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9591: An Unfulfilled Promise? Higher Education Quality and Professional Underemployment in Peru

Gustavo Yamada, Pablo Lavado and Joan Martinez

9590: Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Turkey

Aysıt Tansel

9589: The Effect of Doubling the Minimum Wage on Employment: Evidence from Russia

Alexander Muravyev and Aleksey Oshchepkov

9588: Worker Flows and Labour Market Adjustment during the Great Recession: Evidence from a Large Shock

Hartmut Lehmann, Tiziano Razzolini and Anzelika Zaiceva

9587: Collective Bargaining Systems and Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Flexibility: The Quest for Appropriate Institutional Forms in Advanced Economies

John Addison

9586: Managers and Productivity Differences

Nezih Guner, Andrii Parkhomenko and Gustavo Ventura

9585: Mismatch of Talent: Evidence on Match Quality, Entry Wages, and Job Mobility

Peter Fredriksson, Lena Hensvik and Oskar Skans

9584: Do They Find You on Facebook? Facebook Profile Picture and Hiring Chances

Stijn Baert

9583: Are Working Time Accounts Beneficial for German Establishments?

Lutz Bellmann and Olaf Hübler

9582: Measurement of Inequality of Opportunity Based on Counterfactuals

Dirk Van de gaer and Xavi Ramos

9581: Capital Shares and Income inequality: Evidence from the Long Run

Erik Bengtsson and Daniel Waldenström

9580: The Changing Nature of Irish Wage Inequality from Boom to Bust

Niamh Holton and Donal O'Neill

9579: The Individual Perception of Wage Inequality: A Measurement Framework and Some Empirical Evidence

Andreas Kuhn

9578: Are Starting Wages Reduced by an Insurance Premium for Preventing Wage Decline? Testing the Prediction of Harris and Holmstrom (1982)

Joop Hartog and Pedro Raposo

9577: Local and Spatial Cointegration in the Wage Curve: A Spatial Panel Analysis for German Regions

Reinhold Kosfeld and Christian Dreger

9576: The Optimal Minimum Wage with Regulatory Uncertainty

John Bennett and Ioana Chioveanu

9575: The Effectiveness of Early Vacancy Information in the Presence of Monitoring and ALMP

Ricarda Schmidl

9574: New Job Matches and Their Stability Before and During the Crisis

Amparo Nagore García and Arthur van Soest

9573: Informal versus Formal Search: Which Yields a Better Pay?

Semih Tumen

9572: Unemployment Risk and Over-Indebtedness: A Micro-Econometric Perspective

Philip Du Caju, Francois Rycx and Ilan Tojerow

9571: Are Unemployment Rates in OECD Countries Stationary? Evidence from Univariate and Panel Unit Root Tests

Naceur Khraief, Muhammad Shahbaz, Almas Heshmati and Muhammad Azam

9570: Predicting the Irish "Gay Marriage" Referendum

Nikos Askitas

9569: Calling the Greek Referendum on the Nose with Google Trends

Nikos Askitas

9568: The Caregiving Responsibilities of Retirees: What Are They and How Do They Affect Retirees' Well-being?

Charlene Kalenkoski and Eakamon Oumtrakool

9567: Differential and Distributional Effects of Energy Efficiency Surveys: Evidence from Electricity Consumption

Thomas Kniesner and Galib Rustamov

9566: "Buy-It-Now" or "Sell-It-Now" Auctions: Effects of Changing Bargaining Power in Sequential Trading Mechanisms

Tim Grebe, Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel and Sabine Kröger

9565: Psychological Incentives, Financial Incentives, and Risk Attitudes in Tournaments: An Artefactual Field Experiment

Charles Cadsby, Jim Engle-Warnick, Tony Fang and Fei Song

9564: Are Competitors Forward Looking in Strategic Interactions? Evidence from the Field

Mario Lackner, Rudi Stracke, Uwe Sunde and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

9563: Initial Conditions Matter: Social Capital and Participatory Development

Lisa Cameron, Susan Olivia and Manisha Shah

9562: Girls' Schooling Choices and Home Production: Evidence from Pakistan

Hugo Reis

9561: Fighting Corruption in Education: What Works and Who Benefits?

Oana Borcan, Mikael Lindahl and Andreea Mitrut

9560: Informal Fee Elimination and Student Performance: Evidence from The Gambia

Leanne Giordono and Todd Pugatch

9559: Test Scores, Noncognitive Skills and Economic Growth

Pau Balart, Matthijs Oosterveen and Dinand Webbink

9558: Are Student Absences Worth the Worry in U.S. Primary Schools?

Seth Gershenson, Alison Jacknowitz and Andrew Brannegan

9557: The Moderating Effect of Higher Education on Intergenerational Spatial Inequality

Elise de Vuijst, Maarten van Ham and Reinout Kleinhans

9556: Modeling the Effects of Grade Retention in High School

Stijn Baert, Bart Cockx and Matteo Picchio

9555: Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform

Eric Hanushek, Jens Ruhose and Ludger Woessmann

9554: The Impact of Teacher Demographic Representation on Student Attendance and Suspensions

Stephen Holt and Seth Gershenson

9553: Regression Discontinuity Designs Based on Population Thresholds: Pitfalls and Solutions

Andrew C. Eggers, Ronny Freier, Veronica Grembi and Tommaso Nannicini

9552: Same Program, Different Outcomes: Understanding Differential Effects from Access to Free, High-Quality Early Care

Juan Chaparro and Aaron Sojourner

9551: State Dependence in Welfare Benefits in a Non-Welfare Context

Sinem Ayhan and Selin Pelek

9550: The Impact of Family Friendly Policies in Spain and their Use throughout the Business Cycle

Sara de la Rica and Lucía Gorjón

9549: Disability Benefit Generosity and Labor Force Withdrawal

Kathleen Mullen and Stefan Staubli

9548: The Effect of Unemployment Benefit Generosity on Unemployment Duration: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Slovenia

Matija Vodopivec, Suzana Laporšek, Primož Dolenc and Milan Vodopivec

9547: Social Assistance in Five Countries in North-Western Europe

Hans Hansen and Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen

9546: Long-Term Consequences of Access to Well-Child Visits

Aline Bütikofer, Katrine Løken and Kjell G Salvanes

9545: Illegal Immigration and the Shadow Economy

Carmen Camacho, Fabio Mariani and Luca Pensieroso

9544: Ethnic Diversity and Trust: New Evidence from Australian Data

Silvia Mendolia, Alex Tosh and Oleg Yerokhin

9543: Immigration to the U.S.: A Problem for the Republicans or the Democrats?

Anna Maria Mayda, Giovanni Peri and Walter Steingress

9542: Ability Drain

Maurice Schiff

9541: The Effect of Remittances on Labour Supply in the Republic of Haiti

Evans Jadotte and Xavi Ramos

9540: Left Behind but Doing Good? Civic Engagement in Two Post-Socialist Countries

Milena Nikolova, Monica Roman and Klaus Zimmermann

9539: Self?Employment amongst Migrant Groups in England and Wales: New Evidence from Census Microdata

Ken Clark, Stephen Drinkwater and Catherine Robinson

9538: Can Selective Immigration Policies Reduce Migrants' Quality?

Simone Bertoli, Vianney Dequiedt and Yves Zenou

9537: Women at the Top in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Khalid Sekkat, Ariane Szafarz and Ilan Tojerow

9536: Hiring a Homosexual, Taking a Risk? A Lab Experiment on Employment Discrimination and Risk Aversion

Stijn Baert

9535: Gender Gaps in Early Educational Achievement

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Julie Moschion

9534: Immigrants and Gender Roles: Assimilation vs. Culture

Francine Blau

9533: Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households: Evidence from Sweden

Karin Hederos Eriksson and Anders Stenberg

9532: One-Child Policy, Marriage Distortion, and Welfare Loss

Wei Huang and Yi Zhou

9531: Making Work Pay: Increasing Labour Supply of Secondary Earners in Low Income Families with Children

Anna Kurowska, Michal Myck and Katharina Wrohlich

9530: Paid Family Leave, Fathers' Leave-Taking, and Leave-Sharing in Dual-Earner Households

Ann P. Bartel, Maya Rossin-Slater, Christopher Ruhm, Jenna Stearns and Jane Waldfogel

9529: Policy Levers to Increase Jobs and Increase Income from Work after the Great Recession

David Neumark

9528: Happy Birthday, You're Fired! The Effects of Age-Dependent Minimum Wage on Youth Employment Flows in the Netherlands

Jan Kabátek

9527: Wage Dispersion and Search Behavior

Robert Hall and Andreas Mueller

9526: Terrorism and Employment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks

Abel Brodeur

9525: Unemployment and Vacancy Dynamics with Imperfect Financial Markets

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Michael Graber and Klaus Wälde

9524: The Long Walk: Considering the Enduring Spatial and Racial Dimensions of Deprivation Two Decades after the Fall of Apartheid

Ronelle Burger, Servaas van der Berg, Sarel van der Walt and Derek Yu

9523: The Capability Threshold: Re-examining the Definition of the Middle Class in an Unequal Developing Country

Ronelle Burger, Camren McAravey and Servaas van der Berg

9522: Religious Riots and Electoral Politics in India

Sriya Iyer and Anand Shrivastava

9521: Entrepreneurship and the Reallocation of African Farmers

Wim Naudé

9520: Determinants of Trade Margins: Insights Using State Export Data

Cletus Coughlin and Subhayu Bandyopadhyay

9519: Status Concern and Relative Deprivation in China: Measures, Empirical Evidence, and Economic and Policy Implications

Xi Chen

9518: Intergenerational Educational Persistence among Daughters: Evidence from India

Mehtabul Azam

9517: Homeownership of Immigrants in France: Selection Effects Related to International Migration Flows

Laurent Gobillon and Matthieu Solignac

9516: Migrants' Remittances: Channelling Globalization

Remus Gabriel Anghel, Matloob Piracha and Teresa Randazzo

9515: Emigration, Remittances and the Education of Children Staying Behind: Evidence from Tajikistan

Barbara Dietz, Kseniia Gatskova and Artjoms Ivlevs

9514: Colombian Emigration by Administrative Regions

Mariana Saenz and Joshua J. Lewer

9513: Local-Level Immigration and Life Satisfaction: The EU Enlargement Experience in England and Wales

Artjoms Ivlevs and Michail Veliziotis

9512: Do Earnings by College Major Affect Graduate Migration?

John Winters

9511: Going Beyond LATE: Bounding Average Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training

Xuan Chen, Carlos A. Flores and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes

9510: Firm Productivity Growth and Skill

David Maré, Dean Hyslop and Richard Fabling

9509: Where Are the Returns to Lifelong Learning?

Michael Coelli and Domenico Tabasso

9508: The Relationship Between Establishment Training and the Retention of Older Workers: Evidence from Germany

Peter B. Berg, Mary K. Hamman, Matthew Piszczek and Christopher Ruhm

9507: New Evidence on the Effects of the Shortened School Duration in the German States: An Evaluation of Post-Secondary Education Decisions

Tobias Meyer, Stephan Thomsen and Heidrun Schneider

9506: On the Impact of Quotas and Decision Rules in Ultimatum Collective Bargaining

Robert Feicht, Veronika Grimm, Holger A. Rau and Gesine Stephan

9505: Social Interactions in Job Satisfaction

Semih Tumen and Tugba Zeydanli

9504: The Nature and Predictive Power of Preferences: Global Evidence

Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Benjamin Enke, David B. Huffman and Uwe Sunde

9503: Predicting Road Conditions with Internet Search

Nikos Askitas

9502: Bright Minds, Big Rent: Gentrification and the Rising Returns to Skill

Lena Edlund, Cecilia Machado and Maria Micaela Sviatschi

9501: Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market

Alan Benson, Aaron Sojourner and Akhmed Umyarov

9500: The Impact of Missionary Type on the English Language Proficiency and Earnings of Immigrants

Nicholas Larsen and Barry Chiswick

9499: The Effect of Linguistic Proximity on the Occupational Assimilation of Immigrant Men in Canada

Alicia Adsera and Ana Ferrer

9498: Education, Health and Fertility of UK Immigrants: The Role of English Language Skills

Yu Aoki and Lualhati Santiago

9497: The Deterrent Effect of Voting Against Minarets: Identity Utility and Foreigners' Location Choice

Michaela Slotwinski and Alois Stutzer

9496: Improving the Integration of Refugees: An Early Evaluation of a Swedish Reform

Pernilla Andersson Joona, Alma W. Lanninger and Marianne Sundström

9495: Immigrant Employment and Earnings Growth in Canada and the U.S.: Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Neeraj Kaushal, Yao Lu, Nicole Denier, Julia Shu-Huah Wang and Stephen Trejo

9494: Regional Migration, Insurance and Economic Shocks: Evidence from Nicaragua

Teresa Molina Millan

9493: Social Networks and the Labour Market Mismatch

Eleni Kalfa and Matloob Piracha

9492: The Long-Term Impacts of International Migration: Evidence from a Lottery

John Gibson, David McKenzie, Halahingano Rohorua and Steven Stillman