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87: Educational Mismatch and Wages in Germany

Thomas Bauer

86: Money for Nothing and Your Chips for Free? The Anatomy of the PC Wage Differential

John de New and Christoph Schmidt

85: Gender and Racial Discrimination in Pay and Promotion for NHS Nurses

Stephen Pudney and Michael Shields

84: The Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity of Unemployment: An Exploration of German Labor Market Flows

Christoph Schmidt

83: Female Labour Supply, Flexibility of Working Hours, and Job Mobility in the Netherlands

Rob Euwals

82: Privacy, time consistent optimal labor income taxation and education policy

Kai Konrad

81: Migration, Migrants and Policy in the United Kingdom

Timothy Hatton and Stephen Wheatley Price

80: The Netherlands: Old Emigrants - Young Immigrant Country

Jan van Ours and Justus Veenman

79: Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies

John Earle and Zuzana Sakova

78: Endogenous Schooling and the Distribution of the Gender Wage Gap

Jorgen Hansen and Roger Wahlberg

77: Knowing What Works: The Case for Rigorous Program Evaluation

Christoph Schmidt

76: Selective Schools

Giorgio Brunello and Massimo Giannini

75: Adjustment Dynamics and the Natural Rate: An Account of UK Unemployment

Dennis Snower, Marika Karanassou and Brian Henry

74: Strategic Mismatches in Competing Teams

Matthias Kräkel

73: The Endogenous Determination of Minimum Wage

Gil Epstein and Shmuel Nitzan

72: Are Austrian Returns to Education Falling Over Time?

Josef Fersterer and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

71: The Wedge

Laszlo Goerke

70: Immigrants and Unemployment in the European Community

Ira Gang, Francisco Rivera-Batiz and Myeong-Su Yun

69: Generalized Selection Bias and The Decomposition of Wage Differentials

Myeong-Su Yun

68: Ethnic German Immigration from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to Germany: the Effects of Migrant Networks

Barbara Dietz

67: Behavioral Effects of Probation Periods: An Analysis of Worker Absenteeism

Regina Riphahn and Anja Thalmaier

66: The Immigrant Welfare Effect: Take-Up or Eligibility?

Edward J. Bird, Hilke Kayser, Joachim Frick and Gert Wagner

65: Grime and Punishment: Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation

Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth and Alessandro Acquisti

64: Salary and the Gender Salary Gap in the Academic Profession

Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

63: Your Everyday, Average Academic

Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

62: Bestimmungsgründe von Fehlzeiten: Welche Rolle spielt die Arbeitslosigkeit?

Anja Thalmaier

61: Immigration: The New Zealand Experience

Rainer Winkelmann

60: Subjective Discount Rates, Intergenerational Transfers and the Return to Schooling

Christian Belzil and Jorgen Hansen

59: Canadian Immigration Experience: Any Lessons for Europe?

Don DeVoretz and Samuel A. Laryea

58: Occupational Mobility of Ethnic Migrants

Thomas Bauer and Klaus Zimmermann

57: Is Child like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin

Ira Gang and Klaus Zimmermann

56: Centralized Bargaining, Multi-Tasking and Work Incentives

Assar Lindbeck and Dennis J. Snower

55: Value-added Tax versus Social Security Contributions

Laszlo Goerke

54: Labor Market Assimilation and the Self-Employment Decision of Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Magnus Lofstrom

53: Inter-industry Wage Dispersion in Portugal: high but falling

Joop Hartog, Pedro Pereira and José Vieira

52: Fertility Assimilation of Immigrants: Evidence from Count Data Models

Jochen Mayer and Regina Riphahn

51: Does Training Generally Work? The Returns to In-Company Training

Alan Barrett and Philip O'Connell

50: Ethnic German Migration since 1989 - Results and Perspectives/ Aussiedler seit 1989 - Bilanz und Perspektiven

Klaus Zimmermann

48: Overtime Work and Overtime Compensation in Germany

Thomas Bauer and Klaus Zimmermann

47: Tenure-based Wage Setting

Robert Hart and Felix Ritchie

46: The Effects of Development on Migration: Theoretical Issues and New Empirical Evidence

Ralph Rotte and Michael Vogler

45: On the Cyclicality and Stability of Real Earnings

Robert Hart and Jim Malley

44: Overtime Working in an Unregulated Labour Market

David Bell and Robert Hart

43: Household Characteristics, Ability and Education: Evidence from a Dynamic Expected Utility Model

Christian Belzil and Jorgen Hansen

42: The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction

Daniel Hamermesh

41: Anatomy of Policy Complementarities

Mike Orszag and Dennis Snower

40: Empirical Findings on the Swiss Migration Experience

Stefan M. Golder and Thomas Straubhaar

39: Multi-Task Learning and the Reorganization of Work. From Tayloristic to Holistic Organization

Assar Lindbeck and Dennis Snower

38: Job Satisfaction within the Scottish Academic Profession

Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger and Peter Sloane

37: Exchange Rate Volatility Effects on the German Labour Market: A Survey of Recent Results and Extensions

Herbert Buscher and Claudia Mueller

36: The Effects of European Economic and Monetary Union on Wage Behaviour

Charlotte Lauer

35: Is Job Stability in the United States Falling?

David Jaeger and Ann Stevens

34: Labour Mobility - An Adjustment Mechanism in Euroland?

Patrick Puhani

33: Price Dynamics and Production Lags

Assar Lindbeck and Dennis J. Snower

32: Work or Retirement? Exit Routes for Norwegian Elderly

Svenn-Åge Dahl, Øivind Nilsen and Kjell Vaage

31: Persistence and the German Unemployment Problem: Empirical Evidences on German Labor Market Flows

Christoph Schmidt

30: Active Labor Market Policies in Poland: Human Capital Enhancement, Stigmatization or Benefit Churning

Jochen Kluve, Hartmut Lehmann and Christoph Schmidt

29: Causes of Changing Earnings Inequality

Dennis Snower

28: Efficiency Wages and Futures Markets

Kit P. Wong and Udo Broll

27: Transition from School to Work: Search Time and Job Duration

Espen Bratberg and Øivind Nilsen

26: Increasing Shadow Economies all over the World - Fiction or Reality?

Dominik Enste and Friedrich Schneider

25: Unemployment and Crime: New Answers to an Old Question

Kerry Papps and Rainer Winkelmann

24: Petersberger Erklaerung: Anstoesse fuer eine zukunftsgerichtete Arbeitsmarktpolitik

Klaus Zimmermann, Michael Burda, Juergen von Hagen, Kai Konrad, Friedrich Schneider and Gert Wagner

23: Learning Efficiency of Economics Students

Klaus Zimmermann and Thomas Bauer

22: The Economics of Hospital Trips and Health Care Reform

Andreas Million, Ralph Rotte and Klaus Zimmermann

21: The Liberalisation of Maternity Leave Policy and the Return to the Work of Childbirth in Germany

Jan Ondrich, Katharina Spiess, Qing Yang and Gert Wagner

20: Portuguese Migrants in the German Labor Market: Performance and Self-Selection

Thomas Bauer, Pedro Pereira, Michael Vogler and Klaus Zimmermann

19: Returns to Returning: Who Went Abroad and What Does it Matter?

Catherine Co, Ira Gang and Myeong-Su Yun

18: Youth Employment and Academic Performance in High School

Zvi Eckstein and Kenneth Wolpin

16: Immigration Labor and Workplace Safety

Thomas Bauer, Andreas Million, Ralph Rotte and Klaus Zimmermann

15: Immigration Participation in Social Assistance Programs

Regina Riphahn

14: Memorandum: Erfolgsbedingungen empirischer Wirtschaftsforschung und empirisch gestuetzter wirtschafts- und sozialpolitischer Beratung

Richard Hauser, Gert Wagner and Klaus Zimmermann

13: Sorties from the Fortress: The Current System of Anti-Immigration Policy in Germany

Ralph Rotte

12: Determinants of International Migration: Empirical Evidence for Migration from Developing Countries to Germany

Ralph Rotte and Michael Vogler

11: Employment Effects of Payroll Taxes - An Empirical Test for Germany

Thomas Bauer and Regina Riphahn

10: Income and Employment Effects of Health Shocks - A Test Case for the German Welfare State

Regina Riphahn

9: Der Euro als Jobmaschine? Zu den Auswirkungen des Euro auf den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt

Wolfgang Franz

8: Das Entsendegesetz: Suendenfall oder Loesung des Arbeitslosigkeitsproblems?

Ralph Rotte and Klaus Zimmermann

7: Immigration und Arbeitsmarkt: Eine oekonomische Perspektive

Klaus Zimmermann

6: The Mortality Crisis in East Germany

Regina Riphahn and Klaus Zimmermann

5: Labor Force Transitions of Older Married Couples in Germany

David Blau and Regina Riphahn

4: German Job Mobility and Wages

Klaus Zimmermann

3: Temporary Migrants From Egypt: How Long Do They Stay Abroad?

Ira Gang and Thomas Bauer

2: East-West Trade and Migration: The Austro-German Case

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Klaus Zimmermann

1: Is Job Stability Declining in Germany? Evidences from Count Data Models

Rainer Winkelmann and Klaus Zimmermann