Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4075

Unemployment and Finance: How Do Financial and Labour Market Factors Interact?

Donatella Gatti, Anne-Gaël Vaubourg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4063

Can Profit Sharing Lower Flexible Outsourcing? A Note

Erkki Koskela, Jan König

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4055

EU Enlargement under Continued Mobility Restrictions: Consequences for the German Labor Market

Karl Brenke, Mutlu Yuksel, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published as 'The Effects of EU Enlargement and the Temporary Measures on the German Labor Market ' in: M. Kahanec and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), EU Labor Markets after Post-Enlargement Migration, Springer: Berlin, et al. 2009, 111-129

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4021

An Innovation Index Based on Knowledge Capital Investment: Definition and Results for the UK Market Sector

Tony Clayton, Mariela Dal Borgo, Jonathan Haskel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4014

Large Employers Are More Cyclically Sensitive

Giuseppe Moscarini, Fabien Postel-Vinay

published as 'The Contribution of Large and Small Employers to Job Creation in Times of High and Low Unemployment' in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (6), 2509-39

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3975

Marriage and Other Risky Assets: A Portfolio Approach

Graziella Bertocchi, Marianna Brunetti, Costanza Torricelli

revised version published in: Journal of Banking and Finance, 2011, 24 (11), 2902 - 2915

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3970

This Job Is 'Getting Old:' Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure

David Autor, David Dorn

published in: American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 2009, 99 (2), 45-51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3955

Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production

Michael C. Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh

published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 107 (2), 131-133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3924

Labour Market Dynamics in Australia: What Drives Unemployment?

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala

published in: Economic Record, 2010, 86 (273), 185-209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3876

The Role of Profit Sharing in a Dual Labour Market with Flexible Outsourcing

Erkki Koskela, Jan König

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3869

Unemployment Insurance Generosity: A Trans-Atlantic Comparison

Stéphane Pallage, Lyle Scruggs, Christian Zimmermann

published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2009, 95-96, 15-23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3868

Measuring Unemployment Insurance Generosity

Stéphane Pallage, Lyle Scruggs, Christian Zimmermann

published in: Political Analysis, 2013, 21(4), 524-549

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3846

European vs. American Hours Worked: Assessing the Role of the Extensive and Intensive Margins

François Langot, Coralia Quintero Rojas

published in: Economic Bulletin, 2009, 29, 530-542

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. 3775

Wage Formation between Newly Hired Workers and Employers: Survey Evidence

Robert E. Hall, Alan B. Krueger

published as "Evidence on the Incidence of Wage Posting, Wage Bargaining, and On-the-Job Search" in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2012, 4(4), 56-67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3752

Two to Tangle: Financial Development, Political Instability and Economic Growth in Argentina (1896–2000)

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

published in: Journal of Banking and Finance, 2012, 36 (1), 290 - 304

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3744

Marriage, Divorce and Interstate Risk Sharing

Martin Halla, Johann Scharler

revised version published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (1), 55-78

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3726

The Risk of Divorce and Household Saving Behavior

Libertad González, Berkay Özcan

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2013, 48 (2), 404-434

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3714

Wage Rigidity and Job Creation

Christian Haefke, Marcus Sonntag, Thijs van Rens

published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2013, 60, 887 - 899.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3712

The Rise and Fall of Spanish Unemployment: A Chain Reaction Theory Perspective

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala

published in: Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer (eds.), International Papers in Political Economy, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3703

Identifying Adjustment Costs of Net and Gross Employment Changes

Joao Ejarque, Øivind Anti Nilsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3699

Flexible Outsourcing and the Impacts of Labour Taxation in European Welfare States

Erkki Koskela, Panu Poutvaara

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3697

Variable Search Intensity in an Economy with Coordination Unemployment

Leo Kaas

published in: The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Contributions to Macroeconomics, 2010, 10 (1), Article 31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3693

Lobbying, Corruption and Other Banes

Nauro F. Campos, Francesco Giovannoni

published as 'Political institutions, lobbying and corruption' in: Journal of Institutional Economics , 2017, 13 (4), 917-939

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3681

Escaping the Unemployment Trap: The Case of East Germany

Christian Merkl, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2008, 36 (4), 542-556

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3655

On Reputation: A Microfoundation of Contract Enforcement and Price Rigidity

Ernst Fehr, Martin Brown, Christian Zehnder

published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (536), 333 - 353

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3626

Rhineland Exit?

Lans Bovenberg, Coen Teulings

published in International Tax and Public Finance, 2009, 16 (5), 710-726

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3592

Centralized Wage Determination and Regional Unemployment Differences: The Case of Italy

Vincenzo Caponi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3585

Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation

Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 89(1), 12-18

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3571

The Nature of Occupational Unemployment Rates in the United States: Hysteresis or Structural?

Bertrand Candelon, Arnaud Dupuy, Luis A. Gil-Alana

published in: Applied Economics, 2009, 41, 2483-93

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3560

Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality

Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann

substantially revised version published as 'How Skilled Immigration May Improve Economic Equality' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3:2.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3522

Outsourcing and Labor Taxation in Dual Labor Markets

Erkki Koskela, Panu Poutvaara

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3513

Monetary Persistence and the Labor Market: A New Perspective

Wolfgang Lechthaler, Christian Merkl, Dennis J. Snower

substantially revised version published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2010, 34 (5), 968-983

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3509

Uncertainty and the Politics of Employment Protection

Andrea Vindigni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3477

Hyperbolic Discounting and the Phillips Curve

Liam Graham, Dennis J. Snower

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3461

Macroeconomic Policy and Unemployment by Economic Activity: Evidence from Turkey

Hakan Berument, Nukhet Dogan, Aysit Tansel

published in: Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2009, 45(3), 21-34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3450

International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality

Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann

substantially revised version published in: Oxford Handbook on Economic Inequality, Oxford University Press, Oxford et al., 2009, 455 - 490

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3434

Minimum Wages and Welfare in a Hotelling Duopsony

Leo Kaas, Paul Madden

published in: Economic Theory, 2010, 43 (2), 167 - 188

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3413

Strategic Outsourcing, Profit Sharing and Equilibrium Unemployment

Erkki Koskela, Jan König

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3385

Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and the Private Sector

Simon Luechinger, Stephan Meier, Alois Stutzer

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45(4), 998-1045

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3374

Risk Sharing and Commuting Among US Federal States

Falko Juessen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3364

Explaining the Evolution of Hours Worked and Employment across OECD Countries: An Equilibrium Search Approach

François Langot, Coralia Quintero Rojas

updated version published as 'Explaining labor wedge trends: An equilibrium search approach' in: European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 13 (1), 3 - 35

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3345

Competition and Relational Contracts: The Role of Unemployment as a Disciplinary Device

Martin Brown, Armin Falk, Ernst Fehr

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3315

The Ins and Outs of European Unemployment

Barbara Petrongolo, Christopher A. Pissarides

published in: American Economic Review, 2008, 98 (2), 256-262

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3296

The Linkages between FDI and Domestic Investment: Unravelling the Developmental Impact of Foreign Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa

Leonce Ndikumana, Sher Verick

published in: Development Policy Review, 2008, 26 (6), 713-726

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3253

The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis

Matthias Doepke, Moshe Hazan, Yishay D. Maoz

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2015, 82(3), 1031-1073

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3247

Labor Market Policy Options of the Kurdistan Regional Government

Almas Heshmati

published in: Heshmati, The Economy of Southern Kurdistan, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3239

Heterogeneous Life-Cycle Profiles, Income Risk and Consumption Inequality

Giorgio E. Primiceri, Thijs van Rens

published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2009, 56(1), 20-39

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3219

International Job Search: Mexicans In and Out of the US

Silvio Rendon, Alfredo Cuecuecha

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (1), 53-82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3191

Why Are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?

Marcos Chamon, Eswar Prasad

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (1), 93-130