Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4651

Was there a Skills Shortage in Australia?

Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4650

The Family Gap in Wages: What Wombmates Reveal

Marianne Simonsen, Lars Skipper

published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (1), 102-112

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4645

Happiness and Productivity

Andrew J. Oswald, Eugenio Proto, Daniel Sgroi

revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (4), 789-822

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4644

In-Work Transfers in Good Times and Bad: Simulations for Ireland

Olivier B. Bargain, Karina Doorley

published in: Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Tatsiramos (eds.), 2011, Research in Labor Economics (Research in Labor Economics, Volume 33), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 307-339

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4641

The Determinants of High School Closures: Lessons from Longitudinal Data throughout Illinois

Sherrilyn M. Billger, Frank D. Beck

published in: Journal of Education Finance, 2012, 38 (2), 83-101

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4640

Seeking Similarity: How Immigrants and Natives Manage at the Labor Market

Olof Aslund, Lena Hensvik, Oskar Nordström Skans

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32(3), 405–442

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4636

The Gender Wage Gap as a Function of Educational Degree Choices in an Occupationally Segregated EU Country

Ilias Livanos, Konstantinos Pouliakas

published as 'Educational segregation and the gender wage gap in Greece' in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2012, 39 (5), 554-575

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4635

What's the Use of Marriage?

Alessandro Cigno

published as 'Marriage as a commitment device' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2012, 10 (2), 171-192

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4629

Efficient Subsidization of Human Capital Accumulation with Overlapping Generations and Endogenous Growth

Wolfram F. Richter, Christoph Braun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4628

Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees

Mirjam C. van Praag, Arjen van Witteloostuijn, Justin van der Sluis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4623

The Dynamics of Job Creation and Job Destruction: Is Sub-Saharan Africa Different?

Admasu Shiferaw, Arjun S. Bedi

published as 'The Dynamics of Job Creation and Job Destruction in an African Economy: Evidence from Ethiopia' in: Journal of African Economies, 2013, 22(5), 651-692

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4622

On The Rise of Health Spending and Longevity

Raquel Fonseca, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Titus Galama, Arie Kapteyn

published as 'Accounting for the Rise of Health Spending and Longevity' in: Journal of the European Economics Association, 2021, 19 (1), 536 - 579

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4619

Cultural Diversity and Local Labour Markets

Jens Suedekum, Katja Wolf, Uwe Blien

published in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48 (1), 173-191

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4613

Local Human Capital Externalities and Wages at the Firm Level: The Case of Italian Manufacturing

Massimiliano Bratti, Roberto Leombruni

revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 41, 161-175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4608

Does Human Capital Protect Workers against Exogenous Shocks? South Africa in the 2008-2009 Crisis

Ron Leung, Marco Stampini, Désiré Vencatachellum

substantially revised version published in: South African Journal of Economics, 2014, 82(1), 99-116

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4606

Inference on a Generalized Roy Model, with an Application to Schooling Decisions in France

Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Arnaud Maurel

published as 'Inference on an Extended Roy Model, with an Application to Schooling Decisions in France' in: Journal of Econometrics, 2013, 174 (2), 95–106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4603

Non-unitary Models of Household Behavior: A Survey of the Literature

Pierre-André Chiappori, Olivier Donni

published in: Alberto Molina (ed.), Household Economic Behaviors, Berlin: Springer, 2011, 1 - 40.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4601

To Shape the Future: How Labor Market Entry Conditions Affect Individuals' Long-Run Wage Profiles

Beatrice Brunner, Andreas Kuhn

completely revised version published as IZA DP No. 5360

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4595

Institutional Arrangements, Employment Performance and the Quality of Work

Werner Eichhorst, Paul Marx, Verena Tobsch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4590

The Economic Progress of American Jewry: From 18th Century Merchants to 21st Century Professionals

Barry R. Chiswick

published in: Aaron Levine (ed.), Judaism and Economics, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 625-645

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4589

Substitution between Managers and Subordinates: Evidence from British Football

Sue Bridgewater, Lawrence M. Kahn, Amanda H. Goodall

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18(3), 275-286

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4588

Tobit or Not Tobit?

Jay Stewart

published in: Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 2013, 38(3), 263-290

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4587

Adverse Workplace Conditions, High-Involvement Work Practices and Labor Turnover: Evidence from Danish Linked Employer-Employee Data

Elena Cottini, Takao Kato, Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (6), 872-880

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4586

Excess Turnover and Employment Growth: Firm and Match Heterogeneity

Mario Centeno, Carla Machado, Alvaro A. Novo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4582

Investment in Human Capital during Incarceration and Employment Prospects of Prisoners

Margaret Giles, Anh T. Le

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4569

New Estimates of Public Employment and Training Program Net Impacts: A Nonexperimental Evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act Program

Carolyn J. Heinrich, Peter R. Mueser, Kenneth Troske, Kyung-Seong Jeon, Daver C. Kahvecioglu

published as "Do Public Employment and Training Programs Work?" in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2013, 2:6

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4564

Life Expectancy and the Environment

Fabio Mariani, Agustín Pérez-Barahona, Natacha Raffin

published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2010, 34 (4), 798-815

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4558

Culture, Policies and Labor Market Outcomes

Francesco Giavazzi, Fabio Schiantarelli, Michel Serafinelli

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (6), 1256-1289

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4550

Dynamic Female Labor Supply

Zvi Eckstein, Osnat Lifshitz

published in: Econometrica, 2011, 79 (6), 1675–1726

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4544

Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly and Imperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Markets under Flexible Outsourcing

Erkki Koskela

published in: Thomas J. Sargent and Jouko Vilmunen (eds.): Macroeconomics at the Service of Public Policy, Oxford University Press, 2012, 186-214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4538

Happiness in Europe: Cross-Country Differences in the Determinants of Subjective Well-Being

Peder J. Pedersen, Torben Dall Schmidt

published as 'Happiness in Europe: Cross-country differences in the determinants of satisfaction with main activity' in: Journal of Socio Economics, 2011, 40 (5), 480 - 489

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4531

Does Formality Improve Micro-Firm Performance? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Brazilian SIMPLES Program

Pablo Fajnzylber, William F. Maloney, Gabriel V. Montes-Rojas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4523

Why Is There a Spike in the Job Finding Rate at Benefit Exhaustion?

Jan Boone, Jan C. van Ours

published in: De Economist, 2012, 160 (4), 413-438

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4515

Effect of Labor Division between Wife and Husband on the Risk of Divorce: Evidence from German Data

Kornelius Kraft, Stefanie Neimann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4513

The Determinants of Education-Job Match among Canadian University Graduates

Brahim Boudarbat, Victor Chernoff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4512

Reversals in the Patterns of Women's Labor Supply in the U.S., 1976-2009

Diane J. Macunovich

published in: Monthly Labor Review, 2010, 133 (11), 16-36

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4508

Policy Relevant Heterogeneity in the Value of Statistical Life: New Evidence from Panel Data Quantile Regressions

Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi, James P. Ziliak

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2010, 40 (1), 15-32

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4505

How Sensitive Are Retirement Decisions to Financial Incentives: A Stated Preference Analysis

Hana Voňková, Arthur van Soest

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4504

Money for Nothing? Universal Child Care and Maternal Employment

Tarjei Havnes, Magne Mogstad

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (11-12), 1455-1465

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4503

Can Child Care Policy Encourage Employment and Fertility? Evidence from a Structural Model

Peter Haan, Katharina Wrohlich

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (4), 498-512

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4490

Can Workers' Expectations Account for the Persistence of Discrimination?

Antonio Filippin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4484

Employment Protection Legislation in Russia: Regional Enforcement and Labour Market Outcomes

Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov, Anna Lukiyanova

published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2010, 52 (4), 611-636

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4480

The Gender Gap in Early Career in Mongolia

Francesco Pastore

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2010, 31 (2), 188-207

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4474

Openness and Technological Innovation in East Asia: Have They Increased the Demand for Skills?

Rita K. Almeida

published in: Asia-Pacific Development Journal, 2010, 17 (1), 63-96

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4472

Estimating the Impact of Immigration on Wages in Ireland

Alan Barrett, Adele Bergin, Elish Kelly

published in: Economic and Social Review, 2011, 42 (1), 1-26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4468

Endogenous Indoctrination: Occupational Choice, the Evolution of Beliefs, and the Political Economy of Reform

Gilles Saint-Paul

published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (544), 325 - 353

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4466

Kindergarten Enrollment and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education

Philipp C. Bauer, Regina T. Riphahn

published as 'Institutional Determinants of Intergenerational Education Transmission - Comparing Alternative Mechanisms for Natives and Immigrants' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 25, 110–122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4462

The Effects of Pension Rights and Retirement Age on Training Participation: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Raymond Montizaan, Frank Cörvers, Andries de Grip

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 240-247

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4452

Looking Inside the Perpetual-Motion Machine: Job and Worker Flows in OECD Countries

Andrea Bassanini, Pascal Marianna

reduced version published as 'Inside the Perpetual-motion Machine: Cross-country Comparable Evidence on Job and Worker Flows at the Industry and Firm Level"' in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2010, 19 (6), 2097-2134

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4448

An Explanation for the Lower Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants in the Canadian Labour Market

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Ted McDonald et al. (eds.): Canadian Immigration - Economic Evidence for a Dynamic Policy Environment, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 2010, 41-75

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4442

Wage Returns to University Disciplines in Greece: Are Greek Higher Education Degrees Trojan Horses?

Ilias Livanos, Konstantinos Pouliakas

published in: Education Economics, 2011, 19 (4), 411 - 445

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4441

The KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel: Design and Research Potential

Helmut Fryges, Sandra Gottschalk, Karsten Kohn

published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2010, 130 (1), 117-131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4440

Does the Welfare State Make Older Workers Unemployable?

Gilles Saint-Paul

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4437

The Inter-Related Dynamics of Dual Job Holding, Human Capital and Occupational Choice

Georgios A. Panos, Konstantinos Pouliakas, Alexandros Zangelidis

published as 'Multiple jobholding, Skill diversification and Mobility' in: Industrial Relations, 2014, 53 (2), 223-272

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4430

Disability and Skill Mismatch

Melanie K. Jones, Peter J. Sloane

published in: Economic Record, 2010, 88 (s1), 101 - 114

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4428

Estimating Employment Dynamics across Occupations and Sectors of Industry

Frank Cörvers, Arnaud Dupuy

published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2010, 32, 17-32

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4425

Immigrants and Employer-Provided Training

Alan Barrett, Seamus McGuinness, Martin O`Brien, Philip J. O'Connell

revised version published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2013, 34 (1), 52-78

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4423

Do as the Neighbors Do: The Impact of Social Networks on Immigrant Employment

Fredrik W. Andersson, Simon Burgess, Julia Lane

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4422

ORU Analyses of Immigrant Earnings in Australia, with International Comparisons

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published as "The Effects of Educational-Occupational Mismatch on Immigrant Earnings in Australia, with International Comparisons" in: International Migration Review, 2010, 44(4), 869-898

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4417

The Effect of the Timing and Spacing of Births on the Level of Labor Market Involvement of Married Women

Kenneth Troske, Alexandru Voicu

revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 45(1), 483-521

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4415

Does Local Business Ownership Insulate Cities from Economic Shocks?

Jed Kolko, David Neumark

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 67(1), 103-15

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4412

Identities, Conflicting Behavioural Norms and the Importance of Job Attributes

Giovanni Russo, Edwin van Hooft

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2011, 32 (1), 103-119

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4409

The Value of a Statistical Injury: New Evidence from the Swiss Labor Market

Andreas Kuhn, Oliver Ruf

revised version published in: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 149 (1), 57-86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4407

Children of War: The Long-Run Effects of Large-Scale Physical Destruction and Warfare on Children

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel

revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (3), 634-662

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4405

Targeting Fertility and Female Participation Through the Income Tax

Ghazala Azmat, Libertad González

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (3), 487-502

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4397

Male and Female Labour Force Participation: The Role of Dynamic Adjustments to Changes in Labour Demand, Government Policies and Autonomous Trends

Maarten C.M. Vendrik, Frank Cörvers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4396

Better Means More: Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship

Saul Estrin, Julia Korosteleva, Tomasz Mickiewicz

substantially revised and rewritten version available as IZA DP No. 5481

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4394

Immigrants' Assimilation Process in a Segmented Labor Market

Miguel Angel Alcobendas, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

substantially revised version published in: A. Artal-Tur, G. Peri, F. Requena-Silvente, The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration Flows: Effects on Trade, Remittances, Output, and the Labour Market (Population Economics Series), Springer, 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4388

Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S.

Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur van Soest

published in: David A. Wise (ed.), Explorations in the Economics of Aging, University of Chicago Press, pp. 269-316, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4386

Improving the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities: The Role of Employment Quota

Nishith Prakash

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 180, 494-509

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4382

Does the Choice of Reference Levels of Education Matter in the ORU Earnings Equation?

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (6), 1076-1085

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4380

Why Do Firms Use Fixed-Term Contracts?

Pedro Portugal, José Varejão

published in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2022, 21, 401 - 421

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4377

Endogeneous Household Interaction

Daniela Del Boca, Christopher Flinn

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2012, 166 (1), 49-65

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4374

How Do Adolescents Spell Time Use?

Charlene M. Kalenkoski, David C. Ribar, Leslie S. Stratton

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2011, 33, 1-44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4371

A Cohort Analysis of Labor Participation in Mexico, 1987-2009

Robert Duval Hernández, Pedro Orraca Romano

published in: El Trimestre Económico, 2011, 78 (2), 343-375

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4368

Health Status and the Allocation of Time

Timothy J. Halliday, Melinda Podor

published in: Health Economics, 2012, 21(5), 514-527

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4367

International Differences in Longevity and Health and Their Economic Consequences

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Dana P. Goldman, Darius N. Lakdawalla, Yuhui Zheng, Adam H. Gailey

published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2011, 73 (2), 254-63

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4366

Understanding the Economic Consequences of Shifting Trends in Population Health

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Dana P. Goldman, Darius N. Lakdawalla, Yuhui Zheng, Adam H. Gailey

published as 'The Fiscal Effects of Trends in Public Health' in: National Tax Journal, 2010, 63 (2), 307-324,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4362

Do No-Loan Policies Change the Matriculation Patterns of Low-Income Students?

Glen R. Waddell, Larry D. Singell

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (2), 203-214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4359

Who Is Hit Hardest during a Financial Crisis? The Vulnerability of Young Men and Women to Unemployment in an Economic Downturn

Sher Verick

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. 4358

Time Use and Time Budgets: Improvements, Future Challenges and Recommendations

Joachim Merz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4355

The Public Health Costs of Job Loss

Andreas Kuhn, Rafael Lalive, Josef Zweimüller

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2009, 28(6), 1099-1115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4342

The Part-Time Pay Penalty in a Segmented Labor Market

Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (5), 591-606

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4337

Time and Income Poverty: An Interdependent Multidimensional Poverty Approach with German Time Use Diary Data

Joachim Merz, Tim Rathjen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4332

Count Your Hours: Returns to Education in Poland

Michal Myck, Anna Nicinska, Leszek Morawski

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4328

Severity of Work Disability and Work

Umut Oguzoglu

published in: Economic Record, 2011, 87 (278), 370 - 383

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4326

The Effect of Economic Downturns on Apprenticeships and Initial Workplace Training: A Review of the Evidence

Giorgio Brunello

published in: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2009, 1(2), 145-171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4321

Overskilling Dynamics and Education Pathways

Kostas Mavromaras, Seamus McGuinness, Yin King Fok

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (5), 619-628

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4319

Job Search with Bidder Memories

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Guido Menzio, Eric Smith

published in: International Economic Review, 2011, 52 (3), 639 - 655

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4317

Understanding the Workweek of Foreign Born Workers in the United States

Fernando A. Lozano

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (1), 83-104

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4291

Caught in the Trap? The Disincentive Effect of Social Assistance

Olivier B. Bargain, Karina Doorley

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (9-10), 1096-1110

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4290

Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States

David Autor, David Dorn

see IZA DP No. 7068 for a substantially updated version

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4289

Noncognitive Skills, Occupational Attainment, and Relative Wages

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Michelle Tan

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (1), 1-13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4286

The Informal Sector Wage Gap: New Evidence Using Quantile Estimations on Panel Data

Olivier B. Bargain, Prudence Magejo

revised version published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2015, 63 (1), 117-153

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4284

The Impact of a Phased Retirement Program: A Case Study

Marta Lachowska, Annika Sundén, Eskil Wadensjö

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4283

Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben

Beatrix Brügger, Rafael Lalive, Josef Zweimüller

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4281

Flexible Labor Supply Models

Olivier B. Bargain

published in: Economics Letters, 2009, 105 (1), 103-105

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4280

Educational Mismatch: Are High-Skilled Immigrants Really Working at High-Skilled Jobs and the Price They Pay If They Aren't?

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Barry R. Chiswick (ed.), High Skilled Immigration in a Global Labor Market, Washington D.C.: American Enterprise Institute Press, 2010, 111-154

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4279

Religion, Human Capital Investments and the Family in the United States

Evelyn L. Lehrer

published in: Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Religion, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4270

Birth Weight and the Dynamics of Early Cognitive and Behavioural Development

Emilia Del Bono, John Ermisch