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2396: On the “Adverse Selection” of Organizations

Matthias Kräkel

2395: The Effects of Divorce Risk on the Labour Supply of Married Couples

Kerry Papps

2394: The Nonlinear Link between Height and Wages: An Empirical Investigation

Olaf Hübler

2393: The Macroeconomics of Targeting: The Case of an Enduring Epidemic

Clive Bell and Hans Gersbach

2392: The Economics of Citizenship: A Common Intellectual Ground for Social Scientists?

Don DeVoretz

2391: Firm Size, Economic Situation and Influence Activities

Matthias Kräkel

2390: Understanding the Effects of Siblings on Child Mortality: Evidence from India

Gerald Makepeace and Sarmistha Pal

2389: Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Local Consumer Markets: Exploiting the Army’s Procedures for Matching Personnel to Duty Locations

Heather Antecol and Deborah Cobb-Clark

2388: The Persistent Decline in Unionization in Western and Eastern Germany, 1980-2004: What Can We Learn from a Decomposition Analysis?

Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner

2387: Industry Wage Differentials, Unobserved Ability, and Rent-Sharing: Evidence from Matched Worker-Firm Data, 1995-2002

Robert Plasman, Francois Rycx and Ilan Tojerow

2386: Innovation and the Determinants of Firm Survival

Hielke Buddelmeyer, Paul Jensen and Elizabeth Webster

2385: The Aggregate Labor Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program

James Albrecht, Gerard van den Berg and Susan Vroman

2384: Wage Determination in the U.S. Airline Industry: Union Power under Product Market Constraints

Barry Hirsch

2383: A Semiparametric Model for Binary Response and Continuous Outcomes Under Index Heteroscedasticity

Roger Klein and Francis Vella

2382: The Entrepreneur's Mode of Entry: Business Takeover or New Venture Start

Simon Parker and Mirjam Praag

2381: Politico-Economic Causes of Labor Regulation in the United States: Rent Seeking, Alliances, Raising Rivals' Costs (Even Lowering One's Own?), and Interjurisdictional Competition

John Addison

2380: The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman and Uwe Sunde

2379: Telecommunications Dynamics, Output and Employment

Andre Jungmittag and Paul Welfens

2378: Estimating a Class of Triangular Simultaneous Equations Models Without Exclusion Restrictions

Roger Klein and Francis Vella

2377: Can Anyone Be “The” One? Evidence on Mate Selection from Speed Dating

Michèle Belot and Marco Francesconi

2376: Pension Investments in Employer Stock

William Even and David Macpherson

2375: Matching Estimators and the Data from the National Supported Work Demonstration Again

Zhong Zhao

2374: Taxation and Internal Migration: Evidence from the Swiss Census Using Community-Level Variation in Income Tax Rates

Thomas Liebig, Patrick Puhani and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

2373: Grow Rich While You Sleep: Selection in Experiments with Voluntary Participation

Pieter Gautier and Bas van der Klaauw

2372: The Parental Leave Benefit Reform in Germany: Costs and Labour Market Outcomes of Moving towards the Scandinavian Model

C. Katharina Spieß and Katharina Wrohlich

2371: How Large an Effect Can We Expect from School Reforms?

Spyros Konstantopoulos and Larry Hedges

2370: The Return to Schooling in Structural Dynamic Models: A Survey

Christian Belzil

2369: Spatial Mobility and Returns to Education: Some Evidence from a Sample of French Youth

Philippe Lemistre and Nicolas Moreau

2368: Estimating ATT Effects with Non-Experimental Data and Low Compliance

Manuela Angelucci and Orazio Attanasio

2367: Regulating Damage Clauses in (Labor) Contracts

Gerd Muehlheusser

2366: Extension of Labor Contracts and Optimal Backpay

Leif Danziger

2365: Active Labor Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe: A Survey

Annette Bergemann and Gerard van den Berg

2364: Real Wage Cyclicality of Female Stayers and Movers in Part-Time and Full-Time Jobs

Robert A. Hart

2363: Active Labour Market Policy in East Germany: Waiting for the Economy to Take Off

Michael Lechner and Conny Wunsch

2362: The Rise and Fall of Private Sector Unionism: What Next for the NLRA?

Jeffrey M. Hirsch and Barry Hirsch

2361: The Effects of Rent-Sharing on the Gender Wage Gap in the Israeli Manufacturing Sector

Guy Navon and Ilan Tojerow

2360: The Elasticity of Labor Demand and the Optimal Minimum Wage

Leif Danziger

2359: Civil War, Crop Failure, and the Health Status of Young Children

Richard Akresh and Philip Verwimp

2358: Conjugal Bereavement Effects on Health and Mortality at Advanced Ages

Gerard van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom and France Portrait

2357: Is there a Causal Effect of High School Math on Labor Market Outcomes?

Juanna Joensen and Helena Nielsen

2356: Intentions to Return of Undocumented Migrants: Illegality as a Cause of Skill Waste

Nicola Coniglio, Giuseppe De Arcangelis and Laura Serlenga

2355: Are Training Programs More Effective When Unemployment Is High?

Michael Lechner and Conny Wunsch

2354: The Income of the Swedish Baby Boomers

Lennart Flood, N. Anders Klevmarken and Andreea Mitrut

2353: When Knowledge Is an Asset: Explaining the Organizational Structure of Large Law Firms

James Rebitzer and Lowell Taylor

2352: The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Male Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain

Marco Manacorda, Alan Manning and Jonathan Wadsworth

2351: Wage Dynamics and Promotions Inside and Between Firms

António Dias da Silva and Bas van der Klaauw

2350: Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process

Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina, Klaus Zimmermann and Laura Zimmermann

2349: Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets

Günther, Isabel and Andrey Launov

2348: Does School Tracking Affect Equality of Opportunity? New International Evidence

Giorgio Brunello and Daniele Checchi

2347: Moving the Goalposts: Addressing Limited Overlap in Estimation of Average Treatment Effects by Changing the Estimand

Richard Crump, V. Joseph Hotz, Guido Imbens and Oscar Mitnik

2346: Unemployment, Social Capital, and Subjective Well-Being

Rainer Winkelmann

2345: Immigrant Selection Systems and Immigrant Health

Barry Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee and Paul Miller

2344: Inequality and Growth in Rural China: Does Higher Inequality Impede Growth?

Dwayne Benjamin, Loren Brandt and John Giles

2343: Do Changes in Regulation Affect Employment Duration in Temporary Work Agencies?

Manfred Antoni and Elke Jahn

2342: Part-time Work and Occupational Attainment Amongst a Cohort of British Women

Victoria Prowse

2341: Two-Stage Boundedly Rational Choice Procedures: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Paola Manzini and Marco Mariotti

2340: Chinese Immigrants in Vancouver: Quo Vadis?

Shibao Guo and Don DeVoretz

2339: Aggregate Shocks or Aggregate Information? Costly Information and Business Cycle Comovement

Laura Veldkamp and Justin Wolfers

2338: A Spatio-Temporal Model of House Prices in the US

Sean Holly, Mohammad Pesaran and Takashi Yamagata

2337: Evaluation of a Tax Reform: A Model with Measurement Error

Rob Euwals

2336: Does Foreign Direct Investment Affect Wage Inequality? An Empirical Investigation

Paolo Figini and Holger Görg

2335: Wage Mobility in Israel: The Effect of Sectoral Concentration

Ana Rute Cardoso, Shoshana Neuman and Adrian Ziderman

2334: The Earnings Effect of Education at Community Colleges

Dave Marcotte

2333: Elder Parent Health and the Migration Decision of Adult Children: Evidence from Rural China

John Giles and Ren Mu

2332: Classification Error in Dynamic Discrete Choice Models: Implications for Female Labor Supply Behavior

Michael Keane and Robert M. Sauer

2331: Differences in Wage Growth by Education Level: Do Less-Educated Workers Gain Less from Work Experience?

Helen Connolly and Peter Gottschalk

2330: The Russian-Ukrainian Earnings Divide

Amelie Constant, Martin Kahanec and Klaus Zimmermann

2329: A Large-Scale Validation Study of Measurement Errors in Longitudinal Survey Data

Nicolai Kristensen and Niels Westergård-Nielsen

2328: Taxing Human Capital Efficiently: The Double Dividend of Taxing Non-Qualified Labour More Heavily Than Qualified Labour

Wolfram Richter

2327: Are Earnings Inequality and Mobility Overstated? The Impact of Non-Classical Measurement Error

Peter Gottschalk and Minh Huynh

2326: Migrant Opportunity and the Educational Attainment of Youth in Rural China

Alan de Brauw and John Giles

2325: Does Atypical Work Help the Jobless? Evidence from a CAEAS/CPS Cohort Analysis

John Addison and Christopher J. Surfield

2324: Identification of Peer Effects Using Group Size Variation

Laurent Davezies, Xavier D'Haultfoeuille and Denis Fougere

2323: The Wage Effects of Social Norms: Evidence of Deviations from Peers’ Body-Mass in Europe

René Fahr

2322: Labour Turnover and Labour Productivity in a Retail Organization

W. Stanley Siebert, Nick Zubanov, Arnaud Chevalier and Tarja Viitanen

2321: Innovative Work Practices, Information Technologies and Working Conditions: Evidence for France

Philippe Askenazy and Eve Caroli

2320: Understanding Instrumental Variables in Models with Essential Heterogeneity

James J. Heckman, Sergio Urzua and Edward Vytlacil

2319: Analyzing Cost Efficient Production Behavior Under Economies of Scope: A Nonparametric Methodology

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock and Frederic Vermeulen

2318: Housing Satisfaction, Homeownership and Housing Mobility: A Panel Data Analysis for Twelve EU Countries

Luis Diaz-Serrano

2317: Is There Rent Sharing in Developing Countries? Matched-Panel Evidence from Brazil

Pedro Martins and Luiz Esteves

2316: How Destructive Is Creative Destruction? The Costs of Worker Displacement

Kristiina Huttunen, Jarle Møen and Kjell G Salvanes

2315: Shadow Economies and Corruption All Over the World: What Do We Really Know?

Friedrich Schneider

2314: Swedish Labor Market Training and the Duration of Unemployment

Katarina Richardson and Gerard van den Berg

2313: Lobbying, Corruption and Political Influence

Nauro Campos and Francesco Giovannoni

2312: The Social Contract with Endogenous Sentiments

Matteo Cervellati, Joan Esteban and Laurence Kranich

2311: The Looks of a Winner: Beauty, Gender and Electoral Success

Niclas Berggren, Henrik Jordahl and Panu Poutvaara

2310: Studying Labor Market Institutions in the Lab: Minimum Wages, Employment Protection and Workfare

Armin Falk and David B. Huffman

2309: The Speed of Employer Learning and Job Market Signaling Revisited

Steffen Habermalz

2308: The Role of Marriage in Immigrants’ Human Capital Investment under Liquidity Constraints

Sarit Cohen Goldner, Chemi Gotlibovski and Nava Kahana

2307: What Makes a Die-Hard Entrepreneur? Beyond the ‘Employee or Entrepreneur’ Dichotomy

Andrew Burke, Felix FitzRoy and Michael A. Nolan

2306: Identifying the Determinants of Attitudes towards Immigrants: A Structural Cross-Country Analysis

Jan Brenner and Michael Fertig

2305: Statistical Discrimination in Labor Markets: An Experimental Analysis

David Dickinson and Ronald Oaxaca

2304: Employment Protection Reform in Search Economies

Olivier L'Haridon and Franck Malherbet

2303: Female Managers and their Wages in Central Europe

Stepan Jurajda and Teodora Paligorova

2302: Accident Risk, Gender, Family Status and Occupational Choice in the UK

Suzanne Grazier and Peter J. Sloane

2301: The Earnings of American Jewish Men: Human Capital, Denomination and Religiosity

Barry Chiswick and Jidong Huang

2300: Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants

Laura Zimmermann, Liliya Gataullina, Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

2299: Unemployment Dynamics among Migrants and Natives

Arne Uhlendorff and Klaus Zimmermann

2298: First and Second Generation Immigrant Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes: A Comparison of the United States and Canada

Abdurrahman Aydemir and Arthur Sweetman

2297: Employment Protection: Tough to Scrap or Tough to Get?

Björn Brügemann