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1667: Low-Wage Employment in Portugal: A Mixed Logit Approach

Carlos Barros, Isabel Proença and José Vieira

1666: Actions and Beliefs: Estimating Distribution-Based Preferences Using a Large Scale Experiment with Probability Questions on Expectations

Charles Bellemare, Sabine Kröger and Arthur van Soest

1665: The Wage Curve Reloaded

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

1664: Inter-Regional Wage Dispersion in Portugal

José Vieira, João Couto and Maria Teresa Tiago

1663: Unemployment and Transitions in the Turkish Labor Market: Evidence from Individual Level Data

H. Mehmet Tasci and Aysıt Tansel

1662: Family-Friendly Work Practices in Britain: Availability and Perceived Accessibility

John Budd and Karen Mumford

1661: From Team Spirit to Jealousy: The Pitfalls of Too Much Transparency

Alexander Koch and Albrecht Morgenstern

1660: Regional Dependencies in Job Creation: An Efficiency Analysis for Western Germany

René Fahr and Uwe Sunde

1659: Is Early Learning Really More Productive? The Effect of School Starting Age on School and Labor Market Performance

Peter Fredriksson and Björn Öckert

1658: Who Are the Workers Who Never Joined a Union? Empirical Evidence from Germany

Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner

1657: Increasing Returns to Education and the Skills Under-Investment Trap

Alison Booth and Melvyn Coles

1656: Are Student Exchange Programs Worth It?

Dolores Messer and Stefan Wolter

1655: Revolutionary Effects of New Information Technologies

Gerard van den Berg

1654: Unhealthy Assimilation: Why Do Immigrants Converge to American Health Status Levels?

Heather Antecol and Kelly Bedard

1653: The Microeconometric Estimation of Treatment Effects - An Overview

Marco Caliendo and Reinhard Hujer

1652: Cross-National Surveys of Learning Achievement: How Robust are the Findings?

Giorgina Brown, John Micklewright, Sylke Schnepf and Robert Waldmann

1651: Real Wage Cyclicality of Job Stayers, Within-Company Job Movers, and Between-Company Job Movers

Paul Devereux and Robert Hart

1650: Job Displacement Penalties in Japan

Michael Bognanno and Lisa Delgado

1649: Education, Matching and the Allocative Value of Romance

Alison Booth and Melvyn Coles

1648: How Damaging Is Part-Time Employment to a Woman's Occupational Prospects?

Victoria Prowse

1647: The Neuroeconomics of Mind Reading and Empathy

Tania Singer and Ernst Fehr

1646: The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation

Martijn Egas and Arno Riedl

1645: Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany: Evidence and Interpretation

Jorn-Steffen Pischke and Till von Wachter

1644: Do Financial Bonuses to Employees Reduce Their Absenteeism? Outcome of a Lottery

Wolter Hassink and Pierre Koning

1643: Optimal Incentive Contracts under Inequity Aversion

Florian Englmaier and Achim Wambach

1642: U.S. Border Enforcement and the Net Flow of Mexican Illegal Migration

Manuela Angelucci

1641: Neuroeconomic Foundations of Trust and Social Preferences

Ernst Fehr, Urs Fischbacher and Michael Kosfeld

1640: Workplace Training in Europe

Andrea Bassanini, Alison Booth, Giorgio Brunello, Maria De Paola and Edwin Leuven

1639: The Flow Approach to Labor Markets: New Data Sources, Micro-Macro Links and the Recent Downturn

Steven Davis, Jason Faberman and John Haltiwanger

1638: Learning but Not Earning? The Value of Job Corps Training for Hispanic Youths

Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Arturo Gonzalez and Todd C. Neumann

1637: The Public Pay Gap in Britain: Small Differences That (Don't?) Matter

Fabien Postel-Vinay and Hélène Turon

1636: Racial Harassment, Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Remain in the Military

Heather Antecol and Deborah Cobb-Clark

1635: Driving Forces Behind Informal Sanctions

Armin Falk, Ernst Fehr and Urs Fischbacher

1634: A Multinomial Logit Model of College Stopout and Dropout Behavior

Leslie Stratton, Dennis M. O'Toole and James Wetzel

1633: A Search Model of Discouragement

Michael Rosholm and Ott Toomet

1632: The Savings Behavior of Temporary and Permanent Migrants in Germany

Thomas Bauer and Mathias Sinning

1631: Variations in the Wage Returns to a First Degree: Evidence from the British Cohort Study 1970

Massimiliano Bratti, Robin Naylor and Jeremy Smith

1630: Promotions, Demotions, Halo Effects and Earnings Dynamics of American Executives

Christian Belzil and Michael Bognanno

1629: Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans

Brian Duncan and Stephen Trejo

1628: Can Endogenous Group Formation Prevent Coordination Failure? A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation

Philippe Raab

1627: The College Wage Premium, Overeducation, and the Expansion of Higher Education in the UK

Ian Walker and Yu Zhu

1626: The Correlates of Work in a Post-AFDC World: The Results from a Longitudinal State-Level Analysis

Dan Lewis, Spyros Konstantopoulos and Lisa Altenbernd

1625: The Behavioral Effects of Minimum Wages

Armin Falk, Ernst Fehr and Christian Zehnder

1624: Disagreement in Partners' Reports of Financial Difficulty

Robert Breunig, Deborah Cobb-Clark, Xiaodong Gong and Danielle Venn

1623: State Dependence in a Multi-State Model of Employment Dynamics

Victoria Prowse

1622: Dynamic Monopsony: Evidence from a French Establishment Panel

Fathi Fakhfakh and Felix FitzRoy

1621: Structural Labor Market Changes in France

Marcello Estevão and Nigar Nargis

1620: The Determinants of Firm Performance: Unions, Works Councils, and Employee Involvement/High Performance Work Practices

John Addison

1619: How Does Marriage Affect Physical and Psychological Health? A Survey of the Longitudinal Evidence

Chris Wilson and Andrew Oswald

1618: Making Sense of Bolkestein-Bashing: Trade Liberalization under Segmented Labor Markets

Gilles Saint-Paul

1617: Parental Leave – A Policy Evaluation of the Swedish "Daddy-Month" Reform

John Ekberg, Rickard Eriksson and Guido Friebel

1616: Nonparametric Bounds on the Effect of Deductibles in Health Care Insurance on Doctor Visits – Swiss Evidence

Michael Gerfin and Martin Schellhorn

1615: Returns to Foreign Education: Yet Another But Different Cross Country Analysis

Max Gruetter

1614: Economic Performance and Unemployment: Evidence from an Emerging Economy - Turkey

Hakan Berument, Nukhet Dogan and Aysıt Tansel

1613: Does Parental Leave Affect Fertility and Return-to-Work? Evidence from a "True Natural Experiment"

Rafael Lalive and Josef Zweimüller

1612: Student Flows and Migration: An Empirical Analysis

Axel Dreher and Panu Poutvaara

1611: Multinationals and Plant Exit: Evidence from Chile

Roberto Alvarez and Holger Görg

1610: Your Money or Your Life: Changing Job Quality in OECD Countries

Andrew Clark

1609: Effect of Private Tutoring on University Entrance Examination Performance in Turkey

Aysıt Tansel and Fatma Bircan

1608: "Der Noth gehorchend, nicht dem eignen Trieb" – Nascent Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs in Germany: Evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM)

Joachim Wagner

1607: Marriage, Wealth, and Unemployment Duration: A Gender Asymmetry Puzzle

Rasmus Lentz and Torben Tranaes

1606: Do Government Subsidies Stimulate Training Expenditure? Microeconometric Evidence from Plant Level Data

Holger Görg and Eric Strobl

1605: The Effects of School Class Size on Length of Post-Compulsory Education: Some Cost-Benefit Analysis

Paul Bingley, Vibeke Myrup Jensen and Ian Walker

1604: Return Intentions of University-Educated Turkish Expatriates

Nil Demet Güngör and Aysıt Tansel

1603: Opening the Black Box of Intra-Household Decision-Making: Theory and Non-Parametric Empirical Tests of General Collective Consumption Models

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock and Frederic Vermeulen

1602: When and How to Create a Job: The Survival of New Jobs in Austrian Firms

René Böheim, Alfred Stiglbauer and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

1601: Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

1600: Migration, Co-ordination Failures and EU Enlargement

Tito Boeri and Herbert Brücker

1599: Brain Gain: Claims about Its Size and Impact on Welfare and Growth Are Greatly Exaggerated

Maurice Schiff

1598: The Determinants of Return Intentions of Turkish Students and Professionals Residing Abroad: An Empirical Investigation

Nil Demet Güngör and Aysıt Tansel

1597: Time Discounting and the Body Mass Index

Lex Borghans and Bart Golsteyn

1596: Labour Use and Its Adjustment in Indian Manufacturing Industries

Amit Bhandari and Almas Heshmati

1595: Social Pressure Influences Decisions of Individuals: Evidence from the Behavior of Football Referees

Thomas Dohmen

1594: Food Insecurity and Insufficiency at Low Levels of Food Expenditures

Craig Gundersen and David Ribar

1593: Piecework versus Timework in British Wartime Engineering

Robert Hart

1592: Economic Integration, Market Power and Technological Change

Tapio Palokangas

1591: Is Marriage Poisonous? Are Relationships Taxing? An Analysis of the Male Marital Wage Differential in Denmark

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Nina Smith and Leslie Stratton

1590: International Migration: A Panel Data Analysis of Economic and Non-Economic Determinants

Anna Maria Mayda

1589: The Impact of Tax and Transfer Systems on Children in the European Union

Miles Corak, Christine Lietz and Holly Sutherland

1588: Some Practical Guidance for the Implementation of Propensity Score Matching

Marco Caliendo and Sabine Kopeinig

1587: Privatization Discontent and Its Determinants: Evidence from Latin America

Daniele Checchi, Massimo Florio and Jorge Carrera

1586: Wage Growth and Job Mobility in the U.K. and Germany

Christian Dustmann and Sonia C. Pereira

1585: A Structural Analysis of the Correlated Random Coefficient Wage Regression Model with an Application to the OLS-IV Puzzle

Christian Belzil and Jorgen Hansen

1584: Differences in Desired and Actual Fertility: An Economic Analysis of the Spanish Case

Alicia Adsera

1583: Norm Enforcement: Anger, Indignation or Reciprocity?

Jeffrey Carpenter and Peter Matthews

1582: Education and Inequality in Greece

Panos Tsakloglou and Ioannis Cholezas

1581: The Implicit Costs and Benefits of Family Friendly Work Practices

John Heywood, William Siebert and Xiangdong Wei

1580: The Value of Peripatetic Economists: A Sesqui-Difference Evaluation of Bob Gregory

Daniel Hamermesh

1579: Principles and Practicalities for Measuring Child Poverty in the Rich Countries

Miles Corak

1578: Measurement of Globalization and Its Variations Among Countries, Regions and Over Time

Amit Bhandari and Almas Heshmati

1577: Employment-Contingent Health Insurance, Illness, and Labor Supply of Women: Evidence from Married Women with Breast Cancer

Cathy J. Bradley, David Neumark, Zhehui Luo and Heather L. Bednarek

1576: Where Are the Babies? Labor Market Conditions and Fertility in Europe

Alicia Adsera

1575: Pathways to Early Retirement in Denmark, 1984-2000

Mona Larsen and Peder Pedersen

1574: Child Poverty and Changes in Child Poverty in Rich Countries Since 1990

Wen-Hao Chen and Miles Corak

1573: "It Wasn't Me, It Was Them!" - Social Influence in Risky Behavior by Adolescents

Andrew Clark and Youenn Loheac

1572: Two-Sided Search, Heterogeneous Skills and Labor Market Performance

Samuel Danthine

1571: The Benefits of Separating Early Retirees from the Unemployed: Simulation Results for Belgian Wage Earners

Raphaël Desmet, Alain Jousten and Sergio Perelman

1570: Minimum Wage or Negative Income Tax: Why Skilled Workers May Favor Wage Rigidities

Maya Bacache-Beauvallet and Etienne Lehmann

1569: The Establishment-Size Wage Premium: Evidence from European Countries

Thierry Lallemand, Robert Plasman and Francois Rycx

1568: Trade Policy and Illegal Immigration

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay and Ryo Takashima