IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13490

Training, Wages and a Missing School Graduation Cohort

Matthias Dorner, Katja Görlitz

updated version published as 'The impact of a missing school graduation cohort on the training market' in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 103, 102580 (with Elke J. Jahn)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13475

Biased Beliefs and Entry into Scientific Careers

Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Danijela Vuletić Čugalj

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13473

Does Sibling Gender Affect Personality Traits?

Bart H.H. Golsteyn, Cécile A. J. Magnée

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 77, 102016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13462

Stuck at a Crossroads? The Duration of the Italian School-To-Work Transition

Francesco Pastore, Claudio Quintano, Antonella Rocca

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2021, 42 (3), 442-469

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13451

Economic Preferences across Generations and Family Clusters: A Large-Scale Experiment

Shyamal Chowdhury, Matthias Sutter, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published as 'Economic preferences across generations and family clusters: A large-scale experiment in a developing country' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (9), 2361-2410.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13425

Labour Force Participation and Job Polarization: Evidence from Europe during the Great Recession

Gregory Verdugo, Guillaume Allègre

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 66, 101881

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13416

Are Older Workers Willing to Learn?

Jens Ruhose, Stephan L. Thomsen, Insa Weilage

revised version published as 'No mental retirement: estimating voluntary adult education activities of older workers' in: Education Economics, 2023, 32 (4), 440–473.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13408

Working at Home in Greece: Unexplored Potential at Times of Social Distancing?

Konstantinos Pouliakas

published in: Monastiriotis, V. and Katsinas, P. (eds.) The Economic Impact of Covid-19 in Greece, Hellenic Observatory, LSE, 2020, 70 - 128

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13402

Less School (Costs), More (Female) Education? Lessons from Egypt Reducing Years of Compulsory Schooling

Ahmed Elsayed, Olivier Marie

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13396

The Effect of Peer Gender on Major Choice in Business School

Ulf Zölitz, Jan Feld

published in: Management Science, 2021, 67 (11), 6936-6979

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13393

Recessions and Occupational Match Quality: The Role of Age, Gender, and Education

John T. Addison, Liwen Chen, Orgul Demet Ozturk

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13391

Welfare States, Labor Markets, Social Investment and the Digital Transformation

Werner Eichhorst, Anton Hemerijck, Gemma Scalise

published in: M. R. Busemeyer, A. Kemmerling, K. Van Kersbergen, P. Marx (eds.), Digitalization and the Welfare State, Oxford University Press, 2022, 64–82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13387

Mentoring and Schooling Decisions: Causal Evidence

Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Pia Pinger

forthcoming in: Journal of Political Economy, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13385

From Pink-Collar to Lab Coat: Cultural Persistence and Diffusion of Socialist Gender Norms

Naomi Friedman-Sokuler, Claudia Senik

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, 11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13384

The Global Distribution of Routine and Non-Routine Work

Piotr Lewandowski, Albert Park, Simone Schotte

published as 'The global divergence in the de-routinisation of jobs' in: Gradín C., Lewandowski P., Schotte S., Sen K. (eds.), Tasks, Skills, and Institutions - The Changing Nature of Work and Inequality, Oxford University Press, 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13382

Marginal College Wage Premiums under Selection into Employment

Matthias Westphal, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hendrik Schmitz

published in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (646), 2231 - 2272

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13380

Things versus People: Gender Differences in Vocational Interests and in Occupational Preferences

Andreas Kuhn, Stefan C. Wolter

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 203, 210-234

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13378

Inequality in Personality over the Life Cycle

Miriam Gensowski, Mette Gørtz, Stefanie Schurer

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 184, 46-77