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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

8252: The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective

Alessio Brown, Christian Merkl and Dennis J. Snower

8251: How Diverse Can Spatial Measures of Cultural Diversity Be? Results from Monte Carlo Simulations of an Agent-Based Model

Daniel Arribas-Bel, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot

8250: Does Foreign Language Proficiency Foster Migration of Young Individuals within the European Union?

Ainoa Aparicio and Zoe Kuehn

8249: Did Post-Enlargement Labor Mobility Help the EU to Adjust During the Great Recession? The Case of Slovakia

Martin Kahanec and Lucia Mytna Kurekova

8248: Public Opinion on Immigration: Has the Recession Changed Minds?

Timothy Hatton

8247: Recent Extensions of U.S. Unemployment Benefits: Search Responses in Alternative Labor Market States

Robert Valletta

8246: Taxation and the Long Run Allocation of Labor: Theory and Danish Evidence

Claus Kreiner, Jakob Munch and Hans Jørgen Whitta-Jacobsen

8245: Leaving Poverty Behind? The Effects of Generous Income Support Paired with Activation

Simen Markussen and Knut Røed

8244: Data for Studying Earnings, the Distribution of Household Income and Poverty in China

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Shi Li and Hiroshi Sato

8243: Inequality of Opportunity and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis

Francisco Ferreira, Christoph Lakner, Maria Ana Lugo and Berk Özler

8242: Centralized vs. Decentralized Wage Formation: The Role of Firms' Production Technology

Boris Hirsch, Christian Merkl, Steffen Müller and Claus Schnabel

8241: Yuan and Roubles: Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Shi Li, Ludmila Nivorozhkina and Haiyuan Wan

8240: Impacts of Unionization on Quality and Productivity: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Nursing Homes

Aaron Sojourner, Brigham R. Frandsen, Robert Town, David C. Grabowski and Michelle M. Chen

8239: Intrinsic Motivations of Public Sector Employees: Evidence for Germany

Robert Dur and Robin Zoutenbier

8238: Are Public Sector Workers Different? Cross-European Evidence from Elderly Workers and Retirees

Mirco Tonin and Michael Vlassopoulos

8237: Jacks-of-All-Trades? The Effect of Balanced Skills on Team Performance

Laura Rosendahl Huber, Randolph Sloof and Mirjam Praag

8236: Cognitive Ability, Character Skills, and Learning to Play Equilibrium: A Level-k Analysis

David Gill and Victoria Prowse

8235: Personality, IQ, and Lifetime Earnings

Miriam Gensowski

8234: Does Participation in 4-H Improve Schooling Outcomes? Evidence from Florida

Alfonso Flores-Lagunes and Troy Timko

8233: The Effect of Islamic Secondary School Attendance on Academic Achievement

M Asadullah

8232: Mister Sandman, Bring Me Good Marks! On the Relationship Between Sleep Quality and Academic Achievement

Stijn Baert, Eddy Omey, Dieter Verhaest and Aurélie Vermeir

8231: Spousal Employment and Intra-Household Bargaining Power

Francisca Antman

8230: Divorce, Abortion and Children's Sex Ratio: The Impact of Divorce Reform in China

Ang Sun and Yaohui Zhao

8229: Teenage Pregnancies and Births in Germany: Patterns and Developments

Kamila Cygan-Rehm and Regina Riphahn

8228: Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and Politics: The Role of Immigration in Shaping Natives' Political Preferences

Guglielmo Barone, Alessio D'Ignazio, Guido de Blasio and Paolo Naticchioni

8227: A Field Study of Chinese Migrant Workers' Attitudes toward Risks, Strategic Uncertainty, and Competitiveness

Li Hao, Daniel Houser, Lei Mao and Marie Claire Villeval

8226: Migration, Education and the Gender Gap in Labour Force Participation

Ilhom Abdulloev, Ira Gang and Myeong-Su Yun

8225: The Impact of Parents Migration on the Well-being of Children Left Behind: Initial Evidence from Romania

Friedhelm Pfeiffer

8224: The Market for Mules: Risk and Compensation of Cross-Border Drug Couriers

David Bjerk and Caleb Mason

8223: Job Displacement Insurance: An Overview

Donald Parsons

8222: Educational Policies and Income Inequality

Daniele Checchi and Herman G. van de Werfhorst

8221: The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates

Robert Dixon, Guay Lim and Jan van Ours

8220: Labour-Market Institutions and the Dispersion of Wage Earnings

Wiemer Salverda and Daniele Checchi

8219: Necessity Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy

Joern Block, Karsten Kohn, Danny Miller and Katrin Ullrich