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196: Equilibrium Wage Arrears: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Institutional Lock-In

John Earle and Klara Sabirianova Peter

195: Overeducation, Undereducation, and the Theory of Career Mobility

Felix Büchel and Antje Mertens

194: Regional Unemployment and Industrial Restructuring in Poland

Andrew Newell and Francesco Pastore

193: The Determination of Wages and the Gender Wage Gap: A Survey

Astrid Kunze

192: Absolute Risk Aversion and the Returns to Education

Giorgio Brunello

191: Joint Decisions on Household Membership and Human Capital Accumulation of Youths - The role of expected earnings and local markets

Gianna Claudia Giannelli and Chiara Monfardini

190: Racial and Economic Factors in Attitudes to Immigration

Christian Dustmann and Ian Preston

189: Is Unemployment Really Scarring? Effects of Unemployment Experiences on Wages

Wiji Arulampalam

188: The Myth of Worksharing

Arie Kapteyn, Adriaan Kalwij and Asghar Zaidi

187: Immigration Policy, Assimilation of Immigrants and Natives' Sentiments towards Immigrants: Evidence from 12 OECD-Countries

Thomas Bauer, Magnus Lofstrom and Klaus Zimmermann

186: Temporary Migration and Economic Assimilation

Christian Dustmann

185: The Post-Unification German Labor Market

Holger Bonin and Klaus Zimmermann

184: Intergenerational Influences on the Receipt of Unemployment Insurance in Canada and Sweden

Miles Corak, Björn Anders Gustafsson and Torun Österberg

183: Aggregate-Level Migration Studies as a Tool for Forecasting Future Migration Streams

Michael Fertig and Christoph Schmidt

182: Discretionary Measures of Active Labor Market Policy: The German Employment Promotion Reform in Perspective

Michael Fertig and Christoph Schmidt

181: Space, Search and Efficiency

Etienne Wasmer and Yves Zenou

180: Sibling Rivalry in Educational Attainment: The German Case

Thomas Bauer and Ira Gang

179: The Macroeconomics of Labor and Credit Market Imperfections

Etienne Wasmer and Philippe Weil

178: The Remuneration of British Academics

Rob Euwals and Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

177: Immigrant Adjustment in Israel: Literacy and Fluency in Hebrew and Earnings

Barry Chiswick and Gaston Repetto

176: Industrial Relations and the Wage Differentials between Skilled and Unskilled Blue-Collar Workers within Establishments: An Empirical Analysis with Data of Manufacturing Firms

Olaf Hübler and Wolfgang Meyer

175: Self-Employment and Earnings among High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States

Magnus Lofstrom

174: Does Money Illusion Matter? An Experimental Approach

Ernst Fehr and Jean-Robert Tyran

173: Timing, Togetherness and Time Windfalls

Daniel S. Hamermesh

172: Reforming the Financial Incentives of the Welfare System

David Card

171: Wages and the Demand for Health - A Life Cycle Analysis

Christian Dustmann and Frank Windmeijer

170: Immigration Policy in Integrated National Economies

Thomas Bauer and Klaus Zimmermann

169: Immigration Policies and their Impact: The Case of New Zealand and Australia

Rainer Winkelmann

168: Social Harmony at the Boundaries of the Welfare State: Immigrants and Social Transfers

Gil Epstein and Arye L. Hillman

167: Earnings Inequality, Returns to Education and Immigration into Ireland

Alan Barrett, John Fitzgerald and Brian Nolan

166: The Impact of Alcohol Consumption on Occupational Attainment in England

Ziggy MacDonald and Michael Shields

165: Immigration in a High Unemployment Economy: The Recent Danish Experience

Peder Pedersen

164: Racial Harassment, Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Quit: Evidence from the British Nursing Profession

Michael Shields and Stephen Wheatley Price

163: Why Do Firms Pay an Overtime Premium?

Robert A. Hart and Yue Ma

162: Selection Correction in Panel Data Models: An Application to Labour Supply and Wages

Christian Dustmann and María Engracia Rochina-Barrachina

161: Public Employment and Redistributive Politics: Evidence from Russia’s Regions

Vladimir Gimpelson, Daniel Treisman and Galina Monusova

160: A Comparison of the Human Capital and Signaling Models: The Case of the Self-Employed and the Increase in the Schooling Premium in the 1980's

Magnus Lofstrom

159: Preemptive Behavior in Sequential Tournaments

Peter J. Jost and Matthias Kräkel

158: Brother Correlations in Earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden Compared to the United States

Anders Bjorklund, Tor Eriksson, Markus Jantti, Oddbjørn Raaum and Eva Österbacka

157: Household Production, Full Consumption and the Costs of Children

Patricia Apps and Ray Rees

156: Language Proficiency and Labour Market Performance of Immigrants in the UK

Christian Dustmann and Francesca Fabbri

155: The Duration of Immigrants' Unemployment Spells: Evidence from Sweden

Jörgen Hansen

154: Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland

Michael Gerfin and Michael Lechner

153: Overtime Hours in Great Britain over the Period 1975-1999: A Panel Data Analysis

Adriaan Kalwij and Mary Gregory

152: The Role of the Minimum Wage in the Welfare State: An Appraisal

Juan Dolado, Florentino Felgueroso and Juan F Jimeno

151: Gender, Salary and Promotion in the Academic Profession

Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

150: Unions and the Labor Market for Managers

John DiNardo, Kevin F. Hallock and Jorn-Steffen Pischke

149: The Impact of Active Labor Market Programs and Benefit Entitlement Rules on the Duration of Unemployment

Rafael Lalive, Jan van Ours and Josef Zweimüller

148: Employment Effects of Labour Taxation in an Efficiency Wage Model with Alternative Budget Constraints and Time Horizons

Laszlo Goerke

147: Does the Recent Success of Some OECD Countries in Lowering their Unemployment Rates Lie in the Clever Design of their Labour Market Reform?

Michèle Belot and Jan van Ours

146: Employer Learning and the Returns to Schooling

Thomas Bauer and John de New

145: Decomposition Analysis for a Binary Choice Model

Myeong-Su Yun

144: Flexibility vs. Rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both Worlds?

Gilles Saint-Paul

143: Wage Determination in Russia: An Econometric Investigation

Peter L. Luke and Mark Schaffer

142: Explaining Youth Labor Market Problems in Spain: Crowding-Out, Institutions, or Technology Shifts?

Juan Dolado, Florentino Felgueroso and Juan F Jimeno

141: The Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training on Individual Employment Performance in East Germany

Reinhard Hujer and Marc Wellner

140: Education and Earnings Growth: Evidence from 11 European Countries

Giorgio Brunello and Simona Comi

139: Wages, Hours and Human Capital over the Live Cycle

Robert A. Hart and Yue Ma

138: Firm-specific Training: Consequences for Job Mobility

Josef Zweimüller and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

137: Continuous Training in Germany

Jorn-Steffen Pischke

136: Unemployment and Productivity Growth: An Empirical Analysis within the Augmented Solow Model

Michael Bräuninger and Markus Pannenberg

135: Is There a Wage Premium for Returning Irish Migrants?

Alan Barrett and Philip O'Connell

134: Hiring and Firing Costs, Adverse Selection and Long-term Unemployment

Adriana Kugler and Gilles Saint-Paul

133: Paid and Unpaid Overtime Working in Germany and the UK

David Bell, Robert A. Hart, Olaf Hübler and Wolfgang Schwerdt

132: Hours and Wages in the Depression: British Engineering, 1926-1938

Robert A. Hart

131: Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis

Barry Chiswick

130: The Returns to Education in Italy: A New Look at the Evidence

Claudio Lucifora, Simona Comi and Giorgio Brunello

129: The Employment, Unemployment and Unemployment Compensation Benefits of Immigrants

Michael E. Hurst and Barry Chiswick

128: Do Unemployment Insurance Recipients Actively Seek Work? Evidence From Randomized Trials in Four U.S. States

Orley Ashenfelter, David Ashmore and Olivier Deschenes

127: Characteristics of Unemployment Dynamics: The Chain Reaction Approach

Marika Karanassou and Dennis J. Snower

126: Smoking, Discount Rates, and Returns to Education

Josef Fersterer and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

125: The Income Portfolio of Immigrants in Germany - Effects of Ethnic Origin and Assimilation Or: Who Gains from Income Re-Distribution?

Felix Büchel and Joachim Frick

124: Rational Poverty or Poor Rationality? The Take-up of Social Assistance Benefits

Regina Riphahn

123: Why Do People Still Live in East Germany?

Jennifer Hunt

122: Returns to Human Capital under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy

Daniel Münich, Jan Svejnar and Katherine Terrell

121: Do Active Labor Market Policies Help Unemployed Workers to Find and Keep Regular Jobs?

Jan van Ours

120: Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries

Pedro Pereira and Pedro Martins

119: The Division of Labor and the Market for Organizations

Assar Lindbeck and Dennis J. Snower

118: Improving Nurse Retention in the British National Health Service: The Impact of Job Satisfaction on Intentions to Quit

Michael Shields and Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

117: IAB Employment Subsample 1975-1995 Opportunities for Analysis Provided by the Anonymised Subsample

Stefan Bender, Anette Haas and Christoph Klose

116: Unemployment Insurance and Subsequent Job Duration: Job Matching vs Unobserved Heterogeneity

Christian Belzil

115: Why do Indian Children Work, and is it Bad for Them?

Alessandro Cigno and Furio Rosati

114: An Explanation of International Differences in Education and Workplace Training

Giorgio Brunello and Alfredo Medio

113: Do Mandatory Pensions Decrease Household Savings? Evidence for the Netherlands

Rob Euwals

112: Innovations, Wages and Demand for Heterogeneous Labour: New Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data-Set

Lutz Bellmann and Thorsten Schank

111: Sectoral Restructuring and Labor Mobility: A Comparative Look at the Czech Republic

Vit Sorm and Katherine Terrell

110: A Theory of Social Forces and Immigrant Second Language Acquisition

Don DeVoretz and Christiane Werner

109: Combining Micro and Macro Unemployment Duration Data

Gerard van den Berg and Bas van der Klaauw

108: Modeling Financial Incentives to Get Unemployed Back to Work

Jan Boone and Jan van Ours

107: Fast Track or Failure: A Study of the Completion Rates of Graduate Students in Economics

Jan van Ours and Geert Ridder

106: Job Tenure of Two Cohorts of Young German Men 1979 - 1990: An analysis of the (West-)German Employment Statistic Register Sample concerning multivariate failure times and unobserved heterogeneity

Lutz Bellmann, Stefan Bender and Ulrich Hornsteiner

105: Ownership or Performance: What Determines Board of Directors' Turnover in Italy?

Giorgio Brunello, Clara Graziano and Bruno Parigi

104: Different Skill Levels and Firing Costs in a Matching Model with Uncertainty - An Extension of Mortensen and Pissarides (1994)

Stephan Kohns

103: Estimation in a Duration Model for Evaluating Educational Programs

Kurt Brännäs

102: Labor Supply and Matching Rates for Welfare Recipients: An Analysis Using Neighborhood Characteristics

Bas van der Klaauw and Jan van Ours

101: Employment and Wage Assimilation of Male First Generation Immigrants in Denmark

Leif Husted, Helena Nielsen, Michael Rosholm and Nina Smith

100: Immigrant Assimilation and Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into or Out-of Welfare

Jörgen Hansen and Magnus Lofstrom

99: Residential Location and Youth Unemployment: The Economic Geography of School-To-Work Transitions

Regina Riphahn

98: Industry Wage Differentials Revisited: A Longitudinal Comparison of Germany and USA (1984-1996)

John de New and Christoph Schmidt

97: Irish Migration: Characteristics, Causes and Consequences

Alan Barrett