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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

1516: Regionalism in West Africa: Do Polar Countries Reap the Benefits? A Role for Migration

Adama Konseiga

1515: The Excess Demand for Subsidized Child Care in Germany

Katharina Wrohlich

1514: Trade and Child Labor: A General Equilibrium Analysis

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay and Sudeshna C. Bandyopadhyay

1513: Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program for Displaced Workers on Their Transition to Permanent Jobs

Sandra Cavaco, Denis Fougere and Julien Pouget

1512: The Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany: A Microeconometric Evaluation

Marco Caliendo, Reinhard Hujer and Stephan Thomsen

1511: Labor Supply, Home Production and Welfare Comparisons

Olivier Donni

1510: Inflation Adjustment and Labour Market Structures: Evidence from a Multi-Country Study

Luca Nunziata and Christopher Bowdler

1509: Child Poverty and Family Transfers in Southern Europe

Manos Matsaganis, Cathal O'Donoghue, Horacio Levy, Manuela Coromaldi, Magda Mercader-Prats, Carlos Rodrigues, Stefano Toso and Panos Tsakloglou

1508: Assessing the External Validity of an Experimental Wage Subsidy

Thierry Kamionka and Guy Lacroix

1507: The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational Attainment in Germany

Michael Fertig and Jochen Kluve

1506: Collective Female Labour Supply: Theory and Application

Olivier Donni

1505: Does Wage Rank Affect Employees' Wellbeing?

Gordon D. A. Brown, Jonathan Gardner, Andrew Oswald and Jing Qian

1504: Vive la Révolution! Long Term Returns of 1968 to the Angry Students

Eric Maurin and Sandra McNally

1503: The Knowledge Lift: The Swedish Adult Education Program That Aimed to Eliminate Low Worker Skill Levels

James Albrecht, Gerard van den Berg and Susan Vroman

1502: Beware of Workaholics: Household Preferences and Individual Equilibrium Utility

Hans Gersbach and Hans Haller

1501: Accounting for Differences in Labour Market Outcomes in Great Britain: A Regional Analysis Using the Labour Force Survey

Nigel C. O'Leary, Philip D. Murphy, Paul Latreille, David H. Blackaby and Peter Sloane

1500: Does Teacher Testing Raise Teacher Quality? Evidence from State Certification Requirements

Joshua Angrist and Jonathan Guryan

1499: A Quantitative Investigation of the Laffer Curve on the Continued Work Tax: The French Case

Jean-Olivier Hairault, Francois Langot and Thepthida Sopraseuth

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