IZA Policy Papers

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65: Youth Unemployment in Europe: What to Do about It?

Werner Eichhorst, Holger Hinte and Ulf Rinne

64: The Employment of the Low-Skilled Youth in France

Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo and Klaus Zimmermann

63: Youth Unemployment in Korea: From a German and Transitional Labour Market Point of View

Günther Schmid

62: Green Jobs

Olivier Deschenes

61: Skill Development in Middle Level Occupations: The Role of Apprenticeship Training

Robert Lerman

60: Labour Market and Labour Market Policies During the Great Recession: The Case of Estonia

Raul Eamets

59: The Design and Implementation of Public Pension Systems in Developing Countries: Issues and Options

David Bloom and Roddy McKinnon

58: Global Health Governance and Tropical Diseases

Till Bärnighausen, David Bloom and Salal Humair

57: The Economic Case for Devoting Public Resources to Health

David Bloom and Günther Fink

56: Connecting the Disconnected: Improving Education and Employment Outcomes Among Disadvantaged Youth

Peter B. Edelman and Harry J. Holzer

55: Slovakia: A Catching Up Euro Area Member In and Out of the Crisis

Jarko Fidrmuc, Caroline Klein, Robert Price and Andreas Wörgötter

54: Why Do Russian Firms Use Fixed-Term and Agency Work Contracts?

Larisa Smirnykh and Andreas Wörgötter

53: Wage and Occupational Assimilation by Skill Level: Migration Policy Lessons from Spain

Núria Rodriguez-Planas

52: A Guide to the Political Economy of Reforming Energy Subsidies

Simon Commander

51: The State of University Policy for Progress in Europe

Cécile Hoareau, Jo Ritzen and Gabriele Marconi

50: Reforming the Benefit System to 'Make Work Pay': Options and Priorities in a Weak Labour Market

Herwig Immervoll

49: The Growth of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean: Did They Go Too Far?

Marco Stampini and Leopoldo Tornarolli

48: How Could Germany Escape the Demographic Trap?

Christoph Kahlenberg and Alexander Spermann

47: Fiscal Consolidation in Reformed and Unreformed Labour Markets: A Look at EU Countries

Alessandro Turrini

46: Can the United States Expand Apprenticeship? Lessons from Experience

Robert Lerman

45: Multidimensional Poverty Analysis: Looking for a Middle Ground

Francisco Ferreira and Maria Ana Lugo

44: Can the University Save Europe?

Jo Ritzen

43: Benchmarking Unemployment Benefits in the EU

Klara Stovicek and Alessandro Turrini

42: Raising Job Quality and Worker Skills in the US: Creating More Effective Education and Workforce Development Systems in States

Harry J. Holzer

41: Active Unemployment Insurance

Knut Røed

40: The Polish Growth Miracle: Outcome of Persistent Reform Efforts

Hartmut Lehmann

39: European Fiscal Union: What Is It? Does It Work? And Are There Really 'No Alternatives'?

Clemens Fuest and Andreas Peichl

38: Ethical and Economic Perspectives on Global Health Interventions

Sonia Bhalotra and Thomas Pogge

37: Further Austerity and Wage Cuts Will Worsen the Euro Crisis

Corrado Andini and Ricardo Cabral

36: European Union Expansion and Migration

Martin Kahanec and Lucia Mytna Kurekova

35: Work Hours Constraints: Impacts and Policy Implications

Amelie Constant and Steffen Otterbach

34: Should Cash Transfers Be Confined to the Poor? Implications for Poverty and Inequality in Latin America

Pablo Acosta, Phillippe Leite and Iamele Rigolini

33: A Challenge for the G20: Globally Stipulated Debt Brakes and Transnational Independent Fiscal Supervisory Councils

Mathias Dolls, Andreas Peichl and Klaus Zimmermann

32: Social Policies for a Recovery

Herwig Immervoll and Ana Llena-Nozal

31: The Toll Index: Innovation-based Economic Telemetry

Nikos Askitas and Klaus Zimmermann

30: Surviving the Turbulence Is Not Enough: Can Côte d'Ivoire Flourish Again?

Amelie Constant and Bienvenue N. Tien

29: Economic Returns to Education: What We Know, What We Don't Know, and Where We Are Going – Some Brief Pointers

Colm P. Harmon

28: Immigration: High Skilled vs. Low Skilled Labor?

Barry Chiswick

27: Setting It Right: Employment Protection, Labour Reallocation and Productivity

John Martin and Stefano Scarpetta

26: Wage Setting in Modern Labor Markets: Neither Fair Nor Efficient

Ekkehart Schlicht

25: Canadian Immigration Policy and Immigrant Economic Outcomes: Why the Differences in Outcomes between Sweden and Canada?

Garnett Picot and Arthur Sweetman

24: Housing Policies in China: Issues and Options

Yves Zenou

23: Productivity and International Firm Activities: What Do We Know?

Joachim Wagner

22: Immigration Policy and Less-Skilled Workers in the United States: Reflections on Future Directions for Reform

Harry J. Holzer

21: A Policy Agenda for Diversity and Minority Integration

Martin Kahanec and Klaus Zimmermann

20: Towards an Objective-Driven System of Smart Labor Migration Management

Robert Holzmann and Yann Pouget

19: China's Overt Economic Rise and Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top

Amelie Constant, Bienvenue N. Tien, Klaus Zimmermann and Jingzhou Meng

18: Social Protection as an Automatic Stabilizer

Mathias Dolls, Clemens Fuest and Andreas Peichl

17: A New Cost-Benefit and Rate of Return Analysis for the Perry Preschool Program: A Summary

James J. Heckman, Seong Hyeok Moon, Rodrigo Pinto, Peter A. Savelyev and Adam Yavitz

16: Labor Market and Globalization: A Comparison of the Latin American and the East Asian Experiences in the 1980s and 1990s

Randolph Bruno

15: Agenda 2020: Strategies to Achieve Full Employment in Germany

Hilmar Schneider and Klaus Zimmermann

14: Macedonia’s Accession to the EU and the Labor Market: What Can Be Learned from the New Member States?

Hartmut Lehmann

13: An Awkward Dance: China and the United States

Eswar Prasad and Grace Gu

12: Top Ten Myths and Fallacies Regarding Immigration

Barry Chiswick

11: 15 Years of Pension Reform in Germany: Old Successes and New Threats

Holger Bonin

10: Bad Bank(s) and Recapitalization of the Banking Sector

Dorothea Schäfer and Klaus Zimmermann

9: Flexicurity in Belgium: A Proposal Based on Economic Principles

Bart Cockx and Bruno Van der Linden

8: Importing a Successful System? Simulating Different Regimes of Financing Social Security for Germany

Caroline Dieckhoener and Andreas Peichl

7: Current Account Imbalances and Structural Adjustment in the Euro Area: How to Rebalance Competitiveness

Holger Zemanek, Ansgar Belke and Gunther Schnabl

6: Introducing Unemployment Insurance to Developing Countries

Milan Vodopivec

5: Some Remarks on the Effectiveness of Primary Education Interventions

Olmo Silva

4: How to Avoid a Pension Crisis: A Question of Intelligent System Design

Alessandro Cigno

3: A Good Time for Making Work Pay? Taking Stock of In-Work Benefits and Related Measures across the OECD

Herwig Immervoll and Mark Pearson

2: The Transatlantic Banking Crisis: Lessons and EU Reforms

Paul Welfens

1: The Petersberg Declaration

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