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151: Gender, Salary and Promotion in the Academic Profession

Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

150: Unions and the Labor Market for Managers

John DiNardo, Kevin 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 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 Hart, Olaf Hübler and Wolfgang Schwerdt

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

Robert 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 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 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

Jorgen 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

96: Redundancy Payments, Incomplete Labor Contracts, Unemployment and Welfare

Pierre Cahuc and Andre Zylberberg

95: Job Protection, Minimum Wage and Unemployment

Pierre Cahuc and Andre Zylberberg

94: An Evaluation of Public Employment Programmes in the East German State of Sachsen-Anhalt

Martin Eichler and Michael Lechner

93: An Evaluation of Public-Sector-Sponsored Continuous Vocational Training Programs in East Germany

Michael Lechner

92: The Rate of Return to Private Schooling

Robert Wright

91: Identification and Estimation of Causal Effects of Multiple Treatments Under the Conditional Independence Assumption

Michael Lechner

90: Tenures that Shook the World: Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain

Hartmut Lehmann and Jonathan Wadsworth

89: Aliyah to Israel: Immigration under Conditions of Adversity

Shoshana Neuman

88: Migration in Spain: Historical Background and Current Trends

Olympia Bover and Pilar Velilla

87: Educational Mismatch and Wages in Germany

Thomas Bauer

86: Money for Nothing and Your Chips for Free? The Anatomy of the PC Wage Differential

John de New and Christoph Schmidt

85: Gender and Racial Discrimination in Pay and Promotion for NHS Nurses

Stephen Pudney and Michael Shields

84: The Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity of Unemployment: An Exploration of German Labor Market Flows

Christoph Schmidt

83: Female Labour Supply, Flexibility of Working Hours, and Job Mobility in the Netherlands

Rob Euwals

82: Privacy, time consistent optimal labor income taxation and education policy

Kai Konrad

81: Migration, Migrants and Policy in the United Kingdom

Timothy Hatton and Stephen Wheatley Price

80: The Netherlands: Old Emigrants - Young Immigrant Country

Jan van Ours and Justus Veenman

79: Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies

John Earle and Zuzana Sakova

78: Endogenous Schooling and the Distribution of the Gender Wage Gap

Jorgen Hansen and Roger Wahlberg

77: Knowing What Works: The Case for Rigorous Program Evaluation

Christoph Schmidt

76: Selective Schools

Giorgio Brunello and Massimo Giannini

75: Adjustment Dynamics and the Natural Rate: An Account of UK Unemployment

Dennis Snower, Marika Karanassou and Brian Henry

74: Strategic Mismatches in Competing Teams

Matthias Kräkel

73: The Endogenous Determination of Minimum Wage

Gil Epstein and Shmuel Nitzan

72: Are Austrian Returns to Education Falling Over Time?

Josef Fersterer and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

71: The Wedge

Laszlo Goerke

70: Immigrants and Unemployment in the European Community

Ira Gang, Francisco Rivera-Batiz and Myeong-Su Yun

69: Generalized Selection Bias and The Decomposition of Wage Differentials

Myeong-Su Yun

68: Ethnic German Immigration from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to Germany: the Effects of Migrant Networks

Barbara Dietz

67: Behavioral Effects of Probation Periods: An Analysis of Worker Absenteeism

Regina Riphahn and Anja Thalmaier

66: The Immigrant Welfare Effect: Take-Up or Eligibility?

Edward J. Bird, Hilke Kayser, Joachim Frick and Gert Wagner

65: Grime and Punishment: Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation

Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth and Alessandro Acquisti

64: Salary and the Gender Salary Gap in the Academic Profession

Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

63: Your Everyday, Average Academic

Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

62: Bestimmungsgründe von Fehlzeiten: Welche Rolle spielt die Arbeitslosigkeit?

Anja Thalmaier

61: Immigration: The New Zealand Experience

Rainer Winkelmann

60: Subjective Discount Rates, Intergenerational Transfers and the Return to Schooling

Christian Belzil and Jorgen Hansen

59: Canadian Immigration Experience: Any Lessons for Europe?

Don DeVoretz and Samuel A. Laryea

58: Occupational Mobility of Ethnic Migrants

Thomas Bauer and Klaus Zimmermann

57: Is Child like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin

Ira Gang and Klaus Zimmermann

56: Centralized Bargaining, Multi-Tasking and Work Incentives

Assar Lindbeck and Dennis J. Snower

55: Value-added Tax versus Social Security Contributions

Laszlo Goerke

54: Labor Market Assimilation and the Self-Employment Decision of Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Magnus Lofstrom

53: Inter-industry Wage Dispersion in Portugal: high but falling

Joop Hartog, Pedro Pereira and José Vieira

52: Fertility Assimilation of Immigrants: Evidence from Count Data Models

Jochen Mayer and Regina Riphahn

51: Does Training Generally Work? The Returns to In-Company Training

Alan Barrett and Philip O'Connell

50: Ethnic German Migration since 1989 - Results and Perspectives/ Aussiedler seit 1989 - Bilanz und Perspektiven

Klaus Zimmermann

48: Overtime Work and Overtime Compensation in Germany

Thomas Bauer and Klaus Zimmermann

47: Tenure-based Wage Setting

Robert Hart and Felix Ritchie

46: The Effects of Development on Migration: Theoretical Issues and New Empirical Evidence

Ralph Rotte and Michael Vogler

45: On the Cyclicality and Stability of Real Earnings

Robert Hart and Jim Malley

44: Overtime Working in an Unregulated Labour Market

David Bell and Robert Hart

43: Household Characteristics, Ability and Education: Evidence from a Dynamic Expected Utility Model

Christian Belzil and Jorgen Hansen

42: The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction

Daniel Hamermesh

41: Anatomy of Policy Complementarities

Mike Orszag and Dennis Snower

40: Empirical Findings on the Swiss Migration Experience

Stefan M. Golder and Thomas Straubhaar

39: Multi-Task Learning and the Reorganization of Work. From Tayloristic to Holistic Organization

Assar Lindbeck and Dennis Snower

38: Job Satisfaction within the Scottish Academic Profession

Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger and Peter Sloane

37: Exchange Rate Volatility Effects on the German Labour Market: A Survey of Recent Results and Extensions

Herbert Buscher and Claudia Mueller

36: The Effects of European Economic and Monetary Union on Wage Behaviour

Charlotte Lauer

35: Is Job Stability in the United States Falling?

David Jaeger and Ann Stevens

34: Labour Mobility - An Adjustment Mechanism in Euroland?

Patrick Puhani

33: Price Dynamics and Production Lags

Assar Lindbeck and Dennis J. Snower

32: Work or Retirement? Exit Routes for Norwegian Elderly

Svenn-Åge Dahl, Øivind Nilsen and Kjell Vaage

31: Persistence and the German Unemployment Problem: Empirical Evidences on German Labor Market Flows

Christoph Schmidt

30: Active Labor Market Policies in Poland: Human Capital Enhancement, Stigmatization or Benefit Churning

Jochen Kluve, Hartmut Lehmann and Christoph Schmidt

29: Causes of Changing Earnings Inequality

Dennis Snower

28: Efficiency Wages and Futures Markets

Kit P. Wong and Udo Broll

27: Transition from School to Work: Search Time and Job Duration

Espen Bratberg and Øivind Nilsen

26: Increasing Shadow Economies all over the World - Fiction or Reality?

Dominik Enste and Friedrich Schneider

25: Unemployment and Crime: New Answers to an Old Question

Kerry Papps and Rainer Winkelmann

24: Petersberger Erklaerung: Anstoesse fuer eine zukunftsgerichtete Arbeitsmarktpolitik

Klaus Zimmermann, Michael Burda, Juergen von Hagen, Kai Konrad, Friedrich Schneider and Gert Wagner

23: Learning Efficiency of Economics Students

Klaus Zimmermann and Thomas Bauer

22: The Economics of Hospital Trips and Health Care Reform

Andreas Million, Ralph Rotte and Klaus Zimmermann

21: The Liberalisation of Maternity Leave Policy and the Return to the Work of Childbirth in Germany

Jan Ondrich, Katharina Spiess, Qing Yang and Gert Wagner

20: Portuguese Migrants in the German Labor Market: Performance and Self-Selection

Thomas Bauer, Pedro Pereira, Michael Vogler and Klaus Zimmermann

19: Returns to Returning: Who Went Abroad and What Does it Matter?

Catherine Co, Ira Gang and Myeong-Su Yun

18: Youth Employment and Academic Performance in High School

Zvi Eckstein and Kenneth Wolpin

16: Immigration Labor and Workplace Safety

Thomas Bauer, Andreas Million, Ralph Rotte and Klaus Zimmermann

15: Immigration Participation in Social Assistance Programs

Regina Riphahn

14: Memorandum: Erfolgsbedingungen empirischer Wirtschaftsforschung und empirisch gestuetzter wirtschafts- und sozialpolitischer Beratung

Richard Hauser, Gert Wagner and Klaus Zimmermann

13: Sorties from the Fortress: The Current System of Anti-Immigration Policy in Germany

Ralph Rotte

12: Determinants of International Migration: Empirical Evidence for Migration from Developing Countries to Germany

Ralph Rotte and Michael Vogler

11: Employment Effects of Payroll Taxes - An Empirical Test for Germany

Thomas Bauer and Regina Riphahn

10: Income and Employment Effects of Health Shocks - A Test Case for the German Welfare State

Regina Riphahn

9: Der Euro als Jobmaschine? Zu den Auswirkungen des Euro auf den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt

Wolfgang Franz

8: Das Entsendegesetz: Suendenfall oder Loesung des Arbeitslosigkeitsproblems?

Ralph Rotte and Klaus Zimmermann

7: Immigration und Arbeitsmarkt: Eine oekonomische Perspektive

Klaus Zimmermann

6: The Mortality Crisis in East Germany

Regina Riphahn and Klaus Zimmermann

5: Labor Force Transitions of Older Married Couples in Germany

David Blau and Regina Riphahn

4: German Job Mobility and Wages

Klaus Zimmermann

3: Temporary Migrants From Egypt: How Long Do They Stay Abroad?

Ira Gang and Thomas Bauer

2: East-West Trade and Migration: The Austro-German Case

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Klaus Zimmermann

1: Is Job Stability Declining in Germany? Evidences from Count Data Models

Rainer Winkelmann and Klaus Zimmermann