IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Employment protection and fertility decisions: the unintended consequences of the Italian Jobs Act' in: Economic Policy, 2021, 36 (108), 735 - 773

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12851

Occupational Routine-Intensity and the Costs of Job Loss: Evidence from Mass Layoffs

Uwe Blien, Wolfgang Dauth, Duncan Roth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12780

Parental Labour Supply Responses to the Abolition of Day Care Fees

Mathias Huebener, Astrid Pape, C. Katharina Spieß

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 180, 510-543

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12445

Who Gains from Active Learning in Higher Education?

Giulio Bosio, Federica Origo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12290

Opting out of Workers' Compensation: Non-Subscription in Texas and Its Effects

Lu Jinks, Thomas J. Kniesner, John D. Leeth, Anthony T. Lo Sasso

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2020, 60(1), 53-76

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12171

Timed to Say Goodbye: Does Unemployment Benefit Eligibility Affect Worker Layoffs?

Andrea Albanese, Corinna Ghirelli, Matteo Picchio

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101846 [Online Access]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12053

University Tuition Fees and High School Students' Educational Intentions

Michael Bahrs, Thomas Siedler

published in: Fiscal Studies, 2019, 40 (2), 117-147

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12050

The Impact of Mass Migration of Syrians on the Turkish Labor Market

Ege Aksu, Refik Erzan, Murat G. Kirdar

published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 76, 102183

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11857

Entry Barriers and the Labor Market Outcomes of Incumbent Workers: Evidence from a Deregulation Reform in the German Crafts Sector

Philipp Lergetporer, Jens Ruhose, Lisa Simon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11854

The Wider Benefits of Adult Learning: Work-Related Training and Social Capital

Jens Ruhose, Stephan L. Thomsen, Insa Weilage

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 72, 166-186, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2019.05.010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11774

Thinking of Incentivizing Care? The Effect of Demand Subsidies on Informal Caregiving and Intergenerational Transfers

Joan Costa-Font, Sergi Jimenez-Martin, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto

revised version published as 'Do Public Caregiving Subsidies and Supports affect the Provision of Care and Transfers?' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 84,102639

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11702

Working Times and Overweight: Tight Schedules, Weaker Fitness?

Joan Costa-Font, Belen Saenz de Miera Juarez

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11689

One Billion Euro Program for Early Childcare Services in Italy

Isabella Giorgetti, Matteo Picchio

published in: Metroeconomica, 2021, 72 (3), 469-492

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11604

The Effect of Grade Retention on Secondary School Performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Maria Ferreira Sequeda, Bart H.H. Golsteyn, Sergio Parra-Cely

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11300

Shortening the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Germany

Inna Petrunyk, Christian Pfeifer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10988

Labour Supply and Informal Care Supply: The Impacts of Financial Support for Long-Term Elderly Care

Bruce Hollingsworth, Asako Ohinata, Matteo Picchio, Ian Walker

revised version forthcoming in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2021

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10927

Immigration Policy and Remittance Behaviour

Matloob Piracha, Massimiliano Tani, Guy Tchuente

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10904

Employment Protection Legislation and Mismatch: Evidence from a Reform

Fabio Berton, Francesco Devicienti, Sara Grubanov-Boskovic

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10836

Can Gifted and Talented Education Raise the Academic Achievement of All High-Achieving Students?

Adam S. Booij, Ferry Haan, Erik Plug

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10834

Disease and Fertility: Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Sweden

Nina Boberg-Fazlic, Maryna Ivets, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson

forthcoming in: Economics and Human Biology, 2021. Accepted version

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10757

Fertility Effects of Child Benefits

Regina T. Riphahn, Frederik Wiynck

The paper is forthcoming in the Journal of Population Economics. Please inform your audience.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10648

A Framework for Separating Individual Treatment Effects from Spillover, Interaction, and General Equilibrium Effects

Martin Huber, Andreas Steinmayr

pusblished in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Published online: 25 Oct 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10528

Household Portfolio Choice, Reference Dependence, and the Marriage Market

Wenchao Li, Changcheng Song, Shu Xu, Junjian Yi

Forthcoming at Journal of Human Resources

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10295

Trade Liberalization and Child Labor in China

Liqiu Zhao, Fei Wang, Zhong Zhao

revised version published in: China Economic Review, 2021, 101575

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9993

Evaluating the Impact of the Post-2008 Employment Subsidy Program in Turkey

Binnur Balkan, Yusuf Soner Baskaya, Semih Tumen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9780

Effects of Welfare Reform on Women's Voting Participation

Dhaval M. Dave, Hope Corman, Nancy E. Reichman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9646

Empirical Evidence on the Effectiveness of Social Public Procurement Policy: The Case of the Swiss Apprenticeship Training System

Mirjam Strupler Leiser, Stefan C. Wolter

published in: Labour, 2017, 31 (2), 204-222

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9643

Higher Education Expansion and Labor Market Outcomes for Young College Graduates

Dongshu Ou, Zhong Zhao

revised version published in: China & World Economy, 2022, 30 (2), 117-141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9636

Does Joining the EU Make You Happy? Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania

Milena Nikolova, Boris Nikolaev

published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2017, 18, 1593 - 1623

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9237

The Financial Support for Long-Term Elderly Care and Household Savings Behaviour

Asako Ohinata, Matteo Picchio

revised version published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2020, 72 (1), 247-268 [Online Access]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9026

Do Natural Disasters Stimulate Individual Saving? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in a Highly Developed Country

Michael Berlemann, Max F. Steinhardt, Jascha Tutt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9007

Wage Returns to Mid-Career Investments in Job Training through Employer-Supported Course Enrollment: Evidence for Canada

Wen Ci, Jose C. Galdo, Marcel Voia, Christopher Worswick

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy. 2015, 4:9

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8988

Permanent Wage Cost Subsidies for Older Workers: An Effective Tool for Increasing Working Time and Postponing Early Retirement?

Andrea Albanese, Bart Cockx

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 58, 145-166

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8895

The Effect of Public Pension Wealth on Saving and Expenditure

Marta Lachowska, Michal Myck

revised version published in: American Economic Journal - Economic Policy, 2018, 10 (3), 284-308

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8867

The Academic Impact of Natural Disasters: Evidence from L'Aquila Earthquake

Giorgio Di Pietro

revised version published in: Education Economics, 2018, 26 (1), 62-77

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8825

The Earnings Returns to Graduating with Honors: Evidence from Law Graduates

Ronny Freier, Mathias Schumann, Thomas Siedler

published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 34, 39-50

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8765

Experts' Awards and Economic Success: Evidence from an Italian Literary Prize

Michela Ponzo, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Journal of Cultural Economics, 2015, 39, 341-367

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8763

Reducing Binge Drinking? The Effect of a Ban on Late-Night Off-Premise Alcohol Sales on Alcohol-Related Hospital Stays in Germany

Jan Marcus, Thomas Siedler

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 123, 55-77

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8716

The Effect of Workfare on Crime: Incapacitation and Program Effects

Peter Fallesen, Lars Pico Geerdsen, Susumu Imai, Torben Tranæs

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8701

Fixed Exchange-Rate Policy and Real Wage Growth: Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Corrado Andini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8456

The Free Movement of Workers in an Enlarged European Union: Institutional Underpinnings of Economic Adjustment

Martin Kahanec, Mariola Pytlikova, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: M. Kahanec and K.F. Zimmermann (eds.), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, Springer: Berlin, et al. 2016, 1-34

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. 7574

Channels of Labour Supply Responses of Lone Parents to Changed Work Incentives

Xiaodong Gong, Robert Breunig

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7474

Indicative and Updated Estimates of the Collective Bargaining Premium in Germany

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Katalin Evers, Lutz Bellmann

published in: Industrial Relations, 2014, 53 (1), 125-157.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7472

Joint Custody in the Italian Courts

Guido de Blasio, Daniela Vuri

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7250

The Effects of Expanding the Generosity of the Statutory Sickness Insurance System

Nicolas R. Ziebarth, Martin Karlsson

short version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2014, 29(2), 208-230

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7095

FDI and Wages: Evidence from Firm-Level and Linked Employer-Employee Data in Hungary, 1986-2008

John S. Earle, Álmos Telegdy, Gábor Antal

published as 'Foreign Ownership and Wages: Evidence from Hungary, 1986 -2008 ' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2017, 71 (2), 458 - 491

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7022

Separating Introduction Effects from Selectivity Effects: The Differences in Employment Patterns of Co-Determined Firms

Rafael Gralla, Kornelius Kraft

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6986

Kindergarten for All: Long Run Effects of a Universal Intervention

Nina Drange, Tarjei Havnes, Astrid M. J. Sandsør

published in Economics of Education Review Volume 53, August 2016, Pages 164-181

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6777

Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform

Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 33, 13–25

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6760

Lost in Transition? Minimum Wage Effects on German Construction Workers

Ronald Bachmann, Marion König, Sandra Schaffner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6652

More Hours, More Jobs? The Employment Effects of Longer Working Hours

Martyn J. Andrews, Hans-Dieter Gerner, Thorsten Schank, Richard Upward

published in: Oxford Eonomic Papers,, 2015, 67(2), 245-268

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6650

Estimating the Latent Effect of Unemployment Benefits on Unemployment Duration

Simon M.S. Lo, Gesine Stephan, Ralf Wilke

fundamentally revised version published as 'Competing Risks Copula Models for Unemployment Duration: An Application to a German Hartz Reform' in Journal of Econometric Methods, 2017, 6, 1-20

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6001

Do Foreign Experts Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms?

Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, Jakob R. Munch, Jan Rose Skaksen

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2019, 121, 517-546.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5829

The Evils of Forced Migration: Do Integration Policies Alleviate Migrants' Economic Situations?

Oliver Falck, Stephan Heblich, Susanne Link

published as 'Forced Migration and the Effects of an Integration Policy in Post-WWII Germany' in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2012, 12(1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5290

The Effect of Comprehensive Smoking Bans in European Workplaces

Federica Origo, Claudio Lucifora

published in: Forum for Health Economics and Policy, BE Press, 2013, 16(1), 1-27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5149

Estimating the Effect of the One-Child Policy on Sex Ratio Imbalance in China: Identification Based on the Difference-in-Differences

Hongbin Li, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang

published in: Demography, 2011, 48 (4), 1535-1557

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4978

Is Universal Child Care Leveling the Playing Field? Evidence from Non-Linear Difference-in-Differences

Tarjei Havnes, Magne Mogstad

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 127, 100–114

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4726

Retirement Responses to a Generous Pension Reform: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Eastern Europe

Alexander M. Danzer

revised version published as 'Benefit Generosity and the Income Effect on Labour Supply: Quasi-Experimental Evidence' in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (571), 1059-1084

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4607

The Effects of a Sick Pay Reform on Absence and on Health-Related Outcomes

Patrick A. Puhani, Katja Sonderhof

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2010, 29 (2), 285-302

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4489

Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? Evidence from a Workfare Reform in a Generous Welfare State

Magne Mogstad, Chiara D. Pronzato

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (4), 1129–1159

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3947

On Mandatory Activation of Welfare Recipients

Matz Dahlberg, Kajsa Johansson, Eva Mörk

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3942