IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6777

Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform

Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 33, 13–25

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6760

Lost in Transition? Minimum Wage Effects on German Construction Workers

Ronald Bachmann, Marion König, Sandra Schaffner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6652

More Hours, More Jobs? The Employment Effects of Longer Working Hours

Martyn J. Andrews, Hans-Dieter Gerner, Thorsten Schank, Richard Upward

published in: Oxford Eonomic Papers,, 2015, 67(2), 245-268

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6650

Estimating the Latent Effect of Unemployment Benefits on Unemployment Duration

Simon M.S. Lo, Gesine Stephan, Ralf Wilke

fundamentally revised version published as 'Competing Risks Copula Models for Unemployment Duration: An Application to a German Hartz Reform' in Journal of Econometric Methods, 2017, 6, 1-20

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6608

Employment Protection and Fertility: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform

Ervin Prifti, Daniela Vuri

published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 23, 77-88

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6548

The Impact of Indian Job Guarantee Scheme on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Mehtabul Azam

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6195

Impacts of Rural Electrification in Rwanda

Gunther Bensch, Jochen Kluve, Jörg Peters

revised version published in: Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2011, 3 (4), 567-588

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6001

Do Foreign Experts Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms?

Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, Jakob R. Munch, Jan Rose Skaksen

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2019, 121, 517-546.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5829

The Evils of Forced Migration: Do Integration Policies Alleviate Migrants' Economic Situations?

Oliver Falck, Stephan Heblich, Susanne Link

published as 'Forced Migration and the Effects of an Integration Policy in Post-WWII Germany' in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2012, 12(1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5290

The Effect of Comprehensive Smoking Bans in European Workplaces

Federica Origo, Claudio Lucifora

published in: Forum for Health Economics and Policy, BE Press, 2013, 16(1), 1-27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5149

Estimating the Effect of the One-Child Policy on Sex Ratio Imbalance in China: Identification Based on the Difference-in-Differences

Hongbin Li, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang

published in: Demography, 2011, 48 (4), 1535-1557

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4978

Is Universal Child Care Leveling the Playing Field? Evidence from Non-Linear Difference-in-Differences

Tarjei Havnes, Magne Mogstad

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 127, 100–114

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4882

Wage Effects of Non-Wage Labour Costs

María Cervini-Plá, Xavier Ramos, José I. Silva

substantially revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 72, 113-137. Winner of the 2015 Spanish Association for Labour Economics Best Paper Award.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4726

Retirement Responses to a Generous Pension Reform: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Eastern Europe

Alexander M. Danzer

revised version published as 'Benefit Generosity and the Income Effect on Labour Supply: Quasi-Experimental Evidence' in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (571), 1059-1084

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4607

The Effects of a Sick Pay Reform on Absence and on Health-Related Outcomes

Patrick A. Puhani, Katja Sonderhof

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2010, 29 (2), 285-302

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4489

Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? Evidence from a Workfare Reform in a Generous Welfare State

Magne Mogstad, Chiara D. Pronzato

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (4), 1129–1159

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4257

Does Labor Supply Respond to a Flat Tax? Evidence from the Russian Tax Reform

Denvil Duncan, Klara Sabirianova Peter

revised version published as 'Does Labour Supply Respond to a Flat Tax?" in: Economics of Transition, 2010, 18 (2), 365 - 404