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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
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