IZA Discussion Papers

revised version forthcoming as 'What Do Workers Want? The Representation Gap at the EU Establishment as Perceived by Their Workplace Representatives' in: Research in Labor Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11411

Measuring Costly Effort Using the Slider Task

David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2019, 21, 1-9

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11091

Heterogeneity and the Public Sector Wage Policy

Pedro Maia Gomes

published in: International Economic Review, 2018, 59 (3), 1469 -1489

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11055

The Post-Reform Effectiveness of the New German Start-Up Subsidy for the Unemployed

Lutz Bellmann, Marco Caliendo, Stefan Tübbicke

published in: LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2018, 32(3), 293-319

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10922

Micro Foundations of Earnings Differences

Tirthatanmoy Das, Solomon Polachek

forthcoming in: Palgrave Handbook of Economic Performance Analysis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10782

High-Impact Minimum Wages and Heterogeneous Regions

Philipp Vom Berge, Hanna Frings

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10769

Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States

Stephen R. G. Jones, W. Craig Riddell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10747

The Distribution of Returns to Education for People with Disabilities

Daniel J. Henderson, Andrew Houtenville, Le Wang

Published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2017, 38, 261-282

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10490

To 'Vape' or Smoke? A Discrete Choice Experiment among Adult Smokers

Joachim Marti, John Buckell, J. Catherine Maclean, Jody L. Sindelar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10466

Fiscal Policy and Occupational Employment Dynamics

Christian Bredemeier, Falko Juessen, Roland Winkler

published in: Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 2020, 52 (5), 1527-1563

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10156

Tracking Wage Inequality Trends with Prices and Different Trade Models: Evidence from Mexico

Timothy J. Halliday, Daniel Lederman, Raymond Robertson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9950

Search Frictions, Competing Mechanisms and Optimal Market Segmentation

Xiaoming Cai, Pieter A. Gautier, Ronald P. Wolthoff

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2017, 169, 453-473

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9810

Heterogeneous Effects of Medical Interventions on the Health of Low-Risk Newborns

N. Meltem Daysal, Mircea Trandafir, Reyn van Ewijk

revised version published as 'Low-risk isn't no-risk: Perinatal treatments and the health of low-income newborns' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 64, 55-67.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9807

A Comparison of Panel Data Models in Estimating Technical Efficiency

Masoomeh Rashidghalam, Almas Heshmati, Ghader Dashti, Esmail Pishbahar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9605

Lower Bounds and the Linearity Assumption in Parametric Estimations of Inequality of Opportunity

Paul Hufe, Andreas Peichl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9573

Informal versus Formal Search: Which Yields a Better Pay?

Semih Tumen

published in: International Journal of Economic Theory, 2016, 12(3), 257-277

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9564

Are Competitors Forward Looking in Strategic Interactions? Evidence from the Field

Mario Lackner, Rudi Stracke, Uwe Sunde, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation, 2020, 179, 544-565

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9544

Ethnic Diversity and Trust: New Evidence from Australian Data

Silvia Mendolia, Alex Tosh, Oleg Yerokhin

published in Economic Record, 2016, 92 (299): 648-665.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9491

New Evidence on Linear Regression and Treatment Effect Heterogeneity

Tymon Sloczynski

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9403

Beyond Qualifications: Returns to Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Skills in Colombia

Pablo A. Acosta, Noel Muller, Miguel Sarzosa

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9384

Equality Concerns and the Limits of Self-Governance in Heterogeneous Populations

Lata Gangadharan, Nikos Nikiforakis, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'Equality concerns and the limits of self-governance in heterogeneous populations' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 100, 143-156

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9378

Welfare Evaluation of the 1986 Tax Reform for Married Couples in the United States

Matteo Picchio, Giacomo Valletta

published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2018, 25 (3), 757–807

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9233

Labour Market Dynamics and Worker Heterogeneity during the Great Recession: Evidence from Europe

Ronald Bachmann, Peggy Bechara, Anica Kramer, Sylvi Rzepka

IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2017, 4:19 (open access)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9116

The Heterogeneous Impact of Pension Income on Elderly Living Arrangements: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme

Lingguo Cheng, Hong Liu, Ye Zhang, Zhong Zhao

published: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31(1), 155-192 [Details & Download]

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. 8758

Robust Confidence Intervals for Average Treatment Effects under Limited Overlap

Christoph Rothe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8669

Wage Inequality and Wage Mobility in Turkey

Aysit Tansel, Basak Dalgic, Aytekin Güven

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2019, 142 (1), 107-129.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8663

Measuring Heterogeneity in Job Finding Rates Among the Nonemployed Using Labor Force Status Histories

Marianna Kudlyak, Fabian Lange

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8643

Consumer Search Costs and Preferences on the Internet

Grégory Jolivet, Hélène Turon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8368

Dynamic Incentive Effects of Heterogeneity in Multi-Stage Promotion Contests

Rudi Stracke, Uwe Sunde

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8337

Unobservable, but Unimportant? The Influence of Personality Traits (and Other Usually Unobserved Variables) for the Evaluation of Labor Market Policies

Marco Caliendo, Robert Mahlstedt, Oscar A. Mitnik

substantially revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 46, 14-25.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8270

In 'Trusts' We Trust: Socially Motivated Private Schools in Nepal

Sarmistha Pal, Bibhas Saha

Journal of Development Studies 55(5): 765-85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8166

The Impact of Chinese Import Penetration on Danish Firms and Workers

Damoun Ashournia, Jakob R. Munch, Daniel Nguyen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8125

Labour Demand Research: Towards a Better Match between Better Theory and Better Data

John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal, José Varejão

published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 4-11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8083

Dependence Measures in Bivariate Gamma Frailty Models

Gerard J. van den Berg, Georgios Effraimidis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8070

Household Consumption When the Marriage Is Stable

Laurens Cherchye, Thomas Demuynck, Bram De Rock, Frederic Vermeulen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8063

Immigrants and Firms' Productivity: Evidence from France

Cristina Mitaritonna, Gianluca Orefice, Giovanni Peri

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7724

Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey

Antonio Di Paolo, Aysit Tansel

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2015, 51(4), 407-421

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7460

Regional Effect Heterogeneity of Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn

published in Regional Studies, 2014, 48 (6), 1108-1134

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7346

Firm-Level Heterogeneity and the Decision to Export: A Real Option Approach

Wim Naudé, Thomas Gries, Natasa Bilkic

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7335

Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital

Solomon Polachek, Tirthatanmoy Das, Rewat Thamma-Apiroam

published as 'Micro and Macro Implications of Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2015, 123(6), 1410-1455

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7284

Team Heterogeneity in Startups and its Development over Time

Ulrich Kaiser, Bettina Müller

published in: Small Business Economics, 2015, 45 (4), 787-804

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. 6888

Does Money Burn Fat? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Boris Augurzky, Thomas K. Bauer, Arndt R. Reichert, Christoph M. Schmidt, Harald Tauchmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6884

The Impact of Managerial Change on Performance: The Role of Team Heterogeneity

Sandra Hentschel, Gerd Muehlheusser, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Economic Inquiry 54(2), 1128-119, 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6596

On the Heterogeneity of Terror

Krisztina Kis-Katos, Helge Liebert, Günther G. Schulze

published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 68, 116-136

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6588

Causal Returns to Schooling and Individual Heterogeneity

Friedhelm Pfeiffer, Winfried F. X. Pohlmeier

published in: Review of Economic and Business Studies 2011, 4 (2), 29-41

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6478

Repeated Selection with Heterogenous Individuals and Relative Age Effects

Herbert Dawid, Gerd Muehlheusser

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 116, 387–406

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6459

Globalization, Institutions, and the Ethnic Divide: Recent Longitudinal Evidence

Phanindra V. Wunnava, Aniruddha Mitra, Robert E. Prasch

published as 'Globalization and the Ethnic Divide: Recent Longitudinal Evidence' in: Social Science Quarterly, 2015, 96 (5), 1475-1492

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6377

The Role of Education in Technology Use and Adoption: Evidence from the Canadian Workplace and Employee Survey

W. Craig Riddell, Xueda Song

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6299

Exploring the Causes of Frictional Wage Dispersion

Volker Tjaden, Felix Wellschmied

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2014, 6 (1), 134-161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6282

Exogenous Treatment and Endogenous Factors: Vanishing of Omitted Variable Bias on the Interaction Term

Olena Y. Nizalova, Irina Murtazashvili

published in Journal of Econometric Methods, 2016, 5(1), 71-78

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6163

The Persistence of Informality: Evidence from Panel Data

Alpaslan Akay, Melanie Khamis

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 229 - 255

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6109

Heterogeneous Firms, Trade, and Economic Policy: Insights from a Simple Two-Sector Model

Michael P. Pflüger, Stephan Russek

published in revised form in: S. Beugelsdijk , S. Brakman, H. van Ees and H. Garretsen (eds.), Firms in the International Economy - Firm Heterogeneity Meets International Business, MIT-Press 2013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6102

Welfare, Labor Supply and Heterogeneous Preferences: Evidence for Europe and the US

Olivier Bargain, André Decoster, Mathias Dolls, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch

revised version published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2013, 41 (4), 789-817

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6031

Inference for Shared-Frailty Survival Models with Left-Truncated Data

Gerard J. van den Berg, Bettina Drepper

published in: Econometric Reviews, 35(6), 2016, 1075-1098

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6027

Business Cycle Effects of Credit and Technology Shocks in a DSGE Model with Firm Defaults

M. Hashem Pesaran, TengTeng Xu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5868

And I Will Try to Fix You: A Study of Heterogeneity in Job Satisfaction with Implications for Flexible Employment Contracts

Aekapol Chongvilaivan, Nattavudh Powdthavee

published online as 'Do Different Work Characteristics Have Different Distributional Impacts on Job Satisfaction? A Study of Slope Heterogeneity in Workers’ Well-Being' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations , 2012, [Early View]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5801

A Novel Computerized Real Effort Task Based on Sliders

David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5755

Incentives vs. Selection in Promotion Tournaments: Can a Designer Kill Two Birds with One Stone?

Wolfgang Höchtl, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Rudi Stracke, Uwe Sunde

revised version published in: Managerial and Decision Economics, 2015, 36(5), 275–285

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5748

Unobserved Heterogeneity in Multiple-Spell Multiple-States Duration Models

Govert Bijwaard

revised version published as 'Multistate event history analysis with frailty' in: Demographic Research, 2014, 30, 1591-1620 [PDF]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5718