IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1659

Is Early Learning Really More Productive? The Effect of School Starting Age on School and Labor Market Performance

published as: 'Life-cycle Effects of Age at School Start' in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124, 977-1004

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1657

Increasing Returns to Education and the Skills Under-Investment Trap

published as 'A Microfoundation for Increasing Returns in Human Capital Accumulation and the Under-Participation Trap' in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (7), 1661-1681

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1656

Are Student Exchange Programs Worth It?

Dolores Messer, Stefan C. Wolter

published in: Higher Education, 2007, 54 (5), 647-663

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1645

Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany: Evidence and Interpretation

Jörn-Steffen Pischke, Till von Wachter

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (2), 592-598

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1640

Workplace Training in Europe

Andrea Bassanini, Alison L. Booth, Giorgio Brunello, Maria De Paola, Edwin Leuven

published in: Brunello, Garibaldi and Wasmer (eds.), Education and Training in Europe, Oxford University Press, 2007, Ch. 8 - 13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1626

The Correlates of Work in a Post-AFDC World: The Results from a Longitudinal State-Level Analysis

Dan Lewis, Spyros Konstantopoulos, Lisa Altenbernd

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1606

Do Government Subsidies Stimulate Training Expenditure? Microeconometric Evidence from Plant Level Data

Holger Görg, Eric Strobl

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2006, 72(4), 860-876

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1586

Wage Growth and Job Mobility in the U.K. and Germany

Christian Dustmann, Sonia C. Pereira

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008, 61 (3), 374 - 393

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1580

The Value of Peripatetic Economists: A Sesqui-Difference Evaluation of Bob Gregory

Daniel S. Hamermesh

published in: Economic Record, 2006, 82 (257), 138-149

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1562

The Labour Market Effects of Alma Mater: Evidence from Italy

Giorgio Brunello, Lorenzo Cappellari

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2008, 27 (5), 564-574

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1561

Career Choice, Marriage-Timing, and the Attraction of Unequals

Sylvain Dessy, Habiba Djebbari

published as 'High-powered careers and marriage: can women have it all?' in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 42

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1553

The Labour Market Characteristics and Labour Market Impacts of Immigrants in Ireland

Alan Barrett, Adele Bergin, David Duffy

published in: Economic and Social Review, 2006, 37 (1), 1-26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1552

School-to-Career and Post-Secondary Education: Evidence from the Philadelphia Educational Longitudinal Study

Frank F. Furstenberg Jr., David Neumark

published in: Education Economics, 2007, 15(2), 135-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1547

Suicidal Behavior and the Labor Market Productivity of Young Adults

Erdal Tekin, Sara Markowitz

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2008, 75(2), 300-331

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1539

Returns to Skills and Personnel Management: U.S. DoD Scientists and Engineers

Michael Gibbs

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2006, 44(2), 199-214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1529

Why Are Jobs Designed the Way They Are?

Cindy Zoghi, Alec R. Levenson, Michael Gibbs

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2010, 30, 107-154

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1516

Regionalism in West Africa: Do Polar Countries Reap the Benefits? A Role for Migration

Adama Konseiga

published in: Natalia Dinello and Ernest Aryeetey (eds.), Testing Global Interdependence: Issues on Trade, Aid, Migration and Development, Edward Elgar, 2007, Ch. 8

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1513

Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program for Displaced Workers on Their Transition to Permanent Jobs

Sandra Cavaco, Denis Fougère, Julien Pouget

published in French under the title: "Conventions de conversion et retour à l'emploi", Economie et Prévision, 2004 (164-165), 93-111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1503

The Knowledge Lift: The Swedish Adult Education Program That Aimed to Eliminate Low Worker Skill Levels

James Albrecht, Gerard J. van den Berg, Susan Vroman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1494

People People: Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups

Lex Borghans, Bas ter Weel, Bruce A. Weinberg

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67 (2), 287-334