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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

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

Lorenzo Corsini

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

Introduction , pp 1-6

Barry Chiswick

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

John Pencavel

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

Arnab Basu, Nancy Chau and Zahra Siddique

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

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

Daniel Dench and Michael Grossman

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

Arnaud Chevalier

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

Kenneth Y. Chay and Dean Hyslop

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

Andrew Grodner and Thomas Kniesner

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

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

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

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

Eric Edmonds

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

Recent Trends in Income Inequality , pp 1-50

Timothy M. Smeeding and Jeffrey Thompson

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

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

Zornitza Kambourova, Wolter Hassink and Adriaan Kalwij

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

Anders Frederiksen, Ebbe Graversen and Nina Smith

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

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

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

Filipe Almeida-Santos, Yekaterina Chzhen and Karen Mumford

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

Antti Kauhanen and Sami Napari

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

Timothy Bartik and Marta Lachowska

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

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

Household Lifetime Inequality Estimates in the U.S. Labor Market , pp 45-82

Luca Flabbi, James Mabli and Mauricio Salazar

Decomposing Changes in Male Wage Distribution in Brazil , pp 49-78

Yang Wang, Nora Lustig and Otavio Bartalotti

Consumption and Income Poverty Over the Business Cycle , pp 51-82

Bruce D. Meyer and James Sullivan

How much work is too much? Effects of child work hours on schooling – the case of Egypt , pp 53-97

Ragui Assaad, Deborah Levison and Hai-Anh Dang

Chapter 2 The Effect of Taxation on Informal Employment: Evidence from the Russian Flat Tax Reform , pp 55-99

Fabian Slonimczyk

Transitions between unemployment and low pay , pp 57-79

Lorenzo Cappellari and Stephen Jenkins

Gender Differences in Risk Preferences: An Empirical Study using Attitudinal and Behavioral Specifications of Risk Aversion , pp 61-91

Jyoti Rai and Jean Kimmel

Income inequality, income mobility, and social welfare for urban and rural households of China and the United States , pp 61-106

Niny Khor and John Pencavel

Entrepreneurship of the Left-Behind , pp 65-92

Corrado Giulietti, Jackline Wahba and Klaus Zimmermann

Ethnicity, assimilation, and harassment in the labor market , pp 67-88

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

Job Insecurity and Older Workers’ Mental Health in the United States , pp 71-98

Italo Gutierrez and Pierre-Carl Michaud

Modeling Immigrants’ Language Skills , pp 75-128

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

Position-Specific Promotion Rates and the “Fast Track” Effect , pp 77-107

Adam Clemens

The Impact of Wage Dispersion on Labor Productivity: Evidence from Finnish workers , pp 77-103

Laura Arranz-Aperte

Changes in Welfare with a Heterogeneous Workforce: The Case of Peru , pp 79-107

Adrian Robles and Marcos Robles