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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 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

William 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, William 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 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 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 Salvador

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 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

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 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