IZA Discussion Papers
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- 717: International Fragmentation and Relative Wages in the UK

- Alexander Hijzen, Holger Görg and Robert C. Hine
- 716: Is Labour Market Training a Curse for the Unemployed? Evidence from a Social Experiment

- Michael Rosholm and Lars Skipper
- 715: A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys

- Ernst Fehr, Urs Fischbacher, Bernhard von Rosenbladt, Jürgen Schupp and Gert Wagner
- 714: Educational Production, Endogenous Peer Group Formation and Class Composition – Evidence from the PISA 2000 Study

- Michael Fertig
- 713: Does the Glass Ceiling Exist? A Cross-National Perspective on Gender Income Mobility

- Ira Gang, John Landon-Lane and Myeong-Su Yun
- 712: Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation? On the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Altruism

- Ernst Fehr and Joseph Henrich
- 711: Healthy Living in Hard Times

- Christopher Ruhm
- 710: On the Wage Growth of Immigrants: Israel, 1990-2000

- Zvi Eckstein and Yoram Weiss
- 709: Delays in Renewal of Labor Contracts: Theory and Evidence

- Leif Danziger and Shoshana Neuman
- 708: Determinants of Trade Union Membership in Western Germany: Evidence from Micro Data, 1980-2000

- Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner
- 707: Trade Union Membership in Eastern and Western Germany: Convergence or Divergence?

- Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner
- 706: Blessing or Curse? Domestic Plants' Survival and Employment Prospects after Foreign Acquisitions

- Sourafel Girma and Holger Görg
- 705: School Quality and Family Background in Italy

- Giorgio Brunello and Daniele Checchi
- 704: Intrafirm Mobility and Sex Differences in Pay

- Michael Ransom and Ronald Oaxaca
- 703: New Wine in Old Bottles: A Sequential Estimation Technique for the LPM

- William Horrace and Ronald Oaxaca
- 702: How Does Globalization Affect the Synchronization of Business Cycles?

- Ayhan Kose, Eswar Prasad and Marco Terrones
- 701: Earnings-Related Unemployment Benefits in a Unionised Economy

- Laszlo Goerke and Jakob Madsen
- 700: Flexible Workplace Practices and Labor Productivity

- Thomas Bauer
- 699: Educational Track, Networks and Labor Market Outcomes

- David Margolis and Véronique Simonnet
- 698: Product Market Integration, Comparative Advantages and Labour Market Performance

- Torben M. Andersen and Jan Skaksen
- 697: Differences in US-German Time-Allocation: Why Do Americans Work Longer Hours than Germans?

- Ronald Schettkat
- 696: Institutions in the Economic Fitness Landscape: What Impact Do Welfare State Institutions Have on Economic Performance?

- Ronald Schettkat
- 695: Out-of-Pocket Prescription Drug Expenditures and Public Prescription Drug Programs

- Sule Alan, Thomas Crossley, Paul Grootendorst and Michael Veall
- 694: What Determines the Reservation Wages of Unemployed Workers? New Evidence from German Micro Data

- Eswar Prasad
- 693: Spatial Mismatch: From the Hypothesis to the Theories

- Laurent Gobillon, Harris Selod and Yves Zenou
- 692: Spatial Mismatch, Search Effort and Urban Spatial Structure

- Tony E. Smith and Yves Zenou
- 691: Scale Effects in Markets with Search

- Barbara Petrongolo and Christopher Pissarides
- 690: Contracting with Private Information

- Marcus Hagedorn
- 689: The Effects of Union Wage-Settings on Firms’ Production Factor Decisions

- Almas Heshmati and Ilham Haouas
- 688: The Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Employment and Wages in Tunisian Industries

- Ilham Haouas, Mahmoud Yagoubi and Almas Heshmati
- 687: Labour-Use Efficiency in Tunisian Manufacturing Industries

- Ilham Haouas, Mahmoud Yagoubi and Almas Heshmati
- 686: Permanent and Transitory Wage Inequality of British Men, 1975-2001: Year, Age and Cohort Effects

- Adriaan Kalwij and Rob Alessie
- 685: Do We Need Computer Skills to Use a Computer? Evidence from Britain

- Lex Borghans and Bas ter Weel
- 684: The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment: Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants

- Patrick Puhani
- 683: Is Education Used as a Signaling Device for Productivity in Developing Countries? Evidence from Ghana

- Eric Strobl
- 682: Vocational Training of Unemployed Workers in Belgium

- Bart Cockx
- 681: An Adverse Selection Model of Optimal Unemployment Insurance

- Marcus Hagedorn, Ashok Kaul and Tim Mennel
- 680: Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland: Fakten, Ursachen und Bekämpfung

- Marcus Hagedorn and Ashok Kaul
- 679: Establishment Age and Wages: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

- Arnd Kölling, Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner
- 678: Fostering Within-Family Human Capital Investment: An Intragenerational Insurance Perspective of Social Security

- Martin Barbie, Marcus Hagedorn and Ashok Kaul
- 677: Class Ridden or Meritocratic? An Economic Analysis of Recent Changes in Britain

- Fernando Galindo-Rueda and Anna Vignoles
- 676: Agriculture: Transition Buffer or Black Hole? A Three-State Model of Employment Dynamics

- Alexandru Voicu
- 675: Gross Job Flows in Ukraine: Size, Ownership and Trade Effects

- Jozef Konings, Olga Kupets and Hartmut Lehmann
- 674: The Wealth and Asset Holdings of U.S.- Born and Foreign-Born Households: Evidence from SIPP Data

- Deborah Cobb-Clark and Vincent Hildebrand
- 673: Labour as a Buffer: Do Temporary Workers Suffer?

- Alison Booth, Marco Francesconi and Jeff Frank
- 672: Self-Selection, Earnings, and Out-Migration: A Longitudinal Study of Immigrants to Germany

- Amelie Constant and Douglas S. Massey
- 671: School Effects and Labor Market Outcomes for Young Adults in the 1980s and 1990s

- Amelie Constant and Spyros Konstantopoulos
- 670: From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History

- Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein
- 669: Assessing Unemployment Traps in Belgium Using Panel Data Sample Selection Models

- Anna D'Addio, Isabelle De Greef and Michael Rosholm
- 668: Solow and Heterogeneous Labor: A Neoclassical Explanation of Wage Inequality

- Jürgen Meckl and Stefan Zink
- 667: Arbeitsmarkteffekte und finanzpolitische Folgen der demographischen Alterung in Deutschland

- Pascal Arnds and Holger Bonin
- 666: Frühverrentung in Deutschland: Ökonomische Anreize und institutionelle Strukturen

- Pascal Arnds and Holger Bonin
- 665: Fancy a Stay at the 'Hotel California'? Foreign Direct Investment, Taxation and Firing Costs

- Holger Görg
- 664: Skill Upgrading and Rigid Relative Wages: The Case of Danish Manufacturing

- Jan Skaksen and Anders Sørensen
- 663: Another Look at the New York City School Voucher Experiment

- Alan Krueger and Pei Zhu
- 662: Getting It Right: Employment Subsidy or Minimum Wage?

- Eric Strobl and Frank Walsh
- 661: Efficiency Wages and Effort: Are Hard Jobs Better?

- Eric Strobl and Frank Walsh
- 660: Do Large Employers Pay More in Developing Countries? The Case of Five African Countries

- Eric Strobl and Robert Thornton
- 659: Defining Unemployment in Developing Countries: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago

- Eric Strobl and David Byrne
- 658: Why Do Students Expect to Stay Longer in College? Evidence from Europe

- Giorgio Brunello and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
- 657: Employment Consequences of Restrictive Permanent Contracts: Evidence from Spanish Labor Market Reforms

- Adriana Kugler, Juan F Jimeno and Virginia Hernanz
- 656: The Impact of the Unemployment Benefit System on International Spillover Effects

- Thomas Beissinger and Oliver Buesse
- 655: Effects of In-Class Variation and Student Rank on the Probability of Withdrawal: Cross-Section and Time-Series Analysis for UK University Students

- Wiji Arulampalam, Robin Naylor and Jeremy Smith
- 654: Deaths Rise in Good Economic Times: Evidence From the OECD

- Ulf-G. Gerdtham and Christopher Ruhm
- 653: Money for Health: The Compensating Variation of Cardiovascular Diseases

- Wim Groot, Henriette Maassen van den Brink and Erik Plug
- 652: How Do Parents Raise the Educational Attainment of Future Generations?

- Erik Plug
- 651: Social Evolution, Corporate Culture, and Exploitation

- Ekkehart Schlicht
- 650: Overeducation and Ethnic Minorities in Britain

- Harminder Battu and Peter Sloane
- 649: From Parent to Child: Early Labor Market Experiences of Second-Generation Immigrants in the Netherlands

- Jan van Ours and Justus Veenman
- 648: Works Councils – Sand or Grease in the Operation of German Firms?

- Thorsten Schank, Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner
- 647: Envy and Compassion in Tournaments

- Christian Grund and Dirk Sliwka
- 646: The Return of the Long-Run Phillips Curve

- Liam Graham and Dennis Snower
- 645: Long-Run Inflation-Unemployment Dynamics: The Spanish Phillips Curve and Economic Policy

- Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala and Dennis Snower
- 644: Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth Under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition

- J. David Brown and John Earle
- 643: Parental Separation and Children's Educational Attainment: A Siblings Approach

- Anders Bjorklund and Marianne Sundström
- 642: The Effect of Immigration on Wages in Three European Countries

- Joop Hartog and Aslan Zorlu
- 641: Earnings Risk and Demand for Higher Education: A Cross-Section Test for Spain

- Joop Hartog and Luis Diaz-Serrano
- 640: Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors: Does It Matter?

- Joop Hartog, Nicole Jonker and Hans van Ophem
- 639: Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?

- Gilles Saint-Paul
- 638: The Dynamics of Food Deprivation and Overall Health: Evidence from the Canadian National Population Health Survey

- Logan McLeod and Michael Veall
- 637: Household Labor Supply Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies in Germany

- Holger Bonin, Wolfram Kempe and Hilmar Schneider
- 636: A Reappraisal of the Inflation-Unemployment Tradeoff

- Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala and Dennis Snower
- 635: An Anatomy of the Phillips Curve

- Dennis Snower and Marika Karanassou
- 634: Doctors Without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel

- Adriana Kugler and Robert Sauer
- 633: Employee Referrals and Efficiency Wages

- Adriana Kugler
- 632: Duration Dependence in the Exit Rate out of Unemployment in Belgium: Is It True or Spurious?

- Bart Cockx and Muriel Dejemeppe
- 631: The Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality: Evidence from 1970-1990

- Harriet Duleep and Mark Regets
- 630: State Dependence in Unemployment Incidence: Evidence for British Men Revisited

- Wiji Arulampalam
- 629: Caste, Ethnicity and Poverty in Rural India

- Ira Gang, Kunal Sen and Myeong-Su Yun
- 628: Assisting the Long-Term Unemployed: Results from a Randomized Trial

- Robert Breunig, Deborah Cobb-Clark, Yvonne Dunlop and Marion Terrill
- 627: Cyclical Fluctuations in Workplace Accidents

- Jan Boone and Jan van Ours
- 626: Gender Differences in Entry Wages and Early Career Wages

- Astrid Kunze
- 625: Endogenous Wage and Capital Dispersion, On-the-Job Search and the Matching Technology

- Fernando Galindo-Rueda
- 624: Personal and Regional Determinants of Entrepreneurial Activities: Empirical Evidence from the REM Germany

- Joachim Wagner and Rolf Sternberg
- 623: The Dynamics of Job Creation and Destruction for University Graduates: Why a Rising Unemployment Rate Can Be Misleading

- Ana Rute Cardoso and Priscila Ferreira
- 622: Should UI Benefits Really Fall Over Time?

- John Hassler and Sevi Rodríguez Mora
- 621: On Market Forces and Human Evolution

- Gilles Saint-Paul
- 620: Public Policy and the Labor Market Adjustment of New Immigrants to Australia

- Deborah Cobb-Clark
- 619: The Changing Nature of Employment-Related Sexual Harassment: Evidence from the U.S. Federal Government (1978-1994)

- Heather Antecol and Deborah Cobb-Clark
- 618: Oligopsony, Institutions and the Efficiency of General Training

- Alison Booth, Marco Francesconi and Gylfi Zoega
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