IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'How does occupational licensing affect entry into the medical field? An examination of emergency medical technicians' in: Southern Economic Journal, 2024, 91 (1), 38 - 61

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13385

From Pink-Collar to Lab Coat: Cultural Persistence and Diffusion of Socialist Gender Norms

Naomi Friedman-Sokuler, Claudia Senik

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, 11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13380

Things versus People: Gender Differences in Vocational Interests and in Occupational Preferences

Andreas Kuhn, Stefan C. Wolter

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 203, 210-234

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13120

The Economic Outcomes of an Ethnic Minority: The Role of Barriers

Nitsa Kaliner Kasir, Eran Yashiv

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12861

The Strength of Gender Norms and Gender-Stereotypical Occupational Aspirations among Adolescents

Andreas Kuhn, Stefan C. Wolter

revised version published in: Kyklos, 2023, 76 (1), 101-124

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12661

Changing Returns to Occupational Skill and Women's Wages

Felix Schran

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12367

Wage Employment, Unemployment and Self-Employment across Countries

Markus Poschke

published online in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 12 September 2024, 103684

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12236

Does More Math in High School Increase the Share of Female STEM Workers? Evidence from a Curriculum Reform

Martin Biewen, Jakob Schwerter

published in: Applied Economics, 2021, 54 (16), 1889–1911

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12201

The Intergenerational Transmission of Teaching

Alberto Jacinto, Seth Gershenson

published in: American Educational Research Journal, 2021, 58 (3), 635-672.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11872

Cross Cohort Evidence on Gendered Sorting Patterns in the UK: The Importance of Societal Movements versus Childhood Variables

Warn N. Lekfuangfu, Grace Lordan

published as 'Documenting Occupational Sorting by Gender in the UK across Three Cohorts: Does a Grand Convergence Rely on Societal Movements? in: Empirical Economics, 2023, 65, 2215–2256

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11820

The Effects of Professor Gender on the Post-Graduation Outcomes of Female Students

Hani Mansour, Daniel I. Rees, Bryson Rintala, Nathan Wozny

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2022, 75 (3), 693 - 715

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11692

Origins of Gender Norms: Sibling Gender Composition and Women's Choice of Occupation and Partner

Anne Ardila Brenøe

published as 'Brothers Increase Women's Gender Conformity' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 1859 - 1896

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11332

Return Migration and Self-Employment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan

Tilman Brück, Clotilde Mahe, Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11217

The Native-Migrant Gap in the Progression into and through Upper-Secondary Education

Stefan C. Wolter, Maria Zumbühl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11103

The Intersection of the Fields of Entrepreneurship and Development Economics: A Review towards a New View

Jolanda Hessels, Wim Naudé

published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2019, 33 (2), 389 - 403

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11042

A Multinomial Probit Model with Latent Factors: Identification and Interpretation without a Measurement System

Rémi Piatek, Miriam Gensowski

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11015

Media and Occupational Choice

Alexander Konon, Alexander S. Kritikos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10830

Women Make Houses, Women Make Homes

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Melanie Khamis, Mutlu Yuksel

published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 49, 145-161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10584

Occupational Choice and Matching in the Labor Market

Eric Mak, Aloysius Siow

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10339

Infant Health, Cognitive Performance and Earnings: Evidence from Inception of the Welfare State in Sweden

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson, Nina Schwarz

revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (6), 1138 -1156

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10278

On the Origins of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Sibling Correlations

Matthew J. Lindquist, Joeri Sol, Mirjam C. van Praag, Theodor Vladasel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10225

Prevalence of Long Hours and Skilled Women's Occupational Choices

Patricia Cortes, Jessica Pan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10132

Gender Wage Gaps and Risky vs. Secure Employment: An Experimental Analysis

Seeun Jung, Chung Choe, Ronald L. Oaxaca

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 112-121

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10129

Does Rosie Like Riveting? Male and Female Occupational Choices

Grace Lordan, Jörn-Steffen Pischke

published in: Economica, 2022, 89 (353), 110 - 130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9749

Evaluating the Long-Run Impact of an Innovative Anti-Poverty Program: Evidence Using Household Panel Data

Niaz Asadullah, Jinnat Ara

published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 58 (2), 107-120

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9591

An Unfulfilled Promise? Higher Education Quality and Professional Underemployment in Peru

Gustavo Yamada, Pablo Lavado, Joan Jennifer Martinez

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9277

High School Experiences, the Gender Wage Gap, and the Selection of Occupation

Michael R. Strain, Douglas A. Webber

published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49 (49), 5040-5049

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9074

Do Parental Networks Pay Off? Linking Children's Labor-Market Outcomes to their Parents' Friends

Erik Plug, Bas van der Klaauw, Lennart Ziegler

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2108, 120 (1), 268-295

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8549

Recovering Ex Ante Returns and Preferences for Occupations using Subjective Expectations Data

Peter Arcidiacono, V. Joseph Hotz, Arnaud Maurel, Teresa Romano

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (12), 4475 - 4522

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8355

Occupational Sorting of School Graduates: The Role of Economic Preferences

Didier Fouarge, Ben Kriechel, Thomas Dohmen

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 106, 335-351

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7991

The Firm Size Distribution across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology

Markus Poschke

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2018, 10 (3), 1-41

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7582

Remittances and Occupational Outcomes of the Household Members Left-Behind

Matloob Piracha, Teresa Randazzo, Florin Vadean

substantially revised version published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (2), 278 - 293

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7386

Can Basic Entrepreneurship Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor?

Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Narayan Das, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7178

The "Task Approach" to Labor Markets: An Overview

David Autor

published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2013, 46 (3), 185-199

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7068

The Growth of Low Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market

David Autor, David Dorn

published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (5), 1553-1597

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6740

Why Do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children?

Matthew J. Lindquist, Joeri Sol, Mirjam C. van Praag

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 32 (2), 269–296

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6447

Robust Estimation of Wage Dispersion with Censored Data: An Application to Occupational Earnings Risk and Risk Attitudes

Daniel Pollmann, Thomas Dohmen, Franz C. Palm

published in: De Economist, 2020, 168, 519 - 540

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6201

The Career Costs of Children

Jérôme Adda, Christian Dustmann, Katrien Stevens

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 125 (2), 293-337

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6200

Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship

Chihmao Hsieh, Simon C. Parker, Mirjam C. van Praag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6166

It's the Opportunity Cost, Stupid! How Self-Employment Responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew

Peter Berkhout, Joop Hartog, Mirjam C. van Praag

published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 40 (2), 249-268

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6148

Rubble Women: The Long-Term Effects of Postwar Reconstruction on Female Labor Market Outcomes

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Melanie Khamis, Mutlu Yuksel

substantially revised paper appeared as DP No. 10830

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5894

Do Employment Quotas Explain the Occupational Choices of Disadvantaged Minorities in India?

Larry L. Howard, Nishith Prakash

published in: International Review of Applied Economics, 2012, 26 (4), 489 - 513

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5772

Sexual Orientation, Prejudice and Segregation

Erik Plug, Dinand Webbink, Nicholas G. Martin

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (1), 123-159

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5497

Occupational Choice, Aggregate Productivity, and Trade

Jürgen Meckl, Benjamin Weigert

published in: Review of Development Economics, 2013, 17 (3), 549-558

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5207

Occupational Choice of Return Migrants in Moldova

Daniela Borodak, Matloob Piracha

published in: Eastern European Economics, 2011, 49 (4), 24-46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5202

Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology

Markus Poschke

superseded by DP 7991.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4630

Produce or Speculate? Asset Bubbles, Occupational Choice and Efficiency

Pierre Cahuc, Edouard Challe

published in: International Economic Review, 2012, 53 (4), 1005-1035.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4468

Endogenous Indoctrination: Occupational Choice, the Evolution of Beliefs, and the Political Economy of Reform

Gilles Saint-Paul

published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (544), 325 - 353

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4437

Georgios A. Panos, Konstantinos Pouliakas, Alexandros Zangelidis

published as 'Multiple jobholding, Skill diversification and Mobility' in: Industrial Relations, 2014, 53 (2), 223-272

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4290

Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States

David Autor, David Dorn

see IZA DP No. 7068 for a substantially updated version

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4245

Who Values the Status of the Entrepreneur?

Mirjam C. van Praag

published in: Handbook of Research on Innovation And Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar Publishers, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4211

Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework

Robin Douhan, Mirjam C. van Praag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4193

Antagonistic Managers, Careless Workers and Extraverted Salespeople: An Examination of Personality in Occupational Choice

Roger Ham, Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar, Robert Wells

published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 48 (7), 636-651

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4105

Occupational Choice: Personality Matters

Roger Ham, Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar, Robert Wells

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3974

Why Do Individuals Choose Self-Employment?

Christopher Dawson, Andrew Henley, Paul L. Latreille

published as 'Individual Motives for Choosing Self-employment in the UK: Does Region Matter?' in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48(5), 804-822

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3969

Switching Costs and Occupational Transition into Self-Employment

Andrew Henley

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3922

Return Migration and Occupational Choice

Matloob Piracha, Florin Vadean

published in: World Development, 2010, 38(8), 1141-1155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3916

Comparative Advantage, Segmentation and Informal Earnings: A Marginal Treatment Effects Approach

Omar Arias, Melanie Khamis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3816

Who Becomes an Entrepreneur? Labor Market Prospects and Occupational Choice

Markus Poschke

published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2013, 37 (3), 693-710

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3327

The Stairways to Heaven: A Model of Career Choice in Sports and Games, with an Application to Chess

Kenn Ariga, Giorgio Brunello, Roki Iwahashi, Lorenzo Rocco

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3217

Immigrant Networks and Their Implications for Occupational Choice and Wages

Krishna Patel, Francis Vella

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (4), 1249–1277.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2949

Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism

Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008, 123 (2), 747-793

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2859

Imperfect Transmission of Tacit Knowledge and Other Barriers to Entrepreneurship

Vesa Kanniainen, Panu Poutvaara

published in: Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, 2007, 28 (4), 675-694

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2763

Symbolic Values, Occupational Choice, and Economic Development

Giacomo Corneo, Olivier Jeanne

published in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (2), 241-255

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2567

Skill Uncertainty and Social Inference

Robert J. Oxoby

published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (3), 422-427

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2402

Do the Unemployed Become Successful Entrepreneurs? A Comparison between the Unemployed, Inactive and Wage-Earners

Pernilla Andersson Joona, Eskil Wadensjö

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2007, 28 (7), 604-626

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2302

Accident Risk, Gender, Family Status and Occupational Choice in the UK

Suzanne Grazier, Peter J. Sloane

published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(5), 938-957

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2264

The Jack-of-All-Trades Entrepreneur: Innate Talent or Acquired Skill?

Olmo Silva

published in: Economics Letters, 2007, 97 (2), 118-123

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2071

A Selection-Based Theory of the Transition from Employment to Entrepreneurship: The Role of Employer Size

Simon C. Parker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1971

Employees Who Become Self-Employed: Do Labour Income and Wages Have an Impact?

Pernilla Andersson Joona, Eskil Wadensjö

revised version published as 'The Best and the Brightest or the Least Successful? Self-Employment Entry among Male Wage-Earners in Sweden' in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 40(1), 155-172

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1930

Cross-sectional Earnings Risk and Occupational Sorting: The Role of Risk Attitudes

Holger Bonin, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14(6), 926-937

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1712

Entrepreneurship Among Married Couples in the United States: A Simultaneous Probit Approach

Simon C. Parker

published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (3), 515-537

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1440

The Making of Entrepreneurs in Germany: Are Native Men and Immigrants Alike?

Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Small Business Economics, 2006, 26 (3), 279-300