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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

3396: Life-Cycle Equilibrium Unemployment

Arnaud Cheron, Jean-Olivier Hairault and Francois Langot

3395: Prison Conditions and Recidivism

Francesco Drago, Roberto Galbiati and Pietro Vertova

3394: Are All Labor Regulations Equal? Evidence from Indian Manufacturing

Ahmad Ahsan and Carmen Pages

3393: Remittances and the Brain Drain: Skilled Migrants Do Remit Less

Yoko Niimi, Caglar Ozden and Maurice Schiff

3392: A Theory of Military Dictatorships

Daron Acemoglu, Davide Ticchi and Andrea Vindigni

3391: Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level

Michael Grimm and Stephan Klasen

3390: Minimum Wages in Kenya

Mabel Andalón and Carmen Pages

3389: Entrepreneurial Innovation and Sustained Long-Run Growth without Weak or Strong Scale Effects

Volker Grossmann

3388: Measuring Skilled Emigration Rates: The Case of Small States

Frédéric Docquier and Maurice Schiff

3387: Sources of Earnings Instability: Estimates from an On-the-Job Search Model of the U.S. Labor Market

Luca Flabbi and Marco Leonardi

3386: Private Wealth and Job Exit at Older Age: A Random Effects Model

Hans Bloemen

3385: Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and the Private Sector

Simon Luechinger, Stephan Meier and Alois Stutzer

3384: The Rise and Fall of the American Jewish PhD

Barry Chiswick

3383: North-South Technology Spillovers: The Relative Impact of Openness and Foreign R&D

Maurice Schiff and Yanling Wang

3382: Subjective Performance Evaluation and Inequality Aversion

Christian Grund and Judith Przemeck

3381: A Theory of Efficiency Wage with Multiple Unemployment Equilibria: How a Higher Minimum Wage Law Can Curb Unemployment

Kaushik Basu and Amanda J. Felkey

3380: The Impact of Unilateral Divorce on Crime

Julio Caceres-Delpiano and Eugenio Giolito

3379: The Assignment of Workers to Tasks, Wage Distribution and Technical Change: A Critical Review

Arnaud Dupuy

3378: Brain Drain and Productivity Growth: Are Small States Different?

Maurice Schiff and Yanling Wang

3377: A Million Answers to Twenty Questions: Choosing by Checklist

Michael Mandler, Paola Manzini and Marco Mariotti

3376: Electoral Goals and Center-State Transfers: A Theoretical Model and Empirical Evidence from India

Wiji Arulampalam, Sugato Dasgupta, Amrita Dhillon and Bhaskar Dutta

3375: Wage Gaps Large and Small

Barry Hirsch

3374: Risk Sharing and Commuting Among US Federal States

Falko Juessen

3373: The Impact of the Public Sector Pay Review Bodies in the UK

Peter Dolton and Gerald Makepeace

3372: The Effects of Naturalization on Immigrants’ Employment Probability (France, 1968–1999)

Denis Fougere and Mirna Safi

3371: Do Unemployment Benefits Promote or Hinder Structural Change?

Tito Boeri and Mario Macis

3370: The Stability of Mixed Income Neighborhoods in America

Douglas Krupka

3369: Occupational Mobility and the Business Cycle

Giuseppe Moscarini and Francis Vella

3368: Using Firm Optimization to Evaluate and Estimate Returns to Scale

Yuriy Gorodnichenko

3367: Is Part-time Employment Here To Stay? Evidence from the Dutch Labour Force Survey 1992–2005

Nicole Bosch, Anja Deelen and Rob Euwals

3366: International Mobility of the Highly Skilled, Endogenous R&D, and Public Infrastructure Investment

Volker Grossmann and David Stadelmann

3365: Preferences for Collective versus Individualised Wage Setting

Tito Boeri and Michael Burda

3364: Explaining the Evolution of Hours Worked and Employment across OECD Countries: An Equilibrium Search Approach

Francois Langot and Coralia Azucena Quintero Rojas

3363: Globalization and Labor Market Outcomes: Wage Bargaining, Search Frictions, and Firm Heterogeneity

Gabriel Felbermayr, Julien Prat and Hans-Joerg Schmerer

3362: Heterogeneous Impacts in PROGRESA

Habiba Djebbari and Jeffrey Smith

3361: Does the Expansion of Higher Education Increase the Equality of Educational Opportunities? Evidence from Italy

Massimiliano Bratti, Daniele Checchi and Guido de Blasio

3360: Start-Up Subsidies in East Germany: Finally, a Policy that Works?

Marco Caliendo

3359: Higher Wages in Exporting Firms: Self-Selection, Export Effect, or Both? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Thorsten Schank, Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner

3358: Remittances, Liquidity Constraints and Human Capital Investments in Ecuador

Carla Calero, Arjun Bedi and Robert Sparrow

3357: Unemployment Benefits and Reservation Wages: Key Elasticities from a Stripped-Down Job Search Approach

John Addison, Mário Centeno and Pedro Portugal

3356: Union Density and Varieties of Coverage: The Anatomy of Union Wage Effects in Germany

Bernd Fitzenberger, Karsten Kohn and Alexander Lembcke

3355: Alternative Labor Market Policies to Increase Economic Self-Sufficiency: Mandating Higher Wages, Subsidizing Employment, and Raising Productivity

David Neumark

3354: International Evidence on Well-being

David Blanchflower

3353: Employment Stability of Entrants in Newly Founded Firms: A Matching Approach Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany

Claus Schnabel, Susanne Kohaut and Udo Brixy

3352: Better Protected, Better Paid: Evidence on How Employment Protection Affects Wages

Karen van der Wiel

3351: Risk Aversion and Trade Union Membership

Laszlo Goerke and Markus Pannenberg

3350: Wage Policies of a Russian Firm and the Financial Crisis of 1998: Evidence from Personnel Data – 1997 to 2002

Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann and Mark Schaffer

3349: Economic Well-Being and Poverty among the Elderly: An Analysis Based on a Collective Consumption Model

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock and Frederic Vermeulen

3348: Electoral Rules and Politicians’ Behavior: A Micro Test

Stefano Gagliarducci, Tommaso Nannicini and Paolo Naticchioni

3347: Impact of Reforms on Plant-Level Productivity and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from the Indian Manufacturing Sector

Sumon Bhaumik and Subal Kumbhakar

3346: Consequences of Data Error in Aggregate Indicators: Evidence from the Human Development Index

Hendrik Wolff, Howard Chong and Maximilian Auffhammer

3345: Competition and Relational Contracts: The Role of Unemployment as a Disciplinary Device

Martin Brown, Armin Falk and Ernst Fehr

3344: On the Curvature of the Reporting Function from Objective Reality to Subjective Feelings

Andrew Oswald

3343: Who Leaves the City? The Influence of Ethnic Segregation and Family Ties

Aslan Zorlu

3342: How Unilateral Divorce Affects Children

Julio Caceres-Delpiano and Eugenio Giolito

3341: Social Capital, Innovation and Growth: Evidence from Europe

Semih Akçomak and Bas ter Weel

3340: Performance Spillovers and Social Network in the Workplace: Evidence from Rural and Urban Weavers in a Chinese Textile Firm

Takao Kato and Pian Shu

3339: Search, Wage Posting, and Urban Spatial Structure

Yves Zenou

3338: R&D and Productivity: Testing Sectoral Peculiarities Using Micro Data

Lesley Potters, Raquel Ortega-Argiles and Marco Vivarelli

3337: Inequality of Learning amongst Immigrant Children in Industrialised Countries

Sylke Schnepf

3336: ‘Arranged’ Marriage, Co-Residence and Female Schooling: A Model with Evidence from India

Indraneel Dasgupta, Pushkar Maitra and Diganta Mukherjee

3335: What Is a Peer? The Role of Network Definitions in Estimation of Endogenous Peer Effects

Timothy Halliday and Sally Kwak

3334: Outsourcing and Technological Innovations: A Firm-Level Analysis

Ann P. Bartel, Saul Lach and Nachum Sicherman

3333: The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits

Lex Borghans, Angela Lee Duckworth, James Heckman and Bas ter Weel

3332: Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Reforms: Evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America

Nauro Campos and Yuko Kinoshita

3331: Ethnic Networks and Employment Outcomes

Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou

3330: On the Dynamics of Interstate Migration: Migration Costs and Self-Selection

Christian Bayer and Falko Juessen

3329: The Impact of Income Shocks on Health: Evidence from Cohort Data

Jerome Adda, James Banks and Hans-Martin von Gaudecker

3328: Learning Unethical Practices from a Co-worker: The Peer Effect of Jose Canseco

Eric Gould and Todd Kaplan

3327: The Stairways to Heaven: A Model of Career Choice in Sports and Games, with an Application to Chess

Kenn Ariga, Giorgio Brunello, Roki Iwahashi and Lorenzo Rocco

3326: Incentives versus Sorting in Tournaments: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek, Joep Sonnemans and Bas van der Klaauw

3325: Where Do the Brainy Italians Go?

Amelie Constant and Elena D'Agosto

3324: Sectoral Transformation, Turbulence, and Labor Market Dynamics in Germany

Ronald Bachmann and Michael Burda

3323: What Happened to the PISA 2000 Participants Five Years Later?

Kathrin Bertschy, Maria Alejandra Cattaneo and Stefan Wolter

3322: Migration, Risk and the Intra-Household Allocation of Labor in El Salvador

Timothy Halliday

3321: Selection and Mode Effects in Risk Preference Elicitation Experiments

Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Arthur van Soest and Erik Wengström

3320: Empowerment Zones, Neighborhood Change and Owner Occupied Housing

Douglas Krupka and Douglas Noonan

3319: Segregation, Entrepreneurship and Work Values: The Case of France

Claudia Senik and Thierry Verdier

3318: Taxation, Aggregates and the Household

Nezih Guner, Remzi Kaygusuz and Gustavo Ventura

3317: Should Egalitarians Expropriate Philanthropists?

Indraneel Dasgupta and Ravi Kanbur