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IZA Discussion Paper No. 16277
The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic Recession on Less Educated Women's Human Capital: Some Projections
Mark Drozd, Robert A. Moffitt, Xinyu Zhao
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 289–323
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16273
Careers and Intergenerational Income Mobility
Catherine Haeck, Jean-William Laliberté
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2025, 17 (1), 431–458
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16271
Wage Employment, Unemployment and Self-Employment across Countries
Markus Poschke
published in: Journal of Monetary Economics. 2025, 149, 103684
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16264
Covid-19 and Income Inequality in OECD Countries: A Methodological Comment
Oded Stark
published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 24, 1235–1237
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16262
Labor Market Regulation and Firm Adjustments in Skill Demand
Anna Bottasso, Massimiliano Bratti, Gabriele Cardullo, Maurizio Conti, Giovanni Sulis
revised version published as 'Labor Market Regulations and Firm Adjustments in Skill Demand' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2025, 242, 105292
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16260
Social Gradients in Employment during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic
Annette Alstadsæter, Bernt Bratsberg, Simen Markussen, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2025, 63 (2), 440–514
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16259
The Births of New Private-Owned Enterprises in an Environment of State-Owned Enterprises
Zhong Zhao, Liang Zheng
published as 'The effect of the spatial distribution of state-owned enterprises on the location of private-owned enterprise births' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2024, 64 (1), 136-175.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16255
China's Urban Poor – Comparing Twice Poverty between Residents and Migrants in 2013 and 2018
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Ding Sai
published in: China Economic Review, 2023, 80, 102012
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16244
Where Are the Fathers? The Effects of Earmarking Parental Leave on Fathers in France
Hélène Périvier, Gregory Verdugo
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2024, 77 (1), 88-118
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16243
Medical Brain Drain – Assessing the Role of Job Attributes and Individual Traits
Marco Bertoni, Debdeep Chattopadhyay, Yuanyuan Gu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16238
Maternity Benefits and Marital Stability after Birth: Evidence from the Soviet Baltic Republics
Elizabeth Brainerd, Olga Malkova
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36 (4), 2309-2345
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16235
Disability Insurance Screening and Worker Outcomes
Alexander Ahammer, Analisa Packham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16233
External Pay Transparency and the Gender Wage Gap
Wolfgang Frimmel, Bernhard Schmidpeter, Rene Wiesinger, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16231
Skill-Biased Imports, Skill Acquisition, and Migration
Jingting Fan, Lei Li
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16229
The Historical Impact of Coal on Cities
Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis, Edson Severnini
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2024, 107, 103951
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16225
Are Informal Self-Employment and Informal Employment as Employee Behaviorally Distinct Labor Force States?
Luca Flabbi, Mauricio Tejada
published in: Economics Letters, 2023, 231, 111278, October
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16223
The Rising Influence of Family Background on Early School Performance
Simen Markussen, Knut Røed
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 97, article 102491
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16222
Selective Migration and Economic Development: A Generalized Approach
Narcisse Cha’Ngom, Christoph Deuster, Frédéric Docquier, Joël Machado
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16221
Taking a Chance on Workers: Evidence on the Effects and Mechanisms of Subsidized Employment from an RCT
Tania Barham, Brian C. Cadena, Patrick S Turner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16219
Examining the Determinants of Managers' Hiring Attitudes Towards Immigrant Workers: Evidence from an Employer Survey
Tony Fang, Tingting Zhang, John Hartley
published online in: Journal of Immigrants and Refugee Studies, 11 June 2023
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