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239 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14143
Wage Determination in the Shadow of the Law: The Case of Works Councilors in Germany
Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14139
"Study Hard and Make Progress Every Day": Updates on Returns to Education in China
Jie Chen, Francesco Pastore
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14124
Wages, Minimum Wages, and Price Pass-through: The Case of McDonald's Restaurants
Orley Ashenfelter, Štepán Jurajda
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. 13950
Worker Surveillance Capital, Labour Share and Productivity
Philippe Askenazy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13942
Worker Flows and Wage Dynamics: Estimating Wage Growth without Composition Effects
Raquel Carrasco, J. Ignacio García-Pérez, Juan F. Jimeno
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13903
Can Unearned Income Make Us Fitter? Evidence from Lottery Wins
Joan Costa-Font, Mario Gyori
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. 13471
Dream Jobs
Giordano Mion, Luca David Opromolla, Gianmarco Ottaviano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13415
The Agricultural Productivity Gap and Self-Employment Bias in the Labor Income Share
Saumik Paul, Liam Thomas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13358
The Bonding Effect of Deferred Compensation: Worker Separations from a Large Firm in Early Transition Russia
Mikhail Ananyev, Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13218
Innovation and Communication Media in Virtual Teams – An Experimental Study
Nicola Grözinger, Bernd Irlenbusch, Katharina Laske, Marina Schröder
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13164
How Do We Think the COVID-19 Crisis Will Affect Our Careers (If Any Remain)?
Stijn Baert, Louis Lippens, Eline Moens, Philippe Sterkens, Johannes Weytjens
revised version accepted as 'How do employees think the COVID-19 crisis will affect their careers?' for publication in Plos One
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13155
Labour Market Institutions, Technology and Rent Sharing
Kyoji Fukao, Cristiano Perugini, Fabrizio Pompei
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13127
Sibling Spillover in Rural China: A Story of Sisters and Daughters
Cynthia Bansak, Xuan Jiang, Guanyi Yang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13112
What Makes Work Meaningful and Why Economists Should Care about It
Milena Nikolova, Femke Cnossen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12852
Labor Income Share at the Firm Level: Global Trends
Saumik Paul, Hironobu Isaka
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. 12546
Creative Destruction, Social Security Uptake and Union Networks
Harald Dale-Olsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12522
Gender Differences in Wage Expectations: Sorting, Children, and Negotiation Styles
Lukas Kiessling, Pia Pinger, Philipp K. Seegers, Jan Bergerhoff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12443
Publication, Compensation, and the Public Affairs Discount: Does Gender Play a Role?
Lori L. Taylor, Kalena E. Cortes, Travis C. Hearn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12407
The Impact of Horizontal Job-Education Mismatches on the Earnings of Recent University Graduates in Russia
Victor Rudakov, Hugo Figueiredo, Pedro N. Teixeira, Sergey Roshchin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12383
Impact of Increased Long-Term Care Insurance Payments on Employment and Wages in Formal Long-Term Care
Ayako Kondo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12323
Social Connections and the Sorting of Workers to Firms
Marcus Eliason, Lena Hensvik, Francis Kramarz, Oskar Nordström Skans
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12127
Marginal Jobs and Job Surplus: A Test of the Efficiency of Separations
Simon Jäger, Benjamin Schoefer, Josef Zweimüller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12060
Rent Sharing and Inclusive Growth
Brian Bell, Pawel Bukowski, Stephen Machin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12000
Where Does the Minimum Wage Bite Hardest in California?
William E. Even, David A. Macpherson
published in Journal of Labor Research, March 2019, 40(1), pp. 1-23
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11821
Globalisation and the Gender Earnings Gap: Evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia 1992-2015
Raymond Robertson, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Yevgeniya Savchenko
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11809
Labor Market Returns to Education and English Language Skills in the People's Republic of China: An Update
Niaz Asadullah, Saizi Xiao
published in: Asian Development Review, 2019, 36(1), 80–111
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11657
Has the College Wage Premium Continued to Rise? Evidence from Multiple U.S. Surveys
Jared Ashworth, Tyler Ransom
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 69 (1), 149 -154.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11503
A Cautionary Note on the Reliability of the Online Survey Data: The Case of Wage Indicator
Magdalena Smyk, Joanna Tyrowicz, Lucas van der Velde
forthcoming in: Sociological Methods and Research, doi.org/10.1177/0049124118782538
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11499
Competitiveness at the Country-Sector Level: New Measures Based on Global Value Chains
Martyna Marczak, Thomas Beissinger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11449
Survey Item-Response Behavior as an Imperfect Proxy for Unobserved Ability: Theory and Application
Sonja C. de New, Stefanie Schurer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11386
The Optimal Graduated Minimum Wage and Social Welfare
Eliav Danziger, Leif Danziger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11254
Labor Market Concentration
José Azar, Ioana E. Marinescu, Marshall Steinbaum
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11083
Higher Education Funding Reforms: A Comprehensive Analysis of Educational and Labor Market Outcomes in England
Ghazala Azmat, Stefania Simion
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11057
Has the Push for Equal Gender Representation Changed the Role of Women on German Supervisory Boards?
Viktor Bozhinov, Christopher Koch, Thorsten Schank
published in: Schmalenbach Business Review, 2019, 71(3), 385-411
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11025
The Context-Bound University Selectivity Premium
Joniada Milla
published in: Review of Economic Analysis, 2018, 10, 313 - 349 [open access]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11022
The Role of China's Household Registration System in the Urban-Rural Income Differential
Ernest Boffy-Ramirez, Soojae Moon
published in: China Economic Journal, 2018, 11 (2), 108 - 125 https://doi.org/10.1080/17538963.2018.1453103
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10892
Towards an East German Wage Curve: NUTS Boundaries, Labour Market Regions and Unemployment Spillovers
Reinhold Kosfeld, Christian Dreger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10841
The Assimilation of Young Workers into the Labour Market in France: A Stochastic Earnings Frontier Approach
Stephen Bazen, Khalid Maman Waziri
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10720
The Hukou Impact on the Chinese Wage Structure
Christian Dreger, Yanqun Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10659
The Effects of Firm Size on Job Quality: A Comparative Study for Britain and France
Alex Bryson, Christine Erhel, Zinaïda Salibekyan
forthcoming in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10644
The Selection and Causal Effects of Work Incentives on Labor Productivity: Evidence from a Two-Stage Randomized Controlled Trial in Malawi
Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Seonghoon Kim, Thomas T. Kim
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10424
Glass Ceiling Effect in Urban China: Wage Inequality of Rural-Urban Migrants during 2002-2007
Zhaopeng (Frank) Qu, Zhong Zhao
published in: China Economic Review, 2017, 42, 118-144 [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9981
Testing for the Ratchet Effect: Evidence from a Real-Effort Work Task
Eric Cardella, Briggs Depew
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9974
Decomposition Analysis of Earnings Inequality in Rural India: 2004-2012
Shantanu Khanna, Deepti Goel, René Morissette
published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2016, 5 (18)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9946
Profit Sharing and Peer Reporting
Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Andrea Robbett, Prottoy Akbar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9884
Canary in a Coal Mine: Infant Mortality, Property Values, and Tradeoffs Associated with Mid-20th Century Air Pollution
Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis, Edson R. Severnini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9841
Politics in the Family: Nepotism and the Hiring Decisions of Italian Firms
Stefano Gagliarducci, Marco Manacorda
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9754
Reconciling the Divergence in Aggregate U.S. Wage Series
Julien Champagne, Andre Kurmann, Jay Stewart
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 49, 27-41)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9753
More Unequal, But More Mobile? Earnings Inequality and Mobility in OECD Countries
Andrea Garnero, Alexander Hijzen, Sébastien Martin
published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 56, 26-35
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9716
Determining Minimum Wages in China: Do Economic Factors Dominate?
Christian Dreger, Reinhold Kosfeld, Yanqun Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9693
Who Works for Whom? Worker Sorting in a Model of Entrepreneurship with Heterogeneous Labor Markets
Emin Dinlersoz, Henry R. Hyatt, Hubert P. Janicki
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9691
Gradual Collective Wage Bargaining
Sabien Dobbelaere, Roland Iwan Luttens
published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 40, 37-42
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9684
Does Financial Deregulation Boost Top Incomes? Evidence from the Big Bang
Julia Tanndal, Daniel Waldenström
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9680
Paying to Avoid Recession: Using Reenlistment to Estimate the Cost of Unemployment
Mark Borgschulte, Paco Martorell
forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9577
Local and Spatial Cointegration in the Wage Curve: A Spatial Panel Analysis for German Regions
Reinhold Kosfeld, Christian Dreger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9565
Psychological Incentives, Financial Incentives, and Risk Attitudes in Tournaments: An Artefactual Field Experiment
Bram Cadsby, Jim Engle-Warnick, Tony Fang, Fei Song
published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2019, 72, 64-79
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9546
Long-Term Consequences of Access to Well-Child Visits
Aline Bütikofer, Katrine Vellesen Loken, Kjell G. Salvanes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9511
Going Beyond LATE: Bounding Average Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training
Xuan Chen, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 63 (4), 1050-1099
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9469
Real Wage Cyclicality in the Eurozone Before and During the Great Recession: Evidence from Micro Data
Gregory Verdugo
published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 82, 46-69
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9352
Occupational Attainment and Earnings among Immigrant Groups: Evidence from New Zealand
Sholeh A. Maani, Mengyu Dai, Kerr Inkson
published in: Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2015, 18 (1), 95-112
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9334
Individual Poverty Paths and the Stability of Control-Perception
Hendrik Thiel, Stephan L. Thomsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9308
Network Effects, Ethnic Capital and Immigrants' Earnings Assimilation: Evidence from a Spatial, Hausman-Taylor Estimation
Sholeh A. Maani, Xingang Wang, Alan Rogers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9293
Intra Firm Bargaining and Shapley Values
Björn Brügemann, Pieter A. Gautier, Guido Menzio
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9243
Performance Measurement and Incentive Intensity
Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez, Sara Martinez-de-Morentin
published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2017, 38, 496–546
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9204
Minimum Wages in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Primer
Haroon Bhorat, Ravi Kanbur, Benjamin Stanwix
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9006
Mobility across Firms and Occupations among Graduates from Apprenticeship
Bernd Fitzenberger, Stefanie Licklederer, Hanna Zwiener
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8945
Wage Setting in the Colombian Manufacturing Industry
Sonia A. Agudelo, Hector Sala
published in: Economics of Transition, 2016, 24 (1), 99-134
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8930
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China
John T. Giles, Albert Park, Meiyan Wang
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2019, 68(1), 131-164
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8890
Some Surprising Facts about Working Time Accounts and the Business Cycle
Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke, Christian Merkl
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2017, 38 (7), 940-953
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8874
Testing the Validity of Item Non-Response as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills
Sonja C. de New, Stefanie Schurer, Felix Leung
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8840
Economic Shocks and Internal Migration
Joan Monras
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8663
Measuring Heterogeneity in Job Finding Rates Among the Nonemployed Using Labor Force Status Histories
Marianna Kudlyak, Fabian Lange
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8468
The Brazilian Wage Curve: New Evidence from the National Household Survey
Badi H. Baltagi, Bartlomiej Rokicki, Kênia Barreiro de Souza
published in: Empirical Economics, 2017, 53 (1), 267–286.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8439
Sorting Between and Within Industries: A Testable Model of Assortative Matching
John M. Abowd, Francis Kramarz, Sébastien Pérez-Duarte, Ian M. Schmutte
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8417
How Selective Are Real Wage Cuts? A Micro-Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data
Boris Hirsch, Thomas Zwick
published in: Labour, 2015, 29 (4), 327-347
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8314
The Wage Returns to On-the-Job Training: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Rita K. Almeida, Marta Lince de Faria
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8175
Do Informal Referrals Lead to Better Matches? Evidence from a Firm's Employee Referral System
Meta Brown, Elizabeth Setren, Giorgio Topa
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8123
A Pareto-Improving Minimum Wage
Eliav Danziger, Leif Danziger
published in: Economica, 2015, 82(326), 236–252
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8053
Cities, Tasks and Skills
Suzanne Kok, Bas ter Weel
published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2014, 54(5), 856-892
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7957
A Contribution to the Empirics of Reservation Wages
Alan B. Krueger, Andreas I. Mueller
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016, 8 (1), 142-179
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7812
The Polish Wage Curve: Micro Panel Data Analysis Based on the Polish Labor Force Survey
Badi H. Baltagi, Bartlomiej Rokicki
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2014,49, 36-47.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7759
After the Tournament: Outcomes and Effort Provision
Andrew McGee, Peter McGee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7658
Labor Market Transparency
Eskil Wadensjö
published in: Jens Forssbaeck and Lars Oxelheim (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Economic and Institutional Transparency, New York: Oxford University Press, 2015
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7624
Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? Evidence from the Employers' Side
Hanna Brenzel, Hermann Gartner, Claus Schnabel
published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 29, 41-48
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7529
The Effect of Sexual Activity on Wages
Nick Drydakis
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36 (2), 192-215
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7219
Capital Prices and Eurozone Competitiveness Differentials
Philippe Askenazy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7178
The "Task Approach" to Labor Markets: An Overview
David Autor
published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2013, 46 (3), 185-199
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7092
The Effect of Tip Credits on Earnings and Employment in the U.S. Restaurant Industry
William E. Even, David A. Macpherson
revised version published as "The Effect of the Tipped Minimum Wage on Employees in the U.S. Restaurant Industry" in: Southern Economic Journal, 2014, 80 (3), 633-655
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7034
Migraine Headache and Labor Market Outcomes
Daniel I. Rees, Joseph J. Sabia
published in: Health Economics, 2015, 24 (6), 659-671
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6836
How Different Are the Wage Curves for Formal and Informal Workers? Evidence from Turkey
Badi H. Baltagi, Yusuf Soner Baskaya, Timur Hulagu
published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2013, 92, 271-283.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6727
Is There an Informal Employment Wage Premium? Evidence from Tajikistan
Reza Arabsheibani, Anita Staneva
published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3:1
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6726
Returns to Education in Russia: Where There Is Risky Sexual Behaviour There Is Also an Instrument
Reza Arabsheibani, Anita Staneva
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6674
Myth or Fact? The Beauty Premium across the Wage Distribution
Karina Doorley, Eva Sierminska
published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 129, 29–34
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6662
High Wage Workers Match with High Wage Firms: Clear Evidence of the Effects of Limited Mobility Bias
Martyn J. Andrews, Leonard Gill, Thorsten Schank, Richard Upward
published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (3), 824-827
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6643
What Determines the Share of Labour in National Income? A Cross-Country Analysis
Marta Guerriero, Kunal Sen
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