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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

755: In Support of the Supporters? Do Social Forces Shape Decisions of the Impartial?

Thomas Dohmen

754: Separability of Duration Dependence and Unobserved Heterogeneity

Hélène Turon

753: Unemployment Equilibrium and On-the-Job Search

Simon Burgess and Hélène Turon

752: Skill-Biased Technological Change in Denmark: A Disaggregate Perspective

Nikolaj Malchow-Møller and Jan Skaksen

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