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751: Are Computer Skills the New Basic Skills? The Returns to Computer, Writing and Math Skills in Britain

Lex Borghans and Bas ter Weel

750: New Evidence on the Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany - A Matching Approach with Threefold Heterogeneity

Reinhard Hujer, Marco Caliendo and Stephan Thomsen

749: The Educational Attainment of the Children of the Danish ‘Guest Worker’ Immigrants

Vibeke Jakobsen and Nina Smith

748: Economic Integration, Wage Policies and Social Policies

Michael P. Pflüger

747: Sectoral Structure and Entry Regulations

Julian Messina

746: Schooling Quality in Eastern Europe: Educational Production During Transition

Andreas Ammermüller, Hans Heijke and Ludger Woessmann

745: Educational Production in East Asia: The Impact of Family Background and Schooling Policies on Student Performance

Ludger Woessmann

744: Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence

Martin R. West and Ludger Woessmann

743: Substance Use and Earnings: The Case of Smokers in Germany

Guido Heineck and Johannes Schwarze

742: Building a Better Theory of Well-Being

Richard Easterlin

741: Wages, Sorting on Skill, and the Racial Composition of Jobs

Barry Hirsch and David Macpherson

740: Evaluating the Labor Market Performance of Veterans Using a Matched Comparison Group Design

Barry Hirsch and Stephen L. Mehay

739: Who's to Blame? The Determinants of German Students' Achievement in the PISA 2000 Study

Michael Fertig

738: Managerial Job Assignment and Imperfect Competition in Asymmetric Equilibrium

Volker Grossmann

737: Unions, Work-Related Training, and Wages: Evidence for British Men

Alison Booth, Marco Francesconi and Gylfi Zoega

736: The Employment Effects of Active Social Policy

Iben Bolvig, Peter Jensen and Michael Rosholm

735: Micro-Simulation of Social Security Reforms in Belgium

Raphaël Desmet, Alain Jousten, Sergio Perelman and Pierre Pestieau

734: Sibling Rivalry: A Six Country Comparison

Stefan Wolter

733: Wage Elasticity of the Teacher Supply in Switzerland

Stefan Wolter and Stefan Denzler

732: Clean Evidence on Peer Pressure

Armin Falk and Andrea Ichino

731: Educational Attainment: Analysis by Immigrant Generation

Barry Chiswick and Noyna DebBurman

730: Innovation and Employment: Evidence from Italian Microdata

Mariacristina Piva and Marco Vivarelli

729: Children and Women's Participation Dynamics: Transitory and Long-Term Effects

Alexandru Voicu and Hielke Buddelmeyer

728: What is the Value Added by Caseworkers?

Michael Lechner and Jeffrey Smith

727: Benchmarking Structural Change in Transition

Martin Raiser, Mark Schaffer and Johannes Schuchhardt

726: Job Matching and the Returns to Educational Signals

Steffen Habermalz

725: An Examination of Sheepskin Effects Over Time

Steffen Habermalz

724: The Impact of Deunionisation on Earnings Dispersion Revisited

John Addison, Ralph Bailey and William Siebert

723: A Test between Unemployment Theories Using Matching Data

Melvyn Coles and Barbara Petrongolo

722: Children's School Placement in Germany: Does Kindergarten Attendance Matter?

Katharina Spiess, Felix Büchel and Gert Wagner

721: Do Oppositional Identities Reduce Employment for Ethnic Minorities?

Harminder Battu, McDonald Mwale and Yves Zenou

720: Labour Market Regulation, Productivity-Improving R&D and Endogenous Growth

Tapio Palokangas

719: Equilibrium Directed Search with Multiple Applications

James Albrecht, Pieter Gautier and Susan Vroman

718: Consistency in Organization

Ekkehart Schlicht

717: International Fragmentation and Relative Wages in the UK

Alexander Hijzen, Holger Görg and Robert C. Hine

716: Is Labour Market Training a Curse for the Unemployed? Evidence from a Social Experiment

Michael Rosholm and Lars Skipper

715: A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys

Ernst Fehr, Urs Fischbacher, Bernhard von Rosenbladt, Jürgen Schupp and Gert Wagner

714: Educational Production, Endogenous Peer Group Formation and Class Composition – Evidence from the PISA 2000 Study

Michael Fertig

713: Does the Glass Ceiling Exist? A Cross-National Perspective on Gender Income Mobility

Ira Gang, John Landon-Lane and Myeong-Su Yun

712: Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation? On the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Altruism

Ernst Fehr and Joseph Henrich

711: Healthy Living in Hard Times

Christopher Ruhm

710: On the Wage Growth of Immigrants: Israel, 1990-2000

Zvi Eckstein and Yoram Weiss

709: Delays in Renewal of Labor Contracts: Theory and Evidence

Leif Danziger and Shoshana Neuman

708: Determinants of Trade Union Membership in Western Germany: Evidence from Micro Data, 1980-2000

Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner

707: Trade Union Membership in Eastern and Western Germany: Convergence or Divergence?

Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner

706: Blessing or Curse? Domestic Plants' Survival and Employment Prospects after Foreign Acquisitions

Sourafel Girma and Holger Görg

705: School Quality and Family Background in Italy

Giorgio Brunello and Daniele Checchi

704: Intrafirm Mobility and Sex Differences in Pay

Michael Ransom and Ronald Oaxaca

703: New Wine in Old Bottles: A Sequential Estimation Technique for the LPM

William Horrace and Ronald Oaxaca

702: How Does Globalization Affect the Synchronization of Business Cycles?

Ayhan Kose, Eswar Prasad and Marco Terrones

701: Earnings-Related Unemployment Benefits in a Unionised Economy

Laszlo Goerke and Jakob Madsen

700: Flexible Workplace Practices and Labor Productivity

Thomas Bauer

699: Educational Track, Networks and Labor Market Outcomes

David Margolis and Véronique Simonnet

698: Product Market Integration, Comparative Advantages and Labour Market Performance

Torben M. Andersen and Jan Skaksen

697: Differences in US-German Time-Allocation: Why Do Americans Work Longer Hours than Germans?

Ronald Schettkat

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 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 Skaksen and Anders Sørensen

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