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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

1751: Factor Adjustments after Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Colombian Plants

Marcela Eslava, John Haltiwanger, Adriana Kugler and Maurice Kugler

1750: Immigrant Earnings: A Longitudinal Analysis

Barry Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee and Paul Miller

1749: Trends of School Effects on Student Achievement: Evidence from NLS:72, HSB:82, and NELS:92

Spyros Konstantopoulos

1748: Using Efficiency Analysis to Measure Individual Well-Being with an Illustration for Catalonia

Xavi Ramos

1747: School Progression and the Grade Distribution of Students: Evidence from the Current Population Survey

Elizabeth Cascio

1746: Does Economic Uncertainty Affect the Decision to Bear Children? Evidence from East and West Germany

Sumon Bhaumik and Jeffrey Nugent

1745: The Male Marital Wage Differential: Race, Training, and Fixed Effects

William M. Rodgers and Leslie Stratton

1744: Bargaining and Specialization in Marriage

Murat Iyigun

1743: Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform

Adriana Kugler and Giovanni Pica

1742: The Impact of Gender Segregation on Male-Female Wage Differentials: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data for Spain

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Sara De La Rica

1741: The Different Extent of Privatisation Proceeds in EU Countries: A Preliminary Explanation Using a Public Choice Approach

Ansgar Belke, Frank Baumgärtner, Friedrich Schneider and Ralph Setzer

1740: Do School-to-Work Programs Help the "Forgotten Half"?

David Neumark and Donna Rothstein

1739: The Origins of Intergenerational Associations: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data

Anders Bjorklund, Mikael Lindahl and Erik Plug

1738: What Is Behind Stagnant Unemployment in Ukraine: The Role of the Informal Sector

Olga Kupets

1737: The Effects of Smoking Ban Regulations on Individual Smoking Rates

Hielke Buddelmeyer and Roger Wilkins

1736: The Occupational Attainment of American Jewry: 1990 to 2000

Barry Chiswick

1735: The Effects of Incomplete Employee Wage Information: A Cross-Country Analysis

Solomon Polachek and Jun Xiang

1734: Alternative Composite Lisbon Development Strategy Indices

Almas Heshmati and Jong-Eun Oh

1733: Firm Productivity Dispersion and the Matching Role of UI Policy

Tomer Blumkin, Yossi Hadar and Eran Yashiv

1732: The Impact of Institutions on the Employment Performance in European Labour Markets

Herbert Buscher, Christian Dreger, Raul Ramos and Jordi Suriñach

1731: Why Is the Payoff to Schooling Smaller for Immigrants?

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

1730: Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde, Jürgen Schupp and Gert Wagner

1729: Social Security Incentives, Human Capital Investment and Mobility of Labor

Panu Poutvaara

1728: What Mean Impacts Miss: Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments

Marianne Bitler, Jonah Gelbach and Hilary Hoynes

1727: Evaluating Dominance Ranking of PSID Incomes by Various Household Attributes

Esfandiar Maasoumi and Almas Heshmati

1726: The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 1980 to 2000

Barry Chiswick and Michael Wenz

1725: Religious Affiliation and Participation as Determinants of Women's Educational Attainment and Wages

Evelyn Lehrer

1724: Institutions, Markets and Men's and Women's Wage Inequality: Evidence from Ukraine

Ina Ganguli and Katherine Terrell

1723: Local Employment Growth in West Germany: A Dynamic Panel Approach

Uwe Blien, Jens Suedekum and Katja Wolf

1722: Bargaining Frictions and Hours Worked

Stéphane Auray and Samuel Danthine