IZA Discussion Papers

substantially revised version published as 'The gender gap reloaded: Are school characteristics linked to labor market performance?' in: Social Science Research, 2008, 37 (2), 374-385

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1802

Discrimination as a Competitive Device: The Case of Local Television News

Caitlin Knowles Myers

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2008, 8(1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1787

The Division of Labor by New Parents: Does Child Gender Matter?

Shelly Lundberg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1776

Wage Ceilings and Floors: The Gender Gap in Ukraine's Transition

Ina Ganguli, Katherine Terrell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1768

Courtesy and Idleness: Gender Differences in Team Work and Team Competition

Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel, Dorothea Kübler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1766

Vocational Training and Gender: Wages and Occupational Mobility among Young Workers

Bernd Fitzenberger, Astrid Kunze

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2005, 21(3), 392-415

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1764

Gender Discrimination Estimation in a Search Model with Matching and Bargaining

Luca Flabbi

published in: International Economic Review, 2010, 51(3), 745-783

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1761

Work and Family: Marriage, Children, Child Gender and the Work Hours and Earnings of West German Men

Hyung-Jai Choi, Jutta M. Joesch, Shelly Lundberg

published as 'Sons, daughters, wives, and the labour market outcomes of West German men' in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (5), 795-811

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1742

The Impact of Gender Segregation on Male-Female Wage Differentials: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data for Spain

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Sara de la Rica

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policyy, 2006, 5 (1), Article 10

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1736

The Occupational Attainment of American Jewry: 1990 to 2000

Barry R. Chiswick

published in: Contemporary Jewry, 2007, 27 (1), 80-111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1730

Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner

revised version published as 'Individual Risk Attitudes: Measurement, Determinants, and Behavioral Consequences' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (3), 522–550

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1727

Evaluating Dominance Ranking of PSID Incomes by Various Household Attributes

Esfandiar Maasoumi, Almas Heshmati

published in: Betti and Lemmi (eds.), Advances in Income Inequality and Concentration Measures, Routledge: London, 2008

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1724

Institutions, Markets and Men's and Women's Wage Inequality: Evidence from Ukraine

Ina Ganguli, Katherine Terrell

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 34 (2), 200-227

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1708

Do Women in Top Management Affect Firm Performance? A Panel Study of 2500 Danish Firms

Nina Smith, Valdemar Smith, Mette Verner

published in: International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, 2006, 55 (7), 569 - 593

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1702

Layoffs, Lemons, Race and Gender

Luojia Hu, Christopher Taber

substantially revised version published as `Displacement, Asymmetric Information and Heterogeneous Human Capita' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (1), 113-152.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1689

Women-Led Firms and the Gender Gap in Top Executive Jobs

Linda A. Bell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1684

The Curse and Blessing of Training the Unemployed in a Changing Economy: The Case of East Germany After Unification

Michael Lechner, Ruth Miquel, Conny Wunsch

published in: German Economic Review, 2007, 8 (4), 468-509

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1674

A Cure for Discrimination? Affirmative Action and the Case of California Proposition 209

Caitlin Knowles Myers

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (3), 379-396

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1663

Unemployment and Transitions in the Turkish Labor Market: Evidence from Individual Level Data

H. Mehmet Tasci, Aysit Tansel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1617

Parental Leave – A Policy Evaluation of the Swedish "Daddy-Month" Reform

John Ekberg, Rickard Eriksson, Guido Friebel

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 97, 131-143

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1607

Marriage, Wealth, and Unemployment Duration: A Gender Asymmetry Puzzle

Rasmus Lentz, Torben Tranæs

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1563

Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from European Countries

Brenda Gannon, Robert Plasman, François Rycx, Ilan Tojerow

published in: Economic and Social Review, 2007, 38 (1), 135-155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1550

Part-Time Work in EU Countries: Labour Market Mobility, Entry and Exit

Hielke Buddelmeyer, Gilles Mourre, Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1535

The Persistent Segregation of Girls into Lower-Paying Jobs while in School

Peter Kooreman

published as "The early inception of labor market gender differences" in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (2), 135-139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1494

People People: Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups

Lex Borghans, Bas ter Weel, Bruce A. Weinberg

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67 (2), 287-334

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1483

Ceiling and Floors: Gender Wage Gaps by Education in Spain

Sara de la Rica, Juan J. Dolado, Vanesa Llorens

published in Journal of Population Economics, 2008, 21 (3), 751-776

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1458

The Economics of Assisted Reproduction

Sherrie Kossoudji

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1449

Comparing Apples with Oranges: Revisiting the Gender Wage Gap in an International Perspective

Robert Plasman, Salimata Sissoko

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1432

Are There Gender and Country of Origin Differences in Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes across European Destinations?

Alicia Adsera, Barry R. Chiswick

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 495-526

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1425

Gender Differences Across the Earnings Distribution: Evidence from NLS:86 & HSB:92

Spyros Konstantopoulos, Amelie F. Constant

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1411

Crossing the Tracks? More on Trends in the Training of Male and Female Workers in Great Britain

Melanie K. Jones, Paul L. Latreille, Peter J. Sloane

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2008, 46 (2), 268-282.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1400

Decomposing the Gender Wage Gap in the Netherlands with Sample Selection Adjustments

James Albrecht, Aico van Vuuren, Susan Vroman

published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (4), 383-396

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1397

Rooms of One’s Own: Gender, Race and Home Ownership as Wealth Accumulation in the United States

Stanley A. Sedo, Sherrie Kossoudji

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1387

Sex Differences in Managerial Style: From Individual Leadership to Organisational Labour Relationships

Eduardo Melero Martín

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1373

Is There a Glass Ceiling over Europe? Exploring the Gender Pay Gap across the Wages Distribution

Wiji Arulampalam, Alison L. Booth, Mark L. Bryan

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (2), 163-186

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1365

Income Inequality and Gender in New Zealand, 1998-2003

Kerry L. Papps

published in: New Zealand Economic Papers, 2010, 44 (3), 217-229

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1362

Wage Differentials in the 1990s in Israel: Endowments, Discrimination, and Selectivity

Shoshana Neuman, Ronald L. Oaxaca

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2005, 26(3), 217-236

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1357

Intermittent Employment: Work Histories of Israeli Men and Women, 1983-1995

Shoshana Neuman, Adrian Ziderman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1317

Gender Equality in Educational Achievement: An East-West Comparison

Sylke V. Schnepf

revised version published in : Schnepf (ed.): Women in Central and Eastern Europe: Measuring Gender Inequality Differently. Saarbruecken, Germany: Verlag Mueller, 2007

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1308

Female Breadwinner Families: Their Existence, Persistence and Sources

Robert Drago, David Black, Mark Wooden

published in: Journal of Sociology, 2005, 41 (4), 343-362

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1262

Public-Private Employment Choice, Wage Differentials and Gender in Turkey

Aysit Tansel

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2005, 53 (2), 453-477

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1258

Determinants of Unemployment Duration for Men and Women in Turkey

Aysit Tansel, H. Mehmet Tasci

substantially revised version published as 'Hazard Analysis of Unemployment Duration by Gender in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey' in: Labour, 2010, 24 (4), 501-530

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1254

Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male-Female Earnings

Gerrit Mueller, Erik Plug

published as 'Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male and Female Earnings ' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 60 (1), 3-22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1234

Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen: Proclivity and Performance

Amelie F. Constant

substantially revised version published in: Kyklos, 2006, 59 (4), 465-480

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1202

Approval of Equal Rights and Gender Differences in Well-Being

Rafael Lalive, Alois Stutzer

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (3), 933-962

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1202

Approval of Equal Rights and Gender Differences in Well-Being

Rafael Lalive, Alois Stutzer

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (3), 933-962

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1184

Gender Differences in Job Assignment and Promotion on a Complexity Ladder of Jobs

Tuomas Pekkarinen, Juhana Vartiainen

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 59 (2), 285-301

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1140

The Distribution of Wages in Belarus

Francesco Pastore, Alina Verashchagina

published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2006, 48 (3), 351-376

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1134

What a Difference a Y Makes: Female and Male Nascent Entrepreneurs in Germany

Joachim Wagner

published in: Small Business Economics, 2007, 28 (1), 1-21

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1109

The Gender Earnings Gap in Britain

Karen A. Mumford, Peter N. Smith

revised version published as 'The Gender Earnings Gap in Britain: Including the Workplace' in: Manchester School, 2007, 75 (6), 653-672

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1102

How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed

Solomon Polachek

published in: F. Blau, M. Brinton, and D. Grusky, (eds.) The Declining Significance of Gender?, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1101

Motivation, Expectations and the Gender Pay Gap for UK Graduates

Arnaud Chevalier

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2007, 69 (6), 819-842

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1031

The Costs of Missing the Millennium Development Goal on Gender Equity

Dina Abu-Ghaida, Stephan Klasen

published in: World Development, 2004, 32 (7), 1075-1107

IZA Discussion Paper No. 985

When Are ‘Female’ Occupations Paying More?

Štepán Jurajda, Heike Harmgart

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2007, 35 (1), 170-187

IZA Discussion Paper No. 981

Matching as a Tool to Decompose Wage Gaps

Hugo R. Nopo

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (2), 290-299

IZA Discussion Paper No. 936

Disability, Gender and the Labour Market

Melanie K. Jones, Paul L. Latreille, Peter J. Sloane

revised version published as 'Disability, gender, and the British labour market ' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2006, 58 (3), 407-449

IZA Discussion Paper No. 933

Training in Europe

Wiji Arulampalam, Alison L. Booth, Mark L. Bryan

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2004, 2 (2/3), 346-360

IZA Discussion Paper No. 906

A Meta-Analysis of the International Gender Wage Gap

Doris Weichselbaumer, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2005, 9 (3), 479-511

IZA Discussion Paper No. 905

Rhetoric in Economic Research: The Case of Gender Wage Differentials

Doris Weichselbaumer, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published in: Industrial Relations, 2006, 45 (3), 416–436

IZA Discussion Paper No. 825

Gender Wage Gap in Expectations and Realizations

Antonio Filippin, Andrea Ichino

published in: Labour Economics, 2005, 12 (1), 125-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 822

The Effects of Competition and Equal Treatment Laws on the Gender Wage Differential

Doris Weichselbaumer, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published in: Economic Policy, 2007, 22 (50), 235-287

IZA Discussion Paper No. 796

Gender, Time Use and Models of the Household

Patricia Apps

IZA Discussion Paper No. 789

Recruitment and Pay at the Establishment Level: Gender Segregation and the Wage Gap in Portugal

José António Cabral Vieira, Ana Rute Cardoso, Miguel Portela

published as 'Gender segregation and the wage gap in Portugal: An analysis at the establishment level' in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2005, 3 (2), 145-168

IZA Discussion Paper No. 756

Swimming Upstream, Floating Downstream: Comparing Women's Relative Wage Positions in the U.S. and Denmark

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Ronald L. Oaxaca, Nina Smith

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 59 (2), 243-266

IZA Discussion Paper No. 713

Does the Glass Ceiling Exist? A Cross-National Perspective on Gender Income Mobility

Ira N. Gang, John Landon-Lane, Myeong-Su Yun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 704

Intrafirm Mobility and Sex Differences in Pay

Michael R. Ransom, Ronald L. Oaxaca

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2005, 58 (2), 219-237

IZA Discussion Paper No. 600

Explaining Gender Differences in Unemployment with Micro Data on Flows in Post-Communist Economies

Jana Stefanová Lauerová, Katherine Terrell

published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2007, 49 (1), 128-155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 580

Gender Differences in German Upward Income Mobility

Ira N. Gang, John Landon-Lane, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften /Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2003, 123(1), 3-14

IZA Discussion Paper No. 556

Importing Equality? The Impact of Globalization on Gender Discrimination

Sandra E. Black, Elizabeth Brainerd

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2004, 57 (4), 540-598

IZA Discussion Paper No. 553

Subject of Degree and the Gender Wage Differential: Evidence from the UK and Germany

Stephen Machin, Patrick A. Puhani

published in: Economics Letters; 2003, 79 (3), 393-400

IZA Discussion Paper No. 524

Recent Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender: A Look Across the Atlantic

Juan J. Dolado, Florentino Felgueroso, Juan F. Jimeno

revised version published in: Annales D'Économie et De Statistique, 2004, 71-72, 293-315

IZA Discussion Paper No. 524

Recent Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender: A Look Across the Atlantic

Juan J. Dolado, Florentino Felgueroso, Juan F. Jimeno

revised version published in: Annales D'Économie et De Statistique, 2004, 71-72, 293-315

IZA Discussion Paper No. 522

Gender Differences in Early Retirement Behaviour

Svenn-Åge Dahl, Øivind Anti Nilsen, Kjell Vaage

published in: European Sociological Review, 2003, 19 (2), 179-198

IZA Discussion Paper No. 511

The Theory of Differential Overqualification: Does it Work?

Felix Büchel, Harminder Battu

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2003, 50 (1), 1-16

IZA Discussion Paper No. 407

Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany

Ronald Schettkat, Lara Yocarini

published in: IAW-Report / Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung, 2003, 1, 7 - 66

IZA Discussion Paper No. 348

Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel

Shoshana Neuman, Adrian Ziderman

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2003, 22(4), 421-432

IZA Discussion Paper No. 344

Effects of Sexual Preferences on Earnings in the Netherlands

Erik Plug, Peter Berkhout

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2004, 17 (1), 117-131, revised version available here

IZA Discussion Paper No. 288

Getting Ahead: The Determinants of and Payoffs to Internal Promotion for Young U.S. Men and Women

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2001, 20, 339-372

IZA Discussion Paper No. 282

Is There a Glass Ceiling in Sweden?

James Albrecht, Anders Björklund, Susan Vroman

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2003, 21 (1), 145-177

IZA Discussion Paper No. 268

The Gender Pay Gap in the Transition from Communism: Some Empirical Evidence

Andrew T. Newell, Barry Reilly

published in: Economic Systems, 2001, 25 (4), 287-304

IZA Discussion Paper No. 251

Labor Markets, Inequality and Poverty in Georgia

Ruslan Yemtsov

IZA Discussion Paper No. 220

The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico

Wayne A. Cornelius, Enrico A. Marcelli

published in: Latin American Research Review, 2001, 36 (3), 105-131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 217

Occupational Gender Composition and Wages in Sweden

Jörgen Hansen, Roger Wahlberg

published as 'Occupational gender composition and the gender wage gap in Sweden' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 353-369

IZA Discussion Paper No. 212

Sexual Bias and Household Consumption: A Semiparametric Analysis of Engel Curves in Rural China

Xiaodong Gong, Arthur van Soest, Ping Zhang

revised version published as 'The effects of the gender of children on expenditure patterns in rural China: A semiparametric analysis' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2005, 20 (4), 509-527

IZA Discussion Paper No. 202

Gender Wage Differentials in a Competitive Labor Market: The Household Interaction Effect

Patrick Francois, Jan C. van Ours

IZA Discussion Paper No. 180

Sibling Rivalry in Educational Attainment: The German Case

Thomas K. Bauer, Ira N. Gang

published in: Labour, 2001, 15 (2), 237-255

IZA Discussion Paper No. 151

Gender, Salary and Promotion in the Academic Profession

Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2001, 48 (3), 283-302

IZA Discussion Paper No. 85