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IZA Discussion Paper No. 489
Employment Patterns of Husbands and Wives and Family Income Distribution in Italy (1977-1998)
Daniela Del Boca, Silvia Pasqua
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2003, 49 (2), 221-245
IZA Discussion Paper No. 488
Identifying Human Capital Externalities: Theory with an Application to US Cities
Antonio Ciccone, Giovanni Peri
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 73 (2), 2006, 381-412
IZA Discussion Paper No. 487
Identifying the Common Component of International Economic Fluctuations: A New Approach
Robin L. Lumsdaine, Eswar Prasad
published in: Economic Journal, 2003, 113 (484), 101-127
IZA Discussion Paper No. 486
Who Pays for General Training? New Evidence for British Men and Women
Alison L. Booth, Mark L. Bryan
revised version published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 85-123
IZA Discussion Paper No. 485
Class-Size Effects in School Systems Around the World: Evidence from Between-Grade Variation in TIMSS
Ludger Woessmann, Martin R. West
published in: European Economic Review, 2006, 50 (3), 695-736
IZA Discussion Paper No. 484
Institutional Effects in a Simple Model of Educational Production
John H. Bishop, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Education Economics, 2004, 12 (1), 17-38
IZA Discussion Paper No. 483
In-Group Cooperation in a Hostile Environment: An Economic Perspective on Some Aspects of Jewish Life in (Pre-Modern) Diaspora
Hillel Rapoport, Avi Weiss
published in: C. Chiswick, T. Lecker and N. Kahana (eds.): Jewish Society and Culture: An Economic Perspective, Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2007, 103-28.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 482
Leadership Skills and Wages
Peter J. Kuhn, Catherine Weinberger
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2005, 23 (3), 395-436
IZA Discussion Paper No. 481
Hiring Standards and Market Clearing
Ekkehart Schlicht
final version published as 'Hiring Standards and Labor Market Clearing' in: Metroeconomica, 2005, 56(2), 263-279
IZA Discussion Paper No. 480
The Complexity of Economic Policy: I. Restricted Local Optima in Tax Policy Design
Gilles Saint-Paul
IZA Discussion Paper No. 479
Unions and Employment Growth: The One Constant?
John T. Addison, Clive R. Belfield
published in: Industrial Relations, 2004, 43 (2), 305-323
IZA Discussion Paper No. 478
Uneven Technical Progress and Unemployment
Hans Gersbach, Achim Schniewind
IZA Discussion Paper No. 477
Natives, the Foreign-Born and High School Equivalents: New Evidence on the Returns to the GED
Melissa A. Clark, David A. Jaeger
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (4), 769-793
IZA Discussion Paper No. 476
Human Capital versus Social Capital: A Comparative Analysis of Immigrant Wages and Labor Market Incorporation in Japan and the United States
Wayne A. Cornelius, Takeyuki Tsuda, Zulema Valdez
published in: Migraciones Internacionales, 2004, 2 (1), 5-35
IZA Discussion Paper No. 475
A Macroeconomic Experiment in Mass Immigration
Zvi Hercowitz, Eran Yashiv
IZA Discussion Paper No. 474
Unions, Works Councils and Plant Closings in Germany
John T. Addison, Lutz Bellmann, Arnd Kölling
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2004, 42 (1), 125-148
IZA Discussion Paper No. 473
A pint a day raises a man's pay; but smoking blows that gain away
Jan C. van Ours
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2004, 23 (5), 863-886
IZA Discussion Paper No. 472
Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts of Economic Growth
Reto Foellmi, Josef Zweimüller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 471
Immigrants' Language Skills and Visa Category
Barry R. Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee, Paul W. Miller
published in: International Migration Review, 2006, 40 (2), 419-450
IZA Discussion Paper No. 470
Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?
Alessandro Cigno, Furio C. Rosati, Lorenzo Guarcello
published in: World Development, 2002, 30 (9), 1579-1589
IZA Discussion Paper No. 469
The Effect of Benefit Sanctions on the Duration of Unemployment
Rafael Lalive, Jan C. van Ours, Josef Zweimüller
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005, 3 (6), 1386-1417
IZA Discussion Paper No. 468
The Impact of Risk Aversion, Role Models, and the Regional Milieu on the Transition from Unemployment to Self-Employment: Empirical Evidence for Germany
Joachim Wagner
published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2003, 223 (2), 204-221
IZA Discussion Paper No. 467
Are Immigrants Competing with Natives in the Italian Labour Market? The Employment Effect
Alessandra Venturini, Claudia Villosio
revised version published in: International Labour Review, 2006, 145 (1-2), 91-118
IZA Discussion Paper No. 466
Unemployment, Labour Force Composition and Sickness Absence: A Panel Data Study
Jan Erik Askildsen, Espen Bratberg, Øivind Anti Nilsen
published in: Health Economics, 2005, 14 (11), 1087-1101
IZA Discussion Paper No. 465
Intergenerational Social Mobility and Assortative Mating in Britain
John Ermisch, Marco Francesconi
revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (513), 659-679
IZA Discussion Paper No. 464
The Hold-Down Problem and the Boundaries of the Firm: Lesson from a Hidden Action Model with Endogenous Outside Option
Wendelin Schnedler, Uwe Sunde
IZA Discussion Paper No. 463
Labor Supply Dynamics, Umemployment and Human Capital Investments
Etienne Wasmer
published in:Recherches Economiques de Louvan / Louvain Economic Review, 2004, 70 (4), 461-482
IZA Discussion Paper No. 462
The Determinants of the Geographic Concentration among Immigrants: Application to Australia
Barry R. Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee, Paul W. Miller
published in: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 2001, 7 (2), 125-150
IZA Discussion Paper No. 461
Welfare and Labor Earnings: An Evaluation of the Financial Gains to Work
Marc Gurgand, David N. Margolis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 460
Family Matters: The Role of the Family in Immigrants' Destination Language Acquisition
Barry R. Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee, Paul W. Miller
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18 (4), 631–647
IZA Discussion Paper No. 459
The Covariance Structure of East and West German Incomes and its Implications for the Persistence of Poverty and Inequality
Martin Biewen
revised version published in: German Economic Review, 2005, 6 (4), 445-469
IZA Discussion Paper No. 458
Inventories, Employment and Hours
Marzio Galeotti, Louis J. Maccini, Fabio Schiantarelli
published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2005, 52 (3), 575-600
IZA Discussion Paper No. 457
Health and Work of the Elderly: Subjective Health Measures, Reporting Errors and the Endogenous Relationship between Health and Work
Maarten Lindeboom, Marcel Kerkhofs
published as: 'Health and work of the elderly: subjective health measures, reporting errors and endogeneity in the relationship between health and work' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2009, 24 (6), 1024 - 1046
IZA Discussion Paper No. 456
International Integration, Risk and the Welfare State
Torben M. Andersen
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2002, 104 (3), 343-364
IZA Discussion Paper No. 455
Unions and Establishment Performance: Evidence from the British Workplace Industrial/Employee Relations Surveys
John T. Addison, Clive R. Belfield
published in: Phanindra V. Wunnava (ed.), The Changing Role of Unions: New Forms of Representation, Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, April 2004
IZA Discussion Paper No. 454
Defensive Innovations
Winfried Koeniger
revised version published in: Berkeley Electronic Journal in Macroeconomics: Contributions to Macroeconomics, 2007, 7(1), Article 5
IZA Discussion Paper No. 453
Removing the Veil of Ignorance in Assessing the Distributional Impacts of Social Policies
Pedro Carneiro, Karsten T. Hansen, James J. Heckman
published in: Swedish Policy Review, 2001, 8 (2), 273-301
IZA Discussion Paper No. 452
Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Occupational Mobility: A Test of the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis
Barry R. Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee, Paul W. Miller
published in: International Migration Review, 2005, 39 (2), 332-353
IZA Discussion Paper No. 451
The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada
Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2003, 22 (5), 469-480
IZA Discussion Paper No. 450
Schooling, Literacy, Numeracy and Labor Market Success
Barry R. Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee, Paul W. Miller
published in: Economic Record, 2003, 79 (245), 165-181
IZA Discussion Paper No. 449
Do Enclaves Matter in Immigrant Adjustment?
Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller
published in: City and Community, 2005, 4 (1), 5-35
IZA Discussion Paper No. 448
Inequality, Transfers and Growth: New Evidence from the Economic Transition in Poland
Michael P. Keane, Eswar Prasad
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2002, 84 (2), 324-341
IZA Discussion Paper No. 447
Mobility within Europe – What do we (still not) know?
Michael Fertig, Christoph M. Schmidt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 446
Macroeconomic Policy Lessons of Labor Market Frictions
Eran Yashiv
published in: European Economic Review, 2004, 48 (2), 259-284
IZA Discussion Paper No. 445
Informational Cascades and Decision to Migrate
Gil S. Epstein
published in: Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds.): Migration and Culture, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 25-44
IZA Discussion Paper No. 444
Benefit Entitlement and the Labor Market: Evidence from a Large-Scale Policy Change
Rafael Lalive, Josef Zweimüller
published in: Jonas Agell, Michael Keen and Alfons Weichenrieder (eds.), Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation, 2004, 63-100
IZA Discussion Paper No. 443
Identifying Functional Labour Market Areas in New Zealand: A Reconnaissance Study Using Travel-to-Work Data
Kerry L. Papps, James O. Newell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 442
Estimating the Effect of Income on Health and Mortality Using Lottery Prizes as Exogenous of Variation in Income
Mikael Lindahl
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2005, 40 (1), 144-168
IZA Discussion Paper No. 441
Earnings Inequality and Transition: A Regional Analysis of Poland
Christopher W. Sibley, Patrick Paul Walsh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 440
Dealer Pricing of Consumer Credit
Giuseppe Bertola, Stefan Hochguertel, Winfried Koeniger
revised version published in: International Economic Review, 2005, 46 (4), 1103-1142
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