IZA Discussion Papers
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- 4251: Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

- Orazio Attanasio, Adriana Kugler and Costas Meghir
- 4250: Entrepreneurship: Origins and Returns

- Helge Berglann, Espen Moen, Knut Røed and Jens Fredrik Skogstrøm
- 4249: Down from the Mountain: Skill Upgrading and Wages in Appalachia

- Christopher Bollinger, James Ziliak and Kenneth Troske
- 4248: Workers Made Idle by Company Strikes and the 'British Disease'

- Robert Hart
- 4247: Structural Change out of Agriculture: Labor Push versus Labor Pull

- Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado and Markus Poschke
- 4246: Unionization and the Evolution of the Wage Distribution in Sweden: 1968 to 2000

- James Albrecht, Anders Bjorklund and Susan Vroman
- 4245: Who Values the Status of the Entrepreneur?

- Mirjam Praag
- 4244: The Duration of Paid Parental Leave and Children's Scholastic Performance

- Qian Liu and Oskar Skans
- 4243: Large Demographic Shocks and Small Changes in the Marriage Market

- Loren Brandt, Aloysius Siow and Carl Vogel
- 4242: Forecasting with Spatial Panel Data

- Badi Baltagi, Georges Bresson and Alain Pirotte
- 4241: Women, Children and Patience: Experimental Evidence from Indian Villages

- Michal Bauer and Julie Chytilová
- 4240: The Anatomy of Absenteeism

- Simen Markussen, Knut Røed, Ole Rogeberg and Simen Gaure
- 4239: Labour Supply Effects of a Subsidised Old-Age Part-Time Scheme in Austria

- Nikolaus Graf, Helmut Hofer and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
- 4238: Analyzing Female Labor Supply: Evidence from a Dutch Tax Reform

- Nicole Bosch and Bas van der Klaauw
- 4237: Identification and Estimation of Causal Mechanisms and Net Effects of a Treatment under Unconfoundedness

- Carlos A. Flores and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
- 4236: Long-Term Impact of Youth Minimum Wages: Evidence from Two Decades of Individual Longitudinal Data

- Ana Rute Cardoso
- 4235: Pay for Politicians and Candidate Selection: An Empirical Analysis

- Kaisa Kotakorpi and Panu Poutvaara
- 4234: Network Formations among Immigrants and Natives

- Gil Epstein and Heizler (Cohen), Odelia
- 4233: Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia: Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income

- Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Klara Sabirianova Peter and Dmitriy Stolyarov
- 4232: Immigrant Child Poverty in Scandinavia: A Panel Data Study

- Taryn Galloway, Björn Anders Gustafsson, Peder Pedersen and Torun Österberg
- 4231: Is There a Gap in the Gap? Regional Differences in the Gender Pay Gap

- Boris Hirsch, Marion König and Joachim Möller
- 4230: Lessons from Migration after EU Enlargement

- Martin Kahanec, Anzelika Zaiceva and Klaus Zimmermann
- 4229: Fat and Out in Salerno and Province: Adolescent Obesity and Early School Leaving in Southern Italy

- Adriana Barone and Shane Niall O'Higgins
- 4228: Global Reform of Personal Income Taxation, 1981-2005: Evidence from 189 Countries

- Klara Sabirianova Peter, Steve Buttrick and Denvil Duncan
- 4227: Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program on the Re-Employment Rate of Displaced Workers

- Sandra Cavaco, Denis Fougere and Julien Pouget
- 4226: Foreign Acquisition, Plant Survival, and Employment Growth

- Roger Bandick and Holger Görg
- 4225: Attitudes toward Uncertainty among the Poor: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

- Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson, Haileselassie Medhin and Stefan Trautmann
- 4224: Transition Fatigue? Cross-Country Evidence from Micro Data

- Riccardo Rovelli and Anzelika Zaiceva
- 4223: Income Tax Flattening: Does It Help to Reduce the Shadow Economy?

- Klara Sabirianova Peter
- 4222: How Do Shocks to Non-Cognitive Skills Affect Test Scores?

- Stefanie Behncke
- 4221: How Does Entry Regulation Influence Entry into Self-Employment and Occupational Mobility?

- Susanne Prantl and Alexandra Spitz-Oener
- 4220: From the Dual Apprenticeship System to a Dual Labor Market? The German High-Skill Equilibrium and the Service Economy

- Werner Eichhorst and Paul Marx
- 4219: The Timing of Maternal Work and Time with Children

- Jay Stewart
- 4218: Parental Education and Wages: Evidence from China

- Yuanyuan Chen and Shuaizhang Feng
- 4217: The Flexibility of the Workweek in the United States: Evidence from the FIFA World Cup

- Fernando Lozano
- 4216: The Nature and Extent of Job Separations in Germany: Some New Evidence from SOEP

- Getinet Haile
- 4215: Human Capital Accumulation and Labour Market Equilibrium

- Kenneth Burdett, Carlos Carrillo-Tudela and Melvyn Coles
- 4214: Do International Labor Standards Contribute to the Persistence of the Child Labor Problem?

- Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti
- 4213: The Role of "Skill Enhancing Trade" in Brazil: Some Evidence from Microdata

- Bruno Cesar Araújo, Francesco Bogliacino and Marco Vivarelli
- 4212: Military Conscription and University Enrolment: Evidence from Italy

- Giorgio Di Pietro
- 4211: Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework

- Robin Douhan and Mirjam Praag
- 4210: Boon or Bane? Others' Unemployment, Well-being and Job Insecurity

- Andrew Clark, Andreas Knabe and Steffen Rätzel
- 4209: No Room to Live: Urban Overcrowding in Edwardian Britain

- Ian Gazeley and Andrew Newell
- 4208: "It's not that I'm a racist, it's that they are Roma": Roma Discrimination and Returns to Education in South Eastern Europe

- Shane Niall O'Higgins
- 4207: Brain Drain in Globalization: A General Equilibrium Analysis from the Sending Countries' Perspective

- Luca Marchiori, I-Ling Shen and Frédéric Docquier
- 4206: Are Returns to Education on the Decline in Venezuela and Does Mission Sucre Have a Role to Play?

- Naihobe Gonzales and Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
- 4205: Sabotage in Tournaments: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

- Christine Harbring and Bernd Irlenbusch
- 4204: Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China: 1982 - 2000

- Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Rachel Connelly, Chen Lan and Lixin Tang
- 4203: Estimating the Veteran Effect with Endogenous Schooling When Instruments Are Potentially Weak

- Saraswata Chaudhuri and Elaina Rose
- 4202: Wage Dispersion in a Partially Unionized Labor Force

- John Addison, Ralph Bailey and William Siebert
- 4201: Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting

- Nikos Askitas and Klaus Zimmermann
- 4200: The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness

- Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers
- 4199: A Sequential Malmquist-Luenberger Productivity Index

- Dong-hyun Oh and Almas Heshmati
- 4198: Present-Biased Preferences and Credit Card Borrowing

- Stephan Meier and Charles Sprenger
- 4197: Demografie und Ungleichheit: Der Einfluss von Veränderungen der Haushaltsstruktur auf die Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland

- Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel and Hilmar Schneider
- 4196: Optimal Redistributive Taxation and Provision of Public Input Goods in an Economy with Outsourcing and Unemployment

- Thomas Aronsson and Erkki Koskela
- 4195: Intrapreneurship or Entrepreneurship?

- Simon Parker
- 4194: How Large Is the Compensating Wage Differential for R&D Workers?

- Arnaud Dupuy and Wendy Smits
- 4193: Antagonistic Managers, Careless Workers and Extraverted Salespeople: An Examination of Personality in Occupational Choice

- Roger Ham, Pramod (Raja) Junankar and Robert Wells
- 4192: Postponing Maternity in Ireland

- Cathal O'Donoghue, David Meredith and Eamon O'Shea
- 4191: Employment and Exchange Rates: The Role of Openness and Technology

- Fernando Alexandre, Pedro Bação, João Cerejeira and Miguel Portela
- 4190: Social Incentives in the Workplace

- Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay and Imran Rasul
- 4189: Relational Contracts, Taxation and the Household

- Patricia Apps and Ray Rees
- 4188: Intra-Household Time Allocation: Gender Differences in Caring for Children

- Inmaculada García-Mainar, José Alberto Molina and Victor Montuenga
- 4187: Increasing the Legal Retirement Age: The Impact on Wages, Worker Flows and Firm Performance

- Pedro Martins, Alvaro A. Novo and Pedro Portugal
- 4186: Conceptualising Informality: Regulation and Enforcement

- Ravi Kanbur
- 4185: A Reevaluation of the Role of Family in Immigrants' Labor Market Activity: Evidence from a Comparison of Single and Married Immigrants

- Sarit Cohen Goldner, Chemi Gotlibovski and Nava Kahana
- 4184: Trade and Unemployment: What Do the Data Say?

- Gabriel Felbermayr, Julien Prat and Hans-Joerg Schmerer
- 4183: Low Pay Persistence in European Countries

- Ken Clark and Nikolaos Kanellopoulos
- 4182: Corruption and the Shadow Economy: A Structural Equation Model Approach

- Andreas Buehn and Friedrich Schneider
- 4181: The Efficient and Fair Approval of "Multiple-Cost - Single-Benefit" Projects under Unilateral Information

- Nava Kahana, Yosef Mealem and Shmuel Nitzan
- 4180: The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation

- Michael Fertig, Christoph Schmidt and Mathias Sinning
- 4179: Optimal Family Policy in the Presence of Moral Hazard, When the Quantity and Quality of Children Are Stochastic

- Alessandro Cigno and Annalisa Luporini
- 4178: Coming to America: Does Immigrant's Home Country Economic Status Impact the Probability of Self-Employment in the U.S.?

- Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere and Willie Belton
- 4177: A Distribution Dynamics Approach to Regional GDP Convergence in Unified Germany

- Falko Juessen
- 4176: Still Waiting for Mister Right? Asymmetric Information, Abortion Laws and the Timing of Marriage

- Simon W. Bowmaker and Patrick Emerson
- 4175: Migrants at School: Educational Inequality and Social Interaction in the UK and Germany

- Horst Entorf and Eirini Tatsi
- 4174: Real Wages and the Business Cycle: Accounting for Worker and Firm Heterogeneity

- Anabela Carneiro, Paulo Guimaraes and Pedro Portugal
- 4173: Equal-Treatment Policy in a Random Search Model with Taste Discrimination

- Leo Kaas and Jun Lu
- 4172: Housing and the Labor Market: Time to Move and Aggregate Unemployment

- Peter Rupert and Etienne Wasmer
- 4171: The Impact of Parental Education on Earnings: New Wine in an Old Bottle?

- John Hudson and John Sessions
- 4170: Biased Probability Judgment: Evidence of Incidence and Relationship to Economic Outcomes from a Representative Sample

- Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Felix Marklein and Uwe Sunde
- 4169: Interpreting Degree Effects in the Returns to Education

- Alfonso Flores-Lagunes and Audrey Light
- 4168: Labour Market Mismatch Among UK Graduates: An Analysis Using REFLEX Data

- Seamus McGuinness and Peter Sloane
- 4167: Are Two Tax Rates Better than One?

- Felix FitzRoy and Jim Jin
- 4166: Global Aging and Fiscal Policy with International Labor Mobility: A Political Economy Perspective

- Mehmet Tosun
- 4165: An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State: The Case of Benefit Morale

- Martin Halla, Mario Lackner and Friedrich Schneider
- 4164: Does Offshoring of Materials and Business Services Affect Employment? Evidence from a Small Open Economy

- Bernhard Michel and Francois Rycx
- 4163: Participation in Higher Education: A Random Parameter Logit Approach with Policy Simulations

- Darragh Flannery and Cathal O'Donoghue
- 4162: Sample Attrition Bias in Randomized Experiments: A Tale of Two Surveys

- Luc Behaghel, Bruno Crépon, Marc Gurgand and Thomas Le Barbanchon
- 4161: Population Aging, Elderly Migration and Education Spending: Intergenerational Conflict Revisited

- Mehmet Tosun, Claudia R. Williamson and Pavel Yakovlev
- 4160: Life Expectancy and Economic Growth: The Role of the Demographic Transition

- Matteo Cervellati and Uwe Sunde
- 4159: Unexplained Gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder Decompositions

- Todd Elder, John Goddeeris and Steven Haider
- 4158: The Effect of Employment Protection Legislation and Financial Market Imperfections on Investment: Evidence from a Firm-Level Panel of EU Countries

- Federico Cingano, Marco Leonardi, Julian Messina and Giovanni Pica
- 4157: Immigrant Wages in the Spanish Labour Market: Does the Origin of Human Capital Matter?

- Esteban Sanroma, Raul Ramos and Hipolito Simon
- 4156: The Impact of Aid on Growth Revisited: Do Donor Motives Matter?

- Christopher Kilby and Axel Dreher
- 4155: Well-Being over the Life Span: Semiparametric Evidence from British and German Longitudinal Data

- Christoph Wunder, Andrea Wiencierz, Johannes Schwarze, Helmut Küchenhoff, Sara Kleyer and Philipp Bleninger
- 4154: Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-Employment

- Peter Haan and Michal Myck
- 4153: Why Pay Taxes When No One Else Does?

- Gil Epstein and Ira Gang
- 4152: The Effect of an Employer Health Insurance Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage and the Demand for Labor: Evidence from Hawaii

- Thomas Buchmueller, John DiNardo and Robert Valletta
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