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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

1398: How Different Are Immigrants? A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement

Sylke Schnepf

1397: Rooms of One’s Own: Gender, Race and Home Ownership as Wealth Accumulation in the United States

Stanley A. Sedo and Sherrie Kossoudji

1396: Income Volatility and Residential Mortgage Delinquency: Evidence from 12 EU Countries

Luis Diaz-Serrano

1395: The Economic Causes and Consequences of Canadian Citizenship

Don DeVoretz and Sergiy Pivnenko

1394: Nascent Entrepreneurs in German Regions: Evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM)

Ingo Lückgen, Dirk Oberschachtsiek, Rolf Sternberg and Joachim Wagner

1393: Do Markets Favor Women's Human Capital More than Planners?

Daniel Münich, Jan Svejnar and Katherine Terrell

1392: Is the Household Demand for In-Home Services Sensitive to Tax Reductions? The French Case

Anne Flipo, Denis Fougere and Lucile Olier

1391: Single Motherhood and (Un)Equal Educational Opportunities: Evidence for Germany

Philippe Mahler and Rainer Winkelmann

1390: Religion as a Determinant of Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States

Evelyn Lehrer

1389: Information and Racial Exclusion

Shelly Lundberg and Richard Startz

1388: Do Foreign Firms Really Pay Higher Wages? Evidence from Different Estimators

Pedro Martins

1387: Sex Differences in Managerial Style: From Individual Leadership to Organisational Labour Relationships

Eduardo Melero

1386: Self-Employment Dynamics Across the Business Cycle: Migrants Versus Natives

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

1385: The Effects of Unions on Wage Inequality: The Italian Case in the 1990s

Daniele Checchi and Laura Pagani

1384: North-South Technology Diffusion, Regional Integration, and the Dynamics of the “Natural Trading Partners” Hypothesis

Maurice Schiff and Yanling Wang

1383: Severance Pay and Corporate Finance: Empirical Evidence from a Panel of Austrian and Italian Firms

Mirko Cardinale and Mike Orszag

1382: Firm-Level Social Returns to Education

Pedro Martins

1381: Living in Two Neighborhoods: Social Interactions in the Lab

Armin Falk, Urs Fischbacher and Simon Gächter

1380: Selection Policy and the Labour Market Outcomes of New Immigrants

Deborah Cobb-Clark

1379: Adjusting Household Structure: School Enrollment Impacts of Child Fostering in Burkina Faso

Richard Akresh

1378: The Use of Alternative Work Arrangements by the Jobless: Evidence from the CAEAS/CPS

John Addison and Christopher Surfield

1377: Evidence on Training and Career Paths: Human Capital, Information and Incentives

Eduardo Melero

1376: Rent Sharing Before and After the Wage Bill

Pedro Martins

1375: Dividing Justly in Bargaining Problems with Claims: Normative Judgments and Actual Negotiations

Simon Gächter and Arno Riedl

1374: Microeconomic Evidence of Creative Destruction in Industrial and Developing Countries

Eric Bartelsman, John Haltiwanger and Stefano Scarpetta

1373: Is There a Glass Ceiling over Europe? Exploring the Gender Pay Gap across the Wages Distribution

Wiji Arulampalam, Alison Booth and Mark Bryan

1372: Does Outsourcing Increase Profitability?

Holger Görg and Aoife Hanley

1371: Cross-Skill Redistribution and the Tradeoff between Unemployment Benefits and Employment Protection

Tito Boeri, J. Ignacio Conde-Ruiz and Vincenzo Galasso

1370: Employment Determination in Enterprises under Communism and in Transition: Evidence from Central Europe

Swati Basu, Saul Estrin and Jan Svejnar

1369: Shifting Perspectives in Pensions

Marek Góra and Edward Palmer

1368: Job Stability Trends, Layoffs, and Transitions to Unemployment: An Empirical Analysis for West Germany

Annette Bergemann and Antje Mertens

1367: The Importance of Firms in Wage Determination

Max Gruetter and Rafael Lalive

1366: The Chicken or the Egg? Endogeneity in Labour Market Participation of Informal Carers in England

Axel Heitmueller

1365: Income Inequality and Gender in New Zealand, 1998-2003

Kerry Papps

1364: Labor Market Institutions and the Employment-Productivity Trade-Off: A Wage Posting Approach

Arnaud Cheron, Jean-Olivier Hairault and Francois Langot

1363: How Changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment

Rafael Lalive, Jan van Ours and Josef Zweimüller

1362: Wage Differentials in the 1990s in Israel: Endowments, Discrimination, and Selectivity

Shoshana Neuman and Ronald Oaxaca

1361: The Determinants of Part-Time Work in EU Countries: Empirical Investigations with Macro-Panel Data

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

1360: Computer Adoption and Returns in Transition

Oluyemisi Kuku, Peter Orazem and Rajesh Singh

1359: Tax Evasion and Social Interactions

Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix and Marie Claire Villeval

1358: Fly Me to the Moon: The Determinants of Secondary Jobholding in Germany and the UK

Guido Heineck and Johannes Schwarze

1357: Intermittent Employment: Work Histories of Israeli Men and Women, 1983-1995

Shoshana Neuman and Adrian Ziderman

1356: Performance Measure Properties and Incentives

Michael Gibbs, Kenneth A. Merchant, Wim A. Van der Stede and Mark A. Vargus

1355: Is There a Risk-Return Trade-Off across Occupations? Evidence from Spain

Luis Diaz-Serrano and Joop Hartog

1354: Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment: Evidence from Switzerland on Natives and Second Generation Immigrants

Philipp Bauer and Regina Riphahn

1353: Do Pensions Impede Phased Retirement?

William Even and David Macpherson

1352: Fairness and Freight-Handlers: Local Labor-Market Conditions and Wage-Fairness Perceptions in a Trucking Firm

Eric Verhoogen, Stephen Burks and Jeffrey Carpenter