IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Climbing the ladders of job satisfaction and employee organizational commitment: cross-country evidence using a semi-nonparametric approach' in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2023, 26 (1), 2163581.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12618

Analyzing the Perceptions of Egyptian Youth about the Arab Spring

Ali Fakih, Pascal L. Ghazalian

published in: International Journal of Social Economics, 2021, 48 (1), 1658-1676

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12142

Twelve Eyes See More Than Eight. Referee Bias and the Introduction of Additional Assistant Referees in Soccer

Olivier Verstraeten, Stijn Baert

revised version published in: Plos One, 2020, 15 (2), e0227758

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11182

Estimating Fixed Effects: Perfect Prediction and Bias in Binary Response Panel Models, with an Application to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program

Johannes S. Kunz, Kevin E. Staub, Rainer Winkelmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11160

Poverty's Deconstruction: Beyond the Visible

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: R. Lensink, S. Sjogren, C. Wihlborg (eds): Paths for Sustainable Economic Development, Gothenburg, 2017, 81 - 96

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. 11018

The Returns to Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Matched Person-Firm Data

Mirjam C. van Praag, Arvid Raknerud

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10800

Eliciting Permanent and Transitory Undeclared Work from Matched Administrative and Survey Data

Peter Elek, János Köllő

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10577

I Can't Get No Satisfaction: The Power of Perceived Differences in Employee Retention and Turnover

Deniz Gevrek, Marilyn Spencer, David Hudgins, Valrie Chambers

published in: Personnel Review, 2017, 46(5), 1019-1043.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10530

Identification and Decompositions in Probit and Logit Models

Chung Choe, Seeun Jung, Ronald L. Oaxaca

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10493

Decision to Emigrate Amongst the Youth in Lebanon

Ghassan Dibeh, Ali Fakih, Walid Marrouch

published in: International Migration, 2018, 56 (1), 5-22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9404

What Factors Influence Firm Perceptions of Labour Market Constraints to Growth in the MENA Region?

Ali Fakih, Pascal L. Ghazalian

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36 (8), 1181-1206

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9345

A New View on Panel Econometrics: Is Probit Feasible After All?

Bernard M. S. van Praag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9049

Overeducation: A Disease of the School-to-Work Transition System

Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Francesco Pastore

published in: G. Coppola and N. O'Higgins (eds): Youth and the Crisis: Unemployment, Education and Health in Europe, Routledge, 2016, 36-56

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8738

Spillovers of Prosocial Motivation: Evidence from an Intervention Study on Blood Donors

Adrian Bruhin, Lorenz Götte, Simon Haenni, Lingqing Jiang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8190

Availability of Family-Friendly Work Practices and Implicit Wage Costs: New Evidence from Canada

Ali Fakih

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7686

Criminal Victims, Victimized Criminals, or Both? A Deeper Look at the Victim-Offender Overlap

Horst Entorf

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7685

Engaging in Corruption: The Influence of Cultural Values and Contagion Effects at the Micro Level

Wang-Sheng Lee, Cahit Guven

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2013, 39, 287-300

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7172

Why Some Firms Export? An Empirical Analysis for Manufacturing Firms in the MENA Region

Ali Fakih, Pascal L. Ghazalian

published as 'Which Firms Export? An Empirical Analysis for the Manufacturing Sector in the MENA Region' in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2014, 41 (5), 672-695

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7057

Heterogeneity in Subjective Wellbeing: An Application to Occupational Allocation in Africa

Paolo Falco, William F. Maloney, Bob Rijkers, Mauricio Sarrias

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7046

What Explains the Decline in Wage Mobility in the German Low-Wage Sector?

Bodo Aretz, Nicole Gürtzgen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6359

Pregibit: A Family of Discrete Choice Models

Chu-Ping C. Vijverberg, Wim P. Vijverberg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5898

Parental Divorce and Generalized Trust

Tarja Viitanen

published in: Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2014, 17 (1), 35-53

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5898

Parental Divorce and Generalized Trust

Tarja Viitanen

published in: Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2014, 17 (1), 35-53

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5869

Life Satisfaction and Grandparenthood: Evidence from a Nationwide Survey

Nattavudh Powdthavee

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 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, 2014, 52 (3), 426-444

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5849

Health Impaired Employees' Job Satisfaction: New Evidence from Athens, Greece

Nick Drydakis

published in: Applied Economics Letters,2012, 19 (8), 789-793

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5779

Estimating Heterogeneous Take-up and Crowd-Out Responses to Marginal and Non-Marginal Medicaid Expansions

John C. Ham, Serkan Ozbeklik, Lara Shore-Sheppard

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (4), 872-905

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5729

A Panel Data Analysis of Racial/Ethnic Differences in Married Women's Labor Supply

Kenneth Troske, Alexandru Voicu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5684

Managerial Valuation of Applicant Credentials and Personal Traits in Hiring Decisions

James R. Jones, Catherine Y. Co, James K. Harter, Myeong-Su Yun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5069

The Effect of Part-Time Work on Post-Secondary Educational Attainment: New Evidence from French Data

Magali Beffy, Denis Fougère, Arnaud Maurel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4655

Dynamics of the Employment Assimilation of First-Generation Immigrant Men in Sweden: Comparing Dynamic and Static Assimilation Models with Longitudinal Data

Alpaslan Akay

substantially revised version published as 'Dynamics of Employment Assimilation' in IZA Journal of Migration, 2016, 15:3

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4457

The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Britain

Lorenzo Cappellari, Stephen P. Jenkins

revised version published in Research in Labor Economics, Volume 39: Safety Nets and Benefit Dependence, 2014, 39 - 77

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4417

The Effect of the Timing and Spacing of Births on the Level of Labor Market Involvement of Married Women

Kenneth Troske, Alexandru Voicu

revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 45(1), 483-521

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4183

Low Pay Persistence in European Countries

Ken Clark, Nick Kanellopoulos

revised version published in Labour Economics 2013, 23, 122-134.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4081

Efficient Probit Estimation with Partially Missing Covariates

Denis Conniffe, Donal O'Neill

published in: D. Drukker (ed.): Advances in Econometrics, Vol. 27A, Missing Data Methods, 2011, 213-249.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4074

The Effect of Children on the Level of Labor Market Involvement of Married Women: What is the Role of Education?

Kenneth Troske, Alexandru Voicu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3943

The Wooldridge Method for the Initial Values Problem Is Simple: What About Performance?

Alpaslan Akay

revised version published as 'Finite-sample comparison of alternative methods for estimating dynamic panel data models' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 27 (7), 1189-1204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3765

The Dynamics of Social Assistance Receipt: Measurement and Modelling Issues, with an Application to Britain

Lorenzo Cappellari, Stephen P. Jenkins

Revised version: IZA DP 4457

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3745

The Italian Job: Match Rigging, Career Concerns and Media Concentration in Serie A

Tito Boeri, Battista Severgnini

published as "Match rigging and the career concerns of referees" in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18(3), 349-359

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3584

Eliciting Motives for Trust and Reciprocity by Attitudinal and Behavioural Measures

Francesco Farina, Niall O'Higgins, Patrizia Sbriglia

revised version published as "Suit the action to the word, the word to the action" in: Research in Economics, 2009, 63 (4), 253-265

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3478

The Treatment Effect, the Cross Difference, and the Interaction Term in Nonlinear “Difference-in-Differences” Models

Patrick A. Puhani

published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 115 (1), 85-87

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3204

Migrant Networks, Migrant Selection, and High School Graduation in Mexico

Alfonso Miranda

revised version published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2011, 33, 263-306

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3108

Well-Being and Ill-Being: A Bivariate Panel Data Analysis

Wang-Sheng Lee, Umut Oguzoglu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3100

The Persistence of Welfare Participation

Thomas Andrén

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3039

Simplified Implementation of the Heckman Estimator of the Dynamic Probit Model and a Comparison with Alternative Estimators

Wiji Arulampalam, Mark Stewart

completely revised published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 71 (5), 659-681

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2978

Job Losses, Outsourcing and Relocation: Empirical Evidence Using Microdata

Manuel Artís, Raul Ramos, Jordi Surinach

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2867

Dynamics of Work Limitation and Work in Australia

Umut Oguzoglu

revised version published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (6), 656-669

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2589

Peer Effects, Unobserved Factors and Risk Behaviours: An Analysis of Alcohol Abuse and Truancy among Adolescents

Rosa Duarte, José-Julián Escario, José Alberto Molina

published as 'Peer Effects, Unobserved Factors and Risk Behaviours in Adolescence' in: Revista de Economía Aplicada, 2011, 29 (55), 125-152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2279

Smoking Habits: Like Father, Like Son, Like Mother, Like Daughter

Maria L. Loureiro, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Daniela Vuri

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (6), 717-743

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2262

A Note on Decomposing Differences in Poverty Incidence Using Regression Estimates: Algorithm and Example

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2193

The Erosion of Union Membership in Germany: Determinants, Densities, Decompositions

Bernd Fitzenberger, Karsten Kohn, Qingwei Wang

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (1), 141-165

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2112

Calculation of Multivariate Normal Probabilities by Simulation, with Applications to Maximum Simulated Likelihood Estimation

Lorenzo Cappellari, Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: Stata Journal, 2006, 6 (2), 156-189

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2036

Start-up Success of Freelancers: New Microeconometric Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Joachim Merz, Peter Paic

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2019

The Happiness Gains from Sorting and Matching in the Labor Market

Simon Luechinger, Alois Stutzer, Rainer Winkelmann

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2010, 30, 233–251

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1917

An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique to Logit and Probit Models

Robert W. Fairlie

published in: Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 2005, 30(4), 305-316

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1878

One or Many Knowledge Production Functions? Mapping Innovative Activity Using Microdata

Andrea Conte, Marco Vivarelli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1859

Do Men and Women-Economists Choose the Same Research Fields? Evidence from Top-50 Departments

Juan J. Dolado, Florentino Felgueroso, Miguel Almunia

published in: SERIEs, Journal of the Spanish Economic Association (2012), 3, 367-393.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1835

Health Determinants in Urban China

Zhong Zhao

substantially revised version published as 'Health Demand and Health Determinants in China' in:Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2008, 6 (1), 77-98

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1793

To Study or to Work? Education and Labour Market Participation of Young People in Poland

Francesco Pastore

published in: Eastern European Economics, 2012, 50 (3), 49-78

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1487

What Can Happiness Research Tell Us About Altruism? Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Johannes Schwarze, Rainer Winkelmann

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (3), 1033-1051

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1434

Do Migrants Get Good Jobs? New Migrant Settlement in Australia

Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar, Stephane Mahuteau

published in: Economic Record, 2005, 81 (s1), S34-S46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1342

Perspectives on the Early Retirement Decisions of Farming Couples

Minna Väre, Almas Heshmati

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1286

Cut-Point Shift and Index Shift in Self-Reported Health

Maarten Lindeboom, Eddy van Doorslaer

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2004, 23 (6), 1083-1099

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1251

Joint Estimation of Sequential Labor Force Participation and Fertility Decisions Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques

Kenneth Troske, Alexandru Voicu

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 150-169

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1220

Females' Willingness to Work and the Discouragement Effect of a Poor Local Childcare Provision

Maarten van Ham, Felix Büchel

published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2004, 50 (4), 363 - 378

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1216

Parents and Children Talk: The Family Dynamics of English Language Proficiency

Barry R. Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee, Paul W. Miller

published as 'Parents and Children Talk: English Language Proficiency within Immigrant Families' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2005, 3 (3), 243-268

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1162

The Connexion between Old and New Approaches to Financial Satisfaction

Bernard M. S. van Praag

published in: Luigino Bruni and Pierluigi Porta (eds.), Economics and Happiness. Framing the Analysis, Oxford University Press, 2005

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1034

Unwilling or Unable? Spatial, Institutional and Socio-Economic Restrictions on Females' Labor Market Access

Maarten van Ham, Felix Büchel

published in: [Regional Studies], 2006, 40(3), 1-12

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1016

Subjective Well-Being and the Family: Results from an Ordered Probit Model with Multiple Random Effects

Rainer Winkelmann

published in: Empirical Economics, 2005, 30 (3), 749-761

IZA Discussion Paper No. 773

Job Mobility in Britain: Are the Scots Different? Evidence from the BHPS

Axel Heitmueller

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2004, 51(3), 329-358

IZA Discussion Paper No. 729

Children and Women's Participation Dynamics: Transitory and Long-Term Effects

Alexandru Voicu, Hielke Buddelmeyer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 676

Agriculture: Transition Buffer or Black Hole? A Three-State Model of Employment Dynamics

Alexandru Voicu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 629

Caste, Ethnicity and Poverty in Rural India

Ira N. Gang, Kunal Sen, Myeong-Su Yun

revised version published as 'Poverty in Rural India: Caste and Tribe' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2008, 54 (1), 50-70

IZA Discussion Paper No. 578

Economic Strain, Ethnic Concentration and Attitudes Towards Foreigners in the European Union

Ira N. Gang, Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz, Myeong-Su Yun

revised version published as 'Changes in Attitudes toward Immigrants in Europe: Before and After the Fall of the Berlin Wall', in: Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Emerald, 2010, 649-676

IZA Discussion Paper No. 317

Health Care Reform and the Number of Doctor Visits - An Econometric Analysis

Rainer Winkelmann

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2004, 19 (4), 455-472

IZA Discussion Paper No. 235

Who gets the Reward? An Empirical Exploration of Bonus Pay and Task Characteristics

Wendelin Schnedler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 222

Betit: A Family That Nests Probit and Logit

Wim P. Vijverberg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 191

Joint Decisions on Household Membership and Human Capital Accumulation of Youths - The role of expected earnings and local markets