IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 547

Government and Cities: Contests and the Decentralization of Decision Making

Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 546

Job Creation and Job Destruction in a Regulated Labor Market: The Case of Austria

Alfred M. Stiglbauer, Florian Stahl, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Josef Zweimüller

published in: Empirica 30, 2003, 127-148.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 545

The Role of Background Factors for Reading Literacy: Straight National Scores in the PISA 2000 Study

Michael Fertig, Christoph M. Schmidt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 544

Disentangling the Minimum Wage Puzzle: An Analysis of Worker Accessions and Separations

Pedro Portugal, Ana Rute Cardoso

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2006, 4 (5), 988-1013. Reprinted in J. T. Addison (ed.) Recent Developments in Labor Economics, Vol. I, UK, 2007, 179-204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 543

Wages, Productivity, and Work Intensity in the Great Depression

Julia Darby, Robert A. Hart

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2008, 75 (1), 91-103

IZA Discussion Paper No. 542

Programme Evaluation with Multiple Treatments

Markus Frölich

published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2004, 18 (2), 181-224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 541

Do the Higher Educated Unemployed Crowd Out the Lower Educated Ones in a Competition for Jobs?

Bart Cockx, Muriel Dejemeppe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 540

High Skilled Migration and the Exertion of Effort by the Local Population

Gil S. Epstein, Astrid Kunze, Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 56 (3), 332–352

IZA Discussion Paper No. 539

Labour-Market Institutions and Macroeconomic Shocks

Yu-Fu Chen, Dennis J. Snower, Gylfi Zoega

published in: Labour, 2003, 17(2), 247-270

IZA Discussion Paper No. 538

The Pension Transfer Program

Mike Orszag, Dennis J. Snower

IZA Discussion Paper No. 537

Unemployment Vouchers versus Low-Wage Subsidies

Mike Orszag, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Edmund S. Phelps (ed.), Designing Inclusion: Tools to Raise Low-end Pay and Employment in Private Enterprise, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 131 - 160

IZA Discussion Paper No. 536

Pension Taxes versus Early Retirement Rights

Mike Orszag, Dennis J. Snower

IZA Discussion Paper No. 535

Wage Determination and the Sources of Bargaining Power

Paola Manzini, Dennis J. Snower

IZA Discussion Paper No. 534

The Insider-Outsider Theory: A Survey

Assar Lindbeck, Dennis J. Snower

IZA Discussion Paper No. 533

Assessing Welfare Accounts

Stefan Fölster, Robert Gidehag, Mike Orszag, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Torben Andersen and Per Molander (eds,): Alternatives for Welfare Policy: Coping with Internationalisation and Demographic Change, Cambridge, 2003, 255 - 275

IZA Discussion Paper No. 532

From Unemployment Benefits to Unemployment Accounts

Mike Orszag, Dennis J. Snower

IZA Discussion Paper No. 531

Unemployment in the European Union: A Dynamic Reappraisal

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Economic Modelling, 2003, 20 (2), 237-273

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. 529