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8352: International Migration of Couples

Martin Junge, Martin D. Munk and Panu Poutvaara

8351: Aging and Migration in a Transition Economy: The Case of China

Örn B. Bodvarsson, Jack Hou and Kailing Shen

8350: Pappa Ante Portas: The Retired Husband Syndrome in Japan

Marco Bertoni and Giorgio Brunello

8349: Transitions in a West African Labour Market: The Role of Family Networks

Christophe Nordman and Laure Pasquier-Doumer

8348: Season of Birth and Marital Outcomes

Sonia Oreffice

8347: Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces

Graziella Bertocchi and Monica Bozzano

8346: Skill Disparities and Unequal Family Outcomes

Shelly Lundberg

8345: Publish or Perish? Incentives and Careers in Italian Academia

Daniele Checchi, Gianni De Fraja and Stefano Verzillo

8344: And the Winners Are... An Axiomatic Approach to Selection from a Set

Daniele Checchi, Gianni De Fraja and Stefano Verzillo

8343: Does Private Tutoring Increase Students' Academic Performance? Evidence from Turkey

Giray Berberoglu and Aysıt Tansel

8342: Immigration, Naturalization, and the Future of Public Education

Ryuichi Tanaka, Lidia Farre and Francesc Ortega

8341: Formal Education Versus Learning-by-Doing

Frédéric Gavrel, Isabelle Lebon and Therese Rebiere

8340: Accounting for Peer Effects in Treatment Response

Rokhaya Dieye, Habiba Djebbari and Felipe Barrera-Osorio

8339: A General Semiparametric Approach to Inference with Marker-Dependent Hazard Rate Models

Gerard van den Berg, Lena Janys, Enno Mammen and Jens P. Nielsen

8338: Bayesian Exploratory Factor Analysis

Gabriella Conti, Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter, James Heckman and Rémi Piatek

8337: Unobservable, but Unimportant? The Influence of Personality Traits (and Other Usually Unobserved Variables) for the Evaluation of Labor Market Policies

Marco Caliendo, Robert Mahlstedt and Oscar Mitnik

8336: The Effects of Reducing the Entitlement Period to Unemployment Insurance Benefits

Nynke De Groot and Bas van der Klaauw

8335: Heterogeneity and Government Revenues: Higher Taxes at the Top?

Nezih Guner, Martin Lopez-Daneri and Gustavo Ventura

8334: Does the Link between Unemployment and Crime Depend on the Crime Level? A Quantile Regression Approach

Horst Entorf and Philip Sieger

8333: Rationalizable Suicides: Evidence from Changes in Inmates' Expected Length of Sentence

Nadia Campaniello, Theodoros Diasakos and Giovanni Mastrobuoni

8332: Crime Scars: Recessions and the Making of Career Criminals

Brian Bell, Anna Bindler and Stephen Machin

8331: Local Agglomeration, Entrepreneurship and the Great Recession: Evidence from Italian Industrial Districts

Giorgio Brunello and Monica Langella

8330: Do Hiring Credits Work in Recessions? Evidence from France

Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo and Thomas Le Barbanchon

8329: Migration Policy, African Population Growth and Global Inequality

Andrew Mountford and Hillel Rapoport

8328: Migration in Italy is Backing the Old Age Welfare

Daniela Del Boca and Alessandra Venturini

8327: Do Immigrants Work in Worse Jobs than U.S. Natives? Evidence from California

Madeline Zavodny

8326: Skilled Immigrants' Contribution to Productive Efficiency

Daehoon Nahm and Max Tani

8325: Should I Stay or Should I Go? An Investigation of Graduate Regional Mobility in the UK and its Impact upon Early Career Earnings

Michael P Kidd, Nigel C. O'Leary and Peter Sloane

8324: Made in China, Sold in Norway: Local Labor Market Effects of an Import Shock

Ragnhild Balsvik, Sissel Jensen and Kjell G Salvanes

8323: Conspicuous Consumption in the United States and China

David Jinkins

8322: Inequality in Total Returns to Work in Ukraine: Taking a Closer Look at Workplace (Dis)amenities

Olena Nizalova

8321: Legal Corruption, Politically Connected Corporate Governance and Firm Performance

Polona Domadenik, Janez Prašnikar and Jan Svejnar

8320: First Depressed, Then Discriminated Against?

Stijn Baert, Sarah De Visschere, Koen Schoors and Eddy Omey

8319: Is Ethnic Discrimination Due to Distaste or Statistics?

Stijn Baert and Ann-Sophie De Pauw

8318: Wage Subsidies and Hiring Chances for the Disabled: Some Causal Evidence

Stijn Baert

8317: The Levelling Effect of Product Market Competition on Gender Wage Discrimination

Boris Hirsch, Michael Oberfichtner and Claus Schnabel

8316: Life Cycle Earnings, Education Premiums and Internal Rates of Return

Manudeep Bhuller, Magne Mogstad and Kjell G Salvanes

8315: The Public Sector Wage Premium in Spain: Evidence from Longitudinal Administrative Data

Laura Hospido and Enrique Moral-Benito

8314: The Wage Returns to On-the-Job Training: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Rita Almeida and Marta Lince de Faria

8313: The Career Prospects of Overeducated Americans

Brian Clark, Clément Joubert and Arnaud Maurel

8312: Unemployment or Overeducation: Which is a Worse Signal to Employers?

Stijn Baert and Dieter Verhaest

8311: Employee Recognition and Performance: A Field Experiment

Christiane Bradler, Robert Dur, Susanne Neckermann and Arjan Non

8310: Using Cognitive Dissonance to Manipulate Social Preferences

Robert Oxoby and Alexander Apt Smith

8309: Loss Aversion in the Laboratory

William G. Morrison and Robert Oxoby

8308: Do Personality Traits Affect Productivity? Evidence from the Lab

Maria Cubel, Ana Nuevo-Chiquero, Santiago Sánchez-Pagés and Marian Vidal-Fernandez

8307: Old Money, the Nouveaux Riches and Brunhilde's Marriage Strategy

Anne-Kathrin Bronsert, Amihai Glazer and Kai Konrad

8306: Cross-National Differences in Wealth Portfolios at the Intensive Margin: Is There a Role for Policy?

Karina Doorley and Eva Sierminska

8305: The Gender Wage Gap: Does a Gender Gap in Reservation Wages Play a Part?

Marco Caliendo, Wang-Sheng Lee and Robert Mahlstedt

8304: Flexible Working and Couples' Coordination of Time Schedules

Mark Bryan and Almudena Sevilla

8303: Childcare Subsidies and Household Labor Supply

Nezih Guner, Remzi Kaygusuz and Gustavo Ventura

8302: Household Asset Holding Diversification in Australia

Francesco Mariotti, Karen Mumford and Yolanda Pena-Boquete

8301: Household Finances and Social Interaction: Bayesian Analysis of Household Panel Data

Sarah Brown, Pulak Ghosh and Karl Taylor

8300: National Happiness and Genetic Distance: A Cautious Exploration

Eugenio Proto and Andrew Oswald

8299: Does Job Insecurity Deteriorate Health? A Causal Approach for Europe

Eve Caroli and Mathilde Godard

8298: Wealth Shocks and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Stock Market Fluctuations

Hannes Schwandt

8297: Workplace Health Promotion and Labour Market Performance of Employees

Martin Huber, Michael Lechner and Conny Wunsch

8296: Exploring the Causality Links between Energy and Employment in African Countries

Mohamed El Hedi Arouri, Adel Ben-Youssef, Hatem M'Henni and Christophe Rault

8295: Non-Farm Enterprise Productivity and Spatial Autocorrelation in Rural Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria

Nkechi Owoo and Wim Naudé

8294: Recovery Performance of Primary Agriculture Credit Societies in India: An Assessment

Rabin Mazumder, Chandrasekhar Chakravarty and Amit Kumar Bhandari

8293: Girls for Sale? Child Sex Ratio and Girls Trafficking in India

Nishith Prakash and Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati

8292: Immigrants, Labor Market Performance, and Social Insurance

Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum and Knut Røed

8291: Labour Migrant Adjustments in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis

Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum and Knut Røed

8290: Skill Shortages in German Establishments

Lutz Bellmann and Olaf Hübler

8289: Do Employers Prefer Undocumented Workers? Evidence from China's Hukou System

Peter Kuhn and Kailing Shen

8288: Search and Retirement under Asymmetric Information

Sheng Bi and Francois Langot

8287: The Effect of Conflict History on Cooperation Within and Between Groups: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

Gonne Beekman, Stephen Cheung and Ian Levely

8286: Screening for Honesty

Bradley Ruffle and Yossef Tobol

8285: Corporate Efficiency, Credit Status and Investment

Syed Quader and Karl Taylor

8284: Employee Trust and Workplace Performance

Sarah Brown, Daniel Gray, Jolian McHardy and Karl Taylor

8283: A New Formulation for Latent Class Models

Sarah Brown, William Greene and Mark Harris

8282: A Permutation Test and Estimation Alternatives for the Regression Kink Design

Peter Ganong and Simon Jäger

8281: Structural Labor Supply Models and Wage Exogeneity

Max Löffler, Andreas Peichl and Sebastian Siegloch

8280: Direct and Indirect Treatment Effects: Causal Chains and Mediation Analysis with Instrumental Variables

Markus Frölich and Martin Huber

8279: Between Light and Shadow: Informality in the Russian Labour Market

Vladimir Gimpelson and Rostislav Kapeliushnikov

8278: The Shadow Economy and Shadow Labor Force: A Survey of Recent Developments

Friedrich Schneider

8277: Trust and the Welfare State: The Twin Peaks Curve

Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc and Marc Sangnier

8276: Beyond the Labour Income Tax Wedge: The Unemployment-Reducing Effect of Tax Progressivity

Etienne Lehmann, Claudio Lucifora, Simone Moriconi and Bruno Van der Linden

8275: Optimal Taxation, Inequality and Top Incomes

Yuri Andrienko, Patricia Apps and Ray Rees

8274: Knowledge Spillovers, ICT and Productivity Growth

Carol Corrado, Jonathan Haskel and Cecilia Jona-Lasinio

8273: By Choice and by Necessity: Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment in the Developing World

David Margolis

8272: Convergence to the Managerial Frontier

William Maloney and Mauricio Sarrias

8271: Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

William Maloney and Felipe Valencia Caicedo

8270: In 'Trusts' We Trust: Socially Motivated Private Schools in Nepal

Sarmistha Pal and Bibhas Saha

8269: The Effect of Personality Traits on Subject Choice and Performance in High School: Evidence from an English Cohort

Silvia Mendolia and Ian Walker

8268: Human Capital and the Size Distribution of Firms

Pedro Gomes and Zoe Kuehn

8267: Lifting the Burden: State Care of the Elderly and Labor Supply of Adult Children

Katrine Løken, Shelly Lundberg and Julie Riise

8266: Breaking the Glass Ceiling? The Effect of Board Quotas on Female Labor Market Outcomes in Norway

Marianne Bertrand, Sandra Black, Sissel Jensen and Adriana Lleras-Muney

8265: Family Welfare Cultures

Gordon Dahl, Andreas Kostøl and Magne Mogstad

8264: Transfers within a Three Generations Family: When the Rotten Kids Turn into Altruistic Parents

Helmuth Cremer and Kerstin Roeder

8263: Behavioural Labour Economics: Advances and Future Directions

Thomas Dohmen

8262: Health Behaviors and Education in Turkey

Aysıt Tansel and Karao?lan, Deniz

8261: The Power of the Little Blue Pill: Innovations and Implications of Life Style Drugs in an Aging Population

Jacob LaRiviere and Hendrik Wolff

8260: Early Retirement and Post Retirement Health

Daniel Hallberg, Per Johansson and Malin Josephson

8259: Nurse Unions and Patient Outcomes

Arindrajit Dube, Ethan Kaplan and Owen Thompson

8258: Real Unit Labour Costs in Eurozone Countries: Drivers and Clusters

Javier Ordóñez, Hector Sala and José Silva

8257: Union Decline and the Coverage Wage Gap in Germany

John Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Jens Stephani and Lutz Bellmann

8256: Extremal Quantile Regressions for Selection Models and the Black-White Wage Gap

Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Arnaud Maurel and Yichong Zhang

8255: Reaching High: Occupational Sorting and Higher Education Wage Inequality in the UK

Jan Kleibrink and Maren Michaelsen

8254: Globalization and Wage Convergence: Mexico and the United States

Davide Gandolfi, Timothy Halliday and Raymond Robertson

8253: The Consequences of Increased Enforcement of Legal Minimum Wages in a Developing Country: An Evaluation of the Impact of the Campaña Nacional de Salarios Mínimos in Costa Rica

Thomas (Tim) Gindling, Nadwa Mossaad and Juan Diego Trejos