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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 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 Smith

2538: Immigrants Assimilate as Communities, Not Just as Individuals

Timothy 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 Sa and Fernando Alexandre

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

Armin Falk, David 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 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 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 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 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

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 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 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 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 William 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