IZA Discussion Papers

published in: D. Hamermesh and G. Pfann (eds), The Economics of Time Use, Contributions to Economic Analysis, No. 271, Chapter 5, 113–145, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2005

IZA Discussion Paper No. 847

Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings

Barry R. Chiswick

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2003, 1 (4), 343-361

IZA Discussion Paper No. 841

Skill-Biased Technical Change in U.S. Manufacturing: A General Index Approach

Badi H. Baltagi, Daniel P. Rich

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2005, 126 (2), 549-570

IZA Discussion Paper No. 839

Is Training More Frequent When Wage Compression is Higher? Evidence from the European Community Household Panel

Andrea Bassanini, Giorgio Brunello

revised version published as 'Is training more frequent when the wage premium is smaller? Evidence from the European Community Household Panel' in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(2), 272-290

IZA Discussion Paper No. 838

Government Grants, Plant Survival and Employment Growth: A Micro-Econometric Analysis

Sourafel Girma, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl

revised version published as 'The effect of government grants on plant survival: A micro-econometric analysis' in: International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2007, 25(4), 701-720

IZA Discussion Paper No. 832

Joint Labour Supply Dynamics of Older Couples

Pierre-Carl Michaud

IZA Discussion Paper No. 823

Discrimination and Workers' Expectations

Antonio Filippin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 820

The Effects of Merit-Based Financial Aid on Course Enrollment, Withdrawal and Completion in College

Christopher Cornwell, Kyung Hee Lee, David B. Mustard

IZA Discussion Paper No. 819

Brain Drain and LDCs' Growth: Winners and Losers

Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier, Hillel Rapoport

new version entitled "Brain drain and human capital formation in developing countries: winners and losers" published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (528), 515-843

IZA Discussion Paper No. 816

The Early Retirement Burden: Assessing the Costs of the Continued Prevalence of Early Retirement in OECD Countries

Tryggvi Thor Herbertsson, Mike Orszag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 813

Firm-Specific Human Capital: A Skill-Weights Approach

Edward Lazear

Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 117 (5), 914 - 940

IZA Discussion Paper No. 799

General Human Capital and Employment Adjustment in the Great Depression: Apprentices and Journeymen in UK Engineering

Robert A. Hart

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2005, 57 (1), 169-189

IZA Discussion Paper No. 798

The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program

James J. Heckman, Jeffrey A. Smith

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2004, 22 (2), 243-298

IZA Discussion Paper No. 796

Gender, Time Use and Models of the Household

Patricia Apps

IZA Discussion Paper No. 790

Hidden Information Problems in the Design of Family Allowances

Alessandro Cigno, Annalisa Luporini, Anna Pettini

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2004, 17 (4), 645-655

IZA Discussion Paper No. 786

Using State Administrative Data to Measure Program Performance

Peter R. Mueser, Kenneth Troske, Alexey Gorislavsky

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007, 89 (4), 761–783.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 784

Low-Skilled Unemployment, Biased Technological Shocks and Job Competition

Olivier Pierrard, Henri R. Sneessens

revised version published as "Biased Technological Shocks, Relative Wage Rigidities and Low-Skilled Unemployment”in Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 55(3), 330-352

IZA Discussion Paper No. 780

Temporary Contracts and Employee Effort

Axel Engellandt, Regina T. Riphahn

published in: Labour Economics, 2005, 12 (3), 281-299

IZA Discussion Paper No. 774

Labor Market Segmentation and the Earnings of German Guestworkers

Amelie F. Constant, Douglas S. Massey

published in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2005, 24 (6), 5-30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 769

Household Labor Supply and Welfare Participation in Sweden

Lennart Flood, Jörgen Hansen, Roger Wahlberg

published in Journal of Human Resources, 2004, 39 (4), 1008-1032

IZA Discussion Paper No. 766

How Important Is Guaranteed or Institutionalised Overtime?

David N.F. Bell, Robert A. Hart

IZA Discussion Paper No. 764

A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Patrick A. Puhani

published as 'Transatlantic Differences in Labour Markets: Changes in Wage and Non-Employment Structures in the 1980s and the 1990s' in: German Economic Review, 2008, 9 (3), 312-338

IZA Discussion Paper No. 762

The Impact of In-Work Benefits on Poverty and Household Labour Supply: A Simulation Study for Switzerland

Michael Gerfin, Robert E. Leu

revised version published as ''Evaluationg the Cost-Effectiveness of In-Work Benefits: A Simulation Study for Switzerland' in: German Economic Review, 2007, 8 (4), 447 - 467

IZA Discussion Paper No. 758

Equilibrium Policy Experiments and the Evaluation of Social Programs

Jeremy Lise, Shannon Seitz, Jeffrey A. Smith

IZA Discussion Paper No. 752

Skill-Biased Technological Change in Denmark: A Disaggregate Perspective

Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, Jan Rose Skaksen

published as 'Changes in Demand for Skilled Labour in Denmark - A Disaggregate Perspective' in: Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift / Danish Journal of Economics, 2004, 142 (1), 67 - 80

IZA Discussion Paper No. 749

The Educational Attainment of the Children of the Danish ‘Guest Worker’ Immigrants

Vibeke Jakobsen, Nina Smith

published in: Danish Economic Journal, 2006, 144 (2), 18-42

IZA Discussion Paper No. 737

Unions, Work-Related Training, and Wages: Evidence for British Men

Alison L. Booth, Marco Francesconi, Gylfi Zoega

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2003, 57 (1), 68-91

IZA Discussion Paper No. 734

Sibling Rivalry: A Six Country Comparison

Stefan C. Wolter

published together with Maja Coradi Vellacott as 'Sibling Rivalry for Parental Resources: A Problem for Equity in Education? A Six-Country Comparison with PISA Data' in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie / Swiss Journal of Sociology /Revue suisse de sociologie , 2003, 29 (3), 377-398

IZA Discussion Paper No. 733

Wage Elasticity of the Teacher Supply in Switzerland

Stefan C. Wolter, Stefan Denzler

published in: Brussels Economic Review / Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, 2004, 47 (3), 387-408

IZA Discussion Paper No. 732

Clean Evidence on Peer Pressure

Armin Falk, Andrea Ichino

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, 24 (1), 39-57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 731

Educational Attainment: Analysis by Immigrant Generation

Barry R. Chiswick, Noyna DebBurman

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2004, 23 (4), 361-379

IZA Discussion Paper No. 729

Children and Women's Participation Dynamics: Transitory and Long-Term Effects

Alexandru Voicu, Hielke Buddelmeyer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 715

A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys

Ernst Fehr, Urs Fischbacher, Bernhard von Rosenbladt, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner

published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2002, 122 (4), 519-542

IZA Discussion Paper No. 711

Healthy Living in Hard Times

Christopher J. Ruhm

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2005, 24 (2), 341-363

IZA Discussion Paper No. 710

On the Wage Growth of Immigrants: Israel, 1990-2000

Zvi Eckstein, Yoram Weiss

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2004, 2 (4), 665-695

IZA Discussion Paper No. 705

School Quality and Family Background in Italy

Giorgio Brunello, Daniele Checchi

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2005, 24 (5), 563-577

IZA Discussion Paper No. 700

Flexible Workplace Practices and Labor Productivity

Thomas K. Bauer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 699

Educational Track, Networks and Labor Market Outcomes

David N. Margolis, Véronique Simonnet

published in French as "Filières éducatives, réseaux et réussite professionnelle" in Economie et prévision, 2005164-165, 2005.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 697

Differences in US-German Time-Allocation: Why Do Americans Work Longer Hours than Germans?

Ronald Schettkat

IZA Discussion Paper No. 688

The Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Employment and Wages in Tunisian Industries

Ilham Haouas, Mahmoud Yagoubi, Almas Heshmati

published in: Journal of International Development, 2005, 17 (4), 527-551

IZA Discussion Paper No. 687

Labour-Use Efficiency in Tunisian Manufacturing Industries

Ilham Haouas, Mahmoud Yagoubi, Almas Heshmati

published in: Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 2003, 1 (3), 195-214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 684

The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment: Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants

Patrick A. Puhani

published as 'Relative Demand Shocks and Relative Wage Rigidities During the Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment' in: Kyklos, 2003, 56 (4),541-562

IZA Discussion Paper No. 682

Vocational Training of Unemployed Workers in Belgium

Bart Cockx

published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2003, 49 (1), 23-48

IZA Discussion Paper No. 678

Fostering Within-Family Human Capital Investment: An Intragenerational Insurance Perspective of Social Security

Martin Barbie, Marcus Hagedorn, Ashok Kaul

IZA Discussion Paper No. 676

Agriculture: Transition Buffer or Black Hole? A Three-State Model of Employment Dynamics

Alexandru Voicu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 673

Labour as a Buffer: Do Temporary Workers Suffer?

Alison L. Booth, Marco Francesconi, Jeff Frank

published in: Gabriel Fagan, Francesco Paolo Mongelli and Julian Morgan (eds.), Institutions and Wage Formation in the New Europe, Edward Elgar 2003

IZA Discussion Paper No. 672

Self-Selection, Earnings, and Out-Migration: A Longitudinal Study of Immigrants to Germany

Amelie F. Constant, Douglas S. Massey

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 16 (4), 2003, 631-653

IZA Discussion Paper No. 670

From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History

Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2007, 5 (5), 885-926,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 666

Frühverrentung in Deutschland: Ökonomische Anreize und institutionelle Strukturen

Pascal Arnds, Holger Bonin

published in: M. Herfurth, M. Kohli and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), Arbeit in einer alternden Gesellschaft (Labor in an Aging Society), Leverkusen: Leske+Budrich, 2003, 65-91

IZA Discussion Paper No. 662

Getting It Right: Employment Subsidy or Minimum Wage?

Eric Strobl, Frank Walsh

revised version published as "Dealing with Monopsony Power: the Case for Employment Subsidies" in: Economics Letters, 2007, 94 (1), 83-89

IZA Discussion Paper No. 657

Employment Consequences of Restrictive Permanent Contracts: Evidence from Spanish Labor Market Reforms

Adriana Kugler, Juan F. Jimeno, Virginia Hernanz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 656

The Impact of the Unemployment Benefit System on International Spillover Effects

Thomas Beissinger, Oliver Buesse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 655

Effects of In-Class Variation and Student Rank on the Probability of Withdrawal: Cross-Section and Time-Series Analysis for UK University Students

Wiji Arulampalam, Robin Naylor, Jeremy Smith

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2005, 24 (3), 251-262

IZA Discussion Paper No. 654

Deaths Rise in Good Economic Times: Evidence From the OECD

Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Christopher J. Ruhm

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2006, 4 (3), 298-316.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 652

How Do Parents Raise the Educational Attainment of Future Generations?

Erik Plug

published as 'Estimating the Effect of Mother's Schooling on Children's Schooling Using a Sample of Adoptees' in: American Economic Review, 2004, 94 (1), 358-368

IZA Discussion Paper No. 640

Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors: Does It Matter?

Joop Hartog, Nicole Jonker, Hans van Ophem

published in: Applied Economics, 2006, 38, (9), 1019-1035

IZA Discussion Paper No. 639

Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?

Gilles Saint-Paul

published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (1), 129-144

IZA Discussion Paper No. 637

Household Labor Supply Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies in Germany

Holger Bonin, Wolfram Kempe, Hilmar Schneider

published in: Journal of Applied Social Sciences Studies, 2003, 123 (1), 199-208