IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 784

Low-Skilled Unemployment, Biased Technological Shocks and Job Competition

revised version published as "Biased Technological Shocks, Relative Wage Rigidities and Low-Skilled Unemployment”in Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 55(3), 330-352

IZA Discussion Paper No. 764

A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Patrick A. Puhani

published as 'Transatlantic Differences in Labour Markets: Changes in Wage and Non-Employment Structures in the 1980s and the 1990s' in: German Economic Review, 2008, 9 (3), 312-338

IZA Discussion Paper No. 699

Educational Track, Networks and Labor Market Outcomes

David N. Margolis, Véronique Simonnet

published in French as "Filières éducatives, réseaux et réussite professionnelle" in Economie et prévision, 2005164-165, 2005.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 684

The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment: Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants

Patrick A. Puhani

published as 'Relative Demand Shocks and Relative Wage Rigidities During the Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment' in: Kyklos, 2003, 56 (4),541-562

IZA Discussion Paper No. 673

Labour as a Buffer: Do Temporary Workers Suffer?

Alison L. Booth, Marco Francesconi, Jeff Frank

published in: Gabriel Fagan, Francesco Paolo Mongelli and Julian Morgan (eds.), Institutions and Wage Formation in the New Europe, Edward Elgar 2003

IZA Discussion Paper No. 623

The Dynamics of Job Creation and Destruction for University Graduates: Why a Rising Unemployment Rate Can Be Misleading

Ana Rute Cardoso, Priscila Ferreira

published in: Applied Economics, 2009, 41 (1), 2513-2521

IZA Discussion Paper No. 621

On Market Forces and Human Evolution

Gilles Saint-Paul

published in: Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2007, 247, 397- 412,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 557

Reducing Hours of Work: Does Overtime Act as a Brake Upon Employment Growth? An Analysis by Gender for the Case of Italy

Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Cristina Braschi

published in: Revue de l’IRES, 2005, http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/rdli.049.0093

IZA Discussion Paper No. 530

Unemployment Invariance

Marika Karanassou, Dennis J. Snower

published in: German Economic Review, 2004, 5 (3), 297-317

IZA Discussion Paper No. 521

Employment Status, Endogenous Regional Mobility, and Spatial Dependencies in Labor Markets

René Fahr, Uwe Sunde

revised version published as 'Spatial mobility and competition for jobs: Some theory and evidence for Western Germany' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2006, 36 (6), 802 - 825

IZA Discussion Paper No. 463

Labor Supply Dynamics, Umemployment and Human Capital Investments

Etienne Wasmer

published in:Recherches Economiques de Louvan / Louvain Economic Review, 2004, 70 (4), 461-482

IZA Discussion Paper No. 425

Successful Apprenticeship-to-Work Transitions: On the Long-Term Change in Significance of the German School-Leaving Certificate

Felix Büchel

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2002, 23 (5), 394-410

IZA Discussion Paper No. 413

Participation Behavior of East German Women after German Unification

Holger Bonin, Rob Euwals

published as 'Why Are Labor Force Participation Rates of East German Women So High?' in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2005, 51(4), 307-322