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896: What Can We Learn About the Decline in U.S. Union Membership from International Data?

Solomon Polachek

895: Transitions in Welfare Participation and Female Headship

John Fitzgerald and David Ribar

894: Parental Separation and Well-Being of Youths

Rainer Winkelmann

893: Skill-Biased Transition: The Role of Markets, Institutions, and Technological Change

Klara Sabirianova Peter

892: What Do Unions Do for Economic Performance?

Barry Hirsch

891: From Welfare to Work: Evaluating a Proposed Tax and Benefit Reform Targeted at Single Mothers in Sweden

Lennart Flood, Elina Pylkkänen and Roger Wahlberg

890: Differences in Early Occupational Earnings of UK Male Graduates by Degree Subject: Evidence from the 1980-1993 USR

Massimiliano Bratti and Luca Mancini

889: Fiscal Policy, Human Capital, and Canada-US Labor Market Integration

David Wildasin

888: Collective Dismissal Cost, Product Market Competition and Innovation

Winfried Koeniger

887: Transparency and Reciprocal Behavior

Bernd Irlenbusch and Dirk Sliwka

886: On-the-Job Search in a Matching Model with Heterogenous Jobs and Workers

Juan Dolado, Marcel Jansen and Juan F Jimeno

885: The Dynamics of Repeat Migration: A Markov Chain Analysis

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

884: The Optimality and Overuse of Labour in Estonian Manufacturing Enterprises

Jaan Masso and Almas Heshmati

883: Overeducation, Wages and Promotions within the Firm

Sandra Groeneveld and Joop Hartog

882: The Firm as a Pool of Factor Complementarities

Assar Lindbeck and Dennis J. Snower

881: Worker-Job Matches, Job Mobility, and Real Wage Cyclicality

Robert A. Hart

880: Employment Protection and Product Market Regulation

Winfried Koeniger and Andrea Vindigni

879: Entrepreneurial Ventures and Wage Differentials Between Germans and Immigrants

Amelie Constant and Yochanan Shachmurove

878: The Course of Research into the Economic Consequences of German Works Councils

John Addison, Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner

877: Decomposing Differences in the First Moment

Myeong-Su Yun

876: The European Phillips Curve: Does the NAIRU Exist?

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala and Dennis J. Snower

875: Severance Payments for Dismissed Employees in Germany

Christian Grund

874: The Impact of Length of the School Year on Student Performance and Earnings: Evidence from the German Short School Years

Jorn-Steffen Pischke

873: The Impact of Office Machinery and Computer Capital on the Demand for Heterogeneous Labour

Martin Falk and Bertrand Koebel

872: Are Home Owners Really More Unemployed?

Jakob Munch, Michael Rosholm and Michael Svarer

871: The Impact of Growth, Labour Cost and Working Time on Employment: Lessons from the French Experience

Yannick L'Horty and Christophe Rault

870: Analysis of the Determinants of Fertility Decline in the Czech Republic

Stephan Klasen and Andrey Launov

869: Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires

Alan Krueger and Alexandre Mas

868: Analyzing Religiosity Within an Economic Framework: The Case of Spanish Catholics

Pablo Brañas-Garza and Shoshana Neuman

867: Monkey Bars and Ladders: The Importance of Lateral and Vertical Job Mobility in Internal Labor Market Careers

Thomas Dohmen, Ben Kriechel and Gerard Pfann

866: Immigrant Adjustment in France and Impacts on the Natives

Amelie Constant

865: Mincer's Overtaking Point and the Lifecycle Earnings Distribution

Solomon Polachek

864: A Couples-Based Approach to the Problem of Workless Families

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Christopher Ryan and Robert Breunig

863: Immigrant Religious Adjustment: An Economic Approach to Jewish Migrations

Carmel Chiswick

862: Union Voice

John Addison and Clive R. Belfield

861: Inflation, Minimum Wage and Other Wages: An Econometric Study on French Macroeconomic Data

Yannick L'Horty and Christophe Rault

860: Timing and Flexibility of Housework and Men and Women's Wages

Jens Bonke, Nabanita Datta Gupta and Nina Smith

859: Loafing or Learning? The Demand for Informal Education

René Fahr

858: History of Historical Statistics of the United States

Carmel Chiswick

857: An Economic Model of Child Custody

Marco Francesconi and Abhinay Muthoo

856: Management Incentives, Signaling Effects and the Costs of Vertical Integration

Dirk Sliwka

855: Career Concerns in a Simple Experimental Labour Market

Bernd Irlenbusch and Dirk Sliwka

854: Income Satisfaction Inequality and its Causes

Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Bernard van Praag

853: Identification and Estimation of Hedonic Models

Ivar Ekeland, James J. Heckman and Lars Nesheim

852: The Labor Market Effects of Payroll Taxes in a Middle-Income Country: Evidence from Colombia

Adriana Kugler and Maurice Kugler

851: Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Theory and Practice

Joshua Angrist

850: Nobody to Play With? The Implications of Leisure Coordination

Stephen Jenkins and Lars Osberg

849: Traits, Imitation, and Evolutionary Dynamics

Wendelin Schnedler

848: Does It Pay to Attend a Prestigious University?

Arnaud Chevalier and Gavan Conlon

847: Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings

Barry Chiswick

846: Diverging Patterns of Education Premium and School Attendance in France and the US: A Walrasian View

David de la Croix and Frédéric Docquier

845: Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Note on Employment Protection, Domestic Anchorage, and FDI

Gerda Dewit, Holger Görg and Catia Montagna

844: On the Hidden Costs of Incentive Schemes

Dirk Sliwka

843: Simulation and Estimation of Hedonic Models

James J. Heckman, Rosa Matzkin and Lars Nesheim

842: Rent Control and Unemployment Duration

Michael Svarer, Michael Rosholm and Jakob Munch

841: Skill-Biased Technical Change in U.S. Manufacturing: A General Index Approach

Badi Baltagi and Daniel Rich

840: Equilibrium Unemployment Under Negotiated Profit Sharing

Erkki Koskela and Rune Stenbacka

839: Is Training More Frequent When Wage Compression is Higher? Evidence from the European Community Household Panel

Andrea Bassanini and Giorgio Brunello

838: Government Grants, Plant Survival and Employment Growth: A Micro-Econometric Analysis

Sourafel Girma, Holger Görg and Eric Strobl

837: What You Always Wanted to Know About Censoring But Never Dared to Ask – Parameter Estimation for Censored Random Vectors

Wendelin Schnedler

836: A Simple Solution to the Identification Problem in Detailed Wage Decompositions

Myeong-Su Yun

835: Job Turnover, Unemployment and Labor Market Institutions

Gilles Joseph, Olivier Pierrard and Henri R. Sneessens

834: Protecting Against Labour Market Risk: Employment Protection or Unemployment Benefits?

Tito Boeri, J. Ignacio Conde-Ruiz and Vincenzo Galasso

833: Structural Reforms and the Macroeconomy: The Role of General Equilibrium Effects

Hans Gersbach

832: Joint Labour Supply Dynamics of Older Couples

Pierre-Carl Michaud

831: Analyzing the Effect of Dynamically Assigned Treatments Using Duration Models, Binary Treatment Models, and Panel Data Models

Jaap Abbring and Gerard van den Berg

830: Emigration from the UK, 1870-1913 and 1950-1998

Timothy J. Hatton

829: Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education: Evidence from China in 2000

James J. Heckman and Xuesong Li

828: School Choice and Quality

Daniele Checchi and Tullio Jappelli

827: An Evaluation of the Performance of Regression Discontinuity Design on PROGRESA

Hielke Buddelmeyer and Emmanuel Skoufias

826: The Effect of Schooling and Ability on Achievement Test Scores

Karsten T. Hansen, James J. Heckman and Kathleen Mullen

825: Gender Wage Gap in Expectations and Realizations

Antonio Filippin and Andrea Ichino

824: Discrimination and Workers' Expectations: Experimental Evidence

Antonio Filippin

823: Discrimination and Workers' Expectations

Antonio Filippin

822: The Effects of Competition and Equal Treatment Laws on the Gender Wage Differential

Doris Weichselbaumer and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

821: Human Capital Policy

Pedro Carneiro and James J. Heckman

820: The Effects of Merit-Based Financial Aid on Course Enrollment, Withdrawal and Completion in College

Christopher Cornwell, Kyung Hee Lee and David Mustard

819: Brain Drain and LDCs' Growth: Winners and Losers

Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier and Hillel Rapoport

818: The Surprising Retreat of Union Britain

John Pencavel

817: Measuring Globalization

Torben M. Andersen and Tryggvi Thor Herbertsson

816: The Early Retirement Burden: Assessing the Costs of the Continued Prevalence of Early Retirement in OECD Countries

Tryggvi Thor Herbertsson and Mike Orszag

815: Measuring Heterogeneity in the Returns to Education in Norway Using Educational Reforms

Arild Aakvik, Kjell G Salvanes and Kjell Vaage

814: Measuring Labor Market Frictions: A Cross-Country Comparison

Geert Ridder and Gerard van den Berg

813: Firm-Specific Human Capital: A Skill-Weights Approach

Edward Lazear

812: German Works Councils in the Production Process

John Addison, Thorsten Schank, Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner

811: Firms, Industries, and Unemployment Insurance: An Analysis Using Employer-Employee Data

Miles Corak and Wen-Hao Chen

810: A Simple Procedure for the Evaluation of Treatment Effects on Duration Variables

Jaap Abbring and Gerard van den Berg

809: The Brain Drain: Curse or Boon?

Simon Commander, Mari Kangasniemi and L. Winters

808: Remittances and Inequality: A Dynamic Migration Model

Frédéric Docquier and Hillel Rapoport

807: Testing for Employee Discrimination Using Matched Employer-Employee Data: Theory and Evidence

Paul Frijters, Michael Shields, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos and Stephen Wheatley Price

806: Multiple Equilibria and Minimum Wages in Labor Markets with Informational Frictions and Heterogeneous Production Technologies

Gerard van den Berg

805: The Effect of Search Frictions on Wages

Gerard van den Berg and Aico van Vuuren

804: Dynamic Econometric Program Evaluation

Jaap Abbring

803: Social Interactions in Unemployment

Rafael Lalive

802: Assimilation via Prices or Quantities? Labor Market Institutions and Immigrant Earnings Growth in Australia, Canada, and the United States

Heather Antecol, Peter Kuhn and Stephen Trejo

801: A Study of the Austrian Labor Market Dynamics Using a Model of Search Equilibrium

Andrey Launov

800: Sind Nominallöhne starr? Neuere Evidenz und wirtschaftspolitische Implikationen

Thomas Beissinger and Christoph Knoppik

799: General Human Capital and Employment Adjustment in the Great Depression: Apprentices and Journeymen in UK Engineering

Robert A. Hart

798: The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program

James J. Heckman and Jeffrey Smith

797: Assessing Changes in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility

Espen Bratberg, Øivind Nilsen and Kjell Vaage