IZA Discussion Papers

forthcoming in: I. Ganguli, S. Kahn, M.MacGarvie (eds.), The Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in U.S. Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship,'NBER, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11996

Wages and the Value of Nonemployment

Simon Jäger, Benjamin Schoefer, Samuel Young, Josef Zweimüller

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11844

Job Mismatches and Career Mobility

Le Wen, Sholeh A. Maani

forthcoming in: Applied Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11416

Freedom from the Tyranny of Neighbourhood: Rethinking Socio-Spatial Context Effects

Ana Petrović, David Manley, Maarten van Ham

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11397

The Temporal Dynamics of Neighborhood Disadvantage in Childhood and Subsequent Problem Behavior in Adolescence

Tom Kleinepier, Maarten van Ham

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11335

Experienced and Inherited Disadvantage: A Longitudinal Study of Early Adulthood Neighbourhood Careers of Siblings

David Manley, Maarten van Ham, Lina Hedman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11218

Three Generations of Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Context

Lina Hedman, Maarten van Ham, Tiit Tammaru

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11178

Sorting out Neighbourhood Effects Using Sibling Data

Lina Hedman, David Manley, Maarten van Ham

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11072

Rising Wage Inequality in Germany: Increasing Heterogeneity and Changing Selection into Full-Time Work

Martin Biewen, Bernd Fitzenberger, Jakob de Lazzer

revised version published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 7:10

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11014

Informality, Public Employment and Employment Protection in Developing Countries

Shaimaa Yassin, François Langot

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10999

Educational Attainment and Neighbourhood Outcomes: Differences between Highly-Educated Natives and Non-Western Ethnic Minorities in the Netherlands

Elise de Vuijst, Maarten van Ham

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10960

Job Search Behavior among the Employed and Non-Employed

R. Jason Faberman, Andreas I. Mueller, Aysegül Sahin, Giorgio Topa

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10954

'Rational Overeating' in a Feast-or-Famine World: Economic Insecurity and the Obesity Epidemic

Trenton G. Smith, Steven Stillman, Stuart Craig

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10944

Ethnic Differences in Duration and Timing of Exposure to Neighbourhood Disadvantage during Childhood

Tom Kleinepier, Maarten van Ham

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10902

Skills Training and Employment Outcomes in Rural Bihar

Bhaskar Chakravorty, Arjun S. Bedi

published in: Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2019, 62 (2), 173–199

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10892

Towards an East German Wage Curve: NUTS Boundaries, Labour Market Regions and Unemployment Spillovers

Reinhold Kosfeld, Christian Dreger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10842

The Difficult School-To-Work Transition of High School Dropouts: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo, Andreea Minea

Forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10694

Incorporating Neighbourhood Choice in a Model of Neighbourhood Effects on Income

Maarten van Ham, Sanne Boschman, Matt Vogel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10643

Performance Pay and Applicant Screening

Uwe Jirjahn, Jens Mohrenweiser

revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, 57(3), 540-575

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10526

Parents and Peers: Parental Neighbourhood- and School-Level Variation in Individual Neighbourhood Outcomes over Time

Elise de Vuijst, Maarten van Ham

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10493

Decision to Emigrate Amongst the Youth in Lebanon

Ghassan Dibeh, Ali Fakih, Walid Marrouch

published in: International Migration, 2018, 56 (1), 5-22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10355

The Evolution of Multiple Jobholding in the U.S. Labor Market: The Complete Picture of Gross Worker Flows

Etienne Lalé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10276

A Life Course Approach to Understanding Neighbourhood Effects

Elise de Vuijst, Maarten van Ham, Reinout Kleinhans

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10265

Frictional Unemployment with Stochastic Bubbles

Guillaume Vuillemey, Etienne Wasmer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10070

Young Adults Living with Their Parents and the Influence of Peers

Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Ezgi Kaya

published in: The Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (3), 689-713

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10049

Vulnerability to Poverty: Tajikistan During and After the Global Financial Crisis

Ira N. Gang, Kseniia Gatskova, John Landon-Lane, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2018, 138 (3), 925 - 951 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-017-1689-y

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9785

Time Aggregation and State Dependence in Welfare Receipt

Manudeep Bhuller, Christian Brinch, Sebastian Königs

published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (604), 1833-1873.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9680

Paying to Avoid Recession: Using Reenlistment to Estimate the Cost of Unemployment

Mark Borgschulte, Paco Martorell

forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9577

Local and Spatial Cointegration in the Wage Curve: A Spatial Panel Analysis for German Regions

Reinhold Kosfeld, Christian Dreger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9557

The Moderating Effect of Higher Education on Intergenerational Spatial Inequality

Elise de Vuijst, Maarten van Ham, Reinout Kleinhans

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9389

Labour Market Institutions and Inflation Differentials in the EU

Gaetano D'Adamo, Riccardo Rovelli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9284

Migration, Entrepreneurship and Development: A Critical Review

Wim Naudé, Melissa Siegel, Katrin Marchand

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9235

Feeling Useless: The Effect of Unemployment on Mental Health in the Great Recession

Lídia Farré, Francesco Fasani, Hannes Mueller

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics (2018) 7(1), 1-34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8786

Are Recipients of Social Assistance 'Benefit Dependent'? Concepts, Measurement and Results for Selected Countries

Herwig Immervoll, Stephen P. Jenkins, Sebastian Königs

published in parts in: International Journal of Social Welfare, 2018, Vol. 27(2), 146-156

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8669

Wage Inequality and Wage Mobility in Turkey

Aysit Tansel, Basak Dalgic, Aytekin Güven

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2019, 142 (1), 107-129.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8663

Measuring Heterogeneity in Job Finding Rates Among the Nonemployed Using Labor Force Status Histories

Marianna Kudlyak, Fabian Lange

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8511

Public Employment Policies and Regional Unemployment Differences

Vincenzo Caponi

(revised version forthcoming in: Regional Science and Urban Economics)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8468

The Brazilian Wage Curve: New Evidence from the National Household Survey

Badi H. Baltagi, Bartlomiej Rokicki, Kênia Barreiro de Souza

published in: Empirical Economics, 2017, 53 (1), 267–286.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8435

Happiness and Work

Annabelle Krause-Pilatus

published in: James D. Wright (ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed., 2015, Vol. 10, Elsevier, Oxord, 515-520

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8362

Employment Protection and Capital-Labor Ratios

Alexandre Janiak, Etienne Wasmer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8319

Is Ethnic Discrimination Due to Distaste or Statistics?

Stijn Baert, Ann-Sophie De Pauw

revised version published in: Economics Letters [Online Access]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8312

Unemployment or Overeducation: Which is a Worse Signal to Employers?

Stijn Baert, Dieter Verhaest

revised version published in: De Economist [Online Access]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8033

Educational Diversity and Knowledge Transfers via Inter-Firm Labor Mobility

Marianna Marino, Pierpaolo Parrotta, Dario Pozzoli

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 123 (3), 168-183

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7977

The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Germany: State Dependence Before and After the 'Hartz Reforms'

Sebastian Königs

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2014, 39, 107-150

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7815

Occupational Mobility and Living in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Housing Tenure Differences in 'Neighbourhood Effects'

Maarten van Ham, David Manley

published in: [Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7814

Transitions in Labour Market Status in the EU

Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger, Corrado Macchiarelli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7812

The Polish Wage Curve: Micro Panel Data Analysis Based on the Polish Labor Force Survey

Badi H. Baltagi, Bartlomiej Rokicki

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2014,49, 36-47.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7785

Job Lock: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Robert W. Fairlie, Kanika Kapur, Susan Gates

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7702

Money on the Table? Firms' and Workers' Gains from Productivity Spillovers through Worker Mobility

Andrey Stoyanov, Nick Zubanov

revised version published as 'The Distribution of the Gains from Spillovers through Worker Mobility between Workers and Firms' in: European Economic Review, 2014, 70, 17-35

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7616

Labor Market Institutions and the Response of Inflation to Macro Shocks in the EU: A Two-Sector Analysis

Gaetano D'Adamo, Riccardo Rovelli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7252

Labour-Market Outcomes of Older Workers in the Netherlands: Measuring Job Prospects Using the Occupational Age Structure

Nicole Bosch, Bas ter Weel

published in: De Economist, 2013, 161 (2), 199-218

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7233

Unemployment Compensation and the Allocation of Labor in Developing Countries

Olivier Charlot, Franck Malherbet, Mustafa Ulus

forthcoming in: Journal of Public Economic Theory [Online First]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7107

Don't Worry, Be Happy? Happiness and Reemployment

Annabelle Krause-Pilatus

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 96, 1-20

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6991

The Frisch Elasticity in Labor Markets with High Job Turnover

Nikita Céspedes Reynaga, Silvio Rendon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6935

Efficiency in a Search and Matching Economy with a Competitive Informal Sector

Olivier Charlot, Franck Malherbet, Mustafa Ulus

published in: Economic Letters, 2013, 118(1), 192-194

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6918

Aggregate Earnings and Macroeconomic Shocks: The Role of Labour Market Policies and Institutions

Andrea Bassanini

published in: Review of Economics and Institutions, 2012, 3 (3), Article 1

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6836

How Different Are the Wage Curves for Formal and Informal Workers? Evidence from Turkey

Badi H. Baltagi, Yusuf Soner Baskaya, Timur Hulagu

published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2013, 92, 271-283.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6794

Cumulative Exposure to Disadvantage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Effects

Lina Hedman, David Manley, Maarten van Ham, John Östh

published as 'Cumulative Exposure to Disadvantage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Effects' in: [Journal of Economic Geography], 2015, 15(1), 195-215

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6616

Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Turkey: Is There an Added or a Discouraged Worker Effect?

Cagla Okten

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6609

Management of Knowledge Workers

Hans K. Hvide, Eirik Gaard Kristiansen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6572

Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Poverty in Sweden: An Innovative Analysis of Individual Neighbourhood Histories

Maarten van Ham, Lina Hedman, David Manley, Rory Coulter, John Östh

published as 'Intergenerational transmission of neighbourhood poverty. An analysis of neighbourhood histories of individuals' in: [Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers], 2014, 39, 402-417

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6357

Do Unemployed Workers Benefit from Enterprise Zones? The French Experience

Laurent Gobillon, Thierry Magnac, Harris Selod

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (9), 881 - 892

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6246

Wage Mobility in East and West Germany

Regina T. Riphahn, Daniel D. Schnitzlein

forthcoming in: Labour Economics.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6101

Work to Live or Live to Work? Unemployment, Happiness, and Culture

Annabelle Krause-Pilatus

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6057

The Global Economic Crisis: Long-Term Unemployment in the OECD

Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5852

Exporting Poor Health: The Irish in England

Liam Delaney, Alan Fernihough, James P. Smith

published in: Demography 50(6):2013-2035, 2013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5827

Employed and Unemployed Job Seekers: Are They Substitutes?

Simonetta Longhi, Mark P. Taylor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5688

Recessions Are Bad for Workplace Safety

Jan Boone, Jan C. van Ours, Jean-Philippe Wuellrich, Josef Zweimüller

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (4), 764-773

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5634

Social Mixing as a Cure for Negative Neighbourhood Effects: Evidence Based Policy or Urban Myth?

David Manley, Maarten van Ham, Joe Doherty

published in: Bridge, G., Butler, T. & Lees, L. (eds.), Mixed Communities: Gentrification by Stealth, Policy Press, Bristol, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5633

The Turkish Wage Curve: Evidence from the Household Labor Force Survey

Badi H. Baltagi, Yusuf Soner Baskaya, Timur Hulagu

published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 114 (1), 128-131.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5519

Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemployment and Informality in Developing Economies

Olivier Charlot, Franck Malherbet, Cristina Terra

published as 'Informality in developing economies: regulation and fiscal policies' in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2015, 51, 1–27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5385

Labor Market Effects of Trade and FDI: Recent Advances and Research Gaps

Michael P. Pflüger, Uwe Blien, Joachim Möller, Michael Moritz

published in revised form in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2013, 233 (1), 86-116

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5327

Labour Market Flows: Facts from the United Kingdom

Pedro Maia Gomes

published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (2), 165-175.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5271

Neighbourhood Effects, Housing Tenure, and Individual Employment Outcomes

David Manley, Maarten van Ham

published in: Van Ham M., Manley D., Bailey N., Simpson L., Maclennan D. (eds.), [Neighbourhood Effects Research: New Perspectives] (Chapter 7), Springer Dordrecht, 2012, 147-173

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5238

Neighbourhood Choice and Neighbourhood Reproduction

Lina Bergström, Maarten van Ham, David Manley

published in: [Environment and Planning A], 2011, 43 (6) 2, 1381-1399

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5193

Understanding Neighbourhood Effects: Selection Bias and Residential Mobility

Lina Bergström, Maarten van Ham

published in: Van Ham M., Manley D., Bailey N., Simpson L., Maclennan D. (eds.), [Neighbourhood Effects Research: New Perspectives] (Chapter 4), Springer Dordrecht, 2012, 79-99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5181

Does Bargaining Matter in the Small Firm Matching Model?

Olivier L'Haridon, Franck Malherbet, Sébastien Pérez-Duarte

published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21, 42-58

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5131

The Cyclical Volatility of Labor Markets under Frictional Financial Markets

Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, Etienne Wasmer

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2012, 5 (1), 193-221

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5115

Right to Buy… Time to Move? Investigating the Effect of the Right to Buy on Moving Behaviour in the UK

Maarten van Ham, Lee Williamson, Peteke Feijten, Paul Boyle

published in: Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 2013, 28 (1), 129-146

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5014

Earnings Dynamics and Inequality among Men in Luxembourg, 1988-2004: Evidence from Administrative Data

Denisa Maria Sologon, Cathal O'Donoghue

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4934

The Great Recession of 2008-2009: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses

Sher Verick, Iyanatul Islam

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. 4816

The Added Worker Effect and the Discouraged Worker Effect for Married Women in Australia

Xiaodong Gong

published as 'The Added Worker Effect for Married Women in Australia' in: Economic Record, 2011, 87 (278), 414-426

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4799

Education and the Welfare Gains from Employment Protection

Olivier Charlot, Franck Malherbet

published as 'Education and Employment Protection' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 20, 3-23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4696

Low-Wage Careers: Are There Dead-End Firms and Dead-End Jobs?

Alexander Mosthaf, Claus Schnabel, Jens Stephani

published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung /Journal for Labour Market Research, 2011, 43 (3), 231-249

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4642

Equalizing or Disequalizing Lifetime Earnings Differentials? Earnings Mobility in the EU: 1994-2001

Denisa Maria Sologon, Cathal O'Donoghue

published in: John A. Bishop and Rafael Salas (eds.), Inequality, Mobility, and Segregation: Essays in Honor of Jacques Silber (Research in Economic Inequality, Vol 20), 2012, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 237-283

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4611

Low-Wage Employment versus Unemployment: Which One Provides Better Prospects for Women?

Alexander Mosthaf, Thorsten Schank, Claus Schnabel

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3:21

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4524

Layoff Costs and Efficiency with Asymmetric Information

Alain Delacroix, Etienne Wasmer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4461

Is the Wage Curve Formal or Informal? Evidence for Colombia

Raul Ramos, Juan Carlos Duque, Jordi Surinach

published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 109 (2), 63-65

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4311