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11156: Comparing Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Two Different Econometric Models

Sabien Dobbelaere and Jacques Mairesse

11155: How Does Firm Survival Differ between Business Takeovers and New Venture Start-ups?

Guoqian Xi, Joern Block, Frank Lasch, Frank Robert and Roy Thurik

11154: Foreign Ownership and Intra-Firm Union Density in Germany

Uwe Jirjahn

11153: The Determinants of Virtue: Modelling Changes in the CSR Ratings of Chinese Firms

Shuangqi Wu, Simon Appleton, Lina Song and Jinmin Wang

11152: The Effect of Ideological Positions on Job Market Interaction

Anat Alexandron-Lavon, Gil Epstein and Renana Lindner Pomerantz

11151: The Impact of Digital Technologies on Worker Tasks: Do Labor Policies Matter?

Rita Almeida, Carlos Corseuil and Jennifer Poole

11150: Urban Consumption Inequality in China, 1995–2013

Qingjie Xia, Shi Li and Lina Song

11149: Inequality, Good Governance and Endemic Corruption

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

11148: Taxation, Social Protection, and Governance Decentralization

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

11147: The Case for NIT+FT in Europe: An Empirical Optimal Taxation Exercise

Nizamul Islam and Ugo Colombino

11146: Migration Aspirations among NEETs in Selected MENA Countries

Raul Ramos

11145: The Changing Family Structure of American Children with Unauthorized Parents

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Esther Arenas-Arroyo

11144: Older People in Sweden Without Means: On the Importance of Age at Immigration for Being 'Twice Poor'

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Hanna Mac Innes and Torun Österberg

11143: Immigrant Locations and Native Residential Preferences: Emerging Ghettos or New Communities?

Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Albert Saiz

11142: Graduation Incentives Through Conditional Student Loan Forgiveness

Ulla Hämäläinen, Kristian Koerselman and Roope Uusitalo

11141: Spillovers in Education Choice

Juanna Joensen and Helena Nielsen

11140: Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in the Labor Market for Child Care Teachers

Casey Boyd-Swan and Chris M. Herbst

11139: Do Boys Benefit from Male Teachers in Elementary School? Evidence from Administrative Panel Data

Patrick Puhani

11138: Including Covariates in the Regression Discontinuity Design

Markus Frölich and Martin Huber

11137: Does Information Empower the Poor? Evidence from Indonesia's Social Security Card

Achmad Tohari, Christopher Parsons and Anu Rammohan

11136: Economic Consequences of Political Persecution

Radim Bohacek and Michal Myck

11135: Early-Life Correlates of Later-Life Well-Being: Evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study

Andrew Clark and Tom Lee

11134: Severe Air Pollution and School Absences: Longitudinal Data on Expatriates in North China

Haoming Liu and Alberto Salvo

11133: Adverse Welfare Shocks and Pro-Environmental Behaviour: Evidence from the Global Economic Crisis

Artjoms Ivlevs

11132: Temperature Effects on Productivity and Factor Reallocation: Evidence from a Half Million Chinese Manufacturing Plants

Peng Zhang, Olivier Deschenes, Kyle Meng and Junjie Zhang

11131: Creating an Efficient Culture of Cooperation

Ernst Fehr and Tony Williams

11130: The Effect of Positive Mood on Cooperation in Repeated Interaction

Eugenio Proto, Daniel Sgroi and Mahnaz Nazneen

11129: Deadlines and Cognitive Limitations

Steffen Altmann, Christian Traxler and Philipp Weinschenk

11128: Measuring Indirect Effects of Unfair Employer Behavior on Worker Productivity: A Field Experiment

Matthias Heinz, Sabrina Jeworrek, Vanessa Mertins, Heiner Schumacher and Matthias Sutter

11127: Student Work, Educational Achievement, and Later Employment: A Dynamic Approach

Stijn Baert, Brecht Neyt, Eddy Omey and Dieter Verhaest

11126: Age and Education in the Russian Labour Market Equation

Vladimir Gimpelson and Rostislav Kapeliushnikov

11125: Human Capital, Signaling, and Employer Learning: What Insights Do We Gain from Regression Discontinuity Designs?

Georg Graetz

11124: Building Human or Criminal Capital? School Peer Effects on Future Offending

Britt Ostergaard Larsen and Nicolai Kristensen

11123: Does Segregation Reduce Socio-Spatial Mobility? Evidence from Four European Countries with Different Inequality and Segregation Contexts

Jaap Nieuwenhuis, Tiit Tammaru, Maarten van Ham, Lina Hedman and David Manley

11122: Revisiting Interregional Wage Differentials: New Evidence from Spain with Matched Employer-Employee Data

Inés P. Murillo Huertas, Raul Ramos and Hipolito Simon

11121: The Rising Longevity Gap by Lifetime Earnings: Distributional Implications for the Pension System

Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner and Holger Lüthen

11120: Wealth Transfers and Tax Planning: Evidence for the German Bequest Tax

Eric Sommer

11119: Until Taxes Do Us Part: Tax Penalties or Bonuses and the Marriage Decision

Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer and Kerstin Roeder

11118: Labor Market Engagement and the Health of Working Adults: Evidence from India

Archana Dang, Pushkar Maitra and Nidhiya Menon

11117: Long-Run Consequences of Health Insurance Promotion: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ghana

Patrick Asuming, Hyuncheol Bryant Kim and Armand Sim

11116: Forced Migration and Mortality

Thomas Bauer, Matthias Giesecke and Laura Janisch

11115: Productivity and Health: Alternative Productivity Estimates Using Physical Activity

Oladele Akogun, Andrew Dillon, Jed Friedman, Ashesh Prasann and Pieter Serneels

11114: Occupational Match Quality and Gender over Two Cohorts

John Addison, Liwen Chen and Orgul Ozturk

11113: Collective Bargaining through the Magnifying Glass: A Comparison between the Netherlands and Portugal

Alexander Hijzen, Pedro Martins and Jante Parlevliet

11112: Mutual Gains? Is There a Role for Employee Engagement in the Modern Workplace?

Alex Bryson

11111: Union Density, Productivity and Wages

Erling Barth, Alex Bryson and Harald Dale-Olsen

11110: Do High School Sports Build or Reveal Character?

Michael Ransom and Tyler Ransom

11109: The Education and Employment Effects of DACA, In-State Tuition and Financial Aid for Undocumented Immigrants

Lisa Dickson, Thomas (Tim) Gindling and James Kitchin

11108: Not for the Profit, but for the Training? Gender Differences in Training in the For-Profit and Non-Profit Sectors

Benoit Dostie and Mohsen Javdani

11107: More Education, Less Volatility? The Effect of Education on Earnings Volatility over the Life Cycle

Judith Delaney and Paul Devereux

11106: Parental Investments in Early Life and Child Outcomes: Evidence from Swedish Parental Leave Rules

Rita Ginja, Jenny Jans and Arizo Karimi

11105: Entrepreneurship & Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Large-Scale Study Involving the Clinical Condition of ADHD

Dan Lerner, Ingrid Verheul and Roy Thurik

11104: Mode of Entry into Hybrid Entrepreneurship: New Venture Start-Up versus Business Takeover

Guoqian Xi, Joern Block, Frank Lasch, Frank Robert and Roy Thurik

11103: The Intersection of the Fields of Entrepreneurship and Development Economics: A Review towards a New View

Jolanda Hessels and Wim Naudé

11102: Subjective Well-Being and Public Policy

Reto Odermatt and Alois Stutzer

11101: Dynamics in Physical Functioning Limitations

Neha Agarwal, Hans-Peter Kohler and Subha Mani

11100: Working, Volunteering and Mental Health in the Later Years

Irene Mosca and Robert Wright

11099: The Relationship between Status and Happiness: Evidence from the Caste System in Rural India

Bert Van Landeghem and Anneleen Vandeplas

11098: Overoptimistic Entrepreneurs: Predicting Wellbeing Consequences of Self-Employment

Reto Odermatt, Nattavudh Powdthavee and Alois Stutzer

11097: Nudging Generosity: Choice Architecture and Cognitive Factors in Charitable Giving

Jonathan Schulz, Petra Thiemann and Christian Thöni

11096: Reluctant to Reform? A Note on Risk-Loving Politicians and Bureaucrats

Tobias Thomas, Moritz Heß and Gert Wagner

11095: Serving the Public Interest in Several Ways: Theory and Empirics

Robert Dur and Max van Lent

11094: Would a Euro's Depreciation Improve the French Economy?

Riccardo Magnani, Luca Piccoli, Martine Carré and Amedeo Spadaro

11093: Efficiency Consequences of Affirmative Action in Politics: Evidence from India

Sabyasachi Das, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and Rajas Saroy

11092: Microdata for Social Sciences and Policy Evaluation as a Public Good

Ugo Trivellato

11091: Heterogeneity and the Public Sector Wage Policy

Pedro Gomes

11090: Preventing NEETs during the Great Recession: The Effects of a Mandatory Activation Program for Young Welfare Recipients

Emile Cammeraat, Egbert L. W. Jongen and Pierre Koning

11089: Male Gatekeepers Gender Bias in the Publishing Process?

Felix Bransch and Michael Kvasnicka

11088: How Entry into Parenthood Shapes Gender Role Attitudes: New Evidence from Longitudinal UK Data

Elena Grinza, Francesco Devicienti, Mariacristina Rossi and Davide Vannoni

11087: Husband's Unemployment and Wife's Labor Supply: The Added Worker Effect across Europe

Julia Bredtmann, Sebastian Otten and Christian Rulff

11086: Employment Transitions of Women in India: A Panel Analysis

Sudipa Sarkar, Soham Sahoo and Stephan Klasen

11085: Maternal Employment and Child Outcomes: Evidence from the Irish Marriage Bar

Irene Mosca, Vincent O'Sullivan and Robert Wright

11084: Assortative Mating and Earnings Inequality in France

Nicolas Frémeaux and Arnaud Lefranc

11083: Higher Education Funding Reforms: A Comprehensive Analysis of Educational and Labor Market Outcomes in England

Ghazala Azmat and Stefania Simion

11082: Youth Enfranchisement, Political Responsiveness and Education Expenditure: Evidence from the U.S

Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico, Francesco Lancia and Alessia Russo

11081: So Similar and Yet So Different: A Comparative Analysis of a Firm's Cost and Benefits of Apprenticeship Training in Austria and Switzerland

Luca Moretti, Martin Mayerl, Samuel Mühlemann, Peter Schlögl and Stefan Wolter

11080: Early Tracking, Academic vs. Vocational Training and the Value of 'Second Chance' Options

Martin Biewen and Madalina Tapalaga

11079: Sleep and Student Success: The Role of Regularity vs. Duration

Phuc Luong, Lester Lusher and Vasil Yasenov

11078: The Effects of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals on the Educational Outcomes of Undocumented Students

Amy Hsin and Francesc Ortega

11077: Local Labor Markets and the Persistence of Population Shocks

Sebastian Braun, Anica Kramer and Michael Kvasnicka

11076: Income Increase and Moving to a Better Neighbourhood: An Enquiry into Ethnic Differences in Finland

Maria Vaalavuo, Maarten van Ham and Timo M. Kauppinen

11075: Immigrants' Residential Choices and Their Consequences

Christoph Albert and Joan Monras

11074: What Drives Spatial Clusters of Entrepreneurship in China? Evidence from Economic Census Data

Liang Zheng and Zhong Zhao

11073: Spatial-Ethnic Inequalities: The Role of Location in the Estimation of Ethnic Wage Differentials

Simonetta Longhi

11072: Rising Wage Inequality in Germany: Increasing Heterogeneity and Changing Selection into Full-Time Work

Martin Biewen, Bernd Fitzenberger and Jakob de Lazzer

11071: What Really Happened to British Inequality in the Early 20th Century? Evidence from National Household Expenditure Surveys 1890–1961

Ian Gazeley, Andrew Newell, Kevin Reynolds and Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos

11070: Intergenerational Disadvantage: Learning about Equal Opportunity from Social Assistance Receipt

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Nicolas Salamanca and Anna Zhu

11069: The Truly Vulnerable: Integrating Wealth into the Measurement of Poverty and Social Policy Effectiveness

Sarah Kuypers and Ive Marx

11068: Employer-Provided Severance Pay: The Emergence of Job Displacement Insurance, 1930–1954

Donald Parsons

11067: Voluntary Employer-Provided Severance Pay

Donald Parsons

11066: Nonunion Employee Representation: Theory and the German Experience with Mandated Works Councils

Uwe Jirjahn and Stephen Smith

11065: Antecedents of Overtime Work: The Case of Junior Academics

Irina Frei and Christian Grund

11064: The German Model of Industrial Relations: (Where) Does It Still Exist?

Michael Oberfichtner and Claus Schnabel

11063: Worker Churn and Employment Growth at the Establishment Level

Ruediger Bachmann, Christian Bayer, Christian Merkl, Stefan Seth, Heiko Stüber and Felix Wellschmied

11062: Does Low Skilled Immigration Cause Human Capital Polarization? Evidence from Italian Provinces

Giorgio Brunello, Elisabetta Lodigiani and Lorenzo Rocco

11061: Testing for Repugnance in Economic Transactions: Evidence from Guest Work in the Gulf

Michael Clemens

11060: What Are You Voting For? Proximity to Refugee Reception Centres and Voting in the 2016 Italian Constitutional Referendum

Massimiliano Bratti, Claudio Deiana, Enkelejda Havari, Gianluca Mazzarella and Elena Meroni

11059: Was Brexit Caused by the Unhappy and the Old?

Federica Liberini, Andrew Oswald, Eugenio Proto and Michela Redoano

11058: Informal Search, Bad Search? The Effects of Job Search Method on Wages among Rural Migrants in Urban China

Yuanyuan Chen, Le Wang and Min Zhang

11057: Has the Push for Equal Gender Representation Changed the Role of Women on German Supervisory Boards?

Viktor Bozhinov, Christopher Koch and Thorsten Schank