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4096: Integration, Labor Market Regulation, Lobbying, and Technological Change

Tapio Palokangas

4095: Taking Chances: The Effect of Growing Up on Welfare on the Risky Behavior of Young People

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Christopher Ryan and Anastasia Sartbayeva

4094: The Effect of Neighbourhood Housing Tenure Mix on Labour Market Outcomes: A Longitudinal Perspective

Maarten van Ham and David Manley

4093: The Dynamics of Entrepreneurship: Hysteresis, Business Cycles and Government Policy

Emilio Congregado, Antonio Golpe and Simon Parker

4092: 'The' Market for Higher Education: Does It Really Exist?

William Becker and David K. Round

4091: Economic Growth with Political Lobbying and Wage Bargaining

Tapio Palokangas

4090: Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare and Increase Work?

Martin Huber, Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch and Thomas Walter

4089: Faith Primary Schools: Better Schools or Better Pupils?

Stephen Gibbons and Olmo Silva

4088: The Growth of Participant Direction in Defined Contribution Plans

William Even and David Macpherson

4087: Measuring Trust: Experiments and Surveys in Contrast and Combination

Michael Naef and Jürgen Schupp

4086: Estimating the Social Value of Higher Education: Willingness to Pay for Community and Technical Colleges

Glenn Blomquist, Paul A. Coomes, Christopher Jepsen, Brandon Koford and Kenneth Troske

4085: Whatever Happened to the Bismarckian Welfare State? From Labor Shedding to Employment-Friendly Reforms

Anton Hemerijck and Werner Eichhorst

4084: Do the Selfish Mimic Cooperators? Experimental Evidence from Finitely-Repeated Labor Markets

Brian Roe and Steven Wu

4083: Remittances and Chain Migration: Longitudinal Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ralitza Dimova and François-Charles Wolff

4082: Is Bigger Still Better? The Decline of the Wage Premium at Large Firms

William Even and David Macpherson

4081: Efficient Probit Estimation with Partially Missing Covariates

Denis Conniffe and Donal O'Neill

4080: Other-Regarding Preferences and Leadership Styles

Martin Kocher, Ganna Pogrebna and Matthias Sutter

4079: How a Mandatory Activation Program Reduces Unemployment Durations: The Effects of Distance

Brian Krogh Graversen and Jan van Ours

4078: Is the Quantity-Quality Trade-off a Trade-off for All, None, or Some?

Daniel Millimet and Le Wang

4077: Unhappy Working with Men? Workplace Gender Diversity and Employee Job-Related Well-Being in Britain: A WERS2004 Based Analysis

Getinet Astatike Haile

4076: Subsidies and Exports in Germany: First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data

Sourafel Girma, Holger Görg and Joachim Wagner

4075: Unemployment and Finance: How Do Financial and Labour Market Factors Interact?

Donatella Gatti and Anne-Gaël Vaubourg

4074: The Effect of Children on the Level of Labor Market Involvement of Married Women: What is the Role of Education?

Kenneth Troske and Alexandru Voicu

4073: A Martingale Representation for Matching Estimators

Alberto Abadie and Guido Imbens

4072: TIPping the Scales towards Greater Employment Chances? Evaluation of a Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for Newly-Arrived Immigrants Based on Random Program Assignment

Pernilla Andersson Joona and Lena Nekby

4071: Optimal Unemployment Insurance for Older Workers

Jean-Olivier Hairault, Francois Langot, Sébastien Ménard and Thepthida Sopraseuth

4070: Restaurant Prices and the Minimum Wage

Denis Fougere, Erwan Gautier and Hervé Le Bihan

4069: Do Students Expect Compensation for Wage Risk?

Jürg Schweri, Joop Hartog and Stefan Wolter

4068: The Rise and Fall of the "Normalarbeitsverhältnis" in Germany

Toni Pierenkemper

4067: Religion and Intimate Partner Violence in Chile: Macro- and Micro-Level Influences

Evelyn Lehrer, Vivian L. Lehrer and Ramona Krauss

4066: Changing Fertility Preferences One Migrant at a Time: The Impact of Remittances on the Fertility Rate

George Naufal and Carlos Vargas-Silva

4065: Atypical Work and Employment Continuity

John Addison and Christopher J. Surfield

4064: Have You Heard the News? How Real-Life Expectations React to Publicity

Karen van der Wiel

4063: Can Profit Sharing Lower Flexible Outsourcing? A Note

Erkki Koskela and Jan König

4062: The Impact of Child Labor and School Quality on Academic Achievement in Brazil

Márcio Bezerra, Ana Lucia Kassouf and Mary Arends-Kuenning

4061: International Terrorism, Political Instability and the Escalation Effect

Nauro Campos and Martin Gassebner

4060: Happiness and Growth the World Over: Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox

Richard Easterlin and Laura Angelescu McVey

4059: Sequential Bargaining in a New-Keynesian Model with Frictional Unemployment and Staggered Wage Negotiation

Grégory de Walque, Olivier Pierrard, Henri R. Sneessens and Raf Wouters

4058: School Tracking and Development of Cognitive Skills

Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo and Sari Pekkala Kerr

4057: The Impact of Education on the Subjective Discount Rate in Ugandan Villages

Michal Bauer and Julie Chytilová

4056: Preferences for Redistribution

Alberto Alesina and Paola Giuliano

4055: EU Enlargement under Continued Mobility Restrictions: Consequences for the German Labor Market

Karl Brenke, Mutlu Yuksel and Klaus Zimmermann

4054: A Computationally Practical Simulation Estimation Algorithm for Dynamic Panel Data Models with Unobserved Endogenous State Variables

Michael Keane and Robert M. Sauer

4053: Ageing, Health and Life Satisfaction of the Oldest Old: An Analysis for Germany

Wencke Gwozdz and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

4052: Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and Business Data: An Introduction to Several Large, Nationally-Representative Datasets

Robert Fairlie and Alicia Robb

4051: Individual Teacher Incentives, Student Achievement and Grade Inflation

Pedro Martins

4050: Can a Task-Based Approach Explain the Recent Changes in the German Wage Structure?

Dirk Antonczyk, Bernd Fitzenberger and Ute Leuschner

4049: Commitment to Self-Rewards

Alexander Koch and Julia Nafziger

4048: How Does Household Production Affect Measured Income Inequality?

Harley Frazis and Jay Stewart

4047: Literacy Traps: Society-wide Education and Individual Skill Premia

Vidya Atal, Kaushik Basu, John Gray and Travis Lee

4046: Choice by Lexicographic Semiorders

Paola Manzini and Marco Mariotti

4045: Unintended Effects of National-based Active Labour Market Policies

Carlo Altavilla and Floro Caroleo

4044: Wage Dispersion and Firm Productivity in Different Working Environments

Benoît Mahy, Francois Rycx and Mélanie Volral

4043: University Quality and Graduate Wages in the UK

Iftikhar Hussain, Sandra McNally and Shqiponja Telhaj

4042: The Impact of Aggregate and Sectoral Fluctuations on Training Decisions

Vincenzo Caponi, Burc Kayahan and Miana Plesca

4041: Agency and Communication in IMF Conditional Lending: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Silvia Marchesi, Laura Sabani and Axel Dreher

4040: What Should Be Done about Rising Unemployment in the UK?

David Bell and David Blanchflower

4039: Coordination under the Shadow of Career Concerns

Alexander Koch and Albrecht Morgenstern

4038: International Financial Integration and Real Exchange Rate Long-Run Dynamics in Emerging Countries: Some Panel Evidence

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Thouraya Hadj Amor Essid and Christophe Rault

4037: Financial Globalization and Economic Policies

Ayhan Kose, Eswar Prasad, Kenneth Rogoff and Shang-Jin Wei

4036: Re-Constructing Childhood Health Histories

James P. Smith

4035: Forecasting Errors: Yet More Problems for Identification?

Bruno Contini

4034: Shattered Dreams: The Effects of Changing the Pension System Late in the Game

Andries de Grip, Maarten Lindeboom and Raymond Montizaan

4033: Understanding the Labour Market for Older Workers: A Survey

John Heywood and W. Stanley Siebert

4032: Democracy and Reforms

Paola Giuliano, Prachi Mishra and Antonio Spilimbergo

4031: Wage Dispersion and Wage Dynamics Within and Across Firms

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela and Eric Smith

4030: The Economics of Credence Goods: On the Role of Liability, Verifiability, Reputation and Competition

Uwe Dulleck, Rudolf Kerschbamer and Matthias Sutter

4029: Female Labor Supply Differences by Sexual Orientation: A Semi-Parametric Decomposition Approach

Heather Antecol and Michael D. Steinberger

4028: Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity: Evidence from Micro Data

Jonathan Haskel and Raffaella Sadun

4027: Choosing to Compete: How Different Are Girls and Boys?

Alison Booth and Patrick Nolen

4026: Gender Differences in Risk Behaviour: Does Nurture Matter?

Alison Booth and Patrick Nolen

4025: Persistencies in the Labour Market

Paul Frijters, Maarten Lindeboom and Gerard van den Berg

4024: How Do Training Programs Assign Participants to Training? Characterizing the Assignment Rules of Government Agencies for Welfare-to-Work Programs in California

Oscar Mitnik

4023: The Impact of Home Production on Economic Inequality in Germany

Joachim Frick, Markus Grabka and Olaf Groh-Samberg

4022: Heterogeneity in Risky Choice Behaviour in a Broad Population

Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Arthur van Soest and Erik Wengström

4021: An Innovation Index Based on Knowledge Capital Investment: Definition and Results for the UK Market Sector

Tony Clayton, Mariela Dal Borgo and Jonathan Haskel

4020: Temporary Jobs and Job Search Effort in Europe

Lawrence Kahn

4019: Fertility Changes in Latin America in the Context of Economic Uncertainty

Alicia Adsera and Alicia Menendez

4018: Supply Theory sans Profit-Maximization

Indraneel Dasgupta

4017: Money Matters: Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment with Vouchers for Adult Training

Dolores Messer and Stefan Wolter

4016: Volunteering and the State

Franz Hackl, Martin Halla and Gerald Pruckner

4015: Life Satisfaction

Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith and Arthur van Soest

4014: Large Employers Are More Cyclically Sensitive

Giuseppe Moscarini and Fabien Postel-Vinay

4013: Labour Market Effects of the Polytechnic Education Reform: The Finnish Experience

Petri Böckerman, Ulla Hämäläinen and Roope Uusitalo

4012: Earnings Dynamics and Inequality among Men across 14 EU Countries, 1994-2001: Evidence from ECHP

Denisa Sologon and Cathal O'Donoghue

4011: Measuring Inequality Using Censored Data: A Multiple Imputation Approach

Stephen Jenkins, Richard Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng and Jeff Larrimore

4010: Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility

David Blanchflower, Andrew Oswald and Bert Van Landeghem

4009: The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India

Sonia Bhalotra, Christine Valente and Arthur van Soest

4008: Firm Recruitment Behaviour: Sequential or Non-Sequential Search?

Jos van Ommeren and Giovanni Russo

4007: Are Short-Lived Jobs Stepping Stones to Long-Lasting Jobs?

Bart Cockx and Matteo Picchio

4006: Did British Women Achieve Long-Term Economic Benefits from Working in Essential WWII Industries?

Robert A. Hart

4005: The Elite Brain Drain

Rosalind S. Hunter, Andrew Oswald and Bruce G. Charlton

4004: Identifying Sorting: In Theory

Jan Eeckhout and Philipp Kircher

4003: Long-Term Effects of Forced Migration

Matti Sarvimäki, Roope Uusitalo and Markus Jantti

4002: Active Labor Market Policy Evaluations: A Meta-Analysis

David Card, Jochen Kluve and Andrea Weber

4001: The Economics and Psychology of Inequality and Human Development

Flavio Cunha and James J. Heckman

4000: Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries

Richard Easterlin and Onnicha Sawangfa

3999: Labor Mobility and the Integration of European Labor Markets

Klaus Zimmermann

3998: New Evidence on the Finite Sample Properties of Propensity Score Matching and Reweighting Estimators

Matias Busso, John DiNardo and Justin McCrary

3997: Latina Entrepreneurship

Magnus Lofstrom and Timothy Bates