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4155: Well-Being over the Life Span: Semiparametric Evidence from British and German Longitudinal Data

Christoph Wunder, Andrea Wiencierz, Johannes Schwarze, Helmut Küchenhoff, Sara Kleyer and Philipp Bleninger

4154: Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-Employment

Peter Haan and Michal Myck

4153: Why Pay Taxes When No One Else Does?

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

4152: The Effect of an Employer Health Insurance Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage and the Demand for Labor: Evidence from Hawaii

Thomas Buchmueller, John DiNardo and Robert Valletta

4151: Policy, Institutional Factors and Earnings Mobility

Denisa Sologon and Cathal O'Donoghue

4150: Family Ties and Political Participation

Alberto Alesina and Paola Giuliano

4149: Do the Obese Really Die Younger or Do Health Expenditures Buy Them Extra Years?

Paul Frijters and Juan Barón

4148: A Comparison and Decomposition of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China's Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority

Margaret Maurer-Fazio, James Hughes and Dandan Zhang

4147: Does Job Loss Cause Ill Health?

Martin Salm

4146: Stepping Stone or Dead End? The Effect of the EITC on Earnings Growth

Molly Dahl, Thomas DeLeire and Jonathan Schwabish

4145: An Incentive Theory of Matching

Alessio Brown, Christian Merkl and Dennis J. Snower

4144: Self-Selection and Earnings of Emigrants from a Welfare State

Panu Poutvaara, Martin D. Munk and Martin Junge

4143: Return to Training and Establishment Size: A Reexamination of the Size-Wage Puzzle

Shuaizhang Feng

4142: Temporary Labour Migration and Welfare at the New European Fringe: A Comparison of Five Eastern European Countries

Alexander Danzer and Barbara Dietz

4141: Search and Offshoring in the Presence of "Animal Spirits"

Devashish Mitra and Priya Ranjan

4140: Critical Periods During Childhood and Adolescence: A Study of Adult Height Among Immigrant Siblings

Gerard van den Berg, Petter Lundborg, Paul Nystedt and Dan-Olof Rooth

4139: Household Decision Making and the Influence of Spouses' Income, Education, and Communist Party Membership: A Field Experiment in Rural China

Fredrik Carlsson, Peter Martinsson, Ping Qin and Matthias Sutter

4138: Differences in Decline: Quantile Regression Analysis of Union Wage Differentials in the United Kingdom, 1991-2003

Alejandra A. Manquilef-Bächler, Wiji Arulampalam and Jennifer Smith

4137: Performance Pay and Within-Firm Wage Inequality

Erling Barth, Bernt Bratsberg, Torbjørn Hægeland and Oddbjørn Raaum

4136: Offshoring and Unemployment: The Role of Search Frictions and Labor Mobility

Devashish Mitra and Priya Ranjan

4135: Financing Social Security: Simulating Different Welfare State Systems for Germany

Caroline Dieckhoener and Andreas Peichl

4134: Assessing the Impact of a Wage Subsidy for Single Parents on Social Assistance in Canada

Guy Lacroix

4133: Thresholds in the Process of International Financial Integration

Ayhan Kose, Eswar Prasad and Ashley Taylor

4132: Access to Banking Services and Poverty Reduction: A State-wise Assessment in India

Amit Bhandari

4131: Where the Girls Are: Trade and Labor Market Segregation in Colombia

Josh Ederington, Jenny Minier and Kenneth Troske

4130: Wages and Seniority When Coworkers Matter: Estimating a Joint Production Economy Using Norwegian Administrative Data

Christopher Ferrall, Kjell G Salvanes and Erik Sørensen

4129: Technological Capabilities and Patterns of Cooperation of UK Firms: A Regional Investigation

Simona Iammarino, Mariacristina Piva, Marco Vivarelli and Nick Von Tunzelmann

4128: Gender Interactions within Hierarchies: Evidence from the Political Arena

Stefano Gagliarducci and M. Daniele Paserman

4127: Choosing the Field of Study in Post-Secondary Education: Do Expected Earnings Matter?

Magali Beffy, Denis Fougere and Arnaud Maurel

4126: Works Councils and Separations: Voice, Monopoly, and Insurance Effects

Boris Hirsch, Thorsten Schank and Claus Schnabel

4125: Negative Externalities and Equilibrium Existence in Competitive Markets with Adverse Selection

Ferdinand von Siemens and Michael Kosfeld

4124: Risk Attitude and Wage Growth: Replication and Reconstruction

Santiago Budria Rodriguez, Luis Diaz-Serrano, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Joop Hartog

4123: Entrepreneurial Entry: Which Institutions Matter?

Ruta Aidis, Saul Estrin and Tomasz Mickiewicz

4122: Delinquent Networks

Coralio Ballester, Antoni Calvó-Armengol and Yves Zenou

4121: The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel? Patriotism and Tax Compliance

Kai Konrad and Salmai Qari

4120: Patriotism, Taxation and International Mobility

Salmai Qari, Kai Konrad and Benny Geys

4119: Evaluating the Impact of Community-Based Health Interventions: Evidence from Brazil's Family Health Program

Romero Rocha and Rodrigo Soares

4118: Above and Beyond the Call: Long-Term Real Earnings Effects of British Male Military Conscription during WWII and the Post-War Years

Robert Hart

4117: A Parametric Analysis of Prospect Theory's Functionals for the General Population

Adam S. Booij, Bernard van Praag and Gijs Kuilen

4116: Cultures, Clashes and Peace

Erin Fletcher and Murat Iyigun

4115: Economic and Cultural Gaps among Foreign-born Minorities in Spain

Sara De La Rica and Francesc Ortega

4114: Understanding Inter-Industry Wage Structures in the Euro Area

Veronique Genre, Karsten Kohn and Daphne Momferatou

4113: The Finnish Great Depression: From Russia with Love

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Enrique Mendoza and Linda Tesar

4112: Everyone is a Winner: Promoting Cooperation through All-Can-Win Intergroup Competition

Ernesto Reuben and Jean-Robert Tyran

4111: Do Immigrants Take the Jobs of Native Workers?

Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, Jakob Munch and Jan Skaksen

4110: Making – or Picking – Winners: Evidence of Internal and External Price Effects in Historic Preservation Policies

Douglas Noonan and Douglas Krupka

4109: Hostility Toward Immigration in Spain

Ferran Martínez i Coma and Robert Duval Hernández

4108: The Gender Education Gap in China: The Power of Water

Yasheng Maimaiti and William Siebert

4107: Revisiting Strategic versus Non-Strategic Cooperation

Ernesto Reuben and Sigrid Suetens

4106: SWEtaxben: A Swedish Tax/Benefit Micro Simulation Model and an Evaluation of a Swedish Tax Reform

Peter Ericson, Lennart Flood and Roger Wahlberg

4105: Occupational Choice: Personality Matters

Roger Ham, Pramod (Raja) Junankar and Robert Wells

4104: The Effect of the 2004 and 2007 EU Enlargement on the Spanish Labour Market

Sara De La Rica

4103: Imposing Economic Constraints in Nonparametric Regression: Survey, Implementation and Extension

Daniel Henderson and Christopher Parmeter

4102: A Structural Approach to Estimating the Effect of Taxation on the Labor Market Dynamics of Older Workers

Peter Haan and Victoria Prowse

4101: Workplace Job Satisfaction in Britain: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Getinet Haile

4100: Reforming German Labor Market Institutions: A Dual Path to Flexibility

Werner Eichhorst and Paul Marx

4099: Obesity and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the British NCDS

Maarten Lindeboom, Petter Lundborg and Bas van der Klaauw

4098: Overweight and Obesity and the Demand for Primary Physician Care

Nabanita Datta Gupta and Jane Greve

4097: Efficiency in a Search and Matching Model with Endogenous Participation

James Albrecht, Lucas Navarro and Susan Vroman

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 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 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 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