Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18024

The Effect of the End of Hiring Incentives on Job and Employment Security

Chiara Ardito, Fabio Berton, Lia Pacelli, Marina Zanatta

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18014

Unemployment Insurance Eligibility and Employment Duration

Clément Brébion, Simon Briole, Laura Khoury

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17845

How Do Firms Respond to Parental Leave Absences?

Anne Ardila Brenøe, Ursa Krenk, Andreas Steinhauer, Josef Zweimüller

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17348

How Does Potential Unemployment Insurance Benefit Duration Affect Reemployment Timing and Wages?

Rahel Felder, Hanna Frings, Nikolas Mittag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17273

The Effect of Wages on Job Vacancy Duration: Evidence from a Spatial Discontinuity

Charles Carter, Judith M. Delaney, Kerry L. Papps

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17218

Sailing Ship Technology, Navigation and the Duration of Voyages to Australia, 1848-85

Timothy J. Hatton

published in: Economic History Review, 2025, 78 (2), 452-473

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16903

Application Flows

Steven J. Davis, Brenda Samaniego de la Parra

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16685

Job Displacement and Local Employment Density

David C. Maré, Richard Fabling, Dean R. Hyslop

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16602

Duration Dependence in Finding a Job: Applications, Interviews, and Job Offers

Jeremy Zuchuat, Rafael Lalive, Aderonke Osikominu, Lorenzo Pesaresi, Josef Zweimüller

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16495

Structural Empirical Analysis of Vacancy Referrals with Imperfect Monitoring and the Strategic Use of Sickness Absence

Gerard J. van den Berg, Hanno Foerster, Arne Uhlendorff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16371

Vacancy Duration and Wages

Ihsaan Bassier, Alan Manning, Barbara Petrongolo

fortcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16037

Wage Returns to Human Capital Resulting from an Extra Year of Primary School: Evidence from Egypt

Ragui Assaad, Abdurrahman B. Aydemir, Meltem Dayioglu-Tayfur, Murat Güray Kirdar

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2026, vol. 111, April 2026, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2026.102760

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15978

The Micro and Macro Effects of Changes in the Potential Benefit Duration

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

forthcoming in: The Review of Economic Studies, 2026

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15955

The Nature of Long-Term Unemployment: Predictability, Heterogeneity and Selection

Andreas I. Mueller, Johannes Spinnewijn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15503

Temporary Replacement Workers in a Matching Model with Employment at Will

Pietro Garibaldi, Pedro Maia Gomes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15037

Caste, Courts and Business

Tanika Chakraborty, Anirban Mukherjee, Sarani Saha, Divya Shukla

published in: Elsevier Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 212, 333-365

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14832

The Duration of the School-To-Work Transition in Italy and in Other European Countries: A Flexible Baseline Hazard Interpretation

Francesco Pastore, Claudio Quintano, Antonella Rocca

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2022, 43 (7), 1579-1600.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14817

Borrowing Constraints and the Dynamics of Return and Repeat Migration

Joseph-Simon Goerlach

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (1), 205 - 243

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14648

Retirement and Voluntary Work Provision: Evidence from the Australian Age Pension Reform

Rong Zhu

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 190, 674–690

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14615

Coworker Networks and the Role of Occupations in Job Finding

Attila Gyetvai, Maria Zhu

forthcoming in: Labour Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14511

Skill Demand and Wages. Evidence from Linked Vacancy Data

Lennart Ziegler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14363

Tax Progressivity and Self-Employment Dynamics

Wiji Arulampalam, Andrea Papini

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (2), 377 - 391

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. 14318

The Effects of Unemployment on Health, Hospitalizations, and Mortality - Evidence from Administrative Data

Matija Vodopivec, Suzana Laporsek, Janez Stare, Milan Vodopivec

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14194

The Effects of Unemployment Assistance on Unemployment Exits

Tomi Kyyrä

published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2023, 30, 1457–1480

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. 14031

Does Online Search Improve the Match Quality of New Hires?

Nicole Gürtzgen, Benjamin Lochner, Laura Pohlan, Gerard J. van den Berg

published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 70, 101981

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14015

Empirical Monte Carlo Evidence on Estimation of Timing-of-Events Models

Stefano Lombardi, Gerard J. van den Berg, Johan Vikström

published in: Econometric Reviews, 2027, 44 (1), 90 - 118

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13462

Stuck at a Crossroads? The Duration of the Italian School-To-Work Transition

Francesco Pastore, Claudio Quintano, Antonella Rocca

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2021, 42 (3), 442-469

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13423

Wealth, Portfolios, and Unemployment Duration

Francois Fontaine, Janne Nyborg Jensen, Rune Majlund Vejlin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13068

Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment: Causal Evidence from Austria

Dominik Grübl, Mario Lackner, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12877

Prenatal Sunshine Exposure and Birth Outcomes in China

Xin Zhang, Yixuan Wang, Xi Chen, Xun Zhang

published as 'Associations between prenatal sunshine exposure and birth outcomes in China' in: Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 713, 136472

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12748

Combined and Distributional Effects of EPL Reduction and Hiring Incentives: An Assessment Using Non-Linear DiD

Chiara Ardito, Fabio Berton, Lia Pacelli

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023, 21, 925–954

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12599

Locus of Control and Marital Satisfaction: Couple Perspectives Using Australian Data

Wang-Sheng Lee, Terra McKinnish

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2019, 74, Article 102205.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12531

Numeracy and Unemployment Duration

Thomas Dohmen, Bert van Landeghem

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12516

Symbolism Matters: The Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Legalization on Partnership Stability

Shuai Chen, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 178, 44-58.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12470

Long-Run Effects of Dynamically Assigned Treatments: A New Methodology and an Evaluation of Training Effects on Earnings

Gerard J. van den Berg, Johan Vikström

published in: Econometrica, 2022, 90 (3), 1337-1354

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12354

Voting Power and Survival: The Case of a Ruling Party

Artyom Jelnov, Pavel Jelnov

pablished as "Success, Survival and Probabilistic Voting: The Case of a ruling Party" in: Journal Homo Oeconomicus, 2019, 36(3), 209-226

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12114

De Facto or De Jure? Ethnic Differences in Quit Responses to Legal Protections of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

Jenny Williams, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Rosanna Smart

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11864

Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects on Duration Outcomes under Censoring, Selection, and Noncompliance

German Blanco, Xuan Chen, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes

published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2020, 38 (4), 901 - 920

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11852

Vacancy Durations and Entry Wages: Evidence from Linked Vacancy-Employer-Employee Data

Andreas Kettemann, Andreas I. Mueller, Josef Zweimüller

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2024, 91 (3), 1807-1841

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11736

How Do Automation and Offshorability Influence Unemployment Duration and Subsequent Job Quality?

Bernhard Schmidpeter, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published as 'Automation, unemployment, and the role of labor market training' in: European Economic Review, 2021, 137, 103808

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11448

A Unique Bond: Twin Bereavement and Lifespan Associations of Identical and Fraternal Twins

Gerard J. van den Berg, Bettina Drepper

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11381

The Impacts of Paid Family Leave Benefits: Regression Kink Evidence from California Administrative Data

Sarah Bana, Kelly Bedard, Maya Rossin-Slater

published in: Journal of Policy Analysis & Management, 2020, 39 (4), 888-929

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11050

Broadband Internet, Digital Temptations, and Sleep

Francesco C. Billari, Osea Giuntella, Luca Stella

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 163, 58-76

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10945

International Migration and Institutional Quality in the Home Country: It Matters Where You Go and How Long You Stay!

Ngoc Thi Minh Tran, Michael P. Cameron, Jacques Poot

published as "How robust is the evidence on the impact of diasporas on institutional quality in home countries?" in: Kyklos, 2021, 74(1), 126-152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10863

The Marital Satisfaction of Differently-Aged Couples

Wang-Sheng Lee, Terra McKinnish

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31, 337-362.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10799

Estimating the Effects of Potential Benefit Duration without Variation in the Maximum Duration of Unemployment Benefits

Tomi Kyyrä, Hanna Onerva Pesola

published as 'The effects of unemployment benefit duration: Evidence from residual benefit duration' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101859

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10770

Does Part-Time Work Help Unemployed Workers to Find Full-Time Work? Evidence from Spain

Tomi Kyyrä, José María Arranz, Carlos García-Serrano

published as "Does Subsidized Part-Time Employment Help Unemployed Workers to Find Full-Time Employment?" in: Labour Economics, 2019, 56, 68-83

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10668

Returns to On-the-Job Search and the Dispersion of Wages

Axel Gottfries, Coen Teulings

published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 102292

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10580

Are the Spanish Long-Term Unemployed Unemployable?

Samuel Bentolila, J. Ignacio Garcia Perez, Marcel Jansen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10531

Comparing Econometric Methods to Empirically Evaluate Job-Search Assistance

Paul Muller, Bas van der Klaauw, Arjan Heyma

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2020, 35 (5), 526-547

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10488

Early Cannabis Use and School to Work Transition of Young Men

Jenny Williams, Jan C. van Ours

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10484

The Effects of UI Benefits on Unemployment and Subsequent Outcomes: Evidence from a Kinked Benefit Rule

Tomi Kyyrä, Hanna Onerva Pesola

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 82, 1135-1160

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10414

Lone Parents, Time-Limited In-Work Credits and the Dynamics of Work and Welfare

Mike Brewer, Jonathan Cribb

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10369

Job Creation Schemes in Turbulent Times

Annette Bergemann, Laura Pohlan, Arne Uhlendorff

revised version published as 'The Impact of Participation in Job Creation Schemes in Turbulent Times' in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 182-201

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10262

Working to Get Fired? Regression Discontinuity Effects of Unemployment Benefit Eligibility on Prior Employment Duration

Pedro S. Martins

published in: Journal of Policy Modelling, 2021, 43 (5), 1016-1030

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10247

On Nonparametric Identification of Treatment Effects in Duration Models

Per Johansson, Myoung-jae Lee

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10233

Immigrant Birthcountry Networks and Unemployment Duration: Evidence around the Great Recession

Kusum Mundra, Fernando Rios-Avila

published in: Empirical Economics 61, 2021, 389 – 415

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10223

The Consequences of Long Term Unemployment: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Katharine G. Abraham, John C. Haltiwanger, L. Kristin Sandusky, James R. Spletzer

published in: ILR Review, 2019, 72 (2), 266 - 299

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10177

Earnings Exemptions for Unemployed Workers: The Relationship between Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Quality

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Arne Uhlendorff

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 177-193

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10177

Earnings Exemptions for Unemployed Workers: The Relationship between Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Quality

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Arne Uhlendorff

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 177-193

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9909

An Oaxaca Decomposition for Nonlinear Models

Stephen Bazen, Xavier Joutard, Brice Magdalou

published in: Journal of Economics and Social Measurement, 2017, 42 (2), 101-121

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9801

The Impact of Paid Parental Leave on Labour Supply and Employment Outcomes

Barbara Broadway, Guyonne Kalb, Duncan McVicar, Bill Martin

published in: Feminist Economics, 2020, 26( 3), 30-65.

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. 9507

New Evidence on the Effects of the Shortened School Duration in the German States: An Evaluation of Post-Secondary Education Decisions

Tobias Meyer, Stephan L. Thomsen, Heidrun Schneider

published in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20 (4), e201-e253.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9465

Factors Determining Callbacks to Job Applications by the Unemployed: An Audit Study

Henry S Farber, Dan Silverman, Till von Wachter

published in: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2017, 3 (3), 168-201

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9456

Pathways from School to Work in the Developing World

Marco Manacorda, Furio Camillo Rosati, Marco Ranzani, Giuseppe Dachille

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9248

Bad Behavior: Delinquency, Arrest and Early School Leaving

Shannon Ward, Jenny Williams, Jan C. van Ours

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8972

Home-Ownership, Unemployed's Job Search Behavior and Post-Unemployment Outcomes

Marco Caliendo, Anne C. Gielen, Robert Mahlstedt

published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 137, 218-221

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8876

The Role of Education and Family Background in Marriage, Childbearing and Labor Market Participation in Senegal

Francesca Marchetta, David E. Sahn

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, 64 (2). 369-403

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8839

Identification of the Timing-of-Events Model with Multiple Competing Exit Risks from Single-Spell Data

Bettina Drepper, Georgios Effraimidis

published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 147, 124-126

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8759

How Do Drug Prices Respond to a Change from External to Internal Reference Pricing? Evidence from a Danish Regulatory Reform

Ulrich Kaiser, Susan J. Méndez

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8495

A Journey Home: What Drives How Long People Are Homeless?

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Nicolas Herault, Rosanna Scutella, Yi-Ping Tseng

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2016, 91, 57-72.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8493

Modelling Heaped Duration Data: An Application to Neonatal Mortality

Wiji Arulampalam, Valentina Corradi, Daniel Gutknecht

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 200, (2), 363-377.

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. 8121

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

Amparo Nagore García, Arthur van Soest

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8083

Dependence Measures in Bivariate Gamma Frailty Models

Gerard J. van den Berg, Georgios Effraimidis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8039

Ethnic Disparities in the Transition to Home Ownership

Aslan Zorlu, Clara H. Mulder, Ruben van Gaalen

published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2014, 26, 151-163

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7957

A Contribution to the Empirics of Reservation Wages

Alan B. Krueger, Andreas I. Mueller

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016, 8 (1), 142-179

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7913

Unemployment Insurance and Underemployment

Anna Godoy, Knut Røed

revised version published in: Labour, 2016, 30 (2), 158–179

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7835

Physician Payment Mechanisms, Hospital Length of Stay and Risk of Readmission: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Damien Échevin, Bernard Fortin

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 36, 112-124

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7774

Does Homeownership Lead to Longer Unemployment Spells? The Role of Mortgage Payments

Stijn Baert, Freddy Heylen, Daan Isebaert

revised version published in: De Economist, 2014, 152, 263 - 286

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7740

Structural Empirical Evaluation of Job Search Monitoring

Gerard J. van den Berg, Bas van der Klaauw

published in: International Economic Review, 2019, 60 (2), 879-903

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7740

Structural Empirical Evaluation of Job Search Monitoring

Gerard J. van den Berg, Bas van der Klaauw

published in: International Economic Review, 2019, 60 (2), 879-903

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7727

Left-Behind Children and Return Decisions of Rural Migrants in China

Sylvie Démurger, Hui Xu

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4:10

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7727

Left-Behind Children and Return Decisions of Rural Migrants in China

Sylvie Démurger, Hui Xu

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4:10

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7648

Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability

Govert Bijwaard, Hans van Kippersluis, Justus Veenman

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 42, 29–43

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7630

Sanctions for Young Welfare Recipients

Gerard J. van den Berg, Arne Uhlendorff, Joachim Wolff

published in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2014, 177-208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7580

Doing Well in Reforming the Labour Market? Recent Trends in Job Stability and Wages in Germany

Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Ursula Jaenichen, Thomas Rothe

published as 'The evolution of job stability and wages after the implementation of the Hartz reforms 'in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2016, 49, 269-294

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7559

The Effect of Extended Unemployment Benefit on the Job Finding Hazards: A Quasi-Experiment in Japan

Tomohiro Machikita, Miki Kohara, Masaru Sasaki

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7347

Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Lengthen Unemployment Spells? Evidence from Recent Cycles in the U.S. Labor Market

Henry S Farber, Robert G. Valletta

revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50(4), 873-909

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7249

A Simple Approach to Treatment Effects on Durations When the Treatment Timing is Chosen

Myoung-jae Lee, Per Johansson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7193

Unemployment and Subsequent Employment Stability: Does Labour Market Policy Matter?

Melike Wulfgramm, Lukas Fervers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7082

Evaluating the Effect of Ownership Status on Hospital Quality: The Key Role of Innovative Procedures

Laurent Gobillon, Carine Milcent

published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 121-122, 161-186

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. 6936

Spatial Disparities in Hospital Performance

Laurent Gobillon, Carine Milcent

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2013, 13 (6), 1013-1040

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6746

Stepping Stones versus Dead End Jobs: Exits from Temporary Contracts in Italy after the 2003 Reform

Giovanni S. F. Bruno, Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Orietta Dessy

published in: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, 2013, 1, 31-60

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