IZA Discussion Papers

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

Losing Heart? The Effect of Job Displacement on Health

Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes

revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(4), 833-861

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7081

Lingering Illness or Sudden Death? Pre-Exit Employment Developments in German Establishments

Daniel Fackler, Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner

published in: Industrial and Corporate Change 2014, 23 (4), 1121-1140

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7077

Is Longer Unemployment Rewarded with Longer Job Tenure?

Miki Kohara, Masaru Sasaki, Tomohiro Machikita

published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2013, 29, 44-56

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6992

Do Low-Wage Workers React Less to Longer Unemployment Benefits? Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Mario Centeno, Alvaro A. Novo

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 76(2), 185–207

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6950

Labor Market Effects of Unemployment Insurance Design

Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2014, 28 (2), 284 - 311

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6881

The Dynamics of the Regulation of Labor in Developing and Developed Countries since 1960

Nauro F. Campos, Jeffrey B. Nugent

published in in N. Campos, P. De Grauwe and Y. Ji (eds.), The Political Economy of Structural Reforms in Europe, Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 75-88.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6707

The Effect of Job Displacement on Couples' Fertility Decisions

Kristiina Huttunen, Jenni Kellokumpu

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34 (2), 403-442

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6660

Unemployment Insurance, Job Search and Informal Employment

David N. Margolis, Lucas Navarro, David A. Robalino

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6608

Employment Protection and Fertility: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform

Ervin Prifti, Daniela Vuri

published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 23, 77-88

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6308

Unemployment Benefits or Taxes: How Should Policy Makers Redistribute Income over the Business Cycle?

Susanne Ek Spector

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6294

Selective Hiring and Welfare Analysis in Labor Market Models

Christian Merkl, Thijs van Rens

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 57, 117-130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6230

Job Separations and Informality in the Russian Labor Market

Hartmut Lehmann, Tiziano Razzolini, Anzelika Zaiceva

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 34, 257-290

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6198

Scarring Effects of Unemployment

Øivind Anti Nilsen, Katrine Holm Reiso

published as 'Scarring Effects of Early-Career Unemployment' in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2014, 1, 13-45

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6080

The Effects of the Recent Economic Crisis on Social Protection and Labour Market Arrangements across Socio-Economic Groups

Gaetano Basso, Mathias Dolls, Werner Eichhorst, Thomas Leoni, Andreas Peichl

published in: Intereconomics, 2012, 47 (4), 217-223.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6003

Double-Sided Moral Hazard in Job Displacement Insurance Contracts

Donald O. Parsons

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5876

Severance Pay Mandates: Firing Costs, Hiring Costs, and Firm Avoidance Behaviors

Donald O. Parsons

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5794

Workforce Reorganization and the Worker

Ben Kriechel, Gerard A. Pfann

published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (13), 1719-1729

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5780

Short-Time Work: The German Answer to the Great Recession

Karl Brenke, Ulf Rinne, Klaus F. Zimmermann

revised version published in: International Labour Review, 2013, 152 (2), 287-305 / spanish version published as 'Desempleo parcial, la respuesta alemana a la Gran Recesión' in: Revista Internacional del Trabajo, 2013, 132 (2), 325-344 / french version published as 'Le chômage partiel: réponse de l'Allemagne face à la grande récession' in: Revue internationale du Travail, 2013, 152 (2), 311-330

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5776

Mandated Severance Pay and Firing Cost Distortions: A Critical Review of the Evidence

Donald O. Parsons

published in: Robert Holzmann and Milan Vodopivec (eds.), Reforming Severance Pay: An International Perspective, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2012, 121-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5731

Severance Pay Programs around the World: History, Rationale, Status, and Reforms

Robert Holzmann, Yann Pouget, Milan Vodopivec, Michael Weber

published in: Robert Holzmann and Milan Vodopivec (eds), Reforming Severance Pay: An International Perspective,Washington, D.C.: The World Bank., 2012

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5635

Short-Time Work Benefits Revisited: Some Lessons from the Great Recession

Tito Boeri, Herbert Brücker

published in: Economic Policy, 2011, 26 (68), 697-766.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5577

Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts in Latin America: Overview and Assessment

Ana Ferrer, W. Craig Riddell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5540

Part-Time Unemployment and Optimal Unemployment Insurance

Susanne Ek Spector, Bertil Holmlund

published in International Tax and Public Finance, 2015, 22(2), 201-223

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5476

Incentive Effects of Risk Pooling, Redistributive and Savings Arrangements in Unemployment Benefit Systems: Evidence from a Job-Search Model for Brazil

David A. Robalino, Eduardo Zylberstajn, Juan David Robalino

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5450

Job Search and Job Finding in a Period of Mass Unemployment: Evidence from High-Frequency Longitudinal Data

Alan B. Krueger, Andreas I. Mueller

published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2011, 42 (1), 1-81

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5430

Is Short-Time Work a Good Method to Keep Unemployment Down?

Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo

published in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2011, 1(1),133-165.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5415

The Costs of Job Loss in Russia

Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev, Tiziano Razzolini, Anzelika Zaiceva

revised version published as 'The Wage and Non-wage Costs of Displacement in Boom Times: Evidence from Russia' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2013, 41 (4), 1184-1201

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5379

Determinanten des Suchverhaltens von Arbeitslosen: Ausgewählte Erkenntnisse basierend auf dem IZA Evaluationsdatensatz

Marco Caliendo, Arne Uhlendorff

published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2011, 44 (1-2), 119-125

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5373

Creative Unemployment

Knut Røed, Jens Fredrik Skogstrøm

revised version published as 'Job loss and Entrepreneurship' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 76 (5), 727-744

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5337

The Threat of Monitoring Job Search: A Discontinuity Design

Bart Cockx, Muriel Dejemeppe

revised version published in :Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (5), 729-737

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5335

Who Pays for It? The Heterogeneous Wage Effects of Employment Protection Legislation

Marco Leonardi, Giovanni Pica

published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123, 1236-1278.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5320

The Impact of the Crisis on Employment and the Role of Labour Market Institutions

Werner Eichhorst, Veronica Escudero, Paul Marx, Steven Tobin

also available as: International Institute for Labour Studies Discussion Paper 202. Geneva.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5077

The Reservation Wage Unemployment Duration Nexus

John T. Addison, José Machado, Pedro Portugal

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 75 (6), 980-987

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4967

The Firing Cost Implications of Alternative Severance Pay Designs

Donald O. Parsons

published in: Robert Holzmann and Milan Vodopivec, eds., Reforming Severance Pay: An International Perspective, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2012, 159-176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4897

Disability in the Welfare State: An Unemployment Problem in Disguise?

Bernt Bratsberg, Elisabeth Fevang, Knut Røed

revised version published as 'Job Loss and Disability Insurance' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 137–150

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4895

Employment Protection, Technology Choice, and Worker Allocation

Eric Bartelsman, Pieter A. Gautier, Joris De Wind

published in: International Economic Review, 2018, 57 (3), 787 - 825

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4894

Estimating the Impact of Immigrants on the Host Country Social Security System When Return Migration is an Endogenous Choice

Murat Güray Kirdar

published in: International Economic Review, 2012, 53 (2), 453-486

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4864

Can Training Programs or Rather Wage Subsidies Bring the Unemployed Back to Work? A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation for Germany

Renate Neubäumer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4852

Shutdown Contests in Multi-Plant Firms and Governmental Intervention

Matthias Kräkel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4773

Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies: The Role of Job Search Assistance

Conny Wunsch

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (3), 1030-1045

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4701

Family Job Search, Wage Bargaining, and Optimal Unemployment Insurance

Susanne Ek Spector, Bertil Holmlund

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4691

How Changes in Unemployment Benefit Duration Affect the Inflow into Unemployment

Jan C. van Ours, Sander Tuit

published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 109 (2), 105-107

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4681

Incentive Effects of Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts: Evidence from Chile

Gonzalo Reyes Hartley, Jan C. van Ours, Milan Vodopivec

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (6), 798-809

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4516

Savings for Unemployment in Good or Bad Times: Options for Developing Countries

David A. Robalino, Milan Vodopivec, András Bodor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4509

How Effective Are Unemployment Benefit Sanctions? Looking Beyond Unemployment Exit

Patrick Arni, Rafael Lalive, Jan C. van Ours

revised version (including technical online appendix) published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (7), 1153–1178

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4357

Labor Market Pooling, Outsourcing and Labor Contracts

Pierre M. Picard, David Wildasin

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2011, 70 (1), 47-60.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4355

The Public Health Costs of Job Loss

Andreas Kuhn, Rafael Lalive, Josef Zweimüller

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2009, 28(6), 1099-1115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4325

Monitoring Job Offer Decisions, Punishments, Exit to Work, and Job Quality

Gerard J. van den Berg, Johan Vikström

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 116 2014, 284-334

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4165

An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State: The Case of Benefit Morale

Martin Halla, Mario Lackner, Friedrich Schneider

revised version published in: Kyklos, 2010, 63 (1), 55-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4079

How a Mandatory Activation Program Reduces Unemployment Durations: The Effects of Distance

Brian Krogh Graversen, Jan C. van Ours

published as 'An Activation Program as a Stick to Job Finding' in: Labour, 2011, 25 (2), 167 - 181

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4071

Optimal Unemployment Insurance for Older Workers

Jean-Olivier Hairault, François Langot, Sébastien Ménard, Thepthida Sopraseuth

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (5-6), 509-519

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3920

The Effect of Receiving Supplementary UI Benefits on Unemployment Duration

Tomi Kyyrä, Pierpaolo Parrotta, Michael Rosholm

published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21, 122-133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3905

Contingent Convergence: A Comparative Analysis of Activation Policies

Werner Eichhorst, Regina Konle-Seidl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3869

Unemployment Insurance Generosity: A Trans-Atlantic Comparison

Stéphane Pallage, Lyle Scruggs, Christian Zimmermann

published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2009, 95-96, 15-23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3868

Measuring Unemployment Insurance Generosity

Stéphane Pallage, Lyle Scruggs, Christian Zimmermann

published in: Political Analysis, 2013, 21(4), 524-549

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3856

The Long-Term Effects of Job Search Requirements: Evidence from the UK JSA Reform

Barbara Petrongolo

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (11-12), 1234-1253

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3802

The Impacts of Labor Market Policies on Job Search Behavior and Post-Unemployment Job Quality

Simen Gaure, Knut Røed, Lars Westlie

revised version published as 'Job search incentives and job match quality' in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (3), 438-450

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3772

Wage Subsidies for Needy Job-Seekers and Their Effect on Individual Labour Market Outcomes after the German Reforms

Sarah Bernhard, Hermann Gartner, Gesine Stephan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3767

The Relative Effectiveness of Selected Active Labour Market Programmes and the Common Support Problem

Gesine Stephan, André Pahnke

revised version published as 'The Relative Effectiveness of Selected Active Labor Market Programs: An Empiriccal Investigation for Germany' in: Manchester School, 2011, 79(6), 1262-1293

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3667

Job Search and Unemployment Insurance: New Evidence from Time Use Data

Alan B. Krueger, Andreas I. Mueller

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (3-4), 298-307

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3633

The Effect of Extending the Duration of Eligibility in an Italian Labour Market Programme for Dismissed Workers

Enrico Rettore, Adriano Paggiaro, Ugo Trivellato

published as 'The Effect of Longer Eligibility to a Labour Market Programme for Dismissed Workers' in: Labour, 2009, 23 (1), 37 - 66

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3620

Experimental Evidence on the Nature of the Danish Employment Miracle

Michael Rosholm

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3617

Does the Color of the Collar Matter? Firm Specific Human Capital and Post-Displacement Outcomes

Guido Schwerdt, Andrea Ichino, Oliver Ruf, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Josef Zweimüller

published in: Economic Letters, 2010, 108 (2), 137-140

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3579

Unemployment Assistance and Transition to Employment in Argentina

Ana Iturriza, Arjun S. Bedi, Robert Sparrow

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2011, 59 (4), 811-837

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3570

Do Unemployment Benefits Increase Unemployment? New Evidence on an Old Question

Peter Fredriksson, Martin Söderström

published as 'The Equilibrium Impact of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment: Evidence from a Non-linear Policy Rule' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 187, 104199

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3509

Uncertainty and the Politics of Employment Protection

Andrea Vindigni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3490

The Lot of the Unemployed: A Time Use Perspective

Alan B. Krueger, Andreas I. Mueller

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (4), 765–794

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3483

Imposed Benefit Sanctions and the Unemployment-to-Employment Transition: The German Experience

Kai-Uwe Müller, Viktor Steiner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3438

How Viable Are Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts: Simulation Results for Slovenia

Milan Vodopivec

published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2010, 52, 225–247

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3371

Do Unemployment Benefits Promote or Hinder Structural Change?

Tito Boeri, Mario Macis

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 39, 109-125

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3357

Unemployment Benefits and Reservation Wages: Key Elasticities from a Stripped-Down Job Search Approach

John T. Addison, Mario Centeno, Pedro Portugal

published in: Economica, 2010, 77 (305), 46–59

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3289

Do Reservation Wages Really Decline? Some International Evidence on the Determinants of Reservation Wages

John T. Addison, Mario Centeno, Pedro Portugal

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2009, 30 (1), 1 - 8

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3272

Clash of Career and Family: Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement

Emilia Del Bono, Andrea Weber, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (4), 659 - 683

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3164

Employment Protection, Firm Selection, and Growth

Markus Poschke

published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2009, 56(8), 1074-1085

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3141

Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts and Collective Wage Determination

Laszlo Goerke

published as 'The Effects of Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts in the Presence of Collective Bargaining Contracts' in: W. Franz, H.-J. Ramser, M. Stadler (Hrsg.), Arbeitsverträge – Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Seminar Ottobeuren, Tübingen, 2008, 37, 199-226

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3112

Dismissals for Cause: The Difference That Just Eight Paragraphs Can Make

Pedro S. Martins

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 27(2), 257–279, 2009

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3110

Too Old to Work, Too Young to Retire?

Andrea Ichino, Guido Schwerdt, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Josef Zweimüller

published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2017, 9, 14-29

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3051

What Works Best for Getting the Unemployed Back to Work: Employment Services or Small-Business Assistance Programmes? Evidence from Romania

Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published as 'Channels Through Which Public Employment Services and Small-Business Assistance Programs Work' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (4), 458-485

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3016

How Do Different Entitlements to Unemployment Benefits Affect the Transitions from Unemployment into Employment?

John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal

published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 101 (3), 206-209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3003

A Positive Theory of the Earnings Relationship of Unemployment Benefits

Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg, Heinrich W. Ursprung

published in: Public Choice, 2010, 145 (1-2), 137-163

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2970

The Determinants of Rising Informality in Brazil: Evidence from Gross Worker Flows

Mariano Bosch, Edwin Goni Pacchioni, William F. Maloney

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2959

Contingent, Temporary Unemployment Insurance’s Impacts on Employment and Unemployment Durations

Kailing Shen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2947

Worker Absenteeism in Search Equilibrium

Per Engström, Bertil Holmlund

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2007, 109 (3), 439-467,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2943

Social and Occupational Security and Labour Market Flexibility in Sweden: The Case of Unemployment Compensation

Gabriella Sjögren Lindquist, Eskil Wadensjö

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2936

Modelling the Time on Unemployment Insurance Benefits

Govert Bijwaard

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2877

Unemployment Insurance in Welfare States: Soft Constraints and Mild Sanctions

Knut Røed, Lars Westlie

published as 'Unemployment Insurance in Welfare States: The Impacts of Soft Duration Constraints' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (3), 518-554

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2854

Is the Notification of Monitoring a Threat to the Unemployed? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Bart Cockx, Muriel Dejemeppe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2807

On the Extent of Re-Entitlement Effects in Unemployment Compensation

Javier Ortega, Laurence Rioux

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17(2), 368-382

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2806

Risk Aversion and Reservation Wages

Markus Pannenberg

substantially revised version published as 'Risk attitudes and reservation wages of unemployed workers: Evidence from panel data' in: Economics Letters, 2010, 106 (3), 223-226

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2743

Labor Search and Matching in Macroeconomics

Eran Yashiv

published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (8), 1859-1895

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2720

Reducing Income Transfers to Refugee Immigrants: Does Starthelp Help You Start?

Michael Rosholm, Rune Majlund Vejlin

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 258-275

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2681

Benefit-Entitlement Effects and the Duration of Unemployment: An Ex-Ante Evaluation of Recent Labour Market Reforms in Germany

Hendrik Schmitz, Viktor Steiner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2680

Employment Protection Legislation and Wages

Marco Leonardi, Giovanni Pica

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2590

The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion: Leaving the Unemployment System or Starting a New Job?

David Card, Raj Chetty, Andrea Weber

published in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (2), 113-118

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2504

How to Help Unemployed Find Jobs Quickly: Experimental Evidence from a Mandatory Activation Program

Brian Krogh Graversen, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (10-11), 2020-2035

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2470

Did the Hartz Reforms Speed-Up Job Creation? A Macro-Evaluation Using Empirical Matching Functions

René Fahr, Uwe Sunde

revised version published in: German Economic Review, 2009, 10 (3), 284 - 316

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2381

Politico-Economic Causes of Labor Regulation in the United States: Rent Seeking, Alliances, Raising Rivals' Costs (Even Lowering One's Own?), and Interjurisdictional Competition

John T. Addison

published in: R. Vaubel and P. Bernholz (eds.), Political Competition and Economic Regulation, London: Routledge 2007

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2316

How Destructive Is Creative Destruction? The Costs of Worker Displacement

Kristiina Huttunen, Jarle Moen, Kjell G. Salvanes

published as 'How Destructive is Creative Destruction? Effects of Job Loss on Job Mobility, Withdrawal and Income' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (5), 840 - 870

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2297

Employment Protection: Tough to Scrap or Tough to Get?

Björn Brügemann

published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F386 - F415

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