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3617: Does the Color of the Collar Matter? Firm Specific Human Capital and Post-Displacement Outcomes

Guido Schwerdt, Andrea Ichino, Oliver Ruf, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Josef Zweimüller

3616: Do We Follow Others When We Should? A Simple Test of Rational Expectations

Georg Weizsäcker

3615: Does Distance Determine Who Attends a University in Germany?

Katharina Spiess and Katharina Wrohlich

3614: A Good Time to Stay Out? Strikes and the Business Cycle

Paul Devereux and Robert Hart

3613: Satisfaction with Democracy and Collective Action Problems: The Case of the Environment

Martin Halla, Friedrich Schneider and Alexander Wagner

3612: Organizational Redesign, Information Technologies and Workplace Productivity

Benoit Dostie and Rajshri Jayaraman

3611: Multi-Family Households in a Labour Supply Model: A Calibration Method with Application to Poland

Peter Haan and Michal Myck

3610: Weight Gain in Adolescents and Their Peers

Timothy Halliday and Sally Kwak

3609: Cognitive Skills Explain Economic Preferences, Strategic Behavior, and Job Attachment

Stephen Burks, Jeffrey Carpenter, Lorenz Götte and Aldo Rustichini

3608: A Note on the Determinants and Consequences of Outsourcing Using German Data

John Addison, Lutz Bellmann, André Pahnke and Paulino Teixeira

3607: Paying More to Hire the Best? Foreign Firms, Wages and Worker Mobility

Pedro Martins

3606: Causal Effects of Monetary Shocks: Semiparametric Conditional Independence Tests with a Multinomial Propensity Score

Joshua Angrist and Guido Kuersteiner

3605: The Effect of Expansions in Maternity Leave Coverage on Children's Long-Term Outcomes

Christian Dustmann and Uta Schönberg

3604: Happiness Dynamics with Quarterly Life Event Data

Paul Frijters, David Johnston and Michael Shields

3603: The Impact of Social Capital on Crime: Evidence from the Netherlands

Semih Akçomak and Bas ter Weel

3602: Consumers and the Brain Drain: Product Design and the Gains from Emigration

Peter Kuhn and Carol McAusland

3601: Financial Student Aid and Enrollment into Higher Education: New Evidence from Germany

Viktor Steiner and Katharina Wrohlich

3600: From Giving Birth to Paid Labor: The Effects of Adult Education for Prime-Aged Mothers

Annette Bergemann and Gerard van den Berg

3599: Should You Compete or Cooperate with Your Schoolmates?

Massimiliano Bratti, Daniele Checchi and Antonio Filippin

3598: On Amenities, Natural Advantage and Agglomeration

Douglas Krupka

3597: New Estimates of the Effects of Minimum Wages in the U.S. Retail Trade Sector

John Addison, McKinley Blackburn and Chad Cotti

3596: Citizenship in the United States: The Roles of Immigrant Characteristics and Country of Origin

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

3595: Scale, Diversity, and Determinants of Labour Migration in Europe

Anzelika Zaiceva and Klaus Zimmermann

3594: Social Protection and Migration in China: What Can Protect Migrants from Economic Uncertainty?

Lina Song and Simon Appleton

3593: Services Offshoring and Wages: Evidence from Micro Data

Ingo Geishecker and Holger Görg

3592: Centralized Wage Determination and Regional Unemployment Differences: The Case of Italy

Vincenzo Caponi

3591: Ethnicity, Assimilation and Harassment in the Labor Market

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

3590: Anatomy of a Health Scare: Education, Income and the MMR Controversy in the UK

Dan Anderberg, Arnaud Chevalier and Jonathan Wadsworth

3589: Estimating the Causal Effect of Gun Prevalence on Homicide Rates: A Local Average Treatment Effect Approach

Tomislav Kovandzic, Mark Schaffer and Gary Kleck

3588: Student Loans Repayment and Recovery: International Comparisons

Hua Shen and Adrian Ziderman

3587: The Impact of Relative Cohort Size on U.S. Fertility, 1913-2001

Yongil Jeon and Michael Shields

3586: The Impact of Immigration on Election Outcomes in Danish Municipalities

Christer Gerdes and Eskil Wadensjö

3585: Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

3584: Eliciting Motives for Trust and Reciprocity by Attitudinal and Behavioural Measures

Francesco Farina, Shane Niall O'Higgins and Patrizia Sbriglia

3583: Why Do Leaders Matter? The Role of Expert Knowledge

Amanda Goodall, Lawrence Kahn and Andrew Oswald

3582: Work-Life Balance Practices and the Gender Gap in Job Satisfaction in the UK: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

M Asadullah and Rosa M. Fernández

3581: A Gender Perspective on Self-Employment Entry and Performance as Self-Employed

Pernilla Andersson Joona and Eskil Wadensjö

3580: Blood Donations and Incentives: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Lorenz Götte and Alois Stutzer

3579: Unemployment Assistance and Transition to Employment in Argentina

Ana Iturriza, Arjun Bedi and Robert Sparrow

3578: The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession: Hysteresis and Heterogeneity in the Market for College Graduates

Philip Oreopoulos, Till von Wachter and Andrew Heisz

3577: Self-Esteem and Earnings

Francesco Drago

3576: Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China

Belton Fleisher, Haizheng Li and Min Qiang (Kent) Zhao

3575: Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives?

Guy Laroque and Bernard Salanié

3574: The Motherhood Wage Penalty in a Mediterranean Country: The Case of Spain

José Alberto Molina and Victor Montuenga

3573: Examining the Gender Wealth Gap in Germany

Eva Sierminska, Joachim Frick and Markus Grabka

3572: Do High-Skill Immigrants Raise Productivity? Evidence from Israeli Manufacturing Firms, 1990-1999

M. Daniele Paserman

3571: The Nature of Occupational Unemployment Rates in the United States: Hysteresis or Structural?

Bertrand Candelon, Arnaud Dupuy and Luis Gil-Alana

3570: Do Unemployment Benefits Increase Unemployment? New Evidence on an Old Question

Peter Fredriksson and Martin Söderström

3569: Why Should State Government Invest in College Education? An Equilibrium Approach for the US in 2000

Michael Shields

3568: The Economics of Language: An Introduction and Overview

Barry Chiswick

3567: Family Migration: A Vehicle of Child Morbidity in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi City, Kenya?

Adama Konseiga

3566: Outsourcing of Unionized Firms and the Impact of Labor Market Policy Reforms

Erkki Koskela and Ronnie Schöb

3565: Instrumental Variables in Models with Multiple Outcomes: The General Unordered Case

James Heckman, Sergio Urzua and Edward Vytlacil

3564: Selection Criteria and the Skill Composition of Immigrants: A Comparative Analysis of Australian and U.S. Employment Immigration

Guillermina Jasso and Mark Rosenzweig

3563: The "Negative" Assimilation of Immigrants: A Special Case

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

3562: Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap in Private- and Public-Sector Employment: A Distributional Analysis

Juan Barón and Deborah Cobb-Clark

3561: Pennies from Heaven? Using Exogeneous Tax Variation to Identify Effects of School Resources on Pupil Achievements

Torbjørn Hægeland, Oddbjørn Raaum and Kjell G Salvanes

3560: Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality

Martin Kahanec and Klaus Zimmermann

3559: Long-Run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities

Michael Lechner

3558: Allocation of Labour in Urban West Africa: Implication for Development Policies

Ralitza Dimova, Christophe Nordman and François Roubaud

3557: Short-Run Distributional Effects of Public Education Transfers to Tertiary Education Students in Seven European Countries

Tim Callan, Timothy M. Smeeding and Panos Tsakloglou

3556: Lessons from the Ottoman Harem (On Ethnicity, Religion and War)

Murat Iyigun

3555: Job Protection Legislation and Productivity Growth in OECD Countries

Andrea Bassanini, Luca Nunziata and Danielle Venn

3554: Social Interactions and the Salience of Social Identity

Kendra McLeish and Robert Oxoby

3553: On Gender Gaps and Self-fulfilling Expectations: Theory, Policies and Some Empirical Evidence

Sara De La Rica, Juan Dolado and Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa

3552: Ancestry versus Ethnicity: The Complexity and Selectivity of Mexican Identification in the United States

Brian Duncan and Stephen Trejo

3551: The Economic Returns to a Second Official Language: English in Quebec and French in the Rest-of-Canada

Louis Christofides and Robert Swidinsky

3550: Formality, Informality, and Social Welfare

John Bennett

3549: The Role of Educational Choice in Occupational Gender Segregation: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago

Sandra Sookram and Eric Strobl

3548: Education, Information, and Improved Health: Evidence from Breast Cancer Screening

Keith Chen and Fabian Lange

3547: Intermarriage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Ethnic Identity and Human Capital for Mexican Americans

Brian Duncan and Stephen Trejo

3546: Household Membership Decisions of Adult Children

Maria Chiuri and Daniela Del Boca

3545: The Racial Saving Gap Enigma: Unraveling the Role of Institutions

Willie Belton and Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

3544: The Re-Building Effect of Hurricanes: Evidence from Employment in the US Construction Industry

Eric Strobl and Frank Walsh

3543: Crime and Partnerships

Michael Svarer

3542: Foreign Ownership, Employment and Wages in Brazil: Evidence from Acquisitions, Divestments and Job Movers

Pedro Martins and Luiz Esteves

3541: The Role of Religion in Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States: A Review of the Recent Literature

Evelyn Lehrer

3540: Déjà Vu? Short-Term Training in Germany 1980–1992 and 2000–2003

Bernd Fitzenberger, Olga Orlyanskaya, Aderonke Osikominu and Marie Waller

3539: Gender Differences and the Timing of First Marriages

Javier Díaz-Giménez and Eugenio Giolito

3538: Long Term Earnings Inequality, Earnings Instability and Temporary Employment in Spain: 1993–2000

María Cervini-Plá and Xavi Ramos

3537: Early Child Development and Maternal Labor Force Participation: Using Handedness as an Instrument

Paul Frijters, David Johnston, Manisha Shah and Michael Shields

3536: Taxes and Benefits: Two Distinct Options to Cheat on the State?

Martin Halla and Friedrich Schneider

3535: Intergenerational Transmission of Healthy Eating Behaviour and the Role of Household Income

Alison Goode, Kostas Mavromaras and Murray Smith

3534: Employment Assimilation of Immigrants in the Netherlands: Catching Up and the Irrelevance of Education

Aslan Zorlu and Joop Hartog

3533: Analysing the Gender Wage Gap Using Personnel Records of a Large German Company

Christian Pfeifer and Tatjana Sohr

3532: Using Achievement Tests to Measure Language Assimilation and Language Bias among Immigrant Children

Richard Akresh and Ilana Redstone Akresh

3531: School Attendance of Children and the Work of Mothers: A Joint Multilevel Model for India

Francesca Francavilla, Gianna Claudia Giannelli and Leonardo Grilli

3530: Admission Conditions and Graduates' Employability

Fernando Alexandre, Miguel Portela and Carla Sa

3529: The Rise in Obesity across the Atlantic: An Economic Perspective

Giorgio Brunello, Pierre-Carl Michaud and Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

3528: Calibration and IV Estimation of a Wage Outcome Equation in a Dynamic Environment

Christian Belzil and Jorgen Hansen

3527: Why Populist Democracy Promotes Market Liberalization

Pauline Grosjean and Claudia Senik

3526: Fertility in Sub-Saharan African Countries with Consideration to Health and Poverty

Yongil Jeon, Sang-Young Rhyu and Michael Shields

3525: The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival

Marco Caliendo, Frank Fossen and Alexander Kritikos

3524: Between Agora and Shopping Mall

Josef Falkinger

3523: A Note on Risk Aversion and Labour Market Outcomes: Further Evidence from German Survey Data

Christian Pfeifer

3522: Outsourcing and Labor Taxation in Dual Labor Markets

Erkki Koskela and Panu Poutvaara

3521: Reforming Retirement-Income Systems: Lessons from the Recent Experiences of OECD Countries

John Martin and Edward Whitehouse

3520: Parents’ Incomes and Children’s Outcomes: A Quasi-Experiment

Randall Akee, William Copeland, Gordon Keeler, Adrian Angold and Jane E. Costello

3519: Informality and Macroeconomic Fluctuations

Norbert Fiess, Marco Fugazza and William Maloney

3518: Is the Glass Ceiling Cracking? A Simple Test

Ting Hu and Myeong-Su Yun