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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 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 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 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

1096: Using Happiness Surveys to Value Intangibles: The Case of Airport Noise

Bernard van Praag and Barbara Baarsma

1095: Regional Treatment Intensity as an Instrument for the Evaluation of Labour Market Policies

Markus Frölich and Michael Lechner

1094: The Self-Selection of Migrant Workers Revisited

Eran Yashiv

1093: Iatrogenic Specification Error: A Cautionary Tale of Cleaning Data

Christopher Bollinger and Amitabh Chandra

1092: The Effect of Economic Crises on Nutritional Status: Evidence from Russia

Steven Stillman and Duncan Thomas

1091: Youth Minimum Wage Reform and the Labour Market

Dean Hyslop and Steven Stillman

1090: Temporary Employment Agencies: A Route for Immigrants to Enter the Labour Market?

Pernilla Andersson Joona and Eskil Wadensjö

1089: The Effects of the Minimum Wage in the Formal and Informal Sectors in Brazil

Sara Lemos

1088: The Economic Experiences of Refugees in Canada

Don DeVoretz, Sergiy Pivnenko and Morton Beiser

1087: The Political Economy of Social Exclusion with Implications for Immigration Policy

Mark Gradstein and Maurice Schiff

1086: Wage Mobility: Do Institutions Make a Difference? A Replication Study Comparing Portugal and the UK

Ana Rute Cardoso

1085: Job Tenure in Britain: Employee Characteristics Versus Workplace Effects

Karen Mumford and Peter Smith

1084: Trade Liberalization and Labor-Demand Elasticities: Empirical Evidence from Tunisia

Ilham Haouas and Mahmoud Yagoubi

1083: On the Specification of Mincerian Wage Regressions with Heterogeneity, Non-Linearity, Non-Separability, and Heteroskedasticity

Christian Belzil

1082: A Search Model of Marriage with Differential Fecundity

Eugenio Giolito

1081: And in the Evening She's a Singer with the Band – Second Jobs, Plight or Pleasure?

René Böheim and Mark Taylor

1080: Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and Unobserved Ability: Siblings Evidence from Five Countries

Anders Bjorklund, Bernt Bratsberg, Tor Eriksson, Markus Jantti and Oddbjørn Raaum

1079: Estimating the Probability of Leaving Unemployment Using Uncompleted Spells from Repeated Cross-Section Data

Maia Güell and Luojia Hu

1078: Work-Related Training and Wages: An Empirical Analysis for Male Workers in Switzerland

Michael Gerfin

1077: Firm-Sponsored General Training in Frictional Labour Markets: An Empirical Analysis for Switzerland

Michael Gerfin

1076: Employment Effects of Early Interventions on Job Search Programs

Andrea Weber and Helmut Hofer

1075: Are Job Search Programs a Promising Tool? A Microeconometric Evaluation for Austria

Andrea Weber and Helmut Hofer

1074: Regional Unemployment and its Persistence in Transition Countries

Fabian Bornhorst and Simon Commander

1073: The Changing Demand for Skills: Evidence from the Transition

Simon Commander and János Köllő

1072: The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Prices

Sara Lemos

1071: The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Prices in Brazil

Sara Lemos

1070: Are Wage and Employment Effects Robust to Alternative Minimum Wage Variables?

Sara Lemos

1069: A Menu of Minimum Wage Variables for Evaluating Wages and Employment Effects: Evidence from Brazil

Sara Lemos

1068: Earnings Mobility Among Italian Low Paid Workers

Lorenzo Cappellari

1067: Did European Labor Markets Become More Competitive in the 1990s? Evidence from Estimated Worker Rents

Gilles Saint-Paul

1066: Why Are European Countries Diverging in Their Unemployment Experience?

Gilles Saint-Paul

1065: Identification and Estimation of Economic Models of Outmigration Using Panel Attrition

Charles Bellemare

1064: Wage Effects on Immigrants from an Increase in the Minimum Wage Rate: An Analysis by Immigrant Industry Concentration

Kalena E. Cortes

1063: Are Refugees Different from Economic Immigrants? Some Empirical Evidence on the Heterogeneity of Immigrant Groups in the United States

Kalena E. Cortes

1062: Dynamic Treatment Assignment – The Consequences for Evaluations Using Observational Data

Peter Fredriksson and Per Johansson

1061: The Dynamics of Local Employment in France

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Thierry Magnac and Jean-Marc Robin

1060: Complex Production Processes and Wage Inequality

Tuomas Pekkarinen

1059: Can Gerhard Schröder Do It? Prospects for Fundamental Reform of the German Economy and a Return to High Employment

Irwin Collier

1058: Equilibrium Unemployment and Investment Under Product and Labour Market Imperfections

Heikki Kauppi, Erkki Koskela and Rune Stenbacka

1057: Redesigning Teams and Incentives in a Merger: An Experiment with Managers and Students

Claude Montmarquette, Jean-Louis Rullière, Marie Claire Villeval and Romain Zeiliger

1056: Air Pollution and Infant Health: What Can We Learn From California's Recent Experience?

Janet Currie and Matthew Neidell

1055: Agglomeration Effects on Employer-Provided Training: Evidence from the UK

Giorgio Brunello and Francesca Gambarotto

1054: Estimating the Smoothing Parameter in the So-Called Hodrick-Prescott Filter

Ekkehart Schlicht

1053: Why Do School District Budget Referenda Fail?

Ronald Ehrenberg, Randy A. Ehrenberg, Christopher Smith and Liang Zhang

1052: Consumption Smoothing and the Structure of Labor and Credit Markets

Giuseppe Bertola and Winfried Koeniger