Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3186

Foreign Capital and Economic Growth

Eswar Prasad, Raghuram G. Rajan, Arvind Subramanian

published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2007 (1), 153-230

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3176

Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies

Štepán Jurajda, Katherine Terrell

published in: Economics of Transition, 2009, 17 (2), 241–274

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3164

Employment Protection, Firm Selection, and Growth

Markus Poschke

published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2009, 56(8), 1074-1085

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3112

Dismissals for Cause: The Difference That Just Eight Paragraphs Can Make

Pedro S. Martins

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 27(2), 257–279, 2009

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3091

Labor Adjustment Costs in a Panel of Establishments: A Structural Approach

Joao Ejarque, Pedro Portugal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3087

Growth, Volatility and Political Instability: Non-Linear Time-Series Evidence for Argentina, 1896–2000

Nauro F. Campos, Menelaos G. Karanasos

published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100 (1), 135-137

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3066

Capital Accumulation and Unemployment: New Insights on the Nordic Experience

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala, Pablo F. Salvador

published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2008, 32 (6), 977-1001

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3045

Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?

Pieter A. Gautier, José L. Moraga-González, Ronald P. Wolthoff

published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 84, 123-139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3014

What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research

Mirjam C. van Praag, Peter H. Versloot

published in: Small Business Economics, 2007, 29 (4), 351-382

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2997

Malaria: Disease Impacts and Long-Run Income Differences

Douglas Gollin, Christian Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2942

Precautionary Savings by Natives and Immigrants in Germany

Matloob Piracha, Yu Zhu

published in: Applied Economics, 2012, 44 (21), 2767 - 2776

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2933

Monetary Policy and Swedish Unemployment Fluctuations

Annika Alexius, Bertil Holmlund

published in: Economics E-Journal, 2008, 2008-4.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2929

Heterogeneity in Real Wage Cyclicality

Pedro S. Martins

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 54(5), 684-698, 2007

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2900

The Evolution of Inflation and Unemployment: Explaining the Roaring Nineties

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Australian Economic Papers, 2008, 47 (4), 334-354

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2884

Household Division of Labor, Partnerships and Children: Evidence from Europe

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina, Almudena Sevilla

published as 'Social Norms, Partnerships and Children' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2012, 10 (2), 215-236

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2874

Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints and Start-up Costs

Raquel Fonseca, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Thepthida Sopraseuth

published in: Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, 2007, 28 (4), 637-674

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2830

Illegal Migration, Enforcement and Minimum Wage

Gil S. Epstein, Odelia Heizler (Cohen)

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 197-224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2754

Product Market Regulation, Firm Selection and Unemployment

Gabriel Felbermayr, Julien Prat

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (2), 278-318

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2743

Labor Search and Matching in Macroeconomics

Eran Yashiv

published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (8), 1859-1895

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2733

Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing and Wage Solidarity Under Labour Market Imperfections

Erkki Koskela, Rune Stenbacka

published in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (3), 376-392

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2731

Employment Performance and Institutions: New Answers to an Old Question

Bruno Amable, Lilas Demmou, Donatella Gatti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2718

Search Frictions on Product and Labor Markets: Money in the Matching Function

Etienne Lehmann, Bruno Van der Linden

published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2010, 10(1), 56-92

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2680

Employment Protection Legislation and Wages

Marco Leonardi, Giovanni Pica

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2628

Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing under Labour Market Imperfections

Erkki Koskela, Rune Stenbacka

published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (3), 284-290

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2531

Do I Have What It Takes? Equilibrium Search with Type Uncertainty and Non-Participation

Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2521

Calvo Wages in a Search Unemployment Model

Vincent Bodart, Olivier Pierrard, Henri R. Sneessens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2480

The Macroeconomics of the Labor Market: Three Fundamental Views

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2007, 6 (3), 151-180

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2479

The Beveridge Curve

Eran Yashiv

published in: L. Blume and S. N. Durlauf (eds), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2459

Are the French Happy with the 35-Hour Workweek?

Marcello Estevão, Filipa Sa

revised version published as 'The 35-hour workweek in France: Straightjacket or welfare improvement? ' in: Economic Policy, 2008, 23 (55), 417-463

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2456

Employment Fluctuations and Dynamics of the Aggregate Average Wage in Poland 1996-2003

Michal Myck, Leszek Morawski, Jerzy Mycielski

published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15(4), 759-799

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2455

U.S. Labor Market Dynamics Revisited

Eran Yashiv

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2007, 109 (4), 779 - 806

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2397

The (Ir)relevance of the NRU for Policy Making: The Case of Denmark

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala, Pablo F. Salvador

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 55 (3), 369-392

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2313

Lobbying, Corruption and Political Influence

Nauro F. Campos, Francesco Giovannoni

published in: Public Choice, 2007, 131 (1), 1-21

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2297

Employment Protection: Tough to Scrap or Tough to Get?

Björn Brügemann

published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F386 - F415

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2294

ICT Adoption and Productivity in Developing Countries: New Firm Level Evidence from Brazil and India

Rakesh Basant, Simon Commander, Rupert Harrison, Naercio Menezes-Filho

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2286

Does Employment Protection Create Its Own Political Support?

Björn Brügemann

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (2), 369 - 416

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2270

The Distribution of Total Work in the EU and US

Michael C. Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Philippe Weil

published in: Tito Boeri, Michael Burda, Francis Kramarz (eds.), Working Hours and Job Sharing in the EU and USA: Are Americans Crazy? Are Europeans Lazy? Oxford Univ. Press, 2008

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2265

Phillips Curves and Unemployment Dynamics: A Critique and a Holistic Perspective

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala, Dennis J. Snower

published: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2010, 24 (1), 1-51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2257

Sectoral Explanations of Employment in Europe: The Role of Services

Antonello D'Agostino, Roberta Serafini, Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2226

The Tax System Incidence on Unemployment: A Country-Specific Analysis for the OECD Economies

José Ramón García, Hector Sala

published in: Economic Modelling, 2008, 25 (6), 1232-1245

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2222

Product Market Regulation and Endogenous Union Formation

Monique Ebell, Christian Haefke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2194

A Search Model of Unemployment and Inflation

Etienne Lehmann

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (1), 245-266.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2185

Skill Wage Premia, Employment, and Cohort Effects: Are Workers in Germany All of the Same Type?

Bernd Fitzenberger, Karsten Kohn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2167

Re-Employment Probabilities over the Business Cycle

Guido W. Imbens, Lisa M. Lynch

published in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2006, 5 (2), 111-134

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2147

Gender Differences in Job Separation Rates and Employment Stability: New Evidence from Employer-Employee Data

Anders Frederiksen

published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(5), 915-937

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2141

The Effects of Labor Market Policies in an Economy with an Informal Sector

James Albrecht, Lucas Navarro, Susan Vroman

published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (539), 1105 - 1129

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2138

The Wage Curve: An Entry Written for the New Palgrave, 2nd Edition

David G. Blanchflower, Andrew J. Oswald

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2133

Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth for Chinese Provinces: A Panel Data Analysis

Alice Shiu, Almas Heshmati

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2099

On the Stability of the German Beveridge Curve: A Spatial Econometric Perspective

Reinhold Kosfeld, Christian Dreger, Hans-Friedrich Eckey

published in: Annals of Regional Science, 2008, 42, 967-986

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2093

Reform Redux: Measurement, Determinants and Reversals

Nauro F. Campos, Roman Horváth

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2012, 28 (2), 227-237