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1196: Forecasting Time Series Subject to Multiple Structural Breaks

Mohammad Pesaran, Davide Pettenuzzo and Allan Timmermann

1195: Candidate Quality

Panu Poutvaara and Tuomas Takalo

1194: Intergenerational Effects in Sweden: What Can We Learn from Adoption Data?

Anders Bjorklund, Mikael Lindahl and Erik Plug

1193: Deferred Compensation and Gift Exchange: An Experimental Investigation into Multi-Period Labor Markets

Steffen Huck, Andrew Seltzer and Brian Wallace

1192: Job Protection: The Macho Hypothesis

Yann Algan and Pierre Cahuc

1191: Other-Regarding Preferences and Performance Pay – An Experiment on Incentives and Sorting

Tor Eriksson and Marie Claire Villeval

1190: Labour and Product Market Reforms: A Case for Policy Complementarity

Bruno Amable and Donatella Gatti

1189: Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality

Gueorgui Kambourov and Iourii Manovskii

1188: The Effect of Worker Representation on Employment Behavior in Germany: Another Case of -2.5%

John Addison and Paulino Teixeira

1187: Aid and Migration: An Analysis of the Impact of Progresa on the Timing and Size of Labour Migration

Manuela Angelucci

1186: Educational Achievement in English-Speaking Countries: Do Different Surveys Tell the Same Story?

John Micklewright and Sylke Schnepf

1185: Exporting Firms Do Not Pay Higher Wages, Ceteris Paribus. First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Thorsten Schank, Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner

1184: Gender Differences in Job Assignment and Promotion on a Complexity Ladder of Jobs

Tuomas Pekkarinen and Juhana Vartiainen

1183: Consumption and Savings with Unemployment Risk: Implications for Optimal Employment Contracts

Christopher Pissarides

1182: Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia

Belton Fleisher, Klara Sabirianova Peter and Xiaojun Wang

1181: How Changes in Benefits Entitlement Affect Job-Finding: Lessons from the Slovenian "Experiment"

Jan van Ours and Milan Vodopivec

1180: Legal Restrictions on Buyout Fees: Theory and Evidence from German Soccer

Eberhard Feess, Bernd Frick and Gerd Muehlheusser

1179: Trust and Bribery: The Role of the Quid Pro Quo and the Link with Crime

Jennifer Hunt

1178: What Is Left to Residual Claimants? The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers

Panu Poutvaara and Juha Tuomala

1177: The Exhaustion of Unemployment Benefits in Belgium: Does it Enhance the Probability of Employment?

Bart Cockx and Jean Ries

1176: Labor Market Prospects, Search Intensity and the Transition from College to Work

Bas van der Klaauw, Aico van Vuuren and Peter Berkhout

1175: Income and Happiness: New Results from Generalized Threshold and Sequential Models

Stefan Boes and Rainer Winkelmann

1174: Capital Accumulation and Growth: A New Look at the Empirical Evidence

Steve Bond, Asli Leblebicioglu and Fabio Schiantarelli

1173: Training and the Density of Economic Activity: Evidence from Italy

Giorgio Brunello and Maria De Paola

1172: On the Optimality of Search Matching Equilibrium When Workers Are Risk Averse

Etienne Lehmann and Bruno Van der Linden

1171: Black Sheep and Walls of Silence

Gerd Muehlheusser and Andreas Roider

1170: The Shape of Hiring and Separation Costs

Francis Kramarz and Marie-Laure Michaud

1169: Job Mobility along the Technological Ladder: A Case Study of Australia

Xin Meng, Pramod (Raja) Junankar and Cezary A. Kapuscinski

1168: Unemployment in the OECD: Models and Mysteries

Pramod (Raja) Junankar and Jakob Madsen

1167: Are Asian Migrants Discriminated Against in the Labour Market? A Case Study of Australia

Pramod (Raja) Junankar, Satya Paul and Wahida Yasmeen

1166: Other Forms of Employment: Temporary Employment Agencies and Self-Employment

Pernilla Andersson Joona and Eskil Wadensjö

1165: Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions

Miguel Portela, Rob Alessie and C. N. Teulings

1164: To Teach or Not to Teach? Panel Data Evidence on the Quitting Decision

Paul Frijters, Michael Shields and Stephen Wheatley Price

1163: The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment Duration and the Subsequent Employment Stability

Konstantinos Tatsiramos

1162: The Connexion between Old and New Approaches to Financial Satisfaction

Bernard van Praag

1161: Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment Rates of Low-Skilled and Elder Workers in West Germany: A Search Equilibrium Approach

Andrey Launov, Joachim Wolff and Stephan Klasen

1160: Minimum Wages, Inequality and Globalization

Thomas (Tim) Gindling and Katherine Terrell

1159: The Effects of Multiple Minimum Wages Throughout the Labor Market

Thomas (Tim) Gindling and Katherine Terrell

1158: Self-Selection and Earnings During Volatile Transition

Ralitza Dimova and Ira Gang

1157: Unions, Firing Costs and Unemployment

Leonor Modesto

1156: Earnings and Community College Field of Study Choice in Canada

Brahim Boudarbat

1155: Who Among White Collar Workers Has an Opportunity for Phased Retirement? Establishment Characteristics

Robert M. Hutchens and Karen Grace-Martin

1154: Classic Monopsony or New Monopsony? Searching for Evidence in Nursing Labor Markets

Barry Hirsch and Edward J. Schumacher

1153: Parental Education and Child's Education: A Natural Experiment

Arnaud Chevalier

1152: Choosing the Joneses: Endogenous Goals and Reference Standards

Armin Falk and Markus Knell

1151: Russian Cities in Transition: The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s

Ira Gang and Robert C. Stuart

1150: The Wealth of Mexican Americans

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Vincent A. Hildebrand

1149: Identity and Racial Harassment

Heather Antecol and Deborah Cobb-Clark

1148: Charitable Giving as a Gift Exchange: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Armin Falk

1147: Labour Market Flexibility and Employment Protection Regulation in the Baltic States

Raul Eamets and Jaan Masso

1146: The Effect of High Stakes High School Achievement Awards: Evidence from a School-Centered Randomized Trial

Joshua Angrist and Victor Lavy

1145: On Representative Social Capital

Charles Bellemare and Sabine Kröger

1144: Welfare-to-Work, Wages and Wage Growth

Reamonn Lydon and Ian Walker

1143: High Compensation Creates a Ratchet Effect

Hans Gersbach and Amihai Glazer

1142: Interethnic Marriages and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants

Jasmin Kantarevic

1141: Accounting for Income Distribution Trends: A Density Function Decomposition Approach

Stephen Jenkins and Philippe Van Kerm

1140: The Distribution of Wages in Belarus

Francesco Pastore and Alina Verashchagina

1139: Factor Endowment and Market Size in EU-CEE Trade: Would Human Capital Change the Actual Quality Trade Patterns?

Anna Ferragina and Francesco Pastore

1138: Measuring State Dependence in Individual Poverty Status: Are There Feedback Effects to Employment Decisions and Household Composition?

Martin Biewen

1137: Fairness, Reciprocity, and Wage Rigidity

Truman Bewley

1136: Political Variables as Instruments for the Minimum Wage

Sara Lemos

1135: The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Wages, Employment and Prices

Sara Lemos

1134: What a Difference a Y Makes: Female and Male Nascent Entrepreneurs in Germany

Joachim Wagner

1133: Preferences for Rigid versus Individualized Wage Setting in Search Economies with Frictions

Tito Boeri and Michael Burda

1132: Non-Linearities in the Expansion of Capital Stock

Sher Verick, Wilko Letterie and Gerard Pfann

1131: Understanding the Effects of Early Motherhood in Britain: The Effects on Mothers

Greg Kaplan, Alissa Goodman and Ian Walker

1130: Self-Employed Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden: A Way to Economic Self-Reliance?

Pernilla Andersson Joona and Eskil Wadensjö

1129: Evaluating Labor Market Reforms: A General Equilibrium Approach

César Alonso-Borrego, Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde and Jose Galdon-Sanchez

1128: Wages and Employment Growth: Disaggregated Evidence for West Germany

Jens Suedekum and Uwe Blien

1127: Unemployment, Growth and Fiscal Policy: New Insights on the Hysteresis Hypothesis

Xavier Raurich, Hector Sala and Valeri Sorolla

1126: Real Options Effects on Employment: Does Exchange Rate Uncertainty Matter for Aggregation?

Ansgar Belke and Matthias Göcke

1125: On Vertically Challenged and Horizontal Equity – Reassessing Anti-Discrimination Rules

Tomer Blumkin, Yoram Margalioth and Efraim Sadka

1124: Explaining the Growth of Part-Time Employment: Factors of Supply and Demand

Rob Euwals and Maurice Hogerbrugge

1123: Executive Compensation and Competition in the Banking and Financial Sectors

Vicente Cuñat and Maria Guadalupe

1122: The Effect of Extra Funding for Disadvantaged Pupils on Achievement

Edwin Leuven, Mikael Lindahl, Hessel Oosterbeek and Dinand Webbink

1121: Child Care Subsidy Receipt, Employment, and Child Care Choices of Single Mothers

Erdal Tekin

1120: Race, Performance, Pay and Retention among National Basketball Association Head Coaches

Lawrence Kahn

1119: Is the New Immigration Really So Bad?

David Card

1118: International Comparisons of Work Disability

James Banks, Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith and Arthur van Soest

1117: The Effects of Vocational Training Programmes on the Duration of Unemployment in Eastern Germany

Reinhard Hujer, Stephan Thomsen and Christopher Zeiss

1116: Is There Such a Thing as a Family Constitution? A Test Based on Credit Rationing

Alessandro Cigno, Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Furio Rosati and Daniela Vuri

1115: Who Is Against Immigration? A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants

Anna Maria Mayda

1114: The Supply of Child Labour

Alessandro Cigno

1113: Child Poverty in English-Speaking Countries

John Micklewright

1112: Targeting and Self-Targeting in a New Social Assistance Scheme

John Micklewright, Aline Coudouel and Sheila Marnie

1111: New Mothers' Labour Force Participation in Italy: The Role of Job Characteristics

Massimiliano Bratti, Emilia Del Bono and Daniela Vuri

1110: Rising Occupational and Industry Mobility in the United States: 1968-1993

Gueorgui Kambourov and Iourii Manovskii

1109: The Gender Earnings Gap in Britain

Karen Mumford and Peter N. Smith

1108: Real Time Econometrics

Mohammad Pesaran and Allan Timmermann

1107: The Diffusion of Computers and the Distribution of Wages

Lex Borghans and Bas ter Weel

1106: Lockerung des Kündigungsschutzes: Ein Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung?

Holger Bonin

1105: Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments

Thomas Bauer, Stefan Bender and Holger Bonin

1104: Selection or Network Effects? Migration Flows into 27 OECD Countries, 1990-2000

Peder Pedersen, Mariola Pytlikova and Nina Smith

1103: The Take-Up of Social Benefits

Janet Currie

1102: How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed

Solomon Polachek

1101: Motivation, Expectations and the Gender Pay Gap for UK Graduates

Arnaud Chevalier

1100: The Success of Job Applications: A New Approach to Program Evaluation

Armin Falk, Rafael Lalive and Josef Zweimüller

1099: A Conceptual Framework for the Evaluation of Comprehensive Labor Market Policy Reforms in Germany

Michael Fertig and Jochen Kluve

1098: Nonparametric Bounds on the Returns to Language Skills

Libertad Gonzalez

1097: Single Mothers and Work

Libertad Gonzalez