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496: Changes in the Structure of Earnings During the Polish Transition

Michael Keane and Eswar Prasad

495: German Works Councils Old and New: Incidence, Coverage and Determinants

John Addison, Lutz Bellmann, Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner

494: The Role of the Regional Milieu for the Decision to Start a New Firm: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Joachim Wagner and Rolf Sternberg

493: Work-Related Stress, Quitting Intentions and Absenteeism

Rannia Leontaridi and Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

492: Benefit Entitlement and Unemployment Duration: The Role of Policy Endogeneity

Rafael Lalive and Josef Zweimüller

491: On the Production of Victory: Empirical Determinants of Battlefield Success in Modern War

Ralph Rotte and Christoph Schmidt

490: Social Security and Taxation of Labour Subject to Subsidiarity and Freedom of Movement

Wolfram Richter

489: Employment Patterns of Husbands and Wives and Family Income Distribution in Italy (1977-1998)

Daniela Del Boca and Silvia Pasqua

488: Identifying Human Capital Externalities: Theory with an Application to US Cities

Antonio Ciccone and Giovanni Peri

487: Identifying the Common Component of International Economic Fluctuations: A New Approach

Robin L. Lumsdaine and Eswar Prasad

486: Who Pays for General Training? New Evidence for British Men and Women

Alison Booth and Mark Bryan

485: Class-Size Effects in School Systems Around the World: Evidence from Between-Grade Variation in TIMSS

Ludger Woessmann and Martin R. West

484: Institutional Effects in a Simple Model of Educational Production

John H. Bishop and Ludger Woessmann

483: In-Group Cooperation in a Hostile Environment: An Economic Perspective on Some Aspects of Jewish Life in (Pre-Modern) Diaspora

Hillel Rapoport and Avi Weiss

482: Leadership Skills and Wages

Peter Kuhn and Catherine Weinberger

481: Hiring Standards and Market Clearing

Ekkehart Schlicht

480: The Complexity of Economic Policy: I. Restricted Local Optima in Tax Policy Design

Gilles Saint-Paul

479: Unions and Employment Growth: The One Constant?

John Addison and Clive R. Belfield

478: Uneven Technical Progress and Unemployment

Hans Gersbach and Achim Schniewind

477: Natives, the Foreign-Born and High School Equivalents: New Evidence on the Returns to the GED

Melissa A. Clark and David Jaeger

476: Human Capital versus Social Capital: A Comparative Analysis of Immigrant Wages and Labor Market Incorporation in Japan and the United States

Wayne A. Cornelius, Takeyuki Tsuda and Zulema Valdez

475: A Macroeconomic Experiment in Mass Immigration

Zvi Hercowitz and Eran Yashiv

474: Unions, Works Councils and Plant Closings in Germany

John Addison, Lutz Bellmann and Arnd Kölling

473: A pint a day raises a man's pay; but smoking blows that gain away

Jan van Ours

472: Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts of Economic Growth

Reto Foellmi and Josef Zweimüller

471: Immigrants' Language Skills and Visa Category

Barry Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee and Paul Miller

470: Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?

Alessandro Cigno, Furio Rosati and Lorenzo Guarcello

469: The Effect of Benefit Sanctions on the Duration of Unemployment

Rafael Lalive, Jan van Ours and Josef Zweimüller

468: The Impact of Risk Aversion, Role Models, and the Regional Milieu on the Transition from Unemployment to Self-Employment: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Joachim Wagner

467: Are Immigrants Competing with Natives in the Italian Labour Market? The Employment Effect

Alessandra Venturini and Claudia Villosio

466: Unemployment, Labour Force Composition and Sickness Absence: A Panel Data Study

Jan Erik Askildsen, Espen Bratberg and Øivind Nilsen

465: Intergenerational Social Mobility and Assortative Mating in Britain

John Ermisch and Marco Francesconi

464: The Hold-Down Problem and the Boundaries of the Firm: Lesson from a Hidden Action Model with Endogenous Outside Option

Wendelin Schnedler and Uwe Sunde

463: Labor Supply Dynamics, Umemployment and Human Capital Investments

Etienne Wasmer

462: The Determinants of the Geographic Concentration among Immigrants: Application to Australia

Barry Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee and Paul Miller

461: Welfare and Labor Earnings: An Evaluation of the Financial Gains to Work

Marc Gurgand and David Margolis

460: Family Matters: The Role of the Family in Immigrants' Destination Language Acquisition

Barry Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee and Paul Miller

459: The Covariance Structure of East and West German Incomes and its Implications for the Persistence of Poverty and Inequality

Martin Biewen

458: Inventories, Employment and Hours

Marzio Galeotti, Louis Maccini and Fabio Schiantarelli

457: Health and Work of the Elderly: Subjective Health Measures, Reporting Errors and the Endogenous Relationship between Health and Work

Maarten Lindeboom and Marcel Kerkhofs

456: International Integration, Risk and the Welfare State

Torben M. Andersen

455: Unions and Establishment Performance: Evidence from the British Workplace Industrial/Employee Relations Surveys

John Addison and Clive R. Belfield

454: Defensive Innovations

Winfried Koeniger

453: Removing the Veil of Ignorance in Assessing the Distributional Impacts of Social Policies

Pedro Carneiro, Karsten T. Hansen and James J. Heckman

452: Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Occupational Mobility: A Test of the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis

Barry Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee and Paul Miller

451: The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

450: Schooling, Literacy, Numeracy and Labor Market Success

Barry Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee and Paul Miller

449: Do Enclaves Matter in Immigrant Adjustment?

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

448: Inequality, Transfers and Growth: New Evidence from the Economic Transition in Poland

Michael Keane and Eswar Prasad

447: Mobility within Europe – What do we (still not) know?

Michael Fertig and Christoph Schmidt

446: Macroeconomic Policy Lessons of Labor Market Frictions

Eran Yashiv

445: Informational Cascades and Decision to Migrate

Gil Epstein

444: Benefit Entitlement and the Labor Market: Evidence from a Large-Scale Policy Change

Rafael Lalive and Josef Zweimüller

443: Identifying Functional Labour Market Areas in New Zealand: A Reconnaissance Study Using Travel-to-Work Data

Kerry Papps and James O. Newell

442: Estimating the Effect of Income on Health and Mortality Using Lottery Prizes as Exogenous of Variation in Income

Mikael Lindahl

441: Earnings Inequality and Transition: A Regional Analysis of Poland

Christopher W. Sibley and Patrick Walsh

440: Dealer Pricing of Consumer Credit

Giuseppe Bertola, Stefan Hochguertel and Winfried Koeniger

439: Does Divorce Law Matter?

Giulio Fella, Paola Manzini and Marco Mariotti

438: Employment Dynamics in the Romanian Labor Market: A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach

Alexandru Voicu

437: Evaluating Immigration Policy Potentials and Limitations

Michael Fertig

436: The Evolution of the Early Career Gender Wage Gap

Astrid Kunze

435: Perceived Income, Promotion and Incentive Effects

Gil Epstein and Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

434: From Severance Pay to Self-Insurance: Effects of Severance Payments Savings Accounts in Colombia

Adriana Kugler

433: Protective or Counter-Productive? Labor Market Institutions and the Effect Immigration on EU Natives

Joshua Angrist and Adriana Kugler

432: Employment, Wages, and Alcohol Consumption in Russia: Evidence from Panel Data

Erdal Tekin

431: The Perception of Foreigners and Jews in Germany - A Structural Analysis of a Large Opinion Survey

Michael Fertig and Christoph Schmidt

430: Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? Evidence From German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction

Johannes Schwarze and Marco Härpfer

429: Does Future PC Use Determine Our Wages Today? Evidence from German Panel Data

Silke Anger and Johannes Schwarze

428: Mothers, Fathers and Children after Divorce: The Role of Institutions

Daniela Del Boca

427: The Effect of Child Care and Part Time Opportunities on Participation and Fertility Decisions in Italy

Daniela Del Boca

426: Do Wages Really Compensate for Risk Aversion and Skewness Affection?

Joop Hartog and Wim Vijverberg

425: Successful Apprenticeship-to-Work Transitions: On the Long-Term Change in Significance of the German School-Leaving Certificate

Felix Büchel

424: Overeducation, Regional Labour Markets and Spatial Flexibility

Felix Büchel and Maarten van Ham

423: Transfer Fee Regulations in European Football

Eberhard Feess and Gerd Muehlheusser

422: The Long Awaited Reform of the German Works Constitution Act

John Addison, Lutz Bellmann, Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner

421: Divide et Impera: Negotiating with a Stakeholder

Paola Manzini

420: Higher Education Levels, Firms' Outside Options and the Wage Structure

Åsa Rosén and Etienne Wasmer

419: The Value of Reunification in Germany: An Analysis of Changes in Life Satisfaction

Paul Frijters, John de New and Michael Shields

418: Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany

Markus Frölich and Patrick Puhani

417: Taking a Second Chance: Entrepreneurial Restarters in Germany

Joachim Wagner

416: Employed 40 Hours or Not-Employed 39: Lessons from the 1982 Mandatory Reduction of the Workweek

Bruno Crépon and Francis Kramarz

415: Does Entry Regulation Hinder Job Creation? Evidence from the French Retail Industry

Marianne Bertrand and Francis Kramarz

414: Where Did They Go?

Anders Frederiksen and Niels Westergård-Nielsen

413: Participation Behavior of East German Women after German Unification

Holger Bonin and Rob Euwals

412: Government Debt as Insurance against Macroeconomic Risk

Martin Barbie, Marcus Hagedorn and Ashok Kaul

411: The Response of Consumption in Russian Households to Economic Shocks

Steven Stillman

410: Wage Arrears and the Distribution of Earnings in Russia

Hartmut Lehmann and Jonathan Wadsworth

409: Fertility, Female Labor Supply and Public Policy

Patricia Apps and Ray Rees

408: Nonprofit Sector and Part-Time Work: An Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data of Child Care Workers

Naci Mocan and Erdal Tekin

407: Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany

Ronald Schettkat and Lara Yocarini

406: Labor Market Flows and Equilibrium Search Unemployment

Pietro Garibaldi and Etienne Wasmer

405: Testing for the Option Value of Migration

Lilo Locher

404: Human Capital Spill-Overs Within the Workplace

Harminder Battu, Clive R. Belfield and Peter J. Sloane

403: How Do Layoff Costs Affect Employment?

Lars Ljungqvist

402: Did the Elimination of Mandatory Retirement Affect Faculty Retirement Flows?

Orley Ashenfelter and David Card

401: Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Monitoring and Sanctions

Jan Boone, Peter Fredriksson, Bertil Holmlund and Jan van Ours

400: The Predictive Value of Subjective Labour Supply Data: A Dynamic Panel Data Model with Measurement Error

Rob Euwals

399: Using Employer Hiring Behavior to Test the Educational Signaling Hypothesis

James Albrecht and Jan van Ours

398: An Econometric Analysis of the Mental-Health Effects of Major Events in the Life of Elderly Individuals

Maarten Lindeboom, France Portrait and Gerard van den Berg

397: Evaluating Environmental Programs: The Perspective of Modern Evaluation Research

Manuel Frondel and Christoph Schmidt