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2751: Skills Shortages and Training in Russian Enterprises

Hong Tan, Yevgeniya Savchenko, Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov and Anna Lukiyanova

2750: The Power of the Family

Alberto Alesina and Paola Giuliano

2749: Two Types of Inequality: Inequality Between Persons and Inequality Between Subgroups

Guillermina Jasso and Samuel Kotz

2748: Maximum Fee vs. Child Benefit: A Welfare Analysis of Swedish Child-Care Fee Reform

Anne Brink, Katarina Nordblom and Roger Wahlberg

2747: Brain Drain, Fiscal Competition, and Public Education Expenditure

Hartmut Egger, Josef Falkinger and Volker Grossmann

2746: Barriers to Entry, Deregulation and Workplace Training

Andrea Bassanini and Giorgio Brunello

2745: Equipping Immigrants: Migration Flows and Capital Movements

Fabian Lange and Douglas Gollin

2744: Defending Gibrat’s Law as a Long-Run Regularity

Francesca Lotti, Enrico Santarelli and Marco Vivarelli

2743: Labor Search and Matching in Macroeconomics

Eran Yashiv

2742: Labor Retrenchment Laws and their Effect on Wages and Employment: A Theoretical Investigation

Kaushik Basu, Gary Fields and Shub Debgupta

2741: Unobserved Individual and Firm Heterogeneity in Wage and Tenure Functions: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Thomas Cornelissen and Olaf Hübler

2740: Kids or Courses? Gender Differences in the Effects of Active Labor Market Policies

Michael Lechner and Stephan Wiehler

2739: High Relocation Costs in Search-Matching Models: Theory and Application to Spatial Mismatch

Yves Zenou

2738: Heterogeneous Treatment Effects: Instrumental Variables without Monotonicity?

Tobias Klein

2737: Comparing Subjective and Objective Measures of Health: Evidence from Hypertension for the Income/Health Gradient

David Johnston, Carol Propper and Michael Shields

2736: Child Labor and Household Wealth: Theory and Empirical Evidence of an Inverted-U

Kaushik Basu, Sanghamitra Das and Bhaskar Dutta

2735: Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde

2734: Mums and Their Sons, Dads and Their Daughters: Panel Data Evidence of Interdependent Marginal Utilities across 14 EU Countries

José Alberto Molina, Maria Navarro Paniagua and Ian Walker

2733: Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing and Wage Solidarity Under Labour Market Imperfections

Erkki Koskela and Rune Stenbacka

2732: Endogenous Leadership: Selection and Influence

Emrah Arbak and Marie Claire Villeval

2731: Employment Performance and Institutions: New Answers to an Old Question

Bruno Amable, Lilas Demmou and Donatella Gatti

2730: Sorting in the Labor Market: Do Gregarious Workers Flock to Interactive Jobs?

Alan Krueger and David A. Schkade

2729: The Returns to Pencil Use Revisited

Alexandra Spitz-Oener

2728: Urban Density and Pupil Attainment

Stephen Gibbons and Olmo Silva

2727: Agency in Health-Care: Are Medical Care-Givers Perfect Agents?

Einat Neuman and Shoshana Neuman

2726: How Does the Presence of Children Affect Dependent Care? A Psycho-Economic Approach

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, Miriam Marcén and José Alberto Molina

2725: The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children

James Heckman and Dimitriy V. Masterov

2724: The Reliability of Subjective Well-Being Measures

Alan Krueger and David A. Schkade

2723: From Bottom to Top: The Entire Distribution of Market Income in Germany, 1992-2001

Stefan Bach, Giacomo Corneo and Viktor Steiner

2722: Cohort-Level Sex Ratio Effects on Women’s Labor Force Participation

Shoshana Grossbard and Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes

2721: Recruitment and Job Applications of Older Jobseekers from the Establishments’ Perspective

Lutz Bellmann and Martin Brussig

2720: Reducing Income Transfers to Refugee Immigrants: Does Starthelp Help You Start?

Michael Rosholm and Rune Vejlin

2719: International Differences in the Family Gap in Pay: The Role of Labor Market Institutions

Arnaud Dupuy and Daniel Fernández-Kranz

2718: Search Frictions on Product and Labor Markets: Money in the Matching Function

Etienne Lehmann and Bruno Van der Linden

2717: Obesity, Unhappiness, and The Challenge of Affluence: Theory and Evidence

Andrew Oswald and Nattavudh Powdthavee

2716: Becoming an Entrepreneur

Hugo Ñopo and Patricio Valenzuela

2715: The American Family and Family Economics

Shelly Lundberg and Robert Pollak

2714: 'Voluntary' and 'Involuntary' Early Retirement: An International Analysis

David Dorn and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

2713: Does the Minimum Wage Cause Inefficient Rationing?

Erzo Luttmer

2712: A Note on Allen-Uzawa Partial Elasticities of Substitution: The Case of the Translog Cost Function

Atanas Christev and Allen Featherstone

2711: Returns to Private Education in Peru

Sebastian Calonico and Hugo Ñopo

2710: Unemployment and Gang Crime: Could Prosperity Backfire?

Panu Poutvaara and Mikael Priks

2709: Are Youths on Income Support Less Happy? Evidence from Australia

Wang-Sheng Lee and Umut Oguzoglu

2708: Will the Skill-Premium in the Netherlands Rise in the Next Decades?

Arnaud Dupuy

2707: Technology and the Demand for Skill: An Analysis of Within and Between Firm Differences

John Abowd, John Haltiwanger, Julia Lane, Kevin McKinney and Kristin Sandusky

2706: Love on the Rocks: Alcohol Abuse and Domestic Violence in Rural Mexico

Manuela Angelucci

2705: Total Work, Gender and Social Norms

Michael Burda, Daniel Hamermesh and Philippe Weil

2704: Does Extending Daylight Saving Time Save Energy? Evidence from an Australian Experiment

Ryan Kellogg and Hendrik Wolff

2703: Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China

Belton Fleisher, Haizheng Li and Min Qiang (Kent) Zhao

2702: Income Satisfaction and Deprivation in Spain

Jose Labeaga, José Alberto Molina and Maria Navarro Paniagua

2701: Spatial and Temporal Aggregation in the Estimation of Labor Demand Functions

Jose Varejao and Pedro Portugal

2700: Policy Evaluation and Economic Policy Advice

Christoph Schmidt

2699: Maternity Leave Legislation, Female Labor Supply, and the Family Wage Gap

Uta Schönberg and Johannes Ludsteck

2698: The Gender Wage Gap in Chile 1992-2003 from a Matching Comparisons Perspective

Hugo Ñopo

2697: Performance Pay, Group Selection and Group Performance

Manfred Königstein and Gabriele K. Ruchala

2696: Gift Exchange within a Firm: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Charles Bellemare and Bruce S. Shearer

2695: Endogenous Job Destruction and Job Matching in Cities

Yves Zenou

2694: Shifts and Twists in the Relative Productivity of Skilled Labor

Arnaud Dupuy and Philip Marey

2693: Short-Run and Long-Term Effects of Childbirth on Mothers’ Employment and Working Hours Across Institutional Regimes: An Empirical Analysis Based on the European Community Household Panel

Johannes Geyer and Viktor Steiner

2692: Multinationals as Stabilizers? Economic Crisis and Plant Employment Growth

Roberto Alvarez and Holger Görg

2691: Inequality and Union Membership: The Impact of Relative Earnings Position and Inequality Attitudes

Daniele Checchi, Jelle Visser and Herman van de Werfhorst

2690: Bias Corrections for Two-Step Fixed Effects Panel Data Estimators

Ivan Fernandez-Val and Francis Vella

2689: An Analysis of Hospital Efficiency and Productivity Growth Using the Luenberger Productivity Indicator

Carlos Barros, António Menezes, José Vieira, Nicolas Peypoch and Bernardin Solonandrasana

2688: Real Wage Cyclicality in Germany and the UK: New Results Using Panel Data

Fei Peng and William Siebert

2687: Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable? An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach

Marco Caliendo and Alexander Kritikos

2686: On the Measurement of Polarisation: A Questionnaire Study

Yoram Amiel, Frank Cowell and Xavi Ramos

2685: Revisiting the German Wage Structure

Christian Dustmann, Johannes Ludsteck and Uta Schönberg

2684: How Many Hours Do You Have to Work to Be Integrated? Full Time and Part Time Employment of Native and Ethnic Minority Women in the Netherlands

Pieter Bevelander and Sandra Groeneveld

2683: The Labour Market Position of Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands: Reason for Migration, Naturalisation and Language Proficiency

Rob Euwals, Jaco Dagevos, Mérove Gijsberts and Hans Roodenburg

2682: Rationality as a Barrier to Peace: Micro-Evidence from Kosovo

Sumon Bhaumik, Ira Gang and Myeong-Su Yun

2681: Benefit-Entitlement Effects and the Duration of Unemployment: An Ex-Ante Evaluation of Recent Labour Market Reforms in Germany

Hendrik Schmitz and Viktor Steiner

2680: Employment Protection Legislation and Wages

Marco Leonardi and Giovanni Pica

2679: A Positive Analysis of Targeted Employment Protection Legislation

Juan Dolado, Marcel Jansen and Juan F Jimeno

2678: Earnings, Schooling and Economic Reform: Econometric Evidence from Hungary (1986-2004)

Nauro Campos and Dean Jolliffe

2677: Immigration, Integration and the Labour Market: Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands

Rob Euwals, Jaco Dagevos, Mérove Gijsberts and Hans Roodenburg

2676: Earnings and Occupational Attainment: Immigrants and the Native Born

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

2675: The Gradual Transformation of Continental European Labor Markets: France and Germany Compared

Werner Eichhorst

2674: Still Searching for the Wage Curve: Evidence from Germany and Italy

Andreas Ammermüller, Claudio Lucifora, Federica Origo and Thomas Zwick

2673: The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)

Mirjam Praag and Bernard van Praag

2672: Top Incomes in Sweden during Three-Quarters of a Century: A Micro Data Approach

Björn Anders Gustafsson and Birgitta Jansson

2671: The “Dynamic” of Job Competition during the ICT Revolution

Arnaud Cheron, Francois Langot and Eva Moreno-Galbis

2670: The International Transferability of Immigrants’ Human Capital Skills

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

2669: A Theory of Child Targeting

Olivier Bargain and Olivier Donni

2668: The Effect of Pensions on Longevity: Evidence from Union Army Veterans

Martin Salm

2667: Entry, Exit and Productivity: Empirical Results for German Manufacturing Industries

Joachim Wagner

2666: Smoking and Social Interaction

Panu Poutvaara and Lars-Hinrich Siemers

2665: Nature and Nurture in the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from Swedish Children and Their Biological and Rearing Parents

Anders Bjorklund, Markus Jantti and Gary Solon

2664: Occupational Language Requirements and the Value of English in the U.S. Labor Market

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

2663: Gender, Affect and Intertemporal Consistency: An Experimental Approach

Kendra McLeish and Robert Oxoby

2662: Principals as Agents? Investigating Accountability in the Compensation and Performance of School Principals

Sherrilyn Billger

2661: Productivity and Size of the Export Market: Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004

Joachim Wagner

2660: Turning Unemployment into Self-Employment: Effectiveness and Efficiency of Two Start-Up Programmes

Hans Baumgartner and Marco Caliendo

2659: On the Definition and Measurement of Chronic Poverty

Rolf Aaberge and Magne Mogstad

2658: Status, Happiness, and Relative Income

John Beath and Felix FitzRoy

2657: Employment Effects of Educational Measures for Work-Injured People

Henning Bach, Nabanita Datta Gupta and Jan Høgelund

2656: Why More West than East German Firms Export

Joachim Wagner

2655: Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration

David Jaeger, Holger Bonin, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde

2654: An Experimental Investigation of Age Discrimination in the Spanish Labour Market

Peter Riach and Judith Rich

2653: Resources and Standards in Urban Schools

Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally and Costas Meghir

2652: Identification of Peer Effects through Social Networks

Yann Bramoullé, Habiba Djebbari and Bernard Fortin