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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

1230: Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Europe

Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson

1229: Incentive Effects of Bonus Payments: Evidence from an International Company

Axel Engellandt and Regina Riphahn

1228: A Vague Theory of Choice over Time

Paola Manzini and Marco Mariotti

1227: Understanding the Development of Fundamentalism

Ira Gang and Gil Epstein

1226: Pre-School Enrollment: An Analysis by Immigrant Generation

Barry Chiswick and Noyna DebBurman

1225: Estimating the Return to Training and Occupational Experience: The Case of Female Immigrants

Sarit Cohen Goldner and Zvi Eckstein

1224: Jewish Occupational Selection: Education, Restrictions, or Minorities?

Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein

1223: One or Many Kuznets Curves? Short and Long Run Effects of the Impact of Skill-Biased Technological Change on Income Inequality

Gianluca Grimalda and Marco Vivarelli

1222: Does Monitoring Decrease Work Effort? The Complementarity Between Agency and Crowding-Out Theories

David Dickinson and Marie Claire Villeval

1221: A Review of Decomposition of Income Inequality

Almas Heshmati

1220: Females' Willingness to Work and the Discouragement Effect of a Poor Local Childcare Provision

Maarten van Ham and Felix Büchel

1219: Inequalities and Their Measurement

Almas Heshmati

1218: Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness… Or Does It? A Reconsideration Based on the Combined Effects of Wealth, Income and Consumption

Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels and Mark Wooden

1217: Immigration Policy: Methods of Economic Assessment

Don DeVoretz

1216: Parents and Children Talk: The Family Dynamics of English Language Proficiency

Barry Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee and Paul Miller

1215: Social Networks and Labor Market Transitions

Yann Bramoullé and Gilles Saint-Paul

1214: The Relationship between Unemployment and Risk-Aversion

Luis Diaz-Serrano and Donal O'Neill

1213: The Societal Integration of Immigrants in Germany

Michael Fertig

1212: Dynamics of Labour and Capital Adjustment – A Comparison of Germany and the Netherlands

Michael Polder and Sher Verick

1211: Do You Need a Job to Find a Job?

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Paul Frijters and Guyonne Kalb

1210: Gender and Work Hours Transitions in Australia: Drop Ceilings and Trap-Door Floors

Robert Drago, David Black and Mark Wooden

1209: Poverty Persistence in Sweden

Jorgen Hansen and Roger Wahlberg

1208: On the Negative Relationship between Labor Income Uncertainty and Homeownership: Risk Aversion vs. Credit Constraints

Luis Diaz-Serrano

1207: The Long and Short of It: Maternity Leave Coverage and Women’s Labor Market Outcomes

Masanori Hashimoto, Rick Percy, Teresa Schoellner and Bruce Weinberg

1206: Does Parental Divorce Affect Adolescents' Cognitive Development? Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano and Daniela Vuri

1205: The Effectiveness of Qualification Measures for Employed Workers – An Evaluation Study for Saxony

Michael Fertig

1204: Wage Differentials and International Trade in Italy Using Individual Micro Data 1991-1996

Anna M. Falzoni, Alessandra Venturini and Claudia Villosio

1203: Distrust – The Hidden Cost of Control

Armin Falk and Michael Kosfeld

1202: Approval of Equal Rights and Gender Differences in Well-Being

Rafael Lalive and Alois Stutzer

1201: Reforms and Productivity Dynamics in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Peter McGoldrick and Patrick Walsh

1200: Living Conditions of Children and Parental Well-Being – Evidence from German Data on Life Satisfaction

Johannes Schwarze

1199: The Return to a University Education in Great Britain

Peter Sloane and Nigel C. O'Leary

1198: Contract Violations, Neighborhood Effects, and Wage Arrears in Russia

John Earle and Klara Sabirianova Peter

1197: Employee Training and Wage Compression in Britain

Filipe Almeida-Santos and Karen Mumford

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