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1616: Nonparametric Bounds on the Effect of Deductibles in Health Care Insurance on Doctor Visits – Swiss Evidence

Michael Gerfin and Martin Schellhorn

1615: Returns to Foreign Education: Yet Another But Different Cross Country Analysis

Max Gruetter

1614: Economic Performance and Unemployment: Evidence from an Emerging Economy - Turkey

Hakan Berument, Nukhet Dogan and Aysıt Tansel

1613: Does Parental Leave Affect Fertility and Return-to-Work? Evidence from a "True Natural Experiment"

Rafael Lalive and Josef Zweimüller

1612: Student Flows and Migration: An Empirical Analysis

Axel Dreher and Panu Poutvaara

1611: Multinationals and Plant Exit: Evidence from Chile

Roberto Alvarez and Holger Görg

1610: Your Money or Your Life: Changing Job Quality in OECD Countries

Andrew Clark

1609: Effect of Private Tutoring on University Entrance Examination Performance in Turkey

Aysıt Tansel and Fatma Bircan

1608: "Der Noth gehorchend, nicht dem eignen Trieb" – Nascent Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs in Germany: Evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM)

Joachim Wagner

1607: Marriage, Wealth, and Unemployment Duration: A Gender Asymmetry Puzzle

Rasmus Lentz and Torben Tranaes

1606: Do Government Subsidies Stimulate Training Expenditure? Microeconometric Evidence from Plant Level Data

Holger Görg and Eric Strobl

1605: The Effects of School Class Size on Length of Post-Compulsory Education: Some Cost-Benefit Analysis

Paul Bingley, Vibeke Myrup Jensen and Ian Walker

1604: Return Intentions of University-Educated Turkish Expatriates

Nil Demet Güngör and Aysıt Tansel

1603: Opening the Black Box of Intra-Household Decision-Making: Theory and Non-Parametric Empirical Tests of General Collective Consumption Models

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock and Frederic Vermeulen

1602: When and How to Create a Job: The Survival of New Jobs in Austrian Firms

René Böheim, Alfred Stiglbauer and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

1601: Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

1600: Migration, Co-ordination Failures and EU Enlargement

Tito Boeri and Herbert Brücker

1599: Brain Gain: Claims about Its Size and Impact on Welfare and Growth Are Greatly Exaggerated

Maurice Schiff

1598: The Determinants of Return Intentions of Turkish Students and Professionals Residing Abroad: An Empirical Investigation

Nil Demet Güngör and Aysıt Tansel

1597: Time Discounting and the Body Mass Index

Lex Borghans and Bart Golsteyn

1596: Labour Use and Its Adjustment in Indian Manufacturing Industries

Amit Bhandari and Almas Heshmati

1595: Social Pressure Influences Decisions of Individuals: Evidence from the Behavior of Football Referees

Thomas Dohmen

1594: Food Insecurity and Insufficiency at Low Levels of Food Expenditures

Craig Gundersen and David Ribar

1593: Piecework versus Timework in British Wartime Engineering

Robert Hart

1592: Economic Integration, Market Power and Technological Change

Tapio Palokangas

1591: Is Marriage Poisonous? Are Relationships Taxing? An Analysis of the Male Marital Wage Differential in Denmark

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Nina Smith and Leslie Stratton

1590: International Migration: A Panel Data Analysis of Economic and Non-Economic Determinants

Anna Maria Mayda

1589: The Impact of Tax and Transfer Systems on Children in the European Union

Miles Corak, Christine Lietz and Holly Sutherland

1588: Some Practical Guidance for the Implementation of Propensity Score Matching

Marco Caliendo and Sabine Kopeinig

1587: Privatization Discontent and Its Determinants: Evidence from Latin America

Daniele Checchi, Massimo Florio and Jorge Carrera

1586: Wage Growth and Job Mobility in the U.K. and Germany

Christian Dustmann and Sonia C. Pereira

1585: A Structural Analysis of the Correlated Random Coefficient Wage Regression Model with an Application to the OLS-IV Puzzle

Christian Belzil and Jorgen Hansen

1584: Differences in Desired and Actual Fertility: An Economic Analysis of the Spanish Case

Alicia Adsera

1583: Norm Enforcement: Anger, Indignation or Reciprocity?

Jeffrey Carpenter and Peter Matthews

1582: Education and Inequality in Greece

Panos Tsakloglou and Ioannis Cholezas

1581: The Implicit Costs and Benefits of Family Friendly Work Practices

John Heywood, William Siebert and Xiangdong Wei

1580: The Value of Peripatetic Economists: A Sesqui-Difference Evaluation of Bob Gregory

Daniel Hamermesh

1579: Principles and Practicalities for Measuring Child Poverty in the Rich Countries

Miles Corak

1578: Measurement of Globalization and Its Variations Among Countries, Regions and Over Time

Amit Bhandari and Almas Heshmati

1577: Employment-Contingent Health Insurance, Illness, and Labor Supply of Women: Evidence from Married Women with Breast Cancer

Cathy J. Bradley, David Neumark, Zhehui Luo and Heather L. Bednarek

1576: Where Are the Babies? Labor Market Conditions and Fertility in Europe

Alicia Adsera

1575: Pathways to Early Retirement in Denmark, 1984-2000

Mona Larsen and Peder Pedersen

1574: Child Poverty and Changes in Child Poverty in Rich Countries Since 1990

Wen-Hao Chen and Miles Corak

1573: "It Wasn't Me, It Was Them!" - Social Influence in Risky Behavior by Adolescents

Andrew Clark and Youenn Loheac

1572: Two-Sided Search, Heterogeneous Skills and Labor Market Performance

Samuel Danthine

1571: The Benefits of Separating Early Retirees from the Unemployed: Simulation Results for Belgian Wage Earners

Raphaël Desmet, Alain Jousten and Sergio Perelman

1570: Minimum Wage or Negative Income Tax: Why Skilled Workers May Favor Wage Rigidities

Maya Bacache-Beauvallet and Etienne Lehmann

1569: The Establishment-Size Wage Premium: Evidence from European Countries

Thierry Lallemand, Robert Plasman and Francois Rycx

1568: Trade Policy and Illegal Immigration

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay and Ryo Takashima

1567: Household Access to Microcredit and Child Work in Rural Malawi

Gautam Hazarika and Sudipta Sarangi

1566: The Effects of Living Wage Laws: Evidence from Failed and Derailed Living Wage Campaigns

Scott Adams and David Neumark

1565: Mind the Gap: Unemployment in the New EU Regions

Anna Ferragina and Francesco Pastore

1564: Dual Employment Protection Legislation: A Framework for Analysis

Juan Dolado, Marcel Jansen and Juan F Jimeno

1563: Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from European Countries

Brenda Gannon, Robert Plasman, Francois Rycx and Ilan Tojerow

1562: The Labour Market Effects of Alma Mater: Evidence from Italy

Giorgio Brunello and Lorenzo Cappellari

1561: Career Choice, Marriage-Timing, and the Attraction of Unequals

Sylvain Dessy and Habiba Djebbari

1560: Are There Differences in the Health-Socioeconomic Status Relationship over the Life Cycle? Evidence from Germany

Keith Bender and Steffen Habermalz

1559: To Draft or Not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription

Panu Poutvaara and Andreas Wagener

1558: Low Pay, Higher Pay and Job Satisfaction within the European Union: Empirical Evidence from Fourteen Countries

Luis Diaz-Serrano and José Vieira

1557: Immigrants' Responsiveness to Labor Market Conditions and Its Implications on Regional Disparities: Evidence from Spain

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Sara De La Rica

1556: Product Market Competition, Returns to Skill and Wage Inequality

Maria Guadalupe

1555: Using Matched Employer-Employee Data to Study Labor Market Discrimination

Judith Hellerstein and David Neumark

1554: Wage Differences Between Men and Women in Austria: Evidence from 1983 and 1997

René Böheim, Helmut Hofer and Christine Zulehner

1553: The Labour Market Characteristics and Labour Market Impacts of Immigrants in Ireland

Alan Barrett, Adele Bergin and David Duffy

1552: School-to-Career and Post-Secondary Education: Evidence from the Philadelphia Educational Longitudinal Study

Frank F. Furstenberg and David Neumark

1551: At the Lower End of the Table: Determinants of Poverty among Immigrants to Denmark and Sweden

Kræn Blume Jensen, Björn Anders Gustafsson, Peder Pedersen and Mette Verner

1550: Part-Time Work in EU Countries: Labour Market Mobility, Entry and Exit

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

1549: The Changing Wage Return to an Undergraduate Education

Nigel C. O'Leary and Peter Sloane

1548: The Impact of Employment Protection Mandates on Demographic Temporary Employment Patterns: International Microeconomic Evidence

Lawrence Kahn

1547: Suicidal Behavior and the Labor Market Productivity of Young Adults

Erdal Tekin and Sara Markowitz

1546: Extending Health Care Coverage to the Low-Income Population: The Influence of the Wisconsin BadgerCare Program on Labor Market Outcomes

Barbara Wolfe, Thomas Kaplan, Robert Haveman and Yoonyoung Cho

1545: Union Strategy and Optimal Income Taxation

Sebastian Kessing and Kai Konrad

1544: Should We Extend the Role of Private Social Expenditure?

Mark Pearson and John Martin

1543: The Interaction of Tax Exemptions and Individual Tax Reform Preferences

Salvatore Barbaro and Jens Suedekum

1542: Skills, Workforce Characteristics and Firm-Level Productivity: Evidence from the Matched ABI/Employer Skills Survey

Fernando Galindo-Rueda and Jonathan Haskel

1541: Returns to Computer Use and Organizational Practices of the Firm

Benoit Dostie and Mathieu Trépanier

1540: Unemployment and Right-Wing Extremist Crime

Armin Falk and Josef Zweimüller

1539: Returns to Skills and Personnel Management: U.S. DoD Scientists and Engineers

Michael Gibbs

1538: Limited Attention as the Scarce Resource in an Information-Rich Economy

Josef Falkinger

1537: Pension Incomes in the European Union: Policy Reform Strategies in Comparative Perspective

Daniela Mantovani, Fotis Papadopoulos, Holly Sutherland and Panos Tsakloglou

1536: Ethnic Enclaves and Welfare Cultures: Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Olof Åslund and Peter Fredriksson

1535: The Persistent Segregation of Girls into Lower-Paying Jobs while in School

Peter Kooreman

1534: The Health Status of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians

Alison Booth and Nick Carroll

1533: The Struggle over Migration Policy

Gil Epstein and Shmuel Nitzan

1532: Moral Hazard and Cash Benefits in Long-Term Home Care

Bernard van den Berg and Wolter Hassink

1531: The Economics of Migrants’ Remittances

Hillel Rapoport and Frédéric Docquier

1530: The Age of Discontent: Italian Households at the Beginning of the Decade

Tito Boeri and Andrea Brandolini

1529: Why Are Jobs Designed the Way They Are?

Cindy Zoghi, Alec R. Levenson and Michael Gibbs

1528: A Portrait of Child Poverty in Germany

Miles Corak, Michael Fertig and Marcus Tamm

1527: Aligning Ambition and Incentives

Alexander Koch and Eloic Peyrache

1526: Equilibrium Evaluation of Active Labor Market Programmes Enhancing Matching Effectiveness

Bruno Van der Linden

1525: Wage Inequality in Post-Reform Mexico

Jim Airola and Chinhui Juhn

1524: Measuring Organizational Capital in the New Economy

Sandra Black and Lisa Lynch

1523: Downward Wage Rigidity and Labour Mobility

Thomas Cornelissen and Olaf Hübler

1522: Nascent and Infant Entrepreneurs in Germany: Evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM)

Joachim Wagner

1521: Interfirm Mobility, Wages, and the Returns to Seniority and Experience in the U.S

Moshe Buchinsky, Denis Fougere, Francis Kramarz and Rusty Tchernis

1520: The Effects of Welfare-to-Work Program Activities on Labor Market Outcomes

Andrew Dyke, Carolyn Heinrich, Peter Mueser and Kenneth Troske

1519: Peer Effects and Textbooks in Primary Education: Evidence from Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa

Markus Frölich and Katharina Michaelowa

1518: Job Loss: Bridging the Research and Policy Discussion

Lisa Lynch

1517: Intergenerational Mobility: Trends Across the Earnings Distribution

Espen Bratberg, Øivind Nilsen and Kjell Vaage