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Integrating Retirement Models: Understanding Household Retirement Decisions , pp 79-112: Alan Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier
Deconstructing Theories of Overeducation in Europe: A Wage Decomposition Approach , pp 81-127: Seamus McGuinness and Konstantinos Pouliakas
Why Europeans work part-time? A cross-country panel analysis , pp 81-139: Hielke Buddelmeyer, Gilles Mourre and Melanie Ward
State Dependence in Social Assistance Receipt in Canada , pp 81-105: Jorgen Hansen, Magnus Lofstrom, Xingfei Liu and Xuelin Zhang
Patterns of Employment Disadvantage in a Recession , pp 83-113: Richard Berthoud and Lina Cardona-Sosa
Estimating the Intergenerational Elasticity and Rank Association in the United States: Overcoming the Current Limitations of Tax Data , pp 83-129: Bhashkar Mazumder
Chapter 3 Female Labor Participation and Occupation Decisions in Post-NAFTA Mexico , pp 85-127: Rafael De Hoyos
Who Pays for General Training in Private Sector Britain? , pp 85-123: Alison Booth and Mark Bryan
Parental Leave and the Glass Ceiling in Sweden: This research was supported by a grant from IFAU, Uppsala. A presentation based on this material was given as the Presidential Address by the first author at the European Society of Population Economics in Braga, Portugal, in June 2014 , pp 89-114: James Albrecht, Peter Skogman Thoursie and Susan Vroman
Citizenship in the United States: the roles of immigrant characteristics and country of origin , pp 91-130: Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller
Gender and Occupational Mobility in Urban China during the Economic Transition , pp 93-122: Yueping Song and Xiao-yuan Dong
Childcare Reform: Effects on Earnings and Employment among Native Swedish and Immigrant Mothers , pp 93-129: Magnus Wikström, Elena Kotyrlo and Niklas Hanes
Lifetime health consequences of child labor in Brazil , pp 99-133: Chanyoung Lee and Peter Orazem
Diabetes Morbidity After Displacement , pp 99-154: Annette Bergemann, Erik Grönqvist and Soffia Guðbjörnsdóttir
Chapter 3 Who Benefits from Reducing the Cost of Formality? Quantile Regression Discontinuity Analysis , pp 101-133: Tommaso Gabrieli, Antonio F. Galvao and Gabriel Montes-Rojas
Tenure, Wage Profiles and Monitoring , pp 105-162: John G. Sessions and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos
Why are jobs designed the way they are? , pp 107-154: Michael Gibbs, Alec Levenson and Cindy Zoghi
State Dependence in Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Germany Before and After the Hartz Reforms , pp 107-150: Sebastian Königs
The Effect of Variable Pay Schemes on Workplace Absenteeism , pp 109-157: Konstantinos Pouliakas and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos
Why is Income Inequality so High in Spain? , pp 109-177: Carlos Gradín
The Role of Degree Attainment in the Differential Impact of Job Corps on Adolescents and Young Adults , pp 113-156: Maria Bampasidou, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes and Daniel Parisian
Job Flows, Demographics, and the Great Recession , pp 115-154: Eva Sierminska and Yelena Takhtamanova
The Family Gap in Career Progression: The author gratefully acknowledges the comments by the editors, two anonymous referees, Amalia R. Miller, Øivind A. Nilsen, Kai Liu, Vanessa Dräger, colleagues at IZA and participants at the IZA Workshop on Gender Convergence in Bonn in April 2014. Kunze is grateful to the Research Council of Norway and the E.ON Ruhrgas Fund for financial support. All remaining errors are the author’s own responsibility , pp 115-142: Astrid Kunze
Expanding Social Insurance Coverage in Urban China , pp 123-179: John Giles, Dewen Wang and Albert Park
Wage Arrears and Inequality in the Distribution of Pay: Lessons from Russia , pp 125-155: Hartmut Lehmann and Jonathan Wadsworth
The Changing Occupational Distribution by College Major , pp 129-171: Michael Ransom and Aaron Phipps
Chapter 4 A Risk Augmented Mincer Earnings Equation? Taking Stock , pp 129-173: Joop Hartog
Green Cards and the Location Choices of Immigrants in the United States, 1971–2000 , pp 131-183: David Jaeger
Assessing the case for and against dual nationality: A study of Latin Americans' assimilation in the United States , pp 131-164: Francesca Mazzolari
Intra-Household Resource Allocation and Gender Bias in Iran , pp 131-157: Ebrahim Azimi
Income Shocks or Insurance – What Determines Consumption Inequality? , pp 131-166: Johannes Ludwig
Measuring child labor: comparisons between hours data and subjective measures , pp 135-159: Andrew Dillon
Chapter 4 Detecting Wage Under-Reporting Using a Double-Hurdle Model , pp 135-166: Péter Elek, János Köllo, Balazs Reizer and Péter A. Szabó
Projecting behavioral responses to the next generation of retirement policies , pp 141-195: Alan Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier
Common Law Marriage, Labor Supply, and Time Use: A Partial Explanation for Gender Convergence in Labor Supply: We thank the editors, two anonymous referees, and participants at an IZA workshop on gender convergence for helpful suggestions , pp 143-175: Shoshana Grossbard and Victoria Vernon
How Do Exit Rates from Social Assistance Benefit in Belgium Vary with Individual and Local Agency Characteristics? , pp 151-187: Sarah Carpentier, Karel Neels and Karel Van den Bosch
The Effect of Disenrollment from Medicaid on Employment, Insurance Coverage, and Health and Health Care Utilization , pp 155-194: Thomas DeLeire
The Impact of the Great Recession on the Italian Labour Market , pp 155-180: Francesco D'Amuri
Is seniority-based pay used as a motivational device? Evidence from plant-level data , pp 155-187: Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose E. Galdon-Sanchez and Maia Güell
Computers and the Wage Structure , pp 157-198: Michael Handel
Insecure, Sick and Unhappy? Well-Being Consequences of Temporary Employment Contracts , pp 157-193: Vincenzo Carrieri, Cinzia Di Novi, Rowena Jacobs and Silvana Robone
Adverse Selection and Incentives in an Early Retirement Program , pp 159-190: Kenneth T. Whelan, Ronald Ehrenberg, Kevin F. Hallock and Ronald L. Seeber
Why Has the College Gender Gap Expanded? , pp 159-203: Sarah Kroeger
Allocation of children's time along gender lines: Work, school, and domestic work in Brazil , pp 161-192: Diana I. Kruger, Matias Berthelon and Rodrigo Soares
Are Dangerous Jobs Paid Better? European Evidence , pp 163-192: Nikolaos Georgantzís and Efi Vasileiou
Chapter 5 Does Formal Work Pay? The Role of Labor Taxation and Social Benefit Design in the New EU Member States , pp 167-204: Johannes Koettl and Michael Weber
The Role of Establishments and the Concentration of Occupations in Wage Inequality , pp 167-193: Elizabeth Handwerker and James Spletzer
Social determinants of labor market status of ethnic minorities in Britain , pp 167-195: Martin Kahanec and Mariapia Mendola
Skilled or Educated? Educational Reforms, Human Capital, and Earnings , pp 173-197: Lorenzo Cappellari, Paolo Castelnovo, Daniele Checchi and Marco Leonardi
Chapter 5 Workers’ Mobility and the Return to Education, Evidence from Public and Private Sectors , pp 175-208: Yuval Mazar