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6556: The Formal/Informal Employment Earnings Gap: Evidence from Turkey

Aysıt Tansel and Elif Acar

6555: A 'Glass-Ceiling' Effect for Immigrants in the Italian Labour Market?

Dell’Aringa, Carlo, Claudio Lucifora and Laura Pagani

6554: Income Inequality and Health: Lessons from a Refugee Residential Assignment Program

Hans Grönqvist, Per Johansson and Susan Niknami

6553: Early Interventions and Disability Insurance: Experience from a Field Experiment

Per Engström, Pathric Hägglund and Per Johansson

6552: What Happened to God's Time? The Evolution of Secularism and Hours of Work in America, Evidence from Religious Holidays

Fernando Lozano

6551: Family Planning and Women's and Children's Health: Long Term Consequences of an Outreach Program in Matlab, Bangladesh

Shareen Joshi and T. Schultz

6550: Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China

James Heckman and Junjian Yi

6549: Like Father, Like Son? Intergenerational Education Mobility in India

Mehtabul Azam and Vipul Bhatt

6548: The Impact of Indian Job Guarantee Scheme on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Mehtabul Azam

6547: Determinants of Immigrants' Cash-Welfare Benefits Intake in Spain

Núria Rodriguez-Planas

6546: The Impact of the 1996 US Immigration Policy Reform (IIRIRA) on Mexican Migrants' Remittances

Matias Vaira-Lucero, Daehoon Nahm and Max Tani

6545: E-Lections: Voting Behavior and the Internet

Oliver Falck, Robert Gold and Stephan Heblich

6544: Bayesian Procedures as a Numerical Tool for the Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models

Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner and Arne Uhlendorff

6543: Wage and Occupational Assimilation by Skill Level

Miguel Angel Alcobendas, Núria Rodriguez-Planas and Raquel Vegas

6542: Moroccans', Ecuadorians' and Romanians' Assimilation in Spain

Núria Rodriguez-Planas and Raquel Vegas

6541: Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux, Katrine Løken and Kjell G Salvanes

6540: Quit Behavior and the Role of Job Protection

Anne Gielen and Konstantinos Tatsiramos

6539: Schooling and Voter Turnout: Is there an American Exception?

Arnaud Chevalier and Orla Doyle

6538: Retirement: Does Individual Unemployment Matter? Evidence from Danish Panel Data 1980–2009

Trine Filges, Mona Larsen and Peder Pedersen

6537: Paid Work after Retirement: Recent Trends in Denmark

Mona Larsen and Peder Pedersen

6536: Union Decline in Britain: Is Chauvinism Also to Blame?

Getinet Haile

6535: Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in OECD Countries: Evidence from Cross-Country/Cross-Industry Data

Andrea Bassanini and Andrea Garnero

6534: The Determinants of Earnings Inequalities: Panel Data Evidence from South Africa

Andrew Kerr and Francis J. Teal

6533: Becker Meets Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Social and Cognitive Skills

Robert J. McCann, Xianwen Shi, Aloysius Siow and Ronald Wolthoff

6532: Gender Effects of Education on Economic Development in Turkey

Aysıt Tansel and Nil Demet Güngör

6531: The Effect of Village-Based Schools: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Afghanistan

Dana Burde and Leigh Linden

6530: Ingratiation and Favoritism: Experimental Evidence

Stéphane Robin, Agnieszka Rusinowska and Marie Claire Villeval

6529: What Effects Do Macroeconomic Conditions Have on Families' Time Together?

Melinda Morrill and Sabrina Pabilonia

6528: Urban-Rural Disparities of Child Health and Nutritional Status in China from 1989 to 2006

Hong Liu, Hai Fang and Zhong Zhao

6527: Declining Fertility and Economic Well-Being: Do Education and Health Ride to the Rescue?

Klaus Prettner, David Bloom and Holger Strulik

6526: Temporary Employment, Job Flows and Productivity: A Tale of Two Reforms

Lorenzo Cappellari, Dell’Aringa, Carlo and Marco Leonardi

6525: Explaining Charter School Effectiveness

Joshua Angrist, Parag Pathak and Christopher Walters

6524: Electoral Impacts of Uncovering Public School Quality: Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities

Sergio Firpo, Renan Pieri and André Souza

6523: Internal vs. International Migration: Impacts of Remittances on Child Well-Being in Vietnam

Michele Binci and Gianna Claudia Giannelli

6522: On the Reversibility of Structural Reforms

Nauro Campos and Roman Horvath

6521: Land Use Rights, Market Transitions, and Labor Policy Change in China (1980-4)

Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen

6520: The Impact of Early Life Economic Conditions on Cause-Specific Mortality During Adulthood

Gary Y.C. Yeung, Gerard van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom and France Portrait

6519: Does Corporate Governance Reform Necessarily Boost Firm Performance? Recent Evidence from Russia

Mihails Kuznecovs and Sarmistha Pal

6518: Private and Public Provision of Counseling to Job-Seekers: Evidence from a Large Controlled Experiment

Luc Behaghel, Bruno Crépon and Marc Gurgand

6517: The International Migration of Health Professionals

Michel Grignon, Yaw Owusu-Ansah and Arthur Sweetman

6516: Certainty and Severity of Sanctions in Classical and Behavioral Models of Deterrence: A Survey

Horst Entorf

6515: Decomposing the Rural-Urban Differential in Student Achievement in Colombia Using PISA Microdata

Raul Ramos, Juan Duque and Sandra Nieto

6514: Offshoring and Job Stability: Evidence from Italian Manufacturing

Alessia Lo Turco, Daniela Maggioni and Matteo Picchio

6513: Entrepreneurship in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Microeconomic Perspective

Marco Vivarelli

6512: The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Laura Rosendahl Huber, Randolph Sloof and Mirjam Praag

6511: Equilibrium Unemployment and Retirement

Jean-Olivier Hairault, Francois Langot and Andre Zylberberg

6510: Mind the Gap: Net Incomes of Minimum Wage Workers in the EU and the US

Ive Marx, Sarah Marchal and Brian Nolan

6509: Wage and Employment Determination in Volatile Times: Sweden 1913-1939

Bertil Holmlund

6508: Is Recipiency of Disability Pension Hereditary?

Espen Bratberg, Øivind Nilsen and Kjell Vaage

6507: Does Access to Secondary Education Affect Primary Schooling? Evidence from India

Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and Soham Sahoo

6506: Labour Supply as a Buffer: Evidence from UK Households

Andrew Benito and Jumana Saleheen

6505: The Impact of Redistributive Policies on Inequality in OECD Countries

Philipp Doerrenberg and Andreas Peichl

6504: The Impact of Greek Labour Market Regulation on Temporary and Family Employment: Evidence from a New Survey

Achilleas Anagnostopoulos and William Siebert

6503: Change in the Distribution of House Prices across Spanish Cities

Catia Nicodemo and Josep M. Raya

6502: The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities: Distinguishing Agglomeration from Firm Selection

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon, Diego Puga and Sébastien Roux

6501: Sorting and Local Wage and Skill Distributions in France

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon and Sébastien Roux

6500: Comparing Real Wage Rates

Orley Ashenfelter

6499: Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn and Arne Uhlendorff

6498: Distortions in the International Migrant Labor Market: Evidence from Filipino Migration and Wage Responses to Destination Country Economic Shocks

David McKenzie, Caroline Theoharides and Dean Yang

6497: Works Councils, Collective Bargaining and Apprenticeship Training

Ben Kriechel, Samuel Mühlemann, Harald Pfeifer and Miriam Schuette

6496: More Apples Less Chips? The Effect of School Fruit Schemes on the Consumption of Junk Food

Giorgio Brunello, Maria De Paola and Giovanna Labartino

6495: Primate Evidence on the Late Health Effects of Early Life Adversity

Gabriella Conti, Christopher Hansman, James Heckman, Matthew F.X. Novak, Angela M. Ruggiero and Stephen J. Suomi

6494: The Equality Multiplier: How Wage Setting and Welfare Spending Make Similar Countries Diverge

Erling Barth and Karl Ove Moene

6493: Taxing Home Ownership: Distributional Effects of Including Net Imputed Rent in Taxable Income

Francesco Figari, Alari Paulus, Holly Sutherland, Panos Tsakloglou, Gerlinde Verbist and Francesca Zantomio

6492: Changes in China's Wage Structure

Suqin Ge and Dennis Yang

6491: The Good, the Bad and the Naive: Do Fair Prices Signal Good Types or Do They Induce Good Behaviour?

Uwe Dulleck, David Johnston, Rudolf Kerschbamer and Matthias Sutter

6490: Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender 1970-2009: Adjusting for the Impact of Changes in the Occupational Coding System

Francine Blau, Peter Brummund and Albert Yung-Hsu Liu

6489: Health, Height, Height Shrinkage and SES at Older Ages: Evidence from China

Wei Huang, Xiaoyan Lei, Geert Ridder, John Strauss and Yaohui Zhao

6488: Asymmetric Labor Market Institutions in the EMU and the Volatility of Inflation and Unemployment Differentials

Mirko Abbritti and Andreas Mueller

6487: "I Wish I Had 100 Dollars a Month …" - The Intergenerational Transfer of Poverty in Mongolia

Francesco Pastore

6486: Horizontal Transfer and Promotion: New Evidence and an Interpretation from the Perspective of Task-Specific Human Capital

Masaru Sasaki, Katsuya Takii and Junmin Wan

6485: Labor Mobility in an Enlarged European Union

Martin Kahanec

6484: Minimum Wages as a Barrier to Entry: Evidence from Germany

Ronald Bachmann, Thomas Bauer and Hanna Kroeger

6483: Performance Related Pay and Firm Productivity: New Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Italy

Claudio Lucifora and Federica Origo

6482: Evaluating the Impact of a Reduction in the Generosity of Disability Benefits: The 2008 Spanish Reform

José Silva and Judit Vall Castello

6481: Food Security and Wheat Prices in Afghanistan: A Distribution-Sensitive Analysis of Household-Level Impacts

Anna D'Souza and Dean Jolliffe

6480: The Effects of Prize Spread and Noise in Elimination Tournaments: A Natural Field Experiment

Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur, Arjan Non and Willem Verbeke

6479: Do Unions Promote Members' Electoral Office Holding? Evidence from Correlates of State Legislatures' Occupational Shares

Aaron Sojourner

6478: Repeated Selection with Heterogenous Individuals and Relative Age Effects

Herbert Dawid and Gerd Muehlheusser

6477: Police and Crime: Evidence from Dictated Delays in Centralized Police Hiring

Paolo Buonanno and Giovanni Mastrobuoni

6476: To Meet or Not to Meet (Your Case Worker) – That is the Question

Gerard van den Berg, Lene Kjaersgaard and Michael Rosholm

6475: Quitting and Peer Effects at Work

Julie Rosaz, Robert Slonim and Marie Claire Villeval

6474: Link between Pay for Performance Incentives and Physician Payment Mechanisms: Evidence from the Diabetes Management Incentive in Ontario

Jasmin Kantarevic and Boris Kralj

6473: A Theory of Political Entrenchment

Gilles Saint-Paul, Davide Ticchi and Andrea Vindigni

6472: Is There Monopsonistic Discrimination against Immigrants? First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Boris Hirsch and Elke Jahn

6471: Identifying the Substitution Effect of Temporary Agency Employment

Elke Jahn and Enzo Weber

6470: The Relationship Between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures

Anke Becker, Thomas Deckers, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk and Fabian Kosse

6469: Testing CAPM with a Large Number of Assets

Mohammad Pesaran and Takashi Yamagata

6468: An Empirical Growth Model for Major Oil Exporters

Hadi Esfahani, Kamiar Mohaddes and Mohammad Pesaran

6467: Cultural Integration: Experimental Evidence of Changes in Immigrants' Preferences

Lisa Cameron, Nisvan Erkal, Lata Gangadharan and Marina Zhang

6466: Exports and Wages: Rent Sharing, Workforce Composition or Returns to Skills?

Mario Macis and Fabiano Schivardi

6465: Benchmarking Regions: Estimating the Counterfactual Distribution of Labor Market Outcomes

Bernd Fitzenberger and Marina Furdas

6464: No Pass No Drive: Education and Allocation of Time

Rashmi Barua and Marian Vidal-Fernandez

6463: The Intergenerational Persistence of Human Capital: An Empirical Analysis of Four Generations

Mikael Lindahl, Mårten Palme, Sofia Sandgren Massih and Anna Sjögren

6462: Education, Health and Mortality: Evidence from a Social Experiment

Costas Meghir, Mårten Palme and Emilia Simeonova

6461: Productivity and the Welfare of Nations

Susanto Basu, Luigi Pascali, Fabio Schiantarelli and Luis Servén

6460: Pro-Social Missions and Worker Motivation: An Experimental Study

Sebastian Fehrler and Michael Kosfeld

6459: Globalization, Institutions, and the Ethnic Divide: Recent Longitudinal Evidence

Phanindra Wunnava, Aniruddha Mitra and Robert Prasch

6458: Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration

Daiji Kawaguchi and Soohyung Lee

6457: Political Instability and Labor Market Institutions

Claudio Lucifora and Simone Moriconi