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3496: The Effects of Health and Health Shocks on Hours Worked

Lixin Cai, Kostas Mavromaras and Umut Oguzoglu

3495: Taking the Easy Way Out: How the GED Testing Program Induces Students to Drop Out

James J. Heckman, John Humphries, Paul LaFontaine and Pedro L. Rodríguez

3494: Immigrants and Welfare Programmes: Exploring the Interactions between Immigrant Characteristics, Immigrant Welfare Dependence and Welfare Policy

Alan Barrett and Yvonne McCarthy

3493: Human Capital Externalities and the Urban Wage Premium: Two Literatures and their Interrelations

Benedikt Halfdanarson, Daniel F. Heuermann and Jens Suedekum

3492: The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality: A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA

Anna Fräßdorf, Markus Grabka and Johannes Schwarze

3491: Would a Legal Minimum Wage Reduce Poverty? A Microsimulation Study for Germany

Kai-Uwe Müller and Viktor Steiner

3490: The Lot of the Unemployed: A Time Use Perspective

Alan Krueger and Andreas Mueller

3489: Do Migrants Get Good Jobs in Australia? The Role of Ethnic Networks in Job Search

Stephane Mahuteau and Pramod (Raja) Junankar

3488: Mexican-American Entrepreneurship

Robert Fairlie and Christopher Woodruff

3487: Fixed Effects Bias in Panel Data Estimators

Hielke Buddelmeyer, Paul Jensen, Umut Oguzoglu and Elizabeth Webster

3486: Does Immigration Raise Natives' Income? National and Regional Evidence from Spain

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Sara De La Rica

3485: Social Change

Jeremy Greenwood and Nezih Guner

3484: The Emerging Aversion to Inequality: Evidence from Poland 1992–2005

Irena Grosfeld and Claudia Senik

3483: Imposed Benefit Sanctions and the Unemployment-to-Employment Transition: The German Experience

Kai-Uwe Müller and Viktor Steiner

3482: Efficiency and Effectiveness of Social Spending

Peter Herrmann, Arno Tausch, Almas Heshmati and Chemen S. J. Bajalan

3481: Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases

Jörg Oechssler, Andreas Roider and Patrick W. Schmitz

3480: Employment Effects of Welfare Reforms: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Life-Cycle Model

Peter Haan, Victoria Prowse and Arne Uhlendorff

3479: The Immigrant Earnings Disadvantage across the Earnings and Skills Distributions: The Case of Immigrants from the EU’s New Member States in Ireland

Alan Barrett, Seamus McGuinness and Martin O`Brien

3478: The Treatment Effect, the Cross Difference, and the Interaction Term in Nonlinear “Difference-in-Differences” Models

Patrick Puhani

3477: Hyperbolic Discounting and the Phillips Curve

Liam Graham and Dennis J. Snower

3476: Never the Same After the First Time: The Satisfaction of the Second-Generation Self-Employed

Andrew Clark, Nathalie Colombier and David Masclet

3475: A Pragmatic Approach to Capital Account Liberalization

Eswar Prasad and Raghuram Rajan

3474: Quasi-Experimental Estimates of the Effect of Class Size on Achievement in Norway

Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek and Marte Rønning

3473: Does the Effect of Incentive Payments on Survey Response Rates Differ by Income Support History?

Juan Barón, Robert Breunig, Deborah Cobb-Clark, Tue Gorgens and Anastasia Sartbayeva

3472: Does More Mean Better? Sibling Sex Composition and the Link between Family Size and Children’s Quality

Javier Baez

3471: Private Supplementary Tutoring in Turkey: Recent Evidence on Its Various Aspects

Aysıt Tansel and Fatma Bircan

3470: What Have We Learned? Assessing Labor Market Institutions and Indicators

Werner Eichhorst, Michael Feil and Christoph Braun

3469: Endogenous Reversals of Fortune

Mark Gradstein

3468: Civil Wars beyond their Borders: The Human Capital and Health Consequences of Hosting Refugees

Javier Baez

3467: Between Meritocracy and Ethnic Discrimination: The Gender Difference

Mahmood Arai, Moa Bursell and Lena Nekby

3466: Impact of the 1999 Earthquakes on the Outcome of the 2002 Parliamentary Election in Turkey

Ali Akarca and Aysıt Tansel

3465: Cost and Benefit of Apprenticeship Training: A Comparison of Germany and Switzerland

Regina Dionisius, Samuel Mühlemann, Harald Pfeifer, Günter Walden, Felix Wenzelmann and Stefan Wolter

3464: In Search of Gender Bias in Household Resource Allocation in Rural China

Lina Song

3463: Heterogeneity, State Dependence and Health

Timothy Halliday

3462: The Contribution of Vocational Training to Employment, Job-Related Skills and Productivity: Evidence from Madeira Island

Santiago Budria Rodriguez and Pedro Pereira

3461: Macroeconomic Policy and Unemployment by Economic Activity: Evidence from Turkey

Hakan Berument, Nukhet Dogan and Aysıt Tansel

3460: Shall We Kill or Enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar Model

Guillermina Jasso

3459: Growing out of Poverty: Trends and Patterns of Urban Poverty in China 1988–2002

Simon Appleton, Lina Song and Qingjie Xia

3458: Selective Migration and Health

Timothy Halliday and Michael C. Kimmitt

3457: The Determinants of Female Labour Supply in Belarus

Francesco Pastore and Alina Verashchagina

3456: The Impact of Population Aging on the Labor Market: The Case of Sri Lanka

Milan Vodopivec and Nisha Arunatilake

3455: Modelling the Employment and Wage Outcomes of Spouses: Is She Outearning Him?

Hans Bloemen and Elena G. F. Stancanelli

3454: The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China’s Transition

Simon Appleton, John Knight, Lina Song and Qingjie Xia

3453: Was the Mandal Commission Right? Living Standard Differences between Backward Classes and Other Social Groups in India

Ira Gang, Kunal Sen and Myeong-Su Yun

3452: Too Young to Leave the Nest? The Effects of School Starting Age

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes

3451: Efficient Tax Policy Ranks Education Higher Than Saving

Wolfram Richter

3450: International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality

Martin Kahanec and Klaus Zimmermann

3449: Determinants of Managerial Values on Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from China

Liangrong Zu and Lina Song

3448: Interethnic Marriage: A Choice between Ethnic and Educational Similarities

Delia Furtado and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos

3447: Tax Rates and Tax Evasion: An Empirical Analysis of the Structural Aspects and Long-Run Characteristics in Italy

Bruno Chiarini, Elisabetta Marzano and Friedrich Schneider

3446: Occupational Selection in Multilingual Labor Markets

Núria Quella and Silvio Rendon

3445: Paintings and Numbers: An Econometric Investigation of Sales Rates, Prices and Returns in Latin American Art Auctions

Nauro Campos and Renata Leite Barbosa

3444: The "Bologna Process" and College Enrolment Decisions

Lorenzo Cappellari and Claudio Lucifora

3443: Life Satisfaction in Urban China: Components and Determinants

Lina Song and Simon Appleton

3442: Global Business Cycles: Convergence or Decoupling?

Ayhan Kose, Christopher Otrok and Eswar Prasad

3441: From Illegal to Legal: Estimating Previous Illegal Experience among New Legal Immigrants to the United States

Guillermina Jasso, Douglas S. Massey, Mark Rosenzweig and James P. Smith

3440: Feedback and Incentives: Experimental Evidence

Tor Eriksson, Anders Poulsen and Marie Claire Villeval

3439: The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada

David Jaeger, Esteban Klor, Sami Miaari and M. Daniele Paserman

3438: How Viable Are Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts: Simulation Results for Slovenia

Milan Vodopivec

3437: A Caseworker Like Me: Does the Similarity between Unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements?

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich and Michael Lechner

3436: Union Decline in Britain

David Blanchflower and Alex Bryson

3435: Institutions and Contract Enforcement

Armin Falk, David B. Huffman and W. Bentley Macleod

3434: Minimum Wages and Welfare in a Hotelling Duopsony

Leo Kaas and Paul Madden

3433: New Evidence on the Dynamic Wage Curve for Western Germany: 1980–2004

Badi Baltagi, Uwe Blien and Katja Wolf

3432: The Impact of College Graduation on Geographic Mobility: Identifying Education Using Multiple Components of Vietnam Draft Risk

Ofer Malamud and Abigail Wozniak

3431: Understanding Poverty among the Elderly in India: Implications for Social Pension Policy

Sarmistha Pal and Robert Palacios

3430: Studying Abroad and the Effect on International Labor Market Mobility: Evidence from the Introduction of ERASMUS

Matthias Parey and Fabian Waldinger

3429: The Effect of Intragroup Communication on Preference Shifts in Groups

Michael P. Brady and Steven Wu

3428: The Gender Earnings Gap inside a Russian Firm: First Evidence from Personnel Data – 1997 to 2002

Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann and Anzelika Zaiceva

3427: Public Sector Pay Gap in France: New Evidence Using Panel Data

Olivier Bargain and Blaise Melly

3426: Evolution of Capital Structure in East Asia: Corporate Inertia or Endeavours?

Nigel Driffield and Sarmistha Pal

3425: Econometric Causality

James J. Heckman

3424: Incentive Design and Trust: Comparing the Effects of Tournament and Team-Based Incentives on Trust

Robert Oxoby and Colette Friedrich

3423: Migration and the Wage Curve: A Structural Approach to Measure the Wage and Employment Effects of Migration

Herbert Brücker and Elke Jahn

3422: Wage Effects of Recruitment Methods: The Case of the Italian Social Service Sector

Michele Mosca and Francesco Pastore

3421: Women’s Liberation: What’s in It for Men?

Matthias Doepke and Michele Tertilt

3420: Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants and Non-Citizens in the EU: An East-West Comparison

Martin Kahanec and Anzelika Zaiceva

3419: Occupational Mismatch and Moonlighting among Spanish Physicians: Do Couples Matter?

Juan Dolado and Florentino Felgueroso

3418: Meta-Analysis of Empirical Evidence on the Labour Market Impacts of Immigration

Simonetta Longhi, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot

3417: International Business Visits and the Technology Frontier

Steve Dowrick and Max Tani

3416: Ideology

Roland Benabou

3415: Macroeconomic Effects of Ownership Structure in OECD Countries

Donatella Gatti

3414: Does Employment Protection Help Immigrants? Evidence from European Labor Markets

Filipa Sa

3413: Strategic Outsourcing, Profit Sharing and Equilibrium Unemployment

Erkki Koskela and Jan König

3412: Tobacco and Alcohol: Complements or Substitutes? A Structural Model Approach

Harald Tauchmann, Silja Göhlmann, Till Requate and Christoph Schmidt

3411: Motivating Politicians: The Impacts of Monetary Incentives on Quality and Performance

Claudio Ferraz and Frederico Finan

3410: Panic on the Streets of London: Police, Crime and the July 2005 Terror Attacks

Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin and Robert Witt

3409: Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism

Richard Easterlin

3408: Qualifying Religion: The Role of Plural Identities for Educational Production

Timo Boppart, Josef Falkinger, Volker Grossmann, Ulrich Woitek and Gabriela Wüthrich

3407: How Hurricanes Affect Employment and Wages in Local Labor Markets

Ariel Belasen and Solomon Polachek

3406: Rent-Sharing under Different Bargaining Regimes: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Michael Rusinek and Francois Rycx

3405: Labour Supply and Taxes

Costas Meghir and David Phillips

3404: Individual Incentives in Program Participation: Splitting up the Process in Assignment and Enrollment

Andrea Weber

3403: Does Off-Farm Labor Relax Farmers’ Credit Constraints? Evidence from Longitudinal Data for Vietnam

Marco Stampini and Benjamin Davis

3402: A Primer on the 35-Hour in France, 1997–2007

Philippe Askenazy

3401: What Are the Factors Behind Pay Settlements? Evidence from Spanish and British Data

Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose Galdon-Sanchez and Sara Martinez-de-Morentin

3400: Risk-Taking Tournaments: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Petra Nieken and Dirk Sliwka

3399: The Health Returns to Education: What Can We Learn from Twins?

Petter Lundborg

3398: Brain Drain and its Determinants: A Major Issue for Small States

Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier and Maurice Schiff

3397: War and Endogenous Democracy

Davide Ticchi and Andrea Vindigni