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3296: The Linkages between FDI and Domestic Investment: Unravelling the Developmental Impact of Foreign Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa

Leonce Ndikumana and Sher Verick

3295: Outside Income and Moral Hazard: The Elusive Quest for Good Politicians

Stefano Gagliarducci, Tommaso Nannicini and Paolo Naticchioni

3294: Unions, Training, and Firm Performance

John Addison and Clive R. Belfield

3293: Flexibility at the Margin and Labor Market Volatility in OECD Countries

Hector Sala, José I. Silva and Manuel Toledo

3292: Gone for Good? Determinants of School Dropout in Southern Italy

Shane Niall O'Higgins, Marcello D'Amato, Floro Caroleo and Adriana Barone

3291: Teamwork and Intra-Firm Wage Dispersion among Blue-Collar Workers

Uwe Jirjahn and Kornelius Kraft

3290: Sexual Orientation, Disclosure and Earnings

Erik Plug and Peter Berkhout

3289: Do Reservation Wages Really Decline? Some International Evidence on the Determinants of Reservation Wages

John Addison, Mário Centeno and Pedro Portugal

3288: Unconditional Quantile Treatment Effects under Endogeneity

Markus Frölich and Blaise Melly

3287: The Big Carrot: High Stake Incentives Revisited

Pablo Brañas-Garza, Teresa M. García-Muñoz and Shoshana Neuman

3286: Single Mothers and Poverty in Costa Rica

Thomas (Tim) Gindling and Luis Oviedo

3285: Job Market Signaling and Employer Learning

Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Julien Prat

3284: Earnings Differences between Chinese and Indian Wage Earners, 1987–2004

Olivier Bargain, Sumon Bhaumik, Manisha Chakrabarty and Zhong Zhao

3283: Social Interactions and Labor Market Outcomes in Cities

Yves Zenou

3282: Are Oligarchs Productive? Theory and Evidence

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Yegor Grygorenko

3281: Transparency, Inequity Aversion, and the Dynamics of Peer Pressure in Teams: Theory and Evidence

Alwine Mohnen, Kathrin Pokorny and Dirk Sliwka

3280: The Matching Method for Treatment Evaluation with Selective Participation and Ineligibles

Monica Costa Dias, Hidehiko Ichimura and Gerard van den Berg

3279: South-South Migration: The Impact of Nicaraguan Immigrants on Earnings, Inequality and Poverty in Costa Rica

Thomas (Tim) Gindling

3278: Matching and Challenge Gifts to Charity: Evidence from Laboratory and Natural Field Experiments

Daniel Rondeau and John List

3277: Residential Peer Effects in Higher Education: Does the Field of Study Matter?

Giorgio Brunello, Maria De Paola and Vincenzo Scoppa

3276: Why Remit? The Case of Nicaragua

George Naufal

3275: Does Competition Enhance Performance or Cheating? A Laboratory Experiment

Christiane Schwieren and Doris Weichselbaumer

3274: A Public Good Version of the Collective Household Model: An Empirical Approach with an Application to British Household Data

Chris Klaveren, Bernard van Praag and Henriette Maassen van den Brink

3273: Field Experiments in Economics: Palgrave Entry

John List and David Reiley

3272: Clash of Career and Family: Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement

Emilia Del Bono, Andrea Weber and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

3271: Publications: German Economic Research Institutes on Track

Rolf Ketzler and Klaus Zimmermann

3270: Earnings Instability and Earnings Inequality in Urban China: 1989–2006

Zhong Zhao

3269: Informal Employment Relationships and Labor Market Segmentation in Transition Economies: Evidence from Ukraine

Hartmut Lehmann and Norberto Pignatti

3268: Who Leaves and Who Returns? Deciphering Immigrant Self-Selection from a Developing Country

Randall Akee

3267: Myth and Reality of Flat Tax Reform: Micro Estimates of Tax Evasion Response and Welfare Effects in Russia

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Klara Sabirianova Peter

3266: Do Legal Standards Affect Ethical Concerns of Consumers?

Dirk Engelmann and Dorothea Kübler

3265: Why Are Hispanic and African-American Dropout Rates So High?

Magnus Lofstrom

3264: Do Immigrants Affect Firm-Specific Wages?

Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, Jakob Munch and Jan Rose Skaksen

3263: Errors in Self-Reported Earnings: The Role of Previous Earnings Volatility

Randall Akee

3262: Von der Frühverrentung zum längeren Erwerbsleben: Transferleistungen, Arbeitsmarktpolitik und Weiterbildung

Werner Eichhorst

3261: Telling the Truth May Not Pay Off: An Empirical Study of Centralised University Admissions in Germany

Sebastian Braun, Nadja Dwenger and Dorothea Kübler

3260: Naturalization Proclivities, Ethnicity and Integration

Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina and Klaus Zimmermann

3259: Origins and Consequences of Child Labor Restrictions: A Macroeconomic Perspective

Matthias Doepke and Dirk Krüger

3258: On Pitchforks and Tomahawks

Michael P. Pflüger and Jens Suedekum

3257: Subjective Health Assessments and Active Labor Market Participation of Older Men: Evidence from a Semiparametric Binary Choice Model with Nonadditive Correlated Individual-Specific Effects

Jürgen Maurer, Roger Klein and Francis Vella

3256: Does Job Satisfaction Improve the Health of Workers? New Evidence Using Panel Data and Objective Measures of Health

Justina A. V. Fischer and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

3255: Evaluating Continuous Training Programs Using the Generalized Propensity Score

Jochen Kluve, Hilmar Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff and Zhong Zhao

3254: Panel Unit Root Tests in the Presence of a Multifactor Error Structure

Mohammad Pesaran, L. Vanessa Smith and Takashi Yamagata

3253: The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis

Matthias Doepke, Moshe Hazan and Yishay Maoz

3252: Establishment of Science Parks in the Federal Region of Kurdistan

Almas Heshmati

3251: Unravelling Secularization: An International Study

Pablo Brañas-Garza, Teresa M. García-Muñoz and Shoshana Neuman

3250: The Persistence of Self-Employment Across Borders: New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States

Randall Akee, David Jaeger and Konstantinos Tatsiramos

3249: Does Immigration Affect the Phillips Curve? Some Evidence for Spain

Samuel Bentolila, Juan Dolado and Juan F Jimeno

3248: Sweden's Pensioners: How They Have Fared in the Roller Coaster Ride through the Past Decade and a Half of Deep Recession and Economic Exuberance

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Mats Johansson and Edward Palmer

3247: Labor Market Policy Options of the Kurdistan Regional Government

Almas Heshmati

3246: Stability and Dynamics in an Overlapping Generations Economy with Flexible Wage Negotiations

Erkki Koskela and Mikko Puhakka

3245: Fertility Differences between Married and Cohabiting Couples: A Switching Regression Analysis

Junfu Zhang and Xue Song

3244: Parental Leave Policies and Parents’ Employment and Leave-Taking

Han Wen-Jui, Christopher Ruhm and Jane Waldfogel

3243: A New Unified Theory of Sociobehavioral Forces

Guillermina Jasso

3242: Gender Differences in Charitable Giving

Greg Piper and Sylke Schnepf

3241: Employment Protection Reforms, Employment and the Incidence of Temporary Jobs in Europe: 1995–2001

Lawrence Kahn

3240: Too Bad to Benefit? Effect Heterogeneity of Public Training Programs

Ulf Rinne, Marc Schneider and Arne Uhlendorff

3239: Heterogeneous Life-Cycle Profiles, Income Risk and Consumption Inequality

Giorgio Primiceri and Thijs van Rens

3238: Reference-Dependent Preferences and Loss Aversion: A Discrete Choice Experiment in the Health-Care Sector

Einat Neuman and Shoshana Neuman

3237: Credit Constraints as a Barrier to the Entry and Post-Entry Growth of Firms

Philippe Aghion, Thibault Fally and Stefano Scarpetta

3236: Distributive Justice and CEO Compensation

Guillermina Jasso and Eva M. Meyersson Milgrom

3235: A Gendered Assessment of the Brain Drain

Frédéric Docquier, B. Lindsay Lowell and Abdeslam Marfouk

3234: Income Volatility and Health

Timothy Halliday

3233: Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores

Alberto Alesina, Andrea Ichino and Loukas Karabarbounis

3232: Is Education the Panacea for Economic Deprivation of Muslims? Evidence from Wage Earners in India, 1987–2005

Sumon Bhaumik and Manisha Chakrabarty

3231: Joining Panel Data with Cross-Sections for Efficiency Gains: An Application to a Consumption Equation for Nicaragua

Randolph Bruno and Marco Stampini

3230: City Air or City Markets: Productivity Gains in Urban Areas

Douglas Krupka

3229: Physicians' Multitasking and Incentives: Empirical Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Etienne Dumont, Bernard Fortin, Nicolas Jacquemet and Bruce S. Shearer

3228: Determinants of Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine

Tilman Brück, Alexander Danzer, Alexander Muravyev and Natalia Danzer

3227: Steering towards the High Road: A Study of Human Resource Management in Two Indian Garment Factories

Henrietta Lake

3226: Are Immigrants More Mobile Than Natives? Evidence from Germany

Matthias Schündeln

3225: The Trend in Female Labour Force Participation: What Can Be Expected for the Future?

Rob Euwals, Marike Knoef and Daniel van Vuuren

3224: Wages, Rents and Heterogeneous Moving Costs

Douglas Krupka and Kwame Donaldson

3223: Revolution and Family in Rural China: Influence of Family Background on Current Family Wealth

Hiroshi Sato and Shi Li

3222: Private School Quality in Italy

Giuseppe Bertola, Daniele Checchi and Veruska Oppedisano

3221: Within and Between Gender Disparities in Income and Education Benefits from Democracy

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

3220: Start-Ups by the Unemployed: Characteristics, Survival and Direct Employment Effects

Marco Caliendo and Alexander Kritikos

3219: International Job Search: Mexicans In and Out of the US

Silvio Rendon and Alfredo Cuecuecha

3218: The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment Flows to the Federal Region of Kurdistan

Almas Heshmati and Rhona Davis

3217: Immigrant Networks and Their Implications for Occupational Choice and Wages

Krishna Patel and Francis Vella

3216: The American High School Graduation Rate: Trends and Levels

James J. Heckman and Paul LaFontaine

3215: Training the Unemployed in France: How Does It Affect Unemployment Duration and Recurrence?

Bruno Crépon, Marc Ferracci and Denis Fougere

3214: Sex Ratios and Crime: Evidence from China’s One-Child Policy

Lena Edlund, Hongbin Li, Junjian Yi and Junsen Zhang

3213: A Model for Industrial Development of the Federal Region of Kurdistan: Science and Technology Policy, Instruments and Institutions

Almas Heshmati

3212: Do Labour Market Institutions Matter? Micro-Level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries

Ingo Geishecker, Holger Görg and Jakob Munch

3211: Jobless Growth through Creative Destruction: Ireland’s Industrial Development Path 1972–2003

Qi Li, Patrick Walsh and Ciara Whelan

3210: Mentoring and Segregation: Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies

Ana Rute Cardoso and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

3209: Employment and Education Policy for Young People in the EU: What Can New Member States Learn from Old Member States?

Francesco Pastore

3208: Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research: With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan

Almas Heshmati

3207: The NAFTA Tide: Lifting the Larger and Better Boats

Angel Calderón-Madrid and Alexandru Voicu

3206: Infinite Dimensional VARs and Factor Models

Alexander Chudik and Mohammad Pesaran

3205: The Peter Principle: An Experiment

David Dickinson and Marie Claire Villeval

3204: Migrant Networks, Migrant Selection, and High School Graduation in Mexico

Alfonso Miranda

3203: Measurement and Analysis of Child Well-Being in Middle and High Income Countries

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

3202: From the Shortage of Jobs to the Shortage of Skilled Workers: Labor Markets in the EU New Member States

Jan Rutkowski

3201: Inequalities Within Couples: Market Incomes and the Role of Taxes and Benefits in Europe

Francesco Figari, Herwig Immervoll, Horacio Levy and Holly Sutherland

3200: Deception and Incentives: How Dishonesty Undermines Effort Provision

Florian Ederer and Ernst Fehr

3199: Overcrowding in British Cities in 1904

Ian Gazeley and Andrew Newell

3198: On the Multivariate Analysis of the "Lisbon Process"

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

3197: Why Develop Open Source Software? The Role of Non-Pecuniary Benefits, Monetary Rewards and Open Source Licence Type

Robert M. Sauer