IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2616

Should Old-Age Benefits Be Earnings-Tested?

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2603

Territorial Differences in Italian Students’ Mathematical Competencies: Evidence from PISA 2003

Massimiliano Bratti, Daniele Checchi, Antonio Filippin

revised version published as "Geographical Differences in Italian Students' Mathematical Competencies: Evidence from PISA 2003" in: Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 2007, 66(3), 299-333

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2597

Job Creation and Job Destruction over the Life Cycle: The Older Workers in the Spotlight

Jean-Olivier Hairault, Arnaud Chéron, François Langot

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2504

How to Help Unemployed Find Jobs Quickly: Experimental Evidence from a Mandatory Activation Program

Brian Krogh Graversen, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (10-11), 2020-2035

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2492

Financial Incentives and the Timing of Retirement: Evidence from Switzerland

Barbara Hanel, Regina T. Riphahn

published as 'The Timing of Retirement - New Evidence from Swiss Female Workers' in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19(5), 718-728

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2478

Public Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying to Migrate and Teaching to Stay?

Panu Poutvaara

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (3), 591–608

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2477

Decentralization and the Productive Efficiency of Government: Evidence from Swiss Cantons

Iwan Barankay, Ben Lockwood

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (5-6), 1197-1218

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2417

Intergenerational Conflict, Partisan Politics, and Public Higher Education Spending: Evidence from the German States

Ulrich Oberndorfer, Viktor Steiner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2354

The Income of the Swedish Baby Boomers

Lennart Flood, N. Anders Klevmarken, Andreea Mitrut

published in A. Klevmarken and B. Lindgren (eds.), Simulating an Ageing Population. A microsimulation approach to Sweden, Contributions to Economic Analysis No 285, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, U.K. 2008

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2273

Part-Time Pensions and Part-Time Work in Sweden

Eskil Wadensjö

published in: European Papers on the New Welfare, 2006, 6, 29-45

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2234

New Technology in Schools: Is There a Payoff?

Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally, Olmo Silva

published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (522), 1145-1167

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2211

Performance Related Pay and Labor Productivity

Anne C. Gielen, Marcel Kerkhofs, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 291-301

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2179

Transition with Heterogeneous Labor

Katalin Balla, János Köllő, András Simonovits

published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2008, 19 (3), 203-220.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2173

An Age Perspective on Economic Well-Being and Social Protection in Nine OECD Countries

Thai-Thanh Dang, Herwig Immervoll, Daniela Mantovani, Kristian Orsini, Holly Sutherland

also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2171

Shortening the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits Does Not Affect the Quality of Post-Unemployment Jobs: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Jan C. van Ours, Milan Vodopivec

revised version published as 'Does reducing unemployment insurance generosity reduce job match quality?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (3-4), 684-695

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2081

Optimal Accumulation in an Endogenous Growth Setting with Human Capital

Frédéric Docquier, Oliver Paddison, Pierre Pestieau

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2006, 134 (1), 361-378

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2022

Military Draft and Economic Growth in OECD Countries

Katarina Keller, Panu Poutvaara, Andreas Wagener

published in: Defense and Peace Economics, 2009, 20 (5), 373-393

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1995

Welfare State Retrenchment: The Partisan Effect Revisited

Bruno Amable, Donatella Gatti, Jan Schumacher

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2006, 22 (3), 426-444