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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

1351: Subjective Well-Being and Relative Deprivation: An Empirical Link

Conchita D'Ambrosio and Joachim Frick

1350: Changes in the Distribution of Male and Female Wages Accounting for Employment Composition Using Bounds

Richard Blundell, Amanda Gosling, Hidehiko Ichimura and Costas Meghir

1349: Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition

J. David Brown and John Earle

1348: In the Right Place at the Wrong Time: The Role of Firms and Luck in Young Workers' Careers

Till von Wachter and Stefan Bender

1347: Social Reciprocity

Jeffrey Carpenter and Peter Matthews

1346: The Evolution of Income-Related Health Inequalities in Switzerland over Time

Robert E. Leu and Martin Schellhorn

1345: Prize and Risk-Taking Strategy in Tournaments: Evidence from Professional Poker Players

Jungmin Lee

1344: Input versus Output Taxation in an Experimental International Economy

Arno Riedl and Frans van Winden

1343: What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania

J. David Brown, John Earle and Daniela Lup

1342: Perspectives on the Early Retirement Decisions of Farming Couples

Minna Väre and Almas Heshmati

1341: Comparing Students to Workers: The Effects of Social Framing on Behavior in Distribution Games

Jeffrey Carpenter, Stephen Burks and Eric Verhoogen

1340: Incentives in Tournaments with Endogenous Prize Selection

Christine Harbring and Bernd Irlenbusch

1339: Heterogeneity in Reported Well-Being: Evidence from Twelve European Countries

Andrew Clark, Fabrice Etilé, Fabien Postel-Vinay, Claudia Senik and Karine Van der Straeten

1338: Growth, Inequality and Poverty Relationships

Almas Heshmati

1337: Punishing Free-Riders: How Group Size Affects Mutual Monitoring and the Provision of Public Goods

Jeffrey Carpenter

1336: Diploma No Problem: Can Private Schools Be of Lower Quality than Public Schools?

Giorgio Brunello and Lorenzo Rocco

1335: Effective Active Labor Market Policies

Jan Boone and Jan van Ours

1334: How Outsourcing Affects Bilateral Political Relations

Solomon Polachek

1333: Local Economic Structure and Industry Development in Germany, 1993-2001

Uwe Blien and Jens Suedekum

1332: Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers

Klara Sabirianova Peter, Jan Svejnar and Katherine Terrell

1331: Mixed Up? That's Good for Motivation

Alexander Koch and Eloic Peyrache

1330: Charity Auctions: A Field Experimental Investigation

Jeffrey Carpenter, Jessica Holmes and Peter Matthews

1329: Who is on the Rise in Austria: Wage Mobility and Mobility Risk

Thomas Raferzeder and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

1328: Is the Child Health / Family Income Gradient Universal? Evidence from England

Alison Currie, Michael Shields and Stephen Wheatley Price

1327: Downward Nominal Wage Flexibility: Real or Measurement Error?

Peter Gottschalk

1326: Integration, Agglomeration and Welfare

Michael P. Pflüger and Jens Suedekum

1325: Returns to Schooling in Russia and Ukraine: A Semiparametric Approach to Cross-Country Comparative Analysis

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Klara Sabirianova Peter

1324: What Does the Public Know about Economic Policy, and How Does It Know It?

Alan Blinder and Alan Krueger

1323: Sibling Size and Investment in Children's Education: An Asian Instrument

Jungmin Lee

1322: Do Earnings Subsidies Affect Job Choice?

Helen Connolly and Peter Gottschalk

1321: Is Seniority-Based Pay Used as a Motivation Device? Evidence from Plant Level Data

Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose Galdon-Sanchez and Maia Güell

1320: Pre-Marital Fertility and Labour Market Opportunities: Evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study

Emilia Del Bono

1319: Mass Migration to Israel and Natives' Transitions from Employment

Sarit Cohen Goldner and M. Daniele Paserman

1318: Charity Donations and the Euro Introduction: Some Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Money Illusion

Peter Kooreman, Riemer Faber and Heleen Hofmans