IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'The Creativity Premium: Exploring the Link between Childhood Creativity and Life Outcomes' in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2024, 2 (3), 495–526

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14327

Experiencing Booms and Busts in the Welfare State and Support for Redistribution

Kerstin F. Hansen, Alois Stutzer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13555

Task Specialization and Cognitive Skills: Evidence from PIAAC and IALS

Marta Martínez Matute, Ernesto Villanueva

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, 21, 59 - 92

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13471

Dream Jobs

Giordano Mion, Luca David Opromolla, Gianmarco Ottaviano

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13330

The Finance of Unemployment Compensation and its Consequence for the Labor Market

Audrey Guo, Andrew C. Johnston

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13146

Determinants of Teacher Value-Added in Public Primary Schools: Evidence from Administrative Panel Data

Ryuichi Tanaka, Shun-ichiro Bessho, Akira Kawamura, Haruko Noguchi, Koichi Ushijima

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13123

Macroeconomic Conditions When Young Shape Job Preferences for Life

Maria Cotofan, Lea Cassar, Robert Dur, Stephan Meier

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (2), 467–473

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12725

The Gender Gap in Wages over the Life Course: Evidence from a British Cohort Born in 1958

Heather Joshi, Alex Bryson, David Wilkinson, Kelly Ward

published in: Gender, Work & Organization, 2021, 28, 397 - 415

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12676

Returns to Teaching Repetition - The Effect of Short-Term Teaching Experience on Student Outcomes

Harold E. Cuffe, Jan Feld, Trevor O’Grady

published in: Education, Finance and Policy, 2021, 16 (3), 516-532

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12589

Does It Pay to Bet on Your Favourite to Win? Evidence on Experienced Utility from the 2018 FIFA World Cup Experiment

Lajos Kossuth, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Donna Harris, Nick Chater

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 171, 35-58.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12243

Make Yourselves Scarce: The Effect of Demographic Change on the Relative Wages and Employment Rates of Experienced Workers

Michael Johannes Böhm, Christian Siegel

published in: International Economic Review, 2021, 62 (4), 1537 - 1568

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12243

Make Yourselves Scarce: The Effect of Demographic Change on the Relative Wages and Employment Rates of Experienced Workers

Michael Johannes Böhm, Christian Siegel

published in: International Economic Review, 2021, 62 (4), 1537 - 1568

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11859

Performance Pay and Prior Learning: Evidence from a Retail Chain

Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka, Timo Vogelsang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11450

Understanding the Mechanisms through Which Adverse Childhood Experiences Affect Lifetime Economic Outcomes

Stefanie Schurer, Kristian Trajkovski

published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, Article 101743

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11409

Using a Kinked Policy Rule to Estimate the Effect of Experience Rating on Disability Inflow

Tomi Kyyrä, Tuuli Paukkeri

published as "Does Experience Rating Reduce Sickness and Disability Claims? Evidence from Policy Kinks" in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 61, 178-192

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11223

The Twin Track Model of Employee Voice: An Anglo-American Perspective on Union Decline and the Rise of Alternative Forms of Voice

Alex Bryson, Richard B. Freeman, Rafael Gomez, Paul Willman

published in: Holland, P., Teicher, J. and Donaghey, J. (eds.) Employee Voice at Work, Springer, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11010

Inefficient Short-Time Work

Pierre Cahuc, Sandra Nevoux

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10909

The Effects of Lifetime Work Experience on Incidence and Severity of Elderly Poverty in Korea

Seyoung Chae, Almas Heshmati

published in: Journal of Social and Economic Development, 2023, 26, 521 - 554

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10908

'Fair' Welfare Comparisons with Heterogeneous Tastes: Subjective versus Revealed Preferences

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier B. Bargain, Xavier Jara

published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2020, 55, 51 - 8

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10907

Back to Bentham, Should We? Large-Scale Comparison of Experienced versus Decision Utility

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier B. Bargain, Xavier Jara

published as 'Experienced versus decision utility: large-scale comparison for income-leisure preferences' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2023, 125 (4), 823 - 859

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10893

The Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base Mystery

Donald O. Parsons

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10767

Why So Slow? The School-to-Work Transition in Italy

Francesco Pastore

published in: Studies in Higher Education, 2019, 44 (8), 1358-1371

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10696

The Temporal Stability of Children's Neighborhood Experiences: A Follow-up from Birth to Age 15

Tom Kleinepier, Maarten van Ham

published in: Demographic Research, 2017, 36, 1813 - 1826

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10538

Origins of Adulthood Personality: The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences

Jason M. Fletcher, Stefanie Schurer

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2017, 17(2), 20150212

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10537

The Relative Returns to Education, Experience, and Attractiveness for Young Workers

Emily A. Beam, Joshua Hyman, Caroline Theoharides

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2020, 68 (2), 391–428

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10515

Ambivalence in Place Attachment: The Lived Experiences of Residents in Declining Neighbourhoods Facing Demolition in Shenyang, China

Xin Li, Reinout Kleinhans, Maarten van Ham

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10422

The Labour Market Effect of Immigration: Accounting for Effective Immigrant Work Experience in New Zealand

Michael M. H. Tse, Sholeh A. Maani

published as 'Effective Work Experience and Labour Market Impacts of New Zealand Immigration' in: J. Poot, M. Roskruge (eds.), Population Change and Impacts in Asia and the Pacific, Springer, 2020, 221-246

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10140

Understanding the Experiences of Relocatees During Forced Relocation in Chinese Urban Restructuring

Xin Li, Maarten van Ham, Reinout Kleinhans

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9949

Work Experience from Paid Employment and the Path to Entrepreneurship: Business Takeover versus New Venture Start-Up

Guoqian Xi, Jörn Block, Frank Lasch, Frank Robert, Roy Thurik

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. 9742

Assessing the Effects of Disability Insurance Experience Rating: The Case of the Netherlands

Nynke De Groot, Pierre Koning

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41, 304-317

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9596

The Wage Returns to Education over the Life-Cycle: Heterogeneity and the Role of Experience

Franz Buscha, Matt Dickson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9444

Personal Experiences and Expectations about Aggregate Outcomes

Theresa Kuchler, Basit Zafar

published in: Journal of Finance, 2019, 74 (5), 2491-2542

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9334

Individual Poverty Paths and the Stability of Control-Perception

Hendrik Thiel, Stephan L. Thomsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9066

The Sources of Wage Growth in a Developing Country

Ioana E. Marinescu, Margaret Triyana

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8921

The European Youth Guarantee: Labor Market Context, Conditions and Opportunities in Italy

Francesco Pastore

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015, 4:11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8764

Voluntary Activities and Daily Happiness in the US

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53 (4), 1735-1750

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8431

The Changing Benefits of Early Work Experience

Charles L. Baum, Christopher J. Ruhm

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2016, 83 (2), 343 -363

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7531

If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands: How Do Mothers and Fathers Really Feel about Child Caregiving?

Rachel Connelly, Jean Kimmel

published in: Feminist Economics, 2015, 21 (1), 1-34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7344

Does Experience Rating Reduce Disability Inflow?

Tomi Kyyrä, Juha Tuomala

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6893

Wage Growth and Job Mobility in the Early Career: Testing a Statistical Discrimination Model of the Gender Wage Gap

Philippe Belley, Nathalie Havet, Guy Lacroix

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2015, 42, 231-260

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6346

Suboptimal Choices and the Need for Experienced Individual Well-Being in Economic Analysis

Christopher K. Hsee, Yuval Rottenstreich, Alois Stutzer

published in: International Journal of Happiness and Development, 2012, 1 (1), 63-85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6164

The Role of Peers in Estimating Tenure-Performance Profiles: Evidence from Personnel Data

Andries de Grip, Jan Sauermann, Inge Sieben

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 126, 39-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6049

The Effects of Tax Salience and Tax Experience on Individual Work Efforts in a Framed Field Experiment

Martin Fochmann, Joachim Weimann

published in: FinanzArchiv / Public Finance Analysis, 2013, 69 (4), 511-542

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5904

Migration and Stratification

Guillermina Jasso

published in: Social Science Research, 2011, 40 (5), 1292 - 1336

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5873

The Feasibility and Importance of Adding Measures of Actual Experience to Cross-Sectional Data Collection

Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (2, Part 2), 17-58

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5815

Part-Time Work, Fixed-Term Contracts, and the Returns to Experience

Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Marie Paul, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

substantially revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 77 (4), 512 - 541

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5655

The Sick Pay Trap

Elisabeth Fevang, Simen Markussen, Knut Røed

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (2), 305-336

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4834

Excess Leverage and Productivity Growth in Emerging Economies: Is There A Threshold Effect?

Fabrizio Coricelli, Nigel Driffield, Sarmistha Pal, Isabelle Roland

revised version published as 'When does leverage hurt productivity growth? A firm-level analysis' in: Journal of International Money and Finance, 2012, 31 (6), 1674-1694

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4307

The Effect of Power Outages and Cheap Talk on Willingness to Pay to Reduce Outages

Fredrik Carlsson, Peter Martinsson, Alpaslan Akay

revised version published in: Energy Economics, 2011, 33 (5), 790 - 798

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3861

The East German Wage Structure after Transition

Robert Orlowski, Regina T. Riphahn

published in: Economics of Transition, 2009, 17 (4), 629-659

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3741

Efficiency Gains from Team-Based Coordination: Large-Scale Experimental Evidence

Francesco Feri, Bernd Irlenbusch, Matthias Sutter

revised and extended version published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (4), 1892-1912

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2964

The Advantage of Experienced Start-Up Founders in Venture Capital Acquisition: Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs

Junfu Zhang

published in: Small Business Economics, 2011, 36(2), 187-208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2650

Testing the Specification of the Mincer Wage Equation

Christian Belzil

published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2008, 92/92, 427 - 451

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2592

Studying Justice: Measurement, Estimation, and Analysis of the Actual Reward and the Just Reward

Guillermina Jasso

published in: Kjell Törnblom and Riel Vermunt (eds.), Distributive and Procedural Justice: Research and Social Applications. London, UK: Ashgate, 2007

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2331

Differences in Wage Growth by Education Level: Do Less-Educated Workers Gain Less from Work Experience?

Helen Connolly, Peter T. Gottschalk

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2331

Differences in Wage Growth by Education Level: Do Less-Educated Workers Gain Less from Work Experience?

Helen Connolly, Peter T. Gottschalk

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2304

Employment Protection Reform in Search Economies

Olivier L'Haridon, Franck Malherbet

published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53 (3), 255-273

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2190

Economic, Neurobiological and Behavioral Perspectives on Building America's Future Workforce

Eric I. Knudsen, James J. Heckman, Judy L. Cameron, Jack P. Shonkoff

published in: World Economics, 2006, 7 (3), 17 - 41

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2028

Explorations of the Effect of Experience on Preferences: Two Health-Care Case Studies

Einat Neuman, Shoshana Neuman

revised version published as 'Explorations of the effect of experience on preferences for a health-care service' in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2010, 39 (3), 407-419

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2007

The Narrowing of the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap, 1959-1999: A Cohort-Based Analysis

Catherine Weinberger, Peter J. Kuhn

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 63 (3), 384-406

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1935

The Returns to Seniority in France (and Why Are They Lower than in the United States?)

Magali Beffy, Moshe Buchinsky, Denis Fougère, Thierry Kamionka, Francis Kramarz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1920

Work Experience as a Source of Specification Error in Earnings Models: Implications for Gender Wage Decompositions

Tracy L. Regan, Ronald L. Oaxaca

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (2), 463 - 499

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1766