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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

1017: Estimating the Returns to Community College Schooling for Displaced Workers

Louis Jacobson, Robert LaLonde and Daniel Sullivan

1016: Subjective Well-Being and the Family: Results from an Ordered Probit Model with Multiple Random Effects

Rainer Winkelmann

1015: Analytical Prediction of Transitions Probabilities in the Conditional Logit Model

Holger Bonin and Hilmar Schneider

1014: Single Mothers Working at Night: Standard Work, Child Care Subsidies, and Implications for Welfare Reform

Erdal Tekin

1013: Money Illusion and Coordination Failure

Ernst Fehr and Jean-Robert Tyran

1012: A Life-Cycle Model of Outmigration and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants in Germany

Charles Bellemare

1011: Wage Dips and Drops around First Birth

Astrid Kunze and Mette Ejrnæs

1010: Re-Employment Bonuses in a Signalling Model of Temporary Layoffs

Núria Rodriguez-Planas

1009: Signaling in the Labor Market: New Evidence on Layoffs and Plant Closings

Núria Rodriguez-Planas

1008: Labour Income Uncertainty, Risk Aversion and Home Ownership

Luis Diaz-Serrano

1007: Substitutability and Competition in the Dixit-Stiglitz Model

Winfried Koeniger and Omar Licandro

1006: Community Norms and Organizational Practices: The Legitimization of Wage Arrears in Russia, 1992-1999

John Earle, Andrew Spicer and Klara Sabirianova Peter

1005: The Literacy Hour

Stephen Machin and Sandra McNally

1004: The Effects of Enforcement on Illegal Markets: Evidence from Migrant Smuggling along the Southwestern Border

Christina Gathmann

1003: The Promotion Dynamics of American Executives

Christian Belzil and Michael Bognanno

1002: Do Workers Work More When Wages Are High? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Ernst Fehr and Lorenz Götte

1001: Advising Policymakers Through the Media

Klaus Zimmermann

1000: Experiments on Unemployment Benefit Sanctions and Job Search Behavior

Jan Boone, Abdolkarim Sadrieh and Jan van Ours

999: The Demand for High-Skilled Workers and Immigration Policy

Thomas Bauer and Astrid Kunze

998: What Do Social Scientists Know About the Benefits of Marriage? A Review of Quantitative Methodologies

David Ribar

997: Job Search and Hyperbolic Discounting: Structural Estimation and Policy Evaluation

M. Daniele Paserman

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 Jorgen 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