IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2282

The Labor Market Costs of Conflict: Closures, Foreign Workers, and Palestinian Employment and Earnings

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (1), 129-148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2276

Employee Training, Wage Dispersion and Equality in Britain

substantially rewritten - see 'Employee Training and Wage Dispersion: White and Blue Collar Workers in Britain', IZA DP No. 4821

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2273

Part-Time Pensions and Part-Time Work in Sweden

Eskil Wadensjö

published in: European Papers on the New Welfare, 2006, 6, 29-45

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2271

Educational Homogamy: Preferences or Opportunities?

Helena Skyt Nielsen, Michael Svarer

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(4), 1066-86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2270

The Distribution of Total Work in the EU and US

Michael C. Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Philippe Weil

published in: Tito Boeri, Michael Burda, Francis Kramarz (eds.), Working Hours and Job Sharing in the EU and USA: Are Americans Crazy? Are Europeans Lazy? Oxford Univ. Press, 2008

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2268

Back-to-front Down-under? Part-time/Full-time Wage Differentials in Australia

Alison L. Booth, Margi Wood

published in: Industrial Relations, 2008, 47 (1), 114-135

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2264

The Jack-of-All-Trades Entrepreneur: Innate Talent or Acquired Skill?

Olmo Silva

published in: Economics Letters, 2007, 97 (2), 118-123

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2258

Pulls, Pushes and Entitlement Failures in Labor Markets: Does the State of Development Matter?

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ralitza Dimova, Jeffrey B. Nugent

published as 'Off-farm Labour Supply and Labour Markets in Rapidly Changing Circumstances: Bulgaria during Transition' in: Economic Systems, 2011, 35 (3), 378 - 389

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2257

Sectoral Explanations of Employment in Europe: The Role of Services

Antonello D'Agostino, Roberta Serafini, Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2247

The Impact of Wealth on Job Exit Rates of Elderly Workers

Hans Bloemen

published as 'The effect of private wealth on the retirement rate: an empirical analysis' in: Economica, 2011, 78 (312), 637 - 655

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2246

Effects of Attrition and Non-Response in the Health and Retirement Study

Arie Kapteyn, Pierre-Carl Michaud, James P. Smith, Arthur van Soest

published as 'Temporary and permanent unit non-response in follow-up interviews of the Health and Retirement Study' in: Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 2011, 2 (2), 145 - 169

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2245

Introducing Family Tax Splitting in Germany: How Would It Affect the Income Distribution and Work Incentives?

Viktor Steiner, Katharina Wrohlich

revised version published as 'Introducing Family Tax Splitting in Germany: How Would It Affect the Income Distribution, Work Incentives, and Household Welfare? ' in: FinanzArchiv, 2008, 64 (1), 115-142

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2242

Do Wages Compensate for Anticipated Working Time Restrictions? Evidence from Seasonal Employment in Austria

Emilia Del Bono, Andrea Weber

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26(1), 181-221

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2241

Is There a Trade-off Between Job Security and Wages in Germany and the UK?

Dominik Hübler, Olaf Hübler

published in: Schmalenbach Business Review, 2010, 62(1), 45-67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2240

The Effect of Filipino Overseas Migration on the Non-Migrant Spouse’s Market Participation and Labor Supply Behavior

Emily Cabegin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2235

Earnings Inequality and Market Work in Husband-Wife Families

John H. Pencavel

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 1-37

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2234

New Technology in Schools: Is There a Payoff?

Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally, Olmo Silva

published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (522), 1145-1167

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2228

Immigrant Labour Market Assimilation and Arrival Effects: Evidence from the UK Labour Force Survey

Ken Clark, Joanne Lindley

revised version published as 'Immigrant assimilation pre and post labour market entry: evidence from the UK Labour Force Survey' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (1), 175-198

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2224

The Location of Immigrants at Retirement: Stay/Return or ‘Va-et-Vient’?

Augustin de Coulon, François-Charles Wolff

published as: "Location intentions of immigrants at retirement: stay/return or go "back and forth?", in: Applied Economics, 2010, 42 (26), 3319-33

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2221

The Effects of Marginal Employment on Subsequent Labour Market Outcomes

René Böheim, Andrea Weber

published in: German Economic Review, 2011, 12 (2), 165 - 181

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2213

Is Crime Contagious?

Jens Ludwig, Jeffrey R. Kling

published in: Journal of Law & Economics, 2007, 50 (3), 491-518

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2212

The Economic Determinants of Ethnic Assimilation

Carmel U. Chiswick

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (4), 859 - 880

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2195

Working Hours in Japan: Who Is Time-Privileged?

Scott M. Fuess Jr.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2185

Skill Wage Premia, Employment, and Cohort Effects: Are Workers in Germany All of the Same Type?

Bernd Fitzenberger, Karsten Kohn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2180

Changes in the Labor Supply Behavior of Married Women: 1980-2000

Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25(3), 393-438

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2177

The Role of Temporary Help Agencies in Facilitating Temp-to-Perm Transitions

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Miguel Malo, Fernando Muñoz-Bullón

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2008, 29 (2), 138-161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2172

A Collective Household Model of Time Allocation: A Comparison of Native Dutch and Immigrant Households in the Netherlands

Chris van Klaveren, Bernard M. S. van Praag, Henriette Maassen van den Brink

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2168

Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from an Experimentally-Validated Survey

Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos

revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2009, 32 (2), 153-167

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2167

Re-Employment Probabilities over the Business Cycle

Guido W. Imbens, Lisa M. Lynch

published in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2006, 5 (2), 111-134

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2164

Income Taxes and Entrepreneurial Choice: Empirical Evidence from Germany

Frank M. Fossen, Viktor Steiner

revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2009, 36 (3), 487-513

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2162

Fertility and its Consequence on Family Labour Supply

Jungho Kim, Arnstein Aassve

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2161

Institutions, Networks and Entrepreneurship Development in Russia: An Exploration

Ruta Aidis, Saul Estrin

published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2008, 23 (6), 656-672

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2136

Child Work and Schooling Costs in Rural Northern India

Gautam Hazarika, Arjun S. Bedi

published in: Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar (eds.), Labor Markets and Economic Development, Routledge, 2009

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2131

Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution

Marc-Andreas Muendler, Sascha O. Becker

published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (5), 1999-2030

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2130

On the Identification of Frisch Labor Supplies

Olivier Donni

published in: Economics Letters, 2007, 95 (1), 1-6

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2123

Can Risk Aversion Explain Schooling Attainments? Evidence from Italy

Christian Belzil, Marco Leonardi

published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (6), 657-970

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2115

Female Labor Market Transitions in Europe

Lutz C. Kaiser

published German version: Arbeitsmarktflexibilität, Arbeitsmarktübergänge und Familie: Die Europäische Perspektive, in: Szydlik, Marc (Ed.) (2008), Flexibilisierung – Folgen für Arbeit und Familie. Springer VS, pp. 295-313

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2107

Empirical Estimation Results of a Collective Household Time Allocation Model

Chris van Klaveren, Bernard M. S. van Praag, Henriette Maassen van den Brink

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2105

Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives

Alessio J. G. Brown, Mike Orszag, Dennis J. Snower

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 24 (3), 587-604

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2101

Hispanic Self-Employment: A Dynamic Analysis of Business Ownership

Magnus Lofstrom, Chunbei Wang

substantially revised version published as 'Mexican- American Self-Employment : A Dynamic Analysis of Business Ownership' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 197 - 227

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2096

Disability and Work: The Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances

Maarten Lindeboom, Ana Llena-Nozal, Bas van der Klaauw

revised version published as 'Health Shocks, Disability and Work' in: Labour Economics, 2016, 43, 186-200

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2095

Close Neighbours Matter: Neighbourhood Effects on Early Performance at School

Dominique Goux, Eric Maurin

published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (523), 1193-1215

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2089

Keeping in Touch: A Benefit of Public Holidays

Joachim Merz, Lars Osberg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2077

Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from PIRLS

Andreas Ammermüller, Jörn-Steffen Pischke

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2009, 27 (3), 315-348

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2075

New Evidence on the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children

Joshua Angrist, Victor Lavy, Analia Schlosser

revised version published as 'Multiple Experiments for the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (4), 773 - 824

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2071

A Selection-Based Theory of the Transition from Employment to Entrepreneurship: The Role of Employer Size

Simon C. Parker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2067

The Targeted Negative Income Tax (TNIT) in Germany: Evidence from a Quasi Experiment

Alexander Spermann, Harald Strotmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2060

Cues for Coordination: Light, Longitude and Letterman

Daniel S. Hamermesh, Caitlin Knowles Myers, Mark L. Pocock

published as 'Cues for Timing and Coordination: Latitude, Letterman and Longitude' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (2), 223-246

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2058

Is Mothers' Time With Their Children Home Production or Leisure?

Jean Kimmel, Rachel Connelly

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2007, 42(3), 643-81

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2057

Dynamics of Work Disability and Pain

Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur van Soest

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27(2), 496-509

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2056

Simultaneous Search with Heterogeneous Firms and Ex Post Competition

Pieter A. Gautier, Ronald P. Wolthoff

published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (3), 311-319

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2053

Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market

Katharina Wrohlich

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2050

Ethnic Specialization and Earnings Inequality: Why Being a Minority Hurts but Being a Big Minority Hurts More

Martin Kahanec

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2048

Ugly Criminals

Naci Mocan, Erdal Tekin

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92 (1), 15 - 30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2046

Racial Identity and Education

Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou

published in: Social Networks, 2016, 44, 85-94.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2045

Job Flow Dynamics and Firing Restrictions: Evidence from Europe

Julián Messina, Giovanna Vallanti

revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F279 - F301

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2039

Mexican Entrepreneurship: A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States

Robert W. Fairlie, Christopher Woodruff

published in: G. Borjas (ed.), Mexican Immigration in the United States, NBER-C, 2007, 123-158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2037

Reconstructing School Segregation: On the Efficacy and Equity of Single-Sex Schooling

Sherrilyn M. Billger

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2009, 28 (3), 393-402

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2036

Start-up Success of Freelancers: New Microeconometric Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Joachim Merz, Peter Paic

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2034

Does More Generous Student Aid Increase Enrolment Rates into Higher Education? Evaluating the German Student Aid Reform of 2001

Hans J. Baumgartner, Viktor Steiner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2033

'Making Work Pay' in a Rationed Labour Market

Olivier B. Bargain, Marco Caliendo, Peter Haan, Kristian Orsini

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 21 (1), 323-351

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2030

The Time and Timing Costs of Market Work, and their Implications for Retirement

Daniel S. Hamermesh

published as 'A Structural Model of the Fixed Time Costs of Market Work' (with Stephen G. Donald) in: Economics Letters, 2009, 104 (3), 125-128

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2029

Endogenous Labor Market Participation and the Business Cycle

Christian Haefke, Michael Reiter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2027

Equilibrium Allele Distribution in Trading Populations

Gilles Saint-Paul

published in: Natural Science, 2015, 7, 103-116.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2025

Beans for Breakfast? How Exportable Is the British Workfare Model?

Olivier B. Bargain, Kristian Orsini

revised version published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 25, 165-198

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2024

Testing Theories of Job Creation: Does Supply Create Its Own Demand?

Mikael Carlsson, Stefan Eriksson, Nils Gottfries

revised version published as 'Product market imperfections and employment dynamics' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2013, 65 (2), 447-470

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2022

Military Draft and Economic Growth in OECD Countries

Katarina Keller, Panu Poutvaara, Andreas Wagener

published in: Defense and Peace Economics, 2009, 20 (5), 373-393

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2021

Skill Transferability, Regret and Mobility

Lex Borghans, Bart H.H. Golsteyn

published in: Applied Economics, 2007, 39 (13), 1663-1678

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2019

The Happiness Gains from Sorting and Matching in the Labor Market

Simon Luechinger, Alois Stutzer, Rainer Winkelmann

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2010, 30, 233–251

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2014

Child Care and Parental Leave in the Nordic Countries: A Model to Aspire to?

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Nina Smith, Mette Verner

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2008, 6 (1), 65-89

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2010

Informal Care and Employment in England: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey

Axel Heitmueller, Pierre-Carl Michaud

published as "A dynamic analysis of informal care and employment in England" (with Zafar Nazarov) in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (3), 455-465

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2005

Modes of Spousal Interaction and the Labor Market Environment

Daniela Del Boca, Christopher Flinn

published as "Household Behavior and the Marriage Market" in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2014, 150, 137-155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2004

Nonparametric Analysis of Household Labor Supply: Goodness-of-Fit and Power of the Unitary and the Collective Model

Laurens Cherchye, Frederic Vermeulen

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (2), 267-274

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2002

Leisure Time in Japan: How Much and for Whom?

Scott M. Fuess Jr.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2001

Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting: Productivity, Preferences and Gender

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk

published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 556-590

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1994

Should Employment Authorities Worry About Mergers and Acquisitions?

David N. Margolis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1992

Early Retirement Behaviour in the Netherlands: Evidence from a Policy Reform

Rob Euwals, Daniel van Vuuren, Ronald P. Wolthoff

published in: De Economist, 2010, 158(3), 209-236

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1986

Evaluating Alternative Representations of the Choice Sets in Models of Labour Supply

Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino, Tom Wennemo

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2009, 23 (3), 586-612

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1985

Beschäftigung Älterer in Deutschland: Der unvollständige Paradigmenwechsel

Werner Eichhorst

published in: Zeitschrift für Sozialreform/Journal of Social Policy Research, 2006, 52 (1), 101-123

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1984

The Interaction between Retirement and Job Search: A Global Approach to Older Workers Employment

Jean-Olivier Hairault, François Langot, Thepthida Sopraseuth

published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2010, 8(5), 1034-1076

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1981

Screening Disability Insurance Applications

Philip de Jong, Maarten Lindeboom, Bas van der Klaauw

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9(1), 106-129

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1980

An Analysis of Reservation Wages for the Economically Inactive

David H. Blackaby, Paul L. Latreille, Philip D. Murphy, Nigel C. O'Leary, Peter J. Sloane

published in: Economics Letters, 2007, 97 (1), 1-5

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1976

How Far and For How Much? Evidence on Wages and Potential Travel-to-Work Distances from a Survey of the Economically Inactive

Paul L. Latreille, David H. Blackaby, Philip D. Murphy, Nigel C. O'Leary, Peter J. Sloane

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1971

Employees Who Become Self-Employed: Do Labour Income and Wages Have an Impact?

Pernilla Andersson Joona, Eskil Wadensjö

revised version published as 'The Best and the Brightest or the Least Successful? Self-Employment Entry among Male Wage-Earners in Sweden' in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 40(1), 155-172

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1970

Legal Default Rules: The Case of Wrongful Discharge Laws

W. Bentley MacLeod, Voraprapa Nakavachara

published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F218-F278

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1966

Child Labor, Urban Proximity and Household Composition

Marcel Fafchamps, Jackline Wahba

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2006, 79 (2), 374-397

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1965

Time to Eat: Household Production under Increasing Income Inequality

Daniel S. Hamermesh

published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 89 (4), 852-863; excerpts also publishd in Economics Letters, 2008, 98 (1), 31-34