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IZA Discussion Paper No. 17381
The Rules of the Game: Local Wage Bargaining and the Gender Pay Gap
Maria Olsson, Oskar Nordström Skans
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17378
Revisiting Dualism? The Governance of the Low Pay-Low Skill Labour Market in Four European Countries
Werner Eichhorst, Gemma Scalise
published online in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 11. November 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17375
Hard Times, Hard Attitudes? The Effect of Economic Downturns on Gender Norms
Inés Berniell, Leonardo Gasparini, Mariana Marchionni, Mariana Viollaz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17374
Does Weaker Employment Protection Lower the Cost of Job Loss?
Marco Francesconi, Daniela Sonedda
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17363
Work Hours Mismatch
Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas, Raffaele Saggio, Stephen A. Woodbury
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17357
Minimum Wages in Concentrated Labor Markets
Martin Popp
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17348
How Does Potential Unemployment Insurance Benefit Duration Affect Reemployment Timing and Wages?
Rahel Felder, Hanna Frings, Nikolas Mittag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17346
Do Big Inequalities in Executive Pay Hurt Firm Performance?
Richard Yiu-Ming Chung, Jed DeVaro, Scott Fung
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17339
Why Do Workers Dislike Inflation? Wage Erosion and Conflict Costs
Joao Guerreiro, Jonathon Hazell, Chen Lian, Christina Patterson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17335
Job Displacement, Remarriage, and Marital Sorting
Hanno Foerster, Tim Obermeier, Bastian Schulz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17327
The Importance of Luck in Executive Promotion Tournaments: Theory and Evidence
Jed DeVaro, Scott Fung
published in: JBFA Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 2025, 52 (3), 1349-1373
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17326
Accounting for the Growth of Real Wages of U.S. Manufacturing Production Workers since the Nineteenth Century
John H. Pencavel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17323
Monopsony Power and Poverty: The Consequences of Walmart Supercenter Openings
Lukas Lehner, Zachary Parolin, Clemente Pignatti, Rafael Pintro Schmitt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17319
Establishment Size and the Task Content of Jobs: Evidence from 46 Countries
Micole De Vera, Javier Garcia-Brazales
published in: Economica, 2025, 92 (366), 548-579
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17313
The Returns to Education over Time and the Effect of COVID-19
Harry Anthony Patrinos, Angelica Rivera-Olvera
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17293
Unraveling the Gender Wage Gap: Exploring Early Career Patterns among University Graduates
Malte Sandner, Ipek Yükselen
published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2025, 72 (2), e12405
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17291
Revisiting Sample Bias in the UK's Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, with Implications for Estimates of Low Pay and the Bite of the National Living Wage
John Forth, Alex Bryson, Van Phan, Felix Ritchie, Carl Singleton, Lucy Stokes, Damian Whittard
published online as 'The Representativeness of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings and its Implications for UK Wage Policy' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 25 August 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17285
Unequal Hiring Wages and Their Impact on the Gender Pay Gap
Tho Pham, Daniel Schaefer, Carl Singleton
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17283
Unbundling Returns to Postsecondary Degrees and Skills: Evidence from Colombia
Matias Busso, Sebastián Montaño, Juan S. Muñoz-Morales
published in: Education Economics, 2024, 33 (1), 1-18
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17279
The Mis-Education of Women in Afghanistan: From Wage Premiums to Economic Losses
Rafiuddin Najam, Harry Anthony Patrinos, Raja Bentaouet Kattan
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