IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1357

Intermittent Employment: Work Histories of Israeli Men and Women, 1983-1995

Shoshana Neuman, Adrian Ziderman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1353

Do Pensions Impede Phased Retirement?

William E. Even, David A. Macpherson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1342

Perspectives on the Early Retirement Decisions of Farming Couples

Minna Väre, Almas Heshmati

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1341

Comparing Students to Workers: The Effects of Social Framing on Behavior in Distribution Games

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Stephen V. Burks, Eric Verhoogen

published in: J. Carpenter, G. Harrison, and J. List (eds.), Field Experiments in Economics (Research in Experimental Economics, 10), 2005, 261 - 289

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1322

Do Earnings Subsidies Affect Job Choice?

Helen Connolly, Peter T. Gottschalk

published as 'Do earnings subsidies affect job choice? The impact of SSP subsidies on job turnover and wage growth' in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2009, 42 (4), 1276 - 1304

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1319

Mass Migration to Israel and Natives' Transitions from Employment

Sarit Cohen Goldner, M. Daniele Paserman

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 59 (4), 630-652

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1317

Gender Equality in Educational Achievement: An East-West Comparison

Sylke V. Schnepf

revised version published in : Schnepf (ed.): Women in Central and Eastern Europe: Measuring Gender Inequality Differently. Saarbruecken, Germany: Verlag Mueller, 2007

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1315

The Dynamic Impact of Immigration on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Israel

Sarit Cohen Goldner, M. Daniele Paserman

published in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (8), 1027-1045

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1311

Jobs for Young University Graduates: Is It Worth Having a Degree?

Ana Rute Cardoso

published in: Economics Letters, 2007, 94 (2), 271-277

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1309

Timing Constraints and the Allocation of Time: The Effects of Changing Shopping Hours Regulations in the Netherlands

Joyce P. Jacobsen, Peter Kooreman

published in: European Economic Review, 2005, 49 (1), 9-27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1296

Families, Human Capital, and Small Business: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey

Robert W. Fairlie, Alicia Robb

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (2), 225-245

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1294

A Collective Retirement Model: Identification and Estimation in the Presence of Externalities

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Frederic Vermeulen

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 159-167

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1293

Nascent Entrepreneurs

Joachim Wagner

published in: Simon C. Parker (ed.), The Life Cycle of Entrepreneurial Ventures (International Handbook Series on Entrepreneurship, Vol. 3), New York: Springer 2006, 15-37

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1292

Why Are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than White-Owned Businesses? The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital

Robert W. Fairlie, Alicia Robb

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25 (2), 289-323

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1290

Does Employment Protection Reduce the Demand for Unskilled Labor?

Kirsten Daniel, W. Stanley Siebert

published in: International Economic Journal, 2005, 19 (2), 197-222

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1288

Women's Hours of Market Work in Germany: The Role of Parental Leave

Monika Merz

published in: R. Goméz-Salvador et al. (eds.), Labour Supply and Incentive to Work in Europe, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1287

What Accounts for International Differences in Student Performance? A Re-Examination Using PISA Data

Thomas Fuchs, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Empirical Economics, 2007, 32 (2-3), 433-464

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1281

The Effect of Health Changes and Long-Term Health on the Work Activity of Older Canadians

Doreen Au, Thomas F. Crossley, Martin Schellhorn

revised version published in: Health Economics, 2005, 14 (10), 999-1018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1280

Why Do Self-Employed Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden Have Such Low Incomes?

Pernilla Andersson Joona, Eskil Wadensjö

published in: Brussels Economic Review / Cahiers Economique de Bruxelles, 2006, 48 (1-2), 43-71

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1274

Why Are Fertility and Women's Employment Rates So Low in Italy? Lessons from France and the U.K.

Daniela Del Boca, Silvia Pasqua, Chiara D. Pronzato

published in: Labour, 2005, 19 (s1), 51-79

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1272

Determinants of Employment Growth at MNEs: Evidence from Egypt, India, South Africa and Vietnam

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Saul Estrin, Klaus Meyer

published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2007, 49 (1), 61-80

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1268

Labor Market Institutions, Wages, and Investment

Jörn-Steffen Pischke

published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2005, 51 (1), 47-75

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1265

High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Europe

Thomas K. Bauer

published in: RWI-Mitteilungen, 2003/2004, 54/55 (1), 57-85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1264

Unions, Training, and Firm Performance: Evidence from the British Workplace Employee Relations Survey

John T. Addison, Clive R. Belfield

published as 'Unions, Training, and Firm Performance' in: Journal of Labor Market Research/Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung, 2007, 40 (4), 361-381

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1261

Why Do Part-Time Workers Earn Less? The Role of Worker and Job Skills

Barry Hirsch

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2005, 58 (4), 525-551

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1256

Do Financial Incentives Promote the Employment of the Disabled?

Sher Verick

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1251

Joint Estimation of Sequential Labor Force Participation and Fertility Decisions Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques

Kenneth Troske, Alexandru Voicu

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 150-169

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1248

The Consequences of ‘In-Work’ Benefit Reform in Britain: New Evidence from Panel Data

Marco Francesconi, Wilbert van der Klaauw

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2007, 42 (1), 1-31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1247

A Simulation of an Income Contingent Tuition Scheme in a Transition Economy

Milan Vodopivec

published in: Higher Education, 2009, 57 (4), 429-448

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1246

Linguistic Distance: A Quantitative Measure of the Distance Between English and Other Languages

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005, 26 (1), 1-11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1238

The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 2000: A Preliminary Report

Barry R. Chiswick, Michael Wenz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1235

In-School Work Experience, Parental Allowances, and Wages

Christian Dustmann, John Micklewright, Arthur van Soest

published under revised title in: Empirical Economics, 2009, 37 (1), 201-218

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1234

Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen: Proclivity and Performance

Amelie F. Constant

substantially revised version published in: Kyklos, 2006, 59 (4), 465-480

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1233

Do a Few Months of Compulsory Schooling Matter? The Education and Labour Market Impact of School Leaving Rules

Emilia Del Bono, Fernando Galindo-Rueda

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1229

Incentive Effects of Bonus Payments: Evidence from an International Company

Axel Engellandt, Regina T. Riphahn

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64 (2), 241-257

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1224

Jewish Occupational Selection: Education, Restrictions, or Minorities?

Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein

published in: Journal of Economic History, 2005, 65 (4), 922-948

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1222

Does Monitoring Decrease Work Effort? The Complementarity Between Agency and Crowding-Out Theories

David L. Dickinson, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2008, 63 (1), 56-76.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1216

Parents and Children Talk: The Family Dynamics of English Language Proficiency

Barry R. Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee, Paul W. Miller

published as 'Parents and Children Talk: English Language Proficiency within Immigrant Families' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2005, 3 (3), 243-268

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1210

Gender and Work Hours Transitions in Australia: Drop Ceilings and Trap-Door Floors

Robert Drago, David Black, Mark Wooden

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1197

Employee Training and Wage Compression in Britain

Filipe Almeida-Santos, Karen A. Mumford

revised version published in: Manchester School, 2005, 73 (3), 321-342

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1195

Candidate Quality

Panu Poutvaara, Tuomas Takalo

published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2007, 14 (1), 7-27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1192

Job Protection: The Macho Hypothesis

Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2006, 22 (3), 390-410

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1189

Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality

Gueorgui Kambourov, Iourii Manovskii

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2009, 76 (2), 731-759

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1188

The Effect of Worker Representation on Employment Behavior in Germany: Another Case of -2.5%

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira

published in: Industrial Relations, 2006, 45 (1), 1-25

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1186

Educational Achievement in English-Speaking Countries: Do Different Surveys Tell the Same Story?

John Micklewright, Sylke V. Schnepf

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1182

Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia

Belton M. Fleisher, Klara Sabirianova Peter, Xiaojun Wang

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005, 33 (2), 351-370

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1178

What Is Left to Residual Claimants? The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers

Panu Poutvaara, Juha Tuomala

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1173

Training and the Density of Economic Activity: Evidence from Italy

Giorgio Brunello, Maria De Paola

published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (1), 118-140

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1166

Other Forms of Employment: Temporary Employment Agencies and Self-Employment

Pernilla Andersson Joona, Eskil Wadensjö

published in: Labour, 2008, 22(3), 495-507

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1160

Minimum Wages, Inequality and Globalization

T. H. Gindling, Katherine Terrell

published in: Michigan Journal of International Law, 2004, 26(1), 245-269

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1159

The Effects of Multiple Minimum Wages Throughout the Labor Market

T. H. Gindling, Katherine Terrell

revised version published as 'The effects of multiple minimum wages throughout the labor market: The case of Costa Rica ' in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (3), 485-511

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1158

Self-Selection and Earnings During Volatile Transition

Ralitza Dimova, Ira N. Gang

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2007, 35 (3), 612-629

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1156

Earnings and Community College Field of Study Choice in Canada

Brahim Boudarbat

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2008, 27 (1), 79-93

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1155

Who Among White Collar Workers Has an Opportunity for Phased Retirement? Establishment Characteristics

Robert M. Hutchens, Karen Grace-Martin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1147

Labour Market Flexibility and Employment Protection Regulation in the Baltic States

Raul Eamets, Jaan Masso

revised version published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2005, 11 (1), 71-90

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1134

What a Difference a Y Makes: Female and Male Nascent Entrepreneurs in Germany

Joachim Wagner

published in: Small Business Economics, 2007, 28 (1), 1-21

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1130

Self-Employed Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden: A Way to Economic Self-Reliance?

Pernilla Andersson Joona, Eskil Wadensjö

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1128

Wages and Employment Growth: Disaggregated Evidence for West Germany

Jens Suedekum, Uwe Blien

published as 'Stimulating employment growth with higher wages? A new approach to address an old controversy' in: Kyklos, 2007, 60 (3), 441-467

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1126

Real Options Effects on Employment: Does Exchange Rate Uncertainty Matter for Aggregation?

Ansgar H. Belke, Matthias Göcke

published in: German Economic Review, 2005, 6 (2), 185-203

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1124

Explaining the Growth of Part-Time Employment: Factors of Supply and Demand

Rob Euwals, Maurice Hogerbrugge

published in: Labour, 2006, 20 (3), 533-557

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1122

The Effect of Extra Funding for Disadvantaged Pupils on Achievement

Edwin Leuven, Mikael Lindahl, Hessel Oosterbeek, Dinand Webbink

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007, 89 (4), 721-736

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1118

International Comparisons of Work Disability

James Banks, Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur van Soest

published in: David Cutler and David Wise (eds.), Health at Older Ages: The Causes and Consequences of Declining Disability Among the Elderly, University of Chicago Press, 2008, 251-294

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1117

The Effects of Vocational Training Programmes on the Duration of Unemployment in Eastern Germany

Reinhard Hujer, Stephan L. Thomsen, Christopher Zeiss

published in: Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv / Journal of the German Statistical Society, 2006, 90 (2), 299-321

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1114

The Supply of Child Labour

Alessandro Cigno

edited version published as Chapter 2 of: A. Cigno and F. C. Rosati (eds.), The Economics of Child Labour, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1111

New Mothers' Labour Force Participation in Italy: The Role of Job Characteristics

Massimiliano Bratti, Emilia Del Bono, Daniela Vuri

revised version published in: Labour, 2005, 19 (s1), 79–121

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1110

Rising Occupational and Industry Mobility in the United States: 1968-1993

Gueorgui Kambourov, Iourii Manovskii

revised version published as 'Rising Occupational and Industry Mobility in the United States, 1968 - 97' in: International Economic Review, 2008, 49 (1), 41-79

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1106

Lockerung des Kündigungsschutzes: Ein Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung?

Holger Bonin

published in: R. Zwengel (ed.), Gesellschaftliche Perspektiven: Jahrbuch der Hessischen Gesellschaft für Demokratie und Ökologie, 2004, 5, 55-71

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1105

Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments

Thomas K. Bauer, Stefan Bender, Holger Bonin

published in: Economica, 2007, 74 (296), 804-821

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1102

How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed

Solomon Polachek

published in: F. Blau, M. Brinton, and D. Grusky, (eds.) The Declining Significance of Gender?, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1101

Motivation, Expectations and the Gender Pay Gap for UK Graduates

Arnaud Chevalier

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2007, 69 (6), 819-842

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1098

Nonparametric Bounds on the Returns to Language Skills

Libertad González

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2005, 20 (6), 771-795

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1091

Youth Minimum Wage Reform and the Labour Market

Dean R. Hyslop, Steven Stillman

published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (2), 201-230

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1085

Job Tenure in Britain: Employee Characteristics Versus Workplace Effects

Karen A. Mumford, Peter N. Smith

revised version published in: Economica, 2004, 71 (282), 275-298

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1084

Trade Liberalization and Labor-Demand Elasticities: Empirical Evidence from Tunisia

Ilham Haouas, Mahmoud Yagoubi

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2008, 15 (4), 277-286

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1083

On the Specification of Mincerian Wage Regressions with Heterogeneity, Non-Linearity, Non-Separability, and Heteroskedasticity

Christian Belzil

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1081

And in the Evening She's a Singer with the Band – Second Jobs, Plight or Pleasure?

René Böheim, Mark P. Taylor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1073

The Changing Demand for Skills: Evidence from the Transition

Simon Commander, János Köllő

published in: Economics of Transition, 2008, 16 (2), 199-221.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1065

Identification and Estimation of Economic Models of Outmigration Using Panel Attrition

Charles Bellemare

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1063

Are Refugees Different from Economic Immigrants? Some Empirical Evidence on the Heterogeneity of Immigrant Groups in the United States

Kalena E. Cortes

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004, 86(2), 465-480

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1061

The Dynamics of Local Employment in France

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Thierry Magnac, Jean-Marc Robin

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2004, 56 (2), 217-43

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1055

Agglomeration Effects on Employer-Provided Training: Evidence from the UK

Giorgio Brunello, Francesca Gambarotto

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2007, 37 (1), 1-22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1051

Experience and Technology Adoption

Bruce A. Weinberg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1050

The Impact of Family-Friendly Policies in Denmark and Sweden on Mothers' Career Interruptions Due to Childbirth

Elina Pylkkänen, Nina Smith

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1048

High School Types, Academic Performance and Early Labour Market Outcomes

Lorenzo Cappellari

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1046

Job Insecurity and Children’s Emancipation

Sascha O. Becker, Samuel Bentolila, Ana Fernandes, Andrea Ichino

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (3), 1047-1071

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1045

Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself?

Stephan Meier, Alois Stutzer

published in: Economica, 2008, 75 (297), 39-59

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1040

Fiscal Policy and Educational Attainment in the United States – A Generational Accounting Perspective

Xavier Chojnicki, Frédéric Docquier

published in: Economica, 2007, 47 (294), 329-350

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1039

Institutional Uncertainty and European Social Union: Impacts on Job Creation and Destruction in the CEECs

Ansgar H. Belke, Matthias Göcke, Martin Hebler

published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2005, 27 (3), 345-354

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1036

Life Cycle Time Allocation and Saving in an Imperfect Capital Market

Patricia Apps, Ray Rees

revised version published as "Family labor supply, taxation and saving in an imperfect capital market" in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (3), 297-323

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1035

Estimates of a Labour Supply Function Using Alternative Measures of Hours of Work

N. Anders Klevmarken

published in: European Economic Review, 2005, 49 (1), 55-73

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1034

Unwilling or Unable? Spatial, Institutional and Socio-Economic Restrictions on Females' Labor Market Access

Maarten van Ham, Felix Büchel

published in: [Regional Studies], 2006, 40(3), 1-12

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1026

Does Low Job Satisfaction Lead to Job Mobility?

Nicolai Kristensen, Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen

published as 'Job satisfaction and quits – Which job characteristics matters most?' in: Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift / Danish Economic Journal, 2006, 144 (2), 230-248

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1023

Tournaments: There Is More Than Meets the Eye

Gil S. Epstein, Shmuel Nitzan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1018

Legal Minimum Wages and the Wages of Formal and Informal Sector Workers in Costa Rica

T. H. Gindling, Katherine Terrell

published in: World Development, 2005, 33 (11), 1905-1921

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1015

Analytical Prediction of Transitions Probabilities in the Conditional Logit Model

Holger Bonin, Hilmar Schneider

published in: Economics Letters, 2006, 90 (1), 102-107

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1002