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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

551: Herd Effects or Migration Networks? The Location Choice of Mexican Immigrants in the U.S

Thomas Bauer, Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

550: The Impact of Local Labour Market Conditions on Participation in Further Education in England

Damon Clark

549: Interpreting Europe and US Labor Markets Differences: The Specificity of Human Capital Investments

Etienne Wasmer

548: What is the Value of Knowing the Propensity Score for Estimating Average Treatment Effects?

Markus Frölich

547: Government and Cities: Contests and the Decentralization of Decision Making

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

546: Job Creation and Job Destruction in a Regulated Labor Market: The Case of Austria

Alfred Stiglbauer, Florian Stahl, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Josef Zweimüller

545: The Role of Background Factors for Reading Literacy: Straight National Scores in the PISA 2000 Study

Michael Fertig and Christoph Schmidt

544: Disentangling the Minimum Wage Puzzle: An Analysis of Worker Accessions and Separations

Pedro Portugal and Ana Rute Cardoso

543: Wages, Productivity, and Work Intensity in the Great Depression

Julia Darby and Robert Hart

542: Programme Evaluation with Multiple Treatments

Markus Frölich

541: Do the Higher Educated Unemployed Crowd Out the Lower Educated Ones in a Competition for Jobs?

Bart Cockx and Muriel Dejemeppe

540: High Skilled Migration and the Exertion of Effort by the Local Population

Gil Epstein, Astrid Kunze and Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

539: Labour-Market Institutions and Macroeconomic Shocks

Yu-Fu Chen, Dennis Snower and Gylfi Zoega

538: The Pension Transfer Program

Mike Orszag and Dennis Snower

537: Unemployment Vouchers versus Low-Wage Subsidies

Mike Orszag and Dennis Snower

536: Pension Taxes versus Early Retirement Rights

Mike Orszag and Dennis Snower

535: Wage Determination and the Sources of Bargaining Power

Paola Manzini and Dennis Snower

534: The Insider-Outsider Theory: A Survey

Assar Lindbeck and Dennis J. Snower

533: Assessing Welfare Accounts

Stefan Fölster, Robert Gidehag, Mike Orszag and Dennis Snower

532: From Unemployment Benefits to Unemployment Accounts

Mike Orszag and Dennis Snower

531: Unemployment in the European Union: A Dynamic Reappraisal

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala and Dennis Snower

530: Unemployment Invariance

Marika Karanassou and Dennis Snower

529: Incapacity Benefits and Employment Policy

Mike Orszag and Dennis Snower

528: Arbitration and Mediation: An Economic Perspective

Paola Manzini and Marco Mariotti

527: The Locking-in Effect of Subsidized Jobs

Jan van Ours

526: A New Approach to Estimate the Wage Returns to Work-Related Training

Edwin Leuven and Hessel Oosterbeek

525: The Performance of Performance Standards

James Heckman, Carolyn Heinrich and Jeffrey Smith

524: Recent Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender: A Look Across the Atlantic

Juan Dolado, Florentino Felgueroso and Juan F Jimeno

523: Workplaces in the Primary Economy and Wage Pressure in the Secondary Labor Market

Josef Falkinger and Volker Grossmann

522: Gender Differences in Early Retirement Behaviour

Svenn-Åge Dahl, Øivind Nilsen and Kjell Vaage

521: Employment Status, Endogenous Regional Mobility, and Spatial Dependencies in Labor Markets

René Fahr and Uwe Sunde

520: Unobserved Bilateral Search on the Labor Market: A Theory-Based Correction for a Common Flaw in Empirical Matching Studies

Uwe Sunde

519: Labor Mobility of Immigrants: Training, Experience, Language and Opportunities

Sarit Cohen Goldner and Zvi Eckstein

518: The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-Secondary Schooling

Pedro Carneiro and James Heckman