IZA Discussion Papers

From Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
IZA, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany.
Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Holger Hinte ().

Access Statistics for this working paper series.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

4751: Determinants of Lifetime Unemployment: A Micro Data Analysis with Censored Quantile Regressions

Achim Schmillen and Joachim Möller

4750: Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies

Marco Caliendo, Deborah Cobb-Clark and Arne Uhlendorff

4749: Rates of Return to University Education: The Regression Discontinuity Design

Elliott Fan, Xin Meng, Zhichao Wei and Guochang Zhao

4748: Minimum Wages and Employment: Reconsidering the Use of a Time-Series Approach as an Evaluation Tool

Wang-Sheng Lee and Sandy Suardi

4747: Family Values and the Regulation of Labor

Alberto Alesina, Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc and Paola Giuliano

4746: Intrinsic Motivations and the Non-Profit Health Sector: Evidence from Ethiopia

Danila Serra, Pieter Serneels and Abigail Barr

4745: Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa

Jennifer Hunt

4744: The Effect of Enclave Residence on the Labour Force Activities of Immigrants in Canada

Jiong Tu

4743: Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange

Oliver Falck, Stephan Heblich, Alfred Lameli and Jens Suedekum

4742: Ethnic Concentration and Language Fluency of Immigrants in Germany

Alexander Danzer and Firat Yaman

4741: Ethnic Discrimination in Germany's Labour Market: A Field Experiment

Leo Kaas and Christian Manger

4740: Policies to Promote Growth and Economic Efficiency in Mexico

Francisco Javier Arias-Vazquez, Oliver Azuara, Pedro Bernal Lara, James Heckman and Cajeme Villarreal

4739: Demographics, Fiscal Health, and School Quality: Shedding Light on School Closure Decisions

Sherrilyn Billger

4738: Modeling College Major Choices Using Elicited Measures of Expectations and Counterfactuals

Peter Arcidiacono, V. Joseph Hotz and Songman Kang

4737: Immigration Policies and the Ecuadorian Exodus

Simone Bertoli, Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga and Francesc Ortega

4736: Returning to the Question of a Wage Premium for Returning Migrants

Alan Barrett and Jean Goggin

4735: The Working Hours of Immigrants in Germany: Temporary versus Permanent

Martin Kahanec and Michael Shields

4734: An Inquiry into the Theory, Causes and Consequences of Monitoring Indicators of Health and Safety at Work

Konstantinos Pouliakas and Ioannis Theodossiou

4733: Do Labor Statistics Depend on How and to Whom the Questions Are Asked? Results from a Survey Experiment in Tanzania

Elena Bardasi, Kathleen Beegle, Andrew Dillon and Pieter Serneels

4732: Strategic Sophistication of Individuals and Teams in Experimental Normal-Form Games

Matthias Sutter, Simon Czermak and Francesco Feri

4731: The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages: Firm Level Evidence

Jozef Konings and Stijn Vanormelingen

4730: Winning Big but Feeling No Better? The Effect of Lottery Prizes on Physical and Mental Health

Bénédicte Apouey and Andrew Clark

4729: Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce: How Services Facilitate Firms' International Sourcing

Peter Debaere, Holger Görg and Horst Raff

4728: The Job Creation Effect of R&D Expenditures

Francesco Bogliacino and Marco Vivarelli

4727: Well-being Inequality and Reference Groups: An Agenda for New Research

Bernard van Praag

4726: Retirement Responses to a Generous Pension Reform: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Eastern Europe

Alexander Danzer

4725: Econometric Methods for Causal Evaluation of Education Policies and Practices: A Non-Technical Guide

Martin Schlotter, Guido Schwerdt and Ludger Woessmann

4724: Disposable Workforce in Italy

Bruno Contini and Elisa Grand

4723: Do Peers Affect Student Achievement? Evidence from Canada Using Group Size Variation

Vincent Boucher, Yann Bramoullé, Habiba Djebbari and Bernard Fortin

4722: Wage Inequality, Linkages and FDI

Nigel Driffield, Sourafel Girma, Michael Henry and Karl Taylor

4721: Changes in Job Stability: Evidence from Lifetime Job Histories

Miikka Rokkanen and Roope Uusitalo

4720: Retire Later or Work Harder?

David Bell and Robert Hart

4719: Valuing School Quality via a School Choice Reform

Stephen Machin and Kjell G Salvanes

4718: Youth Employment in Europe: Institutions and Social Capital Explain Better than Mainstream Economics

Bruno Contini

4717: Mental Health and Working Conditions in European Countries

Elena Cottini and Claudio Lucifora

4716: Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: An Analysis for Germany

Leilanie Basilio and Thomas Bauer

4715: Divorced Fathers' Proximity and Children's Long Run Outcomes: Evidence from Norwegian Registry Data

Ariel Kalil, Magne Mogstad, Mari Rege and Mark Votruba

4714: Measuring Long-Term Inequality of Opportunity

Rolf Aaberge, Magne Mogstad and Vito Peragine

4713: Pay Enough, Don't Pay Too Much or Don't Pay at All? The Impact of Bonus Intensity on Job Satisfaction

Konstantinos Pouliakas

4712: Modelling Heterogeneity and Dynamics in the Volatility of Individual Wages

Laura Hospido

4711: Is Informality Bad? Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa

Olivier Bargain and Prudence Magejo

4710: Screening, Competition, and Job Design: Economic Origins of Good Jobs

Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr and Klaus Schmidt

4709: Beliefs and Actions in the Trust Game: Creating Instrumental Variables to Estimate the Causal Effect

Miguel Costa-Gomes, Steffen Huck and Georg Weizsäcker

4708: From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Jeremy Greenwood and Nezih Guner

4707: Profit Sharing, Wage Formation and Flexible Outsourcing under Labor Market Imperfection

Erkki Koskela and Jan König

4706: The Political Resource Curse

Fernanda Brollo, Tommaso Nannicini, Roberto Perotti and Guido Tabellini

4705: Youth Unemployment: Déjà Vu?

David Bell and David Blanchflower

4704: Why Do BLS Hours Series Tell Different Stories About Trends in Hours Worked?

Harley Frazis and Jay Stewart

4703: Inequality Aversion and Risk Attitudes

Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Xavi Ramos

4702: Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation

Flavio Cunha, James Heckman and Susanne Schennach

4701: Family Job Search, Wage Bargaining, and Optimal Unemployment Insurance

Susanne Ek and Bertil Holmlund

4700: Treatment Evaluation in the Case of Interactions within Markets

Marc Ferracci, Gregory Jolivet and Gerard van den Berg

4699: On the Measurement of Long-Term Income Inequality and Income Mobility

Rolf Aaberge and Magne Mogstad

4698: Unequal Giving: Monetary Gifts to Children Across Countries and Over Time

Julie Zissimopoulos and James Smith

4697: Income Taxation in an Empirical Collective Household Labour Supply Model with Discrete Hours

Hans Bloemen

4696: Low-Wage Careers: Are There Dead-End Firms and Dead-End Jobs?

Alexander Mosthaf, Claus Schnabel and Jens Stephani

4695: Objective Confirmation of Subjective Measures of Human Well-being: Evidence from the USA

Andrew Oswald and Stephen Wu

4694: Spatial and Temporal Diffusion of House Prices in the UK

Sean Holly, Mohammad Pesaran and Takashi Yamagata

4693: Do Legal Immigrants and Natives Compete in the Labour Market? Evidence from Catalonia

Luis Diaz-Serrano

4692: In School or at Work? Evidence from a Crisis

Florencia Lopez Boo

4691: How Changes in Unemployment Benefit Duration Affect the Inflow into Unemployment

Jan van Ours and Sander Tuit

4690: Do Employers Discriminate by Gender? A Field Experiment in Female-Dominated Occupations

Alison Booth and Andrew Leigh

4689: Instrumental Variables Estimation with Partially Missing Instruments

Magne Mogstad and Matthew Wiswall

4688: Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment

Catia Batista and Pedro Vicente

4687: Social Comparison and Performance: Experimental Evidence on the Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis

Simon Gächter and Christian Thöni

4686: Part-Time Jobs: What Women Want?

Alison Booth and Jan van Ours

4685: Labour Contract Regulations and Workers' Wellbeing: International Longitudinal Evidence

Andrea Salvatori

4684: Work Out or Out of Work: The Labor Market Return to Physical Fitness and Leisure Sport Activities

Dan-Olof Rooth

4683: International Specialization and the Return to Capital

Catia Batista and Jacques Potin

4682: Are Hispanic Immigrant Families Reviving the Economies of America's Small Towns?

Dennis Coates and Thomas (Tim) Gindling

4681: Incentive Effects of Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts: Evidence from Chile

Gonzalo Reyes Hartley, Jan van Ours and Milan Vodopivec

4680: Policies to Create and Destroy Human Capital in Europe

James Heckman and Bas Jacobs

4679: Class Size and the Regression Discontinuity Design: The Case of Public Schools

Danny Cohen-Zada, Mark Gradstein and Ehud Reuven

4678: Outsourcing and Technological Change

Ann P. Bartel, Saul Lach and Nachum Sicherman

4677: Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in Germany: Moving with Natives or Stuck in their Neighborhoods?

Mutlu Yuksel

4676: A Note on Informality in the Labor Market

Melanie Khamis

4675: Cultural Integration in Germany

Amelie Constant, Olga Nottmeyer and Klaus Zimmermann

4674: Capital-Skill Complementarity: Evidence from Manufacturing Industries in Ghana

Gokhan H. Akay and Mutlu Yuksel

4673: How Important Are Labor Market Institutions for Labor Market Performance in Transition Countries?

Hartmut Lehmann and Alexander Muravyev

4672: The Measurement of Child Costs: Evidence from Ireland

Olivier Bargain, Olivier Donni and Monnet Benoit Patrick Gbakou

4671: Directed Search in the Housing Market

James Albrecht, Pieter Gautier and Susan Vroman

4670: Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach

Marco Caliendo, Konstantinos Tatsiramos and Arne Uhlendorff

4669: Investor Protection and the Value of Shares: Evidence from Statutory Rules Governing Variations of Shareholders' Class Rights in Russia

Alexander Muravyev

4668: Land Rights Insecurity and Temporary Migration in Rural China

Maëlys De La Rupelle, Deng Quheng, Shi Li and Thomas Vendryes

4667: Years of Schooling, Human Capital and the Body Mass Index of European Females

Giorgio Brunello, Daniele Fabbri and Margherita Fort

4666: Time to Work or Time to Play: The Effect of Student Employment on Homework, Sleep, and Screen Time

Charlene Kalenkoski and Sabrina Pabilonia

4665: Income Support Systems, Labor Market Policies and Labor Supply: The German Experience

Marco Caliendo

4664: Do Trustees and Administrators Matter? Diversifying the Faculty Across Gender Lines

Ronald Ehrenberg, George H. Jakubson, Mirinda L. Martin, Joyce B. Main and Thomas Eisenberg

4663: A Factorial Survey on the Justice of Earnings within the SOEP-Pretest 2008

Carsten Sauer, Stefan Liebig, Katrin Auspurg, Thomas Hinz, Andy Donaubauer and Jürgen Schupp

4662: Outsourcing, Public Input Provision and Policy Cooperation

Thomas Aronsson and Erkki Koskela

4661: "I Want to, But I Also Need to": Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity

Marco Caliendo and Alexander Kritikos

4660: Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed

Amelie Constant, Martin Kahanec, Ulf Rinne and Klaus Zimmermann

4659: Welfare Usage in the U.S.: Does Immigrant Birthplace and Immigration Status Matter?

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere and Maharouf Oyolola

4658: Electoral Rules, Political Competition and Fiscal Expenditures: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities

Marcos Chamon, Joao De Mello and Sergio Firpo

4657: Corporate R&D and Firm Efficiency: Evidence from Europe’s Top R&D Investors

Subal Kumbhakar, Raquel Ortega-Argiles, Lesley Potters, Marco Vivarelli and Peter Voigt

4656: Life-Cycle Patterns in Male/Female Differences in Job Search

Astrid Kunze and Kenneth Troske

4655: Dynamics of the Employment Assimilation of First-Generation Immigrant Men in Sweden: Comparing Dynamic and Static Assimilation Models with Longitudinal Data

Alpaslan Akay

4654: The Measurement of Child Costs: A Rothbarth-Type Method Consistent with Scale Economies

Olivier Bargain and Olivier Donni

4653: Older Women: Pushed into Retirement by the Baby Boomers?

Diane J. Macunovich

4652: Older Men: Pushed into Retirement by the Baby Boomers?

Diane J. Macunovich