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4956: High Performance Work Practices and Employee Voice: A Comparison of Japanese and Korean Workers

Kiu-Sik Bae, Hiroyuki Chuma, Takao Kato, Dong-Bae Kim and Isao Ohashi

4955: Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Interventions

Loukas Balafoutas and Matthias Sutter

4954: Mother or Motherland: Can a Government Have an Impact on Educational Attainment of the Population? Preliminary Evidence from India

Sumon Bhaumik and Manisha Chakrabarty

4952: Identification of the Covariance Structure of Earnings Using the GMM Estimator

Aedín Doris, Donal O'Neill and Olive Sweetman

4951: Quotas and Quality: The Effect of H-1B Visa Restrictions on the Pool of Prospective Undergraduate Students from Abroad

Takao Kato and Chad Sparber

4950: The Effects of Lottery Prizes on Winners and their Neighbors: Evidence from the Dutch Postcode Lottery

Peter Kuhn, Peter Kooreman, Adriaan Soetevent and Arie Kapteyn

4949: The Minimum Wage in a Deflationary Economy: The Japanese Experience, 1994-2003

Ryo Kambayashi, Daiji Kawaguchi and Ken Yamada

4948: The Economic Crisis, Public Sector Pay, and the Income Distribution

Tim Callan, Brian Nolan and John R. Walsh

4947: Does Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Vary Across Minority Groups? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Alison Booth, Andrew Leigh and Elena Varganova

4946: Under Pressure? The Effect of Peers on Outcomes of Young Adults

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes

4945: Personality and Marital Surplus

Shelly Lundberg

4944: On the Importance of Household Production in Collective Models: Evidence from U.S. Data

Olivier Donni and Eleonora Matteazzi

4943: North-South Trade-Related Technology Diffusion: Virtuous Growth Cycles in Latin America

Maurice Schiff and Yanling Wang

4942: Does International Outsourcing Really Lower Workers' Income?

Erkki Koskela and Jan König

4941: Lab Labor: What Can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab?

Gary Charness and Peter Kuhn

4940: The Effect of Childhood Conduct Disorder on Human Capital

Pierre Koning, Dinand Webbink, Sunčica Vujić and Nicholas G. Martin

4939: Building Political Collusion: Evidence from Procurement Auctions

Decio Coviello and Stefano Gagliarducci

4938: Small State Regional Cooperation, South-South and South-North Migration, and International Trade

Maurice Schiff

4937: The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries over the Twentieth Century

Anthony Atkinson and Andrew Leigh

4936: Bidding for Brains: Intellectual Property Rights and the International Migration of Knowledge Workers

Carol McAusland and Peter Kuhn

4935: A Parametric Control Function Approach to Estimating the Returns to Schooling in the Absence of Exclusion Restrictions: An Application to the NLSY

Lidia Farre, Roger Klein and Francis Vella

4934: The Great Recession of 2008-2009: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses

Sher Verick and Iyanatul Islam

4933: Rational Expectations and the Puzzling No-Effect of the Minimum Wage

Sara Pinoli

4932: Infant Mortality and the Health of Survivors: Britain 1910-1950

Timothy Hatton

4931: The Employment Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies

Kristiina Huttunen, Jukka Pirttilä and Roope Uusitalo

4930: Joblessness and Perceptions about the Effectiveness of Democracy

Duha Altindag and Naci Mocan

4929: Labor Market and Income Effects of a Legal Minimum Wage in Germany

Kai-Uwe Müller and Viktor Steiner

4928: Robust Estimation of Linear Fixed Effects Panel Data Models with an Application to the Exporter Productivity Premium

Vincenzo Verardi and Joachim Wagner

4927: Individual Determinants of Work Attendance: Evidence on the Role of Personality

Susi Störmer and René Fahr

4926: Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic Research

Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann

4925: The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement

Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann

4924: Macroeconomic Volatilities and the Labor Market: First Results from the Euro Experiment

Christian Merkl and Tom Schmitz

4923: Trade and Migration with Renewable Natural Resources: Out-of-Steady-State Dynamics

Ramon Lopez and Maurice Schiff

4922: The Development of Multidimensional Poverty in Germany 1985-2007

Christopher Busch and Andreas Peichl

4921: Charity and Favoritism in the Field: Are Female Economists Nicer (To Each Other)?

Jason Abrevaya and Daniel Hamermesh

4920: Do Rising Top Incomes Lift All Boats?

Dan Andrews, Christopher Jencks and Andrew Leigh

4919: Economic Reform, Education Expansion, and Earnings Inequality for Urban Males in China, 1988-2007

Xin Meng, Kailing Shen and Sen Xue

4918: Tax Morale and Compliance Behavior: First Evidence on a Causal Link

Martin Halla

4917: Automatic Stabilizers, Economic Crisis and Income Distribution in Europe

Mathias Dolls, Clemens Fuest and Andreas Peichl

4916: A Long-Run View of the University Gender Gap in Australia

Alison Booth and Hiau Joo Kee

4915: Modern Models of Monopsony in Labor Markets: A Brief Survey

Orley Ashenfelter, Henry S Farber and Michael Ransom

4914: SES Health Gradients during the Epidemiological Transition: The Case of China

Xiaoyan Lei, Nina Yin and Yaohui Zhao

4913: Social Ties and Subjective Performance Evaluations: An Empirical Investigation

Kathrin Breuer, Petra Nieken and Dirk Sliwka

4912: What Determines Family Structure?

David Blau and Wilbert van der Klaauw

4911: Rising Wage Inequality, the Decline of Collective Bargaining, and the Gender Wage Gap

Dirk Antonczyk, Bernd Fitzenberger and Katrin Sommerfeld

4910: Do Ethnic Minorities "Stretch" Their Time? Evidence from the UK Time Use Survey

Anzelika Zaiceva and Klaus Zimmermann

4909: Firm Ownership and Rent Sharing

Natália Monteiro, Miguel Portela and Odd Rune Straume

4908: On the Role of Sectoral and National Components in the Wage Bargaining Process

Christian Dreger and Hans-Eggert Reimers

4907: Are Young People's Educational Outcomes Linked to their Sense of Control?

Juan Barón and Deborah Cobb-Clark

4906: Property Value Assessment Growth Limits, Tax Base Erosion and Regional In-Migration

Mark Skidmore and Mehmet Tosun

4905: Local Labor Markets

Enrico Moretti

4904: Egalitarian Religion and Economics

Carmel Chiswick

4903: Intra-Household Labor Supply, Migration, and Subsistence Constraints in a Risky Environment: Evidence from Rural El Salvador

Timothy Halliday

4902: The Cult of Theoi: Economic Uncertainty and Religion

Paul Frijters and Juan Barón

4901: Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit: Experimental and Survey Evidence from Rural India

Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová and Jonathan Morduch

4900: The Cliometrics of International Migration: A Survey

Timothy Hatton

4899: Source Country Characteristics and Immigrants' Migration Duration and Saving Decisions

Murat Kırdar

4898: Border Enforcement and Selection of Mexican Immigrants in the United States

Fernando Lozano and Mary Lopez

4897: Disability in the Welfare State: An Unemployment Problem in Disguise?

Bernt Bratsberg, Elisabeth Fevang and Knut Røed

4896: Evaluating Nationwide Health Interventions When Standard Before-After Doesn't Work: Malawi's ITN Distribution Program

Eva Deuchert and Conny Wunsch

4895: Employment Protection, Technology Choice, and Worker Allocation

Eric Bartelsman, Pieter Gautier and Joris De Wind

4894: Estimating the Impact of Immigrants on the Host Country Social Security System When Return Migration is an Endogenous Choice

Murat Kırdar

4893: "Entrepreneurs out of Necessity": A Snapshot

Markus Poschke

4892: Immigrants at New Destinations: How They Fare and Why

Anabela Carneiro, Natércia Fortuna and Jose Varejao

4891: Employment, Exchange Rates and Labour Market Rigidity

Fernando Alexandre, Pedro Bação, João Cerejeira and Miguel Portela

4890: Behind the Lighthouse Effect

Tito Boeri, Pietro Garibaldi and Marta Ribeiro

4889: Modeling Employment Dynamics with State Dependence and Unobserved Heterogeneity

Victoria Prowse

4888: Children's Schooling and Parental Migration: Empirical Evidence on the

Gianna Claudia Giannelli and Lucia Mangiavacchi

4887: The Effect of Family Separation and Reunification on the Educational Success of Immigrant Children in the United States

Thomas (Tim) Gindling and Sara Z. Poggio

4886: Social Interaction and Stock Market Participation: Evidence from British Panel Data

Sarah Brown and Karl Taylor

4885: Racial Harassment, Ethnic Concentration and Economic Conditions

Christian Dustmann, Francesca Fabbri and Ian Preston

4884: Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias: Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?

Erik Snowberg and Justin Wolfers

4883: Mental Health and Labour Market Participation: Evidence from IV Panel Data Models

Paul Frijters, David Johnston and Michael Shields

4882: Wage Effects of Non-Wage Labour Costs

María Cervini-Plá, Xavi Ramos and José Silva

4881: Neighbourhood Child Poverty in Sweden

Björn Anders Gustafsson and Torun Österberg

4880: Gender and the Influence of Peer Alcohol Consumption on Adolescent Sexual Activity

Glen Waddell

4879: The Dynamics of Women's Labour Supply in Developing Countries

Sonia Bhalotra and Marcela Umana-Aponte

4878: Family Location and Caregiving Patterns from an International Perspective

Helmut Rainer and Thomas Siedler

4877: Migration and Urban Poverty and Inequality in China

Albert Park and Dewen Wang

4876: Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and the Inheritance of Employers

Miles Corak and Patrizio Piraino

4875: The Economic Value of Virtue

Fabio Mariani

4874: Selection Policy and Immigrants' Remittance Behaviour

Stephane Mahuteau, Matloob Piracha and Max Tani

4873: One Last Puff? Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior

Silke Anger, Michael Kvasnicka and Thomas Siedler

4872: Explaining Rising Returns to Education in Urban China in the 1990s

Xuejun Liu, Albert Park and Yaohui Zhao

4871: Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Different Perspectives

Sabien Dobbelaere and Jacques Mairesse

4870: What Makes a Good Conference? Analysing the Preferences of Labor Economists

Lex Borghans, Margo Romans and Jan Sauermann

4869: Family Violence and Football: The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Violent Behavior

David Card and Gordon Dahl

4868: Economics and Religion

Carmel Chiswick

4867: Home-Leaving Decisions of Daughters and Sons

Maria Chiuri and Daniela Del Boca

4866: Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility

Sandra Black and Paul Devereux

4865: Documentation IZA?MOD: The IZA Policy SImulation MODel

Andreas Peichl, Hilmar Schneider and Sebastian Siegloch

4864: Can Training Programs or Rather Wage Subsidies Bring the Unemployed Back to Work? A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation for Germany

Renate Neubäumer

4863: Earnings Progression, Human Capital and Incentives: Theory and Evidence

Anders Frederiksen

4862: Enhanced Fee-for-Service Model and Access to Physician Services: Evidence from Family Health Groups in Ontario

Jasmin Kantarevic, Boris Kralj and Darrel Weinkauf

4861: Training Subsidies and the Wage Returns to Continuing Vocational Training: Evidence from Italian Regions

Giorgio Brunello, Simona Comi and Daniela Sonedda

4860: The (Hidden) Financial Flows of Terrorist and Organized Crime Organizations: A Literature Review and Some Preliminary Empirical Results

Friedrich Schneider

4859: Are Attitudes Towards Economic Risk Heritable? Analyses Using the Australian Twin Study of Gambling

Anh Le, Paul Miller, Wendy S. Slutske and Nicholas G. Martin

4858: The Glass Door: The Gender Composition of Newly-Hired Workers Across Hierarchical Job Levels

Wolter Hassink and Giovanni Russo

4857: If Seebohm Rowntree Had Studied Sweden: How Poverty Changed in the City of Göteborg from 1925 to 2003

Björn Anders Gustafsson and Birgitta Jansson

4856: How Do Labor Markets Affect Crime? New Evidence on an Old Puzzle

David Mustard