IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Tax Incentives for Migrants With Mid-Level Earnings: Evidence From the Netherlands' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2025, 17 (3), 42–79

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15399

COVID-19 Private Pension Withdrawals and Unemployment Tenures

Tristram Sainsbury, Robert Breunig, Timothy Watson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15351

Take-up of Social Benefits

Wonsik Ko, Robert A. Moffitt

published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15317

The Economic and Fiscal Effects on the United States from Reduced Numbers of Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Michael A. Clemens

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2022, 38 (3), 449-486.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15289

De-facto Gaps in Social Protection for Standard and Non-standard Workers: An Approach for Monitoring the Accessibility and Levels of Income Support

Herwig Immervoll, Rodrigo Fernandez, Raphaela Hyee, Jongmi Lee, Daniele Pacifico

elements published in: Left on your own? Social protection when labour markets are in flux, OECD, 2019, and in two OECD country studies: Korea, 2023, United States, 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15279

The Full Returns to the Choice of Occupation and Education

Andrew E. Clark, Maria Cotofan, Richard Layard

published as 'Do wages underestimate the inequality in workers’ rewards? The joint distribution of job quality and wages across occupations' in: Economica, 2024, 91 (362), 497-546

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15232

How Reliable Are Social Safety Nets? Value and Accessibility in Situations of Acute Economic Need

Herwig Immervoll, Raphaela Hyee, Rodrigo Fernandez, Jongmi Lee

updated and extended version published as: IZA DP No. 17477, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14825

Higher Education Expansion and Supply of Teachers in China

Fengyan Dai, Lei Xu, Yu Zhu

published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 71, 101732

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14819

Redistributive Effect and the Progressivity of Taxes and Benefits: Evidence for the UK, 1977-2018

Nicolas Herault, Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: Journal of Income Distribution, 2022, 31 (3 - 4), 10 - 45

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14752

Two Decades of Welfare Reforms in Australia: How Did They Affect Single Mothers and Their Children?

Alexandra de Gendre, Stefanie Schurer, Angela Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14601

Welfare Effects of Unemployment Benefits When Informality Is High

Hannah Liepmann, Clemente Pignatti

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 229, 105032.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14525

The Dynastic Benefits of Early Childhood Education

Jorge Luis García, Frederik H. Bennhoff, Duncan Ermini Leaf, James J. Heckman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14525

The Dynastic Benefits of Early Childhood Education

Jorge Luis García, Frederik H. Bennhoff, Duncan Ermini Leaf, James J. Heckman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14340

The Effects of Shortening Potential Benefit Duration: Evidence from Regional Cut-Offs and a Policy Reform

Ewa Galecka-Burdziak, Marek Góra, Jonas Jessen, Robin Jessen, Jochen Kluve

updated version available as IZA DP 15978

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14340

The Effects of Shortening Potential Benefit Duration: Evidence from Regional Cut-Offs and a Policy Reform

Ewa Galecka-Burdziak, Marek Góra, Jonas Jessen, Robin Jessen, Jochen Kluve

updated version available as IZA DP 15978

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14274

The Effect of Child Benefits on Financial Difficulties and Spending Habits: Evidence from Poland's Family 500+ Program

Stefani Milovanska-Farrington

published in: International Economics and Economic Policy, 2022, 19, 719 - 739

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14248

Labor Demand Response to Labor Supply Incentives: Lessons from the German Mini-Job Reform

Gabriela Galassi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14189

The Lock-in Effects of Part-Time Unemployment Benefits

Helène Benghalem, Pierre Cahuc, Pierre Villedieu

published online as 'The Lock-in Effects of Information on Part-time Unemployment Benefits' in: Journal of Human Resources, 06 October 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13990

Technology, Labour Market Institutions and Early Retirement: Evidence from Finland

Naomitsu Yashiro, Tomi Kyyrä, Hyunjeong Hwang, Juha Tuomala

published in: Economic Policy, 2022, 37, 811-849

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13990

Technology, Labour Market Institutions and Early Retirement: Evidence from Finland

Naomitsu Yashiro, Tomi Kyyrä, Hyunjeong Hwang, Juha Tuomala

published in: Economic Policy, 2022, 37, 811-849

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13589

Can Childcare Benefits Increase Maternal Employment? Evidence from Childcare Benefits Policy in Japan

Shinsuke Asakawa, Masaru Sasaki

published as 'Can child benefit reductions increase maternal employment? Evidence from Japan' in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2022, 66, 101231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13539

Designing Disability Insurance Reforms: Tightening Eligibility Rules or Reducing Benefits?

Andreas Haller, Stefan Staubli, Josef Zweimüller

published in: Econometrica, 2024, 92 (1), 79-110.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13484

Universal Credit and Crime

Rocco d'Este, Alex Harvey

published as 'The Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reforms: Universal Credit, Financial Insecurity, and Crime' in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2024, 40 (1), 129 - 181

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13341

The Effect of Unemployment Benefits on the Duration of Unemployment Insurance Receipt: New Evidence from a Regression Kink Design in Missouri, 2003-2013

David Card, Andrew C. Johnston, Pauline Leung, Alexandre Mas, Zhuan Pei

published in: American Economics Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2015, 105 (5), 126-130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13331

Potential Unemployment Insurance Duration and Labor Supply: The Individual and Market-Level Response to a Benefit Cut

Andrew C. Johnston, Alexandre Mas

pubished in: Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126 (6), 2480-2522

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13132

Mandated Sick Pay: Coverage, Utilization, and Welfare Effects

J. Catherine Maclean, Stefan Pichler, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13112

What Makes Work Meaningful and Why Economists Should Care about It

Milena Nikolova, Femke Cnossen

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101847

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12982

Dynamic Incentives in Retirement Earnings-Replacement Benefits

Andres Dean, Sebastian Fleitas, Mariana Zerpa

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (3), 762–777.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12322

The Effects of Work-Life Benefits on Employment Outcomes in Canada: A Multivariate Analysis

Tony Fang, Byron Lee, Andrew R. Timming, Di Fan

published in: Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations, 2019, 74(2), 323-351.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12260

Hartz IV and the Decline of German Unemployment: A Macroeconomic Evaluation

Brigitte Hochmuth, Britta Kohlbrecher, Christian Merkl, Hermann Gartner

published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 127, 2021, 104114

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12121

What Aspects of Formality Do Workers Value? Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Bangladesh

Minhaj Mahmud, Italo A. Gutierrez, Krishna B. Kumar, Shanthi Nataraj

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12064

Employer and Employee Preferences for Worker Benefits: Evidence from a Matched Survey on the Bangladesh Informal Sector

Krishna B. Kumar, Minhaj Mahmud, Shanthi Nataraj, Yoon Y. Cho

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11996

Wages and the Value of Nonemployment

Simon Jäger, Benjamin Schoefer, Samuel Young, Josef Zweimüller

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020, 135 (4), 1905-1963.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11962

The Labeling Effect of a Child Benefits System: Evidence from Russia 1994-2015

Louise Grogan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11960

Migration with Pension Reform Expectations

Marek Góra, Anna Ruzik-Sierdzińska

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11850

The Social Cost of Unemployment: The Spanish Labour Market from a Social Welfare Approach

Lucía Gorjón, Sara de la Rica, Antonio Villar

published as 'The Cost of Unemployment from a Social Welfare Approach: The Case of Spain and Its Regions' in: Social Indicators Research, 2020, 150, 955–976

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11769

The Growing American Health Penalty: International Trends in the Employment of Older Workers with Poor Health

Ben Baumberg Geiger, René Böheim, Thomas Leoni

published in: Social Science Research, 82, 18–32, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11704

How Demanding Are Activation Requirements for Jobseekers?

Herwig Immervoll, Carlo Knotz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11481

Status and Progress in Cross-Border Portability of Social Security Benefits

Robert Holzmann, Jacques Wels

published in: International Social Security Review, 2020, 73(1), 65-107

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11311

New Evidence on Cyclical Variation in Labor Costs in the U.S.

Grace Weishi Gu, Eswar Prasad

published as 'New Evidence on Cyclical Variation in Average Labor Costs in the United States ' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (5), 966–979.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11310

The Relationship between Union Membership and Net Fiscal Impact

Aaron Sojourner, José Pacas

published in: Industrial Relations, 2019, 58 (1), 86-107

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11275

Insurance, Redistribution, and the Inequality of Lifetime Income

Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner, Victoria L. Prowse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11186

The Dynamics of Disability and Benefit Receipt in Britain

Melanie K. Jones, Duncan McVicar

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, 74 (3), 936–957,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10997

Broken Tax Breaks? Evidence from a Tax Credit Information Experiment with 1,000,000 Students

Peter Bergman, Jeffrey T. Denning, Dayanand Manoli

published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2019, 38 (3), 706-731

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10811

Quantifying the Life-Cycle Benefits of a Prototypical Early Childhood Program

Jorge Luis García, James J. Heckman, Duncan Ermini Leaf, Maria José Prados

revised version available as NBER Working Paper No. 23479

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10757

Fertility Effects of Child Benefits

Regina T. Riphahn, Frederik Wiynck

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30, 1135 - 1184

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10665

Income Support Policies for the Working Poor

Sarah Marchal, Ive Marx, Gerlinde Verbist

published in: Lohmann, H. and I. Marx (eds), Handbook on In-Work Poverty, Edward Elgar, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10578

State Health Insurance Mandates and Labor Market Outcomes: New Evidence on Old Questions

Yaa Akosa Antwi, J. Catherine Maclean

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10495

Economic Theories of Citizenship?

Don J. DeVoretz, Nahikari Irastorza

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10487

Imperfect Monitoring of Job Search: Structural Estimation and Policy Design

Bart Cockx, Muriel Dejemeppe, Andrey Launov, Bruno Van der Linden

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (1), 75-120

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10400

A Guide and Advice for Economists on the U.S. Junior Academic Job Market: 2016–2017 Edition

John Cawley

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10246

Spousal and Survivor Benefits in Option Value Models of Retirement: An Application to Belgium

Alain Jousten, Mathieu Lefèbvre

published in: Journal of Pension Economics & Finance, 2019, 18 (1), 66 - 87

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. 9940

Migrant Workers and the Welfare State

Torben M. Andersen, Silvia Migali

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. 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. 9620

Are Japanese Men of Pensionable Age Underemployed or Overemployed?

Emiko Usui, Satoshi Shimizutani, Takashi Oshio

published in: Japanese Economic Review, 2016, 67 (2), 150 - 168

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9551

State Dependence in Welfare Benefits in a Non-Welfare Context

Sinem H. Ayhan, Selin Pelek

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2020, 66 (3), 711-735

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9547

Social Assistance in Five Countries in North-Western Europe

Hans Hansen, Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9321

A European Perspective on Long‐Term Unemployment

Werner Eichhorst, Franziska Neder, Verena Tobsch, Florian Wozny

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9153

Labor Supply and Productivity Responses to Non-Salary Benefits: Do They Work? If So, at What Level Do They Work Best?

Marilyn Spencer, Deniz Gevrek, Valrie Chambers, Randall Bowden

published in: Personnel Review, 2016, 45 (5), 1047-1068

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9111

Mandatory Volunteer Work as Fair Reciprocity for Unemployment and Social Benefits?

Lex Veldboer, Reinout Kleinhans, Maarten van Ham

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9098

Norwegian Rhapsody? The Political Economy Benefits of Regional Integration

Nauro F. Campos, Fabrizio Coricelli, Luigi Moretti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9089

Can Helping the Sick Hurt the Able? Incentives, Information and Disruption in a Disability-Related Welfare Reform

Nitika Bagaria, Barbara Petrongolo, John Van Reenen

published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (624), 3189-3218

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9014

Impacts of the Availability of Old-Age Benefits on Exits from the Labour Market

Ewa Gałecka-Burdziak, Marek Góra

published as 'The impact of easy and early access to old-age benefits on exits from the labour market: a macro-micro analysis' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2016, 5, 18 (2016)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8844

The Impact of Immigrants on Public Finances: A Forecast Analysis for Denmark

Marianne Frank Hansen, Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen, Torben Tranæs

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (3), 925-952

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, 27 (2), 146-156

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. 8428

A Guide and Advice for Economists on the U.S. Junior Academic Job Market: 2014-2015 Edition

John Cawley

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. 8322

Inequality in Total Returns to Work in Ukraine: Taking a Closer Look at Workplace (Dis)amenities

Olena Y. Nizalova

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. 8164

Low-Skill Offshoring: Labor Market Policies and Welfare Effects

Pablo Agnese, Jana Hromcová

published as 'Low-skill offshoring and welfare compensation policies' in: Economic Modelling, 2016, 52, part B, 408 - 426

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8115

Social Norms and Mothers' Labor Market Attachment: The Medium-Run Effects of Parental Benefits

Jochen Kluve, Sebastian Schmitz

revised version published as 'Back to Work: parental benefits and mothers' labor market outcomes in the medium-run' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review 2018, 71 (1), 143 - 173

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. 7943

Human Well-being and In-Work Benefits: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Richard Dorsett, Andrew J. Oswald

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

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