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1887: Labour Force Participation of the Elderly in Europe: The Importance of Being Healthy

Adriaan Kalwij and Frederic Vermeulen

1886: A Note on Decompositions in Fixed Effects Models in the Presence of Time-Invariant Characteristics

Axel Heitmueller

1885: Demographic Alternatives for Aging Industrial Countries: Increased Total Fertility Rate, Labor Force Participation, or Immigration

Robert Holzmann

1884: Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part-Time Work Make the Family Happier?

Alison Booth and Jan van Ours

1883: Does Immigration Affect the Long-Term Educational Outcomes of Natives? Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Eric Gould, Victor Lavy and M. Daniele Paserman

1882: Do Former College Athletes Earn More at Work? A Nonparametric Assessment

Daniel Henderson, Alexandre Olbrecht and Solomon Polachek

1881: Preferences, Gender Segregation and Affirmative Action

Peter Sloane, Suzanne Grazier and Richard Jones

1880: Cultural Transmission and Discrimination

Maria Saez-Marti and Yves Zenou

1879: Reference Dependent Preferences and the Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence

Christian Grund and Dirk Sliwka

1878: One or Many Knowledge Production Functions? Mapping Innovative Activity Using Microdata

Andrea Conte and Marco Vivarelli

1877: Analysis of Health and Longevity in Oldest-Old Population: A Health Capital Approach

Zhong Zhao

1876: Gender-Job Satisfaction Differences across Europe: An Indicator for Labor Market Modernization

Lutz C. Kaiser

1875: Wage and Employment Effects of Immigration to Germany: Evidence from a Skill Group Approach

Holger Bonin

1874: Regional Disparities and Inequality of Opportunity: The Case of Italy

Daniele Checchi and Vito Peragine

1873: Sensitivity of Propensity Score Methods to the Specifications

Zhong Zhao

1872: Two Faces of the ICT Revolution: Desegregation and Minority-Majority Earnings Inequality

Martin Kahanec

1871: Tarifpolitik und Entgeltflexibilität in Ostdeutschland

Holger Bonin

1870: Sex Differences in Pay in a "New Monopsony" Model of the Labor Market

Michael Ransom and Ronald Oaxaca

1869: Job Insecurity and Youth Emancipation: A Theoretical Approach

Sascha Becker, Samuel Bentolila, Ana Fernandes and Andrea Ichino

1868: Employment Effects of the Provision of Specific Professional Skills and Techniques in Germany

Bernd Fitzenberger and Stefan Speckesser

1867: The Determinants of Asset Stripping: Theory and Evidence from the Transition Economies

Nauro Campos and Francesco Giovannoni

1866: Building Blocks in the Economics of Mandates

John Addison, C. R. Barrett and William Siebert

1865: The Provision of Wage Insurance by the Firm: Evidence from a Longitudinal Matched Employer-Employee Dataset

Ana Rute Cardoso and Miguel Portela

1864: From the Cradle to the Labor Market? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes

1863: International Capital Market Integration, Educational Choice and Economic Growth

Hartmut Egger, Peter Egger, Josef Falkinger and Volker Grossmann

1862: Employers' Search and the Efficiency of Matching

Michele Pellizzari

1861: The Todaro Paradox Revisited

Yves Zenou

1860: The Cost of Caring for Young Children

Dan Rosenbaum and Christopher Ruhm

1859: Do Men and Women-Economists Choose the Same Research Fields? Evidence from Top-50 Departments

Juan Dolado, Florentino Felgueroso and Miguel Almunia

1858: Understanding Pareto Inefficient Intrahousehold Allocations

Richard Akresh

1857: Returning to Work from Injury: Longitudinal Evidence on Employment and Earnings

Sarah Crichton, Steven Stillman and Dean Hyslop

1856: An Analysis of the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs on Self-Employment in the Construction Industry

David Blanchflower and Jon Wainwright

1855: Gender, Time Use and Public Policy over the Life Cycle

Patricia Apps and Ray Rees

1854: Why Is the Timing of School Tracking So Heterogeneous?

Kenn Ariga, Giorgio Brunello, Roki Iwahashi and Lorenzo Rocco

1853: Crime and Police Resources: The Street Crime Initiative

Stephen Machin and Olivier Marie

1852: Oppositional Identities and the Labor Market

Harminder Battu, McDonald Mwale and Yves Zenou

1851: The Sociology of Groups and the Economics of Incentives: Theory and Evidence on Compensation Systems

William E. Encinosa , Martin Gaynor and James Rebitzer

1850: Econometrics of Individual Labor Market Transitions

Denis Fougere and Thierry Kamionka

1849: Taxes, Cigarette Consumption and Smoking Intensity

Jerome Adda and Francesca Cornaglia

1848: Evaluating the Dynamic Employment Effects of Training Programs in East Germany Using Conditional Difference-in-Differences

Annette Bergemann, Bernd Fitzenberger and Stefan Speckesser

1847: Intergenerational Economic Mobility and Assortative Mating

John Ermisch, Marco Francesconi and Thomas Siedler

1846: Match Bias from Earnings Imputation in the Current Population Survey: The Case of Imperfect Matching

Christopher Bollinger and Barry Hirsch

1845: Generating Legitimacy for Labor Market and Welfare State Reforms: The Role of Policy Advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden

Werner Eichhorst and Ole Wintermann

1844: Tournaments and Multiple Productive Inputs: The Case of Performance Enhancing Drugs

Kai Konrad

1843: Women and Competition in Elimination Tournaments: Evidence from Professional Tennis Data

Thierry Lallemand, Robert Plasman and Francois Rycx

1842: O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Effects of Having a Sibling on Geographic Mobility and Labor Market Outcomes

Helmut Rainer and Thomas Siedler

1841: Tournaments, Individualized Contracts and Career Concerns

Alexander Koch and Eloic Peyrache

1840: Endogenous Assimilation and Immigrant Adjustment in Longitudinal Data

Michael Beenstock, Barry Chiswick and Ari Paltiel

1839: Job Search Monitoring and Unemployment Duration in Hungary: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial

John Micklewright and Gyula Nagy

1838: Is There a Link between Economic Outcomes and Genetic Evolution? Cross-Country Evidence from the Major Histocompatibility Complex

José A.M. Borghans, Lex Borghans and Bas ter Weel

1837: Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany

Marco Francesconi, Stephen Jenkins and Thomas Siedler

1836: Youth Emancipation and Perceived Job Insecurity of Parents and Children

Sascha Becker, Samuel Bentolila, Ana Fernandes and Andrea Ichino

1835: Health Determinants in Urban China

Zhong Zhao

1834: Immigration and Public Spending

René Böheim and Karin Mayr-Dorn

1833: Male and Female Competitive Behavior: Experimental Evidence

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Anders Poulsen and Marie Claire Villeval

1832: The Impact of Parental Income and Education on the Health of their Children

Orla Doyle, Colm Harmon and Ian Walker

1831: Why Are More Redistributive Social Security Systems Smaller? A Median Voter Approach

Marko Koethenbuerger, Panu Poutvaara and Paola Profeta

1830: The Gender Gap Reloaded: Is School Quality Linked to Labor Market Performance?

Spyros Konstantopoulos and Amelie Constant

1829: A Tale of Parallel Integration Processes. A Gravity Analysis of EU Trade with Mediterranean and Central and Eastern European Countries

Anna Ferragina, Giorgia Giovannetti and Francesco Pastore

1828: Public Sector Pay and Regional Competitiveness: A First Look at Regional Public-Private Wage Differentials in Italy

Dell’Aringa, Carlo, Claudio Lucifora and Federica Origo

1827: Does the Early Bird Catch the Worm? Instrumental Variable Estimates of Educational Effects of Age of School Entry in Germany

Patrick Puhani and Andrea M. Weber

1826: Trade Liberalization and Employment Effects in Ukraine

Atanas Christev, Olga Kupets and Hartmut Lehmann

1825: Does Job-Search Assistance Affect Search Effort and Outcomes? A Microeconometric Analysis of Public versus Private Search Methods

Denis Fougere, Jacqueline Pradel and Muriel Roger

1824: Household Incomes and Redistribution in the European Union: Quantifying the Equalising Properties of Taxes and Benefits

Herwig Immervoll, Horacio Levy, Christine Lietz, Daniela Mantovani, Cathal O'Donoghue, Holly Sutherland and Gerlinde Verbist

1823: The Relevance of Post-Match LTC: Why Has the Spanish Labor Market Become as Volatile as the US One?

Hector Sala and José Silva

1822: Normalized Equation and Decomposition Analysis: Computation and Inference

Myeong-Su Yun

1821: Household Time Allocation and Modes of Behavior: A Theory of Sorts

Daniela Del Boca and Christopher Flinn

1820: SSI, Labor Supply, and Migration

David Neumark and Elizabeth Powers

1819: Household Migration Decisions as Survival Strategy: The Case of Burkina Faso

Adama Konseiga

1818: Young Women's Religious Affiliation and Participation as Determinants of High School Completion

Evelyn Lehrer

1817: Are US Wages Really Determined by European Labor-Market Institutions?

Jürgen Meckl

1816: Age Structure of the Workforce and Firm Performance

Christian Grund and Niels Westergård-Nielsen

1815: Stressed Out on Four Continents: Time Crunch or Yuppie Kvetch?

Daniel Hamermesh and Jungmin Lee

1814: The Obesity Epidemic in Europe

Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

1813: Contractual Employment Protection and the Scarring Risk of Unemployment

Elke Jahn and Thomas Wagner

1812: High Performance Workplaces and Family Friendly Practices: Promises Made and Promises Kept

John Heywood, William Siebert and Xiangdong Wei

1811: Does Marriage Make People Happy, Or Do Happy People Get Married?

Alois Stutzer and Bruno Frey

1810: Welfare Reform in European Countries: A Microsimulation Analysis

Herwig Immervoll, Henrik Jacobsen Kleven, Claus Kreiner and Emmanuel Saez

1809: On Simplifying the Structure of Labour Demand: An Analysis of the DOT Data

Wim Vijverberg and Joop Hartog

1808: The Cycle of Violence? An Empirical Analysis of Fatalities in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

David Jaeger and M. Daniele Paserman

1807: An Auction Model of Canadian Temporary Immigration for the 21st Century

Don DeVoretz

1806: Demographic and Education Effects on Unemployment in Europe: Economic Factors and Labour Market Institutions

Federico Biagi and Claudio Lucifora

1805: Redistributive Taxation and Personal Bankruptcy in US States

Charles Grant and Winfried Koeniger

1804: 'Soft' Skills, 'Hard' Skills, and the Black/White Earnings Gap

C. Fan, Xiangdong Wei and Junsen Zhang

1803: Medical Interventions among Pregnant Women in Fee-for-Service and Managed Care Insurance: A Propensity Score Analysis

Leo Turcotte, John Robst and Solomon Polachek

1802: Discrimination as a Competitive Device: The Case of Local Television News

Caitlin Myers

1801: Introducing Time-to-Educate in a Job Search Model

Sascha Becker

1800: Structural Change in a Multi-Sector Model of Growth

L. Rachel Ngai and Christopher Pissarides

1799: Job-Hopping in Silicon Valley: Some Evidence Concerning the Micro-Foundations of a High Technology Cluster

Bruce Fallick, Charles Fleischman and James Rebitzer

1798: Structural Reforms and the Exchange Rate Regime: A Panel Analysis for the World versus OECD Countries

Ansgar Belke, Bernhard Herz and Lukas Vogel

1797: A Constitutional Theory of the Family

Alessandro Cigno

1796: Counseling the Unemployed: Does It Lower Unemployment Duration and Recurrence?

Bruno Crépon, Muriel Dejemeppe and Marc Gurgand

1795: Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition for Tobit Models

Thomas Bauer and Mathias Sinning

1794: Job Market Signaling and Screening: An Experimental Comparison

Dorothea Kübler, Wieland Müller and Hans-Theo Normann

1793: To Study or to Work? Education and Labour Market Participation of Young People in Poland

Francesco Pastore

1792: The Impact of Incarceration in State Prison on the Employment Prospects of Women

Rosa Cho and Robert LaLonde

1791: Product Market Regulation and Macroeconomic Performance: A Review of Cross Country Evidence

Fabio Schiantarelli

1790: Dynamic Discrete Choice and Dynamic Treatment Effects

James Heckman and Salvador Navarro

1789: Birth Order, Educational Attainment and Earnings: An Investigation Using the PSID

Jasmin Kantarevic and Stéphane Mechoulan

1788: Do Divorcing Couples Become Happier By Breaking Up?

Jonathan Gardner and Andrew Oswald