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3151: Is There an Informal Employment Wage Penalty? Evidence from South Africa

Eliane El Badaoui, Eric Strobl and Frank Walsh

3150: The Elasticity of Labor Demand and the Minimum Wage

Leif Danziger

3149: Unemployed and Their Caseworkers: Should They Be Friends or Foes?

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich and Michael Lechner

3148: Testing Bounded Rationality against Full Rationality in Job Changing Behavior

Bruno Contini and Matteo Morini

3147: The Employees of Native and Immigrant Self-Employed

Pernilla Andersson Joona and Eskil Wadensjö

3146: Social Determinants of Labor Market Status of Ethnic Minorities in Britain

Martin Kahanec and Mariapia Mendola

3145: The Formal Sector Wage Premium and Firm Size

Eliane El Badaoui, Eric Strobl and Frank Walsh

3144: Temporary Agency Work in Portugal, 1995–2000

René Böheim and Ana Rute Cardoso

3143: Team Governance: Empowerment or Hierarchical Control

Guido Friebel and Wendelin Schnedler

3142: Is a Flat Tax Feasible in a Grown-up Welfare State?

Clemens Fuest, Andreas Peichl and Thilo Schaefer

3141: Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts and Collective Wage Determination

Laszlo Goerke

3140: Political Economy of Immigration in Germany: Attitudes and Citizenship Aspirations

Martin Kahanec and Mehmet Tosun

3139: What Makes a Young Entrepreneur?

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

3138: Investment Climate and Employment Growth: The Impact of Access to Finance, Corruption and Regulations Across Firms

Reyes Aterido, Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Carmen Pages

3137: Search by Committee

James Albrecht, Axel Anderson and Susan Vroman

3136: The Problem of Overskilling in Australia and Britain

Kostas Mavromaras, Seamus McGuinness, Nigel C. O'Leary, Peter Sloane and King Fok

3135: Trust, Child Care Technology Choice and Female Labor Force Participation

Mayssun El-Attar

3134: Incentives and Services for College Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Joshua Angrist, Daniel W. Lang and Philip Oreopoulos

3133: Sexual Violence in College Students in Chile

Jocelyn A. Lehrer, Vivian L. Lehrer, Evelyn Lehrer and Pamela Oyarzun

3132: Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure

Arghya Ghosh, Takao Kato and Hodaka Morita

3131: The Impact of Welfare Reform on Leaver Characteristics, Employment and Recidivism: An Analysis of Maryland and Missouri

Peter Mueser, David W. Stevens and Kenneth Troske

3130: Entrepreneurship in the United States

David Blanchflower

3129: House Prices and Employment Reallocation: International Evidence

Olympia Bover and Juan F Jimeno

3128: Optimal Taxation: The Design of Child Related Cash- and In-Kind-Benefits

Peter Haan and Katharina Wrohlich

3127: Cooperative Household Models

Patricia Apps and Ray Rees

3126: The Catalysing Role of In-House R & D in Fostering the Complementarity of Innovative Inputs

Alessandra Catozzella and Marco Vivarelli

3125: Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials Using LEED from Hungary, 1986–2003

John Earle and Almos Telegdy

3124: Immigrants, English Ability and the Digital Divide

Hiroshi Ono and Madeline Zavodny

3123: Long-Run Longevity Effects of a Nutritional Shock Early in Life: The Dutch Potato Famine of 1846–1847

Gerard van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom and France Portrait

3122: Earnings-Tenure Profiles: Tests of Agency and Human Capital Theories Using Individual Performance Data

Xiao-yuan Dong, Derek Jones and Takao Kato

3121: Flexible Approximation of Subjective Expectations Using Probability Questions: An Application to the Investment Game

Charles Bellemare, Luc Bissonnette and Sabine Kröger

3120: An Economic Analysis of Identity and Career Choice

Maria Humlum, Kristin Kleinjans and Helena Nielsen

3119: Determinants of South African Women’s Labour Force Participation, 1995–2004

Miracle Benhura

3118: Collateral Costs: The Effects of Incarceration on the Employment and Earnings of Young Workers

Harry Holzer

3117: Risk, Delegation, and Project Scope

Andreas Roider

3116: Monotheism (From a Sociopolitical and Economic Perspective)

Murat Iyigun

3115: The Evolution of Inequality, Heterogeneity and Uncertainty in Labor Earnings in the U.S. Economy

Flavio Cunha and James Heckman

3114: Die reformierte Gründungsförderung für Arbeitslose: Chancen und Risiken

Marco Caliendo and Alexander Kritikos

3113: Temporary Help Agencies and the Advancement Prospects of Low Earners

Fredrik W. Andersson, Harry Holzer and Julia Lane

3112: Dismissals for Cause: The Difference That Just Eight Paragraphs Can Make

Pedro Martins

3111: Feedback in Tournaments under Commitment Problems: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Oliver Gürtler and Christine Harbring

3110: Too Old to Work, Too Young to Retire?

Andrea Ichino, Guido Schwerdt, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Josef Zweimüller

3109: Family Bargaining and Taxes: A Prolegomenon to the Analysis of Joint Taxation

Robert Pollak

3108: Well-Being and Ill-Being: A Bivariate Panel Data Analysis

Wang-Sheng Lee and Umut Oguzoglu

3107: Pinning Down the Value of Statistical Life

Thomas Kniesner, W Viscusi, Christopher Woock and James Ziliak

3106: Moving Down: Women’s Part-time Work and Occupational Change in Britain 1991–2001

Sara Connolly and Mary Gregory

3105: Market Characteristics, Intra-Firm Coordination, and the Choice of Human Resource Management Systems: Evidence from New Japanese Data

Takao Kato and Hideo Owan

3104: Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms

Josef Fersterer, Jorn-Steffen Pischke and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

3103: Tax Evasion: Cheating Rationally or Deciding Emotionally?

Giorgio Coricelli, Mateus Joffily, Claude Montmarquette and Marie Claire Villeval

3102: “For One More Year with You”: Changes in Compulsory Schooling, Education and the Distribution of Wages in Europe

Giorgio Brunello, Margherita Fort and Guglielmo Weber

3101: Part-time Employment Can Be a Life-time Setback for Earnings: A Study of British Women 1975–2001

Sara Connolly and Mary Gregory

3100: The Persistence of Welfare Participation

Thomas Andrén

3099: The Relation between Child Labour and Mothers' Work: The Case of India

Francesca Francavilla and Gianna Claudia Giannelli

3098: Do College-Bound High School Students Need an Extra Year? Evidence from Ontario’s ‘Double Cohort’

Louis-Philippe Morin

3097: Africa’s Education Enigma? The Nigerian Story

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

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 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 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