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996: Bayesian Inference for Duration Data with Unobserved and Unknown Heterogeneity: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application

M. Daniele Paserman

995: The Optimal Timing of School Tracking

Giorgio Brunello, Massimo Giannini and Kenn Ariga

994: School Quality, Educational Attainment and Aggregation Bias

Michael Fertig and Robert Wright

993: Total Factor Productivity Growth and Job Turnover in Mexican Manufacturing Plants in the 1990s

Angel Calderón-Madrid and Alexandru Voicu

992: Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Scotland: An Endogenous Switching Model

Axel Heitmueller

991: Threshold Effects of Dismissal Protection Legislation in Germany

Sher Verick

990: Generational Accounting as a Tool to Assess Fiscal Sustainability: An Overview of the Methodology

Holger Bonin and Concepció Patxot

989: Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs? Evidence from German Micro Data

Joachim Wagner

988: Can Job Competition Prevent Hold-Ups?

Marcel Jansen

987: How Often Should You Open the Door? Optimal Monitoring to Screen Heterogeneous Agents

Andrea Ichino and Gerd Muehlheusser

986: Do the Best Go West? An Analysis of the Self-Selection of Employed East-West Migrants in Germany

Herbert Brücker and Parvati Trübswetter

985: When Are ‘Female’ Occupations Paying More?

Stepan Jurajda and Heike Harmgart

984: Are There Asymmetries in the Effects of Training on the Conditional Male Wage Distribution?

Wiji Arulampalam, Alison Booth and Mark Bryan

983: Child Care Choices by Italian Households

Daniela Del Boca, Marilena Locatelli and Daniela Vuri

982: Winners and Losers: Fragmentation, Trade and Wages Revisited

Ingo Geishecker and Holger Görg

981: Matching as a Tool to Decompose Wage Gaps

Hugo Ñopo

980: Ethnicity and Earnings in Urban Peru

Hugo Ñopo, Jaime Saavedra and Maximo Torero

979: Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring: A Pseudo Audit Study for Three Selected Occupations in Metropolitan Lima

Martin Moreno, Hugo Ñopo, Jaime Saavedra and Maximo Torero

978: How Does the Unemployment Insurance System Shape the Time Profile of Jobless Duration?

John Addison and Pedro Portugal

977: Family Income and Participation in Post-Secondary Education

Miles Corak, Garth Lipps and John Zhao

976: Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program

Joshua Angrist and Kevin Lang

975: Occupational Choice Across Generations

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

974: Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? A Revised Version

Johannes Schwarze and Marco Härpfer

973: Structural Estimates of the Intergenerational Education Correlation

Christian Belzil and Jörgen Hansen

972: Transition on the Shop Floor - The Restructuring of a Weaving Mill, Hungary 1988-97

Janos Köllő

971: Creative Destruction and Productivity Growth in an Emerging Economy: Evidence from Slovenian Manufacturing

Jan De Loecker and Jozef Konings

970: Fighting “Low Equilibria” by Doubling the Minimum Wage? Hungary’s Experiment

Gabor Kertesi and Janos Köllő

969: Identification, Characteristics and Impact of Faked Interviews in Surveys: An Analysis by Means of Genuine Fakes in the Raw Data of SOEP

Joerg-Peter Schraepler and Gert Wagner

968: Efficiency in a Matching Model with Heterogeneous Agents: Too Many Good or Bad Jobs?

Maite Blázquez Cuesta and Marcel Jansen

967: The Effect of Disability on Labour Market Outcomes in Germany: Evidence from Matching

Michael Lechner and Rosalia Vazquez-Alvarez

966: Optimal Taxation with Capital Accumulation and Wage Bargaining

Tapio Palokangas

965: Labor and the Market Value of the Firm

Monika Merz and Eran Yashiv

964: The Shift to Services: A Review of the Literature

Ronald Schettkat and Lara Yocarini

963: Compensating Wage Differentials for Schooling Risk in Denmark

Luis Diaz-Serrano, Joop Hartog and Helena Nielsen

962: Norm-Based Trade Union Membership: Evidence for Germany

Laszlo Goerke and Markus Pannenberg

961: Generational Accounting, Solidarity and Pension Losses

C. N. Teulings and Casper de Vries

960: Circular Movements and Time Away from the Host Country

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

959: Real and Nominal Wage Rigidities and the Rate of Inflation: Evidence from West German Micro Data

Thomas Bauer, Holger Bonin and Uwe Sunde

958: Creating Low Skilled Jobs by Subsidizing Market-Contracted Household Work

Tilman Brück, John de New and Klaus Zimmermann

957: Product Market Deregulation and Labor Market Outcomes

Monique Ebell and Christian Haefke

956: Gerontocracy in Motion? European Cross-Country Evidence on the Labor Market Consequences of Population Ageing

Michael Fertig and Christoph Schmidt

955: Risky Human Capital Investment, Income Distribution, and Macroeconomic Dynamics

Volker Grossmann

954: Six Ways to Leave Unemployment

Pedro Portugal and John Addison

953: The Impact of a Primary School Reform on Educational Stratification: A Norwegian Study of Neighbour and School Mate Correlations

Oddbjørn Raaum, Kjell G Salvanes and Erik Sørensen

952: The Neighbourhood Is Not What It Used to Be

Oddbjørn Raaum, Kjell G Salvanes and Erik Sørensen

951: Raising Female Employment: Reflexions and Policy Tools

Pietro Garibaldi and Etienne Wasmer

950: Equilibrium Employment in a Model of Imperfect Labor Markets

Pietro Garibaldi and Etienne Wasmer

949: Minimum Wage Effects on Labor Market Outcomes under Search with Bargaining

Christopher Flinn

948: Effects of Employment Protection and Product Market Regulations on the Italian Labor Market

Adriana Kugler and Giovanni Pica

947: Potential, Prizes and Performance: Testing Tournament Theory with Professional Tennis Data

Uwe Sunde

946: Earnings Instability of Job Stayers and Job Changers

Marco Leonardi

945: Economic Integration and Labor Market Institutions: Worker Mobility, Earnings Risk, and Contract Structure

Ronnie Schöb and David Wildasin

944: Much Ado About Nothing? Do Domestic Firms Really Benefit from Foreign Direct Investment?

Holger Görg and Sir David Greenaway

943: What Have We Learned About the Employment Effects of Severance Pay? Further Iterations of Lazear et al

John Addison and Paulino Teixeira

942: Dynamic Modeling of the SSDI Application Timing Decision: The Importance of Policy Variables

Richard Burkhauser, J. Butler and Gulcin Gumus

941: Option Value and Dynamic Programming Model Estimates of Social Security Disability Insurance Application Timing

Richard Burkhauser, J. Butler and Gulcin Gumus

940: What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does It Pay? Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany

Amelie Constant, Yochanan Shachmurove and Klaus Zimmermann

939: Acquisition of Skills, Education Subsidies, and Agglomeration of Firms

Eric Toulemonde

938: Italian Migration

Daniela Del Boca and Alessandra Venturini

937: Fiscal Policy, Economic Integration and Unemployment

Wolfgang Eggert and Laszlo Goerke

936: Disability, Gender and the Labour Market

Melanie K. Jones, Paul Latreille and Peter J. Sloane

935: Performance, Seniority and Wages: Formal Salary Systems and Individual Earnings Profiles

Thomas Dohmen

934: The Skill Bias Effect of Technological and Organisational Change: Evidence and Policy Implications

Mariacristina Piva, Enrico Santarelli and Marco Vivarelli

933: Training in Europe

Wiji Arulampalam, Alison Booth and Mark Bryan

932: Guns, Drugs and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Panel of Siblings and Twins

Naci Mocan and Erdal Tekin

931: Time, Money, Peers, and Parents: Some Data and Theories on Teenage Behavior

Peter Kooreman

930: Individual Mortality and Macro-Economic Conditions from Birth to Death

Maarten Lindeboom, France Portrait and Gerard van den Berg

929: Empirical Labor Search: A Survey

Zvi Eckstein and Gerard van den Berg

928: Does City Structure Affect the Labor Market Outcomes of Black Workers?

Harris Selod and Yves Zenou

927: Loss Aversion and Labor Supply

Lorenz Götte, David B. Huffman and Ernst Fehr

926: Why the Apple Doesn't Fall Far: Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes

925: Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants, Part II: Empirical Evidence

Anna Damm and Michael Rosholm

924: Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants, Part I: Theory

Anna Damm and Michael Rosholm

923: Reducing Start-Up Costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labour Market

Uwe Dulleck, Paul Frijters and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

922: Working Hour Arrangements and Working Hours – A Microeconometric Analysis Based on German Time Use Diary Data

Joachim Merz and Derik Burgert

921: Sectoral Adjustment of Employment: The Impact of Outsourcing and Trade at the Micro Level

Peter Egger, Michael Pfaffermayr and Andrea Weber

920: Employment Changes, the Structure of Adjustment Costs, and Plant Size

Øivind Nilsen, Kjell G Salvanes and Fabio Schiantarelli

919: The Impact of Economic Integration on Employment – An Assessment in the Context of EU Enlargement

Michael Fertig

918: Dropping out of School? A Competing Risks Analysis of Young Immigrants’ Progress in the Educational System

Vibeke Jakobsen and Michael Rosholm

917: A Note on the Redistributive Effect of Immigration

Rob Euwals and Hans Roodenburg

916: Why Some Firms Train Apprentices and Many Others Do Not

Stefan Wolter, Samuel Mühlemann and Jürg Schweri

915: Macroeconomic Impacts of ALMP on the Matching Process in West Germany

Reinhard Hujer and Christopher Zeiss

914: Bargained Wages, Wage Drift and the Design of the Wage Setting System

Ana Rute Cardoso and Pedro Portugal

913: The Recent Economic Performance of Ukrainian Immigrants in Canada and the U.S

Sergiy Pivnenko and Don DeVoretz

912: An Experimental Study of the POUM Hypothesis

Daniele Checchi and Antonio Filippin

911: Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-All-Trades? A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data

Joachim Wagner

910: On-the-Job Training, Firing Costs and Employment

Pilar Diaz-Vazquez and Dennis J. Snower

909: Firm Heterogeneity in Capital/Labor Ratios and Wage Inequality

Marco Leonardi

908: Product Demand Shifts and Wage Inequality

Marco Leonardi

907: Supply and Demand, Allocation and Wage Inequality: An International Comparison

Arnaud Dupuy and Lex Borghans

906: A Meta-Analysis of the International Gender Wage Gap

Doris Weichselbaumer and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

905: Rhetoric in Economic Research: The Case of Gender Wage Differentials

Doris Weichselbaumer and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

904: Trends in Income Inequality, Pro-Poor Income Growth and Income Mobility

Stephen Jenkins and Philippe Van Kerm

903: Evaluating the Causal Effects of Foreign Acquisition on Domestic Skilled and Unskilled Wages

Sourafel Girma and Holger Görg

902: Immigrant Job Search in the UK: Evidence from Panel Data

Paul Frijters, Michael Shields and Stephen Wheatley Price

901: Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency: The Case of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001

Peter Orazem and Milan Vodopivec

900: Compensating Differentials in Emerging Labor and Housing Markets: Estimates of Quality of Life in Russian Cities

Mark Berger, Glenn Blomquist and Klara Sabirianova Peter

899: Unemployment in the European Union: Institutions, Prices, and Growth

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala and Dennis J. Snower

898: Nonparametric Estimation of a Dependent Competing Risks Model for Unemployment Durations

Gerard van den Berg, Gijsbert van Lomwel and Jan van Ours

897: Relational Contracts and the Nature of Market Interactions

Martin Brown, Armin Falk and Ernst Fehr