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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 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 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

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 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