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7668: The Consequences of Cumulative Discrimination: How Special Schooling Influences Employment and Wages of Roma in the Czech Republic

Shane Niall O'Higgins and Christian Brüggemann

7667: Ethnicity and Gender in the Labour Market in Central and South East Europe

Shane Niall O'Higgins

7666: Money for Nothing? Ukrainian Immigrants in Poland and their Remitting Behaviors

Pawel Kaczmarczyk

7665: UK Migration Policy and Migration from Eastern Partnership Countries

Ken Clark and Stephen Drinkwater

7664: Costs and Benefits of Labor Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries: The Case of Poland

Maciej Duszczyk, Marek Góra and Pawel Kaczmarczyk

7663: Full Employment: A Distant Dream for Europe

Indermit Gill, Johannes Koettl and Truman Packard

7662: Non-Standard Employment across Occupations in Germany: The Role of Replaceability and Labour Market Flexibility

Werner Eichhorst, Paul Marx and Verena Tobsch

7661: Do More Educated Leaders Raise Citizens' Education?

Luis Diaz-Serrano and Jessica Pérez-Reynosa

7660: The Consequences of a Piece Rate on Quantity and Quality: Evidence from a Field Experiment

John Heywood, William Siebert and Xiangdong Wei

7659: Thumbscrews for Agencies or for Individuals? How to Reduce Unemployment

Andrey Launov and Klaus Wälde

7658: Labor Market Transparency

Eskil Wadensjö

7657: The Origins of Early Childhood Anthropometric Persistence

Daniel Millimet and Rusty Tchernis

7656: The Structure of Hiring Costs in Germany: Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Samuel Mühlemann and Harald Pfeifer

7655: How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills

Adrian Hille and Jürgen Schupp

7654: The Emotional Timeline of Unemployment: Anticipation, Reaction, and Adaptation

Christian von Scheve, Frederike Esche and Jürgen Schupp

7653: The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature

Max Nathan

7652: Dynamic Incentive Effects of Relative Performance Pay: A Field Experiment

Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur, Arjan Non and Willem Verbeke

7651: Evaluating the Role of Individual Specific Heterogeneity in the Relationship Between Subjective Health Assessments and Income

Ivan Fernandez-Val, Yevgeniya Savchenko and Francis Vella

7650: Market Externalities of Large Unemployment Insurance Extension Programs

Rafael Lalive, Camille Landais and Josef Zweimüller

7649: Does Expert Advice Improve Educational Choice?

Lex Borghans, Bart Golsteyn and Anders Stenberg

7648: Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability

Govert Bijwaard, Hans van Kippersluis and Justus Veenman

7647: Regional Variations in Attitudes Towards Refugees: Evidence from Great Britain

Heaven Crawley, Stephen Drinkwater and Rukhsana Kauser

7646: Tax Me If You Can! Optimal Nonlinear Income Tax between Competing Governments

Etienne Lehmann, Laurent Simula and Alain Trannoy

7645: Poverty, Labour Markets and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia

Krisztina Kis-Katos and Robert Sparrow

7644: Job Satisfaction and Self-Selection into the Public or Private Sector: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Natalia Danzer

7643: Party Membership and State Jobs in Urban China

Yuanyuan Ma and Patrick Walsh

7642: Open Enrolment and Student Achievement

Jane Friesen, Benjamin Cerf and Simon Woodcock

7641: Understanding Severance Pay

Donald Parsons

7640: Does High Home-Ownership Impair the Labor Market?

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

7639: Supplementary Education in Turkey: Recent Developments and Future Prospects

Aysıt Tansel

7638: Credible Research Designs for Minimum Wage Studies

Sylvia Allegretto, Arindrajit Dube, Michael Reich and Ben Zipperer

7637: Wealth Distribution within Couples

Markus Grabka, Jan Marcus and Eva Sierminska

7636: Corruption, Networking and Foreign Ownership: Recent Evidence from CEE Countries

Sarmistha Pal

7635: Costs and Benefits of Labour Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries Country Study: Italy

Sabrina Marchetti, Daniela Piazzalunga and Alessandra Venturini

7634: Mobility in an Enlarging European Union: Projections of Potential Flows from EU's Eastern Neighbors and Croatia

Michael Fertig and Martin Kahanec

7633: Making It Real: The Benefits of Workplace Learning in Upper-Secondary VET Courses

Cain Polidano and Domenico Tabasso

7632: Patterns of Integration: Low Educated People and their Jobs in Norway, Italy and Hungary

János Köllő

7631: Modeling Area-Level Health Rankings

Charles Courtemanche, Samir Soneji and Rusty Tchernis

7630: Sanctions for Young Welfare Recipients

Gerard van den Berg, Arne Uhlendorff and Joachim Wolff

7629: Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment

Catia Batista, Dan Silverman and Dean Yang

7628: Causal Analysis after Haavelmo

James Heckman and Rodrigo Pinto

7627: The Role of the Exchange Rate Regime in the Process of Real and Nominal Convergence

Gaetano D'Adamo and Riccardo Rovelli

7626: Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Parental Leave Reform

Natalia Danzer and Victor Lavy

7625: Self-Serving Use of Equity Rules in Bargaining with Asymmetric Outside Options

Heike Hennig-Schmidt, Bernd Irlenbusch, Rainer Rilke and Gari Walkowitz

7624: Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? Evidence from the Employers' Side

Hanna Brenzel, Hermann Gartner and Claus Schnabel

7623: The Structure of the Permanent Job Wage Premium: Evidence from Europe

Lawrence Kahn

7622: Accounting for the Rise of Health Spending and Longevity

Raquel Fonseca, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Arie Kapteyn and Titus Galama

7621: Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms

Fredrik W. Andersson, Harry Holzer, Julia Lane, David Rosenblum and Jeffrey Smith

7620: Mental Illness and Unhappiness

Richard Layard, Dan Chisholm, Vikram Patel and Shekhar Saxena

7619: Artifactual Evidence of Discrimination in Correspondence Studies? A Replication of the Neumark Method

Magnus Carlsson, Luca Fumarco and Dan-Olof Rooth

7618: A Web Survey Analysis of the Subjective Well-being of Spanish Workers

Martin Guzi and Pablo de Pedraza

7617: Peer Effects in the Workplace

Thomas Cornelissen, Christian Dustmann and Uta Schönberg

7616: Labor Market Institutions and the Response of Inflation to Macro Shocks in the EU: A Two-Sector Analysis

Gaetano D'Adamo and Riccardo Rovelli

7615: Occupations after WWII: The Legacy of Rosie the Riveter

Andriana Bellou and Emanuela Cardia

7614: Do Firms Benefit from Active Labour Market Policies?

Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch and Patrycja Scioch

7613: Female-Led Firms: Performance and Risk Attitudes

Pierpaolo Parrotta and Nina Smith

7612: The Impact of Incumbency on Turnout: Evidence from Italian Municipalities

Marco De Benedetto and Maria De Paola

7611: Expanding Export Variety: The Role of Institutional Reforms in Developing Countries

Liugang Sheng and Dennis Yang

7610: Incentives and Information as Driving Forces of Default Effects

Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk and Andreas Grunewald

7609: Has Atypical Work Become Typical in Germany?

Werner Eichhorst and Verena Tobsch

7608: Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in India

Mehtabul Azam

7607: Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010

Shelly Lundberg and Robert Pollak

7606: Growing out of the Crisis: Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy

Benedikt Herrmann and Alexander Kritikos

7605: Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality

Gerard van den Berg and Bitte Modin

7604: Unmet Aspirations as an Explanation for the Age U-shape in Human Wellbeing

Hannes Schwandt

7603: Is There Convergence of Russia's Regions? Exploring the Empirical Evidence: 1995–2010

Hartmut Lehmann and Maria Giulia Silvagni

7602: Motivating Agents: How Much Does the Mission Matter?

Jeffrey Carpenter and Erick Gong

7601: Better Workers Move to Better Firms: A Simple Test to Identify Sorting

Cristian Bartolucci and Francesco Devicienti

7600: Spatial Changes in Labour Market Inequality

Joanne Lindley and Stephen Machin

7599: Output-Employment Relationship across Sectors: A Long- versus Short-Run Perspective

Afsin Sahin, Aysıt Tansel and Hakan Berument

7598: Unemployment of Non-western Immigrants in the Great Recession

Jakub Cerveny and Jan van Ours

7597: What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India?

Stephan Klasen and Janneke Pieters

7596: (Lack of) Pension Knowledge

Alan Barrett, Irene Mosca and Brendan J. Whelan

7595: Educational Inequality and the Returns to Skills

Shelly Lundberg

7594: The Perverse Effects of Job-Security Provisions on Job Security in Italy: Results from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Alexander Hijzen, Leopoldo Mondauto and Stefano Scarpetta

7593: Multidimensional Targeting and Evaluation: A General Framework with an Application to a Poverty Program in Bangladesh

Virginia Robano and Stephen Smith

7592: Bargaining and the Gender Wage Gap: A Direct Assessment

David Card, Ana Rute Cardoso and Patrick Kline

7591: Enlisting Employees in Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance: Evidence from Mexico

Todd J. Kumler, Eric Verhoogen and Judith A. Frias

7590: Non-Standard 'Contingent' Employment and Job Satisfaction: A Panel Data Analysis

Hielke Buddelmeyer, Duncan McVicar and Mark Wooden

7589: Assessing the Welfare Effects of Unemployment Benefits Using the Regression Kink Design

Camille Landais

7588: Why Does the Health of Immigrants Deteriorate? Evidence from Birth Records

Osea Giuntella

7587: The Informal Labour Market in India: Transitory or Permanent Employment for Migrants?

Pramod (Raja) Junankar and Abu Shonchoy

7586: Peer Groups, Employment Status and Mental Well-being among Older Adults in Ireland

Eibhlin Hudson and Alan Barrett

7585: Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India

Karthik Muralidharan and Nishith Prakash

7584: Geographic Differences in the Earnings of Economics Majors

John Winters and Weineng Xu

7583: Regression Analysis of Country Effects Using Multilevel Data: A Cautionary Tale

Mark Bryan and Stephen Jenkins

7582: Remittances and Occupational Outcomes of the Household Members Left-Behind

Matloob Piracha, Teresa Randazzo and Florin Vadean

7581: Labour Force Participation of Mature Age Men in Australia: The Role of Spousal Participation

Kostas Mavromaras and Rong Zhu

7580: Doing Well in Reforming the Labour Market? Recent Trends in Job Stability and Wages in Germany

Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Ursula Jaenichen and Thomas Rothe

7579: Preferences and Biases in Educational Choices and Labor Market Expectations: Shrinking the Black Box of Gender

Ernesto Reuben, Matthew Wiswall and Basit Zafar

7578: Child Labor and Learning

Patrick M. Emerson, Vladimir Ponczek and André Souza

7577: Job Contact Networks and Wages of Rural-Urban Migrants in China

Wenjin Long, Simon Appleton and Lina Song

7576: Do House Prices Affect Consumption? A Re-assessment of the Wealth Hypothesis

Annalisa Cristini and Almudena Sevilla

7575: Testosterone and the Gender Wage Gap

Anne Gielen, Jessica Holmes and Caitlin Myers

7574: Channels of Labour Supply Responses of Lone Parents to Changed Work Incentives

Xiaodong Gong and Robert Breunig

7573: Making Sense of Arab Labor Markets: The Enduring Legacy of Dualism

Ragui Assaad

7572: Regional Determinants of Establishments' Innovation Activities: A Multi-Level Approach

Lutz Bellmann, Andreas Crimmann, Katalin Evers and Reinhard Hujer

7571: A Provocative Perspective on Population Aging and Old-Age Financial Protection

Robert Holzmann

7570: The Causal Effect of Retirement on Mortality: Evidence from Targeted Incentives to Retire Early

Hans Bloemen, Stefan Hochguertel and Jochem Zweerink

7569: Preferences for Employment Protection and the Insider-Outsider Divide

Elvire Guillaud and Paul Marx