IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9854

The Adverse Consequences of Tournaments: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, Vol. 151, July, pp. 1–18.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9851

Petri Böckerman, Seppo Laaksonen, Jari Vainiomäki

published as 'Does ICT Usage Erode Routine Occupations at the Firm Level?' in: Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2019, 33 (1), 26-47

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, 2019, 11 (1), 389-435.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9846

When Time Binds: Returns to Working Long Hours and the Gender Wage Gap among the Highly Skilled

Patricia Cortes, Jessica Pan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9845

Psychological Momentum and Gender

Danny Cohen-Zada, Alex Krumer, Ze'ev Shtudiner

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 135, 66-81

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9841

Politics in the Family: Nepotism and the Hiring Decisions of Italian Firms

Stefano Gagliarducci, Marco Manacorda

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9836

Education as a Tool for the Economic Integration of Migrants

Maria De Paola, Giorgio Brunello

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9835

Use It or Lose It: Irish Evidence

Irene Mosca, Robert E. Wright

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9834

Does Postponing Minimum Retirement Age Improve Healthy Behaviours Before Retirement? Evidence from Middle-Aged Italian Workers

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello, Gianluca Mazzarella

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9828

Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy

David de la Croix, Matthias Doepke, Joel Mokyr

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018, 133 (1), 1-70

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9822

Labour Supply after Inheritances and the Role of Expectations

Karina Doorley, Nico Pestel

forthcoming in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/obes.12353)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9819

Old‐Age Employment and Hours of Work Trends: Empirical Analysis for Four European Countries

Arjeta Aliaj, Xavier Flawinne, Alain Jousten, Sergio Perelman, Lin Shi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9818

Working-Time Mismatch and Mental Health

Steffen Otterbach, Mark Wooden, Yin King Fok

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9814

Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: What's Trade Got To Do With It?

James Lake, Daniel L. Millimet

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9813

Does Less Wage Compression Lead to Less Training in Germany? An Expansion of Acemoglu and Pischke's Model of Training in Imperfect Labor Markets

Renate Neubäumer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9802

Families in Macroeconomics

Matthias Doepke, Michèle Tertilt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9801

The Impact of Paid Parental Leave on Labour Supply and Employment Outcomes

Barbara Broadway, Guyonne Kalb, Duncan McVicar, Bill Martin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9800

The Educational Consequences of Language Proficiency for Young Children

Yuxin Yao, Asako Ohinata, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 54, 1-15

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9795

Heterogeneous Effects of High School Peers on Educational Outcomes

Silvia Mendolia, Alfredo R. Paloyo, Ian Walker

Published in Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 1–22 doi: 10.1093/oep/gpy008

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9791

Does Bilingualism among the Native Born Pay?

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published as 'Do native-born bilinguals in the US earn more?' in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2018, 16 (3), 563 -583

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9787

Structural Reform in Germany

Tom Krebs, Martin Scheffel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9784

Long Run Effects of Youth Training Programs: Experimental Evidence from Argentina

María Laura Alzúa, Guillermo Cruces, Carolina Lopez

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (4), 1839 - 1859

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9780

Effects of Welfare Reform on Women's Voting Participation

Dhaval M. Dave, Hope Corman, Nancy E. Reichman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9778

The Labor Supply of Fixed-Wage Workers: Estimates from a Real Effort Experiment

Jeffrey P. Carpenter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9776

The Shifting Job Tenure Distribution

Henry R. Hyatt, James R. Spletzer

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41(1): 363-377

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9775

How Bad Is Involuntary Part-time Work?

Daniel Borowczyk-Martins, Etienne Lalé

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9773

If You Don't Snooze You Lose: Evidence on Health and Weight

Osea Giuntella, Fabrizio Mazzonna

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9748

The China Shock: Learning from Labor Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade

David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson

published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2016, 8, 205-240

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9746

China's Family Planning Policies and Their Labor Market Consequences

Fei Wang, Liqiu Zhao, Zhong Zhao

revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30(1), 31-68 [Details & Download]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9745

The Effect of Housing Wealth on Labor Force Participation: Evidence from China

Shihe Fu, Yu Liao, Junfu Zhang

published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2016, 33, 59-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9741

Offshoring and Labor Markets

David Hummels, Jakob R. Munch, Chong Xiang

published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2018, 56, 981-1028

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9738

Cyclical and Market Determinants of Involuntary Part-Time Employment

Robert G. Valletta, Leila Bengali, Catherine van der List

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9736

Differences in Job De-Routinization in OECD Countries: Evidence from PIAAC

Sara de la Rica, Lucas Gortazar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9735

Work Hour Mismatch and Job Mobility: Adjustment Channels and Resolution Rates

Michael C. Knaus, Steffen Otterbach

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2019, 57(1), 227-242

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9729

Job Loss and Immigrant Labor Market Performance

Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed

published in: Economica ,2018, 85, 124–151

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9722

Why Are Fewer Married Women Joining the Work Force in India? A Decomposition Analysis over Two Decades

Farzana Afridi, Taryn Dinkelman, Kanika Mahajan

published in Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31(3), 783-818

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9721

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

Pranab Kumar Das, Saibal Kar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9720

Spatial Distribution of US Employment in an Urban Wage-Efficiency Setting

J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina, Jorge Velilla

published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2018, 58, 141-158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9719

Optimal Income Taxation with Unemployment and Wage Responses: A Sufficient Statistics Approach

Kory Kroft, Kavan Kucko, Etienne Lehmann, Johannes F. Schmieder

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9710

It's About Time: Effects of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate on Time Use

Gregory Colman, Dhaval M. Dave

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9709

Profiling the US Sick Leave Landscape

Philip Susser, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

short version published in: Health Services Research, 2016, 51(6): 2305-2317

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9708

Peer Effects in Employment Status: Evidence from Housing Lotteries for Forced Evacuees in Fukushima

Ayako Kondo, Masahiro Shoji

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9698

Deconstructing Theories of Overeducation in Europe: A Wage Decomposition Approach

Seamus McGuinness, Konstantinos Pouliakas

published in: S.W. Polachek et al. (eds.): Skill Mismatch in Labor Markets (Research in Labor Economics, 45) , 2017, 81 - 127

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9697

The Effect of Choice Options in Training Curricula on the Supply of and Demand for Apprenticeships

Anika Jansen, Andries de Grip, Ben Kriechel

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 57, 52-65

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9694

Fully Integrating Upper-Secondary Vocational and Academic Courses: A Flexible New Way?

Cain Polidano, Domenico Tabasso

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 55, 117-131.

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9692

The Effectiveness of Medical and Vocational Interventions for Reducing Sick Leave of Self-Employed Workers

Stijn Baert, Bas van der Klaauw, Gijsbert van Lomwel

revised version published in: Health Economics, 2018, 27 (2), e139 - e152 [Online Access]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9690

When Does HRM 'Work' in Small British Enterprises?

Michael White, Alex Bryson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9685

Employment Adjustments around Childbirth

Barbara Pertold-Gebicka, Filip Pertold, Nabanita Datta Gupta

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9683

Asymmetric Labor-Supply Responses to Wage-Rate Changes: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Philipp Doerrenberg, Denvil Duncan, Max Loeffler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9678

Long-Lasting Effects of Socialist Education

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Paolo Masella

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9675

Tattoos, Life Style and the Labor Market

Rik Dillingh, Peter Kooreman, Jan Potters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9672

Islamism and Gender Relations in the Muslim World as Reflected in Recent World Values Survey Data

Arno Tausch, Almas Heshmati

forthcoming in: Society and Economy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9668

Discouraged Immigrants and the Missing Pop in EPOP

Peter Norlander, Todd A. Sorensen

published as: "21st Century Slowdown: The Historic Nature of Recent Declines in the Growth of the Immigrant Population in the United States", Migration Letters, July 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9662

Intergenerational Transmission of Skills and Differences in Labor Market Outcomes for Blacks and Whites

Tsunao Okumura, Emiko Usui

published in: Research in Labor Economics, Special Issue on Inequality: Causes and Consequences, 2016, 43

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9661

Gender and Racial Differences in Peer Effects of Limited English Students: A Story of Language or Ethnicity?

Timothy M. Diette, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2017, 6:2

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9660

When Do Gender Wage Differences Emerge? A Study of Azerbaijan's Labor Market

Francesco Pastore, Sarosh Sattar, Nistha Sinha, Erwin R. Tiongson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9656

The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations

Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn

published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2017, 55(3), 789-865

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9654

Crowding Out in the Labour Market: Do Employers Lend a Hand?

Dieter Verhaest, Elene Bogaert, Jeroen Dereymaeker, Laura Mestdagh, Stijn Baert

revised version published as 'Do Employers Prefer Overqualified Graduates? A Field Experiment' in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society [Online Access]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9649

Does It Pay to Care? Prosocial Engagement and Employment Opportunities

Stijn Baert, Suncica Vujic

revised version published as 'Does it Pay to Care? Volunteering and Employment Opportunities' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (3), 819 - 836 [online]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9645

Television, Cognitive Ability, and High School Completion

Øystein Hernaes, Simen Markussen, Knut Røed

revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54 (2), 371-400

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9640

Remittances and Expenditure Patterns of the Left Behinds in Rural China

Sylvie Démurger, Xiaoqian Wang

forthcoming in: China Economic Review, 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9638

Local Labor Market Conditions and Crime: Evidence from the Brazilian Trade Liberalization

Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Rodrigo R. Soares, Gabriel Ulyssea

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (4), 158-195

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9634

A Wage-Efficiency Spatial Model for US Self-Employed Workers

J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina, Jorge Velilla

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9633

Low Paid Employment in Britain: Estimating State-Dependence and Stepping Stone Effects

Lixin Cai, Kostas G. Mavromaras, Peter J. Sloane

forthcoming Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9631

The Puzzling Fixity of Multiple Job Holding across Regions and Labor Markets

Barry Hirsch, Muhammad M. Husain, John V. Winters

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2017, 84 (1), 26-51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9630

Multiple Job Holding, Local Labor Markets, and the Business Cycle

Barry Hirsch, Muhammad M. Husain, John V. Winters

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 5:4

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9620

Are Japanese Men of Pensionable Age Underemployed or Overemployed?

Emiko Usui, Satoshi Shimizutani, Takashi Oshio

published in: Japanese Economic Review, 2016, 67 (2), 150 - 168

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9619

Working Time Reductions at the End of the Career: Do They Prolong the Time Spent in Employment?

Andrea Albanese, Bart Cockx, Yannick Thuy

forthcoming in: Empirical Economics, 2019 [Online Access]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9618

Fiscal Sustainability and Demographic Change: A Micro Approach for 27 EU Countries

Mathias Dolls, Karina Doorley, Alari Paulus, Hilmar Schneider, Sebastian Siegloch, Eric Sommer

published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2017, 24 (4), 575-615 doi:10.1007/s10797-017-9462-3

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9612

Women Do Not Play Their Aces: The Consequences of Shying Away

Jörg Claussen, Eszter Czibor, Mirjam C. van Praag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9610

Effects of Unionization on Workplace-Safety Enforcement: Regression-Discontinuity Evidence

Aaron J. Sojourner, Jooyoung Yang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9609

The Dynamic Effect of Disability on Work and Subjective Wellbeing in Australia

Melanie K. Jones, Kostas G. Mavromaras, Peter J. Sloane, Zhang Wei

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9597

Local Signals and the Returns to Foreign Education

Massimiliano Tani

new version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 61, 174-190.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9596

The Wage Returns to Education over the Life-Cycle: Heterogeneity and the Role of Experience

Franz Buscha, Matt Dickson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9595

Changing Faculty Employment at Four-Year Colleges and Universities in the United States

Liang Zhang, Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Xiangmin Liu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9592

Fear of Labor Rigidities: The Role of Expectations on Employment Growth in Peru

Pablo Lavado, Gustavo Yamada

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9591

An Unfulfilled Promise? Higher Education Quality and Professional Underemployment in Peru

Gustavo Yamada, Pablo Lavado, Joan J. Martínez

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9589

The Effect of Doubling the Minimum Wage on Employment: Evidence from Russia

Alexander Muravyev, Aleksey Oshchepkov

published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2016, 5:6

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9588

Worker Flows and Labour Market Adjustment during the Great Recession: Evidence from a Large Shock

Hartmut Lehmann, Tiziano Razzolini, Anzelika Zaiceva

thoroughly revised version published in: Comparative Economic Studies, available online 18 October 2019.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9586

Managers and Productivity Differences

Nezih Guner, Andrii Parkhomenko, Gustavo Ventura

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9585

Mismatch of Talent: Evidence on Match Quality, Entry Wages, and Job Mobility

Peter Fredriksson, Lena Hensvik, Oskar Nordström Skans

Published in American Economic Review Vol. 108, No. 11 (Nov), pp. 3303-38.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9584

Do They Find You on Facebook? Facebook Profile Picture and Hiring Chances

Stijn Baert

revised version published as 'Facebook profile picture appearance affects recruiterd first hiring decisions' in: New Media & Society, 2018, 20 (3), 1220 - 1239 [Online Access]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9583

Are Working Time Accounts Beneficial for German Establishments?

Lutz Bellmann, Olaf Hübler

published as 'Working time accounts and firm performance in Germany' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2015, 4:24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9565

Psychological Incentives, Financial Incentives, and Risk Attitudes in Tournaments: An Artefactual Field Experiment

Bram Cadsby, Jim Engle-Warnick, Tony Fang, Fei Song

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2019, 72, 64-79

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9559

Test Scores, Noncognitive Skills and Economic Growth

Pau Balart, Matthijs Oosterveen, Dinand Webbink

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9555

Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform

Eric A. Hanushek, Jens Ruhose, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2017, 11 (4), 447-486

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9552

Same Program, Different Outcomes: Understanding Differential Effects from Access to Free, High-Quality Early Care

Juan Chaparro, Aaron J. Sojourner

published as 'Differential effects from access to high-quality early care' in: In A.J. Reynolds, J.A. Temple (eds.): Sustaining Early Childhood Learning Gains, Cambridge, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9549

Disability Benefit Generosity and Labor Force Withdrawal

Kathleen Mullen, Stefan Staubli

revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 143, 49-63

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9542

Ability Drain

Maurice Schiff

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, [online first], doi: 10.1007/s00148-017-0644-1

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9541

The Effect of Remittances on Labour Supply in the Republic of Haiti

Evans Jadotte, Xavier Ramos

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 52(12): 1810-1825. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2016.1156089