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52 IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16878

Life-Cycle Worker Flows and Cross-Country Differences in Aggregate Employment

Jonathan Créchet, Etienne Lalé, Linas Tarasonis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15162

The Occupations of Free Women and Substitution with Enslaved Workers in the Antebellum United States

Barry R. Chiswick, RaeAnn Halenda Robinson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15144

Child Labor Bans, Employment, and School Attendance: Evidence from Changes in the Minimum Working Age

Mireille Kozhaya, Fernanda Martínez Flores

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2025, 39 (1), 164–190,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14836

Mission of the Company, Prosocial Attitudes and Job Preferences: A Discrete Choice Experiment

Arjan Non, Ingrid M.T. Rohde, Andries de Grip, Thomas Dohmen

published in: Labour Economics, 74, 2022, 102087

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14449

Women at Work in the United States since 1860: An Analysis of Unreported Family Workers

Barry R. Chiswick, RaeAnn Halenda Robinson

published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2021, 82, 101406

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13424

Women at Work in the Pre-Civil War United States: An Analysis of Unreported Family Workers

Barry R. Chiswick, RaeAnn Halenda Robinson

published as 'Women at work in the United States since 1860: An analysis of unreported family workers' in: Explorations in Economic History, 2021, 82, 101406

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12681

Accounting for Differences in Female Labor Force Participation between China and India

Mehtabul Azam, Luyi Han

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2020, 20(2), 20190302

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11385

Explaining the MENA Paradox: Rising Educational Attainment, Yet Stagnant Female Labor Force Participation

Ragui Assaad, Rana Hendy, Moundir Lassassi, Shaimaa Yassin

published in: IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2018, 8 (17)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11209

Returns to Education and Female Participation Nexus: Evidence from India

Sanghamitra Kanjilal-Bhaduri, Francesco Pastore

published in: Indian Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 61 (3), 515-536.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11087

Husband's Unemployment and Wife's Labor Supply: The Added Worker Effect across Europe

Julia Bredtmann, Sebastian Otten, Christian Rulff

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2018, 71 (5), 1201-1231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10438

Men, Women and Unions

Getinet Astatike Haile

published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2021, 52 (3), 201 - 217

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10102

Workplace Disability: Whose Wellbeing Does It Affect?

Getinet Astatike Haile

published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2022, 43 (3), 1467–148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9954

Faces of Joblessness: Characterising Employment Barriers to Inform Policy

Rodrigo Fernandez, Herwig Immervoll, Daniele Pacifico, Céline Thévenot

also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Paper

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8741

Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the United Kingdom's Labour Market: A Field Experiment

Nick Drydakis

published in: Human Relations, 2015, 68(11), 1769-1796

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8686

Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia: Results from a Pilot Project in Vietnam

Ngan Dinh, Conor Hughes, James W. Hughes, Margaret Maurer-Fazio

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8361

Spillover Effects of Unionisation on Non-members' Well-being

Getinet Astatike Haile, Alex Bryson, Michael White

published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 35, 108-122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8189

Labor Market Deregulation and Female Employment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Japan

Takao Kato, Naomi Kodama

revised version published as 'Deregulating Overtime Hours Restrictions on Women and Its Effects on Female Employment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Japan' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (4), 804-821

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7969

Tariffs, Social Status, and Gender in India

S Anukriti, Todd J. Kumler

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2019, 67 (3), 687-724

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7814

Transitions in Labour Market Status in the EU

Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger, Corrado Macchiarelli

published as 'Transitions in labour market status in EU labour markets' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2014, 3, 17 (2014)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7423

Are You Unhappy Having Minority Co-Workers?

Getinet Astatike Haile

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7337

Can Microinsurance Help Prevent Child Labor? An Impact Evaluation from Pakistan

Andreas Landmann, Markus Frölich

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 39, 51-59

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7197

Female Labour Force Participation in MENA's Manufacturing Sector: The Implications of Firm-Related and National Factors

Ali Fakih, Pascal L. Ghazalian

publslihed as 'Female Employment in MENA’s Manufacturing Sector: The Implications of Firm-related and National Factors' in: Economic Change and Restructuring, 2015, 48 (1), 37-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7075

Heterogeneity in Union Status and Employee Well-Being

Getinet Astatike Haile, Alex Bryson, Michael White

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6972

The Nexus between Labor Diversity and Firm's Innovation

Pierpaolo Parrotta, Dario Pozzoli, Mariola Pytlikova

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (2), 303-364

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6894

Do Firms Demand Temporary Workers When They Face Workload Fluctuation? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence on the Conditioning Effect of Employment Protection

Vanessa Dräger, Paul Marx

published in: ILR Review, 2017, 70 (4), 942-975

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6684

Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Cypriot Labour Market: Distastes or Uncertainty?

Nick Drydakis

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2014, 35(5), 720–744

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6536

Union Decline in Britain: Is Chauvinism Also to Blame?

Getinet Astatike Haile

published as 'Union decline in Britain: does gender have anything to do with it?' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 64 (1), 25 - 49

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6444

Do Women Top Managers Help Women Advance? A Panel Study Using EEO-1 Records

Fidan Ana Kurtulus, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey

published as 'Do Female Top Managers Help Women to Advance? A Panel Study Using EEO-1 Records' in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2022, 639, 173-197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6211

Labour Contracts and Performance of Cameroonian Firms

Benjamin Fomba Kamga

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6058

Mind the Gap: A Detailed Picture of the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap in the UK Using Longitudinal Data Between 1978 and 2006

Sara Lemos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5993

The Frisch Elasticity in the Mercosur Countries: A Pseudo-Panel Approach

Roberto González, Hector Sala

published in: Development Policy Review, 2015, 33 (1), 107-131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4942

Does International Outsourcing Really Lower Workers' Income?