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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 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 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 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

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