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6199: Aggregate Impacts of a Gift of Time

Jungmin Lee, Daiji Kawaguchi and Daniel Hamermesh

6198: Scarring Effects of Unemployment

Øivind Nilsen and Katrine Holm Reiso

6197: Sectoral Shifts, Diversification and Regional Unemployment: Evidence from Local Labour Systems in Italy

Roberto Basile, Alessandro Girardi, Marianna Mantuano and Francesco Pastore

6196: Black-White Marital Matching: Race, Anthropometrics, and Socioeconomics

Pierre Chiappori, Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque

6195: Impacts of Rural Electrification in Rwanda

Gunther Bensch, Jochen Kluve and Jörg Peters

6194: War and Stature: Growing Up During the Nigerian Civil War

Richard Akresh, Sonia Bhalotra, Marinella Leone and Una Osili

6193: Credit Constraints and Productive Entrepreneurship in Africa

Mina Baliamoune, Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski and Leonce Ndikumana

6192: The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery

Graziella Bertocchi and Arcangelo Dimico

6191: Household Finances and the 'Big Five' Personality Traits

Sarah Brown and Karl Taylor

6190: Institutional Reforms and Educational Attainment in Europe: A Long Run Perspective

Michela Braga, Daniele Checchi and Elena Meschi

6189: Rural Labor Absorption Efficiency in Urban Areas under Different Urbanization Patterns and Industrial Structures: The Case of China

Chen Liwen, Xiangquan Zeng and Yang Yumei

6188: Demographic Divide and Labor Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region

Mehmet Tosun

6187: Costless Discrimination and Unequal Achievements in a Labour Market Experiment

Antonio Filippin and Francesco Guala

6186: Reforming an Insider-Outsider Labor Market: The Spanish Experience

Samuel Bentolila, Juan Dolado and Juan F Jimeno

6185: Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA

Eric Hanushek, Susanne Link and Ludger Woessmann

6184: Changes in Job Structure and Rising Wage Inequality in Urban China, 1995-2007

Chunbing Xing

6183: Long-term Employment and Job Security over the Last Twenty-Five Years: A Comparative Study of Japan and the U.S

Ryo Kambayashi and Takao Kato

6182: Decomposing the Sources of Earnings Inequality: Assessing the Role of Reallocation

Fredrik W. Andersson, Elizabeth Davis, Matthew Freedman, Julia Lane, Brian McCall and Kristin Sandusky

6181: Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model

Bart Cockx, Muriel Dejemeppe, Andrey Launov and Bruno Van der Linden

6180: The New Role of Temporary Agency Work in Germany

Alexander Spermann

6179: The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment: Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments

Alpaslan Akay, Gokhan Karabulut and Peter Martinsson

6178: How Local Are Labor Markets? Evidence from a Spatial Job Search Model

Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo

6177: Is Graduate Under-employment Persistent? Evidence from the United Kingdom

Irene Mosca and Robert Wright

6176: Wage Dispersion and Decentralization of Wage Bargaining

Christian Dahl, Daniel le Maire and Jakob Munch

6175: The French Unhappiness Puzzle: The Cultural Dimension of Happiness

Claudia Senik

6174: Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency: The Case of Job Satisfaction

Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Bernard van Praag and Ioannis Theodossiou

6173: How Does Education Affect the Earnings Distribution in Urban China?

Le Wang

6172: The Effect of Religiosity and Religious Festivals on Positional Concerns: An Experimental Investigation of Ramadan

Alpaslan Akay, Gokhan Karabulut and Peter Martinsson

6171: Labor Productivity and Vocational Training: Evidence from Europe

Hector Sala and José Silva

6170: Multidimensional Well-Being at the Top: Evidence for Germany

Andreas Peichl and Nico Pestel

6169: Migration, Openness and the Global Preconditions of 'Smart Development'

Arno Tausch and Almas Heshmati

6168: Homeownership, Social Capital and Parental Voice in Schooling

Arthur Grimes, Steven Stillman and Chris Young

6167: Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Comparative Advantages, Compulsory Schooling, and Earnings

Christian Belzil, Jorgen Hansen and Xingfei Liu

6166: It's the Opportunity Cost, Stupid! How Self-Employment Responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew

Peter Berkhout, Joop Hartog and Mirjam Praag

6165: Bargaining Over Labor: Do Patients Have Any Power?

Joshua Gans and Andrew Leigh

6164: The Role of Peers in Estimating Tenure-Performance Profiles: Evidence from Personnel Data

Andries de Grip, Jan Sauermann and Inge Sieben

6163: The Persistence of Informality: Evidence from Panel Data

Alpaslan Akay and Melanie Khamis

6162: Average and Marginal Returns to Upper Secondary Schooling in Indonesia

Pedro Carneiro, Michael Lokshin, Cristobal Ridao-Cano and Nithin Umapathi

6161: The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity

Francisco Ferreira and Jérémie Gignoux

6160: A Challenge for the G20: Globally Stipulated Debt Brakes and Transnational Independent Fiscal Supervisory Councils

Mathias Dolls, Andreas Peichl and Klaus Zimmermann

6159: Ethnic Disparities in the Graduate Labour Market

Aslan Zorlu

6158: Ethnic Disparities in Degree Performance

Aslan Zorlu

6157: Are the Self-Employed Really Jacks-of-All-Trades? Testing the Assumptions and Implications of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data

Daniel S. J. Lechmann and Claus Schnabel

6156: How Partisan is the Press? Multiple Measures of Media Slant

Joshua Gans and Andrew Leigh

6155: Parental Ethnic Identity and Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants

Simone Schüller

6154: Religious Minorities and Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from Rural West Bengal

Pranab Das, Saibal Kar and Madhumanti Kayal

6153: Revealing Taste-Based Discrimination in Hiring: A Correspondence Testing Experiment with Geographic Variation

Magnus Carlsson and Dan-Olof Rooth

6152: Disability and Job Mismatches in the Australian Labour Market

Melanie K. Jones, Kostas Mavromaras, Peter Sloane and Zhang Wei

6151: The Financial Crisis, Labor Market Transitions and Earnings: A Gendered Panel Data Analysis for Serbia

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch and Victor Sulla

6150: Migrant Youths' Educational Achievement: The Role of Institutions

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Mathias Sinning and Steven Stillman

6149: Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Care and Education

Christopher Ruhm and Jane Waldfogel

6148: Rubble Women: The Long-Term Effects of Postwar Reconstruction on Female Labor Market Outcomes

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Melanie Khamis and Mutlu Yuksel

6147: Occupational Adjustment of Immigrants

Aslan Zorlu

6146: Contextualised Mobility Histories of Moving Desires and Actual Moving Behaviour

Rory Coulter and Maarten van Ham

6145: The Impact of Immigration on International Trade: A Meta-Analysis

Murat Genc, Masood Gheasi, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot

6144: Welfare Participation by Immigrants in the UK

Stephen Drinkwater and Catherine Robinson

6143: The Relative Importance of Local Labour Market Conditions and Pupil Attainment on Post-Compulsory Schooling Decisions

Elena Meschi, Joanna Swaffield and Anna Vignoles

6142: The Effect of Education Policy on Crime: An Intergenerational Perspective

Costas Meghir, Mårten Palme and Marieke Schnabel

6141: Financial Incentives, the Timing of Births, Birth Complications, and Newborns' Health: Evidence from the Abolition of Austria's Baby Bonus

Beatrice Brunner and Andreas Kuhn

6140: Does Migration Make You Happy? A Longitudinal Study of Internal Migration and Subjective Well-Being

Beata Nowok, Maarten van Ham, Allan M. Findlay and Vernon Gayle

6139: Decline in Social Mobility: Unfulfilled Aspirations among Egypt's Educated Youth

Christine Binzel

6138: Educating Children of Immigrants: Closing the Gap in Norwegian Schools

Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum and Knut Røed

6137: The Use of Flexible Measures to Cope with Economic Crises in Germany and Brazil

Werner Eichhorst, Paul Marx and José Pastore

6136: R&D Drivers in Young Innovative Companies

Jose Garcia-Quevedo, Gabriele Pellegrino and Marco Vivarelli

6135: Reforms, Growth and Persistence of Gender Gap: Recent Evidence from Private School Enrolment in India

Pushkar Maitra, Sarmistha Pal and Anurag Sharma

6134: Education, Job Search and Re-employment Outcomes among the Unemployed

W. Craig Riddell and Xueda Song

6133: Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development?

Alison Booth, Lina Marcela Cardona Sosa and Patrick Nolen

6132: Minimum Wage Channels of Adjustment

Barry Hirsch, Bruce Kaufman and Tetyana Zelenska

6131: Can Money Change Who We Are? Estimating the Effects of Unearned Income on Measures of Incentive-Enhancing Personality Traits

Nattavudh Powdthavee, Christopher J. Boyce and Alex M. Wood

6130: Long Shadows of History: Persecution in Central Europe and Its Labor Market Consequences

Michal Myck and Radim Bohacek

6129: Disparities in Social Assistance Receipt between Immigrants and Natives in Sweden

Björn Anders Gustafsson

6128: Immigrant Participation in Welfare Benefits in the Netherlands

Aslan Zorlu

6127: Job Preferences as Revealed by Employee Initiated Job Changes

Christian Grund

6126: Work Hours Constraints and Health

David Bell, Steffen Otterbach and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

6125: Decomposing Changes in Income Risk Using Consumption Data

Richard Blundell, Hamish Low and Ian Preston

6124: The Impact of the Macroeconomy on Health Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the Great Recession

John Cawley, Asako S. Moriya and Kosali Simon

6123: Firm-Sponsored Classroom Training: Is It Worth It for Older Workers?

Benoit Dostie and Pierre Thomas Léger

6122: "One Muslim is Enough!" - Evidence from a Field Experiment in France

Claire L. Adida, David D. Laitin and Marie-Anne Valfort

6121: Socioeconomic Heterogeneity in the Effect of Health Shocks on Earnings: Evidence from Population-Wide Data on Swedish Workers

Petter Lundborg, Martin Nilsson and Johan Vikström

6120: Inequality during the Early Years: Child Outcomes and Readiness to Learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States

Bruce Bradbury, Miles Corak, Jane Waldfogel and Elizabeth Washbrook

6119: Sizing It Up: Labor Migration Lessons of the EU Enlargement to 27

Amelie Constant

6118: Profit Sharing and Training

Kornelius Kraft and Julia Lang

6117: Family Background, Self-Confidence and Economic Outcomes

Antonio Filippin and Marco Paccagnella

6116: Giving Up Job Search During a Recession: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the South African Labour Market

Sher Verick

6115: The German Manufacturing Sector is a Granular Economy

Joachim Wagner

6114: The Implications of Cultural Background on Labour Market Choices: The Case of Religion and Entrepreneurship

Luca Nunziata and Lorenzo Rocco

6113: A New Approach to Testing Marginal Productivity Theory

Martin Biewen and Constantin Weiser

6112: Medical Marijuana Laws, Traffic Fatalities, and Alcohol Consumption

D. Mark Anderson and Daniel Rees

6111: Emigration and Wages: The EU Enlargement Experiment

Benjamin Elsner

6110: Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life

Gerard van den Berg, Pia Pinger and Johannes Schoch

6109: Heterogeneous Firms, Trade, and Economic Policy: Insights from a Simple Two-Sector Model

Michael P. Pflüger and Stephan Russek

6108: Labor Earnings Respond Differently to Income-Tax and to Payroll-Tax Reforms

Etienne Lehmann, François Marical and Laurence Rioux

6107: The Returns to Four-Year College for Academically Marginal Students

Seth Zimmerman

6106: The Effect of School Construction on Test Scores, School Enrollment, and Home Prices

Christopher Neilson and Seth Zimmerman

6105: Sports and Child Development

Christina Felfe, Michael Lechner and Andreas Steinmayr

6104: Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy: Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data

Frédéric Docquier, Hillel Rapoport and Sara Salomone

6103: Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers

Magnus Lofstrom, Timothy Bates and Simon Parker

6102: Welfare, Labor Supply and Heterogeneous Preferences: Evidence for Europe and the US

Olivier Bargain, André Decoster, Mathias Dolls, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl and Sebastian Siegloch

6101: Work to Live or Live to Work? Unemployment, Happiness, and Culture

Annabelle Krause-Pilatus

6100: Anonymous Job Applications of Fresh Ph.D. Economists

Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Ulf Rinne and Klaus Zimmermann