IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 767

Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College Choice

Pedro Carneiro, Karsten T. Hansen, James J. Heckman

published in: International Economic Review, 2003, 44 (2), 361-422

IZA Discussion Paper No. 766

How Important Is Guaranteed or Institutionalised Overtime?

David N.F. Bell, Robert A. Hart

IZA Discussion Paper No. 765

On the Prudence of Rewarding A While Hoping for B

Wendelin Schnedler

improved version available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 2124

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. 763

Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson Inequality Indices from Complex Survey Data

Martin Biewen, Stephen P. Jenkins

revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2006, 68 (3), 371-383

IZA Discussion Paper No. 762

The Impact of In-Work Benefits on Poverty and Household Labour Supply: A Simulation Study for Switzerland

Michael Gerfin, Robert E. Leu

revised version published as ''Evaluationg the Cost-Effectiveness of In-Work Benefits: A Simulation Study for Switzerland' in: German Economic Review, 2007, 8 (4), 447 - 467

IZA Discussion Paper No. 761

Output-Based Pay: Incentives, Retention or Sorting?

Edward Lazear

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2004, 23, 1-25

IZA Discussion Paper No. 760

Entrepreneurship

Edward Lazear

IZA Discussion Paper No. 759

The Peter Principle: A Theory of Decline

Edward Lazear

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2004, 112 (S1), S141-S163

IZA Discussion Paper No. 758

Equilibrium Policy Experiments and the Evaluation of Social Programs

Jeremy Lise, Shannon Seitz, Jeffrey A. Smith

IZA Discussion Paper No. 757

Teen Births Keep American Crime High

Jennifer Hunt

published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2006, 49 (2), 533-566

IZA Discussion Paper No. 756

Swimming Upstream, Floating Downstream: Comparing Women's Relative Wage Positions in the U.S. and Denmark

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Ronald L. Oaxaca, Nina Smith

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 59 (2), 243-266

IZA Discussion Paper No. 755

In Support of the Supporters? Do Social Forces Shape Decisions of the Impartial?

Thomas Dohmen

revised version published as IZA DP 1595

IZA Discussion Paper No. 754

Separability of Duration Dependence and Unobserved Heterogeneity

Hélène Turon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 753

Unemployment Equilibrium and On-the-Job Search

Simon Burgess, Hélène Turon

published as 'Worker Flows, Job Flows and Unemployment in a Matching Model' in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (3), 393-408

IZA Discussion Paper No. 752

Skill-Biased Technological Change in Denmark: A Disaggregate Perspective

Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, Jan Rose Skaksen

published as 'Changes in Demand for Skilled Labour in Denmark - A Disaggregate Perspective' in: Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift / Danish Journal of Economics, 2004, 142 (1), 67 - 80

IZA Discussion Paper No. 751

Are Computer Skills the New Basic Skills? The Returns to Computer, Writing and Math Skills in Britain

Lex Borghans, Bas ter Weel

published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (1), 85-98

IZA Discussion Paper No. 750

New Evidence on the Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany - A Matching Approach with Threefold Heterogeneity

Reinhard Hujer, Marco Caliendo, Stephan L. Thomsen

published in: Research in Economics, 2004, 58(4), 257-302

IZA Discussion Paper No. 749

The Educational Attainment of the Children of the Danish ‘Guest Worker’ Immigrants

Vibeke Jakobsen, Nina Smith

published in: Danish Economic Journal, 2006, 144 (2), 18-42