IZA Discussion Papers

substantially revised version published as 'Female Labor Force Participation in Egypt and Palestine: An Age-Period- Cohort Analysis' in: Review of Development Economics, 2022, 26 (4), 1997-2020.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13751

Long-Term Effects of School-Starting-Age Rules

Hessel Oosterbeek, Simon ter Meulen, Bas van der Klaauw

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 84,102144

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13561

Caught in the Cycle: Economic Conditions at Enrollment and Labor Market Outcomes of College Graduates

Alena Bicakova, Matias Cortes, Jacopo Mazza

published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (638), 2383-2412.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13490

Training, Wages and a Missing School Graduation Cohort

Matthias Dorner, Katja Görlitz

updated version published as 'The impact of a missing school graduation cohort on the training market' in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 103, 102580 (with Elke J. Jahn)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13490

Training, Wages and a Missing School Graduation Cohort

Matthias Dorner, Katja Görlitz

updated version published as 'The impact of a missing school graduation cohort on the training market' in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 103, 102580 (with Elke J. Jahn)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13289

A Short History of the Gender Wage Gap in Britain

Alex Bryson, Heather Joshi, Bożena Wielgoszewska, David Wilkinson

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2020, 36 (4), 836-854

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13124

Inequality in Socio-Emotional Skills: A Cross-Cohort Comparison

Orazio Attanasio, Richard Blundell, Gabriella Conti, Giacomo Mason

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 191, 104171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12976

Revisiting Economic Assimilation of Mexican and Central Americans Immigrants in the United States

Giovanni Peri, Zachariah Rutledge

published in: IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2022, 13:3

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12844

Female Labor Force Participation in Turkey: A Synthetic Cohort (Panel) Analysis, 1988-2013

Insan Tunali, Murat Güray Kirdar, Meltem Dayioglu-Tayfur

published as 'Down and up the 'U' - A synthetic cohort (panel) analysis of female labor force participation in Turkey, 1988-2013' in: World Development, 2021, 146, 105609

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12844

Female Labor Force Participation in Turkey: A Synthetic Cohort (Panel) Analysis, 1988-2013

Insan Tunali, Murat Güray Kirdar, Meltem Dayioglu-Tayfur

published as 'Down and up the 'U' - A synthetic cohort (panel) analysis of female labor force participation in Turkey, 1988-2013' in: World Development, 2021, 146, 105609

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12775

Decomposing Employment Trends of Disabled Workers

Pierre Koning, Heike Vethaak

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2021, 21 (4), 20210010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12725

The Gender Gap in Wages over the Life Course: Evidence from a British Cohort Born in 1958

Heather Joshi, Alex Bryson, David Wilkinson, Kelly Ward

published in: Gender, Work & Organization, 2021, 28, 397 - 415

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12314

Girls, Boys, and High Achievers

Angela Cools, Raquel Fernández, Eleonora Patacchini

published as 'The asymmetric gender effects of high flyers' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102287

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12073

Ageing and Skills: The Case of Literacy Skills

Garry F. Barrett, W. Craig Riddell

published in: European Journal of Education, 2019, 54 (1), 60-71

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12010

Labour Market Participation and Atypical Employment over the Life Cycle: A Cohort Analysis for Germany

Ronald Bachmann, Rahel Felder, Marcus Tamm

published as 'Atypical employment over the life cycle ' in: Evidence-based HRM, 2020, 8 (2), 195-213

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11891

The Great Recession and Children's Mental Health in Australia

Melisa Bubonya, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Daniel Christensen, Sarah E. Johnson, Stephen R. Zubrick

published in: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019, 16 (4), 537

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11840

Capital Income Risk and the Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution

Hoang Khieu, Klaus Wälde

published in: Economic Modelling , 2023, 122, 106243

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11800

The Bilingual Gap in Children's Language and Emotional Development

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Colm P. Harmon, Anita Staneva

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 10 (1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11606

Use of Extra-School Time and Child Behaviours: Evidence from the UK

Elena Claudia Meroni, Daniela Piazzalunga, Chiara D. Pronzato

published as 'Allocation of time and child socio-emotional skills' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2022, 20, 1155–1192

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11513

The Last of the Lost Generations? Formal and Non-Formal Education in Ghana during Times of Economic Decline and Recovery

Niels-Hugo Blunch, Jeffrey S. Hammer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11451

Exploring the Role of Fathers in Non-Cognitive Skill Development over the Lifecourse

Rosemary Elkins, Stefanie Schurer

published as 'Exploring the role of parental engagement in non-cognitive skill development over the lifecourse' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33, 957–1004

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11295

Identifying Age Penalty in Women's Wages: New Method and Evidence from Germany 1984-2014

Joanna Tyrowicz, Lucas van der Velde, Irene van Staveren

published in: Feminist Economics, 2018, 24 (4), 108-130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10901

Skill Premiums and the Supply of Young Workers in Germany

Albrecht Glitz, Daniel Wissmann

published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 72, 102034

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10734

Demographic Aging and Employment Dynamics in German Regions: Modeling Regional Heterogeneity

Thomas de Graaff, Daniel Arribas-Bel, Ceren Ozgen

published in: Stough, R. et al. (eds.): Modelling Aging and Migration Effects on Spatial Labour Markets, Springer, 2018, 211 - 231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10312

Marriage and Marriage Markets

Shoshana Grossbard

published in: S. L. Averett (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, Oxford University Press, 2017, 55–74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10017

Ageing and Literacy Skills: Evidence from IALS, ALL and PIAAC

Garry F. Barrett, W. Craig Riddell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9681

Greying the Budget: Ageing and Preferences over Public Policies

Luiz de Mello, Simone Schotte, Erwin R. Tiongson, Hernan Winkler

published in: Kyklos, 2017, 70 (1), 70-96

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8821

Lifecycle Patterns in the Socioeconomic Gradient of Risk Preferences

Stefanie Schurer

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,119, 482-495, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8645

All-Star or Benchwarmer? Relative Age, Cohort Size and Career Success in the NHL

Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez, Tingting Zhang

published in: Frick, B. (ed.) Breaking the Ice: The Economics of Hockey, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer, 2017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8197

Cohort Size and Youth Employment Outcomes

David Newhouse, Claudia Wolff

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. 8140

La Meglio Gioventù: Earnings Gaps across Generations and Skills in Italy

Paolo Naticchioni, Michele Raitano, Claudia Vittori

published in: Economia Politica, 2016, 33 (2), 233-264

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7743

A Detailed Decomposition of Synthetic Cohort Analysis

Tavis Barr, Carl Lin

published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 127(0), 76-80

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7208

Earnings Gap, Cohort Effect and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in the United States

Carl Lin

published in: Review of International Economics, 2013, 21(2), 249-265

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7026

Population Policies, Demographic Structural Changes, and the Chinese Household Saving Puzzle

Suqin Ge, Dennis T. Yang, Junsen Zhang

published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 101, 181 - 209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6656

Maternal Gender Role Attitudes, Human Capital Investment, and Labour Supply of Sons and Daughters

David W. Johnston, Stefanie Schurer, Michael A. Shields

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2014, 66 (3), 631-659

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5913

Relative Cohort Size, Relative Income, and Women's Labor Force Participation 1968-2010

Diane J. Macunovich

published as 'Relative Cohort Size, Relative Income, and Married Women's Labor Force Participation: United States, 1968–2010' in: Population and Development Review, 2012, 38 (4), 631-648

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5886

Re-Visiting the Easterlin Hypothesis: Marriage in the U.S. 1968-2010

Diane J. Macunovich

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5885

Re-Visiting the Easterlin Hypothesis: U.S. Fertility 1968-2010

Diane J. Macunovich

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5371

Intergenerational Persistence in Health in Developing Countries: The Penalty of Gender Inequality?

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Samantha Rawlings

Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 286-299

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4842

Polarization and Rising Wage Inequality: Comparing the U.S. and Germany

Dirk Antonczyk, Thomas DeLeire, Bernd Fitzenberger

published in: Econometrics, 2018, 6 (2), 1-33

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4815

Public Pensions, Changing Employment Patterns, and the Impact of Pension Reforms across Birth Cohorts: A Microsimulation Analysis for Germany

Johannes Geyer, Viktor Steiner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4653

Older Women: Pushed into Retirement by the Baby Boomers?

Diane J. Macunovich

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4652

Older Men: Pushed into Retirement by the Baby Boomers?

Diane J. Macunovich

published in: Monthly Labor Review, 2012, 135 (5), 3-18.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4601

To Shape the Future: How Labor Market Entry Conditions Affect Individuals' Long-Run Wage Profiles

Beatrice Brunner, Andreas Kuhn

completely revised version published as IZA DP No. 5360

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4394

Immigrants' Assimilation Process in a Segmented Labor Market

Miguel Angel Alcobendas, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

substantially revised version published in: A. Artal-Tur, G. Peri, F. Requena-Silvente, The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration Flows: Effects on Trade, Remittances, Output, and the Labour Market (Population Economics Series), Springer, 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4155

Well-Being over the Life Span: Semiparametric Evidence from British and German Longitudinal Data

Christoph Wunder, Andrea Wiencierz, Johannes Schwarze, Helmut Küchenhoff, Sara Kleyer, Philipp Bleninger

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (1), 154–167.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3661

The Aging of the Unions in West Germany, 1980–2006

Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner

published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik , 2008, 228 (5-6), 497-511

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3587

The Impact of Relative Cohort Size on U.S. Fertility, 1913-2001

Yongil Jeon, Michael P. Shields

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3369

Occupational Mobility and the Business Cycle

Giuseppe Moscarini, Francis Vella

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3225

The Trend in Female Labour Force Participation: What Can Be Expected for the Future?

Rob Euwals, Marike Knoef, Daniel van Vuuren

published in: Empirical Economics, 2011, 40(3), 729-753

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3191

Why Are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?

Marcos Chamon, Eswar Prasad

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (1), 93-130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3170

Born To Be Mild? Cohort Effects Don’t (Fully) Explain Why Well-Being Is U-Shaped in Age

Andrew E. Clark

published in: Mariano Rojas (ed.), The Economics of Happiness: How the Easterlin Paradox Transformed our Understanding of Well-being and Progress, New York: Springer, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3075

Is Well-Being U-Shaped over the Life Cycle?

David G. Blanchflower, Andrew J. Oswald

published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2008, 66 (8), 1733-49

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2722

Cohort-Level Sex Ratio Effects on Women’s Labor Force Participation

Shoshana Grossbard, Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2007, 5 (3), 249-278

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2561

Self-Employment: A Way to End Unemployment? Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data

Daniela Glocker, Viktor Steiner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2185