Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9693

Who Works for Whom? Worker Sorting in a Model of Entrepreneurship with Heterogeneous Labor Markets

Emin Dinlersoz, Henry R. Hyatt, Hubert P. Janicki

published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2019, 34, 244-266

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9659

The Evolution of Gender Gaps in Industrialized Countries

Claudia Olivetti, Barbara Petrongolo

published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2016, 8, 405-434.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9629

Working Hard in the Wrong Place: A Mismatch-Based Explanation to the UK Productivity Puzzle

Christina Patterson, Aysegül Sahin, Giorgio Topa, Giovanni L. Violante

published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 84, 42-56

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9587

Collective Bargaining Systems and Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Flexibility: The Quest for Appropriate Institutional Forms in Advanced Economies

John T. Addison

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2016, 5: 19

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9586

Managers and Productivity Differences

Nezih Guner, Andrii Parkhomenko, Gustavo Ventura

published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2018, 29, 256-282.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9571

Are Unemployment Rates in OECD Countries Stationary? Evidence from Univariate and Panel Unit Root Tests

Naceur Khraief, Muhammad Shahbaz, Almas Heshmati, Muhammad Azam

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9479

Intergenerational Mobility and the Timing of Parental Income

Pedro Carneiro, Italo Lopez Garcia, Kjell G. Salvanes, Emma Tominey

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129 (3), 757 - 788

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9409

Household Debt and Crises of Confidence

Thomas Hintermaier, Winfried Koeniger

revised version published in: Quantitative Economics, 2018, 9, 1489-1542.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9391

The Japanese Labour Market during the Global Financial Crisis and the Role of Non-Standard Work: A Micro Perspective

Alexander Hijzen, Ryo Kambayashi, Hiroshi Teruyama, Yuji Genda

published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2015, 38, 260-281

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9364

Countercyclical Recruiting Rates and the Value of Jobs

Eran Yashiv

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9322

Does Informal Learning at Work Differ between Temporary and Permanent Workers? Evidence from 20 OECD Countries

Maria Ferreira Sequeda, Andries de Grip, Rolf Van der Velden

published in: Labour Economics,, 2018, 55, 18-40

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9291

Efficiency and Labor Market Dynamics in a Model of Labor Selection

Sanjay K. Chugh, Christian Merkl

published in: International Economic Review, 2016, 57 (4), 1371–1404.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9272

Distributional Effects of Monetary Policy in Emerging Market Economies

Eswar Prasad, Boyang Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9258

New Evidence on Mobility and Wages of the Young and the Old

Jörgen Hansen, Damba Lkhagvasuren

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9228

Human Capital Risk, Contract Enforcement, and the Macroeconomy

Tom Krebs, Moritz Kuhn, Mark L. J. Wright

published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (11), 3223-3272

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9220

Decomposing the Wage Losses of Displaced Workers: The Role of the Reallocation of Workers into Firms and Job Titles

Pedro Raposo, Pedro Portugal, Anabela Carneiro

published as 'The Sources of the Wage Losses of Displaced workers: The Role of the Reallocation of Workers into Firms, Matches, and Job Titles' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56 (3), 786 - 820

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9188

The French Productivity Puzzle

Philippe Askenazy, Christine Erhel

published in: Ph. Askenazy et al. (eds), Productivity Puzzles Across Europe, Oxford: OUP, 2016.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9148

Dismissal Disputes and Endogenous Sorting

Pietro Garibaldi, Gerard A. Pfann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9097

The UK's Productivity Puzzle

Alex Bryson, John Forth

published in: Askenazy, P., Bellmann, L., Bryson, A. and Moreno-Galbis, E. (eds.) The Productivity Puzzle across Europe: Oxford University Press, 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9095

Not Working at Work: Loafing, Unemployment and Labor Productivity

Michael C. Burda, Katie R. Genadek, Daniel S. Hamermesh

part of this paper published as 'Unemployment and Effort at Work' in: Economica, 2020, 87 (347), 662 - 681

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8948

Man-cessions, Fiscal Policy, and the Gender Composition of Employment

Christian Bredemeier, Falko Juessen, Roland Winkler

published in: Economics Letters, 2017, 158, 73-76

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8938

Robots at Work

Georg Graetz, Guy Michaels

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100 (5), 753–768.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8931

Regional Variation of the Minimum Wages in China

Chunbing Xing, Jianwei Xu

published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2016, 5:8

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8895

The Effect of Public Pension Wealth on Saving and Expenditure

Marta Lachowska, Michal Myck

revised version published in: American Economic Journal - Economic Policy, 2018, 10 (3), 284-308

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8894

Trade, Wages, and Collective Bargaining: Evidence from France

Juan Carluccio, Denis Fougère, Erwan Gautier

published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (584), 803-837

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8890

Some Surprising Facts about Working Time Accounts and the Business Cycle

Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke, Christian Merkl

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2017, 38 (7), 940-953

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8884

Accounting for Mismatch Unemployment

Benedikt Herz, Thijs van Rens

published in: Journal of the European Economics Association, 2020, 18 (4), 1619 - 1654

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8851

Impacts of Informal Caregiving on Caregiver Employment, Health, and Family

Jan Michael Bauer, Alfonso Sousa-Poza

published in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2015, 8(3), 113-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8836

Rise of the Machines: The Effects of Labor-Saving Innovations on Jobs and Wages

Andy Feng, Georg Graetz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8834

Unemployment and Labor Force Participation in Turkey

Aysit Tansel, Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir, Emre Aksoy

published in Applied Economics Letters, 2016, 23 (3), 184-187

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8809

The Impact of Arab Spring on Hiring and Separation Rates in the Tunisian Labour Market

Ilham Haouas, Almas Heshmati

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8806

Bargaining and Wage Rigidity in a Matching Model for the US

James Malcomson, Sophocles Mavroeidis

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79 (6), 997-1017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8742

The Effect of Unemployment on Self-Reported Health and Mental Health in Greece from 2008 to 2013: A Longitudinal Study Before and During the Financial Crisis

Nick Drydakis

published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2015, 128, 43-51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8731

Household Shocks and Education Investment in Madagascar

Peter Glick, David E. Sahn, Thomas F. Walker

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 78 (6), 792 - 813

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8699

A Theory of Wage Adjustment under Loss Aversion

Steffen Ahrens, Inske Pirschel, Dennis J. Snower

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8692

Political Uncertainty and Household Savings

Rolf Aaberge, Kai Liu, Yu Zhu

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 45 (2017): 154-170

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8667

Universal Basic Income versus Unemployment Insurance

Alice Fabre, Stéphane Pallage, Christian Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8666

Human Capital and Optimal Redistribution

Winfried Koeniger, Julien Prat

revised version published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2018, 27, 1-26.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8663

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

Fabian Lange, Marianna Kudlyak

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8654

From Riches to Rags, and Back? Institutional Change, Financial Development and Economic Growth in Argentina since the 1890s

Nauro F. Campos, Menelaos G. Karanasos, Bin Tan

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2016, 52(2), 206 - 223

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8646

Employment Cyclicality and Firm Quality

Lisa B. Kahn, Erika McEntarfer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8599

Homeownership and Labour Market Outcomes: Micro versus Macro Performances

Julie Beugnot, Guy Lacroix, Olivier Charlot

published in: Journal of Economics, 2019, 127, 161 - 183

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8558

The Cyclicality of Labor Market Flows: A Multiple-Shock Approach

Jean-Olivier Hairault, Anastasia Zhutova

published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 103, 150-172

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8551

Can Active Labor Market Policy Be Counter-Productive?

Gilles Saint-Paul

published in: Research in Economics, 2015, 69 (1), 26-36

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8515

Revisiting the Matching Function

Britta Kohlbrecher, Christian Merkl, Daniela Nordmeier

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2016, 69, 350–374.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8511

Public Employment Policies and Regional Unemployment Differences

Vincenzo Caponi

revised version published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2017, 63, 1-12

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8453

Labor Market Reforms and Current Account Imbalances: Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Policies in a Currency Union?

Timo Baas, Ansgar H. Belke

also available as: CEPS Working Document No. 399, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, September

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8422

Mandated versus Negotiated Severance Pay

Stéphane Auray, Samuel Danthine, Markus Poschke

published as 'Understanding the Determination of Severance Pay: Mandates, Bargaining, and Unions' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2020, 122 (3), 1073 - 1111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8334

Does the Link between Unemployment and Crime Depend on the Crime Level? A Quantile Regression Approach

Horst Entorf, Philip Sieger

published in: International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2014, 8(2), 262-283