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IZA Discussion Paper No. 439

Does Divorce Law Matter?

Giulio Fella, Paola Manzini, Marco Mariotti

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2004, 2 (4), 607-633

IZA Discussion Paper No. 438

Employment Dynamics in the Romanian Labor Market: A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach

Alexandru Voicu

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005, 33 (3), 604-639

IZA Discussion Paper No. 437

Evaluating Immigration Policy Potentials and Limitations

Michael Fertig

IZA Discussion Paper No. 436

The Evolution of the Early Career Gender Wage Gap

Astrid Kunze

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2005, 12 (1), 73-97

IZA Discussion Paper No. 435

Perceived Income, Promotion and Incentive Effects

Gil S. Epstein, Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2006, 27 (2), 104-125

IZA Discussion Paper No. 434

From Severance Pay to Self-Insurance: Effects of Severance Payments Savings Accounts in Colombia

Adriana Kugler

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 005, 89 (2-3), 487-500.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 433

Protective or Counter-Productive? Labor Market Institutions and the Effect Immigration on EU Natives

Joshua Angrist, Adriana Kugler

published in: Economic Journal, 2003, 113 (488), F302-F331

IZA Discussion Paper No. 432

Employment, Wages, and Alcohol Consumption in Russia: Evidence from Panel Data

Erdal Tekin

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2004, 71 (2), 397-417

IZA Discussion Paper No. 431

The Perception of Foreigners and Jews in Germany - A Structural Analysis of a Large Opinion Survey

Michael Fertig, Christoph M. Schmidt

published as 'Attitudes towards foreigners and Jews in Germany: identifying the determinants of xenophobia in a large opinion survey ' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (1), 99-128

IZA Discussion Paper No. 430

Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? Evidence From German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction

Johannes Schwarze, Marco Härpfer

published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2007, 36 (2), 233 - 249

IZA Discussion Paper No. 429

Does Future PC Use Determine Our Wages Today? Evidence from German Panel Data

Silke Anger, Johannes Schwarze

published in: Labour, 2003, 17 (3), 337-360

IZA Discussion Paper No. 428

Mothers, Fathers and Children after Divorce: The Role of Institutions

Daniela Del Boca

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2003, 16 (3), 399–422

IZA Discussion Paper No. 427

The Effect of Child Care and Part Time Opportunities on Participation and Fertility Decisions in Italy

Daniela Del Boca

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2002, 15 (3), 549–573

IZA Discussion Paper No. 426

Do Wages Really Compensate for Risk Aversion and Skewness Affection?

Joop Hartog, Wim P. Vijverberg

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14(6), 926-937

IZA Discussion Paper No. 425

Successful Apprenticeship-to-Work Transitions: On the Long-Term Change in Significance of the German School-Leaving Certificate

Felix Büchel

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2002, 23 (5), 394-410

IZA Discussion Paper No. 424

Overeducation, Regional Labour Markets and Spatial Flexibility

Felix Büchel, Maarten van Ham

published in: [Journal of Urban Economics], 2003, 53 (3), 482-493

IZA Discussion Paper No. 423

Transfer Fee Regulations in European Football

Eberhard Feess, Gerd Muehlheusser

published in: European Economic Review, 2003, 47(4), 645-668

IZA Discussion Paper No. 422

The Long Awaited Reform of the German Works Constitution Act

John T. Addison, Lutz Bellmann, Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner

published in: Industrial Relations, 2004, 43 (2), 392-420

IZA Discussion Paper No. 421

Divide et Impera: Negotiating with a Stakeholder

Paola Manzini

fully revised version with Clara Ponsati published in: Mathematical Social Sciences, 2005, 50 (2), 166-180

IZA Discussion Paper No. 420

Higher Education Levels, Firms' Outside Options and the Wage Structure

Åsa Rosén, Etienne Wasmer

published in: Labour, 2005, 19 (4), 621-654

IZA Discussion Paper No. 419

The Value of Reunification in Germany: An Analysis of Changes in Life Satisfaction

Paul Frijters, John P. Haisken-DeNew, Michael A. Shields

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2004, 39 (3), 649-674

IZA Discussion Paper No. 418

Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany

Markus Frölich, Patrick A. Puhani

published as 'Developing an immigration policy for Germany on the basis of a nonparametric labor market classification' in: Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv /Journal of the German Statistical Society, 2004, 88(1), 1-22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 417

Taking a Second Chance: Entrepreneurial Restarters in Germany

Joachim Wagner

published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2003, 49 (3), 255-272

IZA Discussion Paper No. 416

Employed 40 Hours or Not-Employed 39: Lessons from the 1982 Mandatory Reduction of the Workweek

Bruno Crépon, Francis Kramarz

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2002, 110 (6), 1355-1389

IZA Discussion Paper No. 415

Does Entry Regulation Hinder Job Creation? Evidence from the French Retail Industry

Marianne Bertrand, Francis Kramarz

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2002, 117 (4), 1369-1414

IZA Discussion Paper No. 414

Where Did They Go?

Anders Frederiksen, Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen

published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (5), 811-828

IZA Discussion Paper No. 413

Participation Behavior of East German Women after German Unification

Holger Bonin, Rob Euwals

published as 'Why Are Labor Force Participation Rates of East German Women So High?' in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2005, 51(4), 307-322

IZA Discussion Paper No. 412

Government Debt as Insurance against Macroeconomic Risk

Martin Barbie, Marcus Hagedorn, Ashok Kaul

IZA Discussion Paper No. 411

The Response of Consumption in Russian Households to Economic Shocks

Steven Stillman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 410

Wage Arrears and the Distribution of Earnings in Russia

Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 125-155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 409

Fertility, Female Labor Supply and Public Policy

Patricia Apps, Ray Rees

revised version published as 'Fertility, Taxation and Family Policy' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2004, 106 (4), 745-763

IZA Discussion Paper No. 408

Nonprofit Sector and Part-Time Work: An Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data of Child Care Workers

Naci Mocan, Erdal Tekin

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003, 85 (1), 38-50

IZA Discussion Paper No. 407

Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany

Ronald Schettkat, Lara Yocarini

published in: IAW-Report / Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung, 2003, 1, 7 - 66

IZA Discussion Paper No. 406

Labor Market Flows and Equilibrium Search Unemployment

Pietro Garibaldi, Etienne Wasmer

revised version published as 'Equilibrium Search Unemployment, Endogenous Participation, and Labor Market Flows' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005, 3 (4), 851-882

IZA Discussion Paper No. 405

Testing for the Option Value of Migration

Lilo Locher

IZA Discussion Paper No. 404

Human Capital Spill-Overs Within the Workplace

Harminder Battu, Clive R. Belfield, Peter J. Sloane

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2003, 65 (5), 575-594

IZA Discussion Paper No. 403

How Do Layoff Costs Affect Employment?

Lars Ljungqvist

published in: Economic Journal, 2002, 112 (482), 829-853

IZA Discussion Paper No. 402

Did the Elimination of Mandatory Retirement Affect Faculty Retirement Flows?

Orley Ashenfelter, David Card

published in: American Economic Review, 2002, 92 (4), 957-980

IZA Discussion Paper No. 401

Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Monitoring and Sanctions

Jan Boone, Peter Fredriksson, Bertil Holmlund, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (518), 399-421

IZA Discussion Paper No. 400

The Predictive Value of Subjective Labour Supply Data: A Dynamic Panel Data Model with Measurement Error

Rob Euwals

published in: Empirical Economics, 2005, 30 (2), 309-329

IZA Discussion Paper No. 399

Using Employer Hiring Behavior to Test the Educational Signaling Hypothesis

James Albrecht, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2006, 108 (3), 361-372

IZA Discussion Paper No. 398

An Econometric Analysis of the Mental-Health Effects of Major Events in the Life of Elderly Individuals

Maarten Lindeboom, France Portrait, Gerard J. van den Berg

published in: Health Economics, 2002, 11 (6), 505-520

IZA Discussion Paper No. 397

Evaluating Environmental Programs: The Perspective of Modern Evaluation Research

Manuel Frondel, Christoph M. Schmidt

published in: Ecological Economics, 2005, 55 (4), 515-526

IZA Discussion Paper No. 396

Exploring the Economic and Social Determinants of Psychological and Psychosocial Health

Michael A. Shields, Stephen Wheatley Price

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2005, 168 (3), 513-538

IZA Discussion Paper No. 395

Stakeholders, Bargaining and Strikes

Paola Manzini, Clara Ponsatí

revised version published as 'Stakeholder Bargaining Games' in: International Journal of Game Theory, 2006, 34 (1), 67-77

IZA Discussion Paper No. 394

Awareness of General Equilibrium Effects and Unemployment

Hans Gersbach, Achim Schniewind

published as 'Collective Bargaining, Wareness of General Equilibrium Effects, and Unemployment' in: International Economic Review, 2011, 52 (3), 693 - 712

IZA Discussion Paper No. 393

Union Bargaining Power: A View from Japan

Scott M. Fuess Jr.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 392

Identifying Population Groups at High Risk of Social Exclusion: Evidence from the ECHP

Panos Tsakloglou, Fotis Papadopoulos

published in: R. Muffels, P. Tsakloglou and D. Mayes (eds.), Social Exclusion in European Welfare States, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2002, pp. 135-169

IZA Discussion Paper No. 391

Employment Adjustment in Portugal: Evidence from Aggregate and Firm Data

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira

published in: International Economics and Economic Policy, 2005, 1 (4), 329-348

IZA Discussion Paper No. 390