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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 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 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 William 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 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 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 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

3996: Does Teaching Load Affect Faculty Size?

William Becker, William Greene and John Siegfried

3995: Optimal Bandwidth Choice for the Regression Discontinuity Estimator

Guido Imbens and Karthik Kalyanaraman

3994: Part-Time Work, Gender and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from a Developing Country

Florencia Lopez Boo, Lucia Madrigal and Carmen Pages

3993: Workplace Disability Diversity and Job-Related Well-Being in Britain: A WERS2004 Based Analysis

Getinet Haile

3992: Job Durations with Worker and Firm Specific Effects: MCMC Estimation with Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data

Guillaume Horny, Rute Mendes and Gerard van den Berg

3991: Vacancy Referrals, Job Search, and the Duration of Unemployment: A Randomized Experiment

Per Engström, Patrik Hesselius and Bertil Holmlund

3990: Sentence Reductions and Recidivism: Lessons from the Bastille Day Quasi Experiment

Eric Maurin and Aurelie Ouss

3989: External Validation of the Use of Vignettes in Cross-Country Health Studies

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Nicolai Kristensen and Dario Pozzoli

3988: Why Praise Inequality? Public Good Provision, Income Distribution and Social Welfare

Indraneel Dasgupta

3987: The Economics of Discrimination: Evidence from Basketball

Lawrence Kahn

3986: Following in Your Parents' Footsteps? Empirical Analysis of Matched Parent-Offspring Test Scores

Sarah Brown, Steven McIntosh and Karl Taylor

3985: Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion

Lex Borghans, Bart Golsteyn, James Heckman and Huub Meijers

3984: Is There Scope for Gains from Revenue-Neutral Labor Tax Reforms with Flexible Outsourcing?

Erkki Koskela and Panu Poutvaara

3983: Child-Care and Participation in the Labor Market for Married Women in Mediterranean Countries

Catia Nicodemo and Robert Waldmann

3982: Female Labor Supply and Parental Leave Benefits: The Causal Effect of Paying Higher Transfers for a Shorter Period of Time

Annette Bergemann and Regina Riphahn

3981: Reservation Wages, Expected Wages and the Duration of Unemployment: Evidence from British Panel Data

Sarah Brown and Karl Taylor

3980: Comparing IV with Structural Models: What Simple IV Can and Cannot Identify

James Heckman and Sergio Urzua

3979: Cream-Skimmer or Underdog? Labor Type Selectivity, Pre-Program Wage, and Rural Labor Training Program Outcome

Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen

3978: Gender Pay Gap and Quantile Regression in European Families

Catia Nicodemo

3977: Age at School Entry and Intergenerational Educational Mobility

Philipp Bauer and Regina Riphahn

3976: Crime and the Labour Market: Evidence from a Survey of Inmates

Horst Entorf

3975: Marriage and Other Risky Assets: A Portfolio Approach

Graziella Bertocchi, Marianna Brunetti and Costanza Torricelli

3974: Why Do Individuals Choose Self-Employment?

Chris Dawson, Andrew Henley and Paul Latreille

3973: A Distributional Analysis of Social Group Inequality in Rural India

Mehtabul Azam

3972: The Impact of Being Monitored on Discriminatory Behavior among Employers: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Magnus Carlsson and Dan-Olof Rooth

3971: Multivariate Decomposition for Hazard Rate Models

Daniel Powers and Myeong-Su Yun

3970: This Job Is 'Getting Old:' Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure

David Autor and David Dorn

3969: Switching Costs and Occupational Transition into Self-Employment

Andrew Henley

3968: India's Increasing Skill Premium: Role of Demand and Supply

Mehtabul Azam

3967: Does Increasing Parents' Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation? Evidence Based on Conditional Second Moments

Lidia Farre, Roger Klein and Francis Vella

3966: Non-Parametric Inference for the Effect of a Treatment on Survival Times with Application in the Health and Social Sciences

Xavier de Luna and Per Johansson

3965: An Evaluation of the Tax-Transfer Treatment of Married Couples in European Countries

Herwig Immervoll, Henrik Jacobsen Kleven, Claus Kreiner and Nicolaj Verdelin

3964: American Education in the Age of Mass Migrations 1870-1930

Fabrice Murtin and Martina Viarengo

3963: Changes in Wage Structure in Urban India 1983-2004: A Quantile Regression Decomposition

Mehtabul Azam

3962: Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

3961: On the Sensitivity of Return to Schooling Estimates to Estimation Methods, Model Specification, and Influential Outliers If Identification Is Weak

David Jaeger and Juliane Parys

3960: Sick of Your Colleagues' Absence?

Patrik Hesselius, Per Johansson and J Peter Nilsson

3959: Treating Equals Unequally: Incentives in Teams, Workers' Motivation and Production Technology

Sebastian Goerg, Sebastian Kube and Ro'i Zultan

3958: Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness

J. David Brown, John Earle and Scott Gehlbach

3957: The Gender Pay Gap for Private Sector Employees in Canada and Britain

Marie Drolet and Karen Mumford

3956: Lessons from the Laureates

William Breit and Barry Hirsch