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2055: Konzentration statt Verzettelung: Die deutsche Arbeitsmarktpolitik am Scheideweg

Hilmar Schneider, Werner Eichhorst and Klaus Zimmermann

2054: Should You Allow Your Agent to Become Your Competitor? On Non-Compete Agreements in Employment Contracts

Matthias Kräkel and Dirk Sliwka

2053: Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market

Katharina Wrohlich

2052: The (Self-)Selection of International Migrants Reconsidered: Theory and New Evidence

Herbert Brücker and Cécily Defoort

2051: How Important Is Access to Jobs? Old Question – Improved Answer

Olof Åslund, John Östh and Yves Zenou

2050: Ethnic Specialization and Earnings Inequality: Why Being a Minority Hurts but Being a Big Minority Hurts More

Martin Kahanec

2049: International Migration with Heterogeneous Agents: Theory and Evidence

Herbert Brücker and Philipp Schröder

2048: Ugly Criminals

Naci Mocan and Erdal Tekin

2047: Testing for Restricted Stochastic Dominance

Russell Davidson and Jean-Yves Duclos

2046: Racial Identity and Education

Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou

2045: Job Flow Dynamics and Firing Restrictions: Evidence from Europe

Julian Messina and Giovanna Vallanti

2044: The Impact of Immigration on the Employment of Natives in Regional Labour Markets: A Meta-Analysis

Simonetta Longhi, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot

2043: Holdup in Oligopsonistic Labour Markets: A New Role for the Minimum Wage

Leo Kaas and Paul Madden

2042: Living Arrangements in Western Europe: Does Cultural Origin Matter?

Paola Giuliano

2041: Evaluating the German "Mini-Job" Reform Using a True Natural Experiment

Marco Caliendo and Katharina Wrohlich

2040: Ethnosizing Immigrants

Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina and Klaus Zimmermann

2039: Mexican Entrepreneurship: A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States

Robert Fairlie and Christopher Woodruff

2038: New Workplace Practices and the Gender Wage Gap: Can the New Economy be the Great Equalizer?

Nabanita Datta Gupta and Tor Eriksson

2037: Reconstructing School Segregation: On the Efficacy and Equity of Single-Sex Schooling

Sherrilyn Billger

2036: Start-up Success of Freelancers: New Microeconometric Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Joachim Merz and Peter Paic

2035: Testing Exclusion Restrictions at Infinity in the Semiparametric Selection Model

Bruno Crépon

2034: Does More Generous Student Aid Increase Enrolment Rates into Higher Education? Evaluating the German Student Aid Reform of 2001

Hans Baumgartner and Viktor Steiner

2033: 'Making Work Pay' in a Rationed Labour Market

Olivier Bargain, Marco Caliendo, Peter Haan and Kristian Orsini

2032: Banks and Innovation: Microeconometric Evidence on Italian Firms

Luigi Benfratello, Fabio Schiantarelli and Alessandro Sembenelli

2031: Variance Estimation in a Random Coefficients Model

Ekkehart Schlicht and Johannes Ludsteck

2030: The Time and Timing Costs of Market Work, and their Implications for Retirement

Daniel Hamermesh

2029: Endogenous Labor Market Participation and the Business Cycle

Christian Haefke and Michael Reiter

2028: Explorations of the Effect of Experience on Preferences: Two Health-Care Case Studies

Einat Neuman and Shoshana Neuman

2027: Equilibrium Allele Distribution in Trading Populations

Gilles Saint-Paul

2026: The Effect of Benefits on Single Motherhood in Europe

Libertad Gonzalez

2025: Beans for Breakfast? How Exportable Is the British Workfare Model?

Olivier Bargain and Kristian Orsini

2024: Testing Theories of Job Creation: Does Supply Create Its Own Demand?

Mikael Carlsson, Stefan Eriksson and Nils Gottfries

2023: The Effect of Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates in Europe

Libertad Gonzalez and Tarja Viitanen

2022: Military Draft and Economic Growth in OECD Countries

Katarina Keller, Panu Poutvaara and Andreas Wagener

2021: Skill Transferability, Regret and Mobility

Lex Borghans and Bart Golsteyn

2020: The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups

Lorenz Götte, David Huffman and Stephan Meier

2019: The Happiness Gains from Sorting and Matching in the Labor Market

Simon Luechinger, Alois Stutzer and Rainer Winkelmann

2018: The Effectiveness of European Active Labor Market Policy

Jochen Kluve

2017: Reasons for Wage Rigidity in Germany

Wolfgang Franz and Friedhelm Pfeiffer

2016: A Cross-Country Study of Union Membership

David Blanchflower

2015: Exploring the Nature of Loss Aversion

Eric J. Johnson, Simon Gächter and Andreas Herrmann

2014: Child Care and Parental Leave in the Nordic Countries: A Model to Aspire to?

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Nina Smith and Mette Verner

2013: Performance Pay and the Erosion of Worker Cooperation: Field Experimental Evidence

Stephen Burks, Jeffrey Carpenter and Lorenz Götte

2012: Performance Pay and Risk Aversion

Christian Grund and Dirk Sliwka

2011: Heterogeneous Social Preferences and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods

Urs Fischbacher and Simon Gächter

2010: Informal Care and Employment in England: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey

Axel Heitmueller and Pierre-Carl Michaud

2009: Youth Unemployment and Crime in France

Denis Fougere, Francis Kramarz and Julien Pouget

2008: Earnings Inequality in India: Has the Rise of Caste and Religion Based Politics in India Had an Impact?

Sumon Bhaumik and Manisha Chakrabarty

2007: The Narrowing of the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap, 1959-1999: A Cohort-Based Analysis

Catherine Weinberger and Peter Kuhn

2006: On-the-Job Search, Productivity Shocks and the Individual Earnings Process

Fabien Postel-Vinay and Hélène Turon

2005: Modes of Spousal Interaction and the Labor Market Environment

Daniela Del Boca and Christopher Flinn

2004: Nonparametric Analysis of Household Labor Supply: Goodness-of-Fit and Power of the Unitary and the Collective Model

Laurens Cherchye and Frederic Vermeulen

2003: Income Mobility of Individuals in China and the United States

Niny Khor and John Pencavel

2002: Leisure Time in Japan: How Much and for Whom?

Scott Fuess

2001: Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting: Productivity, Preferences and Gender

Thomas Dohmen and Armin Falk

2000: The (Parlous) State of German Unions

John Addison, Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner

1999: Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes

Holger Bonin, Amelie Constant, Konstantinos Tatsiramos and Klaus Zimmermann

1998: Ethnic Networks and U.S. Exports

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Cletus Coughlin and Howard Wall

1997: Tenure Profiles and Efficient Separation in a Stochastic Productivity Model

Ioan Sebastian Buhai and C. N. Teulings

1996: Partisan Impacts on the Economy: Evidence from Prediction Markets and Close Elections

Erik Snowberg, Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

1995: Welfare State Retrenchment: The Partisan Effect Revisited

Bruno Amable, Donatella Gatti and Jan Schumacher

1994: Should Employment Authorities Worry About Mergers and Acquisitions?

David Margolis

1993: Do Poor Children Become Poor Adults? Lessons from a Cross Country Comparison of Generational Earnings Mobility

Miles Corak

1992: Early Retirement Behaviour in the Netherlands: Evidence from a Policy Reform

Rob Euwals, Daniel van Vuuren and Ronald Wolthoff

1991: Prediction Markets in Theory and Practice

Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

1990: Wages and the Bargaining Regime under Multi-level Bargaining: Belgium, Denmark and Spain

Robert Plasman, Michael Rusinek and Francois Rycx

1989: Human Capital and Interethnic Marriage Decisions

Delia Furtado

1988: Geographic Proximity, Trade and International Conflict/Cooperation

John Robst, Solomon Polachek and Yuan-Ching Chang

1987: Public Sector Pay and Corruption: Measuring Bribery from Micro Data

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Klara Sabirianova Peter

1986: Evaluating Alternative Representations of the Choice Sets in Models of Labour Supply

Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino and Tom Wennemo

1985: Beschäftigung Älterer in Deutschland: Der unvollständige Paradigmenwechsel

Werner Eichhorst

1984: The Interaction between Retirement and Job Search: A Global Approach to Older Workers Employment

Jean-Olivier Hairault, Francois Langot and Thepthida Sopraseuth

1983: Self-Selection and the Efficiency of Tournaments

Tor Eriksson, Sabrina Teyssier and Marie Claire Villeval

1982: Is Demand-Pulled Innovation Equally Important in Different Groups of Firms?

Mariacristina Piva and Marco Vivarelli

1981: Screening Disability Insurance Applications

Philip de Jong, Maarten Lindeboom and Bas van der Klaauw

1980: An Analysis of Reservation Wages for the Economically Inactive

David H. Blackaby, Paul Latreille, Philip D. Murphy, Nigel C. O'Leary and Peter Sloane

1979: Social Class and Undergraduate Degree Subject in the UK

Massimiliano Bratti

1978: Reputations, Relationships and the Enforcement of Incomplete Contracts

W. Bentley Macleod

1977: Public Implementation Eliminates Detrimental Effects of Punishment on Human Cooperation

Erte Xiao and Daniel Houser

1976: How Far and For How Much? Evidence on Wages and Potential Travel-to-Work Distances from a Survey of the Economically Inactive

Paul Latreille, David H. Blackaby, Philip D. Murphy, Nigel C. O'Leary and Peter Sloane

1975: Five Open Questions About Prediction Markets

Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

1974: American Idol: Evidence of Same-Race Preferences?

Jungmin Lee

1973: Ottoman Conquests and European Ecclesiastical Pluralism

Murat Iyigun

1972: Competing Approaches to Forecasting Elections: Economic Models, Opinion Polling and Prediction Markets

Andrew Leigh and Justin Wolfers

1971: Employees Who Become Self-Employed: Do Labour Income and Wages Have an Impact?

Pernilla Andersson Joona and Eskil Wadensjö

1970: Legal Default Rules: The Case of Wrongful Discharge Laws

W. Bentley Macleod and Voraprapa Nakavachara

1969: Human Capital Externalities and Growth of High- and Low-Skilled Jobs

Jens Suedekum

1968: Does the Quality of Industrial Relations Matter for the Macro Economy? A Cross-Country Analysis Using Strikes Data

John Addison and Paulino Teixeira

1967: Is There a Social Security Tax Wedge?

Alessandro Cigno

1966: Child Labor, Urban Proximity and Household Composition

Marcel Fafchamps and Jackline Wahba

1965: Time to Eat: Household Production under Increasing Income Inequality

Daniel Hamermesh

1964: Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction

Simon Luechinger, Stephan Meier and Alois Stutzer

1963: Dependent Forms of Self-employment in the UK: Identifying Workers on the Border between Employment and Self-employment

René Böheim and Ulrike Muehlberger

1962: The Risk-Return Trade-Off in Human Capital Investment

Charlotte Christiansen, Juanna Joensen and Helena Nielsen

1961: Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition: A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia

J. David Brown, John Earle, Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov, Hartmut Lehmann, Almos Telegdy, Irina Vantu, Ruxandra Visan and Alexandru Voicu

1960: Employment Protection, Product Market Regulation and Firm Selection

Winfried Koeniger and Julien Prat

1959: Social Segregation in Secondary Schools: How Does England Compare with Other Countries?

Stephen Jenkins, John Micklewright and Sylke Schnepf

1958: Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data

Elizabeth Brainerd

1957: Product Markets and Paychecks: Deregulation's Effect on the Compensation Structure in Banking

Abigail Wozniak

1956: Merit Aid and Sorting: The Effects of HOPE-Style Scholarships on College Ability Stratification

Christopher Cornwell and David Mustard