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1851: The Sociology of Groups and the Economics of Incentives: Theory and Evidence on Compensation Systems

William E. Encinosa , Martin Gaynor and James Rebitzer

1850: Econometrics of Individual Labor Market Transitions

Denis Fougere and Thierry Kamionka

1849: Taxes, Cigarette Consumption and Smoking Intensity

Jerome Adda and Francesca Cornaglia

1848: Evaluating the Dynamic Employment Effects of Training Programs in East Germany Using Conditional Difference-in-Differences

Annette Bergemann, Bernd Fitzenberger and Stefan Speckesser

1847: Intergenerational Economic Mobility and Assortative Mating

John Ermisch, Marco Francesconi and Thomas Siedler

1846: Match Bias from Earnings Imputation in the Current Population Survey: The Case of Imperfect Matching

Christopher Bollinger and Barry Hirsch

1845: Generating Legitimacy for Labor Market and Welfare State Reforms: The Role of Policy Advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden

Werner Eichhorst and Ole Wintermann

1844: Tournaments and Multiple Productive Inputs: The Case of Performance Enhancing Drugs

Kai Konrad

1843: Women and Competition in Elimination Tournaments: Evidence from Professional Tennis Data

Thierry Lallemand, Robert Plasman and Francois Rycx

1842: O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Effects of Having a Sibling on Geographic Mobility and Labor Market Outcomes

Helmut Rainer and Thomas Siedler

1841: Tournaments, Individualized Contracts and Career Concerns

Alexander Koch and Eloic Peyrache

1840: Endogenous Assimilation and Immigrant Adjustment in Longitudinal Data

Michael Beenstock, Barry Chiswick and Ari Paltiel

1839: Job Search Monitoring and Unemployment Duration in Hungary: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial

John Micklewright and Gyula Nagy

1838: Is There a Link between Economic Outcomes and Genetic Evolution? Cross-Country Evidence from the Major Histocompatibility Complex

José A.M. Borghans, Lex Borghans and Bas ter Weel

1837: Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany

Marco Francesconi, Stephen Jenkins and Thomas Siedler

1836: Youth Emancipation and Perceived Job Insecurity of Parents and Children

Sascha Becker, Samuel Bentolila, Ana Fernandes and Andrea Ichino

1835: Health Determinants in Urban China

Zhong Zhao

1834: Immigration and Public Spending

René Böheim and Karin Mayr-Dorn

1833: Male and Female Competitive Behavior: Experimental Evidence

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Anders Poulsen and Marie Claire Villeval

1832: The Impact of Parental Income and Education on the Health of their Children

Orla Doyle, Colm Harmon and Ian Walker

1831: Why Are More Redistributive Social Security Systems Smaller? A Median Voter Approach

Marko Koethenbuerger, Panu Poutvaara and Paola Profeta

1830: The Gender Gap Reloaded: Is School Quality Linked to Labor Market Performance?

Spyros Konstantopoulos and Amelie Constant

1829: A Tale of Parallel Integration Processes. A Gravity Analysis of EU Trade with Mediterranean and Central and Eastern European Countries

Anna Ferragina, Giorgia Giovannetti and Francesco Pastore

1828: Public Sector Pay and Regional Competitiveness: A First Look at Regional Public-Private Wage Differentials in Italy

Dell’Aringa, Carlo, Claudio Lucifora and Federica Origo

1827: Does the Early Bird Catch the Worm? Instrumental Variable Estimates of Educational Effects of Age of School Entry in Germany

Patrick Puhani and Andrea M. Weber

1826: Trade Liberalization and Employment Effects in Ukraine

Atanas Christev, Olga Kupets and Hartmut Lehmann

1825: Does Job-Search Assistance Affect Search Effort and Outcomes? A Microeconometric Analysis of Public versus Private Search Methods

Denis Fougere, Jacqueline Pradel and Muriel Roger

1824: Household Incomes and Redistribution in the European Union: Quantifying the Equalising Properties of Taxes and Benefits

Herwig Immervoll, Horacio Levy, Christine Lietz, Daniela Mantovani, Cathal O'Donoghue, Holly Sutherland and Gerlinde Verbist

1823: The Relevance of Post-Match LTC: Why Has the Spanish Labor Market Become as Volatile as the US One?

Hector Sala and José Silva

1822: Normalized Equation and Decomposition Analysis: Computation and Inference

Myeong-Su Yun

1821: Household Time Allocation and Modes of Behavior: A Theory of Sorts

Daniela Del Boca and Christopher Flinn

1820: SSI, Labor Supply, and Migration

David Neumark and Elizabeth Powers

1819: Household Migration Decisions as Survival Strategy: The Case of Burkina Faso

Adama Konseiga

1818: Young Women's Religious Affiliation and Participation as Determinants of High School Completion

Evelyn Lehrer

1817: Are US Wages Really Determined by European Labor-Market Institutions?

Jürgen Meckl

1816: Age Structure of the Workforce and Firm Performance

Christian Grund and Niels Westergård-Nielsen

1815: Stressed Out on Four Continents: Time Crunch or Yuppie Kvetch?

Daniel Hamermesh and Jungmin Lee

1814: The Obesity Epidemic in Europe

Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

1813: Contractual Employment Protection and the Scarring Risk of Unemployment

Elke Jahn and Thomas Wagner

1812: High Performance Workplaces and Family Friendly Practices: Promises Made and Promises Kept

John Heywood, William Siebert and Xiangdong Wei

1811: Does Marriage Make People Happy, Or Do Happy People Get Married?

Alois Stutzer and Bruno Frey

1810: Welfare Reform in European Countries: A Microsimulation Analysis

Herwig Immervoll, Henrik Jacobsen Kleven, Claus Kreiner and Emmanuel Saez

1809: On Simplifying the Structure of Labour Demand: An Analysis of the DOT Data

Wim Vijverberg and Joop Hartog

1808: The Cycle of Violence? An Empirical Analysis of Fatalities in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

David Jaeger and M. Daniele Paserman

1807: An Auction Model of Canadian Temporary Immigration for the 21st Century

Don DeVoretz

1806: Demographic and Education Effects on Unemployment in Europe: Economic Factors and Labour Market Institutions

Federico Biagi and Claudio Lucifora

1805: Redistributive Taxation and Personal Bankruptcy in US States

Charles Grant and Winfried Koeniger

1804: 'Soft' Skills, 'Hard' Skills, and the Black/White Earnings Gap

C. Fan, Xiangdong Wei and Junsen Zhang

1803: Medical Interventions among Pregnant Women in Fee-for-Service and Managed Care Insurance: A Propensity Score Analysis

Leo Turcotte, John Robst and Solomon Polachek

1802: Discrimination as a Competitive Device: The Case of Local Television News

Caitlin Myers

1801: Introducing Time-to-Educate in a Job Search Model

Sascha Becker

1800: Structural Change in a Multi-Sector Model of Growth

L. Rachel Ngai and Christopher Pissarides

1799: Job-Hopping in Silicon Valley: Some Evidence Concerning the Micro-Foundations of a High Technology Cluster

Bruce Fallick, Charles Fleischman and James Rebitzer

1798: Structural Reforms and the Exchange Rate Regime: A Panel Analysis for the World versus OECD Countries

Ansgar Belke, Bernhard Herz and Lukas Vogel

1797: A Constitutional Theory of the Family

Alessandro Cigno

1796: Counseling the Unemployed: Does It Lower Unemployment Duration and Recurrence?

Bruno Crépon, Muriel Dejemeppe and Marc Gurgand

1795: Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition for Tobit Models

Thomas Bauer and Mathias Sinning

1794: Job Market Signaling and Screening: An Experimental Comparison

Dorothea Kübler, Wieland Müller and Hans-Theo Normann

1793: To Study or to Work? Education and Labour Market Participation of Young People in Poland

Francesco Pastore

1792: The Impact of Incarceration in State Prison on the Employment Prospects of Women

Rosa Cho and Robert LaLonde

1791: Product Market Regulation and Macroeconomic Performance: A Review of Cross Country Evidence

Fabio Schiantarelli

1790: Dynamic Discrete Choice and Dynamic Treatment Effects

James Heckman and Salvador Navarro

1789: Birth Order, Educational Attainment and Earnings: An Investigation Using the PSID

Jasmin Kantarevic and Stéphane Mechoulan

1788: Do Divorcing Couples Become Happier By Breaking Up?

Jonathan Gardner and Andrew Oswald

1787: The Division of Labor by New Parents: Does Child Gender Matter?

Shelly Lundberg

1786: Why Are Similar Workers Paid Differently? The Role of Social Networks

Francois Fontaine

1785: Collective Labour Supply: Heterogeneity and Nonparticipation

Richard Blundell, Pierre Chiappori, Thierry Magnac and Costas Meghir

1784: 'Taxing' Doctors: The Impact of Income Caps on the Provision of Medical Services

Boris Kralj, Jasmin Kantarevic and Darrel Weinkauf

1783: Executive Compensation, Firm Performance, and Chaebols in Korea: Evidence from New Panel Data

Takao Kato, Woochan Kim and Ju Ho Lee

1782: High Skilled Immigration in the International Arena

Barry Chiswick

1781: On the Common Claim that Happiness Equations Demonstrate Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income

Andrew Oswald

1780: The Demand for Labor: An Analysis Using Matched Employer-Employee Data from the German LIAB. Will the High Unskilled Worker Own-Wage Elasticity Please Stand Up?

John Addison, Lutz Bellmann, Thorsten Schank and Paulino Teixeira

1779: Labor Supply and Child Care Costs: The Effect of Rationing

Daniela Del Boca and Daniela Vuri

1778: Establishment Size and the Dispersion of Wages: Evidence from European Countries

Thierry Lallemand and Francois Rycx

1777: How Many Winners Are Good to Have? On Tournaments with Sabotage

Christine Harbring and Bernd Irlenbusch

1776: Wage Ceilings and Floors: The Gender Gap in Ukraine's Transition

Ina Ganguli and Katherine Terrell

1775: Doctor Who? Who Gets Admission Offers in UK Medical Schools

Wiji Arulampalam, Robin Naylor and Jeremy Smith

1774: Employment Dynamics and Business Relocation: New Evidence from the National Establishment Time Series

David Neumark, Junfu Zhang and Brandon Wall

1773: Improving the Modeling of Couples' Labour Supply

Robert Breunig, Deborah Cobb-Clark and Xiaodong Gong

1772: Ethnic Conflict and Economic Disparity: Serbians and Albanians in Kosovo

Sumon Bhaumik, Ira Gang and Myeong-Su Yun

1771: The Influence of Market Wages and Parental History on Child Labour and Schooling in Egypt

Jackline Wahba

1770: The Incidence and Cost of Job Loss in the Ukrainian Labor Market

Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti and Jonathan Wadsworth

1769: Competition and Well-Being

Jordi Brandts, Arno Riedl and Frans van Winden

1768: Courtesy and Idleness: Gender Differences in Team Work and Team Competition

Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel and Dorothea Kübler

1767: Executive Compensation, Firm Performance, and Corporate Governance in China: Evidence from Firms Listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges

Takao Kato and Cheryl Long

1766: Vocational Training and Gender: Wages and Occupational Mobility among Young Workers

Bernd Fitzenberger and Astrid Kunze

1765: More on Unemployment and Vacancy Fluctuations

Dale Mortensen and Éva Nagypál

1764: Gender Discrimination Estimation in a Search Model with Matching and Bargaining

Luca Flabbi

1763: Educational Qualifications and Wage Inequality: Evidence for Europe

Santiago Budria Rodriguez and Pedro Pereira

1762: The Choice of the Agenda in Labor Negotiations: Efficiency and Behavioral Considerations

Manfred Königstein and Marie Claire Villeval

1761: Work and Family: Marriage, Children, Child Gender and the Work Hours and Earnings of West German Men

Hyung-Jai Choi, Jutta M. Joesch and Shelly Lundberg

1760: Value of Work: Bargaining, Job-Satisfaction, and Taxation in a Simple GE Model

Felix FitzRoy and Michael A. Nolan

1759: Enforcement of Regulation, Informal Labor and Firm Performance

Rita Almeida and Pedro Carneiro

1758: Incentives, Decision Frames, and Motivation Crowding Out – An Experimental Investigation

Bernd Irlenbusch and Dirk Sliwka

1757: German Works Councils and Productivity: First Evidence from a Nonparametric Test

Joachim Wagner

1756: Distribution of Natural Resources, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development: Growth Dynamics with Two Elites

Josef Falkinger and Volker Grossmann

1755: Computer Skills, Destination Language Proficiency and the Earnings of Natives and Immigrants

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

1754: In Search of Stars: Network Formation among Heterogeneous Agents

Jacob Goeree, Arno Riedl and Aljaz Ule

1753: How Important Is Homeland Education for Refugees' Economic Position in The Netherlands?

Joop Hartog and Aslan Zorlu

1752: Building the Family Nest: Pre-Marital Investments, Marriage Markets and Spousal Allocations

Murat Iyigun and Randall Walsh