Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12802

Endogenous Hours and the Wealth of Entrepreneurs

Felix Wellschmied, Emircan Yurdagul

published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2021, 39, 79-99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12771

Labor Market Frictions and Lowest Low Fertility

Nezih Guner, Ezgi Kaya, Virginia Sánchez-Marcos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12743

Differences in Euro-Area Household Finances and their Relevance for Monetary-Policy Transmission

Thomas Hintermaier, Winfried Koeniger

revised version forthcoming in: Quantitative Economics, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12697

Excess Churn in Integrated Labor Markets

Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34, 865-892

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12678

Three Varieties of Africa’s Industrial Future

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12666

What Determines Women's Labor Supply? The Role of Home Productivity and Social Norms

Farzana Afridi, Monisankar Bishnu, Kanika Mahajan

published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2024, 90 (1), 55 - 87

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12655

Life Cycle Saving and Dissaving Revisited across Three-Tiered Income Groups: Starting Hypotheses, Refinement through Literature Review, and Ideas for Empirical Testing

Robert Holzmann, Mercedes Ayuso, Estefanía Alaminos, Jorge Miguel Bravo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12642

Not Just a Work Permit: EU Citizenship and the Consumption Behavior of Documented and Undocumented Immigrants

Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Ezgi Kaya

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2020, 53, 1552-1598

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12623

Climate Change, Inequality, and Human Migration

Michal Burzynski, Christoph Deuster, Frédéric Docquier, Jaime de Melo

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (3), 1145 - 1197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12602

The Decline in Entrepreneurship in the West: Is Complexity Ossifying the Economy?

Wim Naudé

published as ' From the entrepreneurial to the ossified economy' in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2022, 46 (1), 105 - 131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12595

The Intergenerational Correlation of Employment: Is There a Role for Work Culture?

Gabriela Galassi, David Koll, Lukas Mayr

published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 90, 102596

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12583

Can a Deportation Policy Backfire?

Oded Stark, Lukasz Byra

published in: Public Choice, 2020, 183, 29 - 41

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12579

Labour Market Flows: Accounting for the Public Sector

Idriss Fontaine, Ismael Galvez-Iniesta, Pedro Maia Gomes, Diego Vila-Martin

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 62, 101770

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12568

Does Unemployment Worsen Babies' Health? A Tale of Siblings, Maternal Behaviour and Selection

Elisabetta De Cao, Barry McCormick, Catia Nicodemo

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 83, 102601.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12566

Interest Rate Hysteresis in Macroeconomic Investment under Uncertainty

Ansgar H. Belke, Matthias Göcke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12514

The Effects of Access to Credit on Productivity: Separating Technological Changes from Changes in Technical Efficiency

Nusrat Abedin Jimi, Plamen Nikolov, Mohammad Abdul Malek, Subal C. Kumbhakar

published in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2019, 52 (1-3), 37-55

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12492

Government Deficit Shocks and Okun's Coefficient Volatility: New Insights on the Austerity versus Growth Debate

Binh Thai Pham, Hector Sala

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12473

Which Ladder to Climb? Decomposing Life Cycle Wage Dynamics

Christian Bayer, Moritz Kuhn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12441

Revisiting the Hypothesis of High Discounts and High Unemployment

Paolo Martellini, Guido Menzio, Ludo Visschers

published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (637), 2203-2232.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12418

Labor Income Share Dynamics with Variable Elasticity of Substitution

Saumik Paul

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12387

Sufficient Statistics for Frictional Wage Dispersion and Growth

Rune Majlund Vejlin, Gregory Veramendi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12385

Nonlinearity between the Shadow Economy and Level of Development

Dong Frank Wu, Friedrich Schneider

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12365

Do Unemployment Benefit Extensions Explain the Emergence of Jobless Recoveries?

Kurt Mitman, Stanislav Rabinovich

published online in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control , 05 September 2024, 104964

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12359

Monetary Policy Transmission to Consumer Financial Stress and Durable Consumption

Dimitris Georgarakos, Konstantinos Tatsiramos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12294

Search and Multiple Jobholding

Etienne Lalé

published in: Economic Theory, 2025, 80, 891-939.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12287

Hiring through Referrals in a Labor Market with Adverse Selection

Aurelie Dariel, Arno Riedl, Simon Siegenthaler

published as 'Referral hiring and wage formation in a market with adverse selection' in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, 130, 109 - 130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12276

Labor Market Power

David Berger, Kyle Herkenhoff, Simon Mongey

published in: American Economic Review, 2022, 112 (4), 1147 - 1193

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12272

Evaluating Welfare and Economic Effects of Raised Fertility

Krzysztof Makarski, Joanna Tyrowicz, Magda Malec

published as 'Fiscal and Welfare Effects of Raised Fertility in Poland: Overlapping Generations Model Estimates' in: Population and Development Review, 2019, 45 (4), 795 - 818

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12260

Hartz IV and the Decline of German Unemployment: A Macroeconomic Evaluation

Brigitte Hochmuth, Britta Kohlbrecher, Christian Merkl, Hermann Gartner

published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 127, 2021, 104114

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12219

A Decline in Labor's Share with Capital Accumulation and Complementary Factor Inputs: An Application of the Morishima Elasticity of Substitution

Saumik Paul

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12218

The Race against the Robots and the Fallacy of the Giant Cheesecake: Immediate and Imagined Impacts of Artificial Intelligence

Wim Naudé

published as 'Artificial intelligence: neither Utopian nor apocalyptic impacts soon' in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2021, 30 (1), 1-23.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12188

The Determinants of Retirement Planning within Couples in Ireland

Karina Doorley, Anne Nolan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12187

Financial Literacy and Preparation for Retirement

Anne Nolan, Karina Doorley

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12128

Optimal Social Insurance and Rising Labor Market Risk

Tom Krebs, Martin Scheffel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12125

How Prevalent Is Downward Rigidity in Nominal Wages? International Evidence from Payroll Records and Pay Slips

Michael Elsby, Gary Solon

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2019, 33 (3), 185–201

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12124

How Prevalent Is Downward Rigidity in Nominal Wages? Evidence from Payroll Records in Washington State

Ekaterina Jardim, Gary Solon, Jacob Vigdor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12068

Seeking Rent in the Informal Sector

Saibal Kar, Biswajit Mandal, Sugata Marjit, Vivekananda Mukherjee

published in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2020, 91 (1), 151-164

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12063

Racing With or Against the Machine? Evidence from Europe

Terry Gregory, Anna Salomons, Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage

published as 'Racing With or Against the Machine? Evidence on the Role of Trade in Europe" in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (2), 869 - 906

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12054

Education Spillovers within the Workplace

Kristian Hedeager Bentsen, Jakob R. Munch, Georg Schaur

published in: Economics Letters, 2019, 175, 57-59

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12037

Inflation Expectations and Firm Decisions: New Causal Evidence

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Tiziano Ropele

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12008

Unions, Two-Tier Bargaining and Physical Capital Investment: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence from Italy

Gabriele Cardullo, Maurizio Conti, Giovanni Sulis

revised version published as 'A Model of Unions, Two-Tier Bargaining and Capital Investment' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 67, 101936

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12005

Artificial Intelligence, Jobs, Inequality and Productivity: Does Aggregate Demand Matter?

Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12004

Employment to Output Elasticities & Reforms towards Flexicurity: Evidence from OECD Countries

Holger Görg, Cecília Hornok, Catia Montagna, George E. Onwordi

published in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2023, 75 (3), 641–670

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12001

What Hides behind the German Labor Market Miracle? Unemployment Insurance Reforms and Labor Market Dynamics

Benjamin Hartung, Philip Jung, Moritz Kuhn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11979

The Financial Decisions of Immigrant and Native Households: Evidence from Italy

Graziella Bertocchi, Marianna Brunetti, Anzelika Zaiceva

substantially revised version published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2023, 9, 117-174

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11950

Home Ownership and Monetary Policy Transmission

Winfried Koeniger, Marc-Antoine Ramelet

revised version published as 'On the Transmission of Monetary Policy to the Housing Market' in: European Economic Review, 2022, 145, 104107 (with Benedikt Lennartz and Marc-Antoine Ramelet)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11923

Assortative Matching or Exclusionary Hiring? The Impact of Firm Policies on Racial Wage Differences in Brazil

Francois Gerard, Lorenzo Lagos, Edson Severnini, David Card

published in: American Economic Review, 2021, 111 (10), 3418 -3457

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11858

The German Labor Market during the Great Recession: Shocks and Institutions

Britta Gehrke, Wolfgang Lechthaler, Christian Merkl

published in: Economic Modelling, 2019, 78, 192-208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11853

On the Job Search and Business Cycles

Giuseppe Moscarini, Fabien Postel-Vinay

published in: Revue économique, 2024, 75 (1), 73-11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11852

Vacancy Durations and Entry Wages: Evidence from Linked Vacancy-Employer-Employee Data

Andreas Kettemann, Andreas I. Mueller, Josef Zweimüller

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2024, 91 (3), 1807-1841