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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 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 Sauer

3196: Hearing Loss and Disability Exit: Measurement Issues and Coping Strategies

Vibeke T. Christensen, Nabanita Datta Gupta and Martin V. Rasmussen

3195: Direct Evidence on Income Comparisons and their Welfare Effects

Claudia Senik

3194: Der Arbeitsmarkt in Deutschland: Zwischen Strukturreformen und sozialpolitischem Reflex

Werner Eichhorst

3193: Time Allocation between Work and Family over the Life-Cycle: A Comparative Gender Analysis of Italy, France, Sweden and the United States

Dominique Anxo, Lennart Flood, Letizia Mencarini, Ariane Pailhé, Anne Solaz and Maria Letizia Tanturri

3192: Is There a ‘Marriage Premium’ for Gay Men?

Madeline Zavodny

3191: Why Are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?

Marcos Chamon and Eswar Prasad

3190: Migration to Sweden from the New EU Member States

Eskil Wadensjö

3189: Does Marriage Matter for Children? Assessing the Causal Impact of Legal Marriage

Anders Bjorklund, Donna Ginther and Marianne Sundström

3188: Non-Cognitive Child Outcomes and Universal High Quality Child Care

Nabanita Datta Gupta and Marianne Simonsen

3187: No Education, No Good Jobs? Evidence on the Relationship between Education and Labor Market Segmentation

Carmen Pages and Marco Stampini

3186: Foreign Capital and Economic Growth

Eswar Prasad, Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Subramanian

3185: Economic and Ethnic Polarisation among Children in Sweden’s Three Metropolitan Areas

Danuta Biterman, Björn Anders Gustafsson and Torun Österberg

3184: Earnings Mobility in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela: Testing the Divergence of Earnings and the Symmetry of Mobility Hypotheses

Gary Fields, Robert Duval Hernández, Samuel Freije-Rodriguez and Maria Sanchez Puerta

3183: Do Interest Groups Affect Immigration?

Giovanni Facchini, Anna Maria Mayda and Prachi Mishra

3182: Selective Schools and Academic Achievement

Damon Clark

3181: Earnings Over the Lifecycle: The Mincer Earnings Function and Its Applications

Solomon Polachek

3180: Industry Churning and the Evolution of Cities: Evidence for Germany

Sebastian Findeisen and Jens Suedekum

3179: Does It Pay Firms to Register for Taxes? The Impact of Formality on Firm Profitability

David McKenzie and Yaye Seynabou Sakho

3178: A Comment on Variance Decomposition and Nesting Effects in Two- and Three-Level Designs

Spyros Konstantopoulos

3177: How Reliable Are Income Data Collected with a Single Question?

John Micklewright and Sylke Schnepf

3176: Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies

Stepan Jurajda and Katherine Terrell

3175: ‘Marginal Employment’: Stepping Stone or Dead End? Evaluating the German Experience

Ronny Freier and Viktor Steiner

3174: Economic Influences on Child Migration Decisions: Evidence from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh

Eric Edmonds and Philip Salinger

3173: Surveying Migrant Households: A Comparison of Census-Based, Snowball, and Intercept Point Surveys

David McKenzie and Johan Mistiaen

3172: Acculturation Identity and Educational Attainment

Lena Nekby, Magnus Rödin and Gülay Özcan

3171: On the Inverse Relationship between Unemployment and Absenteeism: Evidence from Natural Experiments and Worker Heterogeneity

René Fahr and Bernd Frick

3170: Born To Be Mild? Cohort Effects Don’t (Fully) Explain Why Well-Being Is U-Shaped in Age

Andrew Clark

3169: The Focusing and Informational Effects of Norms on Pro-Social Behavior

Erin L. Krupka and Roberto Weber

3168: Creating Jobs Through Public Subsidies: An Empirical Analysis

Sourafel Girma, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl and Frank Walsh

3167: Ethnic Competition and Specialization

Martin Kahanec

3166: Education, Market Rigidities and Growth

Philippe Aghion, Philippe Askenazy, Renaud Bourlès, Gilbert Cette and Nicolas Dromel

3165: A Statistical Programme Assignment Model

Jonas Staghøj, Michael Svarer and Michael Rosholm

3164: Employment Protection, Firm Selection, and Growth

Markus Poschke

3163: Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity in Italy

Vito Peragine and Laura Serlenga

3162: Principal Accountability at Private Secondary Schools

Sherrilyn Billger

3161: Labor Market Policies and Outcomes: Cross Country Evidence for the EU-27

Riccardo Rovelli and Randolph Bruno

3160: The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment: New Evidence from Germany

Thomas Cornelissen and Christian Pfeifer

3159: Death, Happiness, and the Calculation of Compensatory Damages

Andrew Oswald and Nattavudh Powdthavee

3158: The Public-Private Sector Gender Wage Differential: Evidence from Matched Employee-Workplace Data

Monojit Chatterji, Karen Mumford and Peter Smith

3157: Safety Net Still in Transition: Labour Market Incentive Effects of Extending Social Support in Poland

Peter Haan and Michal Myck

3156: African Americans' Pursuit of Self-Employment

Magnus Lofstrom and Timothy Bates

3155: Ethnic Sorting in the Netherlands

Aslan Zorlu and Jan Latten

3154: Educational Self-Selection, Tasks Assignment and Rising Wage Inequality

Arnaud Dupuy

3153: Social Deprivation and Exclusion of Immigrants in Germany

John de New and Mathias Sinning

3152: Occupational Gender Composition and Wages in Romania: From Planned Equality to Market Inequality?

Daniela Andrén and Thomas Andrén