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2,389 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16145
Prior Work Experience and Entrepreneurship: The Careers of Young Entrepreneurs
Nicolas Gendron-Carrier
forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16134
Cognitive Skills among Adults: An Impeding Factor for Gender Convergence?
Michele Battisti, Alexandra Fedorets, Lavinia Kinne
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16133
The Economic Approach to Personality, Character and Virtue
James J. Heckman, Bridget Galaty, Haihan Tian
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16125
Using Genes to Explore the Relationship of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills with Education and Labor Market Outcomes
Thomas Buser, Rafael Ahlskog, Magnus Johannesson, Philipp Koellinger, Sven Oskarsson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16123
Incentivizing Team Leaders: A Firm-Level Experiment on Subjective Performance Evaluation of Leadership Skills
Thomas Gall, Xiaocheng Hu, Michael Vlassopoulos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16117
Where Do STEM Graduates Stem From? The Intergenerational Transmission of Comparative Skill Advantages
Eric A. Hanushek, Babs Jacobs, Guido Schwerdt, Rolf Van der Velden, Stan Vermeulen, Simon Wiederhold
this paper is an updated version of IZA DP No. 14854 (2021).
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16111
School Quality beyond Test Scores: The Role of Schools in Shaping Educational Outcomes
Annalisa Loviglio
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16104
Imperfect Signals
Georg Graetz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16091
Access to Language Training and the Local Integration of Refugees
Mette Foged, Cynthia van der Werf
published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 84, 102366
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16089
Non-college Occupations, Workplace Routinization, and the Gender Gap in College Enrollment
Amanda Chuan, Weilong Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16087
Make Your Own Luck: The Wage Gains from Starting College in a Bad Economy
Alena Bicakova, Matias Cortes, Jacopo Mazza
published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 84, 102411
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16083
Employers' Demand for Personality Traits
Vera Brenčič, Andrew McGee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16081
The Labor Market Returns to Very Short Postsecondary Certificates
Rajeev Darolia, Chuanyi Guo, Youngran Kim
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16079
The Increasing Penalty to Occupation-Education Mismatch
Hugh Cassidy, Amanda Gaulke
revised version published in Economic Inquiry, 2024, 62 (2), 607–632.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16078
Shifts in Composition of Jobs: Upgrading, Downgrading or Polarization? The Case of Russia 2000-2019
Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16069
The Women Empowering Effect of Higher Education
Ahmed Elsayed, Alina Shirshikova
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 163, 103101
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16065
Unexpected Colonial Returns: Self-Selection and Economic Integration of Migrants over Multiple Generations
Anne C. Gielen, Dinand Webbink
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16050
Transitory Earnings Opportunities and Educational Scarring of Men
Jósef Sigurdsson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16043
Africa's Industrialization Prospects: A Fresh Look
Wim Naudé, Fiona Tregenna
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16040
Exposure to War and Its Labor Market Consequences over the Life Cycle
Sebastian Till Braun, Jan Stuhler
forthcoming in: Journal of Economic History, 2026
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