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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

3798: Exports and Profitability: First Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms

Helmut Fryges and Joachim Wagner

3797: Wage-Hours Contracts, Overtime Working and Premium Pay

Robert Hart and Yue Ma

3796: Financial Development and the Distribution of Income in Latin America and the Caribbean

Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza and Felix Rioja

3795: The Younger, the Better? Relative Age Effects at University

Francesco Billari and Michele Pellizzari

3794: An Afriat Theorem for the Collective Model of Household Consumption

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock and Frederic Vermeulen

3793: Household Access to Microcredit and Children's Food Security in Rural Malawi: A Gender Perspective

Gautam Hazarika and Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis

3792: Understanding the Technology of Computer Technology Diffusion: Explaining Computer Adoption Patterns and Implications for the Wage Structure

Lex Borghans and Bas ter Weel

3791: Temporary and Persistent Poverty among Ethnic Minorities and the Majority in Rural China

Björn Anders Gustafsson and Ding Sai

3790: Measuring Richness and Poverty: A Micro Data Application to Europe and Germany

Andreas Peichl, Thilo Schaefer and Christoph Scheicher

3789: The Long Term Effects of Legalizing Divorce on Children

Libertad Gonzalez and Tarja Viitanen

3788: North-South Trade Liberalization and Returns to Skill in the South: The Case of Mexico

Gautam Hazarika and Rafael Otero

3787: Determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure: Evidence from Romania

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Christophe Rault, Anamaria Sova and Robert Sova

3786: Trade as a Wage Disciplining Device

Damiaan Persyn

3785: Estimating the Effect of Student Aid on College Enrollment: Evidence from a Government Grant Policy Reform

Helena Nielsen, Torben Sørensen and Christopher Taber

3784: Competition and the Ratchet Effect

Gary Charness, Peter Kuhn and Marie Claire Villeval

3783: The Determinants of Regional Migration in Great Britain: A Duration Approach

Martyn J. Andrews, Ken Clark and William Whittaker

3782: On the Bilateral Trade Effects of Free Trade Agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 Countries

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Christophe Rault, Anamaria Sova and Robert Sova

3781: Living Wage Laws: How Much Do (Can) They Matter?

Harry Holzer

3780: Changes in Korean Wage Inequality, 1980?2005

Byung-Goo Kang and Myeong-Su Yun

3779: Crime, Unemployment, and Xenophobia? An Ecological Analysis of Right-Wing Election Results in Hamburg, 1986?2005

Ralph Rotte and Martin Steininger

3778: City Beautiful

Gerald Carlino and Albert Saiz

3777: Determinants of Historic and Cultural Landmark Designation: Why We Preserve What We Preserve

Douglas Noonan and Douglas Krupka

3776: Workforce Development as an Antipoverty Strategy: What Do We Know? What Should We Do?

Harry Holzer

3775: Wage Formation between Newly Hired Workers and Employers: Survey Evidence

Robert Hall and Alan Krueger

3774: Analysis of Pay Inequality and its Impacts on Growth and Performance in the Korean Manufacturing Industry

Yunhee Kim, Jeong-Dong Lee and Almas Heshmati

3773: Institutions, Social Norms, and Bargaining Power: An Analysis of Individual Leisure Time in Couple Households

Nabanita Datta Gupta and Leslie Stratton

3772: Wage Subsidies for Needy Job-Seekers and Their Effect on Individual Labour Market Outcomes after the German Reforms

Sarah Bernhard, Hermann Gartner and Gesine Stephan

3771: Social Image Concerns and Pro-Social Behavior

Nicola Lacetera and Mario Macis

3770: Motivating Altruism: A Field Study

Nicola Lacetera and Mario Macis

3769: Does Money Matter for Schools?

Helena Holmlund, Sandra McNally and Martina Viarengo

3768: Do Targeted Hiring Subsidies and Profiling Techniques Reduce Unemployment?

Elke Jahn and Thomas Wagner

3767: The Relative Effectiveness of Selected Active Labour Market Programmes and the Common Support Problem

Gesine Stephan and André Pahnke

3766: Understanding Low Average Returns to Education in Africa: The Role of Heterogeneity across Education Levels and the Importance of Political and Economic Reforms

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

3765: The Dynamics of Social Assistance Receipt: Measurement and Modelling Issues, with an Application to Britain

Lorenzo Cappellari and Stephen Jenkins

3764: Electoral Participation as a Measure of Social Inclusion for Natives, Immigrants and Descendants in Sweden

Pieter Bevelander and Ravi Pendakur

3763: Selfish and Prospective: Theory and Evidence of Pocketbook Voting

Mikael Elinder, Henrik Jordahl and Panu Poutvaara

3762: Determinants of Integration and its Impact on the Economic Success of Immigrants: A Case Study of the Turkish Community in Berlin

Alexander Danzer and Hulya Ulku

3761: The Role of Information and Institutions in Understanding the Black-White Gap in Self-Employment

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere and Willie Belton

3760: Privatization and Changes in the Wage Structure: Evidence from Firm Personnel Records

Blaise Melly and Patrick Puhani

3759: Intergenerational Education Mobility among the Children of Canadian Immigrants

Abdurrahman Aydemir, Wen-Hao Chen and Miles Corak

3758: Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Shwetlena Sabarwal and Katherine Terrell

3757: Dynamics of Intrahousehold Bargaining

Joaquin Andaluz, Miriam Marcén and José Alberto Molina

3756: New Labour? The Impact of Migration from Central and Eastern European Countries on the UK Labour Market

Sara Lemos and Jonathan Portes