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3951: I'll Marry You If You Get Me a Job: Marital Assimilation and Immigrant Employment Rates

Delia Furtado and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos

3950: Ethnicity and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to the United States

Guillermina Jasso

3949: Testing the Inverseness of Fertility and Labor Supply: The Case of Ethiopia

Blen Solomon and Jean Kimmel

3948: Peer Pressure, Incentives, and Gender: An Experimental Analysis of Motivation in the Workplace

Charles Bellemare, Patrick Lepage and Bruce S. Shearer

3947: On Mandatory Activation of Welfare Recipients

Matz Dahlberg, Kajsa Johansson and Eva Mörk

3946: Low-Skilled Immigration and the Expansion of Private Schools

Davide Dottori and I-Ling Shen

3945: Is Corporate R&D Investment in High-Tech Sectors More Effective? Some Guidelines for European Research Policy

Raquel Ortega-Argiles, Mariacristina Piva, Lesley Potters and Marco Vivarelli

3944: Household Labor Supply and Home Services in a General-Equilibrium Model with Heterogeneous Agents

Christian Bredemeier and Falko Juessen

3943: The Wooldridge Method for the Initial Values Problem Is Simple: What About Performance?

Alpaslan Akay

3942: Cheaper Child Care, More Children

Eva Mörk, Anna Sjögren and Helena Svaleryd

3941: Are Public Sector Workers Underpaid in Russia? Estimating the Public-Private Wage Gap

Vladimir Gimpelson and Anna Lukiyanova

3940: Work, Jobs and Well-Being across the Millennium

Andrew Clark

3939: Reference Points and Effort Provision

Johannes Abeler, Armin Falk, Lorenz Götte and David Huffman

3938: Are Young and Old Workers Harmful for Firm Productivity?

Thierry Lallemand and Francois Rycx

3937: Public Policies and Women's Employment after Childbearing

Han Wen-Jui, Christopher Ruhm, Jane Waldfogel and Elizabeth Washbrook

3936: Undocumented Worker Employment and Firm Survival

J. David Brown, Julie Hotchkiss and Myriam Quispe-Agnoli

3935: A Simple Feasible Alternative Procedure to Estimate Models with High-Dimensional Fixed Effects

Paulo Guimaraes and Pedro Portugal

3934: Stuck Between Surplus and Shortage: Demand for Skills in the Russian Industry

Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov and Anna Lukiyanova

3933: Small Business Economics of the Lakota Fund on the Native American Indian Reservation

David Benson, Aaron Lies, Albert Okunade and Phanindra Wunnava

3932: The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Colombia

Maurice Kugler and Eric Verhoogen

3931: Cross-Nativity Marriages and Human Capital Levels of Children

Delia Furtado

3930: Monopsonistic Discrimination, Worker Turnover, and the Gender Wage Gap

Erling Barth and Harald Dale-Olsen

3929: Child Welfare and Old-Age Security in Female Headed Households in Tanzania

Holger Seebens

3928: Zipf's Law for Cities in the Regions and the Country

Kristian Giesen and Jens Suedekum

3927: India's Approach to Capital Account Liberalization

Eswar Prasad

3926: The Microeconomic Determinants of Emigration and Return Migration of the Best and Brightest: Evidence from the Pacific

John Gibson and David McKenzie

3925: Approaches to Estimating the Health State Dependence of the Utility Function

Amy Finkelstein, Erzo Luttmer and Matthew Notowidigdo

3924: Labour Market Dynamics in Australia: What Drives Unemployment?

Marika Karanassou and Hector Sala

3923: Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in Services: Direct Evidence from a Firm Survey

Daniel Radowski and Holger Bonin

3922: Return Migration and Occupational Choice

Matloob Piracha and Florin Vadean

3921: How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?

Jennifer Hunt and Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle

3920: The Effect of Receiving Supplementary UI Benefits on Unemployment Duration

Tomi Kyyrä, Pierpaolo Parrotta and Michael Rosholm

3919: Regional Measures of Human Capital in the European Union

Christian Dreger, Georg Erber and Daniela Glocker

3918: Worker Directors: A German Product that Didn't Export?

John Addison and Claus Schnabel

3917: Social Connections and Incentives in the Workplace: Evidence from Personnel Data

Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay and Imran Rasul

3916: Comparative Advantage, Segmentation and Informal Earnings: A Marginal Treatment Effects Approach

Omar Arias and Melanie Khamis

3915: Authentic Happiness Theory Supported by Impact of Religion on Life Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Analysis with Data for Germany

Bruce Headey, Jürgen Schupp, Ingrid Tucci and Gert Wagner

3914: Who Makes a Good Leader? Social Preferences and Leading-by-Example

Simon Gächter, Daniele Nosenzo, Elke Renner and Martin Sefton

3913: Migration in an Enlarged EU: A Challenging Solution?

Martin Kahanec and Klaus Zimmermann

3912: International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility

Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier and Maurice Schiff

3911: Does the Minimum Wage Have a Higher Impact on the Informal than on the Formal Labor Market? Evidence from Quasi-Experiments

Melanie Khamis

3910: Vouchers and Caseworkers in Public Training Programs: Evidence from the Hartz Reform in Germany

Ulf Rinne, Arne Uhlendorff and Zhong Zhao

3909: Curbing Cream-Skimming: Evidence on Enrolment Incentives

Pascal Courty, Do Han Kim and Gerald Marschke

3908: Inconsistencies in Reported Employment Characteristics among Employed Stayers

Francesca Bassi, Alessandra Padoan and Ugo Trivellato

3907: Explaining How Delayed Motherhood Affects Fertility Dynamics in Europe

Massimiliano Bratti and Konstantinos Tatsiramos

3906: Multidimensional Human Capital, Wages and Endogenous Employment Status in Ghana

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch

3905: Contingent Convergence: A Comparative Analysis of Activation Policies

Werner Eichhorst and Regina Konle-Seidl

3904: Cultural Transmission of Work-Welfare Attitudes and the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare Receipt

Juan Barón, Deborah Cobb-Clark and Nisvan Erkal

3903: Speed Discounting and Racial Disparities: Evidence from Speeding Tickets in Boston

Nejat Anbarci and Jungmin Lee

3902: Politicians' Outside Earnings and Political Competition

Johannes Becker, Andreas Peichl and Johannes Rincke

3901: A Behavioral Account of the Labor Market: The Role of Fairness Concerns

Ernst Fehr, Lorenz Götte and Christian Zehnder

3900: Self-Employment Dynamics, State Dependence and Cross-Mobility Patterns

Marco Caliendo and Arne Uhlendorff

3899: Strike Three: Umpires' Demand for Discrimination

Christopher A. Parsons, Johan Sulaeman, Michael C. Yates and Daniel Hamermesh

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