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5852: Exporting Poor Health: The Irish in England

Liam Delaney, Alan Fernihough and James Smith

5851: The Portability of New Immigrants' Human Capital: Language, Education and Occupational Matching

Gustave Goldmann, Arthur Sweetman and Casey Warman

5850: The Long-Term Direct and External Effects of Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel and Mutlu Yuksel

5849: Health Impaired Employees' Job Satisfaction: New Evidence from Athens, Greece

Nick Drydakis

5848: Where to Put the Kids? Effects of Type of Non-parental Child Care on Pre-teen Skills and Risky Behavior

Nabanita Datta Gupta and Marianne Simonsen

5847: Using the Helmert-Transformation to Reduce Dimensionality in a Mixed Model: Application to a Wage Equation with Worker and Firm Heterogeneity

Øivind Nilsen, Arvid Raknerud and Terje Skjerpen

5846: Parental Job Loss and Children’s Health: Ten Years after the Massive Layoff of the SOEs’ Workers in China

Hong Liu and Zhong Zhao

5845: Contractual Dualism, Market Power and Informality

Arnab Basu, Nancy Chau and Ravi Kanbur

5844: Teams or Tournaments? A Field Experiment on Cooperation and Competition among University Students

Maria Bigoni, Margherita Fort, Mattia Nardotto and Tommaso Reggiani

5843: The Effect of an Acute Health Shock on Work Behavior: Evidence from Different Health Care Regimes

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Kristin Kleinjans and Mona Larsen

5842: Working in Family Firms: Less Paid but More Secure? Evidence from French Matched Employer-Employee Data

Andrea Bassanini, Eve Caroli, Antoine Reberioux and Thomas Breda

5841: Explaining the Female Black-White Obesity Gap: A Decomposition Analysis of Proximal Causes

David Johnston and Wang-Sheng Lee

5840: Preferences for Consistency

Armin Falk and Florian Zimmermann

5839: The Effectiveness of English Secondary Schools for Pupils of Different Ability Levels

Lorraine Dearden, John Micklewright and Anna Vignoles

5838: The NRU and the Evolution of Regional Disparities in Spanish Unemployment

Roberto Bande and Marika Karanassou

5837: Does the Sector Experience Affect the Pay Gap for Temporary Agency Workers?

Elke Jahn and Dario Pozzoli

5836: Did Growth and Reforms Increase Citizens' Support for the Transition?

Roberto Golinelli and Riccardo Rovelli

5835: Wage Rigidity, Collective Bargaining and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from French Agreement Data

Sanvi Avouyi-Dovi, Denis Fougere and Erwan Gautier

5834: Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality: Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US

Judith Niehues and Andreas Peichl

5833: The Effect of Health on Income: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Commuting Accidents

Martin Halla and Martina Zweimüller

5832: The Recent Evolution of the Natural Rate of Unemployment

Mary Daly, Bart Hobijn and Robert Valletta

5831: Bias in the Legal Profession: Self-Assessed versus Statistical Measures of Discrimination

Heather Antecol, Deborah Cobb-Clark and Eric Helland

5830: Physician-Leaders and Hospital Performance: Is There an Association?

Amanda Goodall

5829: The Evils of Forced Migration: Do Integration Policies Alleviate Migrants' Economic Situations?

Oliver Falck, Stephan Heblich and Susanne Link

5828: Multiple Glass Ceilings

Giovanni Russo and Wolter Hassink

5827: Employed and Unemployed Job Seekers: Are They Substitutes?

Simonetta Longhi and Mark Taylor

5826: Testing for IIA with the Hausman-McFadden Test

Wim Vijverberg

5825: The Effect of Public Sector Employment on Women's Labour Market Outcomes

Brindusa Anghel, Sara De La Rica and Juan Dolado

5824: Caught in the Bulimic Trap? Persistence and State Dependence of Bulimia Among Young Women

Michelle S. Goeree, John Ham and Daniela Iorio

5823: Race, Social Class, and Bulimia Nervosa

Michelle S. Goeree, John Ham and Daniela Iorio

5822: Unfit for Service: The Implications of Rising Obesity for U.S. Military Recruitment

John Cawley and Johanna Maclean

5821: A Flexible Test for Present Bias and Time Preferences Using Land-Lease Contracts

Pieter Gautier and Aico van Vuuren

5820: Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US

Olivier Bargain, Kristian Orsini and Andreas Peichl

5819: Destined for (Un)Happiness: Does Childhood Predict Adult Life Satisfaction?

Paul Frijters, David Johnston and Michael Shields

5818: A Multi-Method Approach to Identifying Norms and Normative Expectations within a Corporate Hierarchy: Evidence from the Financial Services Industry

Stephen Burks and Erin L. Krupka

5817: Migrant Women on the Labour Market: On the Role of Home- and Host-Country Participation

Suzanne Kok, Nicole Bosch, Anja Deelen and Rob Euwals

5816: Calculating Confidence Intervals for Continuous and Discontinuous Functions of Estimated Parameters

John Ham and Tiemen Woutersen

5815: Part-Time Work, Fixed-Term Contracts, and the Returns to Experience

Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Marie Paul and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

5814: Exponential Growth Bias and Financial Literacy

Johan Almenberg and Christer Gerdes

5813: Theft and Deterrence

William Harbaugh, Naci Mocan and Michael S. Visser

5812: Improving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read: A Randomized Evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines

Ama Abeberese, Todd J. Kumler and Leigh Linden

5811: Do Frictions Matter in the Labor Market? Accessions, Separations and Minimum Wage Effects

Arindrajit Dube, T. William Lester and Michael Reich

5810: The Decline of Early Retirement Pathways in the Netherlands: An Empirical Analysis for the Health Care Sector

Rob Euwals, Annemiek van Vuren and Daniel van Vuuren

5809: Job Anxiety, Work-Related Psychological Illness and Workplace Performance

Melanie K. Jones, Paul Latreille and Peter Sloane

5808: Which Measures of Time Preference Best Predict Outcomes? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

Stephen Burks, Jeffrey Carpenter, Lorenz Götte and Aldo Rustichini

5807: Accounting For Endogenous Search Behavior in Matching Function Estimation

Daniel Borowczyk-Martins, Gregory Jolivet and Fabien Postel-Vinay

5806: Career Changers in Teaching Jobs: A Case Study Based on the Swiss Vocational Education System

Stefanie Hof, Mirjam Strupler Leiser and Stefan Wolter

5805: Self-Employment of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China

Corrado Giulietti, Guangjie Ning and Klaus Zimmermann

5804: Early Life Health and Adult Earnings: Evidence from a Large Sample of Siblings and Twins

Petter Lundborg, Anton Nilsson and Dan-Olof Rooth

5803: Does Early Life Health Predict Schooling Within Twin Pairs?

Petter Lundborg, Anton Nilsson and Dan-Olof Rooth

5802: Goals and Psychological Accounting

Alexander Koch and Julia Nafziger

5801: A Novel Computerized Real Effort Task Based on Sliders

David Gill and Victoria Prowse

5800: What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?

Michael Burda and Jennifer Hunt

5799: The Happiness-Income Paradox Revisited

Richard Easterlin, Laura Angelescu McVey, Maggie Switek, Onnicha Sawangfa and Jacqueline Smith Zweig

5798: The Role of Profit Sharing in Dual Labour Markets with Flexible Outsourcing

Erkki Koskela and Jan König

5797: External Monetary Shocks and Monetary Integration: Evidence from the Bulgarian Currency Board

Alexandru Minea and Christophe Rault

5796: Inequality and Employment Sensitivities to the Falling Labour Share

Marika Karanassou and Hector Sala

5795: Fat Chance! Obesity and the Transition from Unemployment to Employment

Marco Caliendo and Wang-Sheng Lee

5794: Workforce Reorganization and the Worker

Ben Kriechel and Gerard Pfann

5793: A Flying Start? Maternity Leave Benefits and Long Run Outcomes of Children

Pedro Carneiro, Katrine Løken and Kjell G Salvanes

5792: Parental Leave and Mothers' Careers: The Relative Importance of Job Protection and Cash Benefits

Rafael Lalive, Analia Schlosser, Andreas Steinhauer and Josef Zweimüller

5791: Does Wage Dispersion Make All Firms Productive?

Benoît Mahy, Francois Rycx and Mélanie Volral

5790: Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality: New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research

Marco Caliendo and Alexander Kritikos

5789: The Impact of Bologna Process on the Graduate Labour Market: Demand and Supply

Giulio Bosio and Marco Leonardi

5788: Life-Cycle Bias and the Returns to Schooling in Current and Lifetime Earnings

Manudeep Bhuller, Magne Mogstad and Kjell G Salvanes

5787: Social Networks and Parental Behavior in the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion

Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou

5786: International Migration, Imperfect Information, and Brain Drain

Vianney Dequiedt and Yves Zenou

5785: Antidepressants and Age

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

5784: The Role of Worker Flows in the Dynamics and Distribution of UK Unemployment

Michael Elsby, Jennifer Smith and Jonathan Wadsworth

5783: Coverage of Infertility Treatment and Fertility Outcomes: Do Women Catch Up?

Matilde Machado and Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

5782: Symmetric and Asymmetric Committees

Ruth Ben-Yashar and Leif Danziger

5781: The Kid's Speech: The Effect of Stuttering on Human Capital Acquisition

Daniel Rees and Joseph J. Sabia

5780: Short-Time Work: The German Answer to the Great Recession

Karl Brenke, Ulf Rinne and Klaus Zimmermann

5779: Estimating Heterogeneous Take-up and Crowd-Out Responses to Marginal and Non-Marginal Medicaid Expansions

John Ham, Serkan Ozbeklik and Lara Shore-Sheppard

5778: Wage Rigidity and Disinflation in Emerging Countries

Julian Messina and Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

5777: Referral-based Job Search Networks

Christian Dustmann, Albrecht Glitz and Uta Schönberg

5776: Mandated Severance Pay and Firing Cost Distortions: A Critical Review of the Evidence

Donald Parsons

5775: Social Contacts and the Economic Performance of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany

Agnieszka Kanas, Barry Chiswick, Tanja van der Lippe and Frank van Tubergen

5774: The Roles of Incentives and Voluntary Cooperation for Contractual Compliance

Simon Gächter, Esther Kessler and Manfred Königstein

5773: Knocking on Heaven's Door? Protestantism and Suicide

Sascha Becker and Ludger Woessmann

5772: Sexual Orientation, Prejudice and Segregation

Erik Plug, Dinand Webbink and Nicholas G. Martin

5771: Use of Time and Value of Unpaid Family Care Work: A Comparison between Italy and Poland

Francesca Francavilla, Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Gabriela Grotkowska and Mieczyslaw Socha

5770: For Benevolence and for Self-Interest: Social and Commercial Entrepreneurial Activity across Nations

Saul Estrin, Tomasz Mickiewicz and Ute Stephan

5769: The Shadow Economy and Shadow Economy Labor Force: What Do We (Not) Know?

Friedrich Schneider

5768: Productivity Gains and Spillovers from Offshoring

Bernhard Michel and Francois Rycx

5767: Why Use ROSCAs When You Can Use Banks? Theory and Evidence from Ethiopia

Abbi Kedir, Richard Disney and Indraneel Dasgupta

5766: Exports, Imports and Profitability: First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises

Joachim Wagner

5765: Tradable Immigration Quotas

Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga and Hillel Rapoport

5764: Human Capital and Career Success: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Anders Frederiksen and Takao Kato

5763: Macroeconomic Dynamics in a Model of Goods, Labor and Credit Market Frictions

Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau and Etienne Wasmer

5762: Quality and Quantity in Primary Care Mixed Payment Models: Evidence from Family Health Organizations in Ontario

Jasmin Kantarevic and Boris Kralj

5761: Time for Children: Trends in the Employment Patterns of Parents, 1967-2009

Liana Fox, Han Wen-Jui, Christopher Ruhm and Jane Waldfogel

5760: Time Costs of Children as Parents' Foregone Leisure

Olivia Ekert-Jaffe and Shoshana Grossbard

5759: The Future of Retirement and the Pension System: How the Public's Expectations Vary over Time and across Socio-Economic Groups

Luc Bissonnette and Arthur van Soest

5758: A Steady-State Model of a Non-Walrasian Economy with Three Imperfect Markets

Etienne Wasmer

5757: Mobility, Taxation and Welfare

Sami Bibi, Jean-Yves Duclos and Abdelkrim Araar

5756: Learning about Education

Patrick Emerson and Bruce McGough

5755: Incentives vs. Selection in Promotion Tournaments: Can a Designer Kill Two Birds with One Stone?

Wolfgang Höchtl, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Rudi Stracke and Uwe Sunde

5754: Give Me Your Wired and Your Highly Skilled: Measuring the Impact of Immigration Policy on Employers and Shareholders

Carl Lin

5753: Patients Whose GP Knows Complementary Medicine Tend to Have Lower Costs and Live Longer

Peter Kooreman and Erik W. Baars