2179. How Child Labor and Child Schooling Interact with Adult Labor
Ranjan Ray

2173. The Intriguing Relation between Adult Minimum Wage and Child Labor
Kaushik Basu

2168. Wage and Productivity Gaps: Evidence from Ghana
Dorte Verner

2154. Inter-Industry Labor Mobility in Taiwan, China
Howard Pack and Christina Paxson

2131. Efficiency Wage and Union Effects in Labor Demand and Wage Structure in Mexico: An Application of Quantile Analysis
William F. Maloney and Eduardo Pontual Ribeiro

2128. Learning Outcomes and School Cost-Effectiveness in Mexico: The PARE Program
Gladys Lopez Acevedo

2116. Does Child Labor Displace Schooling? Evidence on Behavioral Responses to an Enrollment Subsidy
Martin Ravallion and Quentin Wodon

2113. Wage Determination and Gender Discrimination in a Transition Economy: The Case of Romania
Stefano Paternostro and David E. Sahn

2105. Wage Rates and Job Queues: Does the Public Sector Overpay in Ethiopia?
Taye Mengistae

2104. The Relative Effects of Skill Formation and Job Matching on Wage Growth in Ethiopia
Taye Mengistae

2101. Are Wages and Productivity in Zimbabwe Affected by Human Capital Investment and International Trade?
Dorte Verner

2082. Gross Worker and Job Flows in a Transition Economy: An Analysis of Estonia
John C. Haltiwanger and Milan Vodopivec

2053. Managing Foreign Labor in Singapore and Malaysia: Are There Lessons for GCC Countries?
Elizabeth Ruppert

2052. The Macro Wage Curve and Labor Market Flexibility in Zimbabwe
Dorte Verner

2049. Household Labor Supply, Unemployment, and Minimum Wage Legislation
Kaushik Basu, Garance Genicot, and Joseph E. Stiglitz

2031. Addressing the Education Puzzle: THe Distribution of Education and Economic Reform
Ramón López, Vinod Thomas, and Yan Wang

2027. Child Labor: Cause, Consequence, and Cure, with Remarks on International Labor Standards
Kaushik Basu

2015. The Mechanics of Progress in Education: Evidence from Cross-Country Data
Alain Mingat and Jee-Peng Tan

1997. On Measuring Literacy
Kaushik Basu and James E. Foster

1994. Estimating Wealth Effects without Expenditure Data—or Tears: With an Application to Educational Enrollments in States of India
Deon L. Filmer and Lant Pritchett

1988. The Informal Sector, Firm Dynamics, and Institutional Participation
Alec R. Levenson and William F. Maloney

1980. The Effect of Household Wealth on Educational Attainment: Demographic and Health Survey Evidence
Deon Filmer and Lant Pritchett

1949. Education and Earnings Inequality in Mexico
Ulrich Lächler

1941. Are Labor Markets in Developing Countries Dualistic?
William F. Maloney

1940. The Structure of Labor Markets in Developing Countries: Time Series Evidence on Competing Views
William F. Maloney

1926. Do Budgets Really Matter? Evidence from Public Spending on Education and Health in Uganda
Emmanuel Ablo and Ritva Reinikka

1912. Pay and Grade Differentials at the World Bank
Deon Filmer, Margaret Grosh, Elizabeth King, and Dominique van de Walle

1905. Child Labor in Côte d'Ivoire: Incidence and Determinants
Christian Grootaert

1873. Wage Misalignment in CFA Countries: Are Labor Market Policies to Blame?
Martin Rama

1845. Employment, Labor Markets, and Poverty in Ghana: A Study of Changes during Economic Decline and Recovery
Sudharshan Canagarajah and Dipak Mazumdar

1844. Child Labor and Schooling in Ghana
Sudharshan Canagarajah and Harold Coulombe

1837. How Estonia's Economic Transition Affected Employment and Wages (1989-95)
Rivo Noorkoiv, Peter F. Orazem, Allan Puur, and Milan Vodopivec

1817. Should Core Labor Standards Be Imposed through International Trade Policy?
Keith E. Maskus

1814. Making Education in China Equitable and Efficient
Shaikh I. Hossain

1806. An International Statistical Survey of Government Employment and Wages
Salvatore Schiavo-Campo, Giulio de Tommaso, and Amitabha Mukherjee

1795. What Educational Production Functions Really Show: A Positive Theory of Education Spending
Lant Pritchett and Deon Filmer

1793. Wage and Pension Pressure on the Polish Budget
Alain de Crombrugghe

1790. Interpreting the Coefficient of Schooling in the Human Capital Earnings Function
Barry R. Chiswick

1771. Government Employment and Pay: A Global and Regional Perspective
Salvatore Schiavo-Campo, Giulio de Tommaso, and Amitabha Mukherjee

1768. Is There a Quantity-Quality Tradeoff as Enrollments Increase? Evidence from Tamil Nadu, India
P. Duraisamy, Estelle James, Julia Lane, and Jee-Peng Tan

1764. A Reversal of Fortune for Korean Women: Explaining 1983's Upward Turn in Relative Earnings
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers

1762. Strategies for Pricing Publicly Provided Health Services
Paul J. Gertler and Jeffrey S. Hammer

1755. Survey Responses from Women Workers in Indonesia's Textile, Garment, and Footwear Industries
Mari Pangestu and Medelina K. Hendytio

1728. Regional Labor Markets during Deregulation in Indonesia: Have the Outer Islands Been Left Behind?
Chris Manning

1717. Do Labor Market Regulations Affect Labor Earnings in Ecuador?
Donna MacIsaac and Martin Rama

1673. Indonesian Labor Legislation in a Comparative Perspective: A Study of Six APEC Countries
Reema Nayar

1665. How Important Are Labor Markets to the Welfare of Indonesia's Poor?
Andrew D. Mason and Jacqueline Baptist

1659. Unemployment Insurance in Algeria: Implications for a Labor Market in Transition
Elizabeth Ruppert

1643. The Consequences of Doubling the Minimum Wage: The Case of Indonesia
Martin Rama

1640. Labor Regulations and Industrial Relations in Indonesia
Alejandra Cox Edwards

1639. Income Insecurity and Underemployment in Indonesia's Informal Sector
Franck Wiebe

1637. The Benefits of Growth for Indonesian Workers
Nisha Agrawal

1581. Where Has All the Education Gone?
Lant Pritchett

1542. The Development of Industrial Pensions in the United States in the Twentieth Century
Samuel H. Williamson

1524. Employment and Wage Effects of Trade Liberalization: The Case of Mexican Manufacturing
Ana Revenga

1521. Political Regimes, Trade, and Labor Policies
Arup Banerji and Hafez Ghanem

1515. Indonesia: Labor Market Policies and International Competitiveness
Nisha Agrawal

1514. The Impact of Minimum Wages in Mexico and Colombia
Linda A. Bell

1489. Educational Attainment in Developing Countries: New Estimates and Projections Disaggregated by Gender
Vinod Anuja and Deon Filmer

1488. Estimating the World at Work
Deon Filmer

1469. The Role of Labor Unions in Fostering Economic Development
John Pencavel

1463. Rural Nonfarm Employment: A Survey
Jean O. Lanjouw and Peter Lanjouw

1454. Child Labor: A Review
Christiaan Grootaert and Ravi Kanbur

1445. Human Capital and Industry Wage Structure in Guatemala
Chris N. Sakellariou

1435 The Political Economy of Formal Sector Pay and Employment in Developing Countries
Arup Banerji, J. Edgardo Campos, and Richard H. Sabot

1425. On the Intersectoral Migration of Agricultural Labor
Donald Larson and Yair Mundlak

1418. The Impact of Labor Market Regulations
Lyn Squire and Sethaput Suthiwart-Narueput

1413. Endogenous Distortions in Product and Labor Markets
Martin Rama and Guido Tabellini

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