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182 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17197
The Impact of Macroeconomic Conditions on Long-Term Care: Evidence on Prices
Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Mia Teschner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17179
Driving the Gig Economy
Katharine G. Abraham, John C. Haltiwanger, Claire Hou, L. Kristin Sandusky, James R. Spletzer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17153
Business Cycle Turning Points and Local Labour Markets
Karl Taylor, Soumya Bhadury, Jane Binner, Anandadeep Mandal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17061
Work Schedules
Jed DeVaro
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16973
The Economic Consequences of Being Widowed by War: A Life-Cycle Perspective
Sebastian Till Braun, Jan Stuhler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16833
Moving Out of the Comfort Zone: How Cultural Norms Affect Attitudes toward Immigration
Yvonne Giesing, Björn Kauder, Lukas Mergele, Niklas Potrafke, Panu Poutvaara
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16823
Global Labor Market Power
Francesco Amodio, Emanuele Brancati, Peter Brummund, Nicolás de Roux, Michele Di Maio
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16810
Do Medical Treatments Work for Work? Evidence from Breast Cancer Patients
N. Meltem Daysal, William N. Evans, Mikkel Hasse Pedersen, Mircea Trandafir
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16772
Nursing before and after COVID-19: Outflows, Inflows and Self-Employment
Guyonne Kalb, Jordy Meekes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16517
The Shifting Reasons for Beveridge-Curve Shifts
Gadi Barlevy, Bart Hobijn, Jason Faberman, Aysegül Sahin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16449
Signaling Specific Skills and the Labor Market of College Graduates
Matias Busso, Sebastián Montaño, Juan S. Muñoz-Morales
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16420
Remote Work, Wages, and Hours Worked in the United States
Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, Victoria Vernon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16206
Gender and Career Progression in Academia: European Evidence
Lucio Morettini, Massimiliano Tani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16136
Women's Transitions in the Labour Market as a Result of Childbearing: The Challenges of Formal Sector Employment in Indonesia
Lisa A. Cameron, Diana Contreras Suarez, Yi-Ping Tseng
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15978
The Micro and Macro Effects of Changes in the Potential Benefit Duration
Jonas Jessen, Robin Jessen, Ewa Galecka-Burdziak, Marek Góra, Jochen Kluve
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15791
Automation and Low-Skill Labor
Katja Mann, Dario Pozzoli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15717
How Substitutable Are Workers? Evidence from Worker Deaths
Simon Jäger, Jörg Heining
revise and resubmit: American Economic Review
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15637
Economic Development and the Organisation of Labour: Evidence from the Jobs of the World Project
Oriana Bandiera, Ahmed Elsayed, Anton Heil, Andrea Smurra
published in: the Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (6), 2226 - 2270
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15595
Cousins from Overseas: The Labour Market Impact of a Major Forced Return Migration Shock
Lara Bohnet, Susana Peralta, João Pereira dos Santos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15566
The Employment Effects of Working Time Reductions: Sector-Level Evidence from European Reforms
Cyprien Batut, Andrea Garnero, Alessandro Tondini
published in: Industrial Relations, 2023, 62 (1), 217 - 232
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15499
Minimum Wages and Restaurant Employment for Teens and Adults in Metropolitan and Non-metropolitan Areas
John V. Winters
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15465
The Wage Curve after the Great Recession
David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson, Jackson Spurling
published online in: Economica, 6 February 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15423
China's Skill-Biased Imports
Hongbin Li, Lei Li, Hong Ma
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15406
Inequalities in Job Loss and Income Loss in Sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 Crisis
Ivette Contreras-Gonzalez, Gbemisola Oseni, Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Janneke Pieters, Michael Weber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15293
Monopsony Makes Firms Not Only Small but Also Unproductive: Why East Germany Has Not Converged
Rüdiger Bachmann, Christian Bayer, Heiko Stüber, Felix Wellschmied
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15182
People versus Machines: The Impact of Being in an Automatable Job on Australian Worker's Mental Health and Life Satisfaction
Grace Lordan, Eliza-Jane Stringer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15114
The Long-Run Impacts of Adolescent Drinking: Evidence from Zero Tolerance Laws
Tatiana Abboud, Andriana Bellou, Joshua Lewis
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 231, 105066
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15061
Pell Grants and Labor Supply: Evidence from a Regression Kink
Michael S. Kofoed
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15013
Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries
Titan Alon, Matthias Doepke, Kristina Manysheva, Michèle Tertilt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14933
Crowdwork for Young People: Risks and Opportunities
Niall O'Higgins, Luis Pinedo Caro
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14859
Did the Australian Jobkeeper Program Save Jobs by Subsidizing Temporary Layoffs?
Jeff Borland, Jennifer Hunt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14723
The Effect of Work Schedule Control on Volunteering among Early Career Employees
Noemi Mantovan, Robert M. Sauer, John Wilson
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 60 (3), 536-562
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14699
The Early Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Labour Market Outcomes of Natives and Migrants in the UK
Greta Morando
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14673
Labor Market Transitions of Members of Opposite-Sex Couples: Nonparticipation, Unemployed Search, and Employment
Hans Bloemen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14622
Preference Signaling and Worker-Firm Matching: Evidence from Interview Auctions
Ron A. Laschever, Russell Weinstein
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14616
Teenage Conduct Problems: A Lifetime of Disadvantage in the Labour Market?
Sam Parsons, Alex Bryson, Alice Sullivan
published online in: Oxford Economic Papers, 11 October 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14560
Temperature, Workplace Safety, and Labor Market Inequality
R. Jisung Park, Nora Pankratz, A. Patrick Behrer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14541
An Examination of the Intracorrelation of Family Health Insurance
Marion Aouad
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14422
Do Universities Improve Local Economic Resilience?
Greg Howard, Russell Weinstein, Yuhao Yang
forthcoming in: The Review of Economics and Statistics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14380
California's Paid Family Leave Law and the Employment of 45-64 Year Old Adults
Ann P. Bartel, Soohyun Kim, Christopher J. Ruhm, Jane Waldfogel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14340
The Effects of Shortening Potential Benefit Duration: Evidence from Regional Cut-Offs and a Policy Reform
Ewa Galecka-Burdziak, Marek Góra, Jonas Jessen, Robin Jessen, Jochen Kluve
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14290
Worker Commitment and Establishment Performance
John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira
revised version published as 'Worker Commitment and Establishment Performance in Europe' in: Manchester School, 2024, 92 (1), 40-66.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14223
From Mancession to Shecession: Women's Employment in Regular and Pandemic Recessions
Titan Alon, Sena Coskun, Matthias Doepke, David Koll, Michèle Tertilt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14200
Grades and Employer Learning
Anne Toft Hansen, Ulrik Hvidman, Hans Henrik Sievertsen
forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13970
Problem on the Plains: College Earnings Premiums in Small Metropolitan Areas
John V. Winters
published in: Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy, 2021, 51 (1), 1-13
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13963
Being on the Frontline? Immigrant Workers in Europe and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Francesco Fasani, Jacopo Mazza
published in: ILR Review, 2023, 76 (5), 890-918
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13950
Worker Surveillance Capital, Labour Share and Productivity
Philippe Askenazy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13843
Essential Work and Emergency Childcare: Identifying Gender Differences in COVID-19 Effects on Labour Demand and Supply
Jordy Meekes, Wolter Hassink, Guyonne Kalb
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2023, 75 (2), 393 - 417
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13682
Smallholders, Market Failures, and Agricultural Production: Evidence from India
Joshua D. Merfeld
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13673
The Dutch Labour Market Early on in the COVID-19 Outbreak: Regional Coronavirus Hotspots and the National Lockdown
Wolter Hassink, Guyonne Kalb, Jordy Meekes
published as "Regional coronavirus hotspots during the COVID-19 outbreak in the Netherlands" in: De Economist, 2021, 169 (2), 127-140
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13562
This Time It's Different: The Role of Women's Employment in a Pandemic Recession
Titan Alon, Matthias Doepke, Jane Olmstead-Rumsey, Michèle Tertilt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13411
A Literature Review of the Economics of COVID-19
Abel Brodeur, David M. Gray, Anik Islam, Suraiya Jabeen Bhuiyan
published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2021, 35(4), 1007-1044
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13369
Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers
Hyejin Ku
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (2), 325-359
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13266
The Distributional Impacts of Early Employment Losses from COVID-19
Seung Jin Cho, John V. Winters
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13136
The COVID-19 Conundrum in the Developing World: Protecting Lives or Protecting Jobs?
David A. Robalino
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13009
The Long-Term Effects of Labor Market Entry in a Recession: Evidence from the Asian Financial Crisis
Eleanor J. Choi, Jaewoo Choi, Hyelim Son
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 67, 101926
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12871
Public Employment Redux
Pietro Garibaldi, Pedro Maia Gomes, Thepthida Sopraseuth
published in: Journal of Government and Economics, 2021, 1, 100003
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12833
The Long-Run Impacts of Adolescent Drinking: Evidence from Zero Tolerance Laws
Tatiana Abboud, Andriana Bellou, Joshua Lewis
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 231, 105066
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12619
Do Workers Benefit from Resource Booms in Their Home State? Evidence from the Fracking Era
John V. Winters, Zhengyu Cai, Karen Maguire, Shruti Sengupta
published as 'Causal Effects of the Fracking Boom on Long-Term Resident Workers' in: Journal of Region Science, First published: 20 November 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12614
Industry Fluctuations and College Major Choices: Evidence from an Energy Boom and Bust
Luyi Han, John V. Winters
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 77, 101996
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12521
Labor Demand Shocks at Birth and Cognitive Achievement during Childhood
Krishna Regmi, Daniel J. Henderson
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 73, 101917
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12349
Who Benefits from Local Oil and Gas Employment? Labor Market Composition in the Oil and Gas Industry in Texas
Zhengyu Cai, Karen Maguire, John V. Winters
published in: Energy Economics, 2019, 84, 104515
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12279
Wage Equalization and Regional Misallocation: Evidence from Italian and German Provinces
Tito Boeri, Andrea Ichino, Enrico Moretti, Johanna Posch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12278
Matching in Cities
Wolfgang Dauth, Sebastian Findeisen, Enrico Moretti, Jens Suedekum
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12277
Estimating Who Benefits from Productivity Growth: Direct and Indirect Effects of City Manufacturing TFP Growth on Wages, Rents, and Inequality
Richard Hornbeck, Enrico Moretti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12129
Improving Estimation of Labor Market Disequilibrium Using Shortage Indicators, with an Application to the Market for Anesthesiologists
Matthew Baird, Lindsay Daugherty, Krishna B. Kumar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12067
What Drives Female Labor Force Participation? Comparable Micro-Level Evidence from Eight Developing and Emerging Economies
Stephan Klasen, Janneke Pieters, Manuel Santos Silva, Le Thi Ngoc Tu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12062
Coordination of Hours within the Firm
Claudio Labanca, Dario Pozzoli
revised version published as 'Constraints on Hours within the Firm' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (2), 473 -503
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12046
The Race between Demand and Supply: Tinbergen's Pioneering Studies of Earnings Inequality
James J. Heckman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11739
Demography, Unemployment, Automation, and Digitalization: Implications for the Creation of (Decent) Jobs, 2010–2030
David E. Bloom, Matthew J. McKenna, Klaus Prettner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11600
Optimal Fiscal Policy with Labor Selection
Sanjay K. Chugh, Wolfgang Lechthaler, Christian Merkl
published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2018, 94, 142-189
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11562
Structural Labour Supply Models and Microsimulation
Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino
revised version published in: International Journal of Microsimulation, 2018, 11 (1), 162 - 197
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11495
Taxation, Work and Gender Equality in Ireland
Karina Doorley
published in: Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2017-18, 47, 71-87
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11462
Do Board Gender Quotas Matter? Selection, Performance and Stock Market Effects
Giulia Ferrari, Valeria Ferraro, Paola Profeta, Chiara D. Pronzato
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11428
How Do Households Adjust to Trade Liberalization? Evidence from China's WTO Accession
Mi Dai, Wei Huang, Yifan Zhang
published as 'How do households adjust to tariff liberalization? Evidence from China's WTO accession' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 150, 102628
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11264
The Effects of Supply Shocks in the Market for Apprenticeships: Evidence from a German High School Reform
Samuel Mühlemann, Gerard A. Pfann, Harald Pfeifer, Hans Dietrich
published as 'Supply Shocks in the Market for Apprenticeship Training' in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 86, 102197
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11098
Overoptimistic Entrepreneurs: Predicting Wellbeing Consequences of Self-Employment
Reto Odermatt, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Alois Stutzer
revised version published as 'Are Newly Self-Employed Overly Optimistic About Their Future Well-Being?' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2021, 95, 101779
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11085
Maternal Employment and Child Outcomes: Evidence from the Irish Marriage Bar
Irene Mosca, Vincent O'Sullivan, Robert E. Wright
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11072
Rising Wage Inequality in Germany: Increasing Heterogeneity and Changing Selection into Full-Time Work
Martin Biewen, Bernd Fitzenberger, Jakob de Lazzer
revised version published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 7:10
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10822
The Economic Value of Breaking Bad: Misbehavior, Schooling and the Labor Market
Nicholas W. Papageorge, Victor Ronda, Yu Zheng
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10718
Skill Premium, Labor Supply and Changes in the Structure of Wages in Latin America
Manuel Fernandez Sierra, Julián Messina
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 135, 555-573
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10698
Does a Satisfied Student Make a Satisfied Worker?
Adele Whelan, Seamus McGuinness
heavily revised version published as 'The determinants of degree programme satisfaction' in: Studies in Higher Education, 2021, 46 (1), 2262 - 2278
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10489
The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on the Labor Supply of Older Adults: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Lauren Hersch Nicholas, J. Catherine Maclean
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10241
Labor Market Imperfections and the Firm's Wage Setting Policy
Sónia Félix, Pedro Portugal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10239
Gender Quotas: Challenging the Boards, Performance, and the Stock Market
Giulia Ferrari, Valeria Ferraro, Paola Profeta, Chiara D. Pronzato
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10066
Wage Flexibility and Employment Fluctuations: Evidence from the Housing Sector
Jörn-Steffen Pischke
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9802
Families in Macroeconomics
Matthias Doepke, Michèle Tertilt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9708
Peer Effects in Employment Status: Evidence from Housing Lotteries for Forced Evacuees in Fukushima
Ayako Kondo, Masahiro Shoji
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9675
Tattoos, Life Style and the Labor Market
Rik Dillingh, Peter Kooreman, Jan Potters
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9508
The Relationship Between Establishment Training and the Retention of Older Workers: Evidence from Germany
Peter B. Berg, Mary K. Hamman, Matthew Piszczek, Christopher J. Ruhm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9404
What Factors Influence Firm Perceptions of Labour Market Constraints to Growth in the MENA Region?
Ali Fakih, Pascal L. Ghazalian
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36 (8), 1181-1206
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9291
Efficiency and Labor Market Dynamics in a Model of Labor Selection
Sanjay K. Chugh, Christian Merkl
published in: International Economic Review, 2016, 57 (4), 1371–1404.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9278
Skill Gaps in the Workplace: Measurement, Determinants and Impacts
Seamus McGuinness, Luis Ortiz
published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2016, 47 (3), 253-278
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9204
Minimum Wages in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Primer
Haroon Bhorat, Ravi Kanbur, Benjamin Stanwix
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9188
The French Productivity Puzzle
Philippe Askenazy, Christine Erhel
published in: Ph. Askenazy et al. (eds), Productivity Puzzles Across Europe, Oxford: OUP, 2016.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9112
Do the Unemployed Accept Jobs Too Quickly? A Comparison with Employed Job Seekers
Simonetta Longhi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9072
The Rising Cost of Child Care in the United States: A Reassessment of the Evidence
Chris M. Herbst
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8946
Employment and Hours over the Business Cycle in a Model with Search Frictions
Noritaka Kudoh, Hiroaki Miyamoto, Masaru Sasaki
publication in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2019. 31, 436-461
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8924
Immigration and Wage Dynamics: Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis
Joan Monras
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8919
United, Yet Apart? A Note on Persistent Labour Market Differences between Western and Eastern Germany
Claus Schnabel
published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik), 2016, 236 (2), 157-180
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