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4455: What Should Be Done About Rising Unemployment in the OECD?

David Bell and David Blanchflower

4454: 20 Years of German Unification: Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity

Tilman Brück and Heiko Peters

4453: Regional Economic Growth and Human Capital: The Role of Overeducation

Raul Ramos, Jordi Suriñach and Manuel Artís

4452: Looking Inside the Perpetual-Motion Machine: Job and Worker Flows in OECD Countries

Andrea Bassanini and Pascal Marianna

4451: Evaluating Nonexperimental Estimators for Multiple Treatments: Evidence from Experimental Data

Carlos A. Flores and Oscar Mitnik

4450: Happiness and Health Care Coverage

David Blanchflower

4449: Demand for Redistribution, Support for the Welfare State, and Party Identification in Austria

Andreas Kuhn

4448: An Explanation for the Lower Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants in the Canadian Labour Market

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

4447: Could Education Promote the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process?

Mayssun El-Attar

4446: Assortative Mating and Divorce: Evidence from Austrian Register Data

Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

4445: The Americanization of European Higher Education and Research

Lex Borghans and Frank Cörvers

4444: Atypical Work: Who Gets It, and Where Does It Lead? Some U.S. Evidence Using the NLSY79

John Addison, Chad Cotti and Christopher Surfield

4443: Class Size and Class Heterogeneity

Giacomo De Giorgi, Michele Pellizzari and William Gui Woolston

4442: Wage Returns to University Disciplines in Greece: Are Greek Higher Education Degrees Trojan Horses?

Ilias Livanos and Konstantinos Pouliakas

4441: The KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel: Design and Research Potential

Helmut Fryges, Sandra Gottschalk and Karsten Kohn

4440: Does the Welfare State Make Older Workers Unemployable?

Gilles Saint-Paul

4439: A Risk Augmented Mincer Earnings Equation? Taking Stock

Joop Hartog

4438: Do Foreigners Replace Native Immigrants? Evidence from a Panel Cointegration Analysis

Herbert Brücker, Stefano Fachin and Alessandra Venturini

4437: The Inter-Related Dynamics of Dual Job Holding, Human Capital and Occupational Choice

Georgios Panos, Konstantinos Pouliakas and Alexandros Zangelidis

4436: The Role of Demographics in Precipitating Crises in Financial Institutions

Diane Macunovich

4435: Racial Differences in Fringe Benefits and Compensation

Wallace K C Mok and Zahra Siddique

4434: Intra-Industry Adjustment to Import Competition: Theory and Application to the German Clothing Industry

Horst Raff and Joachim Wagner

4433: Did the National Minimum Wage Affect UK Prices?

Jonathan Wadsworth

4432: Employment, Wages, and the Economic Cycle: Differences between Immigrants and Natives

Christian Dustmann, Albrecht Glitz and Thorsten Vogel

4431: Substitution Effects in Parental Investments

Loren Brandt, Aloysius Siow and Jackie Wang

4430: Disability and Skill Mismatch

Melanie K. Jones and Peter Sloane

4429: The Political Economy of Conscription

Panu Poutvaara and Andreas Wagener

4428: Estimating Employment Dynamics across Occupations and Sectors of Industry

Frank Cörvers and Arnaud Dupuy

4427: Do Means-Tested School Lunch Subsidies Change Children's Weekly Consumption Patterns?

Larry L. Howard and Nishith Prakash

4426: Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the USA: Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data

Richard Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, Stephen Jenkins and Jeff Larrimore

4425: Immigrants and Employer-Provided Training

Alan Barrett, Seamus McGuinness, Martin O`Brien and Philip O'Connell

4424: Modelling Charitable Donations to an Unexpected Natural Disaster: Evidence from the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics

Sarah Brown, Mark Harris and Karl Taylor

4423: Do as the Neighbors Do: The Impact of Social Networks on Immigrant Employment

Fredrik W. Andersson, Simon Burgess and Julia Lane

4422: ORU Analyses of Immigrant Earnings in Australia, with International Comparisons

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

4421: Do Tuition Fees Affect the Mobility of University Applicants? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Nadja Dwenger, Johanna Storck and Katharina Wrohlich

4420: Understanding Compulsory Schooling Legislation: A Formal Model and Implications for Empirical Analysis

Mark Gradstein and Moshe Justman

4419: The Causal Effect of Education on Wages Revisited

Matt Dickson

4418: Persistence of Civil Wars

Daron Acemoglu, Davide Ticchi and Andrea Vindigni

4417: The Effect of the Timing and Spacing of Births on the Level of Labor Market Involvement of Married Women

Kenneth Troske and Alexandru Voicu

4416: The Right Amount of Trust

Jeffrey Butler, Paola Giuliano and Luigi Guiso

4415: Does Local Business Ownership Insulate Cities from Economic Shocks?

Jed Kolko and David Neumark

4414: Who Compares to Whom? The Anatomy of Income Comparisons in Europe

Andrew Clark and Claudia Senik

4413: Tipping and Residential Segregation: A Unified Schelling Model

Junfu Zhang

4412: Identities, Conflicting Behavioural Norms and the Importance of Job Attributes

Giovanni Russo and Edwin van Hooft

4411: Post 9-11 U.S. Muslim Labor Market Outcomes

Faisal Rabby and William M. Rodgers

4410: FSU Immigrants in Canada: A Case of Positive Triple Selection?

Don DeVoretz and Michele Battisti

4409: The Value of a Statistical Injury: New Evidence from the Swiss Labor Market

Andreas Kuhn and Oliver Ruf

4408: Noncompliance and the Effects of the Minimum Wage on Hours and Welfare in Competitive Labor Markets

Leif Danziger

4407: Children of War: The Long-Run Effects of Large-Scale Physical Destruction and Warfare on Children

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel

4406: Middlemen, Non-Profits, and Poverty

Nancy Chau, Hideaki Goto and Ravi Kanbur

4405: Targeting Fertility and Female Participation Through the Income Tax

Ghazala Azmat and Libertad Gonzalez

4404: Services Outsourcing and Innovation: An Empirical Investigation

Holger Görg and Aoife Hanley

4403: They Are Even Larger! More (on) Puzzling Labor Market Volatilities

Hermann Gartner, Christian Merkl and Thomas Rothe

4402: The Life-Cycle and the Business-Cycle of Wage Risk: A Cross-Country Comparison

Christian Bayer and Falko Juessen

4401: Public Sector Employees: Risk Averse and Altruistic?

Margaretha Buurman, Robert Dur and Seth van den Bossche

4400: Do Better Paid Politicians Perform Better? Disentangling Incentives from Selection

Stefano Gagliarducci and Tommaso Nannicini

4399: Does Military Draft Discourage Enrollment in Higher Education? Evidence from OECD Countries

Katarina Keller, Panu Poutvaara and Andreas Wagener

4398: Meet the Parents? The Causal Effect of Family Size on the Geographic Distance between Adult Children and Older Parents

Helena Holmlund, Helmut Rainer and Thomas Siedler

4397: Male and Female Labour Force Participation: The Role of Dynamic Adjustments to Changes in Labour Demand, Government Policies and Autonomous Trends

Maarten Vendrik and Frank Cörvers

4396: Better Means More: Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship

Saul Estrin, Julia Korosteleva and Tomasz Mickiewicz

4395: Tournament Incentives in the Field: Gender Differences in the Workplace

Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur, Joeri Sol and Willem Verbeke

4394: Immigrants' Assimilation Process in a Segmented Labor Market

Miguel Angel Alcobendas and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

4393: Re-Orient? MNC Penetration and Contemporary Shifts in the Global Political Economy

Arno Tausch and Almas Heshmati

4392: The Effect of Lone Motherhood on the Smoking Behaviour of Young Adults

Marco Francesconi, Stephen Jenkins and Thomas Siedler

4391: The Redistributive Effects of Political Reservation for Minorities: Evidence from India

Aimee Chin and Nishith Prakash

4390: Life Satisfaction and Relative Income: Perceptions and Evidence

Guy Mayraz, Gert Wagner and Jürgen Schupp

4389: Experimental Tests of Survey Responses to Expenditure Questions

David Comerford, Liam Delaney and Colm Harmon

4388: Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S

Arie Kapteyn, James Smith and Arthur van Soest

4387: How Much Can We Trust Causal Interpretations of Fixed-Effects Estimators in the Context of Criminality?

David Bjerk

4386: Improving the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities: The Role of Employment Quota

Nishith Prakash

4385: Do Non-Economic Quality of Life Factors Drive Immigration?

Joshua Lewer, Gail Pacheco and Stephanie Rossouw

4384: Subsidizing Firm Entry in Open Economies

Michael P. Pflüger and Jens Suedekum

4383: Pay for Percentile

Gadi Barlevy and Derek Neal

4382: Does the Choice of Reference Levels of Education Matter in the ORU Earnings Equation?

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

4381: Impact of Paternal Temporary Absence on Children Left Behind

Alison Booth and Yuji Tamura

4380: Why Do Firms Use Fixed-Term Contracts?

Pedro Portugal and Jose Varejao

4379: A Microsimulation Approach to an Optimal Swedish Income Tax

Peter Ericson and Lennart Flood

4378: Grazing, Goods and Girth: Determinants and Effects

Daniel Hamermesh

4377: Endogeneous Household Interaction

Daniela Del Boca and Christopher Flinn

4376: Child Labor and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia

Krisztina Kis-Katos and Robert Sparrow

4375: The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members: Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program

John Gibson, David McKenzie and Steven Stillman

4374: How Do Adolescents Spell Time Use?

Charlene Kalenkoski, David Ribar and Leslie Stratton

4373: Producer Protection Legislation and Termination Damages in the Presence of Contracting Frictions

Steven Wu

4372: Firm Performance and Managerial Turnover: The Case of Ukraine

Alexander Muravyev, Oleksandr Talavera, Olga Bilyk and Bogdana Grechaniuk

4371: A Cohort Analysis of Labor Participation in Mexico, 1987-2009

Robert Duval Hernández and Pedro Orraca Romano

4370: Does Leaving Welfare Improve Health? Evidence for Germany

Martin Huber, Michael Lechner and Conny Wunsch

4369: Health Inequality over the Life-Cycle

Timothy Halliday

4368: Health Status and the Allocation of Time

Timothy Halliday and Melinda Podor

4367: International Differences in Longevity and Health and Their Economic Consequences

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Dana Goldman, Darius Lakdawalla, Yuhui Zheng and Adam H. Gailey

4366: Understanding the Economic Consequences of Shifting Trends in Population Health

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Dana Goldman, Darius Lakdawalla, Yuhui Zheng and Adam H. Gailey

4365: Growing Up in a Recession: Beliefs and the Macroeconomy

Paola Giuliano and Antonio Spilimbergo

4364: The Research Potential of New Types of Enterprise Data Based on Surveys from Official Statistics in Germany

Joachim Wagner

4363: Sweatshop Equilibrium

Nancy Chau

4362: Do No-Loan Policies Change the Matriculation Patterns of Low-Income Students?

Glen Waddell and Larry D. Singell

4361: Marital Violence and Women's Employment and Property Status: Evidence from North Indian Villages

Manasi Bhattacharya, Arjun Bedi and Amrita Chhachhi

4360: In the Eye of the Beholder: Subjective Inequality Measures and the Demand for Redistribution

Andreas Kuhn

4359: Who Is Hit Hardest during a Financial Crisis? The Vulnerability of Young Men and Women to Unemployment in an Economic Downturn

Sher Verick

4358: Time Use and Time Budgets: Improvements, Future Challenges and Recommendations

Joachim Merz

4357: Labor Market Pooling, Outsourcing and Labor Contracts

Pierre Picard and David Wildasin

4356: Perceptions and Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants in Australia after 9/11

Deepti Goel