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3898: Comparing the Early Research Performance of PhD Graduates in Labor Economics in Europe and the USA

Ana Rute Cardoso, Paulo Guimaraes and Klaus Zimmermann

3897: A Note on Measures of Human Capital for Immigrants: Examining the American Community Survey and New Immigrant Survey

Randall Akee and Mutlu Yuksel

3896: Mismeasured Household Size and Its Implications for the Identification of Economies of Scale

Timothy Halliday

3895: On the Economics and Biology of Trust

Ernst Fehr

3894: Do People Become Healthier after Being Promoted?

Christopher J. Boyce and Andrew Oswald

3893: Self-Regulation through Goal Setting

Alexander Koch and Julia Nafziger

3892: An Assignment Model with Divorce and Remarriage

Pierre Chiappori, Murat Iyigun and Yoram Weiss

3891: Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform: The Case of Divorced Parents

Marco Francesconi, Helmut Rainer and Wilbert van der Klaauw

3890: Migration and Globalization: Challenges and Perspectives for the Research Infrastructure

Martin Kahanec and Klaus Zimmermann

3889: Contracts as Reference Points: Experimental Evidence

Ernst Fehr, Oliver Hart and Christian Zehnder

3888: Do Small Businesses Create More Jobs? New Evidence for the United States from the National Establishment Time Series

David Neumark, Brandon Wall and Junfu Zhang

3887: Trade Openness and the Demand for Skills: Evidence from Turkish Microdata

Elena Meschi, Erol Taymaz and Marco Vivarelli

3886: So Many Rocket Scientists, So Few Marketing Clerks: Estimating the Effects of Economic Reform on Occupational Mobility in Estonia

Nauro Campos and Aurelijus Dabušinskas

3885: The Timing of Labor Demand

Ana Rute Cardoso, Daniel Hamermesh and Jose Varejao

3884: Real Wages over the Business Cycle: OECD Evidence from the Time and Frequency Domains

Julian Messina, Chiara Strozzi and Jarkko Turunen

3883: How Opportunity Costs Decrease the Probability of War in an Incomplete Information Game

Solomon Polachek and Jun Xiang

3882: Estimating Complementarity between Education and Training

Christian Belzil, Jorgen Hansen and Nicolai Kristensen

3881: Worker Self-Selection and the Profits from Cooperation

Michael Kosfeld and Ferdinand von Siemens

3880: Die Nachhaltigkeit von geförderten Existenzgründungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit: Eine Bilanz nach fünf Jahren

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn and Frank Wießner

3879: Climbing the Drug Staircase: A Bayesian Analysis of the Initiation of Hard Drug Use

Anne Line Bretteville-Jensen and Liana Jacobi

3878: Scientific (Wo)manpower? Gender and the Composition and Earnings of PhDs in Sweden

Anna Amilon, Inga Persson and Dan-Olof Rooth

3877: Education and Early Career Outcomes of Second-Generation Immigrants in France

Christian Belzil and François Poinas

3876: The Role of Profit Sharing in a Dual Labour Market with Flexible Outsourcing

Erkki Koskela and Jan König

3875: Fiscal Effects of Minimum Wages: An Analysis for Germany

Thomas Bauer, Jochen Kluve, Sandra Schaffner and Christoph Schmidt

3874: Emigration and the Age Profile of Retirement among Immigrants

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Steven Stillman

3873: Implicit Prejudice and Ethnic Minorities: Arab-Muslims in Sweden

Jens Agerström and Dan-Olof Rooth

3872: Charitable Giving for Overseas Development: UK Trends over a Quarter Century

Anthony Atkinson, Peter Backus, John Micklewright, Cathy Pharoah and Sylke Schnepf

3871: Teachers' Training, Class Size and Students' Outcomes: Learning from Administrative Forecasting Mistakes

Pascal Bressoux, Francis Kramarz and Corinne Prost

3870: Welfare and Employment: A European Dilemma?

Werner Eichhorst and Anton Hemerijck

3869: Unemployment Insurance Generosity: A Trans-Atlantic Comparison

Stephane Pallage, Lyle Scruggs and Christian Zimmermann

3868: Measuring Unemployment Insurance Generosity

Stephane Pallage, Lyle Scruggs and Christian Zimmermann

3867: Institutional Features of Wage Bargaining in 23 European Countries, the US and Japan

Philip Du Caju, Erwan Gautier, Daphne Momferatou and Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

3866: What Makes a Test Score? The Respective Contributions of Pupils, Schools, and Peers in Achievement in English Primary Education

Francis Kramarz, Stephen Machin and Amine Ouazad

3865: A Nonparametric Examination of Capital-Skill Complementarity

Daniel Henderson

3864: The Regional Dimension of Collective Wage Bargaining: The Case of Belgium

Robert Plasman, Michael Rusinek and Ilan Tojerow

3863: Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes: Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the BEEPS Surveys in Transition Economies

Pradeep Mitra, Alexander Muravyev and Mark Schaffer

3862: On the Sorting of Physicians across Medical Occupations

Pascal Courty and Gerald Marschke

3861: The East German Wage Structure after Transition

Robert Orlowski and Regina Riphahn

3860: Identifying Social Norms Using Coordination Games: Why Does Dictator Game Sharing Vary?

Erin L. Krupka and Roberto Weber

3859: Peer Effects and Social Networks in Education

Antoni Calvó-Armengol, Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou

3858: On the Determinants of Pay of CEOs in UK Public Sector Higher Education Institutions

Ray Bachan

3857: Not So Lucky Any More: CEO Compensation in Financially Distressed Firms

Qiang Kang and Oscar Mitnik

3856: The Long-Term Effects of Job Search Requirements: Evidence from the UK JSA Reform

Barbara Petrongolo

3855: WTP vs. WTA: Christmas Presents and the Endowment Effect

Thomas Bauer and Christoph Schmidt

3854: Higher Productivity in Importing German Manufacturing Firms: Self-Selection, Learning from Importing, or Both?

Alexander Vogel and Joachim Wagner

3853: Fertility and Female Employment Dynamics in Europe: The Effect of Using Alternative Econometric Modeling Assumptions

Pierre-Carl Michaud and Konstantinos Tatsiramos

3852: Ranking Intersecting Lorenz Curves

Rolf Aaberge

3851: Age-Dependent Employment Protection

Arnaud Cheron, Jean-Olivier Hairault and Francois Langot

3850: A New Model of Wage Determination and Wage Inequality

Guillermina Jasso

3849: The Effect of Integration Policies on the Time until Regular Employment of Newly Arrived Immigrants: Evidence from Denmark

Jens Clausen, Eskil Heinesen, Hans Hummelgaard, Leif Husted and Michael Rosholm

3848: Active Labor Market Policy Effects in a Dynamic Setting

Bruno Crépon, Marc Ferracci, Gregory Jolivet and Gerard van den Berg

3847: Incentives and the Sorting of Altruistic Agents into Street-Level Bureaucracies

Margaretha Buurman and Robert Dur

3846: European vs. American Hours Worked: Assessing the Role of the Extensive and Intensive Margins

Francois Langot and Coralia Azucena Quintero Rojas

3845: Education and Mobility

Stephen Machin, Panu Pelkonen and Kjell G Salvanes

3844: Rent-Sharing and the Cyclicality of Wage Differentials

Philip Du Caju, Francois Rycx and Ilan Tojerow

3843: Rank, Income and Income Inequality in Urban China

Björn Anders Gustafsson and Ding Sai

3842: Union Membership and Age: The Inverted U-Shape Hypothesis under Test

Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner

3841: Does the Growth Process Discriminate against Older Workers?

Francois Langot and Eva Moreno-Galbis

3840: Unemployment Dynamics and the Cost of Business Cycles

Jean-Olivier Hairault, Francois Langot and Sophie Osotimehin

3839: Gift Exchange in the Workplace: Money or Attention?

Robert Dur

3838: Repeated Job Quits: Stepping Stones or Learning about Quality?

Anne Gielen

3837: Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia

Sascha Becker and Ludger Woessmann

3836: Child Care Subsidies and Child Development

Chris M. Herbst and Erdal Tekin

3835: Promotions and Incentives: The Case of Multi-Stage Elimination Tournaments

Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk and Matthias Wibral

3834: Contracts as Rent Seeking Devices: Evidence from German Soccer

Eberhard Feess, Michael Gerfin and Gerd Muehlheusser

3833: Underpaid or Overpaid? Wage Analysis for Nurses Using Job and Worker Attributes

Barry Hirsch and Edward J. Schumacher

3832: Do Temporary Contracts Affect TFP? Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Firms

Juan Dolado and Rodolfo Stucchi

3831: "Might Not Be a Tomorrow": A Multi-Methods Approach to Anticipated Early Death and Youth Crime

Timothy Brezina, Erdal Tekin and Volkan Topalli

3830: Wage Differentials across Sectors in Europe: An East-West Comparison

Iga Magda, Francois Rycx, Ilan Tojerow and Daphné Valsamis

3829: Testing for Poverty Dominance: An Application to Canada

Wen-Hao Chen and Jean-Yves Duclos

3828: The Effect of Community-Level Socio-Economic Conditions on Threatening Racial Encounters

Heather Antecol and Deborah Cobb-Clark

3827: Rising Tuition and Enrollment in Public Higher Education

Steven W. Hemelt and Dave Marcotte

3826: Parental Marital Disruption, Family Type, and Transfers to Disabled Elderly Parents

Liliana E. Pezzin, Robert Pollak and Barbara Schone

3825: The Effect of Active Labor Market Programs on Not-Yet Treated Unemployed Individuals

Gerard van den Berg, Annette Bergemann and Marco Caliendo

3824: A Comparison of the Poverty Impact of Transfers, Taxes and Market Income across Five OECD Countries

Sami Bibi and Jean-Yves Duclos

3823: An Empirical Analysis of the Time Allocation of Italian Couples: Are Italian Men Irresponsive?

Hans Bloemen, Silvia Pasqua and Elena Stancanelli

3822: Wage Bargaining and the (Dynamic) Mincer Equation

Corrado Andini

3821: Pension Reforms and Women Retirement Plans

Tito Boeri and Agar Brugiavini

3820: The Effects of Maternity Leave Extension on Training for Young Women

Patrick Puhani and Katja Sonderhof

3819: Optimal Income Taxation of Married Couples: An Empirical Analysis of Joint and Individual Taxation

Peter Haan and Dolores Navarro

3818: "Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School": Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private Competition, and Student Achievement across Countries

Martin R. West and Ludger Woessmann

3817: Does Retirement Kill You? Evidence from Early Retirement Windows

Norma Coe and Maarten Lindeboom

3816: Who Becomes an Entrepreneur? Labor Market Prospects and Occupational Choice

Markus Poschke

3815: Children and Parents Time Use: Empirical Evidence on Investment in Human Capital in France, Italy and Germany

Ana Rute Cardoso, Elsa Fontainha and Chiara Monfardini

3814: Car Ownership and the Labor Market of Ethnic Minorities

Pieter Gautier and Yves Zenou

3813: Economic Satisfaction and Income Rank in Small Neighbourhoods

Andrew Clark, Nicolai Kristensen and Niels Westergård-Nielsen

3812: Does Relative Income Matter for the Very Poor? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Alpaslan Akay and Peter Martinsson

3811: An Experimental Study of Sex Segregation in the Swedish Labour Market: Is Discrimination the Explanation?

Magnus Carlsson and Dan-Olof Rooth

3810: Is It Your Foreign Name or Foreign Qualifications? An Experimental Study of Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring

Magnus Carlsson and Dan-Olof Rooth

3809: Downloading Wisdom from Online Crowds

Albert Saiz and Uri Simonsohn

3808: Internal Finance and Growth: Microeconometric Evidence on Chinese Firms

Alessandra Guariglia, Xiaoxuan Liu and Lina Song

3807: Adding Rungs to the Exporting Ladder: Plant-Level Exporting Dynamics and Total Factor Productivity Growth

Alexandru Voicu

3806: Education-Occupation Mismatch: Is There an Income Penalty?

Martin Nordin, Inga Persson and Dan-Olof Rooth

3805: The Determinants of University Participation in Canada (1977?2003)

Louis Christofides, Michael Hoy and Ling Yang

3804: Optimal Income Taxation with Endogenous Participation and Search Unemployment

Etienne Lehmann, Alexis Parmentier and Bruno Van der Linden

3803: Welfare in Models of Trade with Heterogeneous Firms

Alexandre Janiak

3802: The Impacts of Labor Market Policies on Job Search Behavior and Post-Unemployment Job Quality

Simen Gaure, Knut Røed and Lars Westlie

3801: Intergenerational Top Income Mobility in Sweden: A Combination of Equal Opportunity and Capitalistic Dynasties

Anders Bjorklund, Jesper Roine and Daniel Waldenström

3800: Alternative Approaches to Evaluation in Empirical Microeconomics

Richard Blundell and Monica Costa Dias

3799: Automatically Activated Stereotypes and Differential Treatment Against the Obese in Hiring

Dan-Olof Rooth