Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10751

Consumer Loan Response to Permanent Labor Income Shocks: Evidence from a Major Minimum Wage Increase

Ibrahim Ethem Guney, Yavuz Selim Hacihasanoglu, Semih Tumen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10718

Skill Premium, Labor Supply and Changes in the Structure of Wages in Latin America

Manuel Fernandez Sierra, Julián Messina

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 135, 555-573

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10705

Growth in the Shadows: Effect of the Shadow Economy on U.S. Economic Growth over More Than a Century

Rajeev K. Goel, James W. Saunoris, Friedrich Schneider

published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2019, 37 (1), 50 - 67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10669

Wage Rigidities in Colombia: Measurement, Causes, and Policy Implications

Sonia A. Agudelo, Hector Sala

published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2017, 39 (3), 547-567

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10657

Evolving Wage Cyclicality in Latin America

Luca Gambetti, Julián Messina

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2018, (323), 709-726.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10632

Welfare: Savings not Taxation

Roger Douglas, Robert MacCulloch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10554

Impact of Financial Crises on Dynamics of Capital Structure: Evidence from Korean Listed Companies

Lyubov Tsoy, Almas Heshmati

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10539

Concentrating on the Fall of the Labor Share

David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence Katz, Christina Patterson, John Van Reenen

published in: American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 2017, 107(5), 180-185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10520

Pledging, Praising and Shaming: Experimental Labour Markets in Ghana

Elwyn Davies, Marcel Fafchamps

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10516

International Migration and Regional Housing Markets: Evidence from France

Hippolyte D'Albis, Ekrame Boubtane, Dramane Coulibaly

published in: International Regional Science Review, 2019, 42(2), 147-180

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10509

Regular versus Lump-Sum Payments in Union Contracts and Household Consumption

Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Roberta Zizza

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10466

Fiscal Policy and Occupational Employment Dynamics

Christian Bredemeier, Falko Juessen, Roland Winkler

published in: Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 2020, 52 (5), 1527-1563

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10442

Labor Market Institutions and the Cost of Recessions

Tom Krebs, Martin Scheffel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10425

The Power of Social Pensions

Wei Huang, Chuanchuan Zhang

published as 'The Power of Social Pensions: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13 (2), 179 - 205

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10389

The 'Informality Gap': Can Education Help Minorities Escape Informal Employment? Evidence from Peru

Juan Gabriel Delgado Montes, Javier Corrales, Prakarsh Singh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10371

Firm Size Distribution and Employment Fluctuations: Theory and Evidence

Holger Görg, Philipp Henze, Viroj Jienwatcharamongkhol, Daniel Kopasker, Hassan Molana, Catia Montagna, Fredrik Sjöholm

published in: Research in Economics, 2017, 71(4), 690-703

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10362

Family Economics Writ Large

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Guillaume Vandenbroucke

published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2017, 55, 1346-1434.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10355

The Evolution of Multiple Jobholding in the U.S. Labor Market: The Complete Picture of Gross Worker Flows

Etienne Lalé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10342

Labor-Market Scars When Youth Unemployment Is Extremely High: Evidence from Macedonia

Marjan Petreski, Nikica Mojsoska-Blazevski, Marcelo Bergolo

published in: Eastern European Economics, 2017, 55 (2), 168 - 196

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10324

Entrepreneurship in the Shadows: Wealth Constraints and Government Policy

Semih Tumen

published in: Economics of Transition, 2017, 25(2), 239-270

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10312

Marriage and Marriage Markets

Shoshana Grossbard

published in: S. L. Averett (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, Oxford University Press, 2017, 55–74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10311

Buffer-Stock Saving and Households' Response to Income Shocks

Giulio Fella, Serafin Frache, Winfried Koeniger

revised version published in: International Economic Review, 2020, 61, 1359-1382.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10290

Understanding Wage Floor Setting in Industry-Level Agreements: Evidence from France

Denis Fougère, Erwan Gautier, Sébastien Roux

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10281

Size and Development of the Shadow Economies of 157 Countries Worldwide: Updated and New Measures from 1999 to 2013

Mai Hassan, Friedrich Schneider

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10267

Estimating Labor-Supply Elasticities with Joint Borrowing Constraints of Couples

Christian Bredemeier, Jan Gravert, Falko Juessen

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (4), 1215-1265

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10263

Do Youth Employment Programs Improve Labor Market Outcomes? A Systematic Review

Jochen Kluve, Olga Susana Puerto, David A. Robalino, Jose M. Romero, Friederike Rother, Jonathan Stöterau, Felix Weidenkaff, Marc J. Witte

published as 'Do youth employment programs improve labor market outcomes? A quantitative review' in: World Development, 2019, 114, 237 - 253

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10244

On Measuring Uncertainty: Snakes and Ladders

Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10179

Hours Worked in Europe and the US: New Data, New Answers

Alexander Bick, Bettina Brüggemann, Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economic, 2019, 121 (4), 1381 - 1516

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10178

Does the Unemployment Invariance Hypothesis Hold for Canada?

Aysit Tansel, Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir, Emre Aksoy

substantially revised version published as 'Unemployment Invariance Hypothesis, Added and Discouraged Workers in Canada' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2018, 39 (7), 929-936.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10133

The Effect of Gender-Targeted Conditional Cash Transfers on Household Expenditures: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Alex Armand, Orazio Attanasio, Pedro Carneiro, Valerie Lechene

published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (631), 1875 - 1897

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10116

Informality as a Stepping Stone: A Search-Theoretical Assessment of Informal Sector and Government Policy

Semih Tumen

published in: Central Bank Review, 2016, 16(3), 109-117

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10097

The End of Cheap Labour: Are Foreign Investors Leaving China?

Julian Donaubauer, Christian Dreger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10066

Wage Flexibility and Employment Fluctuations: Evidence from the Housing Sector

Jörn-Steffen Pischke

published in: Economics, 2018, 85 (339), 407 - 427

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10061

Turbulence and the Employment Experience of Older Workers

Etienne Lalé

published in: Quantitative Economics, 2018, 9 (2), 735-784.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10006

Effects of Credit Supply on Unemployment and Inequality

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Elias Dinopoulos, Bulent Unel

revised version published in: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 2018, 100 (4), 345-362

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9983

Consumption Network Effects

Giacomo De Giorgi, Anders Frederiksen, Luigi Pistaferri

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2020, 87 (1), 130-163

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9964

Co-movements between Public and Private Wages in the EU: Which Factors Play a Role?

Benedicta Marzinotto, Alessandro Turrini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9948

Insurance in Human Capital Models with Limited Enforcement

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9847

Employment Adjustment and Part-time Jobs: The U.S. and the U.K. in the Great Recession

Daniel Borowczyk-Martins, Etienne Lalé

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2019, 11 (1), 389-435.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9839

Inheritance and Wealth Inequality: Evidence from Population Registers

Mikael Elinder, Oscar Erixson, Daniel Waldenström

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 165, 17 - 30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9820

Estimating the Size of the Shadow Economy: Methods, Problems and Open Questions

Friedrich Schneider, Andreas Buehn

published as 'Shadow Economy: Estimation Methods, Problems, Results and Open questions' in: Open Economics, 2018, 1, 1-29

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9816

Business Cycle Asymmetries and the Labor Market

Britta Kohlbrecher, Christian Merkl

published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2022, 73, 103458

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9802

Families in Macroeconomics

Matthias Doepke, Michèle Tertilt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9787

Structural Reform in Germany

Tom Krebs, Martin Scheffel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9775

How Bad Is Involuntary Part-time Work?

Daniel Borowczyk-Martins, Etienne Lalé

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (1), 183-205.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9754

Reconciling the Divergence in Aggregate U.S. Wage Series

Julien Champagne, Andre Kurmann, Jay Stewart

published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 49, 27-41

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9753

More Unequal, But More Mobile? Earnings Inequality and Mobility in OECD Countries

Andrea Garnero, Alexander Hijzen, Sébastien Martin

published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 56, 26-35

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9724

Integrated Macroeconomic Production Function for Open Economies: A New Schumpeterian Solow Model for Globalization

Paul J. J. Welfens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9721

Public Expenditure, Demography and Growth: Theory and Evidence from India

Pranab Kumar Das, Saibal Kar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9717

Reservation Wages and the Wage Flexibility Puzzle

Felix Koenig, Alan Manning, Barbara Petrongolo

forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024