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696: Institutions in the Economic Fitness Landscape: What Impact Do Welfare State Institutions Have on Economic Performance?

Ronald Schettkat

695: Out-of-Pocket Prescription Drug Expenditures and Public Prescription Drug Programs

Sule Alan, Thomas Crossley, Paul Grootendorst and Michael Veall

694: What Determines the Reservation Wages of Unemployed Workers? New Evidence from German Micro Data

Eswar Prasad

693: Spatial Mismatch: From the Hypothesis to the Theories

Laurent Gobillon, Harris Selod and Yves Zenou

692: Spatial Mismatch, Search Effort and Urban Spatial Structure

Tony E. Smith and Yves Zenou

691: Scale Effects in Markets with Search

Barbara Petrongolo and Christopher Pissarides

690: Contracting with Private Information

Marcus Hagedorn

689: The Effects of Union Wage-Settings on Firms’ Production Factor Decisions

Almas Heshmati and Ilham Haouas

688: The Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Employment and Wages in Tunisian Industries

Ilham Haouas, Mahmoud Yagoubi and Almas Heshmati

687: Labour-Use Efficiency in Tunisian Manufacturing Industries

Ilham Haouas, Mahmoud Yagoubi and Almas Heshmati

686: Permanent and Transitory Wage Inequality of British Men, 1975-2001: Year, Age and Cohort Effects

Adriaan Kalwij and Rob Alessie

685: Do We Need Computer Skills to Use a Computer? Evidence from Britain

Lex Borghans and Bas ter Weel

684: The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment: Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants

Patrick Puhani

683: Is Education Used as a Signaling Device for Productivity in Developing Countries? Evidence from Ghana

Eric Strobl

682: Vocational Training of Unemployed Workers in Belgium

Bart Cockx

681: An Adverse Selection Model of Optimal Unemployment Insurance

Marcus Hagedorn, Ashok Kaul and Tim Mennel

680: Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland: Fakten, Ursachen und Bekämpfung

Marcus Hagedorn and Ashok Kaul

679: Establishment Age and Wages: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Arnd Kölling, Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner

678: Fostering Within-Family Human Capital Investment: An Intragenerational Insurance Perspective of Social Security

Martin Barbie, Marcus Hagedorn and Ashok Kaul

677: Class Ridden or Meritocratic? An Economic Analysis of Recent Changes in Britain

Fernando Galindo-Rueda and Anna Vignoles

676: Agriculture: Transition Buffer or Black Hole? A Three-State Model of Employment Dynamics

Alexandru Voicu

675: Gross Job Flows in Ukraine: Size, Ownership and Trade Effects

Jozef Konings, Olga Kupets and Hartmut Lehmann

674: The Wealth and Asset Holdings of U.S.- Born and Foreign-Born Households: Evidence from SIPP Data

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Vincent A. Hildebrand

673: Labour as a Buffer: Do Temporary Workers Suffer?

Alison Booth, Marco Francesconi and Jeff Frank

672: Self-Selection, Earnings, and Out-Migration: A Longitudinal Study of Immigrants to Germany

Amelie Constant and Douglas S. Massey

671: School Effects and Labor Market Outcomes for Young Adults in the 1980s and 1990s

Amelie Constant and Spyros Konstantopoulos

670: From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History

Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein

669: Assessing Unemployment Traps in Belgium Using Panel Data Sample Selection Models

Anna D'Addio, Isabelle De Greef and Michael Rosholm

668: Solow and Heterogeneous Labor: A Neoclassical Explanation of Wage Inequality

Jürgen Meckl and Stefan Zink

667: Arbeitsmarkteffekte und finanzpolitische Folgen der demographischen Alterung in Deutschland

Pascal Arnds and Holger Bonin

666: Frühverrentung in Deutschland: Ökonomische Anreize und institutionelle Strukturen

Pascal Arnds and Holger Bonin

665: Fancy a Stay at the 'Hotel California'? Foreign Direct Investment, Taxation and Firing Costs

Holger Görg

664: Skill Upgrading and Rigid Relative Wages: The Case of Danish Manufacturing

Jan Rose Skaksen and Anders Sorensen

663: Another Look at the New York City School Voucher Experiment

Alan Krueger and Pei Zhu

662: Getting It Right: Employment Subsidy or Minimum Wage?

Eric Strobl and Frank Walsh

661: Efficiency Wages and Effort: Are Hard Jobs Better?

Eric Strobl and Frank Walsh

660: Do Large Employers Pay More in Developing Countries? The Case of Five African Countries

Eric Strobl and Robert Thornton

659: Defining Unemployment in Developing Countries: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago

Eric Strobl and David Byrne

658: Why Do Students Expect to Stay Longer in College? Evidence from Europe

Giorgio Brunello and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

657: Employment Consequences of Restrictive Permanent Contracts: Evidence from Spanish Labor Market Reforms

Adriana Kugler, Juan F Jimeno and Virginia Hernanz

656: The Impact of the Unemployment Benefit System on International Spillover Effects

Thomas Beissinger and Oliver Buesse

655: Effects of In-Class Variation and Student Rank on the Probability of Withdrawal: Cross-Section and Time-Series Analysis for UK University Students

Wiji Arulampalam, Robin Naylor and Jeremy Smith

654: Deaths Rise in Good Economic Times: Evidence From the OECD

Ulf-G. Gerdtham and Christopher Ruhm

653: Money for Health: The Compensating Variation of Cardiovascular Diseases

Wim Groot, Henriette Maassen van den Brink and Erik Plug

652: How Do Parents Raise the Educational Attainment of Future Generations?

Erik Plug

651: Social Evolution, Corporate Culture, and Exploitation

Ekkehart Schlicht

650: Overeducation and Ethnic Minorities in Britain

Harminder Battu and Peter J. Sloane

649: From Parent to Child: Early Labor Market Experiences of Second-Generation Immigrants in the Netherlands

Jan van Ours and Justus Veenman

648: Works Councils – Sand or Grease in the Operation of German Firms?

Thorsten Schank, Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner

647: Envy and Compassion in Tournaments

Christian Grund and Dirk Sliwka

646: The Return of the Long-Run Phillips Curve

Liam Graham and Dennis J. Snower

645: Long-Run Inflation-Unemployment Dynamics: The Spanish Phillips Curve and Economic Policy

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala and Dennis J. Snower

644: Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth Under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition

J. David Brown and John Earle

643: Parental Separation and Children's Educational Attainment: A Siblings Approach

Anders Bjorklund and Marianne Sundström

642: The Effect of Immigration on Wages in Three European Countries

Joop Hartog and Aslan Zorlu

641: Earnings Risk and Demand for Higher Education: A Cross-Section Test for Spain

Joop Hartog and Luis Diaz-Serrano

640: Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors: Does It Matter?

Joop Hartog, Nicole Jonker and Hans van Ophem

639: Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?

Gilles Saint-Paul

638: The Dynamics of Food Deprivation and Overall Health: Evidence from the Canadian National Population Health Survey

Logan McLeod and Michael Veall

637: Household Labor Supply Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies in Germany

Holger Bonin, Wolfram Kempe and Hilmar Schneider

636: A Reappraisal of the Inflation-Unemployment Tradeoff

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala and Dennis J. Snower

635: An Anatomy of the Phillips Curve

Dennis J. Snower and Marika Karanassou

634: Doctors Without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel

Adriana Kugler and Robert M. Sauer

633: Employee Referrals and Efficiency Wages

Adriana Kugler

632: Duration Dependence in the Exit Rate out of Unemployment in Belgium: Is It True or Spurious?

Bart Cockx and Muriel Dejemeppe

631: The Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality: Evidence from 1970-1990

Harriet Duleep and Mark Regets

630: State Dependence in Unemployment Incidence: Evidence for British Men Revisited

Wiji Arulampalam

629: Caste, Ethnicity and Poverty in Rural India

Ira Gang, Kunal Sen and Myeong-Su Yun

628: Assisting the Long-Term Unemployed: Results from a Randomized Trial

Robert Breunig, Deborah Cobb-Clark, Yvonne Dunlop and Marion Terrill

627: Cyclical Fluctuations in Workplace Accidents

Jan Boone and Jan van Ours

626: Gender Differences in Entry Wages and Early Career Wages

Astrid Kunze

625: Endogenous Wage and Capital Dispersion, On-the-Job Search and the Matching Technology

Fernando Galindo-Rueda

624: Personal and Regional Determinants of Entrepreneurial Activities: Empirical Evidence from the REM Germany

Joachim Wagner and Rolf Sternberg

623: The Dynamics of Job Creation and Destruction for University Graduates: Why a Rising Unemployment Rate Can Be Misleading

Ana Rute Cardoso and Priscila Ferreira

622: Should UI Benefits Really Fall Over Time?

John Hassler and Sevi Rodríguez Mora

621: On Market Forces and Human Evolution

Gilles Saint-Paul

620: Public Policy and the Labor Market Adjustment of New Immigrants to Australia

Deborah Cobb-Clark

619: The Changing Nature of Employment-Related Sexual Harassment: Evidence from the U.S. Federal Government (1978-1994)

Heather Antecol and Deborah Cobb-Clark

618: Oligopsony, Institutions and the Efficiency of General Training

Alison Booth, Marco Francesconi and Gylfi Zoega

617: Allocating Awards Across Noncomparable Categories

Lonnie Magee and Michael Veall

616: Macroeconometric Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies in Germany – A Dynamic Panel Approach Using Regional Data

Reinhard Hujer, Uwe Blien, Marco Caliendo and Christopher Zeiss

615: The Dynamics of Market Insurance, Insurable Assets, and Wealth Accumulation

Winfried Koeniger

614: Long-Term Effects of Unpaid Overtime: Evidence for West Germany

Markus Pannenberg

613: Internet Job Search and Unemployment Durations

Peter Kuhn and Mikal Skuterud

612: A Matching Model of Crowding-Out and On-the-Job Search (with an Application to Spain)

Juan Dolado, Marcel Jansen and Juan F Jimeno

611: Some Thoughts on Macroeconomic Fluctuations and the Timing of Labor Market Reform

Gilles Saint-Paul

610: Unemployment Benefits, Risk Aversion, and Migration Incentives

Axel Heitmueller

609: Cognitive Ability and Paternalism

Gilles Saint-Paul

608: Economic Aspects of Human Cloning and Reprogenetics

Gilles Saint-Paul

607: How Do Firms Redline Workers?

Yves Zenou

606: Does Subsidised Temporary Employment Get the Unemployed Back to Work? An Econometric Analysis of Two Different Schemes

Michael Gerfin, Michael Lechner and Heidi Steiger

605: The Wage Policy of Firms – Comparative Evidence for the U.S. and Germany from Personnel Data

Christian Grund

604: The Effect of Family Income During Childhood on Later-Life Attainment: Evidence from Germany

Stephen Jenkins and Christian Schluter

603: Income Effects from Labor Market Training Programs in Sweden During the 80’s and 90’s

Thomas Andrén and Björn Anders Gustafsson

602: Migration in the Soviet Successor States

Lilo Locher

601: What Drives the Speed of Job Reallocation During Episodes of Massive Adjustment?

Stepan Jurajda and Katherine Terrell

600: Explaining Gender Differences in Unemployment with Micro Data on Flows in Post-Communist Economies

Jana Stefanová Lauerová and Katherine Terrell

599: Catholic Schools and Bad Behavior

Naci Mocan, Benjamin Scafidi and Erdal Tekin

598: Credit Market Constraints and Labor Market Decisions

Daniela Del Boca and Annamaria Lusardi

597: Disentangling Pay and Productivity in a Corporatist Economy: The Case of Germany

Scott Fuess and Meghan Millea