IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Does Formal Education for Adults Yield Long-Term Multiplier Effects or Human Capital Depreciation?' in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 90, 102306

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15313

Regional Structural Change and the Effects of Job Loss

Melanie Arntz, Boris Ivanov, Laura Pohlan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15254

Minimum Wage Increases and Vacancies

Marianna Kudlyak, Murat Tasci, Didem Tüzemen

This version: January 2023.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15066

An Impact Assessment of ESF Training Courses for Unemployed in the Province of Bolzano

Francesco Pastore, Marco Pompili

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15005

The Impact Evaluation of Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (New School) Program on Students' Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills

Hai-Anh H Dang, Paul Glewwe, Jongwook Lee, Khoa Vu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15003

Getting Stuck in the Status Quo Ante: Evidence from the Egyptian Economy

Ömer Tuğsal Doruk, Francesco Pastore

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14999

Employment Effects of Restricting Fixed-Term Contracts: Theory and Evidence

Pierre Cahuc, Pauline Carry, Franck Malherbet, Pedro S. Martins

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14910

Bringing Underprivileged Middle-School Students to the Opera: Cultural Mobility or Cultural Compliance?

Philippe Coulangeon, Denis Fougère

published in: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022, 43 (7), 1052–1075.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14892

Short-Term Impacts of Targeted Cash Grants and Business Development Services: Experimental Evidence from Entrepreneurs in Burkina Faso

Michael Grimm, Sidiki Soubeiga, Michael Weber

published as 'Supporting small firms in a fragile context: Comparing matching and cash grants in Burkina Faso' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 171.103344.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14877

Commitments and the Marital Match: The Effect of Alimony Reform on Assortative Matching

Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Jennifer Louise Roff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14877

Commitments and the Marital Match: The Effect of Alimony Reform on Assortative Matching

Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Jennifer Louise Roff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14822

Nonlinearities and Workers' Heterogeneity in Unemployment Dynamics

Stéphane Adjemian, Frédéric Karamé, François Langot

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14803

The Market for CEOs: Building Legacy and Feeling Empowered Matter

Arnaud Dupuy, John Kennes, Ran Sun Lyng

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14791

The Geography of Job Creation and Job Destruction

Moritz Kuhn, Iourii Manovskii, Xincheng Qiu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14629

The Effects of Reforming a Federal Employment Agency on Labor Demand

Kornelius Kraft, Alexander Lammers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14622

Preference Signaling and Worker-Firm Matching: Evidence from Interview Auctions

Ron A. Laschever, Russell Weinstein

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14621

Rules, Preferences and Evolution from the Family Angle

Alessandro Cigno

published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook fo Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 2022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14581

Teacher Compensation and Structural Inequality: Evidence from Centralized Teacher School Choice in Perú

Matteo Bobba, Tim Ederer, Gianmarco Leon Ciliotta, Christopher A. Neilson, Marco Nieddu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14516

Do Ethnically-Congruent Teachers Really Matter Little for Hispanic Students? A Re-Examination of the Data

Kelvin Seah

published in: Economics Letters, 2021, 206, Article 109976

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14387

Gender Differences in Student Evaluations of Teaching: Identification and Consequences

Edmund Cannon, Giam Pietro Cipriani

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14374

Do International Study Programmes Pay off for Local Students?

Zhiling Wang, Francesco Pastore, Bas Karreman, Frank van Oort

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14361

Mismatch Unemployment in Austria: The Role of Regional Labour Markets for Skills

René Böheim, Michael Christl

published in: Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2022, 9 (1), 208–222

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14329

Short-Time Work and Precautionary Savings

Thomas Dengler, Britta Gehrke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14328

How to Improve Worker-Firm Matching: Evidence from a Temporary Foreign Worker Market

Yoon Y. Cho, Soohyung Lee

published in: Korean Economic Review, 2021, 37 (2), 419-454

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14239

Do You Really Want to Share Everything? The Wellbeing of Work-Linked Couples

Juliane Hennecke, Clemens Hetschko

published online in: Oxford Economic Papers, 16 September 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14186

Gender Gaps in Latin American Labor Markets: Implications from an Estimated Search Model

Mauricio Tejada, Claudia Piras, Luca Flabbi, Monserrat Bustelo

published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 142, 2021, 111-178

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14138

Recruiting Intensity, Hires, and Vacancies: Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Eliza Forsythe, Russell Weinstein

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14128

The Gender Pay Gap Revisited with Big Data: Do Methodological Choices Matter?

Anthony Strittmatter, Conny Wunsch

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. 13979

Uncovering the Mechanism(s): Financial Constraints and Wages

Hamzeh Arabzadeh, Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13939

How Effective are Matching Schemes in Enticing Low-income Earners to Save More for Retirement? Evidence from a National Scheme

Marc K. Chan, Cain Polidano, Ha Vu, Roger Wilkins, Andrew Carter, Hang To

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13934

Gender Wage Gap - A Matching Analysis for Three MENA Countries: Egypt, Jordan and Turkey

Ömer Tuğsal Doruk, Francesco Pastore

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13886

Federal Unemployment Reinsurance and Local Labor-Market Policies

Marek Ignaszak, Philip Jung, Keith Kuester

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13844

Static and Dynamic Inefficiencies in an Optimizing Model of Epidemics

Pietro Garibaldi, Espen R. Moen, Christopher A. Pissarides

published in: Economic Theory, 2024, 77, 9 - 48

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13708

Access to Finance among Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Job Creation in Africa

Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Thierry Kangoye, Urbain Thierry Yogo

published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2020, 55, 177 - 189

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13666

Long Live the Vacancy

Christian Haefke, Michael Reiter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13600

Winners and Losers of Immigration

Davide Fiaschi, Cristina Tealdi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13486

Assessing the Role of Women in Tourism Related Sectors in the Caribbean

Francesco Pastore, Allan Webster, Kevin Hope

published in: International Journal of Tourism Research, 2021, 23 (3), 378-400

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13439

The Lockdown Impact on Unemployment for Heterogeneous Workers

Malak Kandoussi, François Langot

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13438

Uncertainty Shocks and Unemployment Dynamics

Malak Kandoussi, François Langot

published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 201, 110760

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13328

Taxation in Matching Markets

Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon, Sonia Jaffe, Scott Duke Kominers

published in: International Economic Review, 2020, 61 (4), 1591-1634

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13300

The Effect of the Hartz Labor Market Reforms on Post-unemployment Wages, Sorting, and Matching

Simon D. Woodcock

published as 'The determinants of displaced workers’ wages: Sorting, matching, selection, and the Hartz reforms' in: Journal of Econometrics, 2023, 233 (2), 568-595

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13240

Recruitment Policies, Job-Filling Rates and Matching Efficiency

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Hermann Gartner, Leo Kaas

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (6), 2413 - 2459

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13177

Beyond Cobb-Douglas: Flexibly Estimating Matching Functions with Unobserved Matching Efficiency

Fabian Lange, Theodore Papageorgiou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13128

A Strictly Economic Explanation of Gender Norms: The Lasting Legacy of the Plough

Alessandro Cigno

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2022, 20, 1-13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12961

Life Satisfaction of Employees, Labour Market Tightness and Matching Efficiency

Pablo de Pedraza, Martin Guzi, Kea Tijdens

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2020, 42 (3), 341-355

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12940

Can Women's Self-Help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India

Paul Anand, Swati Saxena, Rolando Gonzales Martinez, Hai-Anh H Dang

published in: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2020, 21(2), 137-160.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12897

Elite School Designation and Housing Prices: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Beijing, China

Bin Huang, Xiaoyan He, Lei Xu, Yu Zhu

published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2020, 50, 101730

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12895

How Broadband Internet Affects Labor Market Matching

Manudeep Bhuller, Andreas Ravndal Kostøl, Trond Christian Vigtel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12888

Employment vs. Homestay and the Happiness of Women in the South Caucasus

Karine Torosyan, Norberto Pignatti

published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, 23, 4027-4071

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12755

Do Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed Affect Participants' Well-Being? A Rigorous Look at (Un-)Intended Consequences of Labor Market Policies

Marco Caliendo, Stefan Tübbicke

published in: Evaluation Review, 2022, 46 (5), 517-554

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12654

Depression in the House: The Effects of Household Air Pollution from Solid Fuel Use in China

Yan Liu, Xi Chen, Zhijun Yan

published as 'Depression in the house: The effects of household air pollution from solid fuel use among the middle-aged and older population in China' in: Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 703, 134706

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. 12574

Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages

Gregor Jarosch, Jan Sebastian Nimczik, Isaac Sorkin

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2024, 91 (6), 3569 - 3607

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12526

Does the Estimation of the Propensity Score by Machine Learning Improve Matching Estimation? The Case of Germany's Programmes for Long Term Unemployed

Daniel Goller, Michael Lechner, Andreas Moczall, Joachim Wolff

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101855