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1298: Delegation of Authority as an Optimal (In)complete Contract

Andreas Roider

1297: Worker Displacement during the Transition: Experience from Slovenia

Peter Orazem, Milan Vodopivec and Ruth Wu

1296: Families, Human Capital, and Small Business: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey

Robert Fairlie and Alicia Robb

1295: The Enrollment Effect of Secondary School Fees in Post-War Germany

Regina Riphahn

1294: A Collective Retirement Model: Identification and Estimation in the Presence of Externalities

Pierre-Carl Michaud and Frederic Vermeulen

1293: Nascent Entrepreneurs

Joachim Wagner

1292: Why Are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than White-Owned Businesses? The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital

Robert Fairlie and Alicia Robb

1291: Labour Market Institutions and Wage Inequality

Winfried Koeniger, Marco Leonardi and Luca Nunziata

1290: Does Employment Protection Reduce the Demand for Unskilled Labor?

Kirsten Daniel and William Siebert

1289: An Alternative Approach to Testing Dual Labour Market Theory

Andrey Launov

1288: Women's Hours of Market Work in Germany: The Role of Parental Leave

Monika Merz

1287: What Accounts for International Differences in Student Performance? A Re-Examination Using PISA Data

Thomas Fuchs and Ludger Woessmann

1286: Cut-Point Shift and Index Shift in Self-Reported Health

Maarten Lindeboom and Eddy Van Doorslaer

1285: Technical Change and the Wage Structure During the Second Industrial Revolution: Evidence from the Merchant Marine, 1865-1912

Aimee Chin, Chinhui Juhn and Peter Thompson

1284: How Equal Are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States

Ludger Woessmann

1283: On the Inefficiency of Inequality

Maurice Schiff

1282: Do Workers Really Benefit From Their Social Networks?

Francois Fontaine

1281: The Effect of Health Changes and Long-Term Health on the Work Activity of Older Canadians

Doreen Au, Thomas Crossley and Martin Schellhorn

1280: Why Do Self-Employed Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden Have Such Low Incomes?

Pernilla Andersson Joona and Eskil Wadensjö

1279: Migration and Diversity: Human versus Social Capital

Vlad Manole and Maurice Schiff

1278: Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox

Alois Stutzer and Bruno Frey

1277: The Relationship between Income Inequality, Poverty and Globalisation

Almas Heshmati

1276: Wage Determination under Communism and in Transition: Evidence from Central Europe

Swati Basu, Saul Estrin and Jan Svejnar

1275: Migration and Labour Market Differences: The Case of Wales

David H. Blackaby and Stephen Drinkwater

1274: Why Are Fertility and Women's Employment Rates So Low in Italy? Lessons from France and the U.K

Daniela Del Boca, Silvia Pasqua and Chiara Pronzato

1273: Carefree? Participation and Pay Differentials for Informal Carers in Britain

Axel Heitmueller and Kirsty Inglis

1272: Determinants of Employment Growth at MNEs: Evidence from Egypt, India, South Africa and Vietnam

Sumon Bhaumik, Saul Estrin and Klaus Meyer

1271: Continental and Sub-Continental Income Inequality

Almas Heshmati

1270: Emotions and Incentives

Matthias Kräkel

1269: The More the Merrier? The Effect of Family Composition on Children's Education

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes

1268: Labor Market Institutions, Wages, and Investment

Jorn-Steffen Pischke

1267: The World Distribution of Income and Income Inequality

Almas Heshmati

1266: Shot Across the Bow, Stigma or Selection? The Effect of Repeating a Class on Educational Attainment

Michael Fertig

1265: High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Europe

Thomas Bauer

1264: Unions, Training, and Firm Performance: Evidence from the British Workplace Employee Relations Survey

John Addison and Clive R. Belfield

1263: Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality

Almas Heshmati

1262: Public-Private Employment Choice, Wage Differentials and Gender in Turkey

Aysıt Tansel

1261: Why Do Part-Time Workers Earn Less? The Role of Worker and Job Skills

Barry Hirsch

1260: Strategic Wage Setting and Coordination Frictions with Multiple Applications

Pieter Gautier and Jose Moraga-Gonzalez

1259: Family Structure and Child Outcomes in the United States and Sweden

Anders Bjorklund, Donna Ginther and Marianne Sundström

1258: Determinants of Unemployment Duration for Men and Women in Turkey

Aysıt Tansel and H. Mehmet Tasci

1257: Outlier Aversion in Evaluating Performance: Evidence from Figure Skating

Jungmin Lee

1256: Do Financial Incentives Promote the Employment of the Disabled?

Sher Verick

1255: Private Tutoring Expenditures in Turkey

Aysıt Tansel and Fatma Bircan

1254: Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male-Female Earnings

Gerrit Mueller and Erik Plug

1253: Geographic Labour Mobility and Unemployment Insurance in Europe

Konstantinos Tatsiramos

1252: Reservation Wages, Search Duration, and Accepted Wages in Europe

John Addison, Mário Centeno and Pedro Portugal

1251: Joint Estimation of Sequential Labor Force Participation and Fertility Decisions Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques

Kenneth Troske and Alexandru Voicu

1250: Observable and Unobservable Household Sharing Rules: Evidence from Young Couples' Pocket Money

Jungmin Lee

1249: International Outsourcing and the Skill Structure of Labour Demand in the United Kingdom

Alexander Hijzen, Holger Görg and Robert C. Hine

1248: The Consequences of ‘In-Work’ Benefit Reform in Britain: New Evidence from Panel Data

Marco Francesconi and Wilbert van der Klaauw

1247: A Simulation of an Income Contingent Tuition Scheme in a Transition Economy

Milan Vodopivec

1246: Linguistic Distance: A Quantitative Measure of the Distance Between English and Other Languages

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

1245: The Heterogeneous Effect of Selection in Secondary Schools: Understanding the Changing Role of Ability

Fernando Galindo-Rueda and Anna Vignoles

1244: The Influence of Others on Migration Plans

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

1243: Creative Destruction and Transition: The Effects of Firm Entry and Exit on Productivity Growth in Estonia

Jaan Masso, Raul Eamets and Kaia Philips

1242: Institutions and Development: The Interaction between Trade Regime and Political System

Josef Falkinger and Volker Grossmann

1241: Stepping Stones for the Unemployed: The Effect of Temporary Jobs on the Duration until Regular Work

Marloes Zijl, Gerard van den Berg and Arjan Heyma

1240: General Diagnostic Tests for Cross Section Dependence in Panels

Mohammad Pesaran

1239: Rationalizing Boundedly Rational Choice: Sequential Rationalizability and Rational Shortlist Methods

Paola Manzini and Marco Mariotti

1238: The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 2000: A Preliminary Report

Barry Chiswick and Michael Wenz

1237: Who Is the Enemy?

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

1236: Random Coefficient Panel Data Models

Cheng Hsiao and Mohammad Pesaran

1235: In-School Work Experience, Parental Allowances, and Wages

Christian Dustmann, John Micklewright and Arthur van Soest

1234: Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen: Proclivity and Performance

Amelie Constant

1233: Do a Few Months of Compulsory Schooling Matter? The Education and Labour Market Impact of School Leaving Rules

Emilia Del Bono and Fernando Galindo-Rueda

1232: Ethnic Networks and International Trade

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

1231: Where Immigrants Settle in the United States

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

1230: Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Europe

Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson

1229: Incentive Effects of Bonus Payments: Evidence from an International Company

Axel Engellandt and Regina Riphahn

1228: A Vague Theory of Choice over Time

Paola Manzini and Marco Mariotti

1227: Understanding the Development of Fundamentalism

Ira Gang and Gil Epstein

1226: Pre-School Enrollment: An Analysis by Immigrant Generation

Barry Chiswick and Noyna DebBurman

1225: Estimating the Return to Training and Occupational Experience: The Case of Female Immigrants

Sarit Cohen Goldner and Zvi Eckstein

1224: Jewish Occupational Selection: Education, Restrictions, or Minorities?

Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein

1223: One or Many Kuznets Curves? Short and Long Run Effects of the Impact of Skill-Biased Technological Change on Income Inequality

Gianluca Grimalda and Marco Vivarelli

1222: Does Monitoring Decrease Work Effort? The Complementarity Between Agency and Crowding-Out Theories

David Dickinson and Marie Claire Villeval

1221: A Review of Decomposition of Income Inequality

Almas Heshmati

1220: Females' Willingness to Work and the Discouragement Effect of a Poor Local Childcare Provision

Maarten van Ham and Felix Büchel

1219: Inequalities and Their Measurement

Almas Heshmati

1218: Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness… Or Does It? A Reconsideration Based on the Combined Effects of Wealth, Income and Consumption

Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels and Mark Wooden

1217: Immigration Policy: Methods of Economic Assessment

Don DeVoretz

1216: Parents and Children Talk: The Family Dynamics of English Language Proficiency

Barry Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee and Paul Miller

1215: Social Networks and Labor Market Transitions

Yann Bramoullé and Gilles Saint-Paul

1214: The Relationship between Unemployment and Risk-Aversion

Luis Diaz-Serrano and Donal O'Neill

1213: The Societal Integration of Immigrants in Germany

Michael Fertig

1212: Dynamics of Labour and Capital Adjustment – A Comparison of Germany and the Netherlands

Michael Polder and Sher Verick

1211: Do You Need a Job to Find a Job?

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Paul Frijters and Guyonne Kalb

1210: Gender and Work Hours Transitions in Australia: Drop Ceilings and Trap-Door Floors

Robert Drago, David Black and Mark Wooden

1209: Poverty Persistence in Sweden

Jorgen Hansen and Roger Wahlberg

1208: On the Negative Relationship between Labor Income Uncertainty and Homeownership: Risk Aversion vs. Credit Constraints

Luis Diaz-Serrano

1207: The Long and Short of It: Maternity Leave Coverage and Women’s Labor Market Outcomes

Masanori Hashimoto, Rick Percy, Teresa Schoellner and Bruce Weinberg

1206: Does Parental Divorce Affect Adolescents' Cognitive Development? Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano and Daniela Vuri

1205: The Effectiveness of Qualification Measures for Employed Workers – An Evaluation Study for Saxony

Michael Fertig

1204: Wage Differentials and International Trade in Italy Using Individual Micro Data 1991-1996

Anna M. Falzoni, Alessandra Venturini and Claudia Villosio

1203: Distrust – The Hidden Cost of Control

Armin Falk and Michael Kosfeld

1202: Approval of Equal Rights and Gender Differences in Well-Being

Rafael Lalive and Alois Stutzer

1201: Reforms and Productivity Dynamics in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Peter McGoldrick and Patrick Walsh

1200: Living Conditions of Children and Parental Well-Being – Evidence from German Data on Life Satisfaction

Johannes Schwarze

1199: The Return to a University Education in Great Britain

Peter Sloane and Nigel C. O'Leary