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4,142 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17498
Hours Risk and Wage Risk: Repercussions over the Life-Cycle
Robin Jessen, Johannes König
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2023, 125( 4), 956–996.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17497
Not a Lucky Break? Why and When a Career Hiatus Hijacks Hiring Chances
Liam D'hert, Louis Lippens, Stijn Baert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17495
Regionalism, Productivity, and Innovation
Rolando Avendano, Massimiliano Tani, Lovely C. Tolin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17493
Are Men's Preferences for Couple Equity Misperceived? Evidence from Six Countries
Teodora Boneva, Ana Brás-Monteiro, Marta Golin, Christopher Rauh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17490
The Hidden Value of Adult Informal Care in Europe
Joan Costa-Font, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
published online in: Health Economics, 29 January 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17482
Psychology of Debt in Rural South India
Arnaud Natal, Christophe Jalil Nordman
published online in: Journal of Development Studies, 2 February 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17482
Psychology of Debt in Rural South India
Arnaud Natal, Christophe Jalil Nordman
published online in: Journal of Development Studies, 2 February 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17481
Roots of Cultural Diversity
Oded Galor, Marc Klemp, Daniel Crisóstomo Wainstock
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17481
Roots of Cultural Diversity
Oded Galor, Marc Klemp, Daniel Crisóstomo Wainstock
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17481
Roots of Cultural Diversity
Oded Galor, Marc Klemp, Daniel Crisóstomo Wainstock
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17479
E-Learning at Universities: Does Starting with Difficult Questions Affect Student Performance?
Agata Galkiewicz, Jan Marcus, Thomas Siedler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17478
Sharing the Fame but Taking the Blame: When Declaring a Single Person Responsible Solves a Free Rider Problem
Xinyu Li, Wendelin Schnedler
published online in: Management Science, 24 January 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17470
Investigating the Impact of Integration Agreements on Labor Market Outcomes for Welfare Recipients: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Gerard J. van den Berg, Sarah Bernhard, Gesine Stephan, Arne Uhlendorff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17458
How Business Income Measures Affect Income Inequality and the Tax Burden
Rolf Aaberge, Jorgen Heibo Modalsli, Marco Francesconi, Ola L. Vestad
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17442
Beyond the Fundamentals: How Media-Driven Narratives Influence Cross-Border Capital Flows
Isha Agarwal, Wentong Chen, Eswar Prasad
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17433
Firm Ownership Control and Management Practices, with an Update on Sub-Saharan Africa
Andrew Dabalen, Saumik Paul
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17429
Can Children's Education Enhance Formal Female Labor Force Participation?
Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza, Gunnar Poppe Yanez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17428
Liberalisation, Concentration and Diversification: Business Groups in India, 2000-2020
Simon Commander, Saul Estrin, Naveen Thomas, Varun Lingineni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17418
Stress in the Air: A Conjecture
Oded Stark
published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2024, 55, 101430
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17417
The Impact of a Peer-to-Peer Mentoring Program on University Choices and Performance
Stefania Bortolotti, Annalisa Loviglio
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17401
Do Women on Boards Matter? Network and Spillover Effects on Gender Gaps within Firms
Emma von Essen, Nina Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17400
Another Chance: Number of Exam Retakes and University Students' Outcomes
Massimiliano Bratti, Silvia Granato, Enkelejda Havari
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17399
Are Alternative Work Arrangements a Substitute for Standard Employment? Evidence from Worker-Level Data
Bernardo Fanfani, Filippo Passerini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17395
Skills and Earnings: A Multidimensional Perspective on Human Capital
Ludger Woessmann
forthcoming in: Annual Review of Economics 17, 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17381
The Rules of the Game: Local Wage Bargaining and the Gender Pay Gap
Maria Olsson, Oskar Nordström Skans
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17379
Child Penalties in Labour Market Skills
Jonas Jessen, Lavinia Kinne, Michele Battisti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17362
The Effectiveness of Teamwork for Student Academic Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Ritwik Banerjee, Niels-Hugo Blunch, Daniele Cassese, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Paolo Pin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17356
Migration and the Epidemiological Approach: Time and Self-Selection into Foreign Ancestries Matter
Simone Bertoli, Melchior Clerc, Jordan Loper, Èric Roca Fernández
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17354
Spousal Labor Supply: Decoupling Gender Norms and Earning Status
Elliott Isaac
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17346
Do Big Inequalities in Executive Pay Hurt Firm Performance?
Richard Yiu-Ming Chung, Jed DeVaro, Scott Fung
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17341
Discrimination and Health Outcomes in England's Black Communities amid the Cost-of-Living Crisis: Evaluating the Role of Inflation and Bank Rates
Nick Drydakis
published online in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 23 October 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17337
Multipliers from a Major Public Sector Relocation: The BBC Moves to Salford
Max Nathan, Henry Overman, Capucine Riom, Maria Sanchez-Vidal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17333
The Effects of Board Gender Quotas: A Meta-Analysis
Costanza De Acutis, Andrea Weber, Elisabeth Wurm
published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 91, 102634
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17332
Noncognitive Human Capital and Misreporting Behavior in Online Surveys
Haizheng Li, Qinyi Liu, Yiting Xu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17327
The Importance of Luck in Executive Promotion Tournaments: Theory and Evidence
Jed DeVaro, Scott Fung
published online in: JBFA Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 14 January 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17326
Accounting for the Growth of Real Wages of U.S. Manufacturing Production Workers since the Nineteenth Century
John H. Pencavel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17321
Business Disruptions Due to Social Vulnerability and Criminal Activities in Urban Areas
Nick Drydakis
published in: Journal of Criminal Justice, 2024, 95, 102293
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17320
Contraceptive Access Creates Positive Selection in Infant Health
James Flynn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17314
Free Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive Skills in Rural China
Zheyuan Zhang, Hui Xu, Ruilin Liu, Zhong Zhao
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, 29 (2025)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17302
Creative and Strategic Capabilities of Generative AI: Evidence from Large-Scale Experiments
Noah Bohren, Rustamdjan Hakimov, Rafael Lalive
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17296
The Pecuniary Costs of Early School Leaving and Poor Basic Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
Giorgio Brunello, Lorenzo Rocco
also available as 'The price of inaction: the global private, fiscal and social costs of children and youth not learning', United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris, 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17293
Unraveling the Gender Wage Gap: Exploring Early Career Patterns among University Graduates
Malte Sandner, Ipek Yükselen
published online in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2 November 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17291
Revisiting Sample Bias in the UK's Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, with Implications for Estimates of Low Pay and the Bite of the National Living Wage
John Forth, Alex Bryson, Van Phan, Felix Ritchie, Carl Singleton, Lucy Stokes, Damian Whittard
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17290
Productivity Signals and Disability-Related Hiring Discrimination: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Armenak Antinyan, Ian Burn, Melanie K. Jones
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17289
Competitive Peers: The Way to Higher Paying Jobs?
Claudio Schilter, Samuel Lüthi, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17288
Fetal Pollution Exposure, Cognitive Ability, and Gender-Specific Parental Investment
Xin Zhang, Yixuan Wang, Xingyi Hu, Xi Chen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17287
One Size Fits All? The Interplay of Incentives, Effort Provision, and Personality
Zvonimir Bašić, Stefania Bortolotti, Daniel Salicath, Stefan Schmidt, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17287
One Size Fits All? The Interplay of Incentives, Effort Provision, and Personality
Zvonimir Bašić, Stefania Bortolotti, Daniel Salicath, Stefan Schmidt, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17275
Reducing the Gender Digital Divide Amongst Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Nick Drydakis
published in:G. Meramveliotakis and M. Manioudis (eds). Sustainable Economic Development Perspectives from Political Economy and Economics Pluralism, London: Routledge, 2025, 237-264.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17274
Evidence on the Robustness of the Links between Social Relationships and Mortality
Rosanne Freak-Poli, Stephen P. Jenkins, Michael A. Shields, Trong-Anh Trinh
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