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251: Labor Markets, Inequality and Poverty in Georgia

Ruslan Yemtsov

250: Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration out of Africa

Timothy 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

Jorgen 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, Katharina Spiess and Gert Wagner

197: Options to Quit

Gerard Pfann

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 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 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 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

Jorgen 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