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2496: Wages, Productivity and Aging

Benoit Dostie

2495: Changing Patterns of Ethnic Minority Self-Employment in Britain: Evidence from Census Microdata

Ken Clark and Stephen Drinkwater

2494: Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification

Richard Easterlin and Anke Zimmermann

2493: The International Migration of Knowledge Workers: When Is Brain Drain Beneficial?

Peter Kuhn and Carol McAusland

2492: Financial Incentives and the Timing of Retirement: Evidence from Switzerland

Barbara Hanel and Regina Riphahn

2491: Which Factors Determine the Grades of Undergraduate Students in Economics? Some Evidence from Spain

Juan Dolado and Eduardo Morales

2490: Student Achievement and University Classes: Effects of Attendance, Size, Peers, and Teachers

Pedro Martins and Ian Walker

2489: Macroeconomic Effects of Short-Term Training Measures on the Matching Process in Western Germany

Reinhard Hujer and Christopher Zeiss

2488: Persistence in Infant Mortality: Evidence for the Indian States

Wiji Arulampalam and Sonia Bhalotra

2487: How Wages Change: Micro Evidence from the International Wage Flexibility Project

William T. Dickens, Lorenz Götte, Erica Groshen, Steinar Holden, Julian Messina, Mark E. Schweitzer, Jarkko Turunen and Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

2486: Rural People’s Perception of Poverty in China

Björn Anders Gustafsson and Ximing Yue

2485: How General Is Specific Human Capital?

Christina Gathmann and Uta Schönberg

2484: Long Work Hours: Volunteers and Conscripts

Robert Drago, Mark Wooden and David Black

2483: Does Manager Turnover Improve Firm Performance? New Evidence Using Information from Dutch Soccer, 1986-2004

Bas ter Weel

2482: From No Pay to Low Pay and Back Again? A Multi-State Model of Low Pay Dynamics

Arne Uhlendorff

2481: Does Immigration Affect Wages? A Look at Occupation-Level Evidence

Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny

2480: The Macroeconomics of the Labor Market: Three Fundamental Views

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala and Dennis J. Snower

2479: The Beveridge Curve

Eran Yashiv

2478: Public Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying to Migrate and Teaching to Stay?

Panu Poutvaara

2477: Decentralization and the Productive Efficiency of Government: Evidence from Swiss Cantons

Iwan Barankay and Ben Lockwood

2476: Where to Work? The Role of the Household in Explaining Gender Differences in Labour Market Outcomes

Ralitza Dimova, Ira Gang and John Landon-Lane

2475: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Firms’ Entry, Survival and Growth

Enrico Santarelli and Marco Vivarelli

2474: Works Councils and the Anatomy of Wages

John Addison, Paulino Teixeira and Thomas Zwick

2473: On Defining and Measuring the Informal Sector

Andrew Henley, Reza (Gholamreza) Arabsheibani and Francisco Carneiro

2472: A Dynamic Model of Demand for Private Health Insurance in Ireland

Claire Finn and Colm P. Harmon

2471: The Long Run Health and Economic Consequences of Famine on Survivors: Evidence from China’s Great Famine

Xin Meng and Nancy Qian

2470: Did the Hartz Reforms Speed-Up Job Creation? A Macro-Evaluation Using Empirical Matching Functions

René Fahr and Uwe Sunde

2469: Do Downward Private Transfers Enhance Maternal Labor Supply? Evidence from around Europe

Ralitza Dimova and François-Charles Wolff

2468: Designing Optimal Taxes with a Microeconometric Model of Household Labour Supply

Rolf Aaberge and Ugo Colombino

2467: Can Subjective Mortality Expectations and Stated Preferences Explain Varying Consumption and Saving Behaviors among the Elderly?

Martin Salm

2466: Interpersonal Styles and Labor Market Outcomes

Lex Borghans, Bas ter Weel and Bruce Weinberg

2465: Real Wage Cyclicality in Italy

Fei Peng and W. Stanley Siebert

2464: Evaluating Active Labor Market Programs in Romania

Núria Rodriguez-Planas and Jacob Benus

2463: Moral Hazard Contracts: Does One Size Fit All?

Alexander Koch and Eloic Peyrache

2462: Returns to Schooling in Kazakhstan: OLS and Instrumental Variables Approach

Reza (Gholamreza) Arabsheibani and Altay Mussurov

2461: Intermarriage, Language, and Economic Assimilation Process: A Case Study of France

Xin Meng and Dominique Meurs

2460: The Economics of Prozac: Do Employees Really Gain from Strong Employment Protection?

Etienne Wasmer

2459: Are the French Happy with the 35-Hour Workweek?

Marcello Estevão and Filipa Sa

2458: Econometrics: A Bird's Eye View

John Geweke, Joel L. Horowitz and Mohammad Pesaran

2457: Immigrants in a Booming Economy: Analysing their Earnings and Welfare Dependence

Alan Barrett and Yvonne McCarthy

2456: Employment Fluctuations and Dynamics of the Aggregate Average Wage in Poland 1996-2003

Michal Myck, Leszek Morawski and Jerzy Mycielski

2455: U.S. Labor Market Dynamics Revisited

Eran Yashiv

2454: Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market

Pierre Chiappori, Murat Iyigun and Yoram Weiss

2453: Employment Effects of Privatisation and Foreign Acquisition of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Yundan Gong, Holger Görg and Sara Maioli

2452: The Babeldaob Road: The Impact of Road Construction on Rural Labor Force Outcomes in the Republic of Palau

Randall Akee

2451: Who Misvotes? The Effect of Differential Cognition Costs on Election Outcomes

Kelly Shue and Erzo Luttmer

2450: Assessing Job Flows across Countries: The Role of Industry, Firm Size and Regulations

John C. Haltiwanger, Stefano Scarpetta and Helena Schweiger

2449: The Retirement Expectations of Middle-Aged Individuals

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Steven Stillman

2448: Reported Progress under the Student Right-to-Know Act: How Reliable Is It?

Leslie Stratton and James Wetzel

2447: Layoffs as Part of an Optimal Incentive Mix: Theory and Evidence

Anders Frederiksen and Elod Takats

2446: Heterogeneous Human Capital and Migration: Who Migrates from Mexico to the US?

Vincenzo Caponi

2445: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on the Incidence of Second Job Holding in Britain

Helen Robinson and Jonathan Wadsworth

2444: Der Finanzierungsbeitrag der Ausländer zu den deutschen Staatsfinanzen: Eine Bilanz für 2004

Holger Bonin

2443: Gender Differences in Labor Supply to Monopsonistic Firms: An Empirical Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany

Boris Hirsch, Thorsten Schank and Claus Schnabel

2442: Over-Education and the Skills of UK Graduates

Arnaud Chevalier and Joanne Lindley

2441: The Effect of Family Structure on Parents' Child Care Time in the United States and the United Kingdom

Charlene Kalenkoski, David Ribar and Leslie Stratton

2440: Brain Drain and Inequality Across Nations

Frédéric Docquier

2439: The Social Assimilation of Immigrants

Domenico de Palo, Riccardo Faini and Alessandra Venturini

2438: Checkerboards and Coase: Transactions Costs and Efficiency in Land Markets

Randall Akee

2437: Intergenerational Transmission of Fertility Patterns in Britain

Alison Booth and Hiau Joo Kee

2436: The Influence of Wages on Parents’ Allocations of Time to Child Care and Market Work in the United Kingdom

Charlene Kalenkoski, David Ribar and Leslie Stratton

2435: Residential Mobility and Housing Adjustment of Older Households in Europe

Konstantinos Tatsiramos

2434: Expanding Schooling Opportunities for 4-Year-Olds

Edwin Leuven, Mikael Lindahl, Hessel Oosterbeek and Dinand Webbink

2433: The Economic Effects of Employment Protection: Evidence from International Industry-Level Data

Alejandro Micco and Carmen Pages

2432: Income Support Policies for Part-Time Workers: A Stepping-Stone to Regular Jobs? An Application to Young Long-Term Unemployed Women in Belgium

Bart Cockx, Stéphane Robin and Christian Goebel

2431: Intergenerational Transmission of Abilities and Self Selection of Mexican Immigrants

Vincenzo Caponi

2430: Labour Market Regulation in the EU-15: Causes and Consequences – A Survey

W. Stanley Siebert

2429: The Role of Noncognitive Skills in Explaining Cognitive Test Scores

Lex Borghans, Huub Meijers and Bas ter Weel

2428: Fiscal Competition and the Composition of Public Spending: Theory and Evidence

Rainald Borck, Marco Caliendo and Viktor Steiner

2427: Revisiting Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and the Gender Wage Gap: An Identification Problem

Myeong-Su Yun

2426: Mergers of Equals and Unequals

Valerie Smeets, Kathryn Ierulli and Michael Gibbs

2425: Inequality in Individual Mortality and Economic Conditions Earlier in Life

Gerard van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom and Marta López

2424: Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed: Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany

Peter Haan and Viktor Steiner

2423: Relative Rewards within Team-Based Compensation

Bernd Irlenbusch and Gabriele K. Ruchala

2422: Mexican-Hispanic Self-Employment Entry: The Role of Business Start-Up Constraints

Magnus Lofstrom and Chunbei Wang

2421: Does Equal Pay Legislation Reduce Labour Market Inequality?

Leo Kaas

2420: Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work

Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina and Klaus Zimmermann

2419: The Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in Britain

Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo

2418: Villages where China's Ethnic Minorities Live

Björn Anders Gustafsson and Ding Sai

2417: Intergenerational Conflict, Partisan Politics, and Public Higher Education Spending: Evidence from the German States

Ulrich Oberndorfer and Viktor Steiner

2416: Estimates of the Effect of Parents’ Schooling on Children’s Schooling Using Censored and Uncensored Samples

Monique De Haan and Erik Plug

2415: Population Aging and Continued Education

Regina Riphahn and Parvati Trübswetter

2414: The Determinants of Motherhood and Work Status: A Survey

Daniela Del Boca and Marilena Locatelli

2413: Examining the Determinants of Agency Work: Do Family Friendly Practices Play a Role?

John Heywood, W. Stanley Siebert and Xiangdong Wei

2412: The Power of the Test in Three-Level Designs

Spyros Konstantopoulos

2411: Family and Politics: Does Parental Unemployment Cause Right-Wing Extremism?

Thomas Siedler

2410: Poles Apart? EU Enlargement and the Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants in the UK

Stephen Drinkwater, John Eade and Michal Garapich

2409: Human Capital and Wages in Exporting Firms

Jakob Munch and Jan Rose Skaksen

2408: Globalization and the Provision of Incentives Inside the Firm: The Effect of Foreign Competition

Vicente Cuñat and Maria Guadalupe

2407: Estimating the Return to Endogenous Schooling Decisions for Australian Workers via Conditional Second Moments

Roger Klein and Francis Vella

2406: A Note on Unhappiness and Unemployment Duration

Andrew Clark

2405: How Immigrants Fare Across the Earnings Distribution: International Analyses

Barry Chiswick, Anh Le and Paul Miller

2404: Who Wants Flexibility? Changing Work Hours Preferences and Life Events

Robert Drago, Mark Wooden and David Black

2403: The Effects of Globalization on Worker Training

Hans Gersbach and Armin Schmutzler

2402: Do the Unemployed Become Successful Entrepreneurs? A Comparison between the Unemployed, Inactive and Wage-Earners

Pernilla Andersson Joona and Eskil Wadensjö

2401: Multi-Levels Bargaining and Efficiency in Search Economies

Olivier L'Haridon and Franck Malherbet

2400: Incentives and the Allocation of Effort Over Time: The Joint Role of Affective and Cognitive Decision Making

Lorenz Götte and David B. Huffman

2399: Workfare: Eine wirksame Alternative zum Kombilohn

Holger Bonin and Hilmar Schneider

2398: Basic Income Reform in Germany: Better Gradualism than Cold Turkey

Alexander Spermann

2397: The (Ir)relevance of the NRU for Policy Making: The Case of Denmark

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala and Pablo F. Salvador