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1498: Why So Unhappy? The Effects of Unionisation on Job Satisfaction

Alex Bryson, Lorenzo Cappellari and Claudio Lucifora

1497: The Spot Market Matters: Evidence on Implicit Contracts from Britain

Paul Devereux and Robert Hart

1496: The Impact of Parental Income and Education on the Schooling of Their Children

Arnaud Chevalier, Colm Harmon, Vincent O'Sullivan and Ian Walker

1495: Following Germany's Lead: Using International Monetary Linkages to Identify the Effect of Monetary Policy on the Economy

Julian di Giovanni, Justin McCrary and Till von Wachter

1494: People People: Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups

Lex Borghans, Bas ter Weel and Bruce Weinberg

1493: Retained State Shareholding in Chinese PLCs: Does Government Ownership Reduce Corporate Value?

Lihui Tian and Saul Estrin

1492: Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in Europe: An Analysis of European Micro Data from the ECHP 1994-2001

Christoph Knoppik and Thomas Beissinger

1491: Marriage and the City

Pieter Gautier, Michael Svarer and C. N. Teulings

1490: Wohlfahrts- und Verteilungseffekte eines allgemeinen Freibetrags bei den Sozialabgaben

Hilmar Schneider and Holger Bonin

1489: Job Security and Job Protection

Andrew Clark and Fabien Postel-Vinay

1488: Socio-Economic Status, Health Shocks, Life Satisfaction and Mortality: Evidence from an Increasing Mixed Proportional Hazard Model

Paul Frijters, John de New and Michael Shields

1487: What Can Happiness Research Tell Us About Altruism? Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Johannes Schwarze and Rainer Winkelmann

1486: Social Security in Belgium: Distributive Outcomes

Alain Jousten, Mathieu Lefebvre, Sergio Perelman and Pierre Pestieau

1485: The Distribution of Wages in Poland, 1992-2002

Andrew Newell and Mieczyslaw Socha

1484: How Transition Paths Differ: Enterprise Performance in Russia and China

Sumon Bhaumik and Saul Estrin

1483: Ceiling and Floors: Gender Wage Gaps by Education in Spain

Sara De La Rica, Juan Dolado and Vanesa Llorens

1482: Productive Benefits of Health: Evidence from Low-Income Countries

T. Schultz

1481: Schooling and the AFQT: Evidence from School Entry Laws

Elizabeth Cascio and Ethan Lewis

1480: Cooperative Models in Action: Simulation of a Nash-Bargaining Model of Household Labor Supply with Taxation

Olivier Bargain and Nicolas Moreau

1479: Demographic Determinants of Savings: Estimating and Interpreting the Aggregate Association in Asia

T. Schultz

1478: Education, Redistributive Taxation and Confidence

Kai Konrad and Amedeo Spadaro

1477: ‘Atypical Work’ and Compensation

John Addison and Christopher Surfield

1476: The Disability Discrimination Act in the UK: Helping or Hindering Employment Amongst the Disabled?

David Bell and Axel Heitmueller

1475: School Vouchers Italian Style

Giorgio Brunello and Daniele Checchi

1474: Effort-Based Career Opportunities and Working Time

Massimiliano Bratti and Stefano Staffolani

1473: Do Works Councils Inhibit Investment?

John Addison, Thorsten Schank, Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner

1472: Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union

Elizabeth Brainerd and David Cutler

1471: Risk, Network Quality, and Family Structure: Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso

Richard Akresh

1470: Job Turnover, Wage Rates, and Marital Stability: How Are They Related?

Avner Ahituv and Robert Lerman

1469: Health Care Expenditures in OECD Countries: A Panel Unit Root and Cointegration Analysis

Christian Dreger and Hans-Eggert Reimers

1468: The Part-Time Wage Penalty: A Career Perspective

Giovanni Russo and Wolter Hassink

1467: Does Work Pay in France? Monetary Incentives and the Guaranteed Minimum Income

Marc Gurgand and David Margolis

1466: Joint Estimation of Price-Cost Margins and Union Bargaining Power for Belgian Manufacturing

Sabien Dobbelaere

1465: Equilibrium Search Unemployment with Explicit Spatial Frictions

Etienne Wasmer and Yves Zenou

1464: Determinants of Union Membership in 18 EU Countries: Evidence from Micro Data, 2002/03

Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner

1463: Self-Selection, Immigrant Public Finance Performance and Canadian Citizenship

Don DeVoretz and Sergiy Pivnenko

1462: The Home Market Shadow

Jens Suedekum

1461: Openness and Human Capital as Sources of Productivity Growth: An Empirical Investigation from the MENA Countries

Ilham Haouas and Mahmoud Yagoubi

1460: Optimal Redistributive Taxation in a Search Equilibrium Model

Mathias Hungerbühler, Etienne Lehmann, Alexis Parmentier and Bruno Van der Linden

1459: Pupil Achievement, School Resources and Family Background

Torbjørn Hægeland, Oddbjørn Raaum and Kjell G Salvanes

1458: The Economics of Assisted Reproduction

Sherrie Kossoudji

1457: Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?

Klara Sabirianova Peter, Jan Svejnar and Katherine Terrell

1456: An Economic Perspective on Religious Education: Complements and Substitutes in a Human Capital Portfolio

Carmel Chiswick

1455: On Modeling Household Labor Supply with Taxation

Olivier Bargain

1454: Relational Delegation

Ricardo Alonso and Niko Matouschek

1453: Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors

Pedro Carneiro, James Heckman and Dimitriy V. Masterov

1452: Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in Urban China, 1986-2000

Xin Meng, Robert Gregory and Youjuan Wang

1451: Is the Collective Model of Labor Supply Useful for Tax Policy Analysis? A Simulation Exercise

Olivier Bargain and Nicolas Moreau

1450: Hobbes to Rousseau: Inequality, Institutions, and Development

Matteo Cervellati, Piergiuseppe Fortunato and Uwe Sunde

1449: Comparing Apples with Oranges: Revisiting the Gender Wage Gap in an International Perspective

Robert Plasman and Salimata Sissoko

1448: Impact of Income Growth and Economic Reform on Nutrition Intake in Urban China: 1986-2000

Xin Meng, Xiaodong Gong and Youjuan Wang

1447: Venture Capital Investment and Labor Market Performance: New Empirical Evidence for OECD Countries

Ansgar Belke and Andreas Schaal

1446: Sorting, Selection, and Transformation of the Return to College Education in China

Belton Fleisher, Haizheng Li, Shi Li and Xiaojun Wang

1445: In-Work Policies in Europe: Killing Two Birds with One Stone?

Olivier Bargain and Kristian Orsini

1444: Skill Policies for Scotland

James Heckman and Dimitriy V. Masterov

1443: Long-Run Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training in West Germany

Michael Lechner, Ruth Miquel and Conny Wunsch

1442: Co-Determination, Efficiency, and Productivity

Felix FitzRoy and Kornelius Kraft

1441: Normative Evaluation of Tax Policies: From Households to Individuals

Olivier Bargain

1440: The Making of Entrepreneurs in Germany: Are Native Men and Immigrants Alike?

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

1439: Specialisation Patterns and the Synchronicity of Regional Employment Cycles in Europe

Ansgar Belke and Jens M. Heine

1438: The (Unexpected) Structure of "Rents" on the French and British Labour Markets

Andrew Clark and Claudia Senik

1437: Separating Uncertainty from Heterogeneity in Life Cycle Earnings

Flavio Cunha, James Heckman and Salvador Navarro

1436: Wage Dynamics and Unobserved Heterogeneity: Time Preference or Learning Ability?

Lalith Munasinghe and Nachum Sicherman

1435: Training and Union Wages

Christian Dustmann and Uta Schönberg

1434: Do Migrants Get Good Jobs? New Migrant Settlement in Australia

Pramod (Raja) Junankar and Stephane Mahuteau

1433: Unilingual Versus Bilingual Education System: A Political Economy Analysis

Javier Ortega and Thomas Tangerås

1432: Are There Gender and Country of Origin Differences in Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes across European Destinations?

Alicia Adsera and Barry Chiswick

1431: The Size of the Shadow Economies of 145 Countries all over the World: First Results over the Period 1999 to 2003

Friedrich Schneider

1430: Riches to Rags Every Month? The Fall in Consumption Expenditures Between Paydays

David Huffman and Matias Barenstein

1429: On the Returns to Training in Portugal

Santiago Budria Rodriguez and Pedro Pereira

1428: Minimum Wage Effects in the Longer Run

David Neumark and Olena Nizalova

1427: Technology Adoption and Workforce Skill in U.S. Manufacturing Plants

Timothy Dunne and Kenneth Troske

1426: Initial Luck, Status-Seeking and Snowballs Lead to Corporate Success and Failure

Amihai Glazer, Vesa Kanniainen and Panu Poutvaara

1425: Gender Differences Across the Earnings Distribution: Evidence from NLS:86 & HSB:92

Spyros Konstantopoulos and Amelie Constant

1424: Employment Regulations through the Eyes of Employers: Do They Matter and How Do Firms Respond to Them?

Gaelle Pierre and Stefano Scarpetta

1423: On the Notion of Responsibility in Organizations

Dirk Sliwka

1422: Must Skilled Migration Be a Brain Drain? Evidence from the Indian Software Industry

Simon Commander, Rupa Chanda, Mari Kangasniemi and L. Winters

1421: The Effect of Firm-Level Contracts on the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

David Card and Sara De La Rica

1420: The Transition from Welfare to Work and the Role of Potential Labor Income

Hilmar Schneider and Arne Uhlendorff

1419: Language Skills and Immigrant Adjustment: What Immigration Policy Can Do!

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

1418: A Danish Profiling System

Michael Rosholm, Michael Svarer and Bo Hammer

1417: Do Co-Workers’ Wages Matter? Theory and Evidence on Wage Secrecy, Wage Compression and Effort

Gary Charness and Peter Kuhn

1416: Fast Times at Ridgemont High? The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes

1415: Recent Developments in Part-Time Work in EU-15 Countries: Trends and Policy

Hielke Buddelmeyer, Gilles Mourre and Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

1414: Works Councils, Labor Productivity and Plant Heterogeneity: Evidence from Quantile Regressions

Joachim Wagner, John Addison, Claus Schnabel and Thorsten Schank

1413: Why Is the Public Sector More Labor-Intensive? A Distortionary Tax Argument

Panu Poutvaara and Andreas Wagener

1412: Incentives and Effort in the Public Sector: Have U.S. Education Reforms Increased Teachers’ Work Hours?

Christiana Stoddard and Peter Kuhn

1411: Crossing the Tracks? More on Trends in the Training of Male and Female Workers in Great Britain

Melanie K. Jones, Paul Latreille and Peter Sloane

1410: European Labour Mobility: Challenges and Potentials

Klaus Zimmermann

1409: Private Returns to Human Capital over Transition: A Case Study of Belarus

Francesco Pastore and Alina Verashchagina

1408: On the Political Economy of Social Security and Public Education

Panu Poutvaara

1407: Job Search with Nonparticipation

Paul Frijters and Bas van der Klaauw

1406: Trade Liberalization in a Globalizing World

Riccardo Faini

1405: An Experimental Test of Career Concerns

Alexander Koch, Albrecht Morgenstern and Philippe Raab

1404: The Political Economy of Job Protection and Income Redistribution

Bruno Amable and Donatella Gatti

1403: Turbulence and Unemployment in a Job Matching Model

Wouter J. den Haan, Christian Haefke and Garey Ramey

1402: The Dispersion of Employees’ Wage Increases and Firm Performance

Christian Grund and Niels Westergård-Nielsen

1401: When Migrants Overstay Their Legal Welcome: A Proposed Solution to the Guest-Worker Program

Maurice Schiff

1400: Decomposing the Gender Wage Gap in the Netherlands with Sample Selection Adjustments

James Albrecht, Aico van Vuuren and Susan Vroman

1399: Marital Fertility and Religion: Recent Changes in Spain

Alicia Adsera