IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published as 'The impact of sanctions for young welfare recipients on transitions to work and wages and on dropping out" in: Economica, 2022, 89 (535), 1-28

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10632

Welfare: Savings not Taxation

Roger Douglas, Robert MacCulloch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10580

Are the Spanish Long-Term Unemployed Unemployable?

Samuel Bentolila, J. Ignacio Garcia Perez, Marcel Jansen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10485

Job Displacement and First Birth over the Business Cycle

Barbara Hofmann, Michaela Kreyenfeld, Arne Uhlendorff

published in: Demography, 2017, 54, 933-959

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10484

The Effects of UI Benefits on Unemployment and Subsequent Outcomes: Evidence from a Kinked Benefit Rule

Tomi Kyyrä, Hanna Onerva Pesola

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 82, 1135-1160

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10439

Unemployment Insurance Generosity and Aggregate Employment

Christopher Boone, Arindrajit Dube, Lucas Goodman, Ethan Kaplan

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021, 13 (2), 58–99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10411

Your Spouse Is Fired! How Much Do You Care?

Milena Nikolova, Sinem H. Ayhan

revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 32, 799- 844

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10353

Strengthening Enforcement in Unemployment Insurance: A Natural Experiment

Patrick Arni, Amelie Schiprowski

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10262

Working to Get Fired? Regression Discontinuity Effects of Unemployment Benefit Eligibility on Prior Employment Duration

Pedro S. Martins

published in: Journal of Policy Modelling, 2021, 43 (5), 1016-1030

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10221

Waiting Longer Before Claiming, and Activating Youth: No Point?

Bart Cockx, Eva Van Belle

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2019, 40 (4), 658-687

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10182

Targeting Tax Relief at Youth Employment

Matthew D. Webb, Casey Warman, Arthur Sweetman

published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2016, 42 (4), 415–430.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10063

Can Immigrants Insure against Shocks as Well as the Native-born?

Asadul Islam, Steven Stillman, Christopher Worswick

published in. Applied Economics, 2018, 50, 5302 - 5315

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9967

Optimal Unemployment Benefit Policy and the Firm Productivity Distribution

Tomer Blumkin, Leif Danziger, Eran Yashiv

published in: International Tax and Public Finance 2017, 24, 36-59

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9966

Evaluating Labour Market Policy

Werner Eichhorst, Regina Konle-Seidl

published in: Bent Greve (ed.), Handbook of Social Policy Evaluation, 2017, Chapter 18

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9953

From Dual to Unified Employment Protection: Transition and Steady State

Juan J. Dolado, Etienne Lalé, Nawid Siassi

published in: Quantitative Economics, 2021, 12 (2), 547-585.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9877

Family Ownership, Workplace Closure and the Recession

Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen, Trygve Gulbrandsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9868

Disincentive Effects of Unemployment Benefits and the Role of Caseworkers

Johannes F. Schmieder, Simon Trenkle

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 182, 104096

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9865

Job Displacement Insurance: A Policy Typology

Donald O. Parsons

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9833

Uptake of Health Insurance and the Productive Safety Net Program in Rural Ethiopia

Zemzem Shigute, Anagaw Derseh Mebratie, Robert Sparrow, Zelalem Yilma, Getnet Alemu, Arjun S. Bedi

published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2017, 176, 133-141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9824

Moral-Hazard-Free First-Best Unemployment Insurance

Donald O. Parsons

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9823

The Simple Analytics of Job Displacement Insurance

Donald O. Parsons

published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2019, 86 (2), 351 - 380

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9782

Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Methods for Dynamic Treatment Evaluation

Gerard J. van den Berg, Petyo Bonev, Enno Mammen

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (2), 355–367.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9740

Firm Dynamics and Employment Protection: Evidence from Sectoral Data

Anna Bottasso, Maurizio Conti, Giovanni Sulis

published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 78, 35-53

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9729

Job Loss and Immigrant Labor Market Performance

Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed

published in: Economica ,2018, 85, 124–151

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9680

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

Mark Borgschulte, Paco Martorell

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (3), 101-127

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9626

The Role of Sickness in the Evaluation of Job Search Assistance and Sanctions

Gerard J. van den Berg, Barbara Hofmann, Arne Uhlendorff

revised version published as 'Evaluating Vacancy Referrals and the Roles of Sanctions and Sickness Absenc' in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129, 3292-3322

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9617

Opening the Blackbox: How Does Labor Market Policy Affect the Job Seekers' Behavior? A Field Experiment

Patrick Arni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9548

The Effect of Unemployment Benefit Generosity on Unemployment Duration: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Slovenia

Matija Vodopivec, Suzana Laporsek, Primož Dolenc, Milan Vodopivec

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9547

Social Assistance in Five Countries in North-Western Europe

Hans Hansen, Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9459

Contracting Out Mandatory Counselling and Training for Long-Term Unemployed: Private For-Profit or Non-Profit, or Keep It Public?

Bart Cockx, Stijn Baert

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9457

Treatment versus Regime Effects of Carrots and Sticks

Patrick Arni, Gerard J. van den Berg, Rafael Lalive

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9333

Time-Varying Individual Risk Attitudes over the Great Recession: A Comparison of Germany and Ukraine

Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 44 (1), 182-200

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9321

A European Perspective on Long‐Term Unemployment

Werner Eichhorst, Franziska Neder, Verena Tobsch, Florian Wozny

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9304

Blame the Parents? How Financial Incentives Affect Labor Supply and Job Quality for Young Adults

Andrey Fradkin, Frédéric Panier, Ilan Tojerow

published as 'Blame the Parents? How Parental Unemployment Affects Labor Supply and Job Quality for Young Adults'in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (1), 35-100

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9220

Decomposing the Wage Losses of Displaced Workers: The Role of the Reallocation of Workers into Firms and Job Titles

Pedro Raposo, Pedro Portugal, Anabela Carneiro

published as 'The Sources of the Wage Losses of Displaced workers: The Role of the Reallocation of Workers into Firms, Matches, and Job Titles' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56 (3), 786 - 820

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9174

Health and Unemployment during Macroeconomic Crises

Prashant Bharadwaj, Petter Lundborg, Dan-Olof Rooth

published as "Birth weight and vulnerability to a macroeconomic crisis": Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 66, 136-144.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9151

The Impact of Short- and Long-Term Participation Tax Rates on Labor Supply

Charlotte Bartels, Nico Pestel

revised version published as 'Short- and Long-term Participation Tax Rates and Their Impact on Labor Supply' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2016, 23(6), 1126-1159

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8991

Benefit Reentitlement Conditions in Unemployment Insurance Schemes

Torben M. Andersen, Mark Strom Kristoffersen, Michael Svarer

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 27-39

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8951

The Effects of Binding and Non-Binding Job Search Requirements

Patrick Arni, Amelie Schiprowski

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8920

Offshoring and Labour Market Reforms: Modelling the German Experience

Thomas Beissinger, Nathalie Chusseau, Joël Hellier

published in: Economic Modelling, 2016, 53, 314-333

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8784

The Effect of Extended Unemployment Insurance Benefits: Evidence from the 2012-2013 Phase-Out

Henry S Farber, Jesse Rothstein, Robert G. Valletta

published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (5), 171 - 176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8783

Voluntary Public Unemployment Insurance

Donald O. Parsons, Torben Tranæs, Helene Bie Lilleør

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8700

The Causal Effect of Unemployment Duration on Wages: Evidence from Unemployment Insurance Extensions

Johannes F. Schmieder, Till von Wachter, Stefan Bender

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8667

Universal Basic Income versus Unemployment Insurance

Alice Fabre, Stéphane Pallage, Christian Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8598

An Unemployment Insurance Scheme for the Euro Area? A Comparison of Different Alternatives using Micro Data

Mathias Dolls, Clemens Fuest, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl

revised version published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2018, 25, 273 - 309

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8597

Welfare Effects of Short-Time Compensation

Helge Braun, Björn Brügemann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8588

A Family Affair: Job Loss and the Mental Health of Spouses and Adolescents

Melisa Bubonya, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Mark Wooden

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 6, 6 (2017)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8422

Mandated versus Negotiated Severance Pay

Stéphane Auray, Samuel Danthine, Markus Poschke

published as 'Understanding the Determination of Severance Pay: Mandates, Bargaining, and Unions' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2020, 122 (3), 1073 - 1111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8376

Social Protection beyond the Bottom Billion

Susan Murphy, Patrick Paul Walsh

published in: Economic and Social Review, 2014, 45 (2), 261 - 284

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8336

The Effects of Reducing the Entitlement Period to Unemployment Insurance Benefits

Nynke De Groot, Bas van der Klaauw

published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 57, 195-208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8247

Recent Extensions of U.S. Unemployment Benefits: Search Responses in Alternative Labor Market States

Robert G. Valletta

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2014, 3

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8223

Job Displacement Insurance: An Overview

Donald O. Parsons

published in: J. Wright (ed.): International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed., 2015, 12. Oxford, 819-832

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8156

Labor Market Institutions and Long-Term Effects of Youth Unemployment

Daiji Kawaguchi, Tetsushi Murao

published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2014, 46(S2), 95–116

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8086

An Empirical Analysis of Trade-Related Redistribution and the Political Viability of Free Trade

James Lake, Daniel L. Millimet

published in: Journal of International Economics, 2016, 99, 156-178

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8022

Scraping By: Income and Program Participation After the Loss of Extended Unemployment Benefits

Jesse Rothstein, Robert G. Valletta

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7957

A Contribution to the Empirics of Reservation Wages

Alan B. Krueger, Andreas I. Mueller

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016, 8 (1), 142-179

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7913

Unemployment Insurance and Underemployment

Anna Godoy, Knut Røed

revised version published in: Labour, 2016, 30 (2), 158–179

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7888

Employment Dynamics and Redistributive Policies under Workers' Social Norms

Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira, Teresa Lloyd-Braga, Leonor Modesto

published as 'The destabilizing effects of the social norm to work under a social security system' in: Mathematical Social Sciences, 2015, 76, 64-72

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7772

Aid to Jobless Workers in Florida in the Face of the Great Recession: The Interaction of Unemployment Insurance and the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program

Colleen M. Heflin, Peter R. Mueser

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7740

Structural Empirical Evaluation of Job Search Monitoring

Gerard J. van den Berg, Bas van der Klaauw

published in: International Economic Review, 2019, 60 (2), 879-903

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7659

Thumbscrews for Agencies or for Individuals? How to Reduce Unemployment

Andrey Launov, Klaus Wälde

substantially revised version published as 'The Employment Effect of Reforming a Public Employment Agency' in: European Economic Review, 2016, 84, 140-164

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7650

Market Externalities of Large Unemployment Insurance Extension Programs

Rafael Lalive, Camille Landais, Josef Zweimüller

published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (12), 3564-3596

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7641

Understanding Severance Pay

Donald O. Parsons

Cuadernos de Economía (Spanish Journal of Economics and Finance), 2013, 36 (106), 155-165.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7630

Sanctions for Young Welfare Recipients

Gerard J. van den Berg, Arne Uhlendorff, Joachim Wolff

published in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2014, 177-208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7594

The Perverse Effects of Job-Security Provisions on Job Security in Italy: Results from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Alexander Hijzen, Leopoldo Mondauto, Stefano Scarpetta

published as "The Impact of Employment Protection on Temporary Employment: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design" in: Labour Economics, 2017 , 46 (C), 65 - 76

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7559

The Effect of Extended Unemployment Benefit on the Job Finding Hazards: A Quasi-Experiment in Japan

Tomohiro Machikita, Miki Kohara, Masaru Sasaki

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7488

Should Unemployment Insurance Be Asset-Tested?

Sebastian Koehne, Moritz Kuhn

published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2015, 18 (3), 575-592

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7455

The Economics of Severance Pay

Tito Boeri, Pietro Garibaldi, Espen R. Moen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7403

Is the Contracting-Out of Intensive Placement Services More Effective than Provision by the PES? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Gerhard Krug, Gesine Stephan

revised version published as 'Private and Public Placement Services for Hard-To-Place Unemployed: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment' in: ILR Review, 2016, 69, 471-500

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7400

Seek and Ye Shall Find: How Search Requirements Affect Job Finding Rates of Older Workers

Patrick Hullegie, Jan C. van Ours

published in De Economist, 2014, 162 (4), 377 - 395

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7347

Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Lengthen Unemployment Spells? Evidence from Recent Cycles in the U.S. Labor Market

Henry S Farber, Robert G. Valletta

revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50(4), 873-909

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7330

Extended Unemployment Benefits and Early Retirement: Program Complementarity and Program Substitution

Lukas Inderbitzin, Stefan Staubli, Josef Zweimüller

revised version published in: American Economics Journal: Economic Policy, 2016, 8(1), 1-37

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7327

The Costs of Worker Displacement in Urban Labor Markets of China

Yuhao Ge, Hartmut Lehmann

puplished in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2013, 2, Article 4

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7291

The Role of Short-Time Work Schemes during the Global Financial Crisis and Early Recovery: A Cross-Country Analysis

Alexander Hijzen, Sébastien Martin

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2013, 2:5

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7266

Monitoring Job Search Effort with Hyperbolic Time Preferences and Non-Compliance: A Welfare Analysis

Bart Cockx, Corinna Ghirelli, Bruno Van der Linden

revised version published as 'Is it Socially Efficient to Impose Job Search Requirements on Unemployed Benefit Claimants with Hyperbolic Preferences?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 113, 80-95

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7193

Unemployment and Subsequent Employment Stability: Does Labour Market Policy Matter?

Melike Wulfgramm, Lukas Fervers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7128

Unemployment Insurance, Wage Dynamics and Inequality over the Life Cycle

Paul Bingley, Lorenzo Cappellari, Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen

published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (568), 341–372

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7121

Unemployment Insurance and Entrepreneurship

Knut Røed, Jens Fredrik Skogstrøm

revised version published in: Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2014, 26 (4), 430-448

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7117