IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1000

Experiments on Unemployment Benefit Sanctions and Job Search Behavior

Jan Boone, Abdolkarim Sadrieh, Jan C. van Ours

published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53 (8), 937-951

IZA Discussion Paper No. 999

The Demand for High-Skilled Workers and Immigration Policy

Thomas K. Bauer, Astrid Kunze

published in: Brussels Economic Review / Cahiers Economique de Bruxelles, 2004, 47 (1), 1-19

IZA Discussion Paper No. 998

What Do Social Scientists Know About the Benefits of Marriage? A Review of Quantitative Methodologies

David C. Ribar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 992

Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Scotland: An Endogenous Switching Model

Axel Heitmueller

published as 'Public-private sector pay differentials in a devolved Scotland' in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2006, 9, 295-323

IZA Discussion Paper No. 991

Threshold Effects of Dismissal Protection Legislation in Germany

Sher Verick

IZA Discussion Paper No. 989

Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs? Evidence from German Micro Data

Joachim Wagner

published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2004, 50 (4), 379-391

IZA Discussion Paper No. 986

Do the Best Go West? An Analysis of the Self-Selection of Employed East-West Migrants in Germany

Herbert Brücker, Parvati Trübswetter

published in: Empirica, 2007, 34 (4), 371-395

IZA Discussion Paper No. 985

When Are ‘Female’ Occupations Paying More?

Štepán Jurajda, Heike Harmgart

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2007, 35 (1), 170-187

IZA Discussion Paper No. 984

Are There Asymmetries in the Effects of Training on the Conditional Male Wage Distribution?

Wiji Arulampalam, Alison L. Booth, Mark L. Bryan

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 251-272

IZA Discussion Paper No. 983

Child Care Choices by Italian Households

Daniela Del Boca, Marilena Locatelli, Daniela Vuri

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2005, 3 (4), 453-477

IZA Discussion Paper No. 982

Winners and Losers: Fragmentation, Trade and Wages Revisited

Ingo Geishecker, Holger Görg

revised version published as 'Winners and losers: A micro-level analysis of international outsourcing and wages' in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2008, 41(1), 243-270

IZA Discussion Paper No. 981

Matching as a Tool to Decompose Wage Gaps

Hugo R. Nopo

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (2), 290-299

IZA Discussion Paper No. 980

Ethnicity and Earnings in Urban Peru

Hugo R. Nopo, Jaime Saavedra, Maximo Torero

revised version published as 'Ethnicity and Earnings in a Mixed-Race Labor Market' in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2007, 55 (4), 709–734

IZA Discussion Paper No. 979

Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring: A Pseudo Audit Study for Three Selected Occupations in Metropolitan Lima

Martin Moreno, Hugo R. Nopo, Jaime Saavedra, Maximo Torero

published as 'Detecting Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring through Monitoring Intermediation Services: The Case of Selected Occupations in Metropolitan Lima, Peru ' in: World Development, 2012, 40 (2), 315-328.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 978

How Does the Unemployment Insurance System Shape the Time Profile of Jobless Duration?

John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal

published in: Economics Letters, 2004, 85 (2), 229-234

IZA Discussion Paper No. 977

Family Income and Participation in Post-Secondary Education

Miles Corak, Garth Lipps, John Zhao

published in: Charles Beach, Robin Boadway and Marvin McInnis (eds.), Higher Education in Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005

IZA Discussion Paper No. 976

Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program

Joshua Angrist, Kevin Lang

published in: American Economic Review, 2004, 94 (5), 1613-1634