IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11748

A Database on the Passage and Enactment of Recent State Minimum Wage Increases

Jeffrey Clemens, Duncan Hobbs, Michael R. Strain

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11704

How Demanding Are Activation Requirements for Jobseekers?

Herwig Immervoll, Carlo Knotz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11666

Caseworker's Discretion and the Effectiveness of Welfare-to-Work Programs

Jonneke Bolhaar, Nadine Ketel, Bas van der Klaauw

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 183, 104080

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11510

Live Longer, Work Longer: The Changing Nature of the Labour Market for Older Workers in OECD Countries

John P. Martin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11495

Taxation, Work and Gender Equality in Ireland

Karina Doorley

published in: Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2017-18, 47, 71-87

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11427

Minimum Wage Analysis Using a Pre-Committed Research Design: Evidence through 2016

Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11344

A Comparative Analysis of the Labour Market Performance of University-Educated Immigrants in Australia, Canada, and the United States: Does Policy Matter?

Andrew Clarke, Ana Ferrer, Mikal Skuterud

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (S2), S443–S490

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. 11092

Microdata for Social Sciences and Policy Evaluation as a Public Good

Ugo Trivellato

published in: Crato N. and P. Paruolo (eds,), Data-driven Policy Impact Evaluation: How Microdata is Transforming Policy Design, Springer, 2019, 27- 45

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11039

Active Labour Market Programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from a Meta Analysis

Veronica Escudero, Jochen Kluve, Elva López Mourelo, Clemente Pignatti

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (12), 2644 - 2661

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10966

The Impact of the Action Plan for Promoting Employment and Combating Unemployment on Employment Informality in Algeria

Ali Souag, Ragui Assaad

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10950

(How) Do Non-Cognitive Skills Programs Improve Adolescent School Achievement? Experimental Evidence

Pedro S. Martins

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10920

The Impacts of Reduced Access to Abortion and Family Planning Services: Evidence from Texas

Stefanie Fischer, Heather Royer, Corey White

published as 'The impacts of reduced access to abortion and family planning services on abortions, births, and contraceptive purchases' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 165, 43 - 68

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10842

The Difficult School-To-Work Transition of High School Dropouts: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo, Andreea Minea

pubished in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56 (1), 159-183

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10728

Explaining Non-Employment Magnitude and Duration: The Case of Italy

Bruno Contini, Roberto Quaranta

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10655

How Effective Are Active Labor Market Policies in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence

David McKenzie

published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2017, 32(2), 127-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10512

Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion

Michael A. Clemens, Ethan Gatewood Lewis, Hannah M. Postel

published in: American Economic Review, 2018, 108 (6), 1468–1487.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10511

The Dog That Barks Doesn't Bite: Coverage and Compliance of Sectoral Minimum Wages in Italy

Andrea Garnero

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10321

Active Labor Market Policies

Bruno Crépon, Gerard J. van den Berg

published in: Annual Review of Economics, 8 2016, 521-546

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10098

Minimum Wage Violation in Central and Eastern Europe

Karolina Goraus-Tanska, Piotr Lewandowski

published in: International Labour Review, 2019, 158(2), 297-336

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10074

The Effect of Occupational Licensing on Consumer Welfare: Early Midwifery Laws and Maternal Mortality

D. Mark Anderson, Ryan Brown, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Daniel I. Rees

published as ' Occupational Licensing and Maternal Health: Evidence from Early Midwifery Laws' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128, 4337-4383.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9966

Evaluating Labour Market Policy

Werner Eichhorst, Regina Konle-Seidl

published in: Bent Greve (ed.), Handbook of Social Policy Evaluation, 2017, Chapter 18

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9954

Faces of Joblessness: Characterising Employment Barriers to Inform Policy

Rodrigo Fernandez, Herwig Immervoll, Daniele Pacifico, Céline Thévenot

also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Paper

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9952

Euro, Crisis and Unemployment: Youth Patterns, Youth Policies?

Atanu Ghoshray, Javier Ordóñez, Hector Sala

published in: Economic Modelling, 2016, 58, 442-453.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9888

Multifaceted Aid for Low-Income Students and College Outcomes: Evidence from North Carolina

Charles T. Clotfelter, Steven W. Hemelt, Helen F. Ladd

published in: Economic Inquiry, 56(1), 278-303.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9824

Moral-Hazard-Free First-Best Unemployment Insurance

Donald O. Parsons

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9823

The Simple Analytics of Job Displacement Insurance

Donald O. Parsons

published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2019, 86 (2), 351 - 380

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9819

Old?Age Employment and Hours of Work Trends: Empirical Analysis for Four European Countries

Arjeta Aliaj, Xavier Flawinne, Alain Jousten, Sergio Perelman, Lin Shi

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Studies 2016, 5, 16 (2016)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9786

Job-Search Periods for Welfare Applicants: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Jonneke Bolhaar, Nadine Ketel, Bas van der Klaauw

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11(1), 92-125

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9784

Long Run Effects of Youth Training Programs: Experimental Evidence from Argentina

María Laura Alzúa, Guillermo Cruces, Carolina Lopez

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (4), 1839 - 1859

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9777

Can Fixed-Term Contracts Put Low Skilled Youth on a Better Career Path? Evidence from Spain

J. Ignacio Garcia Perez, Ioana E. Marinescu, Judit Vall Castello

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9752

The Evolution of Social Mobility: Norway over the 20th Century

Tuomas Pekkarinen, Kjell G. Salvanes, Matti Sarvimäki

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, 119(1): 5–33

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9646

Empirical Evidence on the Effectiveness of Social Public Procurement Policy: The Case of the Swiss Apprenticeship Training System

Mirjam Strupler Leiser, Stefan C. Wolter

published in: Labour, 2017, 31 (2), 204-222

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9632

Seniority Rules, Worker Mobility and Wages: Evidence from Multi-Country Linked Employer-Employee Data

Petri Böckerman, Per Skedinger, Roope Uusitalo

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 48-62

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9575

The Effectiveness of Early Vacancy Information in the Presence of Monitoring and ALMP

Ricarda Schmidl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9487

The Demand for, and Impact of, Youth Internships: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Yemen

David McKenzie, Nabila Assaf, Ana Paula Cusolito

published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 5:1, 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9346

Simple Tests for Selection Bias: Learning More from Instrumental Variables

Dan A. Black, Joonhwi Joo, Robert J. LaLonde, Jeffrey A. Smith, Evan J. Taylor

published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102237

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9204

Minimum Wages in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Primer

Haroon Bhorat, Ravi Kanbur, Benjamin Stanwix

published in: World Bank Observer, 2017, 32 (1), 21 - 74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9148

Dismissal Disputes and Endogenous Sorting

Pietro Garibaldi, Gerard A. Pfann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9072

The Rising Cost of Child Care in the United States: A Reassessment of the Evidence

Chris M. Herbst

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 13-30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8678

Locus of Control and the Labor Market

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:3,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8518

Testing the Importance of Search Frictions, Matching, and Reservation Prestige Through Randomized Experiments in Jordan

Matthew Groh, David McKenzie, Nour Shammout, Tara Vishwanath

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:7

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8423

Long Workweeks and Strange Hours

Daniel S. Hamermesh, Elena G. F. Stancanelli

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68 (5), 1007-1018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8394

One-Child Policy and the Rise of Man-Made Twins

Wei Huang, Xiaoyan Lei, Yaohui Zhao

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 93 (3), 467 -476

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8385

Reassessing Labour Market Reforms: A Critique

Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar, Muhunthan Jayanthakumaran

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8223

Job Displacement Insurance: An Overview

Donald O. Parsons

published in: J. Wright (ed.): International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed., 2015, 12. Oxford, 819-832

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8209

Tackling Social Exclusion: Evidence from Chile

Pedro Carneiro, Emanuela Galasso, Rita Ginja

published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (617), 172-208.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8196

Local Funds and Political Competition: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India

Bhanu Gupta, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 41 (1), 14-30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8192

Skills and Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: Analysis with Evidence from Swaziland

Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Mthuli Ncube, Zorobabel Bicaba

revised version published in: World Development, 2015, 67 (3), 11 - 26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8071

Roadblocks on the Road to Grandma's House: Fertility Consequences of Delayed Retirement

Erich Battistin, Michele De Nadai, Mario Padula

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7984

Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Catia Batista, Janis Umblijs

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2016, 68 (1), 108-130.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7973

A Comparison of Growth Percentile and Value-Added Models of Teacher Performance

Cassandra M. Guarino, Mark D. Reckase, Brian Stacy, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

published in: Statistics and Public Policy, 2015, 2(1), e1034820

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7809

What Do Labor Market Institutions Do?

Bertil Holmlund

published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 62-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7676

Does the Precision and Stability of Value-Added Estimates of Teacher Performance Depend on the Types of Students They Serve?

Brian Stacy, Cassandra M. Guarino, Mark D. Reckase, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 50-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7663

Full Employment: A Distant Dream for Europe

Indermit Gill, Johannes Koettl, Truman Packard

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:19

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7641

Understanding Severance Pay

Donald O. Parsons

Cuadernos de Economía (Spanish Journal of Economics and Finance), 2013, 36 (106), 155-165.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7638

Credible Research Designs for Minimum Wage Studies

Sylvia Allegretto, Arindrajit Dube, Michael Reich, Ben Zipperer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7621

Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms

Fredrik W. Andersson, Harry J. Holzer, Julia Lane, David Rosenblum, Jeffrey A. Smith

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7569

Preferences for Employment Protection and the Insider-Outsider Divide

Elvire Guillaud, Paul Marx

revised version published in: West European Politics, 2014, 37 (5), 1177-1185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7555

China's 2008 Labor Contract Law: Implementation and Implications for China's Workers

Mary Gallagher, John T. Giles, Albert Park, Meiyan Wang

revised version published in: Human Relations, 2015, 68 (2), 197-235

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7518

Bridging the Gap in Pension Participation: How Much Can Universal Tax-Deferred Pension Coverage Hope to Achieve?

Nadia S Karamcheva, Geoffrey Sanzenbacher

published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2014, 13 (4), 439-459

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7475

Does Short-Time Work Save Jobs? A Business Cycle Analysis

Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke, Wolfgang Lechthaler, Christian Merkl

published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 84, 99–122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7467

Youth Employment in Africa: New Evidence and Policies from Swaziland

Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Thierry Kangoye

published in: M. A. Malo and D. Sciulli (eds.), Disadvantaged Workers: Empirical Evidence and Labour Policies, AIEL Series in Labour Economics, Springer, 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7118

The Value of Earning for Learning: Performance Bonuses in Immigrant Language Training

Olof Aslund, Mattias Engdahl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7112

How do Principals Assign Students to Teachers? Finding Evidence in Administrative Data and the Implications for Value-added

Steven G. Dieterle, Cassandra M. Guarino, Mark D. Reckase, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2015, 34 (1), 461-480

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7102

Experimental Labor Markets and Policy Considerations: Incomplete Contracts and Macroeconomic Aspects

Fortuna Casoria, Arno Riedl

published in: Charles N. Noussair, Steven Tucker (eds.), A Collection of Surveys on Market Experiments, Wiley, 2014.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6959

Welfare Programs and Labor Supply in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Latin America

María Laura Alzúa, Guillermo Cruces, Laura Ripani

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26(4), 1255-1284

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6880

Active Labor Market Programs: Employment Gain or Fiscal Drain?

Alessio J. G. Brown, Johannes Koettl

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:12

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6682

Sharpening the Effectiveness of Natural Experiments as an Analytical Tool

Harriet Duleep

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6670

Temporary Work as an Active Labor Market Policy: Evaluating an Innovative Program for Disadvantaged Youths

Christoph Ehlert, Jochen Kluve, Sandra Schaffner

published in: Economics Bulletin, 2012, 32 (2), 765-773

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6602

Can Value-Added Measures of Teacher Performance Be Trusted?

Cassandra M. Guarino, Mark D. Reckase, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2015, 10 (1), 117-156

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6464

No Pass No Drive: Education and Allocation of Time

Rashmi Barua, Marian Vidal-Fernandez

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 8(4), 399-431

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6378

The Pitfalls of Work Requirements in Welfare-to-Work Policies: Experimental Evidence on Human Capital Accumulation in the Self-Sufficiency Project

Chris Riddell, W. Craig Riddell

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 117, 39-49

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6336

Labour Market Reforms and Outcomes in Estonia

Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Balázs Égert

published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2012, 54 (1), 103 - 120

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6003

Double-Sided Moral Hazard in Job Displacement Insurance Contracts

Donald O. Parsons

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5996

Does Expanding Health Insurance Beyond Formal-Sector Workers Encourage Informality? Measuring the Impact of Mexico's Seguro Popular

Reyes Aterido, Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Carmen Pagés

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5933

Minimum Wages and Teen Employment: A Spatial Panel Approach

Charlene M. Kalenkoski, Donald J. Lacombe

published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2013, 92 (2), 407-417

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5872

What Explains Prevalence of Informal Employment in European Countries: The Role of Labor Institutions, Governance, Immigrants, and Growth

Mihails Hazans

published as: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5917, 2011/12

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5776

Mandated Severance Pay and Firing Cost Distortions: A Critical Review of the Evidence

Donald O. Parsons

published in: Robert Holzmann and Milan Vodopivec (eds.), Reforming Severance Pay: An International Perspective, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2012, 121-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5577

Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts in Latin America: Overview and Assessment

Ana Ferrer, W. Craig Riddell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5505

Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market

Morris M. Kleiner, Alan B. Krueger

published in: Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (S1, Part 2), S173–S202

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5492

The Labor Market Value to Legal Status

Fernando A. Lozano, Todd A. Sorensen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5483

A Labor Market Approach to the Crisis of Health Care Professionals in Africa

Mabel Andalón, Gary S. Fields

published in: Agnes Soucat and Richard Sheffler (eds.): The Labor Market for Health Workers in Africa: A New Look at the Crisis, The World Bank, 2013, 33-48

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5463

The Japanese Lost Decade and Beyond: A Chain Reaction Theory Approach

Pablo Agnese

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5410

Is the Minimum Wage a Pull Factor for Immigrants?

Corrado Giulietti

substantially revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67 (3), 649-674

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5368

Workers' Views of the Impact of Trade on Jobs

Clair Brown, Julia Lane, Timothy Sturgeon

published in: Industrial Relations, 2013, 52 (1), 1 - 21

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5357

Great Expectations: Law, Employment Contracts, and Labor Market Performance

W. Bentley MacLeod

published in: O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 4B, Chapter 18, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5266

Can Targeted, Non-Cognitive Skills Programs Improve Achievement? Evidence from EPIS

Pedro S. Martins

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5094

Youth Labour Markets in Europe and Central Asia

Niall O'Higgins

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4934

The Great Recession of 2008-2009: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses

Sher Verick, Iyanatul Islam

published in: Iyanatul Islam and Sher Verick (eds.), From the Great Recession to Labour Market Recovery: Issues, Evidence and Policy Options, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; ILO/Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4501

Credit Constraints and the Persistence of Unemployment

Nicolas Dromel, Elie Kolakez, Etienne Lehmann

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (5), 823-834

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4236

Long-Term Impact of Youth Minimum Wages: Evidence from Two Decades of Individual Longitudinal Data

Ana Rute Cardoso

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2019, 121 (4), 1337 - 1380

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4151

Policy, Institutional Factors and Earnings Mobility

Denisa M. Sologon, Cathal O'Donoghue

published in: The European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2011, 8(2), pp. 175-202

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4034

Shattered Dreams: The Effects of Changing the Pension System Late in the Game

Andries de Grip, Maarten Lindeboom, Raymond Montizaan

published in: Economic Journal, 2012, 122 (559), 1–25

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3979

Cream-Skimmer or Underdog? Labor Type Selectivity, Pre-Program Wage, and Rural Labor Training Program Outcome

Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3874

Emigration and the Age Profile of Retirement among Immigrants

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Steven Stillman

published as "Return migration and the age profile of retirement among immigrants" in: IZA Journal of Migration 2013, 2:20

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3817

Does Retirement Kill You? Evidence from Early Retirement Windows

Norma B. Coe, Maarten Lindeboom

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3766

Understanding Low Average Returns to Education in Africa: The Role of Heterogeneity across Education Levels and the Importance of Political and Economic Reforms

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

revised version published as 'Have returns to education changed in Nigeria? Uncovering the role of democratic reforms' in: Journal of African Economies, 2011, 20 (5), 737-780

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3555

Job Protection Legislation and Productivity Growth in OECD Countries

Andrea Bassanini, Luca Nunziata, Danielle Venn

revised version published in: Economic Policy, 2009, 24 (58), 349-402

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3502

Labor Market Policies, Institutions and Employment Rates in the EU-27

Riccardo Rovelli, Randolph Luca Bruno

published in: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2010, 48 (3), 661-685

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