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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

851: Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Theory and Practice

Joshua Angrist

850: Nobody to Play With? The Implications of Leisure Coordination

Stephen Jenkins and Lars Osberg

849: Traits, Imitation, and Evolutionary Dynamics

Wendelin Schnedler

848: Does It Pay to Attend a Prestigious University?

Arnaud Chevalier and Gavan Conlon

847: Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings

Barry Chiswick

846: Diverging Patterns of Education Premium and School Attendance in France and the US: A Walrasian View

David de la Croix and Frédéric Docquier

845: Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Note on Employment Protection, Domestic Anchorage, and FDI

Gerda Dewit, Holger Görg and Catia Montagna

844: On the Hidden Costs of Incentive Schemes

Dirk Sliwka

843: Simulation and Estimation of Hedonic Models

James Heckman, Rosa Matzkin and Lars Nesheim

842: Rent Control and Unemployment Duration

Michael Svarer, Michael Rosholm and Jakob Munch

841: Skill-Biased Technical Change in U.S. Manufacturing: A General Index Approach

Badi Baltagi and Daniel Rich

840: Equilibrium Unemployment Under Negotiated Profit Sharing

Erkki Koskela and Rune Stenbacka

839: Is Training More Frequent When Wage Compression is Higher? Evidence from the European Community Household Panel

Andrea Bassanini and Giorgio Brunello

838: Government Grants, Plant Survival and Employment Growth: A Micro-Econometric Analysis

Sourafel Girma, Holger Görg and Eric Strobl

837: What You Always Wanted to Know About Censoring But Never Dared to Ask – Parameter Estimation for Censored Random Vectors

Wendelin Schnedler

836: A Simple Solution to the Identification Problem in Detailed Wage Decompositions

Myeong-Su Yun

835: Job Turnover, Unemployment and Labor Market Institutions

Gilles Joseph, Olivier Pierrard and Henri Sneessens

834: Protecting Against Labour Market Risk: Employment Protection or Unemployment Benefits?

Tito Boeri, J. Ignacio Conde-Ruiz and Vincenzo Galasso

833: Structural Reforms and the Macroeconomy: The Role of General Equilibrium Effects

Hans Gersbach

832: Joint Labour Supply Dynamics of Older Couples

Pierre-Carl Michaud

831: Analyzing the Effect of Dynamically Assigned Treatments Using Duration Models, Binary Treatment Models, and Panel Data Models

Jaap Abbring and Gerard van den Berg

830: Emigration from the UK, 1870-1913 and 1950-1998

Timothy Hatton

829: Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education: Evidence from China in 2000

James Heckman and Xuesong Li

828: School Choice and Quality

Daniele Checchi and Tullio Jappelli

827: An Evaluation of the Performance of Regression Discontinuity Design on PROGRESA

Hielke Buddelmeyer and Emmanuel Skoufias

826: The Effect of Schooling and Ability on Achievement Test Scores

Karsten T. Hansen, James Heckman and Kathleen Mullen

825: Gender Wage Gap in Expectations and Realizations

Antonio Filippin and Andrea Ichino

824: Discrimination and Workers' Expectations: Experimental Evidence

Antonio Filippin

823: Discrimination and Workers' Expectations

Antonio Filippin

822: The Effects of Competition and Equal Treatment Laws on the Gender Wage Differential

Doris Weichselbaumer and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

821: Human Capital Policy

Pedro Carneiro and James Heckman

820: The Effects of Merit-Based Financial Aid on Course Enrollment, Withdrawal and Completion in College

Christopher Cornwell, Kyung Hee Lee and David Mustard

819: Brain Drain and LDCs' Growth: Winners and Losers

Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier and Hillel Rapoport

818: The Surprising Retreat of Union Britain

John Pencavel

817: Measuring Globalization

Torben M. Andersen and Tryggvi Herbertsson

816: The Early Retirement Burden: Assessing the Costs of the Continued Prevalence of Early Retirement in OECD Countries

Tryggvi Herbertsson and Mike Orszag

815: Measuring Heterogeneity in the Returns to Education in Norway Using Educational Reforms

Arild Aakvik, Kjell G Salvanes and Kjell Vaage

814: Measuring Labor Market Frictions: A Cross-Country Comparison

Geert Ridder and Gerard van den Berg

813: Firm-Specific Human Capital: A Skill-Weights Approach

Edward Lazear

812: German Works Councils in the Production Process

John Addison, Thorsten Schank, Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner

811: Firms, Industries, and Unemployment Insurance: An Analysis Using Employer-Employee Data

Miles Corak and Wen-Hao Chen

810: A Simple Procedure for the Evaluation of Treatment Effects on Duration Variables

Jaap Abbring and Gerard van den Berg

809: The Brain Drain: Curse or Boon?

Simon Commander, Mari Kangasniemi and L. Winters

808: Remittances and Inequality: A Dynamic Migration Model

Frédéric Docquier and Hillel Rapoport

807: Testing for Employee Discrimination Using Matched Employer-Employee Data: Theory and Evidence

Paul Frijters, Michael Shields, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos and Stephen Wheatley Price

806: Multiple Equilibria and Minimum Wages in Labor Markets with Informational Frictions and Heterogeneous Production Technologies

Gerard van den Berg

805: The Effect of Search Frictions on Wages

Gerard van den Berg and Aico van Vuuren

804: Dynamic Econometric Program Evaluation

Jaap Abbring

803: Social Interactions in Unemployment

Rafael Lalive

802: Assimilation via Prices or Quantities? Labor Market Institutions and Immigrant Earnings Growth in Australia, Canada, and the United States

Heather Antecol, Peter Kuhn and Stephen Trejo

801: A Study of the Austrian Labor Market Dynamics Using a Model of Search Equilibrium

Andrey Launov

800: Sind Nominallöhne starr? Neuere Evidenz und wirtschaftspolitische Implikationen

Thomas Beissinger and Christoph Knoppik

799: General Human Capital and Employment Adjustment in the Great Depression: Apprentices and Journeymen in UK Engineering

Robert Hart

798: The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program

James Heckman and Jeffrey Smith

797: Assessing Changes in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility

Espen Bratberg, Øivind Nilsen and Kjell Vaage

796: Gender, Time Use and Models of the Household

Patricia Apps

795: Reconsidering Union Wage Effects: Surveying New Evidence on an Old Topic

Barry Hirsch

794: Investigating the Quitting Decision of Nurses: Panel Data Evidence from the British National Health Service

Paul Frijters, Michael Shields and Stephen Wheatley Price

793: Foreign Direct Investment, Labour Market Regulation and Self-Interested Governments

Tapio Palokangas

792: What Happens When Agent T Gets a Computer? The Labor Market Impact of Cost Efficient Computer Adoption

Lex Borghans and Bas ter Weel

791: Fixed-Term Contracts and the Duration Distribution of Unemployment

Maia Güell

790: Hidden Information Problems in the Design of Family Allowances

Alessandro Cigno, Annalisa Luporini and Anna Pettini

789: Recruitment and Pay at the Establishment Level: Gender Segregation and the Wage Gap in Portugal

José Vieira, Ana Rute Cardoso and Miguel Portela

788: Immigrants in the UK and in West Germany – Relative Income Position, Income Portfolio, and Redistribution Effects

Felix Büchel and Joachim Frick

787: Employment Protection Legislation and the Size of Firms

Pietro Garibaldi, Lia Pacelli and Andrea Borgarello

786: Using State Administrative Data to Measure Program Performance

Peter Mueser, Kenneth Troske and Alexey Gorislavsky

785: The Effects of Foreign Owned Firms on the Labor Market

Rita Almeida

784: Low-Skilled Unemployment, Biased Technological Shocks and Job Competition

Olivier Pierrard and Henri Sneessens

783: Match Bias in Wage Gap Estimates Due to Earnings Imputation

Barry Hirsch and Edward J. Schumacher

782: How Binding Are Legal Limits? Transitions from Temporary to Permanent Work in Spain

Maia Güell and Barbara Petrongolo

781: A Structural Empirical Model of Firm Growth, Learning, and Survival

Jaap Abbring and Jeffrey Campbell

780: Temporary Contracts and Employee Effort

Axel Engellandt and Regina Riphahn

779: Who Are the Chronic Poor? Evidence on the Extent and the Composition of Chronic Poverty in Germany

Martin Biewen

778: Employer Learning and Schooling-Related Statistical Discrimination in Britain

Fernando Galindo-Rueda

777: It's all about Connections: Evidence on Network Formation

Armin Falk and Michael Kosfeld

776: Determinants of Profit Sharing in the Finnish Corporate Sector

Laura Arranz-Aperte and Almas Heshmati

775: Fifty Years of Mincer Earnings Regressions

James Heckman, Lance Lochner and Petra Todd

774: Labor Market Segmentation and the Earnings of German Guestworkers

Amelie Constant and Douglas S. Massey

773: Job Mobility in Britain: Are the Scots Different? Evidence from the BHPS

Axel Heitmueller

772: Search Intensity, Cost of Living and Local Labor Markets in Britain

Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou

771: Job Matching, Social Network and Word-of-Mouth Communication

Antoni Calvó-Armengol and Yves Zenou

770: Coordination Failures in Network Migration

Axel Heitmueller

769: Household Labor Supply and Welfare Participation in Sweden

Lennart Flood, Jorgen Hansen and Roger Wahlberg

768: Using Matching, Instrumental Variables and Control Functions to Estimate Economic Choice Models

James Heckman and Salvador Navarro

767: Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College Choice

Pedro Carneiro, Karsten T. Hansen and James Heckman

766: How Important Is Guaranteed or Institutionalised Overtime?

David Bell and Robert Hart

765: On the Prudence of Rewarding A While Hoping for B

Wendelin Schnedler

764: A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Patrick Puhani

763: Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson Inequality Indices from Complex Survey Data

Martin Biewen and Stephen Jenkins

762: The Impact of In-Work Benefits on Poverty and Household Labour Supply: A Simulation Study for Switzerland

Michael Gerfin and Robert E. Leu

761: Output-Based Pay: Incentives, Retention or Sorting?

Edward Lazear

760: Entrepreneurship

Edward Lazear

759: The Peter Principle: A Theory of Decline

Edward Lazear

758: Equilibrium Policy Experiments and the Evaluation of Social Programs

Jeremy Lise, Shannon Seitz and Jeffrey Smith

757: Teen Births Keep American Crime High

Jennifer Hunt

756: Swimming Upstream, Floating Downstream: Comparing Women's Relative Wage Positions in the U.S. and Denmark

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Ronald Oaxaca and Nina Smith