IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published as 'Ethnic discrimination in hiring, labour market tightness and the business cycle - Evidence from field experiments.' in: Applied Economics, 2018, 50 (24), 2652 - 2663

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11258

Opportunity versus Necessity Entrepreneurship: Two Components of Business Creation

Robert W. Fairlie, Frank M. Fossen

revised version published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2020, 48, 253-289.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11056

Employment Discrimination in a Former Soviet Union Republic: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Muhammad Asali, Norberto Pignatti, Sophiko Skhirtladze

revised version published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (4), 1294-1309.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10953

Smoking and the Business Cycle: Evidence from Germany

Micha Kaiser, Mirjam Reutter, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Kristina Strohmaier

published as 'Smoking and local unemployment: Evidence from Germany ' in: Economics & Human Biology, 2018, 29, 138 - 147

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10634

On the Exposure of the BRIC Countries to Global Economic Shocks

Ansgar H. Belke, Christian Dreger, Irina Dubova

published in: World Economy, 2019, 45 (1), 122-142

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. 9965

Public Wages, Public Employment, and Business Cycle Volatility: Evidence from U.S. Metro Areas

Claire A. Boeing-Reicher, Vincenzo Caponi

published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2024, 54, 101232

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9816

Business Cycle Asymmetries and the Labor Market

Britta Kohlbrecher, Christian Merkl

published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2022, 73, 103458

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9802

Families in Macroeconomics

Matthias Doepke, Michèle Tertilt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9738

Cyclical and Market Determinants of Involuntary Part-Time Employment

Robert G. Valletta, Leila Bengali, Catherine van der List

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2020, 38 (1), 67–93

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. 9630

Multiple Job Holding, Local Labor Markets, and the Business Cycle

Barry Hirsch, Muhammad M. Husain, John V. Winters

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 5:4

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9574

New Job Matches and Their Stability Before and During the Crisis

Amparo Nagore García, Arthur van Soest

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9550

The Impact of Family Friendly Policies in Spain and their Use throughout the Business Cycle

Sara de la Rica, Lucía Gorjón

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9366

Quit Turnover and the Business Cycle: A Survey

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Melvyn Coles

published in: Saridakis, G.; Cooper, C. (eds.) Research Handbook on Employee Turnover, Chapter 13, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2016.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9364

Countercyclical Recruiting Rates and the Value of Jobs

Eran Yashiv

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9167

Investment over the Business Cycle: Insights from College Major Choice

Erica Blom, Brian C. Cadena, Benjamin J. Keys

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (4), 1043–1082

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. 8948

Man-cessions, Fiscal Policy, and the Gender Composition of Employment

Christian Bredemeier, Falko Juessen, Roland Winkler

published in: Economics Letters, 2017, 158, 73-76

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8946

Employment and Hours over the Business Cycle in a Model with Search Frictions

Noritaka Kudoh, Hiroaki Miyamoto, Masaru Sasaki

publication in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2019. 31, 436-461

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8914

The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-Being Data

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, George W. Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, Bert van Landeghem, Georgios Kavetsos, Michael I. Norton

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100 (2), 362–375

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8890

Some Surprising Facts about Working Time Accounts and the Business Cycle

Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke, Christian Merkl

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2017, 38 (7), 940-953

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8121

Unemployment Transitions to Stable and Unstable Jobs Before and During the Crisis

Amparo Nagore García, Arthur van Soest

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8076

Why is Old Workers' Labor Market More Volatile? Unemployment Fluctuations over the Life-Cycle

Jean-Olivier Hairault, François Langot, Thepthida Sopraseuth

published as 'Unemployment fluctuations over the life cycle' in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2019, 100 (C), 334-352.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8075

Does the Size of the Effect of Adverse Events at High Ages on Daily-Life Physical Functioning Depend on the Economic Conditions Around Birth?

Robert Scholte, Gerard J. van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom, Dorly J. H. Deeg

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 26 (1), 86 - 103

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8031

Newborn Health and the Business Cycle: Is It Good to Be Born in Bad Times?

Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll, Libertad González

published as 'Recessions and Babies' Health' in: Economics & Human Biology, Volume 37, May 2020, 100836.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7852

Business Cycles, Unemployment and Entrepreneurial Entry: Evidence from Germany

Michael Fritsch, Alexander S. Kritikos, Katharina Pijnenburg

published in: International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 2015, 11(2), 267-286

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7826

Volatility and Growth: Governments are Key

Michael Jetter

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 36, 71-88

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7816

Employment Polarization in Spain along the Cycle 1997-2012

Brindusa Anghel, Sara de la Rica, Aitor Lacuesta

published as 'The Impact of the Great Recession on Employment Polarization in Spain' in: SERIEs, 2014, 5 (2-3), 143-171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7776

The Cyclical Behaviour of Employers' Monopsony Power and Workers' Wages

Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn, Claus Schnabel

substantially revised version published as "Do employers have more monopsony power in slack labor markets?" in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2018, 71(3), 676-704

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7744

Macroeconomic Determinants of Retirement Timing

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jae Song, Dmitriy Stolyarov

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7640

Does High Home-Ownership Impair the Labor Market?

David G. Blanchflower, Andrew J. Oswald

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7605

Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality

Gerard J. van den Berg, Bitte Modin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7538

Health and Health Behaviors during the Worst of Times: Evidence from the Great Recession

Erdal Tekin, Chandler McClellan, Karen Jean Minyard

published as 'Health and health behaviors during the great recession: a note on drinking, smoking, obesity, and physical activity' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 16, 1017 - 1026

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7475

Does Short-Time Work Save Jobs? A Business Cycle Analysis

Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke, Wolfgang Lechthaler, Christian Merkl

published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 84, 99–122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7456

Flight of the H-1B: Inter-Firm Mobility and Return Migration Patterns for Skilled Guest Workers

Briggs Depew, Peter Norlander, Todd A. Sorensen

published as "Inter-firm mobility and return migration patterns of skilled guest workers" in Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (2), 681-721

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7413

Worker Identity, Employment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policy

Dennis J. Snower, Wolfgang Lechthaler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7124

Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Ludo Visschers

published in: Econometrica, 2023, 91 (3), 1119 - 1153

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6849

Separations, Sorting and Cyclical Unemployment

Andreas I. Mueller

published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107 (7), 2081-2107

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6820

Good Skills in Bad Times: Cyclical Skill Mismatch and the Long-Term Effects of Graduating in a Recession

Kai Liu, Kjell G. Salvanes, Erik Ø. Sørensen

published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 84, 3-17.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6669

The Cycle of Earnings Inequality: Evidence from Spanish Social Security Data

Stephane Bonhomme, Laura Hospido

published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (603), 1244–1278

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6636

Frictions and the Joint Behavior of Hiring and Investment

Eran Yashiv

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6422

Explaining the Dynamics in Perceptions of Job Insecurity in Russia

Michael Lokshin, Vladimir Gimpelson, Aleksey Oshchepkov

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. 5940

Economic Conditions at the Time of Birth and Cognitive Abilities Late in Life: Evidence from Eleven European Countries

Gabriele Doblhammer, Gerard J. van den Berg, Thomas Fritze

revised version published as 'Economic Conditions at the Time of Birth and Cognitive Abilities Late in Life: Evidence from Ten European Countries' in: PLoS ONE, 8(9) 2013, e74915

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5928

Elasticity of Supply to the Firm and the Business Cycle

Briggs Depew, Todd A. Sorensen

published as 'The elasticity of labor supply to the firm over the business cycle' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 196-204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5889

China's Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America

Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi, M. Hashem Pesaran, Alessandro Rebucci, TengTeng Xu

published in: Filippo di Mauro and Hashem Pesaran (eds.), The GVAR Handbook: Structure and Applications of a Macro Model of the Global Economy for Policy Analysis, Oxford University Press, 2013, 195–211

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5763

Macroeconomic Dynamics in a Model of Goods, Labor and Credit Market Frictions

Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, Etienne Wasmer

published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2015, 72, 97-113

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5522

Nowcasting Business Cycles Using Toll Data

Nikos Askitas, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Journal of Forecasting, 2013, 32 (4), 299 - 306.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5358

The Importance of Two-Sided Heterogeneity for the Cyclicality of Labour Market Dynamics

Ronald Bachmann, Peggy David

published in: The Manchester School, 2019, 87(6), 794-820