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355: Disentangling Treatment Effects of Polish Active Labor Market Policies: Evidence from Matched Samples

Jochen Kluve, Hartmut Lehmann and Christoph Schmidt

354: On the Role of Counterfactuals in Inferring Causal Effects of Treatments

Jochen Kluve

353: Flexible Work Systems and the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Thomas Bauer and Stefan Bender

352: Unions and Plant Closings in Britain: New Evidence from the 1990/98 WERS

John Addison, John Heywood and Xiangdong Wei

351: Gross Job Flows in Russian Industry Before and After Reforms: Has Destruction Become More Creative?

J. David Brown and John Earle

350: Unemployment Duration: Competing and Defective Risks

John Addison and Pedro Portugal

349: Job Search Methods and Outcomes

John Addison and Pedro Portugal

348: Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel

Shoshana Neuman and Adrian Ziderman

347: Labor Market Conditions and Post-Reform Declines in Welfare Receipt Among Immigrants

Magnus Lofstrom and Frank D. Bean

346: The Determination of a Migration Wave Using Ethnicity and Community Ties

Lilo Locher

345: Survival, Growth, and Interfirm Collaboration of Start-Up Companies in High-Technology Industries: A Case Study of Upper Bavaria

Martin Steininger and Johannes Hampe

344: Effects of Sexual Preferences on Earnings in the Netherlands

Erik Plug and Peter Berkhout

343: Will it Last? An Assessment of the 2001 German Pension Reform

Holger Bonin

342: The Virtue of Being Underestimated: A Note on Discriminatory Contracts in Hidden Information Models

Wendelin Schnedler

341: Testing for Asymmetry in British, German and US Unemployment Data

Stephan Kohns

340: How Does Imperfect Competition in the Labor Market Affect Unemployment Policies?

Xavier Wauthy and Yves Zenou

339: The Matching Efficiency of Regional Labour Markets: A Stochastic Production Frontier Estimation, France 1990-1995

Aomar Ibourk, Bénédicte Maillard, Sergio Perelman and Henri Sneessens

338: Child Labor and the Education of a Society

Clive Bell and Hans Gersbach

337: Overeducation and Skill Endowments The Role of School Achievement and Vocational Training Quality

Felix Büchel and Matthias Pollmann-Schult

336: Careers and Wage Growth within Large Firms

Francisco Lima and Pedro Pereira

335: Disaggregate Matching Functions

René Fahr and Uwe Sunde

334: Wage Rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric Evidence from the 1990s

Patrick Puhani

333: A Hazard Model of the Probability of Medical School Dropout in the United Kingdom

Wiji Arulampalam, Robin Naylor and Jeremy Smith

332: An Analysis of the Processes of Labour Market Exclusion and (Re-) Inclusion

Michael Rosholm

331: Why Do Firms Recruit Internationally? Results from the IZA International Employer Survey 2000

Rainer Winkelmann

330: Do Firms Really Share Rents with Their Workers?

David Margolis and Kjell G Salvanes

329: Wage Differentials and Mobility in the Urban Labor Market: A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico

Xiaodong Gong and Arthur van Soest

328: Why Funding is not a Solution to the "Social Security Crisis"

Friedrich Breyer

327: A Product Market Theory of Worker Training

Hans Gersbach and Armin Schmutzler

326: Privatization and Productivity in Romanian Industry: Evidence from a Comprehensive Enterprise Panel

John Earle and Almos Telegdy

325: Real Wages and the Cycle: The View from the Frequency Domain

Robert Hart, Jim Malley and Ulrich Woitek

324: Trade, Technology and Labour Markets: Empirical Controversies in the Light of the Jones Model

Michael P. Pflüger

323: Overtime Work, Dual Job Holding and Taxation

Anders Frederiksen, Ebbe Graversen and Nina Smith

322: Works Councils and Collective Bargaining in Germany: The Impact on Productivity and Wages

Olaf Hübler and Uwe Jirjahn

321: Is there a Return-Risk Link in Education?

Pedro Pereira and Pedro Martins

320: Strategic Hiring Behavior in Empirical Matching Functions

René Fahr and Uwe Sunde

319: Why Do Firms Train? Empirical Evidence on the First Labour Market Outcomes of Graduated Apprentices

Rob Euwals and Rainer Winkelmann

318: Why Do Overtime Work, Overtime Compensation and the Distribution of Economic Well-Being Evidence for the West Germany and Great Britain

Markus Pannenberg and Gert Wagner

317: Health Care Reform and the Number of Doctor Visits - An Econometric Analysis

Rainer Winkelmann

316: Rejecting Capital-Skill Complementarity at all Costs

Manuel Frondel and Christoph Schmidt

315: On Price-Setting for Identical Products in Markets without Formal Trade Barriers

Wolter Hassink and Ronald Schettkat

314: Age-Differentiated QALY Losses

Bernard van Praag and Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell

313: The Subjective Costs of Health Losses due to Chronic Diseases: An Alternative Model Appraisal

Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Bernard van Praag

312: The Value of Pain Relief

Carina Furnée, Marius Kemler and Gerard Pfann

311: Unemployment, Education and Earnings Growth

Giorgio Brunello

310: Human Capital Accumulation, Education and Earnings Inequality

Uwe Sunde

309: On the Complementarity between Education and Training in Europe

Giorgio Brunello

308: Two-Sided Learning, Labor Turnover and Worker Displacement

Gerard Pfann and Daniel Hamermesh

307: Downsizing

Gerard Pfann

306: Is the Deficit under Control?A Generational Accounting Perspective on Fiscal Policy and Labour Market Trends in Spain

Holger Bonin, Gemma Abio, Eduard Berenguer, Joan Gil and Concepció Patxot

305: Fiskalische Effekte der Zuwanderung nach Deutschland - Eine Generationenbilanz

Holger Bonin

304: Labor Market Efficiency, Wages and Employment when Search Frictions Interact with Intrafirm Bargaining

Pierre Cahuc and Etienne Wasmer

303: Social Capital and the Uncertainty Reduction of Self-Employment

Gerard Pfann and Boris F. Blumberg

302: A Theory of Immigration Amnesties

Gil Epstein and Avi Weiss

301: Economic and Social Perspectives of Immigrant Children in Germany

Joachim Frick and Gert Wagner

300: The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-Being

Alois Stutzer and Rafael Lalive

299: The Wage Expectations of European College Students

Giorgio Brunello, Claudio Lucifora and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

298: Returns to Education and Wage Equations

Pedro Pereira and Pedro Martins

297: The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in The Netherlands

Jan van Ours and Justus Veenman

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 Jorgen 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