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5497: Occupational Choice, Aggregate Productivity, and Trade

Jürgen Meckl and Benjamin Weigert

5496: Emigration and Democracy

Frédéric Docquier, Elisabetta Lodigiani, Hillel Rapoport and Maurice Schiff

5495: The American Family in Black and White: A Post-Racial Strategy for Improving Skills to Promote Equality

James J. Heckman

5494: Information and Communication Technologies and Skill Upgrading: The Role of Internal vs. External Labour Markets

Luc Behaghel, Eve Caroli and Emmanuelle Walkowiak

5493: Putting Different Price Tags on the Same Health Condition: Re-evaluating the Well-Being Valuation Approach

Nattavudh Powdthavee and Bernard van den Berg

5492: The Labor Market Value to Legal Status

Fernando Lozano and Todd A. Sorensen

5491: The Impact of the UK New Deal for Lone Parents on Benefit Receipt

Peter Dolton and Jeffrey Smith

5490: The Transition from Work to Retirement

Werner Eichhorst

5489: The Cyclicality of Effective Wages within Employer-Employee Matches in a Rigid Labor Market

Silke Anger

5488: Is There Selection Bias in Laboratory Experiments? The Case of Social and Risk Preferences

Blair L. Cleave, Nikos Nikiforakis and Robert Slonim

5487: Does Quality Time Produce Quality Children? Evidence on the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital Using Parental Deaths

Eric Gould and Avi Simhon

5486: The Shape of the Income Distribution and Economic Growth: Evidence from Swedish Labor Market Regions

Dan-Olof Rooth and Anders Stenberg

5485: The Threat Effect of Participation in Active Labor Market Programs on Job Search Behavior of Migrants in Germany

Annette Bergemann, Marco Caliendo, Gerard van den Berg and Klaus Zimmermann

5484: Status-Seeking in Criminal Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance

Robert Dur and Joël van der Weele

5483: A Labor Market Approach to the Crisis of Health Care Professionals in Africa

Mabel Andalón and Gary Fields

5482: Occupational Status and Health Transitions

G. Brant Morefield, David Ribar and Christopher Ruhm

5481: Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?

Saul Estrin, Julia Korosteleva and Tomasz Mickiewicz

5480: Relative Concerns of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain and Klaus Zimmermann

5479: The Effect of Immigration on the School Performance of Natives: Cross Country Evidence Using PISA Test Scores

Giorgio Brunello and Lorenzo Rocco

5478: Aggregation in Large Dynamic Panels

Mohammad Pesaran and Alexander Chudik

5477: Sorting and the Output Loss Due to Search Frictions

Pieter Gautier and C. N. Teulings

5476: Incentive Effects of Risk Pooling, Redistributive and Savings Arrangements in Unemployment Benefit Systems: Evidence from a Job-Search Model for Brazil

David A. Robalino, Eduardo Zylberstajn and Juan David Robalino

5475: Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples

Armin Falk, Stephan Meier and Christian Zehnder

5474: The Consequences of Being Different: Statistical Discrimination and the School-to-Work Transition

Barbara Mueller and Stefan Wolter

5473: In-Work Benefits and Unemployment

Mirco Tonin and Ann-Sofie Kolm

5472: Remittances and Gender: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence

Elke Holst, Andrea Schäfer and Mechthild Schrooten

5471: Good and Bad Institutions: Is the Debate Over? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence from the Textile Industry

Sumon Bhaumik and Ralitza Dimova

5470: Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration: The Case of Occupations

Stephan Kampelmann and Francois Rycx

5469: Population Growth and Multiple Equilibria: Inferences from a Modified Ramsey Model

Ulla Lehmijoki

5468: Pill Power: The Prequel

Lena Edlund and Cecilia Machado

5467: Motivations for Remittances: Evidence from Moldova

Matloob Piracha and Amrita Saraogi

5466: Equality of Opportunity and the Distribution of Long-Run Income in Sweden

Anders Bjorklund, Markus Jantti and John Roemer

5465: Why Are Saving Rates So High in China?

Dennis Yang, Junsen Zhang and Shaojie Zhou

5464: Works Councils, Wages, and Job Satisfaction

Christian Grund and Andreas Schmitt

5463: The Japanese Lost Decade and Beyond: A Chain Reaction Theory Approach

Pablo Agnese

5462: The Impact of Interest in School on Educational Success in Portugal

Pedro Goulart and Arjun Bedi

5461: An Experimental Investigation of Intrinsic Motivations for Giving

Mirco Tonin and Michael Vlassopoulos

5460: Workplace Democracy in the Lab

Philip Mellizo, Jeffrey Carpenter and Peter Matthews

5459: Personal Bankruptcy Law, Wealth and Entrepreneurship: Theory and Evidence from the Introduction of a "Fresh Start"

Frank Fossen

5458: Job Creation by Firms in Denmark

Rikke Ibsen and Niels Westergård-Nielsen

5457: The Gender Reservation Wage Gap: Evidence form British Panel Data

Sarah Brown, Jennifer Roberts and Karl Taylor

5456: Public Housing and Residential Segregation of Immigrants in France, 1968-1999

Gregory Verdugo

5455: An Essay on Real Wage Index Numbers

John Pencavel

5454: The Role of Marriage in the Causal Pathway from Economic Conditions Early in Life to Mortality

Gerard van den Berg and Sumedha Gupta

5453: Beyond GDP and Back: What is the Value-Added by Additional Components of Welfare Measurement?

Sonja de New and Christoph Schmidt

5452: Efficient Firm Dynamics in a Frictional Labor Market

Leo Kaas and Philipp Kircher

5451: Immigration and the Occupational Choice of Natives: A Factor Proportions Approach

Javier Ortega and Gregory Verdugo

5450: Job Search and Job Finding in a Period of Mass Unemployment: Evidence from High-Frequency Longitudinal Data

Alan Krueger and Andreas Mueller

5449: Using Pseudo-Panels to Measure Income Mobility in Latin America

Jose Cuesta, Hugo Ñopo and Georgina Pizzolitto

5448: Gender-Specific Occupational Segregation, Glass Ceiling Effects, and Earnings in Managerial Positions: Results of a Fixed Effects Model

Anne Busch and Elke Holst

5447: Workplace Performance, Worker Commitment and Loyalty

Sarah Brown, Jolian McHardy, Robert McNabb and Karl Taylor

5446: Social-Family Network and Self-Employment: Evidence from Temporary Rural-Urban Migrants in China

Junfu Zhang and Zhong Zhao

5445: Efficient and Inefficient Welfare States

Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc and Marc Sangnier

5444: Wage Inequality of U.S. Truck Drivers

Kristen Monaco and Steffen Habermalz

5443: Consistent Estimation of the Fixed Effects Ordered Logit Model

Gregori Baetschmann, Kevin E. Staub and Rainer Winkelmann

5442: Job Search Requirements for Older Unemployed: Transitions to Employment, Early Retirement and Disability Benefits

Hans Bloemen, Stefan Hochguertel and Marloes Lammers

5441: Labour Market Outcomes and Skill Acquisition in the Host Country: North African Migrants Returning Home from the European Union

Stephane Mahuteau and Max Tani

5440: Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US: Between Equity and Efficiency

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

5439: The Detaxation of Overtime Hours: Lessons from the French Experiment

Pierre Cahuc and Stéphane Carcillo

5438: Mother's Autonomy and Child Welfare: A New Measure and Some New Evidence

Tanika Chakraborty and Prabal De

5437: Manager Ethnicity and Employment Segregation

Laura Giuliano and Michael Ransom

5436: Business Visits and the Quest for External Knowledge

Max Tani

5435: Reservation Wages and Starting Wages

Hans van Ophem, Joop Hartog and Peter Berkhout

5434: Turning 18: What a Difference Application of Adult Criminal Law Makes

Horst Entorf

5433: Time-Bound Opportunity Costs of Informal Care: Consequences for Access to Professional Care, Caregiver Support, and Labour Supply Estimates

Wolter Hassink and Bernard van den Berg

5432: Identification of Peer Effects with Missing Peer Data: Evidence from Project STAR

Aaron Sojourner

5431: Effects of Adult Education Vouchers on the Labor Market: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Guido Schwerdt, Dolores Messer, Ludger Woessmann and Stefan Wolter

5430: Is Short-Time Work a Good Method to Keep Unemployment Down?

Pierre Cahuc and Stéphane Carcillo

5429: The Impact of Placing Adolescent Males into Foster Care on their Education, Income Assistance and Incarcerations

William P. Warburton, Rebecca N. Warburton, Arthur Sweetman and Clyde Hertzman

5428: Alumni Giving of Business Executives to the Alma Mater: Panel Data Evidence at a Large Metropolitan Research University

Albert Okunade and Phanindra Wunnava

5427: Enrolment in Micro Life and Health Insurance: Evidences from Sri Lanka

Mirko Bendig and Thankom Arun

5426: An Evaluation of the Employment Effects of Barriers to Outsourcing

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Sugata Marjit and Lei Yang

5425: The Role of Mothers and Fathers in Providing Skills: Evidence from Parental Deaths

Jerome Adda, Anders Bjorklund and Helena Holmlund

5424: Dynamic Evaluation of Job Search Assistance

Stephen Kastoryano and Bas van der Klaauw

5423: Is Part-Time Employment Beneficial for Firm Productivity?

Annemarie Künn-Nelen, Andries de Grip and Didier Fouarge

5422: The Long-Run Effects of Mortality Decline in Developing Countries

Ulla Lehmijoki and Tapio Palokangas

5421: Evolution of the Chinese Rural-Urban Migrant Labor Market from 2002 to 2007

Zhaopeng Qu and Zhong Zhao

5420: Negative and Positive Assimilation, Skill Transferability, and Linguistic Distance

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

5419: Got Technology? The Impact of Computers and Cell Phones on Productivity in a Difficult Business Climate: Evidence from Firms with Female Owners in Kenya

Nidhiya Menon

5418: Income Pooling and Household Division of Labor: Evidence from Danish Couples

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Jens Bonke and Shoshana Grossbard

5417: Wage Inequality and Returns to Education in Turkey: A Quantile Regression Analysis

Aysıt Tansel and Fatma Bircan

5416: Applications and Interviews: A Structural Analysis of Two-Sided Simultaneous Search

Ronald Wolthoff

5415: The Costs of Job Loss in Russia

Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev, Tiziano Razzolini and Anzelika Zaiceva

5414: Indirect Effects of a Policy Altering Criminal Behaviour: Evidence from the Italian Prison Experiment

Francesco Drago and Roberto Galbiati

5413: Smart and Dangerous: How Cognitive Skills Drive the Intergenerational Transmission of Retaliation

Ruby Henry

5412: Social Support Substitution and the Earnings Rebound: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform

Lex Borghans, Anne Gielen and Erzo Luttmer

5411: Can State Language Policies Distort Students' Demand for Higher Education?

Alexander Muravyev and Oleksandr Talavera

5410: Is the Minimum Wage a Pull Factor for Immigrants?

Corrado Giulietti

5409: Lost in Transition? The Returns to Education Acquired under Communism 15 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Giorgio Brunello, Elena Crivellaro and Lorenzo Rocco

5408: Disability and Multi-State Labour Force Choices with State Dependence

Umut Oguzoglu

5407: Are Employees Better Off in Socially Responsible Firms?

Katrin Tamm, Raul Eamets and Pille Mõtsmees

5406: Consumption and Social Identity: Evidence from India

Melanie Khamis, Nishith Prakash and Zahra Siddique

5405: Globalization and Strategic Research Investments

Anna Eulerich, geb. Bohnstedt, Christian Schwarz and Jens Suedekum

5404: Impatience and Uncertainty: Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior

Matthias Sutter, Martin Kocher, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler and Stefan Trautmann

5403: Chutes and Ladders: Dual Tracks and the Motherhood Dip

Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Aitor Lacuesta and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

5402: Protestantism and Education: Reading (the Bible) and Other Skills

Timo Boppart, Josef Falkinger and Volker Grossmann

5401: How Much Do Educational Outcomes Matter in OECD Countries?

Eric A. Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann

5400: The IZA Evaluation Dataset: Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making

Marco Caliendo, Armin Falk, Lutz C. Kaiser, Hilmar Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff, Gerard van den Berg and Klaus Zimmermann

5399: High-Skilled Immigration Policy in Europe

Martin Kahanec and Klaus Zimmermann

5398: An Expert Stakeholder's View on European Integration Challenges

Amelie Constant, Martin Kahanec and Klaus Zimmermann