Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4267

Causes and Consequences of a Father's Child Leave: Evidence from a Reform of Leave Schemes

Helena Skyt Nielsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4265

Immigration, Family Responsibilities and the Labor Supply of Skilled Native Women

Lídia Farré, Libertad González, Francesc Ortega

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions, 2011, 11 (1), Article 34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4264

Will You Still Need Me – When I'm 64?

Jan C. van Ours

published in: De Economist, 2009, 157(4), 441-460

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4258

Cyclical Skill-Biased Technological Change

Almut Balleer, Thijs van Rens

published as 'Skill-Biased Technological Change and the Business Cycle' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95(4), 1222-1237

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4257

Does Labor Supply Respond to a Flat Tax? Evidence from the Russian Tax Reform

Denvil Duncan, Klara Sabirianova Peter

revised version published as 'Does Labour Supply Respond to a Flat Tax?" in: Economics of Transition, 2010, 18 (2), 365 - 404

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4254

Job Satisfaction and the Labor Market Institutions in Urban China

John S. Heywood, W. Stanley Siebert, Xiangdong Wei

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4253

How Does Retirement Affect Health?

Stefanie Behncke

published as 'Does retirement trigger ill health?' in: Health Economics, 2012, 21 (3), 282 - 300

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4251

Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Orazio Attanasio, Adriana Kugler, Costas Meghir

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011, 3 (3), 188-220

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4245

Who Values the Status of the Entrepreneur?

Mirjam C. van Praag

published in: Handbook of Research on Innovation And Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar Publishers, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4244

The Duration of Paid Parental Leave and Children's Scholastic Performance

Qian Liu, Oskar Nordström Skans

Published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 3

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4240

The Anatomy of Absenteeism

Simen Markussen, Knut Røed, Ole J. Røgeberg, Simen Gaure

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (2), 277-292

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4239

Labour Supply Effects of a Subsidised Old-Age Part-Time Scheme in Austria

Nikolaus Graf, Helmut Hofer, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung/Journal for Labour Market Research, 2011, 44 (3), 217-229

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4238

Analyzing Female Labor Supply: Evidence from a Dutch Tax Reform

Nicole Bosch, Bas van der Klaauw

published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (3), 271-280

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. 4227

Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program on the Re-Employment Rate of Displaced Workers

Sandra Cavaco, Denis Fougère, Julien Pouget

published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44 (1), 261-287.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4221

How Does Entry Regulation Influence Entry into Self-Employment and Occupational Mobility?

Susanne Prantl, Alexandra Spitz-Oener

published in: Economics of Transition, 2009, 17 (4), 769-802

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4220

From the Dual Apprenticeship System to a Dual Labor Market? The German High-Skill Equilibrium and the Service Economy

Werner Eichhorst, Paul Marx

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4219

The Timing of Maternal Work and Time with Children

Jay Stewart

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 64(1), 181-200

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4217

The Flexibility of the Workweek in the United States: Evidence from the FIFA World Cup

Fernando A. Lozano

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 49(2), 512-529

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4215

Human Capital Accumulation and Labour Market Equilibrium

Ken Burdett, Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Melvyn Coles

published in: International Economic Review, 2011, 52 (3), 657 - 677

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4214

Do International Labor Standards Contribute to the Persistence of the Child Labor Problem?

Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti

published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2010, 15(1), 1-31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4212

Military Conscription and University Enrolment: Evidence from Italy

Giorgio Di Pietro

revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 619-644

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4211

Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework

Robin Douhan, Mirjam C. van Praag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4208

"It's not that I'm a racist, it's that they are Roma": Roma Discrimination and Returns to Education in South Eastern Europe

Niall O'Higgins

revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2010, 31(2) 163-187

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4207

Brain Drain in Globalization: A General Equilibrium Analysis from the Sending Countries' Perspective

Luca Marchiori, I-Ling Shen, Frédéric Docquier

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51 (2), 1582–1602

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4206

Are Returns to Education on the Decline in Venezuela and Does Mission Sucre Have a Role to Play?

Naihobe Gonzales, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1348-1369

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4204

Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China: 1982 - 2000

Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Rachel Connelly, Chen Lan, Lixin Tang

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2011, 46 (2), 261 - 294

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4203

Estimating the Veteran Effect with Endogenous Schooling When Instruments Are Potentially Weak

Saraswata Chaudhuri, Elaina Rose

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4193

Antagonistic Managers, Careless Workers and Extraverted Salespeople: An Examination of Personality in Occupational Choice

Roger Ham, Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar, Robert Wells

published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 48 (7), 636-651

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4191

Employment and Exchange Rates: The Role of Openness and Technology

Fernando Alexandre, Pedro Bação, João Cerejeira, Miguel Portela

published in: Open Economies Review 2011, ,22 (5), 969 - 984

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4188

Intra-Household Time Allocation: Gender Differences in Caring for Children

Inmaculada García-Mainar, José Alberto Molina, Víctor M. Montuenga

published as 'Gender Differences in Childcare: Time Allocation in Five European Countries' in: Feminist Economics, 2011, 17 (1), 119-150

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4187

Increasing the Legal Retirement Age: The Impact on Wages, Worker Flows and Firm Performance

Pedro S. Martins, Alvaro A. Novo, Pedro Portugal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4185

A Reevaluation of the Role of Family in Immigrants' Labor Market Activity: Evidence from a Comparison of Single and Married Immigrants

Sarit Cohen Goldner, Chemi Gotlibovski, Nava Kahana

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4180

The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation

Michael Fertig, Christoph M. Schmidt, Mathias Sinning

published in: Labour Economics, 2009 (6), 16, 659-668

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4178

Coming to America: Does Immigrant's Home Country Economic Status Impact the Probability of Self-Employment in the U.S.?

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Willie Belton

revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102(3), 538-542

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4169

Interpreting Degree Effects in the Returns to Education

Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Audrey Light

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45 (2), 439-467

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4168

Labour Market Mismatch Among UK Graduates: An Analysis Using REFLEX Data

Seamus McGuinness, Peter J. Sloane

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (1), 130-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4164

Does Offshoring of Materials and Business Services Affect Employment? Evidence from a Small Open Economy

Bernhard Michel, François Rycx

published in: Applied Economics, 2012, 44 (2), 229 - 251

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4159

Unexplained Gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder Decompositions

Todd E. Elder, John H. Goddeeris, Steven J. Haider

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 284-290

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4158

The Effect of Employment Protection Legislation and Financial Market Imperfections on Investment: Evidence from a Firm-Level Panel of EU Countries

Federico Cingano, Marco Leonardi, Julián Messina, Giovanni Pica

substantially revised version published in: Economic Policy, 2010, 25 (61). 117 - 163

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4157

Immigrant Wages in the Spanish Labour Market: Does the Origin of Human Capital Matter?

Esteban Sanromá, Raul Ramos, Hipólito Simón

published in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2015, 18 (1), 149-172

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4154

Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-Employment

Peter Haan, Michal Myck

revised version published as 'Dynamics of Health and Labour Market Risks' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2009, 28 (6), 1116-1125

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4152

The Effect of an Employer Health Insurance Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage and the Demand for Labor: Evidence from Hawaii

Thomas C. Buchmueller, John DiNardo, Robert G. Valletta

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011, 3 (4), 25-51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4148

A Comparison and Decomposition of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China's Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority

Margaret Maurer-Fazio, James W. Hughes, Dandan Zhang

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2010, 31 (2), 138-162

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4143

Return to Training and Establishment Size: A Reexamination of the Size-Wage Puzzle

Shuaizhang Feng

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4130

Wages and Seniority When Coworkers Matter: Estimating a Joint Production Economy Using Norwegian Administrative Data

Christopher Ferrall, Kjell G. Salvanes, Erik Ø. Sørensen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4127

Choosing the Field of Study in Post-Secondary Education: Do Expected Earnings Matter?

Magali Beffy, Denis Fougère, Arnaud Maurel

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (1), 334–347

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4124

Risk Attitude and Wage Growth: Replication and Reconstruction

Santiago Budría, Luis Diaz-Serrano, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Joop Hartog

published as "Risk-Aversion and Income Growth: Replicating Shaw (1996)" in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44 (2), 981-1004

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4119

Evaluating the Impact of Community-Based Health Interventions: Evidence from Brazil's Family Health Program

Romero Rocha, Rodrigo R. Soares

published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (S1), 126-158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4118

Above and Beyond the Call: Long-Term Real Earnings Effects of British Male Military Conscription during WWII and the Post-War Years

Robert A. Hart

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4114

Understanding Inter-Industry Wage Structures in the Euro Area

Véronique Genre, Karsten Kohn, Daphne Momferatou

published in: Applied Economics, 2011, 43 (11), 1299 - 1313

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4105

Occupational Choice: Personality Matters

Roger Ham, Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar, Robert Wells

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4103

Imposing Economic Constraints in Nonparametric Regression: Survey, Implementation and Extension

Daniel J. Henderson, Christopher F. Parmeter

published in: Advances in Econometrics, 2009, 25, 433-469

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4102

A Structural Approach to Estimating the Effect of Taxation on the Labor Market Dynamics of Older Workers

Peter Haan, Victoria L. Prowse

published in: Econometrics Journal, 2010, 13 (3), S99 - S125

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4101

Workplace Job Satisfaction in Britain: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Getinet Astatike Haile

Published in: Labour, 2015, 29 (3), 225–242

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4093

The Dynamics of Entrepreneurship: Hysteresis, Business Cycles and Government Policy

Emilio Congregado, Antonio A. Golpe, Simon C. Parker

published in: Empirical Economics, 2012, 43, 1239 - 1261

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4089

Faith Primary Schools: Better Schools or Better Pupils?

Stephen Gibbons, Olmo Silva

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (3) , 589-635

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4085

Whatever Happened to the Bismarckian Welfare State? From Labor Shedding to Employment-Friendly Reforms

Anton Hemerijck, Werner Eichhorst

published in: Bruno Palier (ed.), A long good-bye to Bismarck, Amsterdam: AUP, 2010, 301-332

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4075

Unemployment and Finance: How Do Financial and Labour Market Factors Interact?

Donatella Gatti, Anne-Gaël Vaubourg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4074

The Effect of Children on the Level of Labor Market Involvement of Married Women: What is the Role of Education?

Kenneth Troske, Alexandru Voicu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4069

Do Students Expect Compensation for Wage Risk?

Jürg Schweri, Joop Hartog, Stefan C. Wolter

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (2), 215-227

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4063

Can Profit Sharing Lower Flexible Outsourcing? A Note

Erkki Koskela, Jan König

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4062

The Impact of Child Labor and School Quality on Academic Achievement in Brazil

Márcio Eduardo G. Bezerra, Ana Lucia Kassouf, Mary P. Arends-Kuenning

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4054

A Computationally Practical Simulation Estimation Algorithm for Dynamic Panel Data Models with Unobserved Endogenous State Variables

Michael P. Keane, Robert M. Sauer

published in: International Economic Review, 2010, 51(4), 925-958

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4053

Ageing, Health and Life Satisfaction of the Oldest Old: An Analysis for Germany

Wencke Gwozdz, Alfonso Sousa-Poza

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2010, 97(3), 325-339

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4050

Can a Task-Based Approach Explain the Recent Changes in the German Wage Structure?

Dirk Antonczyk, Bernd Fitzenberger, Ute Leuschner

published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2009, 229 (2-3), 214-238

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4048

How Does Household Production Affect Measured Income Inequality?

Harley Frazis, Jay Stewart

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (1), 3-22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4044

Wage Dispersion and Firm Productivity in Different Working Environments

Benoît Mahy, François Rycx, Mélanie Volral

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2011, 49 (3), 460 - 485

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4043

University Quality and Graduate Wages in the UK

Iftikhar Hussain, Sandra McNally, Shqiponja Telhaj

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4042

The Impact of Aggregate and Sectoral Fluctuations on Training Decisions

Vincenzo Caponi, Cevat Burc Kayahan, Miana Plesca

revised version published in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Advances in Macroeconomics, , 2010, 10 (1), Article 28

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4040

What Should Be Done about Rising Unemployment in the UK?

David N.F. Bell, David G. Blanchflower

published in two parts: 1) published as 'UK unemployment in the Great recessions' in: National Institute Economic Review, 2010, 214, R3-R25; 2) published as 'Underemployment in the UK in the Great Recession' in: National Institute Economic Review, 2011, 215, R1-R11

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. 4029

Female Labor Supply Differences by Sexual Orientation: A Semi-Parametric Decomposition Approach

Heather Antecol, Michael D. Steinberger

published as 'Labor Supply Differences between Married Heterosexual Women and Partnered Lesbians: A Semi-Parametric Decomposition Approach' in: Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51 (1), 783-805

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4025

Persistencies in the Labour Market

Paul Frijters, Maarten Lindeboom, Gerard J. van den Berg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4024

How Do Training Programs Assign Participants to Training? Characterizing the Assignment Rules of Government Agencies for Welfare-to-Work Programs in California

Oscar A. Mitnik

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4020

Temporary Jobs and Job Search Effort in Europe

Lawrence M. Kahn

published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (1), 113-128

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4017

Money Matters: Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment with Vouchers for Adult Training

Dolores Messer, Stefan C. Wolter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4016

Volunteering and the State

Franz Hackl, Martin Halla, Gerald J. Pruckner

revised version published in: Public Choice,2012, 151 (3-4), 465 - 495

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4015

Life Satisfaction

Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur van Soest

published in: E. Diener, J.E. Helliwell and D. Kahneman (eds.), International Differences in Well-Being, Oxford University Press, 2010, 70-104

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4014

Large Employers Are More Cyclically Sensitive

Giuseppe Moscarini, Fabien Postel-Vinay

published as 'The Contribution of Large and Small Employers to Job Creation in Times of High and Low Unemployment' in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (6), 2509-39

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4006

Did British Women Achieve Long-Term Economic Benefits from Working in Essential WWII Industries?

Robert A. Hart

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3996

Does Teaching Load Affect Faculty Size?

William E. Becker, William H. Greene, John J. Siegfried

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3994

Part-Time Work, Gender and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from a Developing Country

Florencia López Bóo, Lucia Madrigal, Carmen Pagés

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2010, 46 (9), 1543-1571

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3992

Job Durations with Worker and Firm Specific Effects: MCMC Estimation with Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data

Guillaume Horny, Rute Mendes, Gerard J. van den Berg

published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statisticsc, 30(3) 2012, 468-480

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3986

Following in Your Parents' Footsteps? Empirical Analysis of Matched Parent-Offspring Test Scores

Sarah Brown, Steven McIntosh, Karl Taylor

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 73 (1), 40-58

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3985

Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion

Lex Borghans, Bart H.H. Golsteyn, James J. Heckman, Huub Meijers

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 649-658

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3983

Child-Care and Participation in the Labor Market for Married Women in Mediterranean Countries

Catia Nicodemo, Robert Waldmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3982

Female Labor Supply and Parental Leave Benefits: The Causal Effect of Paying Higher Transfers for a Shorter Period of Time

Annette Bergemann, Regina T. Riphahn

published in: Applied Economic Letters, 2011, 18 (1), 17 - 20

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3981

Reservation Wages, Expected Wages and the Duration of Unemployment: Evidence from British Panel Data

Sarah Brown, Karl Taylor

published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 119 (3), 276-279

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3977

Age at School Entry and Intergenerational Educational Mobility

Philipp C. Bauer, Regina T. Riphahn

published in: Economics Letters, 2009, 103 (2), 87-90

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3975

Marriage and Other Risky Assets: A Portfolio Approach

Graziella Bertocchi, Marianna Brunetti, Costanza Torricelli

revised version published in: Journal of Banking and Finance, 2011, 24 (11), 2902 - 2915

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3974

Why Do Individuals Choose Self-Employment?

Christopher Dawson, Andrew Henley, Paul L. Latreille

published as 'Individual Motives for Choosing Self-employment in the UK: Does Region Matter?' in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48(5), 804-822

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3970

This Job Is 'Getting Old:' Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure

David Autor, David Dorn

published in: American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 2009, 99 (2), 45-51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3969

Switching Costs and Occupational Transition into Self-Employment

Andrew Henley

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3968

India's Increasing Skill Premium: Role of Demand and Supply

Mehtabul Azam

revised version published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. Volume 10, Issue 1, ISSN (Online) 1935-1682, October 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3964

American Education in the Age of Mass Migrations 1870-1930

Fabrice Murtin, Martina Viarengo

published in: Cliometrica, 2010, 4(2), 113-139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3960

Sick of Your Colleagues' Absence?

Patrik Hesselius, Per Johansson, Peter Nilsson

published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2009, 7 (2–3), 1–12

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3955

Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production

Michael C. Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh

published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 107 (2), 131-133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3950

Ethnicity and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to the United States

Guillermina Jasso

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1+2), 26-42

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3949

Testing the Inverseness of Fertility and Labor Supply: The Case of Ethiopia

Blen Solomon, Jean Kimmel