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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

1955: Indirect Effects of an Aid Program: The Case of Progresa and Consumption

Manuela Angelucci and Giacomo De Giorgi

1954: Educational Differences in the Migration Responses of Young Workers to Local Labor Market Conditions

Abigail Wozniak

1953: The Effects of State-Sponsored Merit Scholarships on Course Selection and Major Choice in College

Christopher Cornwell, Kyung Hee Lee and David Mustard

1952: What Happiness Research Can Tell Us About Self-Control Problems and Utility Misprediction

Alois Stutzer and Bruno Frey

1951: Are the Factors Affecting Dropout Behavior Related to Initial Enrollment Intensity for College Undergraduates?

Leslie Stratton, Dennis M. O'Toole and James Wetzel

1950: Subjective Income Expectations and Income Risk

Xavi Ramos and Christian Schluter

1949: Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate

John Donohue and Justin Wolfers

1948: The Portfolio Choices of Hispanic Couples

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Vincent Hildebrand

1947: Rates of Return to Degrees across British Regions

Nigel C. O'Leary and Peter Sloane

1946: Product Market Deregulation and the U.S. Employment Miracle

Monique Ebell and Christian Haefke

1945: The Substitutability of Labor of Selected Ethnic Groups in the US Labor Market

Martin Kahanec

1944: Diagnosing Discrimination: Stock Returns and CEO Gender

Justin Wolfers

1943: Intergenerational Mobility, Human Capital Transmission and the Earnings of Second-Generation Immigrants in Sweden

Mats Hammarstedt and Mårten Palme

1942: Self-Selection in Migration and Returns to Unobservable Skills

Benoit Dostie and Pierre Leger

1941: Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps

Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

1940: Social Networks in the Boardroom

Francis Kramarz and David Thesmar

1939: Choice and Success of Job Search Methods

Andrea Weber and Helmut Mahringer

1938: American Exceptionalism in a New Light: A Comparison of Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in the Nordic Countries, the United Kingdom and the United States

Markus Jantti, Bernt Bratsberg, Knut Røed, Oddbjørn Raaum, Robin Naylor, Eva Österbacka, Anders Bjorklund and Tor Eriksson

1937: The Return to the Firm Investment in Human Capital

Rita Almeida and Pedro Carneiro

1936: Corruption and the Shadow Economy: An Empirical Analysis

Axel Dreher and Friedrich Schneider

1935: The Returns to Seniority in France (and Why Are They Lower than in the United States?)

Magali Beffy, Moshe Buchinsky, Denis Fougere, Thierry Kamionka and Francis Kramarz

1934: Head-content or Headcount? Short-term Skilled Labour Movements as a Source of Growth

Max Tani

1933: Migrating Workers and Jobs: A Challenge to the European Social Model?

Simon Commander, Axel Heitmueller and Laura Tyson

1932: Can Parents Afford to Work? Childcare Costs, Tax-Benefit Policies and Work Incentives

Herwig Immervoll and David Barber

1931: Evaluating the Performance of the Search and Matching Model

Eran Yashiv

1930: Cross-sectional Earnings Risk and Occupational Sorting: The Role of Risk Attitudes

Holger Bonin, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde

1929: Satisfaction with Democracy and the Environment in Western Europe: A Panel Analysis

Alexander Wagner and Friedrich Schneider

1928: Civic Attitudes and the Design of Labor Market Institutions: Which Countries Can Implement the Danish Flexicurity Model?

Yann Algan and Pierre Cahuc

1927: A Human Capital Model of the Effects of Abilities and Family Background on Optimal Schooling Levels

Tracy Regan, Galen Burghardt and Ronald Oaxaca

1926: Wages and the Risk of Displacement

Anabela Carneiro and Pedro Portugal

1925: The Social Impact of Globalization in the Developing Countries

Eddy Lee and Marco Vivarelli

1924: The Expanding Workweek? Understanding Trends in Long Work Hours Among U.S. Men, 1979-2004

Peter Kuhn and Fernando Lozano

1923: Israel, the Palestinian Factions, and the Cycle of Violence

David Jaeger and M. Daniele Paserman

1922: Employment Dynamics and the Structure of Labor Adjustment Costs

Jose Varejao and Pedro Portugal

1921: The Gender Wage Gap in Four Countries

Anne Daly, Akira Kawaguchi, Xin Meng and Karen Mumford

1920: Work Experience as a Source of Specification Error in Earnings Models: Implications for Gender Wage Decompositions

Tracy Regan and Ronald Oaxaca

1919: The Long-Term Effects of a Generous Income Support Program: Unemployment Insurance in New Brunswick and Maine, 1940-1991

Peter Kuhn and Chris Riddell

1918: Political Parties and Network Formation

Topi Miettinen and Panu Poutvaara

1917: An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique to Logit and Probit Models

Robert Fairlie

1916: Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia Is Not a Paradox

Andrew Leigh and Justin Wolfers

1915: The Economics of Dual Job Holding: A Job Portfolio Model of Labor Supply

Francesco Renna and Ronald Oaxaca

1914: CEO Turnover, Firm Performance and Enterprise Reform in China: Evidence from New Micro Data

Takao Kato and Cheryl Long

1913: Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability

Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin and John van Reenen

1912: Do Home Computers Improve Educational Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Current Population Surveys and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997

Daniel Beltran, Kuntal Das and Robert Fairlie

1911: Measuring the Value of a Statistical Life: Problems and Prospects

Orley Ashenfelter

1910: Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-employment Proclivity: A Bi-national Study of Immigrants

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

1909: The Scots May Be Brave But They Are Neither Healthy Nor Happy

David Bell and David Blanchflower

1908: Labour Supply and Childcare for British Mothers in Two-Parent Families: A Structural Approach

Antonia Parera-Nicolau and Karen Mumford

1907: Specialization, Outsourcing and Wages

Jakob Munch and Jan Skaksen

1906: Education Policy and Equality of Opportunity

Gabriela Schütz, Heinrich Ursprung and Ludger Woessmann

1905: Do Professionals Choke Under Pressure?

Thomas Dohmen

1904: Search Equilibrium, Production Parameters and Social Returns to Education: Theory and Estimation

Christian Holzner and Andrey Launov

1903: On Human Capital Formation with Exit Options: Comment and New Results

Panu Poutvaara

1902: The Impact of Labor Markets on the Transmission of Monetary Policy in an Estimated DSGE Model

Kai Christoffel, Keith Kuester and Tobias Linzert

1901: Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries

Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann

1900: Big Fish in Small Pond or Small Fish in Big Pond? An Analysis of Job Mobility

Ana Rute Cardoso

1899: Macroeconomic Derivatives: An Initial Analysis of Market-Based Macro Forecasts, Uncertainty and Risk

Refet Gürkaynak and Justin Wolfers

1898: Cross-Sectional Heterogeneity in Price-Cost Margins and the Extent of Rent Sharing at the Sector and Firm Level in France

Sabien Dobbelaere and Jacques Mairesse

1897: Gender Differences in Educational Attainment: Evidence on the Role of the Tracking Age from a Finnish Quasi-Experiment

Tuomas Pekkarinen

1896: The Role of Real Wage Rigidity and Labor Market Frictions for Unemployment and Inflation Dynamics

Kai Christoffel and Tobias Linzert

1895: Do Emotions Improve Labor Market Outcomes?

Lorenz Götte and David Huffman

1894: Income Taxation and Household Size: Would French Family Splitting Make German Families Better Off?

Alexandre Baclet, Fabien Dell and Katharina Wrohlich

1893: Unreported Labour

Erling Barth and Tone Ognedal

1892: Oligopoly and Outsourcing

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay and Howard Wall

1891: Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany Using a Gini Decomposition Approach

Joachim Frick and Jan Goebel

1890: Affect as a Source of Motivation in the Workplace: A New Model of Labor Supply, and New Field Evidence on Income Targeting and the Goal Gradient

Lorenz Götte and David Huffman

1889: Income Taxes, Property Values and Migration

Amihai Glazer, Vesa Kanniainen and Panu Poutvaara

1888: Employer Size or Skill-Group Size Effect on Wages?

Erling Barth and Harald Dale-Olsen

1887: Labour Force Participation of the Elderly in Europe: The Importance of Being Healthy

Adriaan Kalwij and Frederic Vermeulen

1886: A Note on Decompositions in Fixed Effects Models in the Presence of Time-Invariant Characteristics

Axel Heitmueller

1885: Demographic Alternatives for Aging Industrial Countries: Increased Total Fertility Rate, Labor Force Participation, or Immigration

Robert Holzmann

1884: Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part-Time Work Make the Family Happier?

Alison Booth and Jan van Ours

1883: Does Immigration Affect the Long-Term Educational Outcomes of Natives? Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Eric Gould, Victor Lavy and M. Daniele Paserman

1882: Do Former College Athletes Earn More at Work? A Nonparametric Assessment

Daniel Henderson, Alexandre Olbrecht and Solomon Polachek

1881: Preferences, Gender Segregation and Affirmative Action

Peter Sloane, Suzanne Grazier and Richard Jones

1880: Cultural Transmission and Discrimination

Maria Saez-Marti and Yves Zenou

1879: Reference Dependent Preferences and the Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence

Christian Grund and Dirk Sliwka

1878: One or Many Knowledge Production Functions? Mapping Innovative Activity Using Microdata

Andrea Conte and Marco Vivarelli

1877: Analysis of Health and Longevity in Oldest-Old Population: A Health Capital Approach

Zhong Zhao

1876: Gender-Job Satisfaction Differences across Europe: An Indicator for Labor Market Modernization

Lutz C. Kaiser

1875: Wage and Employment Effects of Immigration to Germany: Evidence from a Skill Group Approach

Holger Bonin

1874: Regional Disparities and Inequality of Opportunity: The Case of Italy

Daniele Checchi and Vito Peragine

1873: Sensitivity of Propensity Score Methods to the Specifications

Zhong Zhao

1872: Two Faces of the ICT Revolution: Desegregation and Minority-Majority Earnings Inequality

Martin Kahanec

1871: Tarifpolitik und Entgeltflexibilität in Ostdeutschland

Holger Bonin

1870: Sex Differences in Pay in a "New Monopsony" Model of the Labor Market

Michael Ransom and Ronald Oaxaca

1869: Job Insecurity and Youth Emancipation: A Theoretical Approach

Sascha Becker, Samuel Bentolila, Ana Fernandes and Andrea Ichino

1868: Employment Effects of the Provision of Specific Professional Skills and Techniques in Germany

Bernd Fitzenberger and Stefan Speckesser

1867: The Determinants of Asset Stripping: Theory and Evidence from the Transition Economies

Nauro Campos and Francesco Giovannoni

1866: Building Blocks in the Economics of Mandates

John Addison, C. R. Barrett and William Siebert