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7852: Business Cycles, Unemployment and Entrepreneurial Entry: Evidence from Germany

Michael Fritsch, Alexander Kritikos and Katharina Pijnenburg

7851: The Effect of Credit Guarantees on R&D Investment of SMEs in Korea

Almas Heshmati

7850: Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC

Eric Hanushek, Guido Schwerdt, Simon Wiederhold and Ludger Woessmann

7849: Beneath the Surface: The Decline in Gender Injury Gap

Tiziano Razzolini, Roberto Leombruni, Giovanni Mastrobuoni and Mario Pagliero

7848: Couples' Time Together: Complementarities in Production versus Complementarities in Consumption

Hani Mansour and Terra McKinnish

7847: Better Sexy than Flexy? A Lab Experiment Assessing the Impact of Perceived Attractiveness and Personality Traits on Hiring Decisions

Stijn Baert and Lynn Decuypere

7846: Universal Child Care, Maternal Employment, and Children's Long-Run Outcomes: Evidence from the U.S. Lanham Act of 1940

Chris M. Herbst

7845: Labour Market Discrimination against Former Juvenile Delinquents: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Stijn Baert and Elsy Verhofstadt

7844: Re-defining Informal Employment and Measuring its Determinants: Evidence from Russia

Hartmut Lehmann and Anzelika Zaiceva

7843: Immigration and the Informal Labor Market

Mariano Bosch and Lidia Farre

7842: U.S. Border Enforcement and Mexican Immigrant Location Choice

Sarah Bohn and Todd Pugatch

7841: The Causal Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants' Labor Market Outcomes in the UK

Alfonso Miranda and Yu Zhu

7840: New Evidence on the Healthy Immigrant Effect

Lidia Farre

7839: Migrant Remittances and Information Flows: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Catia Batista and Gaia Narciso

7838: Incarceration and Crime: Evidence from California's Public Safety Realignment Reform

Magnus Lofstrom and Steven Raphael

7837: Locus of Control and Savings

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sonja de New and Mathias Sinning

7836: Corporate Sports Activity and Work Morale: Evidence from a Japanese Automobile Maker

Masaru Sasaki and Fumio Ohtake

7835: Physician Payment Mechanisms, Hospital Length of Stay and Risk of Readmission: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Damien Échevin and Bernard Fortin

7834: Returns to Childbirth Technologies: Evidence from Preterm Births

N. Meltem Daysal, Mircea Trandafir and Reyn Van Ewijk

7833: Cognitive Development and Infectious Disease: Gender Differences in Investments and Outcomes

Sonia Bhalotra and Atheendar Venkataramani

7832: The Wealth, Health and Wellbeing of Ireland's Older People Before and During the Economic Crisis

Alan Barrett and Vincent O'Sullivan

7831: Environmental Federalism: A Survey of the Empirical Literature

Daniel Millimet

7830: STEM Graduates, Human Capital Externalities, and Wages in the U.S

John Winters

7829: How to Combine the Entry of Young People in the Labour Market with the Retention of Older Workers?

Werner Eichhorst, Tito Boeri, An De Coen, Vincenzo Galasso, Michael Jan Kendzia and Nadia Steiber

7828: Inefficient Equilibrium Unemployment in a Duocentric Economy with Matching Frictions

Etienne Lehmann, Paola Liliana Montero Ledezma and Bruno Van der Linden

7827: Do Business Visits Cause Productivity Growth?

Max Tani and Roselyne Joyeux

7826: Volatility and Growth: Governments are Key

Michael Jetter

7825: The US Labor Market in 2030: A Scenario Based on Current Trends in Supply and Demand

Rebecca Edwards and Fabian Lange

7824: When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jan Svejnar and Katherine Terrell

7823: Poverty Trends in Turkey

?eker, Sirma Demir and Stephen Jenkins

7822: The Real Exchange Rate and External Competitiveness in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski, Balázs Égert and Thouraya Hadj Amor Essid

7821: Asset Stripping, Rule of Law and Firm Survival: The Hoff-Stiglitz Model and Mass Privatization in Montenegro

Matjaž Koman, Laki?evi?, Milan, Janez Prašnikar and Jan Svejnar

7820: The Impact of Globalization and Technology Transfer on Manufacturing Employment and Skills in Ethiopia

Getinet Haile, Ilina Srour and Marco Vivarelli

7819: Understanding Chinese Consumption: The Impact of Hukou

Christian Dreger, Tongsan Wang and Yanqun Zhang

7818: Opportunity-Sensitive Poverty Measurement

Paolo Brunori, Francisco Ferreira, Maria Ana Lugo and Vito Peragine

7817: Do Business Cycles Have Long-Term Impact for Particular Cohorts?

Torben M. Andersen, Jonas Maibom, Michael Svarer and Allan Sørensen

7816: Employment Polarization in Spain along the Cycle 1997-2012

Brindusa Anghel, Sara De La Rica and Aitor Lacuesta

7815: Occupational Mobility and Living in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Housing Tenure Differences in 'Neighbourhood Effects'

Maarten van Ham and David Manley

7814: Transitions in Labour Market Status in the EU

Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger and Corrado Macchiarelli

7813: Minimum Wages and Employment in China

Tony Fang and Carl Lin

7812: The Polish Wage Curve: Micro Panel Data Analysis Based on the Polish Labor Force Survey

Badi Baltagi and Bartlomiej Rokicki

7811: What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage Distribution

Alessia Matano and Paolo Naticchioni

7810: Motherhood Wage Penalty in Times of Transition

Olena Nizalova and Tamara Sliusarenko

7809: What Do Labor Market Institutions Do?

Bertil Holmlund

7808: Replacing Churches and Mason Lodges? Tax Exemptions and Rural Development

Luc Behaghel, Adrien Lorenceau and Simon Quantin

7807: When Credit Dries Up: Job Losses in the Great Recession

Samuel Bentolila, Marcel Jansen, Gabriel Jimenez and Sonia Ruano

7806: Hidden Insurance in a Moral Hazard Economy

Giuseppe Bertola and Winfried Koeniger

7805: Fiscal Policy, Sovereign Default, and Bailouts

Falko Juessen and Andreas Schabert

7804: Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: Efficient, but Regressive?

Nico Pestel and Eric Sommer

7803: Looking After Number Two? Competition, Cooperation and Workplace Interaction

Tim Barmby, John Sessions and Alexandros Zangelidis

7802: Social Comparisons in Wage Delegation: Experimental Evidence

Gary Charness, Ramon Cobo-Reyes, Juan A. Lacomba, Francisco Lagos and José María Pérez

7801: Are Sunk Costs Irrelevant? Evidence from Playing Time in the National Basketball Association

Daniel Leeds, Michael Leeds and Akira Motomura

7800: Incentive Pay and Performance: Insider Econometrics in a Multi-Unit Firm

Hein Bogaard and Jan Svejnar

7799: Are Females Scared of Competing with Males? Results from a Field Experiment

Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia and Vincenzo Scoppa

7798: Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China

Belton Fleisher, William H. McGuire, Adam Nicholas Smith and Mi Zhou

7797: Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation

Riccardo Crescenzi, Max Nathan and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

7796: Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Entrepreneurship: Blessing or Curse?

Seçil Hülya Danakol, Saul Estrin, Paul Reynolds and Utz Weitzel

7795: Public-Private Entanglement: Entrepreneurship in a Hybrid Political Order, the Case of Lebanon

Nora Stel and Wim Naudé

7794: Is There an Educational Penalty for Being Suspended from School?

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sonja de New, Trinh Le, Duncan McVicar and Rong Zhang

7793: Impact of Duration of Primary Education on School Outcomes: A Cross-Country Analysis

Luis Diaz-Serrano and Jessica Pérez-Reynosa

7792: Jailer of Freedom and Enemy of Growth? The Role of Personal and Social Identities in Educational Choices

Giuseppina Autiero and Shane Niall O'Higgins

7791: The Costs of Early School Leaving in Europe

Giorgio Brunello and Maria De Paola

7790: "High"-School: The Relationship between Early Marijuana Use and Educational Outcomes

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sonja de New, Trinh Le, Duncan McVicar and Rong Zhang

7789: Part-time Work, Wages and Productivity: Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data

Andrea Garnero, Stephan Kampelmann and Francois Rycx

7788: Overeducation at a Glance: Determinants and Wage Effects of the Educational Mismatch, Looking at the AlmaLaurea Data

Floro Caroleo and Francesco Pastore

7787: Wage Flexibility and the Great Recession: The Response of the Irish Labour Market

Aedín Doris, Donal O'Neill and Olive Sweetman

7786: Old-Age Government Transfers and the Crowding Out of Private Gifts: The 70 and Above Program for the Rural Elderly in Mexico

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Laura Juarez

7785: Job Lock: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Robert Fairlie, Kanika Kapur and Susan Gates

7784: Age and Opportunities for Promotion

C. Sofia Machado and Miguel Portela

7783: Health Status, Disability and Retirement Incentives in Belgium

Alain Jousten, Mathieu Lefebvre and Sergio Perelman

7782: Acquiring Human Capital through the Generations by Migration

James Smith and Liam Delaney

7781: Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Catia Batista and Janis Umblijs

7780: The Return of the Prodigy Son: Do Return Migrants Make Better Leaders?

Marion Mercier

7779: Remittances and Migration Intentions of the Left-Behind

Matloob Piracha and Amrita Saraogi

7778: Immigration in Europe: Trends, Policies and Empirical Evidence

Sara De La Rica, Albrecht Glitz and Francesc Ortega

7777: Distributional Effects of Macroeconomic Policy Choices in Emerging Market Economies

Eswar Prasad

7776: The Cyclical Behaviour of Employers' Monopsony Power and Workers' Wages

Boris Hirsch, Elke Jahn and Claus Schnabel

7775: Couples' Labour Supply Responses to Job Loss: Boom and Recession Compared

Mark Bryan and Simonetta Longhi

7774: Does Homeownership Lead to Longer Unemployment Spells? The Role of Mortgage Payments

Stijn Baert, Freddy Heylen and Daan Isebaert

7773: Behind the Great Recession: Job Search and Housing Decisions

Silvio Rendon and Núria Quella

7772: Aid to Jobless Workers in Florida in the Face of the Great Recession: The Interaction of Unemployment Insurance and the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program

Colleen M. Heflin and Peter Mueser

7771: Path-Breakers: How Does Women's Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success?

Sonia Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras and Lakshmi Iyer

7770: Bride Price and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from Rural Senegal

Linguere Mbaye and Natascha Wagner

7769: Does Patience Matter for Marriage Stability? Some Evidence from Italy

Maria De Paola and Francesca Gioia

7768: After-School Care and Parents' Labor Supply

Christina Felfe, Michael Lechner and Petra Thiemann

7767: Career Lesbians: Getting Hired for Not Having Kids?

Stijn Baert

7766: Public, Private or Both? Analysing Factors Influencing the Labour Supply of Medical Specialists

Terence Cheng, Guyonne Kalb and Anthony Scott

7765: Stages of Diversification in a Neoclassical World

Catia Batista and Jacques Potin

7764: Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Robert Fairlie and Samantha H. Grunberg

7763: Regional Equilibrium Unemployment Theory at the Age of the Internet

Vanessa Lutgen and Bruno Van der Linden

7762: The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet

Anders Akerman, Ingvil Gaarder and Magne Mogstad

7761: Deployments, Combat Exposure, and Crime

D. Mark Anderson and Daniel Rees

7760: Prospect Theory and Tax Evasion: A Reconsideration of the Yitzhaki Puzzle

Amedeo Piolatto and Matthew Rablen

7759: After the Tournament: Outcomes and Effort Provision

Andrew McGee and Peter McGee

7758: Subjective Evaluations: Discretionary Bonuses and Feedback Credibility

William Fuchs

7757: The Decision to Become an Entrepreneur and the Firm Size Distribution: A Unifying Framework for Policy Analysis

Markus Poschke

7756: Absence from Work of the Self-Employed: A Comparison with Paid Employees

Daniel S. J. Lechmann and Claus Schnabel

7755: The Side Effect of Pension Reforms on Training: Evidence from Italy

Giorgio Brunello and Simona Comi

7754: Does Higher Education Enhance Migration?

Mika Haapanen and Petri Böckerman

7753: Nuns and the Effects of Catholic Schools: Evidence from Vatican II

Rania Gihleb and Osea Giuntella