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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

517: Child Care Subsidies, Wages, and Employment of Single Mothers

Erdal Tekin

516: Eine fiskalische Gesamtbilanz der Zuwanderung nach Deutschland

Holger Bonin

515: Parallel Private Health Insurance in Australia: A Cautionary Tale and Lessons for Canada

Jeremiah Hurley, Rhema Vaithianathan, Thomas Crossley and Deborah Cobb-Clark

514: The Size and Development of the Shadow Economies of 22 Transition and 21 OECD Countries

Friedrich Schneider

513: Earnings Dispersion, Risk Aversion and Education

Christian Belzil and Jorgen Hansen

512: A Structural Analysis of the Correlated Random Coefficient Wage Regression Model

Christian Belzil and Jorgen Hansen

511: The Theory of Differential Overqualification: Does it Work?

Felix Büchel and Harminder Battu

510: Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom, 1975-99

Eswar Prasad

509: The Timing of Careers and Human Capital Depreciation

Astrid Kunze

508: Unobserved Ability and the Return to Schooling

Christian Belzil and Jorgen Hansen

507: Psychological Foundations of Incentives

Ernst Fehr and Armin Falk

506: Can Insider Power Affect Employment?

Pilar Diaz-Vazquez and Dennis Snower

505: Migration, Sozialstaat und Zuwanderungspolitik

Thomas Bauer

504: Modelling Low Income Transitions

Lorenzo Cappellari and Stephen Jenkins

503: Public Funding and Enrolment into Higher Education in Europe

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Aniela Wirz

502: Immigrants' Language Skills: The Australian Experience in a Longitudinal Survey

Barry Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee and Paul Miller

501: Class Size, Education, and Wages

Christian Dustmann, Najma Rajah and Arthur van Soest

500: Estimating the Returns to Education Using the Newest Current Population Survey Education Questions

David Jaeger

499: Tax Policy, Location Choices, and Market Structure

Gerard Pfann and Hans van Kranenburg

498: Individual Rationality and Learning: Welfare Expectations in East Germany Post-Reunification

Paul Frijters, John de New and Michael Shields

497: European Integration and Employment: A New Role for Active Fiscal Policies?

Donatella Gatti

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 Heckman

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

Barry Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee and Paul Miller