Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18557

Risk Preferences and the Willingness to Relocate to Danger: Evidence from Wartime Ukraine

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Marianna Kudlyak, Sophia Lobozynska, Iryna Skomorovych, Ulyana Vladychyn, Andriy Kovalyuk, Iryna Snovydovych

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18229

The Effects of Immigration on Places and People – Identification and Interpretation

Jan Stuhler, Christian Dustmann, Sebastian Otten, Uta Schönberg

forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17613

Decomposing Recruitment Elasticity in Job Matching

Ryo Kambayashi, Kohei Kawaguchi, Suguru Otani

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17399

Are Alternative Work Arrangements a Substitute for Standard Employment? Evidence from Worker-Level Data

Bernardo Fanfani, Filippo Passerini

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 46(8), 1438-1459, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17003

The Role of Technological Change in the Evolution of the Employment to Output Elasticity

Pablo Egana-delSol, Alejandro Micco

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16819

Behavioural Responses to Disability Insurance Generosity in a Work-Compatibility Setting

Francesca Zantomio, Michele Belloni, Vincenzo Carrieri, Elena Farina, Irene Simonetti

published as "Disability Insurance as a Complement to Labor Income: Evidence From Italian Administrative Data" in: Health Economics, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16784

The Impact of the Level and Timing of Parental Resources on Child Development and Intergenerational Mobility

Sadegh S. M. Eshaghnia, James J. Heckman, Rasmus Landersø

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2025, 43 (S1), S269–S301

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16611

Nonlinear Propagation of Sectoral Productivity Shocks with Variable Elasticities of Substitution

Saumik Paul, Dhushyanth Raju

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16414

Labor Supply within the Firm

Michele Battisti, Ryan Michaels, Choonsung Park

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 511 - 548

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16067

Can a Ban on Child Labour Be Self-Enforcing?

Alessandro Cigno

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2024, 37, 62

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16038

Maximum Impact Intergenerational Associations

Sadegh S. M. Eshaghnia, James J. Heckman, Rasmus Landersø

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16015

Labor Demand Responses to Changing Gas Prices

Mario Bossler, Alexander Moog, Thorsten Schank

published in: BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2023, 23 (4), 1073–1080

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15836

The Effect of Pension Wealth on Employment

Sebastian Becker, Hermann Buslei, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15759

Hours Inequality

Daniele Checchi, Cecilia Garca-Peñalosa, Lara Vivian

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15675

The Wage Elasticity of Recruitment

Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn, Alan Manning, Michael Oberfichtner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15667

The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers: Evidence from a Randomized Lottery

Michael A. Clemens, Ethan Gatewood Lewis

forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2026

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15525

Tax Elasticity of Border Sales: A Meta-Analysis

Dat Huynh, Anna Sokolova, Mehmet S. Tosun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14226

Accounting for Limited Commitment between Spouses When Estimating Labor-Supply Elasticities

Christian Bredemeier, Jan Gravert, Falko Juessen

published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2023, 51, 547-578

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13856

Gender Wage Gap and Firm Market Power: Evidence from Chile

Rafael Sánchez, Javier Finot, Mauricio G. Villena

published in: Applied Economics, 2021, 54 (18), 2109–2121.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13577

Within-Country Poverty Convergence: Evidence from Mexico

Luis-Felipe López-Calva, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan

published in: Empirical Economics, 2022, 62, 2547–2586

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12694

Evidence on Intergenerational Income Transmission Using Complete Dutch Population Data

Fiona Carmichael, Christian Darko, Marco G Ercolani, Ceren Ozgen, W. Stanley Siebert

published in: Economics Letters, 2020, 189, 108996

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12418

Labor Income Share Dynamics with Variable Elasticity of Substitution

Saumik Paul

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12286

Tax Bunching at the Kink in the Presence of Low Capacity of Enforcement: Evidence from Uruguay

Marcelo Bergolo, Gabriel Burdin, Mauricio De Rosa, Matias Giaccobasso, Martin Leites

revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (639), 2726 - 2762.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12219

A Decline in Labor's Share with Capital Accumulation and Complementary Factor Inputs: An Application of the Morishima Elasticity of Substitution

Saumik Paul

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12136

Adjustment Costs and Incentives to Work: Evidence from a Disability Insurance Program

Arezou Zaresani

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 188, 104223.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12090

The Elasticity of Taxable Labour Income in the Netherlands

Egbert L. W. Jongen, Maaike Stoel

published in: De Economist, 2019, 167(4), 359-386.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12062

Coordination of Hours within the Firm

Claudio Labanca, Dario Pozzoli

revised version published as 'Constraints on Hours within the Firm' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (2), 473 -503

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12004

Employment to Output Elasticities & Reforms towards Flexicurity: Evidence from OECD Countries

Holger Görg, Cecília Hornok, Catia Montagna, George E. Onwordi

published in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2023, 75 (3), 641–670

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11958

The Elasticity of Taxable Income: A Meta-Regression Analysis

Carina Neisser

published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (640), 3365- 3391

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11668

Bribes vs. Taxes: Market Structure and Incentives

Francesco Amodio, Jieun Choi, Giacomo De Giorgi, Aminur Rahman

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics 2022, 50 (2), 435-453

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11425

The Sensitivity of Structural Labor Supply Estimations to Modeling Assumptions

Max Löffler, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11406

Intergenerational Earnings Persistence and Economic Inequality in the Long-Run: Evidence from French Cohorts, 1931-1975

Arnaud Lefranc

published in: Economica, 2018, 85 (340), 808 - 845

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10898

The Effects of Globalization and Technology on the Elasticity of Substitution

Hector Sala, Pedro Trivín

published in: Review of World Economics, 2018, 154 (3), 617-647

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10300

The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital and Earnings in Contemporary Russia

Gleb V. Borisov, Christopher A. Pissarides

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10267

Estimating Labor-Supply Elasticities with Joint Borrowing Constraints of Couples

Christian Bredemeier, Jan Gravert, Falko Juessen

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (4), 1215-1265

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10114

Labor Supply Shocks, Native Wages, and the Adjustment of Local Employment

Christian Dustmann, Uta Schönberg, Jan Stuhler

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2017, 132 (1), 435–483

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10031

The Elasticity of the Migrant Labor Supply: Evidence from Temporary Filipino Migrants

Simone Bertoli, Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Sekou Keita

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2017, 53 (11), 1822-1834

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9910

Do Financial Incentives Influence GPs' Decisions to Do After-Hours Work? A Discrete Choice Labour Supply Model

Barbara Broadway, Guyonne Kalb, Jinhu Li, Anthony Scott

published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (12), e52-e66

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9549

Disability Benefit Generosity and Labor Force Withdrawal

Kathleen Mullen, Stefan Staubli

revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 143, 49-63

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9054

What Factors Affect Doctors' Hours Decisions: Comparing Structural Discrete Choice and Reduced-Form Approaches

Guyonne Kalb, Daniel Kühnle, Anthony Scott, Terence Chai Cheng, Sung-Hee Jeon

published as 'What factors affect physicians' labour supply: Comparing structural discrete choice and reduced-form approaches' in: Health Economics, 2017, 27 (2), e101 - e119

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8924

Immigration and Wage Dynamics: Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis

Joan Monras

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128, 3017–3089

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8908

Do You Have to Win It to Fix It? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners and Their Health Care Demand

Terence Chai Cheng, Joan Costa-Font, Nattavudh Powdthavee

published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 4 (1), 26-50

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8554

Sufficient Statistic or Not? The Elasticity of Taxable Income in the Presence of Deduction Possibilities

Philipp Doerrenberg, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch

revised version published as 'The elasticity of taxable income in the presence of deduction possibilities' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 151, 41 - 55

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8490

When the Baby Cries at Night: Inelastic Buyers in Non-Competitive Markets

Giacomo Calzolari, Andrea Ichino, Francesco Manaresi, Viki Nellas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8281

Structural Labor Supply Models and Wage Exogeneity

Max Löffler, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch

revised version available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 11425

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8246

Taxation and the Long Run Allocation of Labor: Theory and Danish Evidence

Claus Thustrup Kreiner, Jakob R. Munch, Hans Jørgen Whitta-Jacobsen

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 127, 74-86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7958

The Own-Wage Elasticity of Labor Demand: A Meta-Regression Analysis

Andreas Lichter, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 80, 94-119

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7698

Steady-State Labor Supply Elasticities: A Survey

Olivier B. Bargain, Andreas Peichl

published as 'Own-wage labor supply elasticities: variation across time and estimation methods' in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 5, 10 (2016)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7514

Interpreting Trends in Intergenerational Income Mobility

Martin Nybom, Jan Stuhler

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (8), 2531–2570

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7494

Exporting and Labor Demand: Micro-Level Evidence from Germany

Andreas Lichter, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch

revised version published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2017, 50 (4), 1161-1189