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651: Social Evolution, Corporate Culture, and Exploitation

Ekkehart Schlicht

650: Overeducation and Ethnic Minorities in Britain

Harminder Battu and Peter 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 Snower

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

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala and Dennis 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 Snower

635: An Anatomy of the Phillips Curve

Dennis Snower and Marika Karanassou

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

Adriana Kugler and Robert 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

596: Relative Wages, Openness and Skill-Biased Technological Change

Holger Görg and Eric Strobl

595: Work-Related Training and the New National Minimum Wage in Britain

Wiji Arulampalam, Alison Booth and Mark Bryan

594: Sibling Rivalry: A Look at Switzerland with PISA Data

Stefan Wolter and Maja Coradi Vellacott

593: Sheepskin Effects in Japan

Thomas Bauer, Patrick J. Dross and John de New

592: Testing Lazear’s Jack-of-All-Trades View of Entrepreneurship with German Micro Data

Joachim Wagner

591: Spillovers From Foreign Firms Through Worker Mobility: An Empirical Investigation

Holger Görg and Eric Strobl

590: Why Do Foreign-Owned Firms Pay More? The Role of On-the-Job Training

Holger Görg, Eric Strobl and Frank Walsh

589: Job Growth in Early Transition: Comparing Two Paths

Stepan Jurajda and Katherine Terrell

588: Nonparametric IV Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects with Covariates

Markus Frölich

587: Kombilohn oder Workfare? Zur Wirksamkeit zweier arbeitsmarktpolitischer Strategien

Holger Bonin, Wolfram Kempe and Hilmar Schneider

586: On-the-Job Training and the Effects of Insider Power

Pilar Diaz-Vazquez and Dennis Snower

585: Human Capital Formation, Life Expectancy and the Process of Economic Development

Matteo Cervellati and Uwe Sunde

584: Welfare to Temporary Work: Implications for Labor Market Outcomes

Carolyn Heinrich, Peter Mueser and Kenneth Troske

583: On the Efficiency of Job Search with Social Networks

Pierre Cahuc and Francois Fontaine

582: Equalizing Wage Differences and Bargaining Power: Evidence from a Panel of French Firms

Pierre Cahuc, Christian Gianella, Dominique Goux and Andre Zylberberg

581: Unemployment Compensation Finance and Labor Market Rigidity

Pierre Cahuc and Franck Malherbet

580: Gender Differences in German Upward Income Mobility

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

579: Decomposing Inequality Change in East Germany During Transition

Ira Gang and Myeong-Su Yun

578: Economic Strain, Ethnic Concentration and Attitudes Towards Foreigners in the European Union

Ira Gang, Francisco Rivera-Batiz and Myeong-Su Yun

577: Are the More Educated Receiving More Training? Evidence from Thailand

Kenn Ariga and Giorgio Brunello

576: Active Labor Market Policy in Germany – Is There a Successful Policy Strategy?

Michael Fertig, Christoph Schmidt and Hilmar Schneider

575: Human Capital and Earnings of Female Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States

Heather Antecol, Deborah Cobb-Clark and Stephen Trejo

574: Understanding Interhousehold Transfers in a Transition Economy: Evidence from Russia

Randall Kuhn and Steven Stillman

573: Item Non-Response on Income and Wealth Questions

Regina Riphahn and Oliver Serfling

572: Self-Employment and Wage Earning: Hungary During Transition

Catherine Co, Ira Gang and Myeong-Su Yun

571: Using Mandated Speed Limits to Measure the Value of a Statistical Life

Orley Ashenfelter and Michael Greenstone

570: Technological Change, Organizational Change, and Job Turnover

Thomas Bauer and Stefan Bender

569: Worker Flows, Job Flows and Firm Wage Policies: An Analysis of Slovenia

John Haltiwanger and Milan Vodopivec

568: Revisiting the Family Investment Model with Longitudinal Data: The Earnings Growth of Immigrant and U.S.-Born Women

Harriet Duleep and Daniel J. Dowhan

567: The Incidence and Cost of Job Loss in a Transition Economy: Displaced Workers in Estonia, 1989-1999

Hartmut Lehmann, Kaia Philips and Jonathan Wadsworth

566: Skill Biased Technological and Organizational Change: Estimating a Mixed Simultaneous Equation Model Using the IAB Establishment Panel

Reinhard Hujer, Marco Caliendo and Dubravko Radic

565: Survival in a Concentrating Industry: The Case of Daily Newspapers in the Netherlands

Hans van Kranenburg, Franz Palm and Gerard Pfann

564: The Reallocation of Workers and Jobs in Russian Industry: New Evidence on Measures and Determinants

J. David Brown and John Earle

563: Wage and Productivity Dispersion in U.S. Manufacturing: The Role of Computer Investment

Timothy Dunne, Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger and Kenneth Troske

562: Changes in Collective Bargaining in the U.K

John Addison and William Siebert

561: The Impact of Welfare Reform on Leaver Characteristics, Employment and Recidivism

William J. Carrington, Peter Mueser and Kenneth Troske

560: Wages and International Rent Sharing in Multinational Firms

John Budd, Jozef Konings and Matthew J. Slaughter

559: International Migration and the Integration of Labor Markets

Barry Chiswick and Timothy Hatton

558: Enclaves, Language and the Location Choice of Migrants

Thomas Bauer, Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

557: Reducing Hours of Work: Does Overtime Act as a Brake Upon Employment Growth? An Analysis by Gender for the Case of Italy

Gianna Claudia Giannelli and Cristina Braschi

556: Importing Equality? The Impact of Globalization on Gender Discrimination

Sandra Black and Elizabeth Brainerd

555: How Much Language is Enough? Some Immigrant Language Lessons from Canada and Germany

Don DeVoretz, Holger Hinte and Christiane Werner

554: Employment Protection, Product Market Competition and Growth

Winfried Koeniger

553: Subject of Degree and the Gender Wage Differential: Evidence from the UK and Germany

Stephen Machin and Patrick Puhani

552: Estimations of Occupational and Regional Matching Efficiencies Using Stochastic Production Frontier Models

René Fahr and Uwe Sunde