IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Quality Multiplier: How Wage Compression and Welfare Empowerment Interact' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2016,14 (5), 1011-1037

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6461

Productivity and the Welfare of Nations

Susanto Basu, Luigi Pascali, Fabio Schiantarelli, Luis Serven

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (4), 1647–1682

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6456

Legislative Term Limits and State Aid to Local Governments

Pavel Yakovlev, Mehmet S. Tosun, William P. Lewis

published as 'The Fiscal Consequences of State Legislative Term Limits' in: Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, 2018, 48 (3), 1-19

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6450

Welfare Migration

Corrado Giulietti, Jackline Wahba

published in: Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 26, 489-504

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6378

The Pitfalls of Work Requirements in Welfare-to-Work Policies: Experimental Evidence on Human Capital Accumulation in the Self-Sufficiency Project

Chris Riddell, W. Craig Riddell

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 117, 39-49

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6294

Selective Hiring and Welfare Analysis in Labor Market Models

Christian Merkl, Thijs van Rens

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 57, 117-130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6260

Pitfalls of Immigrant Inclusion into the European Welfare State

Martin Kahanec, Anna Myunghee Kim, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (1), 39-55.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6231

Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data

Veronica Amarante, Marco Manacorda, Edward Miguel, Andrea Vigorito

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016, 8 (2), 1 - 43

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6220

Immigration and Welfare State Cash Benefits: The Danish Case

Peder J. Pedersen

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (2), 113-125

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6220

Immigration and Welfare State Cash Benefits: The Danish Case

Peder J. Pedersen

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (2), 113-125

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6154

Religious Minorities and Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from Rural West Bengal

Pranab Kumar Das, Saibal Kar, Madhumanti Kayal

published as 'Are religious minorities deprived of public good provision? Regional Evidences from India' in: Journal of Developing Areas, 2016, 50 (1), 351-372

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 B. 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. 6075

Unemployment Benefits and Immigration: Evidence from the EU

Corrado Giulietti, Martin Guzi, Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (1), 24-38

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6061

Add-on Pricing, Naive Consumers, and the Hidden Welfare Costs of Education

Michael Kosfeld, Ulrich Schüwer

published as 'Add-on Pricing in Retail Financial Markets and the Fallacies of Consumer Education' in: Review of Finance, 2017, 21 (3), 1189 - 1216

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6045

Age, Life-Satisfaction, and Relative Income: Insights from the UK and Germany

Felix FitzRoy, Michael A. Nolan, Max F. Steinhardt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5757

Mobility, Taxation and Welfare

Sami Bibi, Jean-Yves Duclos, Abdelkrim Araar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5718

Estimating Labor Supply Responses and Welfare Participation: Using a Natural Experiment to Validate a Structural Labor Supply Model

Jörgen Hansen, Xingfei Liu

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2015, 48 (5), 1831-54.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5717

The Welfare Impact of Price Changes on Household Welfare and Inequality 1999-2010

Jason Loughrey, Cathal O'Donoghue

published in: Economic and Social Review, 2012, 43 (1), 31-66

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5713

Rising Food Prices and Household Welfare: Evidence from Brazil in 2008

Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Anna Fruttero, Phillippe Leite, Leonardo Lucchetti

published in: Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2013, 64 (1), 151-176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5668

The Role of Race and Birth Place in Welfare Usage among Comparable Women: Evidence from the U.S.

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Maharouf Oyolola

published in: The Review of Black Political Economy, 2012, 39 (3), 285-297

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5668

The Role of Race and Birth Place in Welfare Usage among Comparable Women: Evidence from the U.S.

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Maharouf Oyolola

published in: The Review of Black Political Economy, 2012, 39 (3), 285-297

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5613

The Use of Welfare by Migrants in Italy

Michele Pellizzari

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (2), 155-166

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5546

Free vs. Restricted Immigration: Bilateral Country Study

Assaf Razin, Jackline Wahba

revised version published as 'Welfare Magnet Hypothesis, Fiscal Burden and Immigration Skill Selectivity' in: Journal of Scandinavian Economics, 2015, 177 (2), 369 - 402

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5516

Immigrants and Welfare Receipt in Ireland

Alan Barrett, Corona Joyce, Bertrand Maitre

revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (2), 142-154

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5515

Immigrant Welfare Receipt across Europe

Alan Barrett, Bertrand Maitre

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (1), 8-23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5514

Inequality, Inequity Aversion, and the Provision of Public Goods

Felix Kölle, Dirk Sliwka, Nannan Zhou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5453

Beyond GDP and Back: What is the Value-Added by Additional Components of Welfare Measurement?

Sonja C. de New, Christoph M. Schmidt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5445

Efficient and Inefficient Welfare States

Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc, Marc Sangnier

revised version published as 'Trust and the Welfare State: the Twin Peaks Curve' in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (593), 861 - 883

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5412

Social Support Substitution and the Earnings Rebound: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform

Lex Borghans, Anne C. Gielen, Erzo F.P. Luttmer

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, 6 (4), 34-70

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5395

Selective Immigration Policies, Migrants' Education and Welfare at Origin

Simone Bertoli, Herbert Brücker

published in: Economics Letters, 2011, 113 (1), 19-22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5394

Relational Contracts and the Economic Well-Being of Nations

Bohdan Kukharskyy, Michael P. Pflüger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5387

Trade and Industrial Policies with Heterogeneous Firms: The Role of Country Asymmetries

Michael P. Pflüger, Stephan Russek

published in revised form in: Review of International Economics, 2014, 22 (1), 170-188

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5301

Empirical Welfare Analysis in Random Utility Models of Labour Supply

André Decoster, Peter Haan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5130

The Desirability of Workfare as a Welfare Ordeal – Revisited

Tomer Blumkin, Yoram Margalioth, Efraim Sadka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5084

Human Capital Investments in Children: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Parent-Child Shared Time in Selected Countries

Eva Österbacka, Joachim Merz, Cathleen D. Zick

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5055

Carrot and Stick: How Reemployment Bonuses and Benefit Sanctions Affect Job Finding Rates

Bas van der Klaauw, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (2), 275–296

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4801

Cream-Skimming, Parking and Other Intended and Unintended Effects of Performance-Based Contracting in Social Welfare Services

Pierre Koning, Carolyn J. Heinrich

published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013, 32 (3), 461-483

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4781

Alternative Basic Income Mechanisms: An Evaluation Exercise with a Microeconometric Model

Ugo Colombino, Marilena Locatelli, Edlira Narazani, Cathal O'Donoghue

published in: Basic Income Studies, 2010, 5 (1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4773

Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies: The Role of Job Search Assistance

Conny Wunsch

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (3), 1030-1045

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4714

Measuring Long-Term Inequality of Opportunity

Rolf Aaberge, Magne Mogstad, Vito Peragine

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 193-204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4699

On the Measurement of Long-Term Income Inequality and Income Mobility

Rolf Aaberge, Magne Mogstad

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4680

Policies to Create and Destroy Human Capital in Europe

James J. Heckman, Bas Jacobs

published in: Hans-Werner Sinn and Edmund Phelps (eds.), Perspectives on the Performance of the Continental Economies, MIT Press, 2011, 253-322

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4659

Welfare Usage in the U.S.: Does Immigrant Birthplace and Immigration Status Matter?

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Maharouf Oyolola

revised version published as 'Do Immigrant Groups Differ in Welfare Usage? Evidence from the U.S.A' in: Atlantic Economic Journal, 2011, 39 (3), 231-247

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4659

Welfare Usage in the U.S.: Does Immigrant Birthplace and Immigration Status Matter?

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Maharouf Oyolola

revised version published as 'Do Immigrant Groups Differ in Welfare Usage? Evidence from the U.S.A' in: Atlantic Economic Journal, 2011, 39 (3), 231-247

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4644

In-Work Transfers in Good Times and Bad: Simulations for Ireland

Olivier B. Bargain, Karina Doorley

published in: Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Tatsiramos (eds.), 2011, Research in Labor Economics (Research in Labor Economics, Volume 33), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 307-339

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4627

Minimum-Income Benefits in OECD Countries: Policy Design, Effectiveness and Challenges

Herwig Immervoll

published in: D. J. Besharov and K. A. Couch (eds.), 2012, Counting the Poor, Oxford University Press, 171-209. Also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4612

Productivity, Welfare and Reallocation: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence

Susanto Basu, Luigi Pascali, Fabio Schiantarelli, Luis Serven

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4580

Intensifying the Use of Benefit Sanctions: An Effective Tool to Shorten Welfare Receipt and Speed Up Transitions to Employment?

Bernhard Boockmann, Stephan L. Thomsen, Thomas Walter

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2014, 3:21, https://doi.org/10.1186/2193-9004-3-21

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4559

Inflation and Welfare in Long-Run Equilibrium with Firm Dynamics

Alexandre Janiak, Paulo Santos Monteiro

published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2011, 43 (5), 795 - 834

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4506

Health and Income: A Robust Comparison of Canada and the US

Jean-Yves Duclos, Damien Échevin

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (2), 293 - 302

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. 4449

Demand for Redistribution, Support for the Welfare State, and Party Identification in Austria

Andreas Kuhn

revised version published in: Empirica, 2010, 37(2), 215-236

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4440

Does the Welfare State Make Older Workers Unemployable?

Gilles Saint-Paul

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4408

Noncompliance and the Effects of the Minimum Wage on Hours and Welfare in Competitive Labor Markets

Leif Danziger

published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (6), 625-630

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4370

Does Leaving Welfare Improve Health? Evidence for Germany

Martin Huber, Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch

published in: Health Economics, 2011, 20 (4), 484-504

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4360

In the Eye of the Beholder: Subjective Inequality Measures and the Demand for Redistribution

Andreas Kuhn

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 27(4), 625-641

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4298

Rebalancing Growth in Asia

Eswar Prasad

published in: International Finance, 2011, 14 (1), 27 - 66

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4291

Caught in the Trap? The Disincentive Effect of Social Assistance

Olivier B. Bargain, Karina Doorley

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (9-10), 1096-1110

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4273

Immigration to the Land of Redistribution

Tito Boeri

published in: Economica, 2010, 77 (308), 651-687

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4189

Relational Contracts, Taxation and the Household

Patricia Apps, Ray Rees

published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, 57 (2), 245-258

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4165

An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State: The Case of Benefit Morale

Martin Halla, Mario Lackner, Friedrich Schneider

revised version published in: Kyklos, 2010, 63 (1), 55-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4142

Temporary Labour Migration and Welfare at the New European Fringe: A Comparison of Five Eastern European Countries

Alexander M. Danzer, Barbara Dietz

substantially revised version published as 'Labour Migration from Eastern Europe and the EU’s Quest for Talents' in: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2014, 52 (2), 183-199

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4135

Financing Social Security: Simulating Different Welfare State Systems for Germany

Caroline Dieckhoener, Andreas Peichl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4095

Taking Chances: The Effect of Growing Up on Welfare on the Risky Behavior of Young People

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Chris Ryan, Anastasia Sartbayeva

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (3), 729–755

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4090

Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare and Increase Work?

Martin Huber, Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch, Thomas Walter

published as 'Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare Dependency and Increase Employment?' in: German Economic Review, 2011, 12 (2), 182-204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4085

Whatever Happened to the Bismarckian Welfare State? From Labor Shedding to Employment-Friendly Reforms

Anton Hemerijck, Werner Eichhorst

published in: Bruno Palier (ed.), A long good-bye to Bismarck, Amsterdam: AUP, 2010, 301-332

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4024

How Do Training Programs Assign Participants to Training? Characterizing the Assignment Rules of Government Agencies for Welfare-to-Work Programs in California

Oscar A. Mitnik

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3988

Why Praise Inequality? Public Good Provision, Income Distribution and Social Welfare

Indraneel Dasgupta

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3947

On Mandatory Activation of Welfare Recipients