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951: Raising Female Employment: Reflexions and Policy Tools

Pietro Garibaldi and Etienne Wasmer

950: Equilibrium Employment in a Model of Imperfect Labor Markets

Pietro Garibaldi and Etienne Wasmer

949: Minimum Wage Effects on Labor Market Outcomes under Search with Bargaining

Christopher Flinn

948: Effects of Employment Protection and Product Market Regulations on the Italian Labor Market

Adriana Kugler and Giovanni Pica

947: Potential, Prizes and Performance: Testing Tournament Theory with Professional Tennis Data

Uwe Sunde

946: Earnings Instability of Job Stayers and Job Changers

Marco Leonardi

945: Economic Integration and Labor Market Institutions: Worker Mobility, Earnings Risk, and Contract Structure

Ronnie Schöb and David Wildasin

944: Much Ado About Nothing? Do Domestic Firms Really Benefit from Foreign Direct Investment?

Holger Görg and Sir David Greenaway

943: What Have We Learned About the Employment Effects of Severance Pay? Further Iterations of Lazear et al

John Addison and Paulino Teixeira

942: Dynamic Modeling of the SSDI Application Timing Decision: The Importance of Policy Variables

Richard Burkhauser, J. Butler and Gulcin Gumus

941: Option Value and Dynamic Programming Model Estimates of Social Security Disability Insurance Application Timing

Richard Burkhauser, J. Butler and Gulcin Gumus

940: What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does It Pay? Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany

Amelie Constant, Yochanan Shachmurove and Klaus Zimmermann

939: Acquisition of Skills, Education Subsidies, and Agglomeration of Firms

Eric Toulemonde

938: Italian Migration

Daniela Del Boca and Alessandra Venturini

937: Fiscal Policy, Economic Integration and Unemployment

Wolfgang Eggert and Laszlo Goerke

936: Disability, Gender and the Labour Market

Melanie K. Jones, Paul Latreille and Peter Sloane

935: Performance, Seniority and Wages: Formal Salary Systems and Individual Earnings Profiles

Thomas Dohmen

934: The Skill Bias Effect of Technological and Organisational Change: Evidence and Policy Implications

Mariacristina Piva, Enrico Santarelli and Marco Vivarelli

933: Training in Europe

Wiji Arulampalam, Alison Booth and Mark Bryan

932: Guns, Drugs and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Panel of Siblings and Twins

Naci Mocan and Erdal Tekin

931: Time, Money, Peers, and Parents: Some Data and Theories on Teenage Behavior

Peter Kooreman

930: Individual Mortality and Macro-Economic Conditions from Birth to Death

Maarten Lindeboom, France Portrait and Gerard van den Berg

929: Empirical Labor Search: A Survey

Zvi Eckstein and Gerard van den Berg

928: Does City Structure Affect the Labor Market Outcomes of Black Workers?

Harris Selod and Yves Zenou

927: Loss Aversion and Labor Supply

Lorenz Götte, David Huffman and Ernst Fehr

926: Why the Apple Doesn't Fall Far: Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes

925: Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants, Part II: Empirical Evidence

Anna Damm and Michael Rosholm

924: Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants, Part I: Theory

Anna Damm and Michael Rosholm

923: Reducing Start-Up Costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labour Market

Uwe Dulleck, Paul Frijters and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

922: Working Hour Arrangements and Working Hours – A Microeconometric Analysis Based on German Time Use Diary Data

Joachim Merz and Derik Burgert

921: Sectoral Adjustment of Employment: The Impact of Outsourcing and Trade at the Micro Level

Peter Egger, Michael Pfaffermayr and Andrea Weber

920: Employment Changes, the Structure of Adjustment Costs, and Plant Size

Øivind Nilsen, Kjell G Salvanes and Fabio Schiantarelli

919: The Impact of Economic Integration on Employment – An Assessment in the Context of EU Enlargement

Michael Fertig

918: Dropping out of School? A Competing Risks Analysis of Young Immigrants’ Progress in the Educational System

Vibeke Jakobsen and Michael Rosholm

917: A Note on the Redistributive Effect of Immigration

Rob Euwals and Hans Roodenburg

916: Why Some Firms Train Apprentices and Many Others Do Not

Stefan Wolter, Samuel Mühlemann and Jürg Schweri

915: Macroeconomic Impacts of ALMP on the Matching Process in West Germany

Reinhard Hujer and Christopher Zeiss

914: Bargained Wages, Wage Drift and the Design of the Wage Setting System

Ana Rute Cardoso and Pedro Portugal

913: The Recent Economic Performance of Ukrainian Immigrants in Canada and the U.S

Sergiy Pivnenko and Don DeVoretz

912: An Experimental Study of the POUM Hypothesis

Daniele Checchi and Antonio Filippin

911: Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-All-Trades? A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data

Joachim Wagner

910: On-the-Job Training, Firing Costs and Employment

Pilar Diaz-Vazquez and Dennis Snower

909: Firm Heterogeneity in Capital/Labor Ratios and Wage Inequality

Marco Leonardi

908: Product Demand Shifts and Wage Inequality

Marco Leonardi

907: Supply and Demand, Allocation and Wage Inequality: An International Comparison

Arnaud Dupuy and Lex Borghans

906: A Meta-Analysis of the International Gender Wage Gap

Doris Weichselbaumer and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

905: Rhetoric in Economic Research: The Case of Gender Wage Differentials

Doris Weichselbaumer and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

904: Trends in Income Inequality, Pro-Poor Income Growth and Income Mobility

Stephen Jenkins and Philippe Van Kerm

903: Evaluating the Causal Effects of Foreign Acquisition on Domestic Skilled and Unskilled Wages

Sourafel Girma and Holger Görg

902: Immigrant Job Search in the UK: Evidence from Panel Data

Paul Frijters, Michael Shields and Stephen Wheatley Price

901: Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency: The Case of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001

Peter Orazem and Milan Vodopivec

900: Compensating Differentials in Emerging Labor and Housing Markets: Estimates of Quality of Life in Russian Cities

Mark Berger, Glenn Blomquist and Klara Sabirianova Peter

899: Unemployment in the European Union: Institutions, Prices, and Growth

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala and Dennis Snower

898: Nonparametric Estimation of a Dependent Competing Risks Model for Unemployment Durations

Gerard van den Berg, Gijsbert van Lomwel and Jan van Ours

897: Relational Contracts and the Nature of Market Interactions

Martin Brown, Armin Falk and Ernst Fehr

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 Snower

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

Robert 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 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 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