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8418: Deserving Poor and the Desirability of a Minimum Wage

Tomer Blumkin and Leif Danziger

8417: How Selective Are Real Wage Cuts? A Micro-Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data

Boris Hirsch and Thomas Zwick

8416: Who Do Unions Target? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses

Emin Dinlersoz, Jeremy Greenwood and Henry Hyatt

8415: The Effect of Access to Information and Communication Technology on Household Labor Income: Evidence from One Laptop Per Child in Uruguay

Joaquin Marandino and Phanindra Wunnava

8414: The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment

Mirco Tonin and Jackline Wahba

8413: Too Many Graduates? An Application of the Gottschalk-Hansen Model to Young British Graduates between 2001-2010

Nigel C. O'Leary and Peter Sloane

8412: Grades and Rank: Impacts of Non-Financial Incentives on Test Performance

Nina Jalava, Juanna Joensen and Elin Pellas

8411: Which Schools and Pupils Respond to Educational Achievement Surveys? A Focus on the English PISA Sample

Sylke Schnepf, Gabriele B. Durrant and John Micklewright

8410: Migration, Economic Crisis and Adjustment in the UK

Ken Clark, Stephen Drinkwater and Catherine Robinson

8409: Immigration, Cultural Distance and Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants: Evidence from Swiss Voting Results

Beatrice Brunner and Andreas Kuhn

8408: Receiving Countries' Perspectives: The Case of Sweden

Christer Gerdes and Eskil Wadensjö

8407: Labour Market Progression of Canadian Immigrant Women

Alicia Adsera and Ana Ferrer

8406: Should the U.S. Continue Its Family-Friendly Immigration Policy?

Harriet Duleep and Mark Regets

8405: Counting Rotten Apples: Student Achievement and Score Manipulation in Italian Elementary Schools

Erich Battistin, Michele De Nadai and Daniela Vuri

8404: Handing Out Guns at a Knife Fight: Behavioral Limitations of Subgame-Perfect Implementation

Ernst Fehr, Michael Powell and Tom Wilkening

8403: The Effect of Rehabilitative Punishments on Juvenile Crime and Labor Market Outcomes

Kristiina Huttunen, Sari Pekkala Kerr and Ville Mälkönen

8402: Less Cash, Less Crime: Evidence from the Electronic Benefit Transfer Program

Richard Wright, Erdal Tekin, Volkan Topalli, Chandler McClellan, Timothy Dickinson and Richard Rosenfeld

8401: Changes in Labour Market Transitions in Ireland over the Great Recession

Adele Bergin, Elish Kelly and Seamus McGuinness

8400: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Youth Labour Markets

Pramod (Raja) Junankar

8399: Deriving the New Quantity Equation: An Approach for a Closed and an Open Economy

Paul Welfens

8398: The Real Exchange Rate and Growth in Zimbabwe: Does the Currency Regime Matter?

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski and Mthuli Ncube

8397: Financial Development and Economic Growth: Evidence from Ten New EU Members

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Christophe Rault, Robert Sova and Anamaria Sova

8396: When Is the Best Time to Give Birth?

Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter, Christoph Pamminger, Andrea Weber and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

8395: Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks

Joachim De Weerdt, Garance Genicot and Alice Mesnard

8394: One-Child Policy and the Rise of Man-Made Twins

Wei Huang, Xiaoyan Lei and Yaohui Zhao

8393: Transfers to Households with Children and Child Development

Daniela Del Boca, Christopher Flinn and Matthew Wiswall

8392: Socioeconomic Gradients in Children's Cognitive Skills: Are Cross-Country Comparisons Robust to Who Reports Family Background?

John Jerrim and John Micklewright

8391: Maternal Working Hours and the Well-Being of Adolescent Children

Silvia Mendolia

8390: The Effects of Paid Family Leave in California on Labor Market Outcomes

Charles L. Baum and Christopher Ruhm

8389: Income Receipt and Mortality: Evidence from Swedish Public Sector Employees

Elvira Andersson, Petter Lundborg and Johan Vikström

8388: Who Cares – and Does It Matter? Measuring Wage Penalties for Caring Work

Barry Hirsch and Julia Manzella

8387: Can Elected Minority Representatives Affect Health Worker Visits? Evidence from India

Elizabeth Kaletski and Nishith Prakash

8386: Health Effects of Containing Moral Hazard: Evidence from Disability Insurance Reform

Pilar Garcia-Gomez and Anne Gielen

8385: Reassessing Labour Market Reforms: A Critique

Pramod (Raja) Junankar and Muhunthan Jayanthakumaran

8384: Diversity and Social Capital in the U.S: A Tale of Conflict, Contact or Total Mistrust?

Willie Belton, Yameen Huq and Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

8383: How Far Away Is a Single European Labor Market?

Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Ulf Rinne and Klaus Zimmermann

8382: Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity

C. N. Teulings, Ioulia Ossokina and Henri de Groot

8381: Neighbourhood Turnover and Teenage Attainment

Stephen Gibbons, Olmo Silva and Felix Weinhardt

8380: Social Mobility and the Importance of Networks: Evidence for Britain

Oscar Marcenaro Gutierrez, John Micklewright and Anna Vignoles

8379: The Math Gender Gap: The Role of Culture

Natalia Nollenberger, Núria Rodriguez-Planas and Almudena Sevilla

8378: Age at Immigration and High School Dropouts

Sarit Cohen Goldner and Gil Epstein

8377: Defining and Measuring Informality in the Turkish Labor Market

Elif Acar and Aysıt Tansel

8376: Social Protection beyond the Bottom Billion

Susan Murphy and Patrick Walsh

8375: Market Design for Trading Commoditized Renewable Energy

Almas Heshmati and Shahrouz Abolhosseini

8374: The Role of Historical Resource Constraints in Modern Gender Inequality: A Cross-Country Analysis

Gautam Hazarika, Chandan Jha and Sudipta Sarangi

8373: 'Phantom of the Opera' or 'Sex and the City' ? Historical Amenities as Sources of Exogenous Variation

Thomas Bauer, Philipp Breidenbach and Christoph Schmidt

8372: Employment Industry and Occupational Continuity in Germany: From the Nazi Regime to the Post-War Economic Miracle

Patrick Puhani

8371: Parental Preferences for Primary School Characteristics

Lex Borghans, Bart Golsteyn and Ulf Zölitz

8370: Same-Occupation Spouses: Preferences and Search Costs

Hani Mansour and Terra McKinnish

8369: Progressive Taxation in a Tournament Economy

Jeffrey Carpenter, Peter Matthews and Benjamin Tabb

8368: Dynamic Incentive Effects of Heterogeneity in Multi-Stage Promotion Contests

Rudi Stracke and Uwe Sunde

8367: Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

Robert Fairlie, Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

8366: Politics Before Pupils? Electoral Cycles and School Resources in India

Sonja Fagernäs and Panu Pelkonen

8365: Changing Norms about Gender Inequality in Education: Evidence from Bangladesh

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch and Maitreyi Das

8364: The Effect of Tuition Fees on University Applications and Attendance: Evidence from the UK

Filipa Sa

8363: Does Higher Education Quality Matter in the UK?

Arnaud Chevalier

8362: Employment Protection and Capital-Labor Ratios

Alexandre Janiak and Etienne Wasmer

8361: Spillover Effects of Unionisation on Non-members' Well-being

Getinet Haile, Alex Bryson and Michael White

8360: The Performance Pay Premium: How Big Is It and Does It Affect Wage Dispersion?

Alex Bryson, John Forth and Lucy Stokes

8359: Changes in Bargaining Status and Intra-Plant Wage Dispersion in Germany: A Case of (Almost) Plus Ça Change?

John Addison, Arnd Kölling and Paulino Teixeira

8358: Two-Tier Bargaining

Tito Boeri

8357: Meeting Technologies and Optimal Trading Mechanisms in Competitive Search Markets

Benjamin Lester, Ludo Visschers and Ronald Wolthoff

8356: Do Preferences Impact Behavior and Wellbeing? A Panel Study of Preferred and Actual Working Time 2001-2008/09

Jens Bonke and Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen

8355: Occupational Sorting of School Graduates: The Role of Economic Preferences

Didier Fouarge, Ben Kriechel and Thomas Dohmen

8354: New Evidence on the Relationship between Risk Attitudes and Self-Employment

Olga Skriabikova, Thomas Dohmen and Ben Kriechel

8353: Fast Times During Spring Breaks: Are Traffic Fatalities Another Consequence?

Michael French and Gulcin Gumus

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