IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7952

Moving Ahead by Thinking Backwards: Cognitive Skills, Personality, and Economic Preferences in Collegiate Success

Stephen V. Burks, Connor Lewis, Paul Kivi, Amanda Wiener, Jon E. Anderson, Lorenz Götte, Colin G. DeYoung, Aldo Rustichini

revised version published as 'Cognitive Skills, Personality, and Economic Preferences in Collegiate Success' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 30–44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7915

A Balancing Act at Times of Austerity: Matching the Supply and Demand for Skills in the Greek Labour Market

Konstantinos Pouliakas

revised version published in: K. Pouliakas and I. Psifidou (eds.), Greece: Vocational education and training in economic change', Education in the European Union Pre-2003 Member States, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7915

A Balancing Act at Times of Austerity: Matching the Supply and Demand for Skills in the Greek Labour Market

Konstantinos Pouliakas

revised version published in: K. Pouliakas and I. Psifidou (eds.), Greece: Vocational education and training in economic change', Education in the European Union Pre-2003 Member States, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7898

The Short- and Long-Term Effects of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from a School Choice Reform in Sweden

Verena Wondratschek, Karin Edmark, Markus Frölich

published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 111/112, 71-102

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7889

Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation

Jolanda Hessels, Udo Brixy, Wim Naudé, Thomas Gries

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7864

Institutionalized Inequality and Brain Drain: An Empirical Study of the Effects of Women's Rights on the Gender Gap in High-Skilled Migration

Maryam Naghsh Nejad

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7850

Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC

Eric A. Hanushek, Guido Schwerdt, Simon Wiederhold, Ludger Woessmann

published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 73, 103-130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7837

Locus of Control and Savings

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sonja C. de New, Mathias Sinning

published in: Journal of Banking and Finance, 2016, 73, 113-130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7820

The Impact of Globalization and Technology Transfer on Manufacturing Employment and Skills in Ethiopia

Getinet Astatike Haile, Ilina Srour, Marco Vivarelli

published in: Eurasian Business Review, 2017, 7, 1-23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7788

Overeducation at a Glance: Determinants and Wage Effects of the Educational Mismatch, Looking at the AlmaLaurea Data

Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Francesco Pastore

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2018, 137 (3): 999-1032.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7762

The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet

Anders Akerman, Ingvil Gaarder, Magne Mogstad

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2015, 130 (4), 1781–1824

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7750

Fostering and Measuring Skills: Interventions That Improve Character and Cognition

James J. Heckman, Tim Kautz

published in: J. Heckman, J.E. Humphries, and T. Kautz (eds.), The Myth of Achievement Tests: The GED and the Role of Character in American Life, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7724

Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey

Antonio Di Paolo, Aysit Tansel

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2015, 51(4), 407-421

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7655

How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills

Adrian Hille, Jürgen Schupp

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 44, 56-8

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7653

The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature

Max Nathan

published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2014, 3:4