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2996: Labor Market Rigidities and the Employment Behavior of Older Workers

David Blau and Tetyana Shvydko

2995: Is the Chinese Growth Miracle Built to Last?

Eswar Prasad

2994: Risk Aversion and Schooling Decisions

Christian Belzil and Marco Leonardi

2993: Choice Over Time

Paola Manzini and Marco Mariotti

2992: A Study of Academic Entrepreneurs Using Venture Capital Data

Junfu Zhang

2991: What Explains Trends in Labor Force Participation of Older Men in the United States?

David Blau and Ryan Goodstein

2990: The Earnings of Immigrants in Ireland: Results from the 2005 EU Survey of Income and Living Conditions

Alan Barrett and Yvonne McCarthy

2989: Analyzing the Labor Market Activity of Immigrant Families in Germany

Leilanie Basilio, Thomas Bauer and Mathias Sinning

2988: As SIMPL As That: Introducing a Tax-Benefit Microsimulation Model for Poland

Olivier Bargain, Leszek Morawski, Michal Myck and Mieczyslaw Socha

2987: Location-Specific Human Capital, Location Choice and Amenity Demand

Douglas Krupka

2986: Retirement and Consumption in a Life Cycle Model

David Blau

2985: Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment in Germany: The Last Five Decades

Guido Heineck and Regina Riphahn

2984: Are All Democracies Equally Good? The Role of Interactions between Political Environment and Inequality for Rule of Law

Uwe Sunde, Matteo Cervellati and Piergiuseppe Fortunato

2983: Wages and Ageing: Is There Evidence for the "Inverse-U" Profile?

Michal Myck

2982: Far Above Rubies: The Association Between Bride Price and Extramarital Sexual Relations in Uganda

David Bishai and Shoshana Grossbard

2981: Assessing the Importance of Male and Female Part-Time Work for the Gender Earnings Gap in Britain

Karen Mumford and Peter N. Smith

2980: The Effects of In-Work Benefit Reform in Britain on Couples: Theory and Evidence

Marco Francesconi, Helmut Rainer and Wilbert van der Klaauw

2979: Social Security Coverage and the Labor Market in Developing Countries

Paula Auerbach, Maria Eugenia Genoni and Carmen Pages

2978: Job Losses, Outsourcing and Relocation: Empirical Evidence Using Microdata

Manuel Artís, Raul Ramos and Jordi Suriñach

2977: Young People’s Attitudes towards Muslims in Sweden

Pieter Bevelander and Jonas Otterbeck

2976: How Disasters Affect Local Labor Markets: The Effects of Hurricanes in Florida

Ariel Belasen and Solomon Polachek

2975: The Fertility Effect of Catastrophe: U.S. Hurricane Births

Richard Evans, Yingyao Hu and Zhong Zhao

2974: Modeling Immigrants' Language Skills

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

2973: Job Assignments under Moral Hazard: The Peter Principle Revisited

Alexander Koch and Julia Nafziger

2972: Tournaments and Office Politics: Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment

Jeffrey Carpenter, Peter Matthews and John Schirm

2971: Duration Models and Point Processes

Jean-Pierre Florens, Denis Fougere and Michel Mouchart

2970: The Determinants of Rising Informality in Brazil: Evidence from Gross Worker Flows

Mariano Bosch, Edwin Goni Pacchioni and William Maloney

2969: Occupational Choice of High Skilled Immigrants in the United States

Barry Chiswick and Sarinda Taengnoi

2968: Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially

Dan Ariely, Anat Bracha and Stephan Meier

2967: To Segregate or to Integrate: Education Politics and Democracy

David de la Croix and Matthias Doepke

2966: Determinants of Savings and Remittances: Empirical Evidence from Immigrants to Germany

Mathias Sinning

2965: Persistence of the School Entry Age Effect in a System of Flexible Tracking

Patrick Puhani and Andrea M. Weber

2964: The Advantage of Experienced Start-Up Founders in Venture Capital Acquisition: Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs

Junfu Zhang

2963: Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence

Miguel Urquiola and Eric Verhoogen

2962: Divorce and the Excess Burden of Lawyers

Martin Halla

2961: Individual-Level Loss Aversion in Riskless and Risky Choices

Simon Gächter, Eric J. Johnson and Andreas Herrmann

2960: National Champion versus Foreign Takeover

Jens Suedekum

2959: Contingent, Temporary Unemployment Insurance’s Impacts on Employment and Unemployment Durations

Kailing Shen

2958: Globalization and Income Inequality

Elena Meschi and Marco Vivarelli

2957: On the Optimality of a Minimum Wage: New Insights from Optimal Tax Theory

Mathias Hungerbühler and Etienne Lehmann

2956: Job-Worker Mismatch and Cognitive Decline

Andries de Grip, Hans Bosma, Dick Willems and Martin van Boxtel

2955: Optimal Taxation and Monopsonistic Labor Market: Does Monopsony Justify the Minimum Wage?

Pierre Cahuc and Guy Laroque

2954: Trends in Worker Displacement Penalties in Japan: 1991-2005

Michael Bognanno and Ryo Kambayashi

2953: Modeling the Signaling Value of the GED with an Application to an Exogenous Passing Standard Increase in Texas

Magnus Lofstrom and John Tyler

2952: Decision-Making by Children

Shelly Lundberg, Jennifer Romich and Kwok Ping Tsang

2951: Health and Civil War in Rural Burundi

Tom Bundervoet, Philip Verwimp and Richard Akresh

2950: Informality as a Stepping Stone: Entrepreneurial Entry in a Developing Economy

John Bennett and Saul Estrin

2949: Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism

Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti

2948: A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country Migrants

David McKenzie

2947: Worker Absenteeism in Search Equilibrium

Per Engström and Bertil Holmlund

2946: Working Hours Flexibility and Older Workers' Labor Supply

Anne Gielen

2945: The Sexual Orientation Wage Gap: The Role of Occupational Sorting, Human Capital, and Discrimination

Heather Antecol, Anneke Jong and Michael D. Steinberger

2944: Interdependency in Performance

Kelii H. Haraguchi and Glen Waddell

2943: Social and Occupational Security and Labour Market Flexibility in Sweden: The Case of Unemployment Compensation

Gabriella Sjögren Lindquist and Eskil Wadensjö

2942: Precautionary Savings by Natives and Immigrants in Germany

Matloob Piracha and Yu Zhu

2941: College Majors and the Knowledge Content of Jobs

James A. Freeman and Barry Hirsch

2940: The Identification and Economic Content of Ordered Choice Models with Stochastic Thresholds

Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman and Salvador Navarro

2939: Pension Plan Characteristics and Framing Effects in Employee Savings Behavior

David Card and Michael Ransom

2938: Overskilling, Job Insecurity and Career Mobility

Seamus McGuinness and Mark Wooden

2937: Wage Differentials, Discrimination and Inequality: A Cautionary Note on the Juhn, Murphy and Pierce Decomposition Method

Myeong-Su Yun

2936: Modelling the Time on Unemployment Insurance Benefits

Govert Bijwaard

2935: Social Attitudes and Economic Development: An Epidemiological Approach

Yann Algan and Pierre Cahuc

2934: Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

2933: Monetary Policy and Swedish Unemployment Fluctuations

Annika Alexius and Bertil Holmlund

2932: Performance Pay, Training and Labor Mobility

Anne Gielen

2931: Firms and Early Retirement: Offers That One Does Not Refuse

Lutz Bellmann and Florian Janik

2930: Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World: Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?

Barry Hirsch

2929: Heterogeneity in Real Wage Cyclicality

Pedro Martins

2928: Minorities, Social Capital and Voting

Pieter Bevelander and Ravi Pendakur

2927: Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture

Michael Kosfeld and Ferdinand von Siemens

2926: Earnings Effects of Training Programs

Michael Lechner and Blaise Melly

2925: Limited Self-Control, Obesity and the Loss of Happiness

Alois Stutzer

2924: Interprovincial Migration in China: The Effects of Investment and Migrant Networks

Shuming Bao, Örn B. Bodvarsson, Jack W. Hou and Yaohui Zhao

2923: Unscheduled School Closings and Student Performance

Dave Marcotte and Steven W. Hemelt

2922: The Enfranchisement of Women and the Welfare State

Graziella Bertocchi

2921: An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition to a Continuum of Comparison Groups

Hugo Ñopo

2920: Women on the Move: The Neglected Gender Dimension of the Brain Drain

Jean-Christophe Dumont, John Martin and Gilles Spielvogel

2919: Measuring Immigration's Effects on Labor Demand: A Reexamination of the Mariel Boatlift

Örn B. Bodvarsson, Joshua Lewer and Hendrik Van den Berg

2918: Market Orientation and Gender Wage Gaps: An International Study

Martina Zweimüller, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Doris Weichselbaumer

2917: The Impact of Teams on Output, Quality and Downtime: An Empirical Analysis Using Individual Panel Data

Derek Jones and Takao Kato

2916: Public Goods Provision and Sanctioning in Privileged Groups

Ernesto Reuben and Arno Riedl

2915: Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants in Germany: The Importance of Heterogeneity and Attrition Bias

Michael Fertig and Stefanie Schurer

2914: Spending to Save? State Health Expenditure and Infant Mortality in India

Sonia Bhalotra

2913: Trade, Quality Upgrading and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector

Eric Verhoogen

2912: The Deterrent Effects of Prison: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Francesco Drago, Roberto Galbiati and Pietro Vertova

2911: Economic Gains from Publicly Provided Education in Germany

Joachim Frick, Markus Grabka and Olaf Groh-Samberg

2910: The Taxation of Couples

Patricia Apps and Ray Rees

2909: Why Are Married Men Working So Much? Home Production, Household Bargaining and Per-Capita Hours

John Knowles

2908: Unequal Chances on the Transitional Labor Market: The Case of the Netherlands

Govert Bijwaard and Justus Veenman

2907: Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys

Rita Almeida and Ana Fernandes

2906: Modelling Volatilities and Conditional Correlations in Futures Markets with a Multivariate t Distribution

Bahram Pesaran and M. Hashem Pesaran

2905: Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility: A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition

Matteo Cervellati and Uwe Sunde

2904: Do Small Classes Reduce the Achievement Gap between Low and High Achievers? Evidence from Project STAR

Spyros Konstantopoulos

2903: How Does Financial Globalization Affect Risk Sharing? Patterns and Channels

Ayhan Kose, Eswar Prasad and Marco Terrones

2902: Jump-Starting Self-Employment? Evidence among Welfare Participants in Argentina

Rita Almeida and Emanuela Galasso

2901: Why Is Child Labor Illegal?

Sylvain Dessy and John Knowles

2900: The Evolution of Inflation and Unemployment: Explaining the Roaring Nineties

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala and Dennis J. Snower

2899: The Effect of Marriage on Education of Immigrants: Evidence from a Policy Reform Restricting Spouse Import

Helena Nielsen, Nina Smith and Aycan Celikaksoy

2898: Wages and Employment of French Workers with African Origin

Romain Aeberhardt, Denis Fougere, Julien Pouget and Roland Rathelot

2897: A Dynamic Mincer Equation with an Application to Portuguese Data

Corrado Andini