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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

1317: Gender Equality in Educational Achievement: An East-West Comparison

Sylke Schnepf

1316: The Evolution of Income-Related Inequalities in Health Care Utilization in Switzerland over Time

Robert E. Leu and Martin Schellhorn

1315: The Dynamic Impact of Immigration on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Israel

Sarit Cohen Goldner and M. Daniele Paserman

1314: Key Elasticities in Job Search Theory: International Evidence

John Addison, Mário Centeno and Pedro Portugal

1313: A Pair-Wise Approach to Testing for Output and Growth Convergence

Mohammad Pesaran

1312: Health and Wealth of Elderly Couples: Causality Tests Using Dynamic Panel Data Models

Pierre-Carl Michaud and Arthur van Soest

1311: Jobs for Young University Graduates: Is It Worth Having a Degree?

Ana Rute Cardoso

1310: The Brain Drain: Some Evidence from European Expatriates in the United States

Gilles Saint-Paul

1309: Timing Constraints and the Allocation of Time: The Effects of Changing Shopping Hours Regulations in the Netherlands

Joyce Jacobsen and Peter Kooreman

1308: Female Breadwinner Families: Their Existence, Persistence and Sources

Robert Drago, David Black and Mark Wooden

1307: Regional Income Inequality in Selected Large Countries

Almas Heshmati

1306: Measuring the Returns to the GED: Using an Exogenous Change in GED Passing Standards as a Natural Experiment

Magnus Lofstrom and John Tyler

1305: The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide: A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration

Menzie Chinn and Robert Fairlie

1304: International Migration in the Long-Run: Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy

Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson

1303: Survey Non-Response and Unemployment Duration

Gerard van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom and Peter Dolton

1302: Cyclicality and the Labor Market

Craig A. Gallet, John List and Peter Orazem

1301: Assessing the Performance of Matching Algorithms When Selection into Treatment Is Strong

Boris Augurzky and Jochen Kluve

1300: Estimating the Threat Effect of Active Labour Market Programmes

Michael Rosholm and Michael Svarer

1299: Are Wages in Southern Europe More Flexible? The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings

Giorgio Brunello and Charlotte Lauer

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