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2596: Educational Effects of Widening Access to the Academic Track: A Natural Experiment

Eric Maurin and Sandra McNally

2595: A Persistence Model of the National Minimum Wage

Melanie K. Jones, Richard Jones, Philip D. Murphy and Peter J. Sloane

2594: Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility: An Algebraic Characterization of Projective Preorders and Some Welfare Consequences

Juan Carlos Candeal, Esteban Induráin and José Alberto Molina

2593: Labour Market Flexibility and Regional Unemployment Rate Dynamics: Spain 1980-1995

Roberto Bande and Marika Karanassou

2592: Studying Justice: Measurement, Estimation, and Analysis of the Actual Reward and the Just Reward

Guillermina Jasso

2591: The Part-Time Wage Penalty in European Countries: How Large Is It for Men?

Síle O'Dorchai, Robert Plasman and Francois Rycx

2590: The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion: Leaving the Unemployment System or Starting a New Job?

David Card, Raj Chetty and Andrea Weber

2589: Peer Effects, Unobserved Factors and Risk Behaviours: An Analysis of Alcohol Abuse and Truancy among Adolescents

Rosa Duarte, José-Julián Escario and José Alberto Molina

2588: Use IT or Lose IT? The Impact of Computers on Earnings

Peter Dolton, Gerald Makepeace and Helen Robinson

2587: Matching Language Proficiency to Occupation: The Effect on Immigrants’ Earnings

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

2586: Intra-household Gender Disparities in Children’s Medical Care before Death in India

Abay Asfaw, Stephan Klasen and Francesca Lamanna

2585: An Economic Analysis of Exclusion Restrictions for Instrumental Variable Estimation

Gerard van den Berg

2584: Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence

Richard Easterlin and Onnicha Sawangfa

2583: Identity, Dignity and Taboos: Beliefs as Assets

Roland Benabou and Jean Tirole

2582: The Changing Nature of the School-to-Work Transition Process in OECD Countries

Glenda Quintini, John Martin and Sébastien Martin

2581: Wage Flexibility and Labour Market Institutions: A Meta-Analysis

Miquel Clar, Christian Dreger and Raul Ramos

2580: Fun with Matched Firm-Employee Data: Progress and Road Maps

Daniel S. Hamermesh

2579: The Effect of the Theo van Gogh Murder on House Prices in Amsterdam

Pieter Gautier, Arjen Siegmann and Aico van Vuuren

2578: The Vanishing Bequest Tax: The Comparative Evolution of Bequest Taxation in Historical Perspective

Graziella Bertocchi

2577: ‘Marginal Employment’ and the Demand for Heterogenous Labour: Empirical Evidence from a Multi-Factor Labour Demand Model for Germany

Ronny Freier and Viktor Steiner

2576: Stuck in the Slow Lane: Traffic Composition and the Measurement of Labor Productivity in the U.S. Trucking Industry

Kenneth D. Boyer and Stephen Burks

2575: The Critical Period Hypothesis for Language Learning: What the 2000 US Census Says

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

2574: Cooperation, Competition, and Risk Attitudes: An Intergenerational Field and Laboratory Experiment

Gary Charness and Marie Claire Villeval

2573: Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms

Thomas Siedler

2572: Identity, Cooperation, and Punishment

Kendra McLeish and Robert Oxoby

2571: Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States

David Autor, William Kerr and Adriana Kugler

2570: Minimum Wages and Employment

David Neumark and William Wascher

2569: Political Institutions and the Development of Telecommunications

Veneta Andonova and Luis Diaz-Serrano

2568: Perspectives from the Happiness Literature and the Role of New Instruments for Policy Analysis

Bernard van Praag

2567: Skill Uncertainty and Social Inference

Robert Oxoby

2566: Determinants of Business Success: An Examination of Asian-Owned Businesses in the United States

Alicia Robb and Robert Fairlie

2565: A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality

Flavio Cunha and James J. Heckman

2564: Worker Characteristics, Job Characteristics, and Opportunities for Phased Retirement

Robert M. Hutchens

2563: Shadow Economy, Tax Morale, Governance and Institutional Quality: A Panel Analysis

Benno Torgler and Friedrich Schneider

2562: Corporate Skills as an Ex-Ante Incentive to R&D Investment

Mariacristina Piva and Marco Vivarelli

2561: Self-Employment: A Way to End Unemployment? Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data

Daniela Glocker and Viktor Steiner

2560: Mortality and Immortality

Matthew Rablen and Andrew Oswald

2559: Rent Taxation in a Small Open Economy: The Effect on Transitional Generations

Marko Koethenbuerger and Panu Poutvaara

2558: Growth, Development, and Technological Change

Volker Grossmann and Thomas M. Steger

2557: Does a Food for Education Program Affect School Outcomes? The Bangladesh Case

Xin Meng and Jim Ryan

2556: Product Market Integration and Labour Markets: Aggregate Gains at the Cost of More Inequality?

Torben M. Andersen and Allan Sørensen

2555: Minimum Wages, Minimum Labour Costs and the Tax Treatment of Low-Wage Employment

Herwig Immervoll

2554: Accounting for Intergenerational Income Persistence: Noncognitive Skills, Ability and Education

Joanne Blanden, Paul Gregg and Lindsey Macmillan

2553: Wealth Accumulation and Distribution in Urban China

Xin Meng

2552: Choice of Fields of Study of Canadian University Graduates: The Role of Gender and their Parents’ Education

Brahim Boudarbat and Claude Montmarquette

2551: Employment Integration of Refugees: The Influence of Local Factors on Refugee Job Opportunities in Sweden

Pieter Bevelander and Christer Lundh

2550: The Technology of Skill Formation

Flavio Cunha and James J. Heckman

2549: Technological and Organizational Changes, and Labor Flows: Evidence on French Establishments

Philippe Askenazy and Eva Moreno-Galbis

2548: Exploring the Impact of Interrupted Education on Earnings: The Educational Cost of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Xin Meng and Robert Gregory

2547: Instability of the Eurozone? On Monetary Policy, House Prices and Labor Market Reforms

Ansgar Belke and Daniel Gros

2546: A Post-Deregulation Analysis of Wages in U.S. Freight Transportation

Steffen Habermalz and Kristen Monaco

2545: The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local Labor Markets

David Neumark, Junfu Zhang and Stephen Ciccarella

2544: Bargaining at Divorce: The Allocation of Custody

Christine Atteneder and Martin Halla

2543: Stunting and Selection Effects of Famine: A Case Study of the Great Chinese Famine

Tue Gorgens, Xin Meng and Rhema Vaithianathan

2542: mhbounds - Sensitivity Analysis for Average Treatment Effects

Sascha Becker and Marco Caliendo

2541: The Impact of Tax Morale and Institutional Quality on the Shadow Economy

Benno Torgler and Friedrich Schneider

2540: Trends in Hours and Economic Growth

L. Rachel Ngai and Christopher Pissarides

2539: The SES Health Gradient on Both Sides of the Atlantic

James Banks, Michael Marmot, Zoe Oldfield and James P. Smith

2538: Immigrants Assimilate as Communities, Not Just as Individuals

Timothy J. Hatton and Andrew Leigh

2537: Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity

Holger Bonin, Amelie Constant, Konstantinos Tatsiramos and Klaus Zimmermann

2536: Profiling at the Canadian Border: An Economist's Viewpoint

Don DeVoretz

2535: Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants

Laura Zimmermann, Klaus Zimmermann and Amelie Constant

2534: On the Efficiency Costs of De-tracking Secondary Schools

Kenn Ariga, Giorgio Brunello, Roki Iwahashi and Lorenzo Rocco

2533: Beautiful Serbia

Holger Bonin and Ulf Rinne

2532: Demand for Higher Education Programs: The Impact of the Bologna Process

Ana Rute Cardoso, Miguel Portela, Carla Sá and Fernando Alexandre

2531: Do I Have What It Takes? Equilibrium Search with Type Uncertainty and Non-Participation

Armin Falk, David B. Huffman and Uwe Sunde

2530: The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide

Amelie Constant, Martin Kahanec and Klaus Zimmermann

2529: The Compensating Income Variation of Social Capital

Wim Groot, Henriette Maassen van den Brink and Bernard van Praag

2528: Nominal Wage Rigidities in a New Keynesian Model with Frictional Unemployment

Vincent Bodart, Grégory de Walque, Olivier Pierrard, Henri R. Sneessens and Raf Wouters

2527: Earnings Instability and Tenure

Lorenzo Cappellari and Marco Leonardi

2526: Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis

Andrew Clark, Ed Diener, Yannis Georgellis and Richard E. Lucas

2525: Self-Confidence and Search

Armin Falk, David B. Huffman and Uwe Sunde

2524: Self-Selection and the Returns to Geographic Mobility: What Can Be Learned from the German Reunification "Experiment"

Anzelika Zaiceva

2523: Is It the Way She Moves? New Evidence on the Gender Wage Growth Gap in the Early Careers of Men and Women in Italy

Emilia Del Bono and Daniela Vuri

2522: An Experimental Investigation of Age Discrimination in the French Labour Market

Peter Riach and Judith Rich

2521: Calvo Wages in a Search Unemployment Model

Vincent Bodart, Olivier Pierrard and Henri R. Sneessens

2520: Relative Efficiency, Scale Effect, and Scope Effect of Public Hospitals: Evidence from Australia

Jian Wang, Zhong Zhao and Amir Mahmood

2519: Reconciling the Estimates of Potential Migration into the Enlarged European Union

Anzelika Zaiceva

2518: Workplace Industrial Relations in Britain, 1980-2004

David Blanchflower, Alex Bryson and John Forth

2517: Inequality of Learning in Industrialised Countries

John Micklewright and Sylke Schnepf

2516: Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Schooling Reform

Maarten Lindeboom, Ana Llena-Nozal and Bas van der Klaauw

2515: School Drop-Out and Push-Out Factors in Brazil: The Role of Early Parenthood, Child Labor, and Poverty

Ana Rute Cardoso and Dorte Verner

2514: Activation Policies in Germany: From Status Protection to Basic Income Support

Werner Eichhorst, Maria Grienberger-Zingerle and Regina Konle-Seidl

2513: The Social Multiplier and Labour Market Participation of Mothers

Eric Maurin and Julie Moschion

2512: Macroeconomic Conditions and the Distribution of Income in Spain

Lidia Farre and Francis Vella

2511: Labor Market Dynamics in Romania During a Period of Economic Liberalization

Benoit Dostie and David E. Sahn

2510: The Evolution of Citizenship: Economic and Institutional Determinants

Graziella Bertocchi and Chiara Strozzi

2509: Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality: Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and their Implications for Research and Policy

Stephan Klasen

2508: Welfare Effects of the Euro Cash Changeover

Christoph Wunder, Johannes Schwarze, Gerhard Krug and Bodo Herzog

2507: Selection Wages: An Example

Ekkehart Schlicht

2506: Multinational Companies, Backward Linkages and Labour Demand Elasticities

Holger Görg, Michael Henry, Eric Strobl and Frank Walsh

2505: Employment Regulation and Labor Market Policy in Germany, 1991-2005

Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Werner Eichhorst

2504: How to Help Unemployed Find Jobs Quickly: Experimental Evidence from a Mandatory Activation Program

Brian Krogh Graversen and Jan van Ours

2503: Immigration and the Neighborhood

Albert Saiz and Susan Wachter

2502: Educational Inputs and Outcomes Before the Transition from Communism

John Beirne and Nauro Campos

2501: Social Relations and Remittances: Evidence from Canadian Micro Data

Don DeVoretz and Florin Vadean

2500: Reciprocity and Payment Schemes: When Equality Is Unfair

Johannes Abeler, Steffen Altmann, Sebastian Kube and Matthias Wibral

2499: The Age of Mass Migration: Economic and Institutional Determinants

Graziella Bertocchi and Chiara Strozzi

2498: Intra-Household Allocation of Resources: Inferences from Non-Resident Fathers’ Child Support Payments

John Ermisch and Chiara Pronzato

2497: Minimum Wages, Globalization and Poverty in Honduras

Thomas (Tim) Gindling and Katherine Terrell