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4517: Oppositional Identities and Employment for Ethnic Minorities: Evidence from England

Harminder Battu and Yves Zenou

4516: Savings for Unemployment in Good or Bad Times: Options for Developing Countries

David Robalino, Milan Vodopivec and Andras Bodor

4515: Effect of Labor Division between Wife and Husband on the Risk of Divorce: Evidence from German Data

Kornelius Kraft and Stefanie Neimann

4514: The Economic Situation of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in France, Germany, and the UK

Yann Algan, Christian Dustmann, Albrecht Glitz and Alan Manning

4513: The Determinants of Education-Job Match among Canadian University Graduates

Brahim Boudarbat and Victor Chernoff

4512: Reversals in the Patterns of Women's Labor Supply in the U.S., 1976-2009

Diane Macunovich

4511: Pro-Poor Tax Reforms, with an Application to Mexico

Jean-Yves Duclos, Paul Makdissi and Abdelkrim Araar

4510: Commuting, Wages and Bargaining Power

Peter Rupert, Elena Stancanelli and Etienne Wasmer

4509: How Effective Are Unemployment Benefit Sanctions? Looking Beyond Unemployment Exit

Patrick Arni, Rafael Lalive and Jan van Ours

4508: Policy Relevant Heterogeneity in the Value of Statistical Life: New Evidence from Panel Data Quantile Regressions

Thomas Kniesner, W Viscusi and James Ziliak

4507: Two Heads Are Less Bubbly than One: Team Decision-Making in an Experimental Asset Market

Stephen Cheung and Stefan Palan

4506: Health and Income: A Robust Comparison of Canada and the US

Jean-Yves Duclos and Damien Échevin

4505: How Sensitive Are Retirement Decisions to Financial Incentives: A Stated Preference Analysis

Vo?ková, Hana and Arthur van Soest

4504: Money for Nothing? Universal Child Care and Maternal Employment

Tarjei Havnes and Magne Mogstad

4503: Can Child Care Policy Encourage Employment and Fertility? Evidence from a Structural Model

Peter Haan and Katharina Wrohlich

4502: The Extent of Collective Bargaining and Workplace Representation: Transitions between States and their Determinants. A Comparative Analysis of Germany and Great Britain

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

4501: Credit Constraints and the Persistence of Unemployment

Nicolas Dromel, Elie Kolakez and Etienne Lehmann

4500: Now Daddy's Changing Diapers and Mommy's Making Her Career: Evaluating a Generous Parental Leave Regulation Using a Natural Experiment

Jochen Kluve and Marcus Tamm

4499: Village Economies and the Structure of Extended Family Networks

Manuela Angelucci, Giacomo De Giorgi, Marcos A. Rangel and Imran Rasul

4498: Extended Family Networks in Rural Mexico: A Descriptive Analysis

Manuela Angelucci, Giacomo De Giorgi, Marcos A. Rangel and Imran Rasul

4497: Family Networks and School Enrolment: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment

Manuela Angelucci, Giacomo De Giorgi, Marcos A. Rangel and Imran Rasul

4496: Heterogeneous Class Size Effects: New Evidence from a Panel of University Students

Oriana Bandiera, Valentino Larcinese and Imran Rasul

4495: Citizenship, Co-ethnic Populations and Employment Probabilities of Immigrants in Sweden

Pieter Bevelander and Ravi Pendakur

4494: Firm Dynamics and Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations: Does Trade Openness Matter? Evidence from Mexico’s Manufacturing Sector

Miguel Fuentes and Pablo Ibarraran

4493: The Regulation of Migration in a Transition Economy: China’s Hukou System

Shuming Bao, Örn B. Bodvarsson, Jack Hou and Yaohui Zhao

4492: The Employment of Temporary Agency Workers in the UK: With or Against the Trade Unions?

René Böheim and Martina Zweimüller

4491: Impact of Educational and Religious Homogamy on Marital Stability

Kornelius Kraft and Stefanie Neimann

4490: Can Workers' Expectations Account for the Persistence of Discrimination?

Antonio Filippin

4489: Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? Evidence from a Workfare Reform in a Generous Welfare State

Magne Mogstad and Chiara Pronzato

4488: The Institutional Context of an "Empirical Law": The Wage Curve under Different Regimes of Collective Bargaining

Uwe Blien, Wolfgang Dauth, Thorsten Schank and Claus Schnabel

4487: Co-determination and Innovation

Kornelius Kraft, Jörg Stank and Ralf Dewenter

4486: SME Policy and Firms’ Productivity in Latin America

Pablo Ibarraran, Alessandro Maffioli and Rodolfo Stucchi

4485: Is Posner Right? An Empirical Test of the Posner Argument for Transferring Health Spending from Old Women to Old Men

Christoph Wunder and Johannes Schwarze

4484: Employment Protection Legislation in Russia: Regional Enforcement and Labour Market Outcomes

Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov and Anna Lukiyanova

4483: Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries

Ansgar Belke, Ingo Bordon, Inna Melnykovska and Rainer Schweickert

4482: Health Investment over the Life-Cycle

Timothy Halliday, Hui He and Hao Zhang

4481: Portfolio Allocation in the Face of a Means-Tested Public Pension

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Vincent Hildebrand

4480: The Gender Gap in Early Career in Mongolia

Francesco Pastore

4479: Eliciting Individual Preferences for Pension Reform

Yosr Abid Fourati and Cathal O'Donoghue

4478: The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation

Bruno Frey, Simon Luechinger and Alois Stutzer

4477: Spillovers Through Backward Linkages from Multinationals: Measurement Matters!

Salvador Barrios, Holger Görg and Eric Strobl

4476: Targeting Non-Cognitive Skills to Improve Cognitive Outcomes: Evidence from a Remedial Education Intervention

Helena Holmlund and Olmo Silva

4475: Oportunidades: Program Effect on Consumption, Low Participation, and Methodological Issues

Manuela Angelucci and Orazio Attanasio

4474: Openness and Technological Innovation in East Asia: Have They Increased the Demand for Skills?

Rita Almeida

4473: HIV and Fertility in Africa: First Evidence from Population Based Surveys

Chinhui Juhn, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Belgi Turan

4472: Estimating the Impact of Immigration on Wages in Ireland

Alan Barrett, Adele Bergin and Elish Kelly

4471: Motivational Goal Bracketing

Alexander Koch and Julia Nafziger

4470: Thieves, Thugs, and Neighborhood Poverty

David Bjerk

4469: Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment

Devah Pager, Bruce Western and Bart Bonikowski

4468: Endogenous Indoctrination: Occupational Choice, the Evolution of Beliefs, and the Political Economy of Reform

Gilles Saint-Paul

4467: The Impact of Chernobyl on Health and Labour Market Performance in the Ukraine

Hartmut Lehmann and Jonathan Wadsworth

4466: Kindergarten Enrollment and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education

Philipp Bauer and Regina Riphahn

4465: Better Protected, Better Paid: Evidence on How Employment Protection Affects Wages

Karen van der Wiel

4464: Neighborhood Diversity and the Appreciation of Native- and Immigrant-Owned Homes

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Mathias Sinning

4463: Fiscal Competition for Imperfectly-Mobile Labor and Capital: A Comparative Dynamic Analysis

David Wildasin

4462: The Effects of Pension Rights and Retirement Age on Training Participation: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Raymond Montizaan, Frank Cörvers and Andries de Grip

4461: Is the Wage Curve Formal or Informal? Evidence for Colombia

Raul Ramos, Juan Duque and Jordi Suriñach

4460: Apprenticeship Training and the Business Cycle

Samuel Mühlemann, Stefan Wolter and Adrian Wüest

4459: Asabiyya: Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies

Arno Tausch and Almas Heshmati

4458: Do All Material Incentives for Prosocial Activities Backfire? The Response to Cash and Non-Cash Incentives for Blood Donations

Nicola Lacetera and Mario Macis

4457: The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Britain

Lorenzo Cappellari and Stephen Jenkins

4456: Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage

Gilles Saint-Paul

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