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2687: Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable? An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach

Marco Caliendo and Alexander Kritikos

2686: On the Measurement of Polarisation: A Questionnaire Study

Yoram Amiel, Frank Cowell and Xavi Ramos

2685: Revisiting the German Wage Structure

Christian Dustmann, Johannes Ludsteck and Uta Schönberg

2684: How Many Hours Do You Have to Work to Be Integrated? Full Time and Part Time Employment of Native and Ethnic Minority Women in the Netherlands

Pieter Bevelander and Sandra Groeneveld

2683: The Labour Market Position of Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands: Reason for Migration, Naturalisation and Language Proficiency

Rob Euwals, Jaco Dagevos, Mérove Gijsberts and Hans Roodenburg

2682: Rationality as a Barrier to Peace: Micro-Evidence from Kosovo

Sumon Bhaumik, Ira Gang and Myeong-Su Yun

2681: Benefit-Entitlement Effects and the Duration of Unemployment: An Ex-Ante Evaluation of Recent Labour Market Reforms in Germany

Hendrik Schmitz and Viktor Steiner

2680: Employment Protection Legislation and Wages

Marco Leonardi and Giovanni Pica

2679: A Positive Analysis of Targeted Employment Protection Legislation

Juan Dolado, Marcel Jansen and Juan F Jimeno

2678: Earnings, Schooling and Economic Reform: Econometric Evidence from Hungary (1986-2004)

Nauro Campos and Dean Jolliffe

2677: Immigration, Integration and the Labour Market: Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands

Rob Euwals, Jaco Dagevos, Mérove Gijsberts and Hans Roodenburg

2676: Earnings and Occupational Attainment: Immigrants and the Native Born

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

2675: The Gradual Transformation of Continental European Labor Markets: France and Germany Compared

Werner Eichhorst

2674: Still Searching for the Wage Curve: Evidence from Germany and Italy

Andreas Ammermüller, Claudio Lucifora, Federica Origo and Thomas Zwick

2673: The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)

Mirjam Praag and Bernard van Praag

2672: Top Incomes in Sweden during Three-Quarters of a Century: A Micro Data Approach

Björn Anders Gustafsson and Birgitta Jansson

2671: The “Dynamic” of Job Competition during the ICT Revolution

Arnaud Cheron, Francois Langot and Eva Moreno-Galbis

2670: The International Transferability of Immigrants’ Human Capital Skills

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

2669: A Theory of Child Targeting

Olivier Bargain and Olivier Donni

2668: The Effect of Pensions on Longevity: Evidence from Union Army Veterans

Martin Salm

2667: Entry, Exit and Productivity: Empirical Results for German Manufacturing Industries

Joachim Wagner

2666: Smoking and Social Interaction

Panu Poutvaara and Lars-Hinrich Siemers

2665: Nature and Nurture in the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from Swedish Children and Their Biological and Rearing Parents

Anders Bjorklund, Markus Jantti and Gary Solon

2664: Occupational Language Requirements and the Value of English in the U.S. Labor Market

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

2663: Gender, Affect and Intertemporal Consistency: An Experimental Approach

Kendra McLeish and Robert Oxoby

2662: Principals as Agents? Investigating Accountability in the Compensation and Performance of School Principals

Sherrilyn Billger

2661: Productivity and Size of the Export Market: Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004

Joachim Wagner

2660: Turning Unemployment into Self-Employment: Effectiveness and Efficiency of Two Start-Up Programmes

Hans Baumgartner and Marco Caliendo

2659: On the Definition and Measurement of Chronic Poverty

Rolf Aaberge and Magne Mogstad

2658: Status, Happiness, and Relative Income

John Beath and Felix FitzRoy

2657: Employment Effects of Educational Measures for Work-Injured People

Henning Bach, Nabanita Datta Gupta and Jan Høgelund

2656: Why More West than East German Firms Export

Joachim Wagner

2655: Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration

David Jaeger, Holger Bonin, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde

2654: An Experimental Investigation of Age Discrimination in the Spanish Labour Market

Peter Riach and Judith Rich

2653: Resources and Standards in Urban Schools

Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally and Costas Meghir

2652: Identification of Peer Effects through Social Networks

Yann Bramoullé, Habiba Djebbari and Bernard Fortin

2651: Full-time Schooling, Part-time Schooling, and Wages: Returns and Risks in Portugal

Corrado Andini and Pedro Pereira

2650: Testing the Specification of the Mincer Wage Equation

Christian Belzil

2649: Integrating Severely Disabled Individuals into the Labour Market: The Austrian Case

Brigitte Humer, Jean-Philippe Wuellrich and Josef Zweimüller

2648: Informal and Formal Care in Europe

Tarja Viitanen

2647: Gender-Biased Behavior at Work: What Can Surveys Tell Us About the Link Between Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination?

Heather Antecol, Vanessa E. Barcus and Deborah Cobb-Clark

2646: Public Goods, Transferable Utility and Divorce Laws

Pierre Chiappori, Murat Iyigun and Yoram Weiss

2645: Always Poor or Never Poor and Nothing in Between? Duration of Child Poverty in Germany

Michael Fertig and Marcus Tamm

2644: The Polish Wage Inequality Explosion

Andrew Newell and Mieczyslaw Socha

2643: Does Secondary School Tracking Affect Performance? Evidence from IALS

Kenn Ariga and Giorgio Brunello

2642: Class Origin, Family Culture, and Intergenerational Correlation of Education in Rural China

Hiroshi Sato and Shi Li

2641: Theoretical Unification in Justice and Beyond

Guillermina Jasso

2640: Mother’s Education and Birth Weight

Arnaud Chevalier and Vincent O'Sullivan

2639: Family Planning as an Investment in Development: Evaluation of a Program’s Consequences in Matlab, Bangladesh

Shareen Joshi and T. Schultz

2638: Does Reform Work? An Econometric Examination of the Reform-Growth Puzzle

Ian Babetskii and Nauro Campos

2637: Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries

Simon Commander and Jan Svejnar

2636: Earnings Inequality in Europe: Structure and Patterns of Inter-Temporal Changes

Ioannis Cholezas and Panos Tsakloglou

2635: Trade Union Membership and Works Councils in West Germany

Laszlo Goerke and Markus Pannenberg

2634: On Econometric Analysis of Structural Systems with Permanent and Transitory Shocks and Exogenous Variables

Adrian Pagan and Mohammad Pesaran

2633: Hypertension and Happiness across Nations

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

2632: Sin City?

Pieter Gautier, Michael Svarer and C. N. Teulings

2631: Econometric Explorations on Bounded Rationality: The Case of Job Changing Behavior

Bruno Contini and Matteo Morini

2630: Long-Run Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in East Germany

Bernd Fitzenberger and Robert Völter

2629: Golden Years? The Labor Market Effects of Caring for Grandchildren

Ying Wang and Dave Marcotte

2628: Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing under Labour Market Imperfections

Erkki Koskela and Rune Stenbacka

2627: Wage Persistence and Labour Market Institutions: An Analysis of Young European Workers

António Menezes, Dario Sciulli and José Vieira

2626: Public Budget Composition, Fiscal (De)Centralization and Welfare

Calin Arcalean, Gerhard Glomm, Ioana Schiopu and Jens Suedekum

2625: The German Social Long-Term Care Insurance: Structure and Reform Options

Melanie Arntz, Ralf Sacchetto, Alexander Spermann, Susanne Steffes and Sarah Widmaier

2624: The Immigration Triangle: Quebec, Canada and the Rest of the World

Don DeVoretz and Sergiy Pivnenko

2623: Macroeconomic Impacts of Demographic Change in Scotland: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis

Katerina Lisenkova, Peter McGregor, Nikos Pappas, John Swales, Karen Turner and Robert Wright

2622: Worker Mobility, Displacement, Redeployment and Wage Dynamics in Italy

Bruno Contini and Claudia Villosio

2621: Innovation and Employment: A Survey

Marco Vivarelli

2620: A New Regional Geography of Europe? The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargements

Floro Caroleo and Francesco Pastore

2619: The Effects of Marriage on Couples’ Allocation of Time Between Market and Non-Market Hours

AbdelRahmen El Lahga and Nicolas Moreau

2618: Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective

Conchita D'Ambrosio and Joachim Frick

2617: Brain Drain from Turkey: The Case of Professionals Abroad

Nil Demet Güngör and Aysıt Tansel

2616: Should Old-Age Benefits Be Earnings-Tested?

Niku Määttänen and Panu Poutvaara

2615: The Impact of the Recent Migration from Eastern Europe on the UK Economy

David Blanchflower, Jumana Saleheen and Chris Shadforth

2614: Empirical Modeling of Deprivation Contagion among Social Exclusion Dimensions (Using MCMC Methods)

Ambra Poggi and Xavi Ramos

2613: The Racial Test Score Gap and Parental Involvement in Britain

Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou

2612: On the Emergence of Toyboys: Equilibrium Matching with Ageing and Uncertain Careers

Melvyn Coles and Marco Francesconi

2611: Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform

Eric Edmonds, Nina Pavcnik and Petia Topalova

2610: Minimum Wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Employment: Evidence from the Post-Welfare Reform Era

David Neumark and William Wascher

2609: New Insights on Unemployment Duration and Post Unemployment Earnings in Germany: Censored Box-Cox Quantile Regression at Work

Bernd Fitzenberger and Ralf Wilke

2608: Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighborhood Quality and/or Parents’ Involvement?

Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou

2607: A Model with Endogenous Programme Participation: Evaluating the Tax Credit in France

Hans Bloemen and Elena Stancanelli

2606: Child Labor

Eric Edmonds

2605: Dann waren's nur noch vier… Wie viele (und welche) Maßnahmen der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik brauchen wir noch? Eine Bilanz nach der Evaluation der Hartz-Reformen

Werner Eichhorst and Klaus Zimmermann

2604: Workers’ Flows and Real Wage Cyclicality

Anabela Carneiro and Pedro Portugal

2603: Territorial Differences in Italian Students’ Mathematical Competencies: Evidence from PISA 2003

Massimiliano Bratti, Daniele Checchi and Antonio Filippin

2602: Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces

Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers

2601: Are Shirking and Leisure Substitutable? An Empirical Test of Efficiency Wages Based on Urban Economic Theory

Stephen Ross and Yves Zenou

2600: Inflation Persistence and the Phillips Curve Revisited

Marika Karanassou and Dennis Snower

2599: The Impact of Income Taxation on the Ratio between Reservation and Market Wages and the Incentives for Labour Supply

Marco Caliendo, Ludovica Gambaro and Peter Haan

2598: A New Continuous Distribution and Two New Families of Distributions Based on the Exponential

Guillermina Jasso and Samuel Kotz

2597: Job Creation and Job Destruction over the Life Cycle: The Older Workers in the Spotlight

Jean-Olivier Hairault, Arnaud Cheron and Francois Langot

2596: Educational Effects of Widening Access to the Academic Track: A Natural Experiment

Eric Maurin and Sandra McNally

2595: A Persistence Model of the National Minimum Wage

Melanie K. Jones, Richard Jones, Philip D. Murphy and Peter Sloane

2594: Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility: An Algebraic Characterization of Projective Preorders and Some Welfare Consequences

Juan Carlos Candeal, Esteban Induráin and José Alberto Molina

2593: Labour Market Flexibility and Regional Unemployment Rate Dynamics: Spain 1980-1995

Roberto Bande and Marika Karanassou

2592: Studying Justice: Measurement, Estimation, and Analysis of the Actual Reward and the Just Reward

Guillermina Jasso

2591: The Part-Time Wage Penalty in European Countries: How Large Is It for Men?

Síle O'Dorchai, Robert Plasman and Francois Rycx

2590: The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion: Leaving the Unemployment System or Starting a New Job?

David Card, Raj Chetty and Andrea Weber

2589: Peer Effects, Unobserved Factors and Risk Behaviours: An Analysis of Alcohol Abuse and Truancy among Adolescents

Rosa Duarte, José-Julián Escario and José Alberto Molina

2588: Use IT or Lose IT? The Impact of Computers on Earnings

Peter Dolton, Gerald Makepeace and Helen Robinson