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Skill Disparities and Unequal Family Outcomes: An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2014 AEA Meetings in Philadelphia. I would like to thank Richard Startz, Gabriella Conti, and participants in the IZA Workshop on Gender Convergence and seminars at the University of Mannheim and University of Zurich for valuable comments on this project. I also appreciate the excellent assistance and comments I’ve received from Jenna Stearns. Financial support from the Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research at UCSB is gratefully acknowledged , pp 177-212

Shelly Lundberg

The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Earnings Inequality: Evidence from China , pp 179-212

Carl Lin and Myeong-Su Yun

Incentive Problems in China’s New Rural Pension Program , pp 181-201

Xiaoyan Lei, Chuanchuan Zhang and Yaohui Zhao

Reversed Roles? Wage and Employment Effects of the Current Crisis , pp 181-206

Lutz Bellmann and Hans-Dieter Gerner

Immigrant and Native Asset Accumulation in Housing , pp 185-213

Sherrie A. Kossoudji

The promotion dynamics of American executives , pp 189-231

Christian Belzil and Michael Bognanno

The Effects of Mandatory Activation on Welfare Entry and Exit Rates , pp 189-217

Anna Persson and Ulrika Vikman

The Mental Cost of Pension Loss: The Experience of Russia's Pensioners during Transition , pp 191-240

Penka Kovacheva and Xiaotong Niu

The impact of conditional cash transfer programs on household work decisions in Brazil , pp 193-218

Andrea Ferro, Ana Lucia Kassouf and Deborah Levison

Involuntary Unemployment and Efficiency-Wage Competition , pp 193-210

Marco Guerrazzi

The Effect of Land Title on Child Labor Supply: Empirical Evidence from Brazil , pp 195-222

Mauricio Moura and Rodrigo Bueno

The Incentive Effects of Sickness Absence Compensation – Analysis of a Natural Experiment in Eastern Europe , pp 195-225

Márton Csillag

Inequality and Changes in Task Prices: Within and between Occupation Effects , pp 195-226

Nicole Fortin and Thomas Lemieux

Mexican-American self-employment: a dynamic analysis of business ownership , pp 197-227

Magnus Lofstrom and Chunbei Wang

Illegal migration, enforcement, and minimum wage , pp 197-224

Gil Epstein and Odelia Heizler (Cohen)

The Influence of Stocks and Flows on Migrants’ Location Choices , pp 199-229

Thomas Bauer, Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

Labor Market Mismatch and Labor Productivity: Evidence from PIAAC Data , pp 199-241

Muge Adalet and Dan Andrews

Chapter 6 Migration as a Substitute for Informal Activities: Evidence from Tajikistan , pp 205-227

Ilhom Abdulloev, Ira Gang and John Landon-Lane

The Gender Gap in Starting Salaries for New College Graduates , pp 205-229

Robert Thornton and Judith A. McDonald

The Economic Crisis, Public Sector Pay and the Income Distribution , pp 207-225

Tim Callan, Brian Nolan and John Walsh

Chapter 6 Foregone Earnings from Smoking: Evidence for a Developing Country , pp 209-238

Michael Lokshin and Kathleen Beegle

Playing Hard to Get: Theory and Evidence on Layoffs, Recalls, and Unemployment , pp 211-258

Núria Rodriguez-Planas

Trading Places: A Decade of Earnings Mobility in Chile and Nicaragua , pp 213-237

Rafael Novella, Laura Ripani, Agustina Suaya, Luis Tejerina and Claudia Vazquez

Who Cares – and Does it Matter? Measuring Wage Penalties for Caring Work: Helpful comments were received from Paula England, Meghan Skira, Aaron Sojourner, the editors, referees, and participants at the IZA Workshop and a Georgia State University seminar. Julia Manzella appreciates funding received from the Dan E. Sweat Dissertation Fellowship designed to support research addressing urban, community, or education policy issues , pp 213-275

Barry Hirsch and Julia Manzella

First- and Second-Generation Immigrant Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes: A Comparison of the United States and Canada , pp 215-270

Abdurrahman Aydemir and Arthur Sweetman

Intra-household time allocation in rural Mexico: Evidence from a randomized experiment , pp 219-257

Marta Rubio-Codina

The Impact of Temporary Assistance Programs on Disability Rolls and Re-employment , pp 219-258

Stephan Lindner and Austin Nichols

The Changing Time use of U.S. Welfare Recipients between 1992 and 2005 , pp 223-255

Marie Connolly

Earnings losses following job change in Japan: Evidence from a job placement firm , pp 225-250

Michael Bognanno and Lisa Delgado

Automatic Stabilizers, Economic Crisis and Income Distribution in Europe , pp 227-255

Mathias Dolls, Clemens Fuest and Andreas Peichl

The Role of Employer-provided Sick Pay in Britain and Norway , pp 227-252

Alex Bryson and Harald Dale-Olsen

Intergenerational Transmission of Skills and Differences in Labor Market Outcomes for Blacks and Whites , pp 227-286

Tsunao Okumura and Emiko Usui

The employees of native and immigrant self-employed , pp 229-250

Pernilla Andersson Joona and Eskil Wadensjö

Chapter 7 The Persistence of Informality: Evidence from Panel Data , pp 229-255

Alpaslan Akay and Melanie Khamis

Wage Growth and Job Mobility in the Early Career: Testing a Statistical Discrimination Model of the Gender Wage Gap , pp 231-260

Philippe Belley, Nathalie Havet and Guy Lacroix

Wage and Job Dynamics after Welfare Reform: The Importance of Job Skills , pp 231-298

Rucker C. Johnson

Self-selection models for public and private sector job satisfaction , pp 233-251

Simon Luechinger, Alois Stutzer and Rainer Winkelmann

Chapter 7 The Impact of Worker Effort on Public Sentiment Toward Temporary Migrants , pp 239-261

Gil Epstein and Alessandra Venturini

Can Long-Term Cohabiting and Marital Unions be Incentivized? , pp 241-283

Audrey Light and Yoshiaki Omori

Much Ado about Nothing? The Wage Penalty of Holding a PhD Degree but Not a PhD Job Position , pp 243-277

Giuseppe Gaeta, Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera and Francesco Pastore

Wages and the Risk of Displacement , pp 251-276

Anabela Carneiro and Pedro Portugal

Immigrant self-employment: does intermarriage matter? , pp 253-271

Dimitris Georgarakos and Konstantinos Tatsiramos

US Employment and Opioids: Is There a Connection? , pp 253-280

Janet Currie, Jonas Jin and Molly Schnell

The survival and growth of establishments: does gender segregation matter? , pp 253-282

Helena Persson and Gabriella Sjögren Lindquist

Economic Downturn and Stress Testing European Welfare Systems , pp 257-286

Francesco Figari, Andrea Salvatori and Holly Sutherland

Does Higher Education Quality Matter in the UK? , pp 257-292

Arnaud Chevalier

Chapter 8 Job Separations and Informality in the Russian Labor Market , pp 257-290

Hartmut Lehmann, Tiziano Razzolini and Anzelika Zaiceva

What Impact does Old-age Pension Receipt Have on the Use of Public Assistance Programs Among the Elderly? , pp 259-295

Norma Coe and April Yanyuan Wu

Leveling the intra-household playing field: compensation and specialization in child labor allocation , pp 259-295

Ximena Del Carpio and Karen Macours

Economic and Health Implications of Long-Term Unemployment: Earnings, Disability Benefits, and Mortality , pp 259-305

Kenneth Couch, Gayle L. Reznik, Christopher R. Tamborini and Howard M. Iams