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5099: The Vanishing Procyclicality of Labor Productivity

Jordi Galí and Thijs van Rens

5098: Entrepreneurship and Market Size: The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy

Sabrina Di Addario and Daniela Vuri

5097: Outsourcing Cost and Tax Progression under Nash Wage Bargaining with Flexible Outsourcing

Erkki Koskela

5096: Oil Price Shocks and Labor Market Fluctuations

Javier Ordóñez, Hector Sala and José Silva

5095: Analyzing Social Experiments as Implemented: A Reexamination of the Evidence from the HighScope Perry Preschool Program

James Heckman, Seong Hyeok Moon, Rodrigo Pinto, Peter Savelyev and Adam Yavitz

5094: Youth Labour Markets in Europe and Central Asia

Shane Niall O'Higgins

5093: Do Non-Cognitive Skills Help Explain the Occupational Segregation of Young People?

Heather Antecol and Deborah Cobb-Clark

5092: The Wage-Productivity Gap Revisited: Is the Labour Share Neutral to Employment?

Marika Karanassou and Hector Sala

5091: The Rise in Absenteeism: Disentangling the Impacts of Cohort, Age and Time

Erik Biorn, Simen Gaure, Simen Markussen and Knut Røed

5090: Preferences for Redistribution and Pensions: What Can We Learn from Experiments?

Franziska Tausch, Jan Potters and Arno Riedl

5089: The Opt-Out Revolution: A Descriptive Analysis

Heather Antecol

5088: Job Changes and Individual-Job Specific Wage Dynamics

Laura Hospido

5087: Non-Standard Employment and Labour Force Participation: A Comparative View of the Recent Development in Europe

Günther Schmid

5086: Evolution of Gender Wage Gaps in Latin America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: An Addendum to

Hugo Ñopo and Alejandro Hoyos Suarez

5085: New Century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Wage Gaps in Latin America

Hugo Ñopo, Juan Pablo Atal and Natalia Winder

5084: Human Capital Investments in Children: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Parent-Child Shared Time in Selected Countries

Eva Österbacka, Joachim Merz and Cathleen D. Zick

5083: Job Mismatches and Labour Market Outcomes: Panel Evidence on Australian University Graduates

Kostas Mavromaras, Seamus McGuinness, Nigel C. O'Leary, Peter Sloane and Zhang Wei

5082: Assessing the Impact of Incomes Policy: The Italian Experience

Francesco Pastore

5081: Labor-Market Attachment and Training Participation

Toshie Ikenaga and Daiji Kawaguchi

5080: Why Does Intermarriage Increase Immigrant Employment? The Role of Networks

Delia Furtado and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos

5079: Information, Uncertainty, and Subjective Entitlements in Bargaining

Emin Karagözoğlu and Arno Riedl

5078: Wages, Employment and Tenure of Temporarily Subsidized Workers: Does the Industry Matter?

Gesine Stephan

5077: The Reservation Wage Unemployment Duration Nexus

John Addison, José António Machado and Pedro Portugal

5076: Hedonic Wage Equilibrium: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Thomas Kniesner and John D. Leeth

5075: The Effects of School Quality in the Origin on the Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

5074: Intergenerational Transmission of Education: An Alert to Empirical Implementation

Pedro Pereira

5073: The Persistent Gender Earnings Gap in Colombia, 1994-2006

Alejandro Hoyos Suarez, Hugo Ñopo and Ximena Peña

5072: Cumulation of Cross-Section Surveys: Evaluation of Alternative Concepts for the Cumulated Continuous Household Budget Surveys (LWR) 1999 until 2003 Compared to the Sample Survey of Income and Expenditures (EVS) 2003

Joachim Merz and Henning Stolze

5071: Black-White Gap in Self-Employment in the U.S.: Do Cohort and Within Race Differences Exist?

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere and Willie Belton

5070: The Effects of Aging on Migration in a Transition Economy: The Case of China

Örn B. Bodvarsson and Jack Hou

5069: The Effect of Part-Time Work on Post-Secondary Educational Attainment: New Evidence from French Data

Magali Beffy, Denis Fougere and Arnaud Maurel

5068: How Economics Helped Shape American Judaism

Carmel Chiswick

5067: Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys

Tilman Brück, Patricia Justino, Philip Verwimp and Alexandra Avdeenko

5066: Partial Identification of Willingness-to-Pay Using Shape Restrictions with an Application to the Value of a Statistical Life

Aaron Sojourner

5065: The Phantom of the Opera: Cultural Amenities, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth

Oliver Falck, Michael Fritsch and Stephan Heblich

5064: The Prostitute's Allure: Examining Returns to Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination

Raj Arunachalam and Manisha Shah

5063: Immigrant Assimilation, Trust and Social Capital

James Cox and Wafa Orman

5062: Understanding Rising Income Inequality in Germany

Martin Biewen and Andos Juhasz

5061: Migration and Loving

Deniz Gevrek

5060: Disclosure, Trust and Persuasion in Insurance Markets

David de Meza, Bernd Irlenbusch and Diane Reyniers

5059: A Political Economy of the Immigrant Assimilation: Internal Dynamics

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

5058: Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motives: Standard and Behavioral Approaches to Agency and Labor Markets

James Rebitzer and Lowell Taylor

5057: Misclassification Errors and the Underestimation of U.S. Unemployment Rates

Shuaizhang Feng and Yingyao Hu

5056: Who Will Be Idol? The Importance of Social Networks for Winning on Reality Shows

Heizler (Cohen), Odelia and Ayal Kimhi

5055: Carrot and Stick: How Reemployment Bonuses and Benefit Sanctions Affect Job Finding Rates

Bas van der Klaauw and Jan van Ours

5054: Employer Learning, Productivity and the Earnings Distribution: Evidence from Performance Measures

Lisa Kahn and Fabian Lange

5053: Shadow Economy and Entrepreneurial Entry

Saul Estrin and Tomasz Mickiewicz

5052: Size Matters: Entrepreneurial Entry and Government

Ruta Aidis, Saul Estrin and Tomasz Mickiewicz

5051: Interactions between Local and Migrant Workers at the Workplace

Gil Epstein and Yosef Mealem

5050: Investing in Our Young People

Flavio Cunha and James Heckman

5049: Strategic Sophistication of Adolescents: Evidence from Experimental Normal-Form Games

Simon Czermak, Francesco Feri, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler and Matthias Sutter

5048: Testing the 'Brain Gain' Hypothesis: Micro Evidence from Cape Verde

Catia Batista, Aitor Lacuesta and Pedro Vicente

5047: Adolescent Drug Use and the Deterrent Effect of School-Imposed Penalties

Glen Waddell

5046: GDP and the Value of Family Caretaking: How Much Does Europe Care?

Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Lucia Mangiavacchi and Luca Piccoli

5045: Crisis, What Crisis? Patterns of Adaptation in European Labor Markets

Werner Eichhorst, Michael Feil and Paul Marx

5044: The Gender Wage Gaps, 'Sticky Floors' and 'Glass Ceilings' of the European Union

Louis Christofides, Alexandros Polycarpou and Konstantinos Vrachimis

5043: Employer Preferences and Social Policy: Business and the Development of Job Security Regulations in Germany since World War I

Patrick Emmenegger and Paul Marx

5042: Global Climate Change and the Resurgence of Tropical Disease: An Economic Approach

Douglas Gollin and Christian Zimmermann

5041: Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure in Romania: A Multilevel Analysis

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Christophe Rault, Robert Sova and Anamaria Sova

5040: Getting More Work for Nothing? Symbolic Awards and Worker Performance

Michael Kosfeld and Susanne Neckermann

5039: Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Wages

Alessandro Barattieri, Susanto Basu and Peter Gottschalk

5038: Does Income Taxation Affect Partners' Household Chores?

Arthur van Soest and Elena Stancanelli

5037: Predictability of Asset Returns and the Efficient Market Hypothesis

Mohammad Pesaran

5036: Raising Juveniles

Clive Bell, Hans Gersbach and Maik Schneider

5035: Whatever Works: Dualisation and the Service Economy in Bismarckian Welfare States

Werner Eichhorst and Paul Marx

5034: Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive: Experimental Evidence

Gary Charness, David Masclet and Marie Claire Villeval

5033: Rational Choice and Voter Turnout: Evidence from Union Representation Elections

Henry S Farber

5032: Performance Pay and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Spain

Sara De La Rica, Juan Dolado and Raquel Vegas

5031: The Role of Specific Subjects in Education Production Functions: Evidence from Morning Classes in Chicago Public High Schools

Kalena E. Cortes, Jesse Bricker and Chris Rohlfs

5030: The State of Collective Bargaining and Worker Representation in Germany: The Erosion Continues

John Addison, Alex Bryson, Paulino Teixeira, André Pahnke and Lutz Bellmann

5029: Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness: Evidence from Romania

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Christophe Rault, Robert Sova and Anamaria Sova

5028: The Long-Run Labor-Market Consequences of Civil War: Evidence from the Shining Path in Peru

Jose Galdo

5027: Optimal Incentive Contracts under Moral Hazard When the Agent Is Free to Leave

Florian Englmaier, Gerd Muehlheusser and Andreas Roider

5026: Ranking Up by Moving Out: The Effect of the Texas Top 10% Plan on Property Values

Kalena E. Cortes and Andrew Friedson

5025: Fair and Unfair Income Inequalities in Europe

Daniele Checchi, Vito Peragine and Laura Serlenga

5024: School Competition and Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions: International Evidence Using Historical Catholic Roots of Private Schooling

Oliver Falck and Ludger Woessmann

5023: Uniform and Nonuniform Staggering of Wage Contracts

Leif Danziger

5022: Gender Differences and Dynamics in Competition: The Role of Luck

David Gill and Victoria Prowse

5021: Do Bans on Affirmative Action Hurt Minority Students? Evidence from the Texas Top 10% Plan

Kalena E. Cortes

5020: Performance Appraisals and the Impact of Forced Distribution: An Experimental Investigation

Johannes Berger, Christine Harbring and Dirk Sliwka

5019: From Classroom to Wedding Aisle: The Effect of a Nationwide Change in the Compulsory Schooling Law on Age at First Marriage in the UK

Nattavudh Powdthavee and Kampon Adireksombat

5018: The Changing Economic Advantage from Private School

Francis Green, Stephen Machin, Richard Murphy and Yu Zhu

5017: Unwillingness to Pay for Privacy: A Field Experiment

Alastair R. Beresford, Dorothea Kübler and Sören Preibusch

5016: Social Preferences in Childhood and Adolescence: A Large-Scale Experiment

Matthias Sutter, Francesco Feri, Martin Kocher, Peter Martinsson, Katarina Nordblom and Daniela Glätzle-Rützler

5015: Gender Differences in Competition Emerge Early in Life

Matthias Sutter and Daniela Glätzle-Rützler

5014: Earnings Dynamics and Inequality among Men in Luxembourg, 1988-2004: Evidence from Administrative Data

Denisa Sologon and Cathal O'Donoghue

5013: Selective Reductions in Labor Taxation: Labor Market Adjustments and Macroeconomic Performance

Anna Batyra and Henri Sneessens

5012: Spanish Regional Unemployment Revisited: The Role of Capital Accumulation

Roberto Bande and Marika Karanassou

5011: The Effect of Product Demand on Inequality: Evidence from the US and the UK

Marco Leonardi

5010: How Do Immigrants Spend Their Time? The Process of Assimilation

Daniel Hamermesh and Stephen Trejo

5009: School Shootings and Student Performance

Panu Poutvaara and Olli Ropponen

5008: Rising Wages: Has China Lost Its Global Labor Advantage?

Dennis Yang, Vivian Chen and Ryan Monarch

5007: Quantifying Optimal Growth Policy

Volker Grossmann, Thomas Steger and Timo Trimborn

5006: A Salience Theory of Choice Errors

Paola Manzini and Marco Mariotti

5005: Moody Choice

Paola Manzini and Marco Mariotti

5004: The Effect of Private Health Insurance on Medical Care Utilization and Self-Assessed Health in Germany

Patrick Hullegie and Tobias Klein

5003: Residual Wage Inequality in Urban China, 1995-2007

Chunbing Xing

5002: Education and Family Background: Mechanisms and Policies

Anders Bjorklund and Kjell G Salvanes

5001: Implicit Contracts, Unemployment, and Labor Market Segmentation

Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk and David Huffman

5000: The Crime Reducing Effect of Education

Stephen Machin, Olivier Marie and Sunčica Vujić