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7118: The Value of Earning for Learning: Performance Bonuses in Immigrant Language Training

Olof Åslund and Mattias Engdahl

7117: Losing Heart? The Effect of Job Displacement on Health

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes

7116: The Impact of Scoring Weights on Price and Quality Outcomes: An Application to the Procurement of Welfare-to-Work Contracts

Pierre Koning and Arthur van de Meerendonk

7115: Peaceful Coexistence? The Role of Religious Schools and NGOs in the Growth of Female Secondary Schooling in Bangladesh

M Asadullah and Nazmul Chaudhury

7114: The Effects of Living Wage Laws on Low-Wage Workers and Low-Income Families: What Do We Know Now?

David Neumark, Matthew Thompson and Leslie Koyle

7113: Simulating the Economic Impacts of Living Wage Mandates Using New Public and Administrative Data: Evidence for New York City

David Neumark, Matthew Thompson, Francesco Brindisi, Leslie Koyle and Clayton Reck

7112: How do Principals Assign Students to Teachers? Finding Evidence in Administrative Data and the Implications for Value-added

Steven Dieterle, Cassandra Guarino, Mark D. Reckase and Jeffrey Wooldridge

7111: Returning Home at Times of Trouble? Return Migration of EU Enlargement Migrants during the Crisis

Anzelika Zaiceva and Klaus Zimmermann

7110: A Roadmap to Vocational Education and Training Systems Around the World

Werner Eichhorst, Núria Rodriguez-Planas, Ricarda Schmidl and Klaus Zimmermann

7109: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex Discrimination

Ana Rute Cardoso, Paulo Guimaraes and Pedro Portugal

7108: Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission

Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti

7107: Don't Worry, Be Happy? Happiness and Reemployment

Annabelle Krause-Pilatus

7106: Corruption, Shadow Economy and Income Inequality: Evidence from Asia

Saibal Kar and Shrabani Saha

7105: The New Stylized Facts about Income and Subjective Well-Being

Daniel Sacks, Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers

7104: Wage Growth through Job Hopping in China

Kenn Ariga, Fumio Ohtake, Masaru Sasaki and Zheren Wu

7103: Estimating Returns to Education when the IV Sample is Selective

Le Wang

7102: Experimental Labor Markets and Policy Considerations: Incomplete Contracts and Macroeconomic Aspects

Fortuna Casoria and Arno Riedl

7101: Understanding Urban Wage Inequality in China 1988-2008: Evidence from Quantile Analysis

Simon Appleton, Lina Song and Qingjie Xia

7100: Early Child Care and Child Development: For Whom it Works and Why

Christina Felfe and Rafael Lalive

7099: Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Youth Body Composition

Michael Grossman, Erdal Tekin and Roy Wada

7098: Cross-Border Spillover: U.S. Gun Laws and Violence in Mexico

Arindrajit Dube, Oeindrila Dube and Omar García-Ponce

7097: Monetary Reference Points of Managers: An Empirical Investigation of Status Quo Preferences and Social Comparisons

Christian Grund and Johannes Martin

7096: Anonymous Job Applications in Europe

Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Ulf Rinne and Klaus Zimmermann

7095: FDI and Wages: Evidence from Firm-Level and Linked Employer-Employee Data in Hungary, 1986-2008

John Earle, Almos Telegdy and Gábor Antal

7094: Visa Policies, Networks and the Cliff at the Border

Simone Bertoli and Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga

7093: The Impact of Educational Mismatch on Firm Productivity: Evidence from Linked Panel Data

Stephan Kampelmann and Francois Rycx

7092: The Effect of Tip Credits on Earnings and Employment in the U.S. Restaurant Industry

William Even and David Macpherson

7091: Absenteeism, Unemployment and Employment Protection Legislation: Evidence from Italy

Vincenzo Scoppa and Daniela Vuri

7090: The Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey: Towards a Better Understanding of Labor Markets in Transition

Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev and Klaus Zimmermann

7089: Does Education Matter for Economic Growth?

Michael S. Delgado, Daniel Henderson and Christopher Parmeter

7088: Base Salaries, Bonus Payments, and Work Absence among Managers in a German Company

Christian Pfeifer

7087: Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-Based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps?

Greg Duncan and Aaron Sojourner

7086: Threat of Grade Retention, Remedial Education and Student Achievement: Evidence from Upper Secondary Schools in Italy

Erich Battistin and Antonio Schizzerotto

7085: Framing Effects and Impatience: Evidence from a Large Scale Experiment

Eline van der Heijden, Tobias Klein, Wieland Müller and Jan Potters

7084: In-Work Benefits and the Nordic Model

Ann-Sofie Kolm and Mirco Tonin

7083: Income Inequality and Saving

Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado and Mayssun El-Attar

7082: Evaluating the Effect of Ownership Status on Hospital Quality: The Key Role of Innovative Procedures

Laurent Gobillon and Carine Milcent

7081: Lingering Illness or Sudden Death? Pre-Exit Employment Developments in German Establishments

Daniel Fackler, Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner

7080: The Returns to Language Skills in the US Labor Market

Ingo Isphording and Mathias Sinning

7079: Entrepreneurship Training and Self-Employment among University Graduates: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Tunisia

Patrick Premand, Stefanie Brodmann, Rita Almeida, Rebekka Grun and Mahdi Barouni

7078: Recent Developments in the Economics of Happiness: A Selective Overview

Alois Stutzer and Bruno Frey

7077: Is Longer Unemployment Rewarded with Longer Job Tenure?

Miki Kohara, Masaru Sasaki and Tomohiro Machikita

7076: Fiscal Decentralisation, Local Institutions and Public Goods Provision: Evidence from Indonesia

Sarmistha Pal and Zaki Wahhaj

7075: Heterogeneity in Union Status and Employee Well-Being

Getinet Haile, Alex Bryson and Michael White

7074: Labour Turnover and the Spatial Distribution of Unemployment: A Panel Data Analysis Using Employment Registry Data

Francesco Pastore and Joanna Tyrowicz

7073: Immigration and Trade Creation for the U.S.: The Role of Immigrant Occupation

Kusum Mundra

7072: Mobility Across Multiple Generations: The Iterated Regression Fallacy

Jan Stuhler

7071: The Relationship between EU Indicators of Persistent and Current Poverty

Stephen Jenkins and Philippe Van Kerm

7070: Cyclical Variation in Labor Hours and Productivity Using the ATUS

Michael Burda, Daniel Hamermesh and Jay Stewart

7069: Income, Democracy, and Critical Junctures

Matteo Cervellati, Florian Jung, Uwe Sunde and Thomas Vischer

7068: The Growth of Low Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market

David Autor and David Dorn

7067: Household Interaction and the Labor Supply of Married Women

Zvi Eckstein and Osnat Lifshitz

7066: The Role of Parental Income over the Life Cycle: A Comparison of Sweden and the UK

Anders Bjorklund, Markus Jantti and Martin Nybom

7065: Mothers' Labour Market Participation: Do Grandparents Make It Easier?

Bruno Arpino, Chiara Pronzato and Lara Tavares

7064: Does Custody Law Affect Family Behavior In and Out of Marriage?

René Böheim, Marco Francesconi and Martin Halla

7063: Competition and Educational Productivity: Incentives Writ Large

W. Bentley Macleod and Miguel Urquiola

7062: Immigrant Wage and Employment Assimilation: A Comparison of Methods

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Barbara Hanel and Duncan McVicar

7061: Domestic Multinationals, Foreign Affiliates, and Labour Demand Elasticities

Olivier Godart, Holger Görg and Sir David Greenaway

7060: The Developmental Approach to Child and Adult Health

Gabriella Conti and James Heckman

7059: Going to School in Purdah: Female Schooling, Mobility Norms and Madrasas in Bangladesh

M Asadullah and Zaki Wahhaj

7058: Working for a Good Cause

Robert Dur and Robin Zoutenbier

7057: Heterogeneity in Subjective Wellbeing: An Application to Occupational Allocation in Africa

Paolo Falco, William Maloney, Bob Rijkers and Mauricio Sarrias

7056: Income Risk, Income Mobility and Welfare

Tom Krebs, Pravin Krishna and William Maloney

7055: Household Survey Data for Research on Well-Being and Behavior in Central Asia

Tilman Brück, Damir Esenaliev, Antje Kroeger, Alma Kudebayeva, Bakhrom Mirkasimov and Susan Steiner

7054: An Exponential Class of Dynamic Binary Choice Panel Data Models with Fixed Effects

Majid Al-Sadoon, Tong Li and Mohammad Pesaran

7053: Can't Buy Mommy's Love? Universal Childcare and Children's Long-Term Cognitive Development

Christina Felfe, Natalia Nollenberger and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

7052: The Effects of 9/11 on Attitudes Toward Immigration and the Moderating Role of Education

Simone Schüller

7051: Strategies of Cooperation and Punishment among Students and Clerical Workers

Maria Bigoni, Gabriele Camera and Marco Casari

7050: Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Christian Pfeifer and Joachim Wagner

7049: The Labor Demand Was Downward Sloping: Disentangling Migrants' Inflows and Outflows, 1929-1957

Costanza Biavaschi

7048: Per Se Drugged Driving Laws and Traffic Fatalities

D. Mark Anderson and Daniel Rees

7047: The Minimum Wage Affects Them All: Evidence on Employment Spillovers in the Roofing Sector

Bodo Aretz, Melanie Arntz and Terry Gregory

7046: What Explains the Decline in Wage Mobility in the German Low-Wage Sector?

Bodo Aretz and Nicole Gürtzgen

7045: Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in Japan among Sons and Daughters: Levels and Trends

Arnaud Lefranc, Fumiaki Ojima and Takashi Yoshida

7044: Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Sander M. Hoogendoorn, Simon Parker and Mirjam Praag

7043: Regional Unemployment, Gender and Time Allocation of the Unemployed

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and José Alberto Molina

7042: Effect of Perceptions and Behaviour on Access to and Use of Financial Service: Evidence from South Africa

Samuel Annim, Thankom Arun and Philip Kostov

7041: Are Skills a Constraint on Firms? New Evidence from Russia

Simon Commander and Irina Denisova

7040: Understanding the Mechanisms Through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes

James Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto and Peter Savelyev

7039: The Impact of Non-Parental Child Care on Child Development: Evidence from the Summer Participation

Chris M. Herbst

7038: United but (Un-)Equal: Human Capital, Probability of Divorce and the Marriage Contract

Helmuth Cremer, Pierre Pestieau and Kerstin Roeder

7037: The Cost of Acting "Girly": Gender Stereotypes and Educational Choices

Marta Favara

7036: Worker Productivity and Wages: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Ana Lopes and Paulino Teixeira

7035: Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries

Hartmut Lehmann and Alexander Muravyev

7034: Migraine Headache and Labor Market Outcomes

Daniel Rees and Joseph J. Sabia

7033: Estimating the Influence of Life Satisfaction and Positive Affect on Later Income Using Sibling Fixed-Effects

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Andrew Oswald

7032: Lotteries vs. All-Pay Auctions in Fair and Biased Contests

Gil Epstein, Yosef Mealem and Shmuel Nitzan

7031: The Efficacy and Efforts of Interest Groups in Post Elections Policy Formation

Gil Epstein, Yosef Mealem and Shmuel Nitzan

7030: The Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power

Ernst Fehr, Holger Herz and Tom Wilkening

7029: Use and Abuse of Authority: A Behavioral Foundation of the Employment Relation

Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr and Klaus Schmidt

7028: Split Decisions: Family Finance when a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work

Michael Clemens and Erwin R. Tiongson

7027: The Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton and Laurent Gobillon

7026: Population Policies, Demographic Structural Changes, and the Chinese Household Saving Puzzle

Suqin Ge, Dennis Yang and Junsen Zhang

7025: Nash Bargaining and the Wage Consequences of Educational Mismatches

Joop Hartog and Michael Sattinger

7024: How Should Peer-Review Panels Behave?

Daniel Sgroi and Andrew Oswald

7023: Employer's Information and Promotion-Seeking Activities

Gil Epstein

7022: Separating Introduction Effects from Selectivity Effects: The Differences in Employment Patterns of Co-Determined Firms

Rafael Gralla and Kornelius Kraft

7021: Higher Wages, Overstaffing or Both? The Employer's Assessment of Problems Regarding Wage Costs and Staff Level in Co-Determined Establishments

Rafael Gralla and Kornelius Kraft

7020: Immigrants, Ethnic Identities and the Nation-State

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

7019: English Deficiency and the Native-Immigrant Wage Gap

Alfonso Miranda and Yu Zhu