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11256: Informal Employment Relationships and the Labor Market: Is There Segmentation in Ukraine?

Hartmut Lehmann and Norberto Pignatti

11255: The Impact of Public Employment: Evidence from Bonn

Sascha Becker, Stephan Heblich and Daniel M. Sturm

11254: Labor Market Concentration

José Azar, Ioana Marinescu and Marshall Steinbaum

11253: Why Does Emissions Trading under the EU ETS Not Affect Firms' Competitiveness? Empirical Findings from the Literature

Eugénie Joltreau and Katrin Sommerfeld

11252: Oil Price Shocks, Monetary Policy and Current Account Imbalances within a Currency Union

Timo Baas and Ansgar Belke

11251: World Commodity Prices, Job Security and Health: Evidence from the Mining Industry

David Johnston, Michael Shields and Agne Suziedelyte

11250: Wage Inequality and Structural Change

Joanna Tyrowicz and Magdalena Smyk

11249: Labor Reallocation and Demographics

Joanna Tyrowicz and Lucas van der Velde

11248: The Effectiveness of Hiring Credits

Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo and Thomas Le Barbanchon

11247: Nature of the Relationship between Minimum Wage and the Shadow Economy Size: An Empirical Analysis for the Case of Romania

Adriana Anamaria Davidescu and Friedrich Schneider

11246: The Short-Term Distributional Effects of the German Minimum Wage Reform

Marco Caliendo, Alexandra Fedorets, Malte Preuß, Carsten Schröder and Linda Wittbrodt

11245: Political Change and Informality: Evidence from the Arab Spring

Ahmed Elsayed and Jackline Wahba

11244: War of the Waves: Radio and Resistance during World War II

Stefano Gagliarducci, Massimiliano Onorato, Francesco Sobbrio and Guido Tabellini

11243: Short- and Long-Run Impacts of Rural Electrification: Evidence from the Historical Rollout of the U.S. Power Grid

Joshua Lewis and Edson Severnini

11242: Child Labor and the Arrival of Refugees: Evidence from Tanzania

Chiara Kofol and Maryam Naghsh Nejad

11241: Skilled Migration Policy and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrants

Max Tani

11240: Empowering Women under Social Constraints: Evidence from a Field Intervention in Rural Egypt

Ahmed Elsayed and Rania Roushdy

11239: Women's Inheritance Rights Reform and the Preference for Sons in India

Sonia Bhalotra, Rachel Brulé and Sanchari Roy

11238: Birth and Employment Transitions of Women in Turkey: Conflicting or Compatible Roles?

Ayse Abbasoglu Ozgoren, Banu Ergöçmen and Aysıt Tansel

11237: Children, Time Allocation and Consumption Insurance

Richard Blundell, Luigi Pistaferri and Itay Saporta-Eksten

11236: The Risk and Time Preferences of Young Truants and Their Parents

Emma Antrobus, Victoria Baranov, Deborah Cobb-Clark, Lorraine Mazerolle and Agnieszka Tymula

11235: Grandchildren and Their Grandparents' Labor Supply

Peter Rupert and Giulio Zanella

11234: Long-Term Effects of Childhood Nutrition: Evidence from a School Lunch Reform

Jesper Alex-Petersen, Petter Lundborg and Dan-Olof Rooth

11233: Do Different Types of Assets Have Differential Effects on Child Education? Evidence from Tanzania

Kashi Kafle, Dean Jolliffe and Alex Winter-Nelson

11232: The Effects of Academic Probation on College Success: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Four Texas Universities

Jason Fletcher and Mansur Tokmouline

11231: Changes across Cohorts in Wage Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences

Jared Ashworth, V. Joseph Hotz, Arnaud Maurel and Tyler Ransom

11230: Gender Homophily in Referral Networks: Consequences for the Medicare Physician Earnings Gap

Dan Zeltzer

11229: The Motivation of Temporary Agency Workers: An Empirical Analysis

Christian Grund, Axel Minten and Nevena Toporova

11228: Team Incentives, Task Assignment, and Performance: A Field Experiment

Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur and Michiel Souverijn

11227: Exclusion and Reintegration in a Social Dilemma

Alice Solda and Marie Claire Villeval

11226: Retirement and Unexpected Health Shocks

Bénédicte Apouey, Cahit Guven and Claudia Senik

11225: Labor Market Imperfections, Markups and Productivity in Multinationals and Exporters

Sabien Dobbelaere and Kozo Kiyota

11224: Geography and Employer Recruiting

Russell Weinstein

11223: The Twin Track Model of Employee Voice: An Anglo-American Perspective on Union Decline and the Rise of Alternative Forms of Voice

Alex Bryson, Richard Freeman, Rafael Gomez and Paul Willman

11222: Does Sick Pay Affect Workplace Absence?

Alex Bryson and Harald Dale-Olsen

11221: Financial Stress and Indigenous Australians

Robert Breunig, Syed Hasan and Boyd Hunter

11220: The Price of Polarization: Estimating Task Prices under Routine-Biased Technical Change

Michael Johannes Böhm

11219: The Roles of Increasing Inequality and Divergent Urban Development in Understanding Spatial Polarization in Tel-Aviv

Tal Modai-Snir and Maarten van Ham

11218: Three Generations of Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Context

Lina Hedman, Maarten van Ham and Tiit Tammaru

11217: The Native-Migrant Gap in the Progression into and through Upper-Secondary Education

Stefan Wolter and Maria Zumbühl

11216: A Panel Study of Immigrants' Overeducation and Earnings in Australia

Le Wen and Sholeh Maani

11215: Beyond Conflict: Long-Term Labour Market Integration of Internally Displaced Persons in Post-Socialist Countries

Artjoms Ivlevs and Michail Veliziotis

11214: The Effects of Immigration Quotas on Wages, the Great Black Migration, and Industrial Development

Bin Xie

11213: Socioemotional Skills, Education, and Health-Related Outcomes of High-Ability Individuals

Peter Savelyev and Kegon Tan

11212: Preschool Attendance, School Progression, and Cognitive Skills in East Africa

Jan Bietenbeck, Sanna Ericsson and Fredrick Wamalwa

11211: The Effect of Multigrade Classes on Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills: Causal Evidence Exploiting Minimum Class Size Rules in Italy

Daniele Checchi and Maria De Paola

11210: Education Effects on Days Hospitalized and Days out of Work by Gender: Evidence from Turkey

Aysıt Tansel and Halil Ibrahim Keskin

11209: Returns to Education and Female Participation Nexus: Evidence from India

Sanghamitra Kanjilal-Bhaduri and Francesco Pastore

11208: Does Class Size Matter for School Tracking Outcomes after Elementary School? Quasi-Experimental Evidence Using Administrative Panel Data from Germany

Bethlehem A. Argaw and Patrick Puhani

11207: Fake News

Andreas Grunewald and Matthias Kräkel

11206: Who Got the Brexit Blues? Using a Quasi-Experiment to Show the Effect of Brexit on Subjective Wellbeing in the UK

Nattavudh Powdthavee, Anke Plagnol, Paul Frijters and Andrew Clark

11205: A New Year, a New You? Heterogeneity and Self-Control in Food Purchases

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Rachel Griffith, O’Connell, Martin, Kate Smith and Frederic Vermeulen

11204: Financial Shocks and the Erosion of Interpersonal Trust: Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Michael Jetter and Ingebjørg Kristoffersen

11203: Intentions for Doing Good Matter for Doing Well: The (Negative) Signaling Value of Prosocial Incentives

Lea Cassar and Stephan Meier

11202: Ordering History Through the Timeline

Eugenio Garibaldi and Pietro Garibaldi

11201: Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Risk-Taking among Children, Teenagers, and College Students: Evidence from Jeopardy!

Michael Jetter and Jay Walker

11200: Parents, Siblings and Schoolmates: The Effects of Family-School Interactions on Educational Achievement and Long-Term Labor Market Outcomes

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello and Lorenzo Cappellari

11199: Grandmothers' Labor Supply

Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Bernhard Schmidpeter and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

11198: Rising Stars

Erich Battistin and Marco Ovidi

11197: Why Do French Engineers Find Stable Jobs Faster than PhDs?

David Margolis and Luis Miotti

11196: Public Funding and Corporate Innovation

Mathias Beck, Martin Junge and Ulrich Kaiser

11195: Cities and Entrepreneurs over Time: Like a Horse and Carriage?

Wim Naudé

11194: Technological Innovation and Inclusive Growth in Germany

Wim Naudé and Paula Nagler

11193: NDC Schemes and Heterogeneity in Longevity: Proposals for Redesign

Robert Holzmann, Jennifer Alonso-García, Heloise Labit-Hardy and Andres M. Villegas

11192: Mechanics of Replacing Benefit Systems with a Basic Income: Comparative Results from a Microsimulation Approach

James Browne and Herwig Immervoll

11191: Probing the Effects of the Australian System of Minimum Wages on the Gender Wage Gap

Barbara Broadway and Roger Wilkins

11190: The Short-Run Employment Effects of the German Minimum Wage Reform

Marco Caliendo, Alexandra Fedorets, Malte Preuß, Carsten Schröder and Linda Wittbrodt

11189: The Long-Run Effects of Agricultural Productivity on Conflict, 1400-1900

Murat Iyigun, Nathan Nunn and Nancy Qian

11188: Micro-Foundations of Fragility: Concepts, Measurement and Application

Ghassan Baliki, Tilman Brück, Neil Ferguson and Sindu Kebede

11187: Maternal Depression, Women's Empowerment, and Parental Investment: Evidence from a Large Randomized Control Trial

Victoria Baranov, Sonia Bhalotra, Pietro Biroli and Joanna Maselko

11186: The Dynamics of Disability and Benefit Receipt in Britain

Melanie K. Jones and Duncan McVicar

11185: Education, Income and Happiness: Panel Evidence for the UK

Felix FitzRoy and Michael A. Nolan

11184: Unhappiness and Pain in Modern America: A Review Essay, and Further Evidence, on Carol Graham's Happiness for All?

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

11183: Commuting and Sickness Absence

Laszlo Goerke and Olga Lorenz

11182: Estimating Fixed Effects: Perfect Prediction and Bias in Binary Response Panel Models, with an Application to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program

Johannes Kunz, Kevin Staub and Rainer Winkelmann

11181: The Welfare Implications of Addictive Substances: A Longitudinal Study of Life Satisfaction of Drug Users

Julie Moschion and Nattavudh Powdthavee

11180: Can Regional Decentralisation Shift Health Care Preferences?

Joan Costa-Font and Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell

11179: Masculine vs Feminine Personality Traits and Women's Employment Outcomes in Britain: A Field Experiment

Nick Drydakis, Katerina Sidiropoulou, Swetketu Patnaik, Sandra Selmanovic and Vasiliki Bozani

11178: Sorting out Neighbourhood Effects Using Sibling Data

Lina Hedman, David Manley and Maarten van Ham

11177: Papa Does Preach: Daughters and Polarisation of Attitudes toward Abortion

Clementine van Effenterre

11176: Betting the House: How Assets Influence Marriage Selection, Marital Stability, and Child Investments

Jeanne Lafortune and Corinne Low

11175: Searching on Campus? Marriage Market Effects of the Student Gender Composition

Nico Pestel

11174: Are Urban-Rural Welfare Differences Growing in India?

Mehtabul Azam

11173: Do Emigrants Self-Select along Cultural Traits? Evidence from the MENA Countries

Frédéric Docquier, Aysıt Tansel and Riccardo Turati

11172: Migration and Co-Residence Choices: Evidence from Mexico

Simone Bertoli and Elie Murard

11171: Linguistic Distance, Networks and Migrants' Regional Location Choice

Julia Bredtmann, Klaus Nowotny and Sebastian Otten

11170: Labor Market Search, Informality and Schooling Investments

Matteo Bobba, Luca Flabbi and Santiago Levy Algazi

11169: Mobility Assistance Programmes for Unemployed Workers, Job Search Behaviour and Labour Market Outcomes

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn and Robert Mahlstedt

11168: Government Programs Can Improve Local Labor Markets, But Do They? A Re-Analysis of Ham, Swenson, Imrohoro?lu, and Song (2011)

David Neumark and Timothy Young

11167: New Approaches to the Study of Long-Term Non-Employment Duration in Italy, Germany and Spain

Bruno Contini, J. Ignacio García Pérez, Toralf Pusch and Roberto Quaranta

11166: Snooze or Lose: High School Start Times and Academic Achievement

Jeffrey A. Groen and Sabrina Pabilonia

11165: Are School-Provided Skills Useful at Work? Results of the Wiles Test

Jacek Liwiński and Francesco Pastore

11164: Intergenerational Education Mobility and the Level of Development: Evidence from Turkey

Abdurrahman Aydemir and Hakki Yazici

11163: Generation Internship: The Impact of Internships on Early Labour Market Performance

Annette Cerulli-Harms

11162: School Choice during a Period of Radical School Reform: Evidence from the Academy Programme

Marco Bertoni, Stephen Gibbons and Olmo Silva

11161: School Performance, Score Inflation and Economic Geography

Erich Battistin and Lorenzo Neri

11160: Poverty's Deconstruction: Beyond the Visible

Sumon Bhaumik, Ira Gang and Myeong-Su Yun

11159: Structural Reforms, Growth and Inequality: An Overview of Theory, Measurement and Evidence

Nauro Campos, Paul De Grauwe and Yuemei Ji

11158: Socio-Economic Status and Inequalities in Children's IQ and Economic Preferences

Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Pia Pinger and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

11157: Is Inequality of Opportunity Robust to the Measurement Approach?

Xavi Ramos and Dirk Van de gaer