
Giorgio Brunello and Francesca Gambarotto
1054: Estimating the Smoothing Parameter in the So-Called Hodrick-Prescott Filter
Ekkehart Schlicht
1053: Why Do School District Budget Referenda Fail?
Ronald G. Ehrenberg , Randy A. Ehrenberg , Christopher L. Smith and Liang Zhang
1052: Consumption Smoothing and the Structure of Labor and Credit Markets
Giuseppe Bertola and Winfried Koeniger
1051: Experience and Technology Adoption
Bruce A. Weinberg
1050: The Impact of Family-Friendly Policies in Denmark and Sweden on Mothers' Career Interruptions Due to Childbirth
Elina Pylkkänen and Nina Smith
1049: Using Analysis of Gini (ANoGi) for Detecting Whether Two Sub-Samples Represent the Same Universe: The SOEP Experience
Joachim R. Frick , Jan Goebel , Edna Schechtman , Gert G. Wagner and Shlomo Yitzhaki
1048: High School Types, Academic Performance and Early Labour Market Outcomes
Lorenzo Cappellari
1047: Transition Patterns for the Welfare Reliance of Low Income Mothers in Australia
Xiaodong Gong
1046: Job Insecurity and Children’s Emancipation
Sascha O. Becker , Samuel Bentolila , Ana Fernandes and Andrea Ichino
1045: Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself?
Stephan Meier and Alois Stutzer
1044: Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition
J. David Brown and John Sutherland Earle
1043: Shadow Economies around the World: What Do We Know?
Friedrich Georg Schneider and Robert Klinglmair
1042: Sequential Matching Estimation of Dynamic Causal Models
Michael Lechner
1041: The Public Sector Pay Gap in France, Great Britain and Italy
Claudio Lucifora and Dominique Meurs
1040: Fiscal Policy and Educational Attainment in the United States – A Generational Accounting Perspective
Xavier Chojnicki and Frédéric Docquier
1039: Institutional Uncertainty and European Social Union: Impacts on Job Creation and Destruction in the CEECs
Ansgar Belke , Matthias Göcke and Martin Hebler
1038: Exchange Rate Volatility and Employment Growth: Empirical Evidence from the CEE Economies
Ansgar Belke and Ralph Setzer