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4651: Was there a Skills Shortage in Australia?

Pramod (Raja) Junankar

4650: The Family Gap in Wages: What Wombmates Reveal

Marianne Simonsen and Lars Skipper

4649: The Effectiveness of Regional Active Labour Market Policies to Fight against Unemployment: An Analysis for Catalonia

Raul Ramos, Jordi Suriñach and Manuel Artís

4648: Modelling the Effects of Immigration on Regional Economic Performance and the Wage Distribution: A CGE Analysis of Three EU Regions

Konstantinos Pouliakas, Deborah Roberts, Eudokia Balamou and Demetrios Psaltopoulos

4647: The Impact of Distributional Preferences on (Experimental) Markets for Expert Services

Rudolf Kerschbamer, Matthias Sutter and Uwe Dulleck

4646: Exports, Imports and Wages: Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker-Product Panels

Pedro Martins and Luca David Opromolla

4645: Happiness and Productivity

Andrew Oswald, Eugenio Proto and Daniel Sgroi

4644: In-Work Transfers in Good Times and Bad: Simulations for Ireland

Olivier Bargain and Karina Doorley

4643: Voting with Feet: Community Choice in Social Dilemmas

Özgür Gürerk, Bernd Irlenbusch and Bettina Rockenbach

4642: Equalizing or Disequalizing Lifetime Earnings Differentials? Earnings Mobility in the EU: 1994-2001

Denisa Sologon and Cathal O'Donoghue

4641: The Determinants of High School Closures: Lessons from Longitudinal Data throughout Illinois

Sherrilyn Billger and Frank D. Beck

4640: Seeking Similarity: How Immigrants and Natives Manage at the Labor Market

Olof Åslund, Lena Hensvik and Oskar Skans

4639: Are Foreign Migrants More Assimilated Than Native Ones?

Riccardo Faini, Steinar Strøm, Alessandra Venturini and Claudia Villosio

4638: Quick Job Entry or Long-Term Human Capital Development? The Dynamic Effects of Alternative Training Schemes

Aderonke Osikominu

4637: On the Origin of the Family

Marco Francesconi, Christian Ghiglino and Motty Perry

4636: The Gender Wage Gap as a Function of Educational Degree Choices in an Occupationally Segregated EU Country

Ilias Livanos and Konstantinos Pouliakas

4635: What's the Use of Marriage?

Alessandro Cigno

4634: Accounting for Imputed and Capital Income Flows in Income Inequality Analyses

Joachim Frick and Markus Grabka

4633: Labor Market Adjustments after a Large Import Shock: Evidence from the German Clothing Industry and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement

Nils Braakmann and Joachim Wagner

4632: Does Public Information about School Quality Lead to Flight from Low-Achieving Schools?

Jane Friesen, Mohsen Javdani and Simon Woodcock

4631: Mortgage Indebtedness and Household Financial Distress

Dimitris Georgarakos, Adriana Lojschova and Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

4630: Produce or Speculate? Asset Bubbles, Occupational Choice and Efficiency

Pierre Cahuc and Edouard Challe

4629: Efficient Subsidization of Human Capital Accumulation with Overlapping Generations and Endogenous Growth

Wolfram Richter and Christoph Braun

4628: Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees

Mirjam Praag, Arjen van Witteloostuijn and Justin van der Sluis

4627: Minimum-Income Benefits in OECD Countries: Policy Design, Effectiveness and Challenges

Herwig Immervoll

4626: Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? Wage Disparity Within and Between Firms

Krishna Pendakur and Simon Woodcock

4625: Why Are Economics Students More Selfish than the Rest?

Yoram Bauman and Elaina Rose

4624: Preferences and Beliefs in a Sequential Social Dilemma: A Within-Subjects Analysis

Mariana Blanco, Dirk Engelmann, Alexander Koch and Hans-Theo Normann

4623: The Dynamics of Job Creation and Job Destruction: Is Sub-Saharan Africa Different?

Admasu Shiferaw and Arjun Bedi

4622: On The Rise of Health Spending and Longevity

Raquel Fonseca, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Titus Galama and Arie Kapteyn

4621: Social Networks

Joan de Martí Beltran and Yves Zenou

4620: Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Integration

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

4619: Cultural Diversity and Local Labour Markets

Jens Suedekum, Katja Wolf and Uwe Blien

4618: Financial Stress, Family Conflict, and Youths' Successful Transition to Adult Roles

Deborah Cobb-Clark and David Ribar

4617: New Evidence on the Role of Remittances on Health Care Expenditures by Mexican Households

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Susan Pozo

4616: Gender Differences in Native Preferences towards Undocumented and Legal Immigration: Evidence from San Diego

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Thitima Puttitanun

4615: Brainy Africans to Fortress Europe: For Money or Colonial Vestiges?

Amelie Constant and Bienvenue N. Tien

4614: Is Informal Sector Work an Alternative to Workfare Benefits? The Case of Pre-Program Expansion and Economic Crisis

Melanie Khamis

4613: Local Human Capital Externalities and Wages at the Firm Level: The Case of Italian Manufacturing

Massimiliano Bratti and Roberto Leombruni

4612: Productivity, Welfare and Reallocation: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence

Susanto Basu, Luigi Pascali, Fabio Schiantarelli and Luis Servén

4611: Low-Wage Employment versus Unemployment: Which One Provides Better Prospects for Women?

Alexander Mosthaf, Thorsten Schank and Claus Schnabel

4610: Markets for Reputation: Evidence on Quality and Quantity in Academe

Daniel Hamermesh and Gerard Pfann

4609: Financial Dependence, Formal Credit, and Informal Jobs: New Evidence from Brazilian Household Data

Luis Catão, Carmen Pages and Maria Rosales-Rueda

4608: Does Human Capital Protect Workers against Exogenous Shocks? South Africa in the 2008-2009 Crisis

Ron Leung, Marco Stampini and Désiré Vencatachellum

4607: The Effects of a Sick Pay Reform on Absence and on Health-Related Outcomes

Patrick Puhani and Katja Sonderhof

4606: Inference on a Generalized Roy Model, with an Application to Schooling Decisions in France

Xavier D'Haultfoeuille and Arnaud Maurel

4605: Offshoring and Firm Performance: Self-Selection, Effects on Performance, or Both?

Joachim Wagner

4604: Repayment versus Investment Conditions and Exclusivity in Lending Contracts

Spiros Bougheas, Indraneel Dasgupta and Oliver Morrissey

4603: Non-unitary Models of Household Behavior: A Survey of the Literature

Pierre Chiappori and Olivier Donni

4602: Interrelated Dynamics of Health and Poverty in Australia

Hielke Buddelmeyer and Lixin Cai

4601: To Shape the Future: How Labor Market Entry Conditions Affect Individuals' Long-Run Wage Profiles

Beatrice Brunner and Andreas Kuhn

4600: Well-being across America

Andrew Oswald and Stephen Wu

4599: You Can't Be Happier than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce

Cahit Guven, Claudia Senik and Holger Stichnoth

4598: Accounting for Family Background when Designing Optimal Income Taxes: A Microeconometric Simulation Analysis

Rolf Aaberge and Ugo Colombino

4597: Dynamic Ethnic Fractionalization and Economic Growth in the Transition Economies from 1989 to 2007

Nauro Campos, Ahmad Saleh and Vitaliy S. Kuzeyev

4596: Contraction Consistent Stochastic Choice Correspondence

Indraneel Dasgupta

4595: Institutional Arrangements, Employment Performance and the Quality of Work

Werner Eichhorst, Paul Marx and Verena Tobsch

4594: Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Characteristics in the Marriage Market

Pierre Chiappori, Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque

4593: Evaluation of the Impact of the Mother and Infant Health Project in Ukraine

Olena Nizalova and Maria Vyshnya

4592: When Supply Meets Demand: Wage Inequality in Portugal

Mário Centeno and Alvaro A. Novo

4591: Have Labour Market Reforms at the Turn of the Millennium Changed Job Durations of the New Entrants? A Comparative Study for Germany and Italy

Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Ursula Jaenichen and Claudia Villosio

4590: The Economic Progress of American Jewry: From 18th Century Merchants to 21st Century Professionals

Barry Chiswick

4589: Substitution between Managers and Subordinates: Evidence from British Football

Sue Bridgewater, Lawrence Kahn and Amanda Goodall

4588: Tobit or Not Tobit?

Jay Stewart

4587: Adverse Workplace Conditions, High-Involvement Work Practices and Labor Turnover: Evidence from Danish Linked Employer-Employee Data

Elena Cottini, Takao Kato and Niels Westergård-Nielsen

4586: Excess Turnover and Employment Growth: Firm and Match Heterogeneity

Mário Centeno, Carla Machado and Alvaro A. Novo

4585: Nature, Nurture and Egalitarian Policy: What Can We Learn from Molecular Genetics?

Petter Lundborg and Anders Stenberg

4584: Biofuel Subsidies: An Open-Economy Analysis

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Sumon Bhaumik and Howard Wall

4583: How Fast Do Wages Adjust to Human-Capital Productivity? Dynamic Panel-Data Evidence from Belgium, Denmark and Finland

Corrado Andini

4582: Investment in Human Capital during Incarceration and Employment Prospects of Prisoners

Margaret Giles and Anh Le

4581: The Distributional Impact of In Kind Public Benefits in European Countries

Alari Paulus, Holly Sutherland and Panos Tsakloglou

4580: Intensifying the Use of Benefit Sanctions: An Effective Tool to Shorten Welfare Receipt and Speed Up Transitions to Employment?

Bernhard Boockmann, Stephan Thomsen and Thomas Walter

4579: Human Capital Spillovers, Productivity and Regional Convergence in Spain

Raul Ramos, Jordi Suriñach and Manuel Artís

4578: Cross-Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocation and Selection

Eric Bartelsman, John Haltiwanger and Stefano Scarpetta

4577: Do Institutions Have a Greater Effect on Female Entrepreneurs?

Saul Estrin and Tomasz Mickiewicz

4576: Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle

Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann

4575: Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation

Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann

4574: The Impact of Local Decentralization on Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S. Counties

George Hammond and Mehmet Tosun

4573: Some Evidence on the Nature of Urbanization Economies

Douglas Krupka

4572: Public Infrastructure, Location of Private Schools and Primary School Attainment in an Emerging Economy

Sarmistha Pal

4571: Identification, Screening and Stereotyping in Labour Market Discrimination

Maarten Vendrik and Christiane Schwieren

4570: Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility

Roland Benabou and Jean Tirole

4569: New Estimates of Public Employment and Training Program Net Impacts: A Nonexperimental Evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act Program

Carolyn Heinrich, Peter Mueser, Kenneth Troske, Kyung-Seong Jeon and Daver C. Kahvecioglu

4568: Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms

Andrea Weber and Christine Zulehner

4567: Will There Be Blood? Incentives and Substitution Effects in Pro-social Behavior

Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis and Robert Slonim

4566: How Consistent Are Class Size Effects?

Spyros Konstantopoulos

4565: Partially Identified Treatment Effects under Imperfect Compliance: The Case of Domestic Violence

Zahra Siddique

4564: Life Expectancy and the Environment

Fabio Mariani, Agustín Pérez-Barahona and Natacha Raffin

4563: Sundays Are Blue: Aren’t They? The Day-of-the-Week Effect on Subjective Well-Being and Socio-Economic Status

Alpaslan Akay and Peter Martinsson

4562: How Much Should We Trust Linear Instrumental Variables Estimators? An Application to Family Size and Children's Education

Magne Mogstad and Matthew Wiswall

4561: No Child Left Behind: Universal Child Care and Children’s Long-Run Outcomes

Tarjei Havnes and Magne Mogstad

4560: Low-Skilled Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Magnus Lofstrom

4559: Inflation and Welfare in Long-Run Equilibrium with Firm Dynamics

Alexandre Janiak and Paulo Santos Monteiro

4558: Culture, Policies and Labor Market Outcomes

Francesco Giavazzi, Fabio Schiantarelli and Michel Serafinelli

4557: The Trade-off between Fertility and Education: Evidence from before the Demographic Transition

Sascha Becker, Francesco Cinnirella and Ludger Woessmann

4556: Catch Me If You Can: Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution

Sascha Becker, Erik Hornung and Ludger Woessmann

4555: The Economic Diversity of Immigration Across the United States

Rachel Friedberg and David Jaeger

4554: What Do Unions Do to Temporary Employment?

Andrea Salvatori

4553: Delaying the Bell: The Effects of Longer School Days on Adolescent Motherhood in Chile

Diana Kruger and Matias Berthelon

4552: Adolescent Motherhood and Secondary Schooling in Chile

Diana Kruger, Matias Berthelon and Rodrigo Navia