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4287: Circular Migration or Permanent Return: What Determines Different Forms of Migration?

Florin Vadean and Matloob Piracha

4286: The Informal Sector Wage Gap: New Evidence Using Quantile Estimations on Panel Data

Olivier Bargain and Prudence Magejo

4285: A Model of Overconfidence

Bruce Weinberg

4284: The Impact of a Phased Retirement Program: A Case Study

Marta Lachowska, Annika Sundén and Eskil Wadensjö

4283: Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben

Beatrix Brügger, Rafael Lalive and Josef Zweimüller

4282: Competing on Good Politicians

Vincenzo Galasso and Tommaso Nannicini

4281: Flexible Labor Supply Models

Olivier Bargain

4280: Educational Mismatch: Are High-Skilled Immigrants Really Working at High-Skilled Jobs and the Price They Pay If They Aren't?

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

4279: Religion, Human Capital Investments and the Family in the United States

Evelyn Lehrer

4278: Paying More than Necessary? The Wage Cushion in Germany

Sven Jung and Claus Schnabel

4277: The Responsiveness of Remittances to the Oil Price: The Case of the GCC

George Naufal and Ali Termos

4276: Institutional Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil

Joana Naritomi, Rodrigo Soares and Juliano Assuncao

4275: Work and Money: Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

4274: The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Labor Market Outcomes

James Smith

4273: Immigration to the Land of Redistribution

Tito Boeri

4272: Kinky Choices, Dictators and Split Might: A Non-Cooperative Model for Household Consumption and Labor Supply

Jan Boone, Karen van der Wiel and Frederic Vermeulen

4271: Estimating the Firm's Labor Supply Curve in a "New Monopsony" Framework: School Teachers in Missouri

Michael Ransom and David P. Sims

4270: Birth Weight and the Dynamics of Early Cognitive and Behavioural Development

Emilia Del Bono and John Ermisch

4269: Cognition and Economic Outcomes in the Health and Retirement Survey

John J. McArdle, James Smith and Robert Willis

4268: What Affects International Migration of European Science and Engineering Graduates?

Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge and Jan Sauermann

4267: Causes and Consequences of a Father's Child Leave: Evidence from a Reform of Leave Schemes

Helena Nielsen

4266: The Height Premium in Earnings: The Role of Physical Capacity and Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills

Petter Lundborg, Paul Nystedt and Dan-Olof Rooth

4265: Immigration, Family Responsibilities and the Labor Supply of Skilled Native Women

Lidia Farre, Libertad Gonzalez and Francesc Ortega

4264: Will You Still Need Me – When I'm 64?

Jan van Ours

4263: Age at Migration and Social Integration

Olof Åslund, Anders Böhlmark and Oskar Skans

4262: Gift Exchange and Workers' Fairness Concerns: When Equality Is Unfair

Johannes Abeler, Steffen Altmann, Sebastian Kube and Matthias Wibral

4261: The Effect of Adversity on Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives

Benoit Dostie and Rajshri Jayaraman

4260: EU Enlargement and Ireland's Labour Market

Alan Barrett

4259: Government Decentralization as a Disincentive for Transnational Terror? An Empirical Analysis

Axel Dreher and Justina A. V. Fischer

4258: Cyclical Skill-Biased Technological Change

Almut Balleer and Thijs van Rens

4257: Does Labor Supply Respond to a Flat Tax? Evidence from the Russian Tax Reform

Denvil Duncan and Klara Sabirianova Peter

4256: Trade Reforms and Market Selection: Evidence from Manufacturing Plants in Colombia

Marcela Eslava, John Haltiwanger, Adriana Kugler and Maurice Kugler

4255: Child Care Subsidies and Childhood Obesity

Chris M. Herbst and Erdal Tekin

4254: Job Satisfaction and the Labor Market Institutions in Urban China

John Heywood, William Siebert and Xiangdong Wei

4253: How Does Retirement Affect Health?

Stefanie Behncke

4252: The US Inflation-Unemployment Tradeoff: Methodological Issues and Further Evidence

Marika Karanassou and Hector Sala

4251: Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Orazio Attanasio, Adriana Kugler and Costas Meghir

4250: Entrepreneurship: Origins and Returns

Helge Berglann, Espen Moen, Knut Røed and Jens Fredrik Skogstrøm

4249: Down from the Mountain: Skill Upgrading and Wages in Appalachia

Christopher Bollinger, James Ziliak and Kenneth Troske

4248: Workers Made Idle by Company Strikes and the 'British Disease'

Robert Hart

4247: Structural Change out of Agriculture: Labor Push versus Labor Pull

Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado and Markus Poschke

4246: Unionization and the Evolution of the Wage Distribution in Sweden: 1968 to 2000

James Albrecht, Anders Bjorklund and Susan Vroman

4245: Who Values the Status of the Entrepreneur?

Mirjam Praag

4244: The Duration of Paid Parental Leave and Children's Scholastic Performance

Qian Liu and Oskar Skans

4243: Large Demographic Shocks and Small Changes in the Marriage Market

Loren Brandt, Aloysius Siow and Carl Vogel

4242: Forecasting with Spatial Panel Data

Badi Baltagi, Georges Bresson and Alain Pirotte

4241: Women, Children and Patience: Experimental Evidence from Indian Villages

Michal Bauer and Julie Chytilová

4240: The Anatomy of Absenteeism

Simen Markussen, Knut Røed, Ole Rogeberg and Simen Gaure

4239: Labour Supply Effects of a Subsidised Old-Age Part-Time Scheme in Austria

Nikolaus Graf, Helmut Hofer and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

4238: Analyzing Female Labor Supply: Evidence from a Dutch Tax Reform

Nicole Bosch and Bas van der Klaauw

4237: Identification and Estimation of Causal Mechanisms and Net Effects of a Treatment under Unconfoundedness

Carlos A. Flores and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes

4236: Long-Term Impact of Youth Minimum Wages: Evidence from Two Decades of Individual Longitudinal Data

Ana Rute Cardoso

4235: Pay for Politicians and Candidate Selection: An Empirical Analysis

Kaisa Kotakorpi and Panu Poutvaara

4234: Network Formations among Immigrants and Natives

Gil Epstein and Heizler (Cohen), Odelia

4233: Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia: Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Klara Sabirianova Peter and Dmitriy Stolyarov

4232: Immigrant Child Poverty in Scandinavia: A Panel Data Study

Taryn Galloway, Björn Anders Gustafsson, Peder Pedersen and Torun Österberg

4231: Is There a Gap in the Gap? Regional Differences in the Gender Pay Gap

Boris Hirsch, Marion König and Joachim Möller

4230: Lessons from Migration after EU Enlargement

Martin Kahanec, Anzelika Zaiceva and Klaus Zimmermann

4229: Fat and Out in Salerno and Province: Adolescent Obesity and Early School Leaving in Southern Italy

Adriana Barone and Shane Niall O'Higgins

4228: Global Reform of Personal Income Taxation, 1981-2005: Evidence from 189 Countries

Klara Sabirianova Peter, Steve Buttrick and Denvil Duncan

4227: Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program on the Re-Employment Rate of Displaced Workers

Sandra Cavaco, Denis Fougere and Julien Pouget

4226: Foreign Acquisition, Plant Survival, and Employment Growth

Roger Bandick and Holger Görg

4225: Attitudes toward Uncertainty among the Poor: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson, Haileselassie Medhin and Stefan Trautmann

4224: Transition Fatigue? Cross-Country Evidence from Micro Data

Riccardo Rovelli and Anzelika Zaiceva

4223: Income Tax Flattening: Does It Help to Reduce the Shadow Economy?

Klara Sabirianova Peter

4222: How Do Shocks to Non-Cognitive Skills Affect Test Scores?

Stefanie Behncke

4221: How Does Entry Regulation Influence Entry into Self-Employment and Occupational Mobility?

Susanne Prantl and Alexandra Spitz-Oener

4220: From the Dual Apprenticeship System to a Dual Labor Market? The German High-Skill Equilibrium and the Service Economy

Werner Eichhorst and Paul Marx

4219: The Timing of Maternal Work and Time with Children

Jay Stewart

4218: Parental Education and Wages: Evidence from China

Yuanyuan Chen and Shuaizhang Feng

4217: The Flexibility of the Workweek in the United States: Evidence from the FIFA World Cup

Fernando Lozano

4216: The Nature and Extent of Job Separations in Germany: Some New Evidence from SOEP

Getinet Haile

4215: Human Capital Accumulation and Labour Market Equilibrium

Kenneth Burdett, Carlos Carrillo-Tudela and Melvyn Coles

4214: Do International Labor Standards Contribute to the Persistence of the Child Labor Problem?

Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti

4213: The Role of "Skill Enhancing Trade" in Brazil: Some Evidence from Microdata

Bruno Cesar Araújo, Francesco Bogliacino and Marco Vivarelli

4212: Military Conscription and University Enrolment: Evidence from Italy

Giorgio Di Pietro

4211: Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework

Robin Douhan and Mirjam Praag

4210: Boon or Bane? Others' Unemployment, Well-being and Job Insecurity

Andrew Clark, Andreas Knabe and Steffen Rätzel

4209: No Room to Live: Urban Overcrowding in Edwardian Britain

Ian Gazeley and Andrew Newell

4208: "It's not that I'm a racist, it's that they are Roma": Roma Discrimination and Returns to Education in South Eastern Europe

Shane Niall O'Higgins

4207: Brain Drain in Globalization: A General Equilibrium Analysis from the Sending Countries' Perspective

Luca Marchiori, I-Ling Shen and Frédéric Docquier

4206: Are Returns to Education on the Decline in Venezuela and Does Mission Sucre Have a Role to Play?

Naihobe Gonzales and Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

4205: Sabotage in Tournaments: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

Christine Harbring and Bernd Irlenbusch

4204: Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China: 1982 - 2000

Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Rachel Connelly, Chen Lan and Lixin Tang

4203: Estimating the Veteran Effect with Endogenous Schooling When Instruments Are Potentially Weak

Saraswata Chaudhuri and Elaina Rose

4202: Wage Dispersion in a Partially Unionized Labor Force

John Addison, Ralph Bailey and William Siebert

4201: Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting

Nikos Askitas and Klaus Zimmermann

4200: The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness

Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers

4199: A Sequential Malmquist-Luenberger Productivity Index

Dong-hyun Oh and Almas Heshmati

4198: Present-Biased Preferences and Credit Card Borrowing

Stephan Meier and Charles Sprenger

4197: Demografie und Ungleichheit: Der Einfluss von Veränderungen der Haushaltsstruktur auf die Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland

Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel and Hilmar Schneider

4196: Optimal Redistributive Taxation and Provision of Public Input Goods in an Economy with Outsourcing and Unemployment

Thomas Aronsson and Erkki Koskela

4195: Intrapreneurship or Entrepreneurship?

Simon Parker

4194: How Large Is the Compensating Wage Differential for R&D Workers?

Arnaud Dupuy and Wendy Smits

4193: Antagonistic Managers, Careless Workers and Extraverted Salespeople: An Examination of Personality in Occupational Choice

Roger Ham, Pramod (Raja) Junankar and Robert Wells

4192: Postponing Maternity in Ireland

Cathal O'Donoghue, David Meredith and Eamon O'Shea

4191: Employment and Exchange Rates: The Role of Openness and Technology

Fernando Alexandre, Pedro Bação, João Cerejeira and Miguel Portela

4190: Social Incentives in the Workplace

Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay and Imran Rasul

4189: Relational Contracts, Taxation and the Household

Patricia Apps and Ray Rees

4188: Intra-Household Time Allocation: Gender Differences in Caring for Children

Inmaculada García-Mainar, José Alberto Molina and Victor Montuenga