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19628: Efficiency wages and the economic effects of the minimum wage: evidence from a low-wage labour market

Andreas Georgiadis

19626: International trade, minimum quality standards and the prisoners' dilemma

Dimitra Petropoulou

19622: Union density and varieties of coverage: the anatomy of union wage effects in Germany

Bernd Fitzenberger, Karsten Kohn and Alexander Lembcke

19620: Tax cuts in open economies

Alejandro Cunat, Szabolcs Deak and Marco Maffezzoli

19619: Private sector employment growth, 1998-2004: a panel analysis of British workplaces

Alex Bryson and Satu Nurmi

19611: Delayed doves: MPC voting behaviour of externals

Stephen Hansen and Michael McMahon

19608: Policy uncertainty and precautionary savings

Francesco Giavazzi and Michael McMahon

19603: Union decline in Britain

David Blanchflower and Alex Bryson

19599: Labor market reforms, job instability, and the flexibility of the employment relationship

Niko Matouschek, Paolo Ramezzana and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

19592: Multinational firms, monopolistic competition and foreign investment uncertainty

Arunish Chawla

19589: A tale of two countries: unions, closures and growth in Britain and Norway

Alex Bryson and Harald Dale-Olsen

19584: Does regionalism affect trade liberalization towards non-members?

Antoni Estevadeordal, Caroline Freund and Emanuel Ornelas

19579: Mapping prices into productivity in multisector growth models

L. Rachel Ngai and Roberto Samaniego

19576: Was Germany ever united?: evidence from intra- and international trade 1885-1933

Nikolaus Wolf

19573: Productivity dispersion, competition and productivity measurement

Ralf Martin

19572: Wage setting patterns and monetary policy: international evidence

Giovanni Olivei and Silvana Tenreyro

19570: Resurrecting the participation margin

Monique Ebell

19569: Product market deregulation and the U.S. employment miracle

Monique Ebell and Christian Haefke

19567: Evolution of locations, specialisation and factor returns with two distinct waves of globalisation

Jang Ping Thia

19566: Real origins of the great depression: monopoly power, unions and the American business cycle in the 1920s

Monique Ebell and Albrecht Ritschl

19564: A 'new trade' theory of GATT/WTO negotiations

Ralph Ossa

19563: The cost of grade retention

Marco Manacorda

19562: Relative factor endowments and international portfolio choice

Alejandro Cunat and Christian Fons-Rosen

19561: Minimum wages and earnings inequality in urban Mexico. Revisiting the evidence

Mariano Bosch and Marco Manacorda

19557: Measuring and assessing the impact of basic skills on labour market outcomes

Steven McIntosh and Anna Vignoles

19546: Over education in the graduate labour market: some evidence from alumni data

Peter Dolton and Mary Silles

19544: The differential in earnings premia between academically and vocationally trained males in the United Kingdom

Gavan Conlon

19541: Companies use of psychometric testing and the changing demand for skills: a review of the literature

Andrew Jenkins

19540: The incidence and outcomes associated with the late attainment of qualifications in the United Kingdom

Gavan Conlon

19524: Recruiting and retaining teachers in the UK: an analysis of graduate occupation choice from the 1960s to the 1990s

Arnaud Chevalier, Peter Dolton and Steven McIntosh

19517: Britain's record on skills

Richard Layard, Steven McIntosh and Anna Vignoles

19509: Zero returns to compulsory schooling in Germany: evidence and interpretation

Jorn-Steffen Pischke and Till von Wachter

19507: Changes in intergenerational mobility in Britain

Joanne Blanden, Alissa Goodman, Paul Gregg and Stephen Machin

19503: Why do employers use selection tests? Evidence from British workplaces

Andrew Jenkins and Alison Wolf

19498: Monotonicity and the Roy model

Arnaud Chevalier and Gauthier Lanot

19493: Are education subsides an efficient redistributive device?

Robert Dur and C. N. Teulings

19491: Employer learning and schooling-related statistical discrimination in Britain

Fernando Galindo-Rueda

19477: Does it pay to attend a prestigious university?

Arnaud Chevalier and Gavan Conlon

19474: The impact of the school year on student performance and earnings: evidence from the German short school years

Jorn-Steffen Pischke

19472: Further analysis of the returns to academic and vocational qualifications

Steven McIntosh

19470: The labour market impact of adult education and training: a cohort analysis

Leon Feinstein, Fernando Galindo-Rueda and Anna Vignoles

19469: Regional variations in adult learning and vocational training: evidence from NCDS and WERS 98

Andrew Jenkins and Alison Wolf

19467: Women, lifelong learning and employment

Andrew Jenkins

19461: Family income and educational attainment: a review of approaches and evidence for Britain

Joanne Blanden and Paul Gregg

19451: Evaluating the impact of education on earnings in the UK: models, methods and results from the NCDS

Richard Blundell, Lorraine Dearden and Barbara Sianesi

19447: The role of credit constraints in educational choices: evidence from NCDS and BCS70

Lorraine Dearden, Leslie McGranahan and Barbara Sianesi

19428: Which skills matter?

Pedro Carneiro, Claire Crawford and Alissa Goodman

19426: Quantifying the influence of initial values on nonlinear prediction

Qiwei Yao and Howell Tong

19425: From the cradle to the labor market? The effect of birth weight on adult outcomes

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes

19423: Asymmetric least squares regression estimation: a nonparametric approach

Qiwei Yao and Howell Tong

19420: Are schools drifting apart? Intake stratification in English secondary schools

Stephen Gibbons and Shqiponja Telhaj

19414: The mobility of English school children

Stephen Machin, Shqiponja Telhaj and Joan Wilson

19412: Close neighbours matter: neighbourhood effects on early performance at school

Dominique Goux and Eric Maurin

19409: Education, occupation and career expectations: determinants of the gender pay gap for UK graduates

Arnaud Chevalier

19408: Using rate of return analyses to understand sector skill needs

Nattavudh Powdthavee and Anna Vignoles

19405: Sheepskin or prozac: the causal effect of education on mental health

Arnaud Chevalier and Leon Feinstein

19401: Accounting for intergenerational income persistence: non-cognitive skills, ability and education

Joanne Blanden, Paul Gregg and Lindsey Macmillan

19400: The long term impacts of compulsory schooling: evidence from a natural experiment in school leaving dates

Emilia Del Bono and Fernando Galindo-Rueda

19399: Higher education academic salaries in the UK

Mark Collins, Anna Vignoles and James Walker

19398: The value of basic skills in the British labour market

Augustin de Coulon, Oscar Marcenaro-Gutierrez and Anna Vignoles

19397: Over-education and the skills of UK graduates

Arnaud Chevalier and Joanne Lindley

19393: Urban density and pupil attainment

Stephen Gibbons and Olmo Silva

19389: The impact of computer use, computer skills and computer use intensity: evidence from WERS 2004

Peter Dolton and Panu Pelkonen

19387: Use IT or lose IT?: the impact of computers on earnings

Peter Dolton, Gerald Makepeace and Helen Robinson

19385: Is free school meal status a valid proxy for socio-economic status (in schools research)?

Graham Hobbs and Anna Vignoles

19384: Mobility and school disruption

Stephen Gibbons and Shqiponja Telhaj

19383: Studying abroad and the effect on international labor market mobility: evidence from the introduction of Erasmus

Matthias Parey and Fabian Waldinger

19382: A researcher's guide to the Swedish compulsory school reform

Helena Holmlund

19380: Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria: evidence from failed firms

Josef Fersterer, Jorn-Steffen Pischke and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

19377: Students' academic self-perception

Arnaud Chevalier, Stephen Gibbons, Andy Thorpe, Martin Snell and Sherria Hoskins

19372: Irreversible investment with uncertainty and scale economies

Avinash Dixit

19371: Imperfect capital markets and persistence of initial wealth inequalities

Thomas Piketty

19370: A general model of information sharing in oligopoly

Michael A. Raith

19368: Roads to equality: wealth distribution dynamics with public-private capital complementarity

Francisco Ferreira

19365: Reputation and allocation of ownership

Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka

19360: Cooperatives vs. outside ownership

Oliver Hart and John Moore

19358: Berge's maximum theorem with two topologies on the action set

Anthony Horsley, Andrew Wrobel and Timothy Van Zandt

19356: A theory of supervision with endogenous transaction costs

Antoine Faure-Grimaud, Jean-Jacques Laffont and David Martimort

19354: Foundations of incomplete contracts

Oliver Hart and John Moore

19351: The property-rights theory of the firm with endogenous timing of asset purchase

David de Meza and Ben Lockwood

19350: Implementation and renegotiation

Eric Maskin and John Moore

19349: Dynamic voting in clubs

Kevin Roberts

19346: Market experimentation in a dynamic differentiated-goods duopoly

R Keller and Sven Rady

19344: The density form of equilibrium prices in continuous time and Boiteux's solution to the shifting-peak problem

Anthony Horsley and Andrew Wrobel

19342: Efficiency rents of storage plants in peak-load pricing, ii: hydroelectricity

Anthony Horsley and Andrew Wrobel

19340: On the design of hierarchies: coordination versus specialization

Oliver Hart and John Moore

19338: The short-run approach to LRMC pricing for multiple outputs with nondifferentiable costs

Anthony Horsley and Andrew Wrobel

19337: Collective bargaining under complete information

Carlos Diaz-Moreno and Jose Galdon-Sanchez

19336: Efficiency rents of pumped-storage plants and their uses for operation and investment decisions

Anthony Horsley and Andrew Wrobel

19330: Continuity of the equilibrium price density and its uses in peak-load pricing

Anthony Horsley and Andrew Wrobel

19329: Self-confidence and survival

Heski Bar-Isaac

19325: Investment timing under incomplete information

Jean-Paul Décamps, Thomas Mariotti and Stephane Villeneuve

19323: Strategic liquidity supply and security design

Bruno Biais and Thomas Mariotti

19320: Efficiency and equilibrium when preferences are time-inconsistent

Erzo Luttmer and Thomas Mariotti

19319: Dynamic yardstick regulation

Antoine Faure-Grimaud and Sonje Reiche

19316: Agreeing now to agree later: contracts that rule out but do not rule in

Oliver Hart and John Moore

19315: Knowledge disclosure, patents and optimal organization of research and development

Sudipto Bhattacharya and Sergei Guriev

19313: A practical short-run approach to market equilibrium

Anthony Horsley and Andrew Wrobel

19309: The Wong-Viner envelope theorem for subdifferentiable functions

Anthony Horsley and Andrew Wrobel

19307: Characterizations of long-run producer optima and the short-run approach to long-run market equilibrium: a general theory with applications to peak-load pricing

Anthony Horsley and Andrew Wrobel