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Health and the Wage Rate: Cause, Effect, Both, or Neither? New Evidence on an Old Question☆ , pp 1-24

Daniel Dench and Michael Grossman

OUTPUT-BASED PAY: INCENTIVES, RETENTION OR SORTING? , pp 1-25

Edward P. Lazear

Explaining the Revolution in U.S. Fertility, Schooling, and Women’s Work among Households Formed in 1875, 1900, and 1925 , pp 1-78

Matthias Cinyabuguma, William Lord and Christelle Viauroux

ACCOUNTING FOR INCOME INEQUALITY AND ITS CHANGE: A NEW METHOD, WITH APPLICATION TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF EARNINGS IN THE UNITED STATES , pp 1-38

Gary S. Fields

Selection into worst forms of child labor , pp 1-31

Eric Edmonds

Do Chinese Employers Avoid Hiring Overqualified Workers? Evidence from an Internet Job Board , pp 1-30

Kailing Shen and Peter Kuhn

Gender and Dynamic Agency: Theory and Evidence on the Compensation of Top Executives☆ , pp 1-59

Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti and María José Prados

On the link between investment in on-the-job training and earnings dispersion: the case of France , pp 1-34

Audrey Dumas, Said Hanchane and Jacques Silber

What Do Workers Want? The Representation Gap at the EU Establishment as Perceived by Their Workplace Representatives , pp 1-39

John Addison and Paulino Teixeira

Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Binary Response Panel Data Models: Empirical Evidence Using Alternative Approaches , pp 1-39

Kenneth Y. Chay and Dean Hyslop

To Be or Not to Be a Scientist?☆ , pp 1-39

Arnaud Chevalier

Recent Trends in Income Inequality , pp 1-50

Timothy M. Smeeding and Jeffrey Thompson

Did Trade Liberalization Help Women? the Case of Mexico in the 1990s , pp 1-35

Ernesto Aguayo-Téllez, Jim Airola, Chinhui Juhn and Carolina Villegas-Sanchez

Labor supply with social interactions: econometric estimates and their tax policy implications , pp 1-23

Andrew Grodner and Thomas Kniesner

The SAM Approach to Epidemic Models , pp 1-23

Pietro Garibaldi, Espen R. Moen and Christopher A. Pissarides

Earnings Inequality and Market Work in Husband–Wife Families , pp 1-37

John Pencavel

A Comparison of Major World Inequality Data Sets: LIS, OECD, EU-SILC, WDI, and EHII , pp 1-48

James K. Galbraith, Jaehee Choi, Béatrice Halbach, Aleksandra Malinowska and Wenjie Zhang

Introduction , pp 1-6

Barry Chiswick

Chapter 1 Tax Evasion, Minimum Wage Noncompliance, and Informality , pp 1-53

Arnab Basu, Nancy Chau and Zahra Siddique

Racial Differences in Labor Market Transitions and the Great Recession , pp 1-53

Kenneth A. Couch, Robert Fairlie and Huanan Xu

Chapter 1 How do Adolescents Spell Time Use? An Alternative Metholological Approach For Analyzing Time-Diary DATA , pp 1-44

Charlene Kalenkoski, David Ribar and Leslie Stratton

Inequality of Opportunity in Europe: Is There a Role for Institutions?☆ , pp 1-44

Daniele Checchi, Vito Peragine and Laura Serlenga

Institutions, Technological Change and Wage Differentials between Skilled and Unskilled Workers: Theory and Evidence from Europe , pp 1-33

Lorenzo Corsini

Convergences in Men’s and Women’s Life Patterns: Lifetime Work, Lifetime Earnings, and Human Capital Investment☆The authors would like to thank the participants of the IZA Workshop on Gender Convergence in April 2014 and the seminar participants at Middlebury College, Wesleyan University and the IAFFE Annual Conference for helpful comments. The authors also would like to thank the editors Sol Polachek and Kostas Tatsiramos and two anonymous referees for their helpful suggestions on this paper , pp 1-33

Joyce Jacobsen, Melanie Khamis and Mutlu Yuksel

Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased* , pp 1-26

Rania Gihleb and Kevin Lang

A Short Introduction to EUROMOD: an Integrated European Tax-Benefit Model , pp 1-26

Christine Lietz and Daniela Mantovani

Is Immigration Good or Bad for the Economy? Analysis of Attitudinal Responses , pp 3-34

Christian Dustmann and Ian Preston

Work and money: payoffs by ethnic identity and gender , pp 3-30

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

Migrants to America Since 1986 , pp 9-42

David M. Reimers

The Effects of Advanced Degrees on the Wage Rates, Hours, Earnings, and Job Satisfaction of Women and Men* , pp 25-81

Joseph G. Altonji, John Humphries and Ling Zhong

Overtime work, dual job holding, and taxation , pp 25-55

Anders Frederiksen, Ebbe Graversen and Nina Smith

Women’s Labor Market Participation After an Adverse Health Event , pp 25-70

Zornitza Kambourova, Wolter Hassink and Adriaan Kalwij

The Long-term Impact of Work-hour Regulations on Physician Labor Supply , pp 27-60

Judith Liu

Pension Incomes in the European Union: Policy Reform Strategies in Comparative Perspective , pp 27-71

Daniela Mantovani, Fotis Papadopoulos, Holly Sutherland and Panos Tsakloglou

INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS AND SELF-EMPLOYMENT AS SYSTEMS OF INCENTIVES AND CONTROL: THEORY, EMPIRICS, AND A SURVEY OF EVIDENCE , pp 27-68

John Garen

Ancestry versus ethnicity: the complexity and selectivity of Mexican identification in the United States , pp 31-66

Brian Duncan and Stephen Trejo

Migration, Remittances, and Rural Employment Patterns: Evidence from China , pp 31-63

Sylvie Démurger and Shi Li

Household poverty and child labor decisions in Malawi , pp 33-51

Levison S. Chiwaula

Employee training and wage dispersion: white- and blue-collar workers in Britain , pp 35-60

Filipe Almeida-Santos, Yekaterina Chzhen and Karen Mumford

The Effects of Incomplete Employee Wage Information: A Cross-Country Analysis , pp 35-75

Solomon W. Polachek and Jun (Jeff) Xiang

Career and Wage Dynamics: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data , pp 35-76

Antti Kauhanen and Sami Napari

A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy☆Part of this paper was written while Solomon W. Polachek was a visiting scholar at the NBER in Cambridge, MA. We thank Vikesh Amin, Talia Bar, Erling Barth, Fran Blau, Richard Burkhauser, Henry Farber, Dan Feenberg, Richard Freeman, Claudia Goldin, David Hacker, Larry Kahn, Subal Kumbhakar, Shelly Lundberg, Haim Ofek, Thomas Rawski, Susan Wolcott, Dennis Yang, Xi Yang, seminar participants at Cornell University, IZA, Kasetsart University (Thailand), Rutgers University, SUNY-Albany, and SUNY-Buffalo, as well as Kostas Tatsiramos and two anonymous referees for valuable comments and suggestions , pp 35-88

Solomon Polachek, Xu Zhang and Xing Zhou

The Short-Term Effects of the Kalamazoo Promise Scholarship on Student Outcomes , pp 37-76

Timothy Bartik and Marta Lachowska

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ECONOMY AND THE WELFARE CASELOAD: A DYNAMIC APPROACH , pp 39-69

Steven Haider, Jacob Alex Klerman and Elizabeth Roth

Employment Dynamics and Business Relocation: New Evidence from the National Establishment Time Series , pp 39-83

David Neumark, Junfu Zhang and Brandon Wall

Cross-National Deployment of “Graduate Jobs”: Analysis Using a New Indicator Based on High Skills Use☆ , pp 41-79

Golo Henseke and Francis Green

The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Britain , pp 41-79

Lorenzo Cappellari and Stephen Jenkins

Union Effects on Product and Technological Innovation , pp 41-65

Alex Bryson and Harald Dale-Olsen

Immigrant Skill Transferability and the Propensity to Invest in Human Capital , pp 43-73

Harriet O. Duleep

Chapter 2 The Opt-Out Revolution: Recent Trends in Female Labor Supply , pp 45-83

Heather Antecol