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439: Does Divorce Law Matter?

Giulio Fella, Paola Manzini and Marco Mariotti

438: Employment Dynamics in the Romanian Labor Market: A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach

Alexandru Voicu

437: Evaluating Immigration Policy Potentials and Limitations

Michael Fertig

436: The Evolution of the Early Career Gender Wage Gap

Astrid Kunze

435: Perceived Income, Promotion and Incentive Effects

Gil Epstein and Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

434: From Severance Pay to Self-Insurance: Effects of Severance Payments Savings Accounts in Colombia

Adriana Kugler

433: Protective or Counter-Productive? Labor Market Institutions and the Effect Immigration on EU Natives

Joshua Angrist and Adriana Kugler

432: Employment, Wages, and Alcohol Consumption in Russia: Evidence from Panel Data

Erdal Tekin

431: The Perception of Foreigners and Jews in Germany - A Structural Analysis of a Large Opinion Survey

Michael Fertig and Christoph Schmidt

430: Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? Evidence From German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction

Johannes Schwarze and Marco Härpfer

429: Does Future PC Use Determine Our Wages Today? Evidence from German Panel Data

Silke Anger and Johannes Schwarze

428: Mothers, Fathers and Children after Divorce: The Role of Institutions

Daniela Del Boca

427: The Effect of Child Care and Part Time Opportunities on Participation and Fertility Decisions in Italy

Daniela Del Boca

426: Do Wages Really Compensate for Risk Aversion and Skewness Affection?

Joop Hartog and Wim Vijverberg

425: Successful Apprenticeship-to-Work Transitions: On the Long-Term Change in Significance of the German School-Leaving Certificate

Felix Büchel

424: Overeducation, Regional Labour Markets and Spatial Flexibility

Felix Büchel and Maarten van Ham

423: Transfer Fee Regulations in European Football

Eberhard Feess and Gerd Muehlheusser

422: The Long Awaited Reform of the German Works Constitution Act

John Addison, Lutz Bellmann, Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner

421: Divide et Impera: Negotiating with a Stakeholder

Paola Manzini

420: Higher Education Levels, Firms' Outside Options and the Wage Structure

Åsa Rosén and Etienne Wasmer

419: The Value of Reunification in Germany: An Analysis of Changes in Life Satisfaction

Paul Frijters, John de New and Michael Shields

418: Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany

Markus Frölich and Patrick Puhani

417: Taking a Second Chance: Entrepreneurial Restarters in Germany

Joachim Wagner

416: Employed 40 Hours or Not-Employed 39: Lessons from the 1982 Mandatory Reduction of the Workweek

Bruno Crépon and Francis Kramarz

415: Does Entry Regulation Hinder Job Creation? Evidence from the French Retail Industry

Marianne Bertrand and Francis Kramarz

414: Where Did They Go?

Anders Frederiksen and Niels Westergård-Nielsen

413: Participation Behavior of East German Women after German Unification

Holger Bonin and Rob Euwals

412: Government Debt as Insurance against Macroeconomic Risk

Martin Barbie, Marcus Hagedorn and Ashok Kaul

411: The Response of Consumption in Russian Households to Economic Shocks

Steven Stillman

410: Wage Arrears and the Distribution of Earnings in Russia

Hartmut Lehmann and Jonathan Wadsworth

409: Fertility, Female Labor Supply and Public Policy

Patricia Apps and Ray Rees

408: Nonprofit Sector and Part-Time Work: An Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data of Child Care Workers

Naci Mocan and Erdal Tekin

407: Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany

Ronald Schettkat and Lara Yocarini

406: Labor Market Flows and Equilibrium Search Unemployment

Pietro Garibaldi and Etienne Wasmer

405: Testing for the Option Value of Migration

Lilo Locher

404: Human Capital Spill-Overs Within the Workplace

Harminder Battu, Clive R. Belfield and Peter Sloane

403: How Do Layoff Costs Affect Employment?

Lars Ljungqvist

402: Did the Elimination of Mandatory Retirement Affect Faculty Retirement Flows?

Orley Ashenfelter and David Card

401: Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Monitoring and Sanctions

Jan Boone, Peter Fredriksson, Bertil Holmlund and Jan van Ours

400: The Predictive Value of Subjective Labour Supply Data: A Dynamic Panel Data Model with Measurement Error

Rob Euwals

399: Using Employer Hiring Behavior to Test the Educational Signaling Hypothesis

James Albrecht and Jan van Ours

398: An Econometric Analysis of the Mental-Health Effects of Major Events in the Life of Elderly Individuals

Maarten Lindeboom, France Portrait and Gerard van den Berg

397: Evaluating Environmental Programs: The Perspective of Modern Evaluation Research

Manuel Frondel and Christoph Schmidt

396: Exploring the Economic and Social Determinants of Psychological and Psychosocial Health

Michael Shields and Stephen Wheatley Price

395: Stakeholders, Bargaining and Strikes

Paola Manzini and Clara Ponsati

394: Awareness of General Equilibrium Effects and Unemployment

Hans Gersbach and Achim Schniewind

393: Union Bargaining Power: A View from Japan

Scott Fuess

392: Identifying Population Groups at High Risk of Social Exclusion: Evidence from the ECHP

Panos Tsakloglou and Fotis Papadopoulos

391: Employment Adjustment in Portugal: Evidence from Aggregate and Firm Data

John Addison and Paulino Teixeira

390: The Impact of Labor Market Reforms on Capital Flows, Wages and Unemployment

Thomas Beissinger

389: Dynamic Wage Bargaining if Benefits are Tied to Individual Wages

Thomas Beissinger and Hartmut Egger

388: Child Expenditure: The Role of Working Mothers, Lone Parents, Sibling Composition and Household Provision

Lisa Farrell and Michael Shields

387: The Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction - Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Implications

Christian Grund and Dirk Sliwka

386: Threshold Values in German Labor Law and Job Dynamics in Small Firms: The Case of the Disability Law

Joachim Wagner, Claus Schnabel and Arnd Kölling

385: The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort: A Comparison of Absenteeism During and After Probation

Andrea Ichino and Regina Riphahn

384: Minimum Wages and On-the-Job Training

Daron Acemoglu and Jorn-Steffen Pischke

383: The Determinants and Consequences of Child Care Subsidies for Single Mothers

David Blau and Erdal Tekin

382: Tax Evasion in a Unionised Economy

Laszlo Goerke

381: The Economics of Employment Protection

John Addison and Paulino Teixeira

380: A Kaldor Matching Model of Real Wage Declines

Michael Sattinger

379: The Sexual Harassment of Female Active-Duty Personnel: Effects on Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Remain in the Military

Heather Antecol and Deborah Cobb-Clark

378: The Promise of Workplace Training for Non-College-Bound Youth: Theory and Evidence from German Apprenticeship

Damon Clark and René Fahr

377: Intergenerational Progress of Mexican-Origin Workers in the U.S. Labor Market

Stephen Trejo

376: Work and Television

Giacomo Corneo

375: The Pro-Trade Effect of Immigration on American Exports During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

James Dunlevy and William K. Hutchinson

374: Counseling and Monitoring of Unemployed Workers: Theory and Evidence from a Controlled Social Experiment

Gerard van den Berg and Bas van der Klaauw

373: Does the Statutory Overtime Premium Discourage Long Workweeks?

Stephen Trejo

372: Marshall and Labour Demand in Russia: Going Back to Basics

Jozef Konings and Hartmut Lehmann

371: Rates of Return to Education: The View of Students in Switzerland

Stefan Wolter and André Zbinden

370: Individuals' Unemployment Experiences: Heterogeneity and Business Cycle Effects

Adriaan Kalwij

369: Individuals' Unemployment Durations over the Business Cycle

Adriaan Kalwij

368: How Do Sex Ratios Affect Marriage and Labor Markets? Evidence from America's Second Generation

Joshua Angrist

367: Parental Background, Primary to Secondary School Transitions, and Wages

Christian Dustmann

366: Research and Policy Issues in High-Skilled International Migration: A Perspective with Data from the United States

Mark Regets

365: Qualifications, Discrimination, or Assimilation? An Extended Framework for Analysing Immigrant Wage Gaps

Helena Nielsen, Michael Rosholm, Nina Smith and Leif Husted

364: Examining the Impact of Macro-Economic Conditions on Income Inequality

Markus Jantti and Stephen Jenkins

363: Immigration Policy and the Skills of Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States

Heather Antecol, Deborah Cobb-Clark and Stephen Trejo

362: New Evidence on Classroom Computers and Pupil Learning

Joshua Angrist and Victor Lavy

361: Worker Training in a Restructuring Economy: Evidence from the Russian Transition

Mark Berger, John Earle and Klara Sabirianova Peter

360: The Dynamics of Immigrant Welfare and Labor Market Behavior

Jorgen Hansen and Magnus Lofstrom

359: A Simple, Analytically Solvable Chamberlinian Agglomeration Model

Michael P. Pflüger

358: Bismarck versus Beveridge: Which Unemployment Compensation System is More Prone to Labor Market Shocks?

Thomas Beissinger and Oliver Buesse

357: How Rigid are Nominal Wages? Evidence and Implications for Germany

Christoph Knoppik and Thomas Beissinger

356: The Distributional Impact of Social Transfers in the European Union: Evidence from the ECHP

Christopher Heady, Theo Mitrakos and Panos Tsakloglou

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