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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

1051: Experience and Technology Adoption

Bruce Weinberg

1050: The Impact of Family-Friendly Policies in Denmark and Sweden on Mothers' Career Interruptions Due to Childbirth

Elina Pylkkänen and Nina Smith

1049: Using Analysis of Gini (ANoGi) for Detecting Whether Two Sub-Samples Represent the Same Universe: The SOEP Experience

Joachim Frick, Jan Goebel, Edna Schechtman, Gert Wagner and Shlomo Yitzhaki

1048: High School Types, Academic Performance and Early Labour Market Outcomes

Lorenzo Cappellari

1047: Transition Patterns for the Welfare Reliance of Low Income Mothers in Australia

Xiaodong Gong

1046: Job Insecurity and Children’s Emancipation

Sascha Becker, Samuel Bentolila, Ana Fernandes and Andrea Ichino

1045: Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself?

Stephan Meier and Alois Stutzer

1044: Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition

J. David Brown and John Earle

1043: Shadow Economies around the World: What Do We Know?

Friedrich Schneider and Robert Klinglmair

1042: Sequential Matching Estimation of Dynamic Causal Models

Michael Lechner

1041: The Public Sector Pay Gap in France, Great Britain and Italy

Claudio Lucifora and Dominique Meurs

1040: Fiscal Policy and Educational Attainment in the United States – A Generational Accounting Perspective

Xavier Chojnicki and Frédéric Docquier

1039: Institutional Uncertainty and European Social Union: Impacts on Job Creation and Destruction in the CEECs

Ansgar Belke, Matthias Göcke and Martin Hebler

1038: Exchange Rate Volatility and Employment Growth: Empirical Evidence from the CEE Economies

Ansgar Belke and Ralph Setzer

1037: Estimating the Value of a Statistical Life: The Importance of Omitted Variables and Publication Bias

Orley Ashenfelter and Michael Greenstone

1036: Life Cycle Time Allocation and Saving in an Imperfect Capital Market

Patricia Apps and Ray Rees

1035: Estimates of a Labour Supply Function Using Alternative Measures of Hours of Work

N. Anders Klevmarken

1034: Unwilling or Unable? Spatial, Institutional and Socio-Economic Restrictions on Females' Labor Market Access

Maarten van Ham and Felix Büchel

1033: Agglomeration and Tax Competition

Rainald Borck and Michael P. Pflüger

1032: The Effects of Wealth and Income on Subjective Well-Being and Ill-Being

Bruce Headey and Mark Wooden

1031: The Costs of Missing the Millennium Development Goal on Gender Equity

Dina Abu-Ghaida and Stephan Klasen

1030: Determinants of Income Mobility and Household Poverty Dynamics in South Africa

Ingrid Woolard and Stephan Klasen

1029: Trade Policy and Labor Services: Final Status Options for the West Bank and Gaza

Maurice Schiff

1028: Education, Governance and Trade-Related Technology Diffusion in Latin America

Maurice Schiff and Yanling Wang

1027: Labor Mobility, Trade and Social Capital

Maurice Schiff

1026: Does Low Job Satisfaction Lead to Job Mobility?

Nicolai Kristensen and Niels Westergård-Nielsen

1025: Smuggling Humans: A Theory of Debt-Financed Migration

Guido Friebel and Sergei Guriev

1024: Noncognitive Abilities and Within-Group Wage Inequality

Hartmut Egger and Volker Grossmann

1023: Tournaments: There Is More Than Meets the Eye

Gil Epstein and Shmuel Nitzan

1022: Population Prospects and the Determination of a Debt-Sharing Rule between Seceding Regions

Philippe Cattoir and Frédéric Docquier

1021: PISA Results: What a Difference Immigration Law Makes

Horst Entorf and Nicoleta Minoiu

1020: Profit Sharing, Credit Market Imperfections and Equilibrium Unemployment

Erkki Koskela and Rune Stenbacka

1019: Public Infrastructure as a Determinant of Intertemporal and Interregional Productive Performance in China

Feng-Cheng Fu, Chu-Ping C. Vijverberg and Wim Vijverberg

1018: Legal Minimum Wages and the Wages of Formal and Informal Sector Workers in Costa Rica

Thomas (Tim) Gindling and Katherine Terrell