IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published as 'Does reducing unemployment insurance generosity reduce job match quality?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (3-4), 684-695

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2141

The Effects of Labor Market Policies in an Economy with an Informal Sector

James Albrecht, Lucas Navarro, Susan Vroman

published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (539), 1105 - 1129

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2132

Labour Market Signalling and Unemployment Duration: An Empirical Analysis Using Employer-Employee Data

Anders Frederiksen, Rikke Ibsen, Michael Rosholm, Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen

published in: Economic Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 84-86

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. 2073

Employment Subsidies and Substitutable Skills: An Equilibrium Matching Approach

Gabriele Cardullo, Bruno Van der Linden

published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2007, 53 (4), 375-404

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2055

Konzentration statt Verzettelung: Die deutsche Arbeitsmarktpolitik am Scheideweg

Hilmar Schneider, Werner Eichhorst, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 2006, 7 (3), 379-397

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2009

Youth Unemployment and Crime in France

Denis Fougère, Francis Kramarz, Julien Pouget

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(5), 909-938

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. 1968

Does the Quality of Industrial Relations Matter for the Macro Economy? A Cross-Country Analysis Using Strikes Data

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira

published as 'Are Good Industrial Relations Good for the Economy?' in: German Economic Review, 2009, 10 (3), 253 - 269

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1960

Employment Protection, Product Market Regulation and Firm Selection

Winfried Koeniger, Julien Prat

revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F302 - F332

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1928

Civic Attitudes and the Design of Labor Market Institutions: Which Countries Can Implement the Danish Flexicurity Model?

Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc

published as "Civic Virtue and Labor Market Institutions" in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2009, 1(1), 111-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1926

Wages and the Risk of Displacement

Anabela Carneiro, Pedro Portugal

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 251-276

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1839

Job Search Monitoring and Unemployment Duration in Hungary: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial

John Micklewright, Gyula Nagy

revised version published as 'The effect of monitoring unemployment insurance recipients on unemployment duration: Evidence from a field experiment' in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 180-187

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1806

Demographic and Education Effects on Unemployment in Europe: Economic Factors and Labour Market Institutions

Federico Biagi, Claudio Lucifora

published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(5), 1076-1101

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1770

The Incidence and Cost of Job Loss in the Ukrainian Labor Market

Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti, Jonathan Wadsworth

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 34 (2), 248-271

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1760

Value of Work: Bargaining, Job-Satisfaction, and Taxation in a Simple GE Model

Felix FitzRoy, Michael A. Nolan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1743

Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform

Adriana Kugler, Giovanni Pica

published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (1), 78-95

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1733

Firm Productivity Dispersion and the Matching Role of UI Policy

Tomer Blumkin, Yossi Hadar, Eran Yashiv

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1718

The Interaction of Labor Market Regulation and Labor Market Policies in Welfare State Reform

Werner Eichhorst, Regina Konle-Seidl

published in: Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, 2006, 28 (1), 1- 41; also available in Chinese

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1679

The Perverse Effects of Partial Employment Protection Reform: Experience Rating and French Older Workers

Luc Behaghel, Bruno Crépon, Béatrice Sédillot

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (3-4), 696-721.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1678

Optimum Income Taxation and Layoff Taxes

Pierre Cahuc, Andre Zylberberg

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (10-11), 2003-2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1650

Job Displacement Penalties in Japan

Michael L. Bognanno, Lisa Delgado

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 225-250

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1633

A Search Model of Discouragement

Michael Rosholm, Ott Toomet

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1572

Two-Sided Search, Heterogeneous Skills and Labor Market Performance

Samuel Danthine

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1526

Equilibrium Evaluation of Active Labor Market Programmes Enhancing Matching Effectiveness

Bruno Van der Linden

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1489

Job Security and Job Protection

Andrew E. Clark, Fabien Postel-Vinay

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2009, 61 (2), 207-239

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1424

Employment Regulations through the Eyes of Employers: Do They Matter and How Do Firms Respond to Them?

Gaëlle Pierre, Stefano Scarpetta

revised version published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2013, 2:15

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1404

The Political Economy of Job Protection and Income Redistribution

Bruno Amable, Donatella Gatti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1383

Severance Pay and Corporate Finance: Empirical Evidence from a Panel of Austrian and Italian Firms

Mirko Cardinale, Mike Orszag

published in: Empirica, 2005, 32 (3-4), 309-343

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1371

Cross-Skill Redistribution and the Tradeoff between Unemployment Benefits and Employment Protection

Tito Boeri, J. Ignacio Conde-Ruiz, Vincenzo Galasso

revised version published as 'The Political Economy Of Flexicurity' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (4), 684–715

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1363

How Changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment

Rafael Lalive, Jan C. van Ours, Josef Zweimüller

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2006, 73 (4), 1009-1038

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1348

In the Right Place at the Wrong Time: The Role of Firms and Luck in Young Workers' Careers

Till von Wachter, Stefan Bender

published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (5), 1679-1705

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1335

Effective Active Labor Market Policies

Jan Boone, Jan C. van Ours

published as 'Bringing Unemployed Back to Work: Effective Active Labor Market Policies' in: De Economist, 2007, 157 (3), 293-313

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1314

Key Elasticities in Job Search Theory: International Evidence

John T. Addison, Mario Centeno, Pedro Portugal

published as 'Unemployment Benefits and Reservation Wages: Key Elasticities from a Stripped-Down Job Search Approach' in Economica, 2010, 77 (305), 46-59.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1291

Labour Market Institutions and Wage Inequality

Winfried Koeniger, Marco Leonardi, Luca Nunziata

revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (3), 340-356

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1253

Geographic Labour Mobility and Unemployment Insurance in Europe

Konstantinos Tatsiramos

substantially revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22(2), 267-283

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1252

Reservation Wages, Search Duration, and Accepted Wages in Europe

John T. Addison, Mario Centeno, Pedro Portugal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1181

How Changes in Benefits Entitlement Affect Job-Finding: Lessons from the Slovenian "Experiment"

Jan C. van Ours, Milan Vodopivec

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, 24 (2), 351-378

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1177

The Exhaustion of Unemployment Benefits in Belgium: Does it Enhance the Probability of Employment?

Bart Cockx, Jean Ries

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1172

On the Optimality of Search Matching Equilibrium When Workers Are Risk Averse

Etienne Lehmann, Bruno Van der Linden

published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2007, 9 (5), 867-884

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1163

The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment Duration and the Subsequent Employment Stability

Konstantinos Tatsiramos

substantially revised version appeared as DP No. 2280

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1161

Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment Rates of Low-Skilled and Elder Workers in West Germany: A Search Equilibrium Approach

Andrey Launov, Joachim Wolff, Stephan Klasen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1157

Unions, Firing Costs and Unemployment

Leonor Modesto

published in: Labour, 2008, 22 (3), 509 - 546

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1010

Re-Employment Bonuses in a Signalling Model of Temporary Layoffs

Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published as 'A signaling model of temporary layoffs' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2009, 61 (3), 566-585

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1000

Experiments on Unemployment Benefit Sanctions and Job Search Behavior

Jan Boone, Abdolkarim Sadrieh, Jan C. van Ours

published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53 (8), 937-951

IZA Discussion Paper No. 978

How Does the Unemployment Insurance System Shape the Time Profile of Jobless Duration?

John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal

published in: Economics Letters, 2004, 85 (2), 229-234

IZA Discussion Paper No. 954

Six Ways to Leave Unemployment

Pedro Portugal, John T. Addison

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 55 (4), 393 - 419

IZA Discussion Paper No. 948

Effects of Employment Protection and Product Market Regulations on the Italian Labor Market

Adriana Kugler, Giovanni Pica

published in: J. Messina, C. Michelacci, J. Turunen and G. Zoega (eds.), Labour Market Adjustments in Europe, Edward Elgar 2006

IZA Discussion Paper No. 943

What Have We Learned About the Employment Effects of Severance Pay? Further Iterations of Lazear et al.

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira

published in: Empirica, 2005, 32 (3-4), 345-368

IZA Discussion Paper No. 937

Fiscal Policy, Economic Integration and Unemployment

Wolfgang Eggert, Laszlo Goerke

published in: Journal of Economics/Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, 2004, 82 (2), 137-167

IZA Discussion Paper No. 888

Collective Dismissal Cost, Product Market Competition and Innovation

Winfried Koeniger

revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2005, 88 (1), 79-84

IZA Discussion Paper No. 880

Employment Protection and Product Market Regulation

Winfried Koeniger, Andrea Vindigni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 835

Job Turnover, Unemployment and Labor Market Institutions

Gilles Joseph, Olivier Pierrard, Henri R. Sneessens

published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (4), 451-468

IZA Discussion Paper No. 834

Protecting Against Labour Market Risk: Employment Protection or Unemployment Benefits?

Tito Boeri, J. Ignacio Conde-Ruiz, Vincenzo Galasso

IZA Discussion Paper No. 811

Firms, Industries, and Unemployment Insurance: An Analysis Using Employer-Employee Data

Miles Corak, Wen-Hao Chen

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 299-336

IZA Discussion Paper No. 803

Social Interactions in Unemployment

Rafael Lalive

IZA Discussion Paper No. 701

Earnings-Related Unemployment Benefits in a Unionised Economy

Laszlo Goerke, Jakob B. Madsen

published in: Economic Systems, 2003, 27 (1), 41-62

IZA Discussion Paper No. 681

An Adverse Selection Model of Optimal Unemployment Insurance

Marcus Hagedorn, Ashok Kaul, Tim Mennel

published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2010, 34 (3), 490-502

IZA Discussion Paper No. 665

Fancy a Stay at the 'Hotel California'? Foreign Direct Investment, Taxation and Firing Costs

Holger Görg

revised version published as 'Fancy a stay at the 'Hotel California'? in: Kyklos, 2005, 58 (4), 519-535

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. 622

Should UI Benefits Really Fall Over Time?

John Hassler, José V. Rodriguez Mora

IZA Discussion Paper No. 610

Unemployment Benefits, Risk Aversion, and Migration Incentives

Axel Heitmueller

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18(1), 93-112

IZA Discussion Paper No. 581

Unemployment Compensation Finance and Labor Market Rigidity

Pierre Cahuc, Franck Malherbet

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2004, 88 (3-4), 481-501

IZA Discussion Paper No. 567

The Incidence and Cost of Job Loss in a Transition Economy: Displaced Workers in Estonia, 1989-1999

Hartmut Lehmann, Kaia Philips, Jonathan Wadsworth

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005, 33 (1), 59-87

IZA Discussion Paper No. 554

Employment Protection, Product Market Competition and Growth

Winfried Koeniger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 537

Unemployment Vouchers versus Low-Wage Subsidies

Mike Orszag, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Edmund S. Phelps (ed.), Designing Inclusion: Tools to Raise Low-end Pay and Employment in Private Enterprise, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 131 - 160

IZA Discussion Paper No. 532

From Unemployment Benefits to Unemployment Accounts

Mike Orszag, Dennis J. Snower

IZA Discussion Paper No. 492

Benefit Entitlement and Unemployment Duration: The Role of Policy Endogeneity

Rafael Lalive, Josef Zweimüller

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2004, 88 (12), 2587-2616

IZA Discussion Paper No. 474

Unions, Works Councils and Plant Closings in Germany

John T. Addison, Lutz Bellmann, Arnd Kölling

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2004, 42 (1), 125-148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 469

The Effect of Benefit Sanctions on the Duration of Unemployment

Rafael Lalive, Jan C. van Ours, Josef Zweimüller

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005, 3 (6), 1386-1417

IZA Discussion Paper No. 455

Unions and Establishment Performance: Evidence from the British Workplace Industrial/Employee Relations Surveys

John T. Addison, Clive R. Belfield

published in: Phanindra V. Wunnava (ed.), The Changing Role of Unions: New Forms of Representation, Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, April 2004

IZA Discussion Paper No. 444

Benefit Entitlement and the Labor Market: Evidence from a Large-Scale Policy Change

Rafael Lalive, Josef Zweimüller

published in: Jonas Agell, Michael Keen and Alfons Weichenrieder (eds.), Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation, 2004, 63-100

IZA Discussion Paper No. 414

Where Did They Go?

Anders Frederiksen, Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen

published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (5), 811-828

IZA Discussion Paper No. 401

Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Monitoring and Sanctions

Jan Boone, Peter Fredriksson, Bertil Holmlund, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (518), 399-421

IZA Discussion Paper No. 390

The Impact of Labor Market Reforms on Capital Flows, Wages and Unemployment

Thomas Beissinger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 381

The Economics of Employment Protection

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2003, 24 (1), 85-129

IZA Discussion Paper No. 374

Counseling and Monitoring of Unemployed Workers: Theory and Evidence from a Controlled Social Experiment

Gerard J. van den Berg, Bas van der Klaauw

published in: International Economic Review, 2006, 47 (3), 895-936

IZA Discussion Paper No. 358

Bismarck versus Beveridge: Which Unemployment Compensation System is More Prone to Labor Market Shocks?

Thomas Beissinger, Oliver Buesse

published in: FinanzArchiv, 2001, 58 (1),78-102

IZA Discussion Paper No. 352

Unions and Plant Closings in Britain: New Evidence from the 1990/98 WERS

John T. Addison, John S. Heywood, Xiangdong Wei

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2003, 69 (4), 822-841

IZA Discussion Paper No. 350

Unemployment Duration: Competing and Defective Risks

John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2003, 38 (1), 156-191

IZA Discussion Paper No. 294

Estimating the Effect of Unemployment Insurance Compensation on the Labor Market Histories of Displaced Workers

Štepán Jurajda

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2002, 108(2), 227-252

IZA Discussion Paper No. 277

Evaluating an Innovative Redundancy-Retraining Project: The Austrian Steel Foundation

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published as 'Coping with a structural crisis: evaluating an innovative redundancy-retraining project' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2006, 27 (8), 700 - 721

IZA Discussion Paper No. 225

An Analysis of Labour Adjustment Costs in Unionized Economies

Leonor Modesto, Jonathan P. Thomas

published in: Labour Economics, 2001, 8 (4), 475-501

IZA Discussion Paper No. 184

Intergenerational Influences on the Receipt of Unemployment Insurance in Canada and Sweden

Miles Corak, Björn Anders Gustafsson, Torun Österberg

published in: Miles Corak (ed.), Generational Income Mobility in North America and Europe. Cambridge University Press 2004

IZA Discussion Paper No. 134

Hiring and Firing Costs, Adverse Selection and Long-term Unemployment

Adriana Kugler, Gilles Saint-Paul

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2004, 22(3), 553-584.