IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3157

Safety Net Still in Transition: Labour Market Incentive Effects of Extending Social Support in Poland

Peter Haan, Michal Myck

revised version published as 'Safety net still in transition: labour market incentive effects of social support in Poland and Germany' in: Bank i Kredyt, 2010, 41 (3), 5-34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3154

Educational Self-Selection, Tasks Assignment and Rising Wage Inequality

Arnaud Dupuy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3146

Social Determinants of Labor Market Status of Ethnic Minorities in Britain

Martin Kahanec, Mariapia Mendola

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 167-195

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3139

What Makes a Young Entrepreneur?

David G. Blanchflower, Andrew J. Oswald

published in: Andy Furlong (ed.), International Handbook on Youth and Young Adulthood, Routledge: 2009

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3119

Determinants of South African Women’s Labour Force Participation, 1995–2004

Miracle Benhura

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3066

Capital Accumulation and Unemployment: New Insights on the Nordic Experience

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala, Pablo F. Salvador

published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2008, 32 (6), 977-1001

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3053

An Empirical Assessment of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market

Rute Mendes, Gerard J. van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (6), 919-929

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3051

What Works Best for Getting the Unemployed Back to Work: Employment Services or Small-Business Assistance Programmes? Evidence from Romania

Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published as 'Channels Through Which Public Employment Services and Small-Business Assistance Programs Work' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (4), 458-485

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3048

Spillovers from High-Skill Consumption to Low-Skill Labor Markets

Francesca Mazzolari, Giuseppe Ragusa

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (1), 74-86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3045

Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?

Pieter A. Gautier, José L. Moraga-González, Ronald P. Wolthoff

published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 84, 123-139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3038

Comparative Analysis of Labor Market Dynamics Using Markov Processes: An Application to Informality

Mariano Bosch, William F. Maloney

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (4), 621-631

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3014

What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research

Mirjam C. van Praag, Peter H. Versloot

published in: Small Business Economics, 2007, 29 (4), 351-382

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3002

A Theory of Employment Guarantees: Contestability, Credibility and Distributional Concerns

Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, Ravi Kanbur

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (3-4), 482-497

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2991

What Explains Trends in Labor Force Participation of Older Men in the United States?

David M. Blau, Ryan Goodstein

revised version published as 'Can Social Security Explain Trends in Labor Force Participation of older Men in the United States?' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45 (2), 328 - 363

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2983

Wages and Ageing: Is There Evidence for the "Inverse-U" Profile?

Michal Myck

revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (3), 282-306

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2947

Worker Absenteeism in Search Equilibrium

Per Engström, Bertil Holmlund

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2007, 109 (3), 439-467,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2931

Firms and Early Retirement: Offers That One Does Not Refuse

Lutz Bellmann, Florian Janik

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2902