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278 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10813
Taxing Childcare: Effects on Childcare Choices, Family Labor Supply and Children
Christina Gathmann, Björn Sass
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (3), 665-709
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10782
High-Impact Minimum Wages and Heterogeneous Regions
Philipp Vom Berge, Hanna Frings
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10660
Working Time Accounts and Turnover
Andrey Launov
substantially revised version forthcoming in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10441
End-of-Year Spending and the Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed
Bernd Fitzenberger, Marina Furdas, Christoph Sajons
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10369
Job Creation Schemes in Turbulent Times
Annette Bergemann, Laura Pohlan, Arne Uhlendorff
revised version published as 'The Impact of Participation in Job Creation Schemes in Turbulent Times' in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 182-201
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10357
How Information Affects Support for Education Spending: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States
Martin R. West, Ludger Woessmann, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 167, 138-157
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10341
Etiopathology of Europe's Sick Man: Worker Flows in Germany, 1959-2016
Benjamin Hartung, Philip Jung, Moritz Kuhn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10264
Benefit Duration and Job Search Effort: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Andreas Lichter
substantially revised version forthcoming in: Journal of Public Economics, joint with Amelie Schiprowski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9962
Monopsonistic Competition, Low-Wage Labour Markets, and Minimum Wages: An Empirical Analysis
Ronald Bachmann, Hanna Frings
Applied Economics, 2017, 49 (51), 5268-5286
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9869
Labor Market Risk in Germany
Tom Krebs, Yao Yao
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9849
Bias in Returns to Tenure When Firm Wages and Employment Comove: A Quantitative Assessment and Solution
Pedro S. Martins, Andy Snell, Heiko Stüber, Jonathan P. Thomas
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36(1), 47-74
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9822
Labour Supply after Inheritances and the Role of Expectations
Karina Doorley, Nico Pestel
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 82(4), 843-863
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9818
Working-Time Mismatch and Mental Health
Steffen Otterbach, Mark Wooden, Yin King Fok
revised version published in: International Journal of Human Resource Management (available online ahead of print version)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9787
Structural Reform in Germany
Tom Krebs, Martin Scheffel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9735
Work Hour Mismatch and Job Mobility: Adjustment Channels and Resolution Rates
Michael C. Knaus, Steffen Otterbach
published in: Economic Inquiry, 2019, 57(1), 227-242
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9507
New Evidence on the Effects of the Shortened School Duration in the German States: An Evaluation of Post-Secondary Education Decisions
Tobias Meyer, Stephan L. Thomsen, Heidrun Schneider
published in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20 (4), e201-e253.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9407
Ex Post Inequality of Opportunity Comparisons
Marc Fleurbaey, Vito Peragine, Xavier Ramos
published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2017, 49, 577–603. DOI: 10.1007/s00355-017-1090-4
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9333
Time-Varying Individual Risk Attitudes over the Great Recession: A Comparison of Germany and Ukraine
Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 44 (1), 182-200
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9325
Are There Austerity‐Related Policy Changes in Germany?
Werner Eichhorst, Anke Hassel
published in: Sotiria Theodoropoulou (ed.), Labour market reforms in the era of pervasive austerity: a European perspective, Bristol: Policy Press, 2018.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9323
Pacts for Employment and Competitiveness as a Role Model? Their Effects on Firm Performance
John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Katalin Evers, Lutz Bellmann
revised version published as 'Contract Innovation in Germany: An Economic Evaluation of Pacts for Competitiveness' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55(3), 500-526.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9266
Can Policy Facilitate Partial Retirement? Evidence from Germany
Peter B. Berg, Mary K. Hamman, Matthew Piszczek, Christopher J. Ruhm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9230
Completing the Monetary Union of Europe as Mid-term Solution of the Euro Crisis
Justina A.V. Fischer, Francesco Pastore
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9186
Protecting Working-Age People with Disabilities: Experiences of Four Industrialized Nations
Richard V. Burkhauser, Mary C. Daly, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
published in: Journal of Labour Market Research (Zeitschrift für Arbeitsmarktforschung), 2016, 49(4): 367-386
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9134
How to Fight Long-Term Unemployment: Lessons from Germany
Alexander Spermann
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 4:15
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9122
The Information Value of Central School Exams
Guido Schwerdt, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 56, 65-79
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9088
Does Daylight Saving Time Really Make Us Sick?
Lawrence Jin, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
revised version published "Sleep, Health, and Human Capital: Evidence from Daylight Saving Time" in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020,170: 174-192
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9055
Life Satisfaction in Germany after Reunification: Additional Insights on the Pattern of Convergence
Christian Pfeifer, Inna Petrunyk
published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 2016, 236 (2), 217-239
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9015
Coming to Work While Sick: An Economic Theory of Presenteeism with an Application to German Data
Boris Hirsch, Daniel S. J. Lechmann, Claus Schnabel
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69 (4), 1010-1031
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8964
Productivity Effects of Air Pollution: Evidence from Professional Soccer
Andreas Lichter, Nico Pestel, Eric Sommer
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 48, 54-66
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8920
Offshoring and Labour Market Reforms: Modelling the German Experience
Thomas Beissinger, Nathalie Chusseau, Joël Hellier
published in: Economic Modelling, 2016, 53, 314-333
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. 8818
Why Did Self-Employment Increase so Strongly in Germany?
Michael Fritsch, Alexander S. Kritikos, Alina Sorgner
published in: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 2015, 67 (2), 307-333
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8695
Beyond the Average: Peer Heterogeneity and Intergenerational Transmission of Education
Tanika Chakraborty, Olga Nottmeyer, Simone Schüller, Klaus F. Zimmermann
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 163, 551–569. [Abstract & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8651
Do Entrepreneurs Really Earn Less?
Alina Sorgner, Michael Fritsch, Alexander S. Kritikos
revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 49 (2), 251–272
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8623
Did Tuition Fees in Germany Constrain Students' Budgets? New Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Stephan L. Thomsen, Friederike von Haaren
revised version published in: IZA Journal or European Labor Studies, 2016, 5:6
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8589
Does the Choice of Well-Being Measure Matter Empirically? An Illustration with German Data
Koen Decancq, Dirk Neumann
revised version published in: M. Adler, M. Fleurbaey (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy, OUP, 2016, 553-587
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8554
Sufficient Statistic or Not? The Elasticity of Taxable Income in the Presence of Deduction Possibilities
Philipp Doerrenberg, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch
revised version forthcoming in: Journal of Public Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8553
Documentation IZAΨMOD v3.0: The IZA Policy Simulation Model
Max Loeffler, Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel, Sebastian Siegloch, Eric Sommer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8545
Evidence and Persistence of Education Inequality in an Early-Tracking System: The German Case
Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Simone Schüller
published in: Scuola Democratica, 2014, 2. [Abstract & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8496
Love Thy Neighbor: Religion and Prosocial Behavior
Guido Heineck
revised version published in: International Journal of Social Economics, 2017, 44(7), 869 - 883
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8482
Beyond Inequality Accounting: Marital Sorting and Couple Labor Supply
Nico Pestel
published as 'Marital Sorting, Inequality and the Role of Female Labour Supply: Evidence from East and West Germany' in: Economica, 2017, 84 (333), 104-127 [Online]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8438
Job Insecurity, Employability, and Health: An Analysis for Germany across Generations
Steffen Otterbach, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 48 (14), 1303-1316
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. 8372
Employment Industry and Occupational Continuity in Germany: From the Nazi Regime to the Post-War Economic Miracle
Patrick A. Puhani
published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2015, 22(8), 603-612
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8359
Changes in Bargaining Status and Intra-Plant Wage Dispersion in Germany: A Case of (Almost) Plus Ça Change?
John T. Addison, Arnd Kölling, Paulino Teixeira
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8257
Union Decline and the Coverage Wage Gap in Germany
John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Jens Stephani, Lutz Bellmann
published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2015, 36 (3), 301-317.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8242
Centralized vs. Decentralized Wage Formation: The Role of Firms' Production Technology
Boris Hirsch, Christian Merkl, Steffen Müller, Claus Schnabel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8229
Teenage Pregnancies and Births in Germany: Patterns and Developments
Kamila Cygan-Rehm, Regina T. Riphahn
published in: Applied Economics, 2014, 46(28), 3503-3522
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8155
Not So Standard Anymore? Employment Duality in Germany
Werner Eichhorst, Verena Tobsch
published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2015, 48 (2), 81-95
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8064
Returns to Citizenship? Evidence from Germany's Recent Immigration Reforms
Christina Gathmann, Nicolas Keller
revised version published as 'Returns to Citizenship? Evidence from Germany's Recent Immigration Reforms' in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (616), 3141 3181
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