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3096: Interactions Between Workers and the Technology of Production: Evidence from Professional Baseball

Eric Gould and Eyal Winter

3095: Bandwidth Selection and the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Unbalanced Data

Jose Galdo, Jeffrey Smith and Dan Black

3094: Inequality and Employment in a Dual Economy: Enforcement of Labor Regulation in Brazil

Rita Almeida and Pedro Carneiro

3093: The Role of Nonstandard Work Hours in Maternal Caregiving for Young Children

Rachel Connelly and Jean Kimmel

3092: Does the Order and Timing of Active Labor Market Programs Matter?

Michael Lechner and Stephan Wiehler

3091: Labor Adjustment Costs in a Panel of Establishments: A Structural Approach

João Ejarque and Pedro Portugal

3090: Tax Structure and Female Labour Market Participation: Evidence from Ireland

Tim Callan, Arthur van Soest and John R. Walsh

3089: Wealth and Asset Holdings of Immigrants in Germany

Mathias Sinning

3088: Estimating Income Responses to Tax Changes: A Dynamic Panel Data Approach

Bertil Holmlund and Martin Söderström

3087: Growth, Volatility and Political Instability: Non-Linear Time-Series Evidence for Argentina, 1896–2000

Nauro Campos and Menelaos Karanasos

3086: Fatal Fluctuations? Cyclicality in Infant Mortality in India

Sonia Bhalotra

3085: Targeting Labour Market Programmes: Results from a Randomized Experiment

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich and Michael Lechner

3084: Estimating the Need for PhDs n the Academic Sector via a Survey of Employers

Jaan Masso, Raul Eamets and Hanna Kanep

3083: Optimal Immigration Policy: Permanent, Guest-Worker, or Mode IV?

Maurice Schiff

3082: Disparities in Labor Market Outcomes across Geopolitical Regions in Nigeria: Fact or Fantasy?

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

3081: Who Remits? The Case of Nicaragua

George Naufal

3080: Return Migration, Investment in Children, and Intergenerational Mobility: Comparing Sons of Foreign and Native Born Fathers

Christian Dustmann

3079: When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Emerging Market Economies

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jan Svejnar and Katherine Terrell

3078: Analysing the Effects of Tax-Benefit Reforms on Income Distribution: A Decomposition Approach

Olivier Bargain and Tim Callan

3077: You Don't Always Get What You Pay For

Wendelin Schnedler

3076: Matching Bias in Labor Demand Estimation

Giovanna Aguilar Andía and Silvio Rendon

3075: Is Well-Being U-Shaped over the Life Cycle?

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

3074: Intergenerational Transmission of Language Capital and Economic Outcomes

Teresa Casey and Christian Dustmann

3073: Job Satisfaction and Co-worker Wages: Status or Signal?

Andrew Clark, Nicolai Kristensen and Niels Westergård-Nielsen

3072: Maternal Education, Home Environments and the Development of Children and Adolescents

Pedro Carneiro, Costas Meghir and Matthias Parey

3071: Assessing Forecast Uncertainties in a VECX Model for Switzerland: An Exercise in Forecast Combination across Models and Observation Windows

Katrin Assenmacher and Mohammad Pesaran

3070: Children, Kitchen, Church: Does Ethnicity Matter?

Anzelika Zaiceva and Klaus Zimmermann

3069: The Effect of Job Displacement on the Transitions to Employment and Early Retirement for Older Workers in Four European Countries

Konstantinos Tatsiramos

3068: The Employment and Earnings of Migrants in Great Britain

Martyn J. Andrews, Ken Clark and William Whittaker

3067: How General Is Human Capital? A Task-Based Approach

Christina Gathmann and Uta Schönberg

3066: Capital Accumulation and Unemployment: New Insights on the Nordic Experience

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala and Pablo F. Salvador

3065: The Determinants of Performance Appraisal Systems: A Note (Do Brown and Heywood’s Results for Australia Hold Up for Britain?)

John Addison and Clive R. Belfield

3064: Performance Measurement, Expectancy and Agency Theory: An Experimental Study

Randolph Sloof and Mirjam Praag

3063: Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on Economic Behavior

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

3062: The Revealed Preference Approach to Collective Consumption Behavior: Testing, Recovery and Welfare Analysis

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock and Frederic Vermeulen

3061: Over-Education in Multilingual Economies: Evidence from Catalonia

Maite Blázquez Cuesta and Silvio Rendon

3060: Migration Creation, Diversion, and Retention: New Deal Grants and Migration: 1935-1940

Todd A. Sorensen, Price Fishback, Samuel K. Allen and Shawn Kantor

3059: Where Are the Real Bottlenecks? Evidence from 20,000 Firms in 60 Countries about the Shadow Costs of Constraints to Firm Performance

Wendy Carlin, Mark Schaffer and Paul Seabright

3058: Why Are the Returns to Education Higher for Entrepreneurs than for Employees?

Justin van der Sluis, Mirjam Praag and Arjen van Witteloostuijn

3057: Who Gives for Overseas Development?

John Micklewright and Sylke Schnepf

3056: Migrant Ethnic Identity: Concept and Policy Implications

Klaus Zimmermann

3055: The Wage Impact of Trade Unions in the UK Public and Private Sectors

David Blanchflower and Alex Bryson

3054: The Value Relevance of Top Executive Departures: Evidence from the Netherlands

Kees Cools and Mirjam Praag

3053: An Empirical Assessment of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market

Rute Mendes, Gerard van den Berg and Maarten Lindeboom

3052: Comparative Advantage or Discrimination? Studying Male-Female Wage Differentials Using Displaced Workers

Astrid Kunze and Kenneth Troske

3051: What Works Best for Getting the Unemployed Back to Work: Employment Services or Small-Business Assistance Programmes? Evidence from Romania

Núria Rodriguez-Planas

3050: Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership

Amelie Constant, Rowan Roberts and Klaus Zimmermann

3049: Real Wage Rigidities and the Cost of Disinflations

Guido Ascari and Christian Merkl

3048: Spillovers from High-Skill Consumption to Low-Skill Labor Markets

Francesca Mazzolari and Giuseppe Ragusa

3047: Vertical Industry Relations, Spillovers and Productivity: Evidence from Chilean Plants

Ricardo López Rago and Jens Suedekum

3046: Poverty in Britain in 1904: An Early Social Survey Rediscovered

Ian Gazeley and Andrew Newell

3045: Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?

Pieter Gautier, Jose Moraga-Gonzalez and Ronald Wolthoff

3044: Job Changes and Hours Changes: Understanding the Path of Labour Supply Adjustment

Richard Blundell, Mike Brewer and Marco Francesconi

3043: Item Non-Response and Imputation of Annual Labor Income in Panel Surveys from a Cross-National Perspective

Joachim Frick and Markus Grabka

3042: Childhood Economic Conditions and Length of Life: Evidence from the UK Boyd Orr Cohort, 1937–2005

Paul Frijters, Michael Shields, Timothy J. Hatton and Richard M. Martin

3041: Individual Responsibility and the Funding of Collective Goods

Louis Lévy-Garboua, Claude Montmarquette and Marie Claire Villeval

3040: Narrow Bracketing and Dominated Choices

Matthew Rabin and Georg Weizsäcker

3039: Simplified Implementation of the Heckman Estimator of the Dynamic Probit Model and a Comparison with Alternative Estimators

Wiji Arulampalam and Mark Stewart

3038: Comparative Analysis of Labor Market Dynamics Using Markov Processes: An Application to Informality

Mariano Bosch and William Maloney

3037: Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries

Oddbjørn Raaum, Bernt Bratsberg, Knut Røed, Eva Österbacka, Tor Eriksson, Markus Jantti and Robin Naylor

3036: Initial and Subsequent Location Choices of Immigrants to the Netherlands

Aslan Zorlu and Clara H. Mulder

3035: Brain Drain or Brain Gain? Micro Evidence from an African Success Story

Catia Batista, Aitor Lacuesta and Pedro Vicente

3034: Labor Supply with Social Interactions: Econometric Estimates and Their Tax Policy Implications

Andrew Grodner and Thomas Kniesner

3033: Monetary Persistence, Imperfect Competition, and Staggering Complementarities

Christian Merkl and Dennis J. Snower

3032: Large Panels with Common Factors and Spatial Correlations

Mohammad Pesaran and Elisa Tosetti

3031: Students' Academic Self-Perception

Arnaud Chevalier, Stephen Gibbons, Andy Thorpe, Martin Snell and Sherria Hoskins

3030: Youth Risk-Taking Behavior in Brazil: Drug Use and Teenage Pregnancies

Ana Rute Cardoso and Dorte Verner

3029: An Experimental Investigation of Age Discrimination in the English Labor Market

Peter Riach and Judith Rich

3028: Unemployment Duration and Disability: Evidence from Portugal

Dario Sciulli, António Menezes and José Vieira

3027: Is Child Labor Harmful? The Impact of Working Earlier in Life on Adult Earnings

Patrick Emerson and André Souza

3026: Starting Wages Respond to Employer’s Risk

Peter Berkhout and Joop Hartog

3025: The Effect of Emigration on Child Labor

Gil Epstein and Nava Kahana

3024: Regression Discontinuity Design with Covariates

Markus Frölich

3023: The Expansion of Higher Education and Time-Consistent Taxation

Panu Poutvaara

3022: Preferences, Intentions, and Expectations: A Large-Scale Experiment with a Representative Subject Pool

Charles Bellemare, Sabine Kröger and Arthur van Soest

3021: Why Volunteer? Evidence on the Role of Altruism, Reputation, and Incentives

Jeffrey Carpenter and Caitlin Myers

3020: Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-time Work Puzzle

Alison Booth and Jan van Ours

3019: Performance Pay, Sorting, and Outsourcing

Fred Henneberger, Alfonso Sousa-Poza and Alexandre Ziegler

3018: The Changing Face of Chinese Immigrants in Canada

Shibao Guo and Don DeVoretz

3017: Individual and Job-Based Determinants of Performance Appraisal: Evidence from Germany

Christian Grund and Dirk Sliwka

3016: How Do Different Entitlements to Unemployment Benefits Affect the Transitions from Unemployment into Employment?

John Addison and Pedro Portugal

3015: The Effect of Sanctions on the Job Finding Rate: Evidence from Denmark

Michael Svarer

3014: What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research

Mirjam Praag and Peter H. Versloot

3013: Legitimacy of Control

Wendelin Schnedler and Radovan Vadovic

3012: The Quantity-Quality Tradeoff of Children in a Developing Country: Identification Using Chinese Twins

Hongbin Li, Junsen Zhang and Yi Zhu

3011: Small Family, Smart Family? Family Size and the IQ Scores of Young Men

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes

3010: Do the Reciprocal Trust Less?

Steffen Altmann, Thomas Dohmen and Matthias Wibral

3009: Public versus Private Provision of Daycare: An Experimental Evaluation

Tarja Viitanen

3008: Dual Citizenship Rights: Do They Make More and Better Citizens?

Francesca Mazzolari

3007: Older and Wiser? Birth Order and IQ of Young Men

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes

3006: Are Muslim Immigrants Different in Terms of Cultural Integration?

Alberto Bisin, Eleonora Patacchini, Thierry Verdier and Yves Zenou

3005: Public Employment Services and Employers: How Important Are Networks with Firms?

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich and Michael Lechner

3004: How Tight Are Safety-Nets in Nordic Countries? Evidence from Finnish Register Data

Olivier Bargain, Herwig Immervoll and Heikki Viitamäki

3003: A Positive Theory of the Earnings Relationship of Unemployment Benefits

Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg and Heinrich Ursprung

3002: A Theory of Employment Guarantees: Contestability, Credibility and Distributional Concerns

Arnab Basu, Nancy Chau and Ravi Kanbur

3001: A Demographic Analysis of the Family Structure Experiences of Children in the United States

David Blau and Wilbert van der Klaauw

3000: Family Background and Income during the Rise of the Welfare State: Brother Correlations in Income for Swedish Men Born 1932-1968

Anders Bjorklund, Markus Jantti and Matthew Lindquist

2999: Circular Migration: Counts of Exits and Years Away from the Host Country

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

2998: Turning a Blind Eye: Costly Enforcement, Credible Commitment and Minimum Wage Laws

Arnab Basu, Nancy Chau and Ravi Kanbur

2997: Malaria: Disease Impacts and Long-Run Income Differences

Douglas Gollin and Christian Zimmermann