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published as 'Fifty Years of Breakthroughs and Barriers: Women in Economics, Policy, and Leadership' in: ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2024, 711 (1), 225-244

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17212

Signaling Effects on the Labor Market: Winners and Losers of University Licensing in a Higher Education Reform

Pablo Lavado, Gustavo Yamada, Joaquin Armas, Mauricio Gonzalez

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17182

Work Meaningfulness and Effort

Femke Cnossen, Milena Nikolova

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17126

The Labor Market Effects of Drug-Related Violence in a Transit Country

Andres Ham Gonzalez, Juanita Ruiz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17095

Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Program Interactions

Zachary Parolin, Clemente Pignatti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16993

Soft Skills, Competition, and Hiring Discrimination

Christian Valencia, Sarah Janzen, Yashodhan Ghorpade, Amanina Abdur Rahman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16967

Is Poverty Reduction in Europe Doomed? Conjectures, Facts and a Cautiously Optimistic Conclusion

Ive Marx, Henri Haapanala, Sarah Marchal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16958

Geographic Inequalities in Accessibility of Essential Services

Vanda Almeida, Claire Hoffmann, Sebastian Königs, Ana Isabel Moreno-Monroy, Mauricio Salazar-Lozada, Javier Terrero-Dávila

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16914

The Impact of Climate Change on Work Lessons for Developing Countries

Moustafa Feriga, Nancy Lozano Gracia, Pieter Serneels

published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2025, 40 (1), 104–146

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16746

Recessions and the Labor Market Returns to Cognitive and Social Skills

David E. Frisvold, Sun Hyung Kim

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16714

Model Averaging and Double Machine Learning

Achim Ahrens, Christian B. Hansen, Mark E Schaffer, Thomas Wiemann

published in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2025, 40 (3), 249-269

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16693

The Role of Industries in Rising Inequality

Juraj Briskar, Edoardo di Porto, José V. Rodriguez Mora, Cristina Tealdi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16656

Robots, Meaning, and Self-Determination

Milena Nikolova, Femke Cnossen, Boris Nikolaev

published in: Research Policy, 2024, 53 (5), 104987

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16642

Unemployment, Immigration, and Populism

Shuai Chen

published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2024, 67 (4), 951 - 986

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16623

The Hidden Costs of Choice in the Labor Market

Pak Hung Au, King King Li, Qing Zhang, Rong Zhu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16610

Just Another Cog in the Machine? A Worker-Level View of Robotization and Tasks

Milena Nikolova, Anthony Lepinteur, Femke Cnossen

published in: Economica, 2025, 92, 1101-1148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16579

You'll Never Walk Alone: Unemployment, Social Networks and Leisure Activities

Mattia Filomena, Matteo Picchio

published online in: Oxford Economic Papers, 09 May 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16501

Understanding Urban Economies, Land Use, and Social Dynamics in the City: Big Data and Measurement

Albert Saiz, Arianna Salazar-Miranda

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16450

The Birth Order Effect: A Modern Phenomenon?

Ana Nuevo-Chiquero, Marian Vidal-Fernandez, Jee-Yeon K. Lehmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16321

Air Pollution and Green Innovation

Liwen Guo, Zhiming Cheng, Massimiliano Tani, Sarah Cook

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16261

When Are Employers Interested in Electronic Performance Monitoring? Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment

Luisa Wieser, Martin Abraham, Claus Schnabel, Cornelia Niessen, Mauren Wolff

slightly revised version published as 'Employers’ Muted Interest in Electronic Performance Monitoring (EPM)' in: S. Pfeiffer et al. (eds.), Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelten, SpringerNature. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2024, 181-202

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16240

Does the Tendency for 'Quiet Quitting' Differ across Generations? Evidence from the UK

Odessa S. Hamilton, Daniel Jolles, Grace Lordan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16230

New Evidence on the Underrepresentation of Asian Americans in Leadership Positions

Maria Zhu

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 227, 106679

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15805

Why Do the Earnings of Male and Female Graduates Diverge? The Role of Motherhood and Job Dynamics

Aedin Doris, Donal O'Neill, Olive Sweetman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15639

Women's Careers and Family Formation

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Damian Clarke, Selma Walther

published in: Klaus. F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer Nature, 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15637

Economic Development and the Organisation of Labour: Evidence from the Jobs of the World Project

Oriana Bandiera, Ahmed Elsayed, Anton Heil, Andrea Smurra

published in: the Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (6), 2226 - 2270

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15602

Full-Time Schools and Educational Trajectories: Evidence from High-Stakes Exams

Francisco Cabrera-Hernández, María Padilla-Romo, Cecilia Peluffo

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 96, 102443

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15366

Off to a Bad Start: Youth Nonemployment and Labor Market Outcomes Later in Life

Mattia Filomena, Isabella Giorgetti, Matteo Picchio

published online in: Empirical Economics, 08 April 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15034

The (Un)Importance of Inheritance

Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Fanny Landaud, Kjell G. Salvanes

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2025, 23 (3), 1060–1094

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14982

Young Adults and Labor Markets in Africa

Oriana Bandiera, Ahmed Elsayed, Andrea Smurra, Celine Zipfel

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2022, 36 (1), 81-100

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14778

Gender Differences in Economics PhD Field Specializations with Correlated Choices

Eva Sierminska, Ronald L. Oaxaca

published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102289

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14756

Gene-Environment Effects on Female Fertility

Nicola Barban, Elisabetta De Cao, Marco Francesconi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14699

The Early Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Labour Market Outcomes of Natives and Migrants in the UK

Greta Morando

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14676

Bye Bye Ms. American Sci: Women and the Leaky STEM Pipeline

Jamin D. Speer

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 93, 102371

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14483

Labor Market Signaling and the Value of College: Evidence from Resumes and the Truth

Daniel Kreisman, Jonathan Smith, Bondi Arifin

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (6), 1820-1849

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14380

California's Paid Family Leave Law and the Employment of 45-64 Year Old Adults

Ann P. Bartel, Soohyun Kim, Christopher J. Ruhm, Jane Waldfogel

published in: Work, Aging and Retirement, 2023, 9 (2), 169–178

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14275

Do Parents Expect Too Much or Is It All about Grades? The Discrepancy between Parents' Aspirations and Child's Academic Performance, and Parental Satisfaction with the School

Stefani Milovanska-Farrington

published in: Cogent Economics and Finance, 2022, 10 (1), 2079178

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14272

The Effect of a Health and Economic Shock on the Gender, Ethnic and Racial Gap in Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from COVID-19

Stefani Milovanska-Farrington

updated version published as 'The Effect of Covid-19 as an Economic Shock on the Gender and Ethnic Gap in Labor Market Outcomes' in: Studies in Microeconomics, 2021, 9 (2), 227–255

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14271

The Effect of Parental and Grandparental Supervision Time Investment on Children's Early-Age Development

Stefani Milovanska-Farrington

published in: Research in Economics, 2021, 75 (3), 286 - 304

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14133

Bride Kidnapping and Labour Supply Behaviour of Married Kyrgyz Women

Reza Arabsheibani, Alma Kudebayeva, Altay Mussurov

published as 'A note on bride kidnapping and labour supply behaviour of Kyrgyz women' in: Economic Systems, 2021, 45 (4), 00885

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13808

Has the Paycheck Protection Program Succeeded?

Glenn Hubbard, Michael R. Strain

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13747

Do Public Subsidies of Union Membership Increase Union Membership Rates?

Erling Barth, Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2025, 229, 106855

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13734

STEM Occupations and the Gender Gap: What Can We Learn from Job Tasks?

Jamin D. Speer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13605

How Robots Change Within-Firm Wage Inequality

Erling Barth, Marianne Roed, Pal Schone, Janis Umblijs

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13572

Obstacles to Labour Market Participation among Arab Women in Israel

Sami H. Miaari, Nabil Khattab, Maha Sabbah-Karkabi

published in: International Labour Review 2023, 162 (4), 587 - 614

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13459

Exploratory Data Analysis on Large Data Sets: The Example of Salary Variation in Spanish Social Security Data

Catia Nicodemo, Albert Satorra

published in: BRQ Business Research Quarterly, 2022, 25 (3), 283–294

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. 13354

Short-Term Impact of COVID-19 on Consumption and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Singapore

Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh, Xuan Zhang

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2022, 55 (Suppl. 1), 115–134.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13336

The Gender Dimension of Occupational Exposure to Contagion in Europe

Piotr Lewandowski, Katarzyna Lipowska, Iga Magda

published in: Feminist Economics, 2021, 27 (1-2), 48 - 65

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13315

Turning Vietnam's COVID-19 Success into Economic Recovery: A Job-Focused Analysis of Individual Assessments on Their Finance and the Economy

Hai-Anh H Dang, Long T. Giang

published in: Sustainability, 2021, 13 (19), 10664

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13281

EU Jobs at Highest Risk of COVID-19 Social Distancing: Will the Pandemic Exacerbate Labour Market Divide?

Konstantinos Pouliakas, Jiri Branka

also available as Cedefop working paper No. 6201, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13227

Occupational Exposure to Contagion and the Spread of COVID-19 in Europe

Piotr Lewandowski

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13213

Commuting Time and the Gender Gap in Labor Market Participation

Lídia Farré, Jordi Jofre-Monseny, Juan Torrecillas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13112

What Makes Work Meaningful and Why Economists Should Care about It

Milena Nikolova, Femke Cnossen

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101847

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13109

The Impact of One Parent Family Payment Reforms on the Labour Market Outcomes of Lone Parents

Paul Redmond, Seamus McGuinness, Claire Keane

revised version published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2023, 75 (2), 346 - 370

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13107

Income Taxation and Dual Job Labour Supply

Chung Choe, Ronald L. Oaxaca, Francesco Renna

published online as 'Income taxation and dual job labour supply among male workers in the UK' in: Applied Economics, 11 November 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12941

Former Homeland Areas and Unemployment in South Africa: A Decomposition Approach

Prudence Magejo, Miracle Benhura, Gibson Mudiriza

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12939

Vaccines at Work

Manuel Hoffmann, Roberto Mosquera, Adrian Chadi

published in: Management Science, 2026, 72(6), 4676-4696

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12776

Improving Employment and Earnings in 21st Century Labor Markets: An Introduction

Erica L. Groshen, Harry J. Holzer

published in: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2019, 5 (1), 1-19;

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12715

New Imported Inputs, Wages and Worker Mobility

Italo Colantone, Alessia Matano, Paolo Naticchioni

published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2020, 29 (2), 423–457.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12699

Taxing Billionaires: Estate Taxes and the Geographical Location of the Ultra-Wealthy

Enrico Moretti, Daniel Wilson

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, 15 (2), 424 - 466

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12610

The Effect of High-Tech Clusters on the Productivity of Top Inventors

Enrico Moretti

published in: American Economic Review, 2021, 111 (10), 3328 - 3375

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12575

Missing Data in Imputed Highest Grade Completed in the 2015 -2018 NBER CPS Extracts

Joni Hersch, Fernando Mendoza Lopez, Jennifer Bennett Shinall

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12496

The Political Economy of a Northern Ireland Border Poll

Seamus McGuinness, Adele Bergin

published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2020, 44 (4), 781 - 812

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12478

Do Internships Pay Off? The Effects of Student Internships on Earnings

Shushanik Margaryan, Nils Saniter, Mathias Schumann, Thomas Siedler

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57(4), 1242-1275

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12443

Publication, Compensation, and the Public Affairs Discount: Does Gender Play a Role?

Lori L. Taylor, Kalena E. Cortes, Travis C. Hearn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12425

Is There a Business Cycle Effect on the Incidence of Dual Job Holding?

Chung Choe, Ronald L. Oaxaca, Francesco Renna

published online in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 07 March 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12397

Pay and Job Rank Amongst Academic Economists in the UK: Is Gender Relevant?

Karen A. Mumford, Cristina Sechel

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (1), 82-113

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12082

Scaring or Scarring? Labour Market Effects of Criminal Victimisation

Anna Bindler, Nadine Ketel

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (4), 939-970

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12024

Great Depression and the Rise of Female Employment: A New Hypothesis

Andriana Bellou, Emanuela Cardia

published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2021, 80, 101383

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12020

Connecting to Economic Opportunity? The Role of Public Transport in Promoting Women's Employment in Lima

Daniel Martinez, Oscar A. Mitnik, Edgar Salgado, Lynn Scholl, Patricia Yanez-Pagans

revised version published in: Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 2020, 3, 1-23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12019

A Rapid Road to Employment? The Impacts of a Bus Rapid Transit System in Lima

Lynn Scholl, Daniel Martinez, Oscar A. Mitnik, Daniel Oviedo, Patricia Yanez-Pagans

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11985

Who's Minding the Kids? Experimental Evidence on the Demand for Child Care Quality

James Gordon, Chris M. Herbst, Erdal Tekin

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 80, 102076

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11894

Wages, Creative Destruction, and Union Networks

Harald Dale-Olsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11870

Vocational Training for Unemployed Youth in Latvia: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Massimiliano Bratti, Corinna Ghirelli, Enkelejda Havari, Giulia Santangelo

revised version published as 'Vocational training for unemployed youth in Latvia' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 677 - 717

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11829

Determinants of Automation Risk in the EU Labour Market: A Skills-Needs Approach

Konstantinos Pouliakas

published as 'Risks posed by automation to the European Labour Market ' in: Hogarth, T. (ed) Economy, employment and skills: European, regional and global perspectives in an age of uncertainty, Rome, 2018, 45 - 74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11111

Union Density, Productivity and Wages

Erling Barth, Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen

published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (631), 1898 - 1936

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11107

More Education, Less Volatility? The Effect of Education on Earnings Volatility over the Life Cycle

Judith M. Delaney, Paul J. Devereux

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (1), 101-137

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11052

Comparing Retrospective and Panel Data Collection Methods to Assess Labor Market Dynamics

Ragui Assaad, Caroline Krafft, Shaimaa Yassin

published in IZA Journal of Development and Migration 2018, 8:17.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10976

Gender, Willingness to Compete and Career Choices along the Whole Ability Distribution

Thomas Buser, Noemi Peter, Stefan C. Wolter

revised version published as 'Willingness to compete, gender and career choices along the whole ability distribution' in: Experimental Economics, 2022, 25, 1299 - 1326

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10734

Demographic Aging and Employment Dynamics in German Regions: Modeling Regional Heterogeneity

Thomas de Graaff, Daniel Arribas-Bel, Ceren Ozgen

published in: Stough, R. et al. (eds.): Modelling Aging and Migration Effects on Spatial Labour Markets, Springer, 2018, 211 - 231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10653

The Bilateral Relationship between Depressive Symptoms and Employment Status

Melisa Bubonya, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, David C. Ribar

published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2019, 35, 96-106

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