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296: Intergenerational Transmissions and the School-to-Work Transition of 2nd Generation Immigrants

Helena Nielsen, Michael Rosholm, Nina Smith and Leif Husted

295: Individual Pay and Outside Options: Evidence from the Polish Labour Force Survey

Fiona Duffy and Patrick Walsh

294: Estimating the Effect of Unemployment Insurance Compensation on the Labor Market Histories of Displaced Workers

Stepan Jurajda

293: Gender, Comparative Advantage and Labor Market Activity in Immigrant Families

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Thomas Crossley

292: Between-group Competition in the Labor Market and the Rising Returns to Skill: US and France 1964-2000

Etienne Wasmer

291: Cohort Effects in the Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in Germany: An Analysis of Census Data

Regina Riphahn

290: The Job Search and Education Investments of Immigrant Families

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Marie D. Connolly and Christopher Worswick

289: Old-Age Support in Developing Countries: Labor Supply, Intergenerational Transfers and Living Arrangements

Lisa Cameron and Deborah Cobb-Clark

288: Getting Ahead: The Determinants of and Payoffs to Internal Promotion for Young U.S. Men and Women

Deborah Cobb-Clark

287: Efficiency Properties of Labor Taxation in a Spatial Model of Restricted Labor Mobility

Patrik Guggenberger, Ashok Kaul and Martin Kolmar

286: First- and Second-Generation Migrants in Germany - What Do We Know and What Do People Think

Michael Fertig and Christoph Schmidt

285: Gut betreut in den Arbeitsmarkt? Eine mikroökonometrische Evaluation der Mannheimer Arbeitsvermittlungsagentur

Jürgen Jerger, Christian Pohnke and Alexander Spermann

284: The Optimal Size for a Minority

Hillel Rapoport and Avi Weiss

283: Welfare Analysis in a Schumpeterian Growth Model with Capital

Marcus Hagedorn, Ashok Kaul and Volker Reinthaler

282: Is There a Glass Ceiling in Sweden?

James Albrecht, Anders Bjorklund and Susan Vroman

281: Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites

Gilles Saint-Paul

280: Household Saving and Full Consumption over the Life Cycle

Patricia Apps and Ray Rees

279: Product Market Integration, Wage Dispersion and Unemployment

Torben M. Andersen

278: Welfare Policies, Labour Taxation and International Integration

Torben M. Andersen

277: Evaluating an Innovative Redundancy-Retraining Project: The Austrian Steel Foundation

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

276: The Impact of Product Market Competition on Employment and Wages

Bruno Amable and Donatella Gatti

275: Multi-Generation Model of Immigrant Earnings: Theory and Application

Gil Epstein and Tikva Lecker

274: Unemployment Traps: Do Financial Disincentives Matter?

Peder Pedersen and Nina Smith

273: Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs

Gilles Saint-Paul

272: Heterogeneous Returns to Human Capital and Dynamic Self-Selection

Christian Belzil and Jörgen Hansen

271: The Propensity Score: A Means to An End

Boris Augurzky and Christoph Schmidt

270: The Evaluation of Community-Based Interventions: A Monte Carlo Study

Boris Augurzky and Christoph Schmidt

269: Re-employment Dynamics of Disabled Workers

Hielke Buddelmeyer

268: The Gender Pay Gap in the Transition from Communism: Some Empirical Evidence

Andrew Newell and Barry Reilly

267: The Distribution of Wages in Transition Countries

Andrew Newell

266: The Optimal Migration Duration and Activity Choice after Re-migration

Christian Dustmann and Oliver Kirchkamp

265: Structurally Dependent Competing Risks

Michael Rosholm and Michael Svarer

264: Return Migration, Wage Differentials, and the Optimal Migration Duration

Christian Dustmann

263: Children and Career Interruptions: The Family Gap in Denmark

Nabanita Datta Gupta and Nina Smith

262: Summer Learning and the Effect of Schooling: Evidence from Sweden

Mikael Lindahl

261: Home versus School Learning: A New Approach to Estimating the Effect of Class Size on Achievement

Mikael Lindahl

260: Temporary Jobs, Employment Protection and Labor Market Performance

Pierre Cahuc and Fabien Postel-Vinay

259: Poverty in the Russian Federation

Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Bernard van Praag

258: The Times They are A-Changin': Organizational Change and Immigrant Employment Opportunities in Scandinavia

Michael Rosholm, Kirk Scott and Leif Husted

257: Transition with Labour Supply

Tito Boeri

256: Eastern Enlargement and EU-Labour-Markets: Perceptions, Challenges and Opportunities

Tito Boeri and Herbert Brücker

255: Product Market Reforms and Unemployment in Europe

Hans Gersbach and Achim Schniewind

254: Learning of General Equilibrium Effects and the Unemployment Trap

Hans Gersbach and Achim Schniewind

253: Living Standards and Economic Vulnerability in Turkey between 1987 and 1994

Ruslan Yemtsov

252: Inequality and Income Distribution in Georgia

Ruslan Yemtsov

251: Labor Markets, Inequality and Poverty in Georgia

Ruslan Yemtsov

250: Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration out of Africa

Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson

249: "Should I Pay for You or for Myself?" The Optimal Level and Composition of Retirement Benefit Systems

Bernard van Praag and Pedro Cardoso

248: The Impact of Labor Markets on Emergence and Persistence of Regional Asymmetries

Pierre Picard and Eric Toulemonde

247: Schooling, Family Background, and Adoption: Is it Nature or is it Nurture?

Erik Plug and Wim Vijverberg

246: Schooling, Family Background, and Adoption: Does Family Income Matter?

Erik Plug and Wim Vijverberg

245: Globalization and Human Capital Formation

Fredrik Andersson and Kai Konrad

244: Pay and Productivity in a Corporatist Economy: Evidence from Austria

Scott Fuess and Meghan Millea

243: Economic Reform and Mortality in the Former Soviet Union: A Study of the Suicide Epidemic in the 1990s

Elizabeth Brainerd

242: Job Creation, Job Destruction and Employment Growth in Transition Countries in the 90's

Giulia Faggio and Jozef Konings

241: Trade, Labor Market Rigidities, and Government-Financed Technological Change

Winfried Koeniger

240: Labor and Financial Market Interactions: The Case of Labor Income Risk and Car Insurance in the UK 1969-95

Winfried Koeniger

239: Human Capital Investment and Globalization in Extortionary States

Fredrik Andersson and Kai Konrad

238: The Saving Behaviour of Two Person Households: Evidence from Dutch Panel Data

Rob Euwals, Axel H. Börsch-Supan and Angelika Eymann

237: Surviving Unemployment without State Support: Unemployment and Household Formation in South Africa

Stephan Klasen and Ingrid Woolard

236: Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policy: Methodological Concepts and Empirical Estimates

Reinhard Hujer and Marco Caliendo

235: Who gets the Reward? An Empirical Exploration of Bonus Pay and Task Characteristics

Wendelin Schnedler

234: Sozioökonomische Determinanten extremistischer Wahlerfolge in Deutschland: Das Beispiel der Europawahlen 1994 und 1999

Ralph Rotte and Martin Steininger

233: The Wage Performance of Immigrant Women: Full-Time Jobs, Part-Time Jobs, and the Role of Selection

Christian Dustmann and Christoph Schmidt

232: The Effect of Non-Standard Employment on Mental Health in Britain

Elena Bardasi and Marco Francesconi

231: The Economics of Human Cloning

Gilles Saint-Paul

230: Should I Stay or Should I Go? Educational Choices and Earnings: An Empirical Study for Portugal

Leonor Modesto

229: Unions, Increasing Returns and Endogenous Fluctuations

Rui Coimbra, Teresa Lloyd-Braga and Leonor Modesto

228: The College Wage Gap in 10 European Countries: Evidence from Two Cohorts

Giorgio Brunello, Simona Comi and Claudio Lucifora

227: Immigration from the Eastern Block and the former Soviet Union to Israel: Who is coming when?

Lilo Locher

226: On the Identification of Relative Wage Rigidity Dynamics. A Proposal for a Methodology on Cross-Section Data and Empirical Evidence for Poland in Transition

Patrick Puhani

225: An Analysis of Labour Adjustment Costs in Unionized Economies

Leonor Modesto and Jonathan Thomas

224: Using Panel Data on Income Satisfaction to Estimate the Equivalence Scale Elasticity

Johannes Schwarze

223: Wages, Training and Job Turnover in a Search-Matching Model

Michael Rosholm and Michael Svarer

222: Betit: A Family That Nests Probit and Logit

Wim Vijverberg

221: Wages as Risk Compensation in Germany

Christian Grund

220: The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico

Wayne A. Cornelius and Enrico A. Marcelli

219: The Impact of Differential Payroll Tax Subsidies on Minimum Wage Employment

Francis Kramarz and Thomas Philippon

218: Parametric and Semiparametric Estimation in Models with Misclassified Categorical Dependent Variables

Christian Dustmann and Arthur van Soest

217: Occupational Gender Composition and Wages in Sweden

Jörgen Hansen and Roger Wahlberg

216: The Effects of Overeducation on Productivity in Germany - The Firms' Viewpoint

Felix Büchel

215: The Effect of Parents' Employment on Children's Educational Attainment

John Ermisch and Marco Francesconi

214: Family Structure and Female Labour Supply in Mexico City

Xiaodong Gong and Arthur van Soest

213: Mobility in the Urban Labor Market: A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico

Xiaodong Gong, Arthur van Soest and Elizabeth Villagomez

212: Sexual Bias and Household Consumption: A Semiparametric Analysis of Engel Curves in Rural China

Xiaodong Gong, Arthur van Soest and Ping Zhang

211: A Structural Labour Supply Model with Nonparametric Preferences

Arthur van Soest, Marcel Das and Xiaodong Gong

210: Housing, Mobility and Unemployment

Thomas Dohmen

209: Dynamic Efficiency and Pareto Optimality in a Stochastic OLG Model with Production and Social Security

Martin Barbie, Marcus Hagedorn and Ashok Kaul

208: Dutch Migrants in New Zealand: Did they Fare Well?

Joop Hartog and Rainer Winkelmann

207: Arbeitsmarktpolitische Maßnahmen und ihre Evaluierung: eine Bestandsaufnahme

Christoph Schmidt

206: The Evaluation of Community-Based Interventions: Group Randomization, Limits and Alternatives

Christoph Schmidt, Rob Baltussen and Rainer Sauerborn

205: Temporary Jobs: Stepping Stones or Dead Ends?

Alison Booth, Marco Francesconi and Jeff Frank

204: Labor Market Interactions Between Legal and Illegal Immigrants

Gil Epstein

203: The Tail of Two Countries: Minimum Wages and Employment in France and the United States

John Abowd, Francis Kramarz, David Margolis and Thomas Philippon

202: Gender Wage Differentials in a Competitive Labor Market: The Household Interaction Effect

Patrick Francois and Jan van Ours

201: Worker Separations in a Nonstationary Corporate Environment

Thomas Dohmen and Gerard Pfann

200: What are Migration Networks?

Thomas Bauer, Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

199: Rational Migration Policy Should Tolerate Non-Zero Illegal Migration Flows: Lessons from Modelling the Market for Illegal Migration

Horst Entorf

198: A Forgotten Issue: Distributional Effects of Day Care Subsidies in Germany

Michaela Kreyenfeld, C. Katharina Spieß and Gert Wagner

197: Options to Quit

Gerard Pfann