IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'On the Joint Consumption and Labour Supply Effects of Migration on those Left Behind' in: Journal of Development Studies, published online 11 Feb 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10227

Are Labor Supply Decisions Consistent with Neoclassical Preferences? Evidence from Indian Boat Owners

Xavier Gine, Monica Martinez-Bravo, Marian Vidal-Fernández

published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2017, 142, 331-347

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10197

The Anatomy of Behavioral Responses to Social Assistance When Informal Employment Is High

Marcelo Bergolo, Guillermo Cruces

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10179

Hours Worked in Europe and the US: New Data, New Answers

Alexander Bick, Bettina Brüggemann, Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10173

Peer Effects in Parental Leave Decisions

Clara Welteke, Katharina Wrohlich

published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 56 (2), 146-163.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10154

The Effects of the Early Retirement Age on Retirement Decisions

Dayanand Manoli, Andrea Weber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10149

Career Breaks after Childbirth: The Impact of Family Leave Reforms in the Czech Republic

Alena Bicakova, Klara Kaliskova

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10114

Labor Supply Shocks, Native Wages, and the Adjustment of Local Employment

Christian Dustmann, Uta Schönberg, Jan Stuhler

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2017, 132(1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10044

When the Going Gets Tough... Financial Incentives, Duration of Unemployment and Job-Match Quality

Yolanda Fatima Rebollo-Sanz, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55 (1), 119-163

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10031

The Elasticity of the Migrant Labor Supply: Evidence from Temporary Filipino Migrants

Simone Bertoli, Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Sekou Keita

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2017, 53 (11), 1822-1834

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9985

Neighborhood Effects, Peer Classification, and the Decision of Women to Work

Nuno Mota, Eleonora Patacchini, Stuart S. Rosenthal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9958

Dynamic Effects of Educational Assortative Mating on Labor Supply

Rania Gihleb, Osnat Lifshitz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9905

Cutting Fertility? The Effect of Cesarean Deliveries on Subsequent Fertility and Maternal Labor Supply

Martin Halla, Harald Mayr, Gerald J. Pruckner, Pilar Garcia-Gomez

forthcoming in: Journal of Health Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9778

The Labor Supply of Fixed-Wage Workers: Estimates from a Real Effort Experiment

Jeffrey P. Carpenter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9745

The Effect of Housing Wealth on Labor Force Participation: Evidence from China

Shihe Fu, Yu Liao, Junfu Zhang

published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2016, 33, 59-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9719

Optimal Income Taxation with Unemployment and Wage Responses: A Sufficient Statistics Approach

Kory Kroft, Kavan Kucko, Etienne Lehmann, Johannes F. Schmieder

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9710

It's About Time: Effects of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate on Time Use

Gregory Colman, Dhaval M. Dave

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9683

Asymmetric Labor-Supply Responses to Wage-Rate Changes: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Philipp Doerrenberg, Denvil Duncan, Max Loeffler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9683

Asymmetric Labor-Supply Responses to Wage-Rate Changes: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Philipp Doerrenberg, Denvil Duncan, Max Loeffler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9618

Fiscal Sustainability and Demographic Change: A Micro Approach for 27 EU Countries

Mathias Dolls, Karina Doorley, Alari Paulus, Hilmar Schneider, Sebastian Siegloch, Eric Sommer

published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2017, 24 (4), 575-615 doi:10.1007/s10797-017-9462-3

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9534

Immigrants and Gender Roles: Assimilation vs. Culture

Francine D. Blau

published in IZA Journal of Migration 4 (December 10, 2015 DOI 10.1186/s40176-015-0048-5

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9472

Labor Supply Effects of Winning a Lottery

Matteo Picchio, Sigrid Suetens, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (611), 1700-1729 [Online Access]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9471

Gender Identity and Women's Supply of Labor and Non-Market Work: Panel Data Evidence for Germany

Anna Wieber, Elke Holst

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9378

Welfare Evaluation of the 1986 Tax Reform for Married Couples in the United States

Matteo Picchio, Giacomo Valletta

published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2018, 25 (3), 757–807

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9360

Labor Supply Responses to New Rural Social Pension Insurance in China: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Zeyuan Chen, Tommy Bengtsson, Jonas Helgertz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9342

Fertility, Household Structure, and Parental Labor Supply: Evidence from Rural China

Hongbin Li, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9304

Blame the Parents? How Financial Incentives Affect Labor Supply and Job Quality for Young Adults

Andrey Fradkin, Frédéric Panier, Ilan Tojerow

published as 'Blame the Parents? How Parental Unemployment Affects Labor Supply and Job Quality for Young Adults'in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (1), 35-100

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9300

From Local to Global: External Validity in a Fertility Natural Experiment

Rajeev Dehejia, Cristian Pop-Eleches, Cyrus Samii

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9298

The Effectiveness of Fiscal Stimuli for Working Parents

Henk-Wim de Boer, Egbert L. W. Jongen, Jan Kabátek

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9281

Why Work More? The Impact of Taxes, and Culture of Leisure on Labor Supply in Europe

Naci Mocan, Luiza Pogorelova

Published in Journal of Comparative Economics, 2019. 47, 618-639.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9182

Whose Preferences Are Revealed in Hours of Work?

John Pencavel

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (1), 9–24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9108

How Immigration Grease Is Affected by Economic, Institutional and Policy Contexts: Evidence from EU Labor Markets

Martin Guzi, Martin Kahanec, Lucia Mýtna Kureková

published in: Kyklos, 2018, 71(2), 213-243

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9073

Maternal Employment Effects of Paid Parental Leave

Annette Bergemann, Regina T. Riphahn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9073

Maternal Employment Effects of Paid Parental Leave

Annette Bergemann, Regina T. Riphahn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8980

Optimal Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings

Peter Haan, Victoria L. Prowse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8980

Optimal Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings

Peter Haan, Victoria L. Prowse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8949

Tax and Transfer Policies and the Female Labor Supply in the EU

Klara Kaliskova

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8937

Evidence of Added Worker Effect from the 2008 Economic Crisis

Sinem H. Ayhan

revised version published as 'Married women's added worker effect during the 2008 economic crisis - The case of Turkey' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 16 (3), 767 - 790 [Journal link]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8916

Severe Air Pollution and Labor Productivity: Evidence from Industrial Towns in China

Jiaxiu He, Haoming Liu, Alberto Salvo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8893

Earnings, Disposable Income, and Consumption of Allowed and Rejected Disability Insurance Applicants

Andreas Ravndal Kostol, Magne Mogstad

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8864

"Ain't No Rest for the Wicked": Population, Crime, and the 2013 Government Shutdown

Ricard Gil, Mario Macis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8831

Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Georgi Kocharkov, Cezar Santos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8830

Household Bargaining and the Design of Couples' Income Taxation

Helmuth Cremer, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur, Dario Maldonado, Kerstin Roeder

published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 89, 454-470

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8812

Pension Reform and Labor Supply: Flexibility vs. Prescription

Erik Hernaes, Simen Markussen, John Piggott, Knut Røed

revised version published as 'Pension Reform and Labor Supply' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 142, 39–55

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8787

Effects of Changes in Pensions on the Age of First Benefit Receipt: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Repatriated Ethnic Germans

Patrick A. Puhani, Falko Tabbert

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 38, 12 - 23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8731

Household Shocks and Education Investment in Madagascar

Peter Glick, David E. Sahn, Thomas F. Walker

forthcoming in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8675

The Relationship between Hours of Domestic Services and Female Earnings: Panel Register Data Evidence from a Reform

Karin Halldén, Anders Stenberg

published as 'The relationship between hours of outsourced domestic services and female earnings: Evidence from a Swedish tax reform'in: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 2018, 55, 120 - 133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8659

Policy Variation, Labor Supply Elasticities, and a Structural Model of Retirement

Dayanand Manoli, Kathleen Mullen, Mathis Wagner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8609

Fertility Effects on Female Labor Supply: IV Evidence from IVF Treatments

Petter Lundborg, Erik Plug, Astrid Würtz Rasmussen

published as "Can Women Have Children and a Career? IV Evidence from IVF Treatments" in: American Economic Review, June 2017, 107 (6), 1611-37

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8607

Fertility Responses of High-Skilled Native Women to Immigrant Inflows

Delia Furtado

published in: Demography, 2016, 53 (1), 27-53

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8562

Why You Can't Find a Taxi in the Rain and Other Labor Supply Lessons from Cab Drivers

Henry S Farber

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2015, 130 (4), 1975-2026

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8561

The Labor Supply of Self-Employed Workers: The Choice of Working Hours in Worker Co-ops

John Pencavel

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43 (3), 677-689

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. 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. 8434

Zukünftige Fachkräfteengpässe in Deutschland?

Vanessa Dräger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8356

Do Preferences Impact Behavior and Wellbeing? A Panel Study of Preferred and Actual Working Time 2001-2008/09

Jens Bonke, Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen

published in: Danish Journal of Economics, 2014, 152 (1), 1-25.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8335

Heterogeneity and Government Revenues: Higher Taxes at the Top?

Nezih Guner, Martin Lopez-Daneri, Gustavo Ventura

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8303

Childcare Subsidies and Household Labor Supply

Nezih Guner, Remzi Kaygusuz, Gustavo Ventura

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8281

Structural Labor Supply Models and Wage Exogeneity

Max Loeffler, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch

revised version available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 11425

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8205

A Kink that Makes You Sick: The Incentive Effect of Sick Pay on Absence

Petri Böckerman, Ohto Kanninen, Ilpo Suoniemi

published as "A Kink that Makes You Sick: The Effect of Sick Pay on Absence" in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2018, 33 (4), 568-579

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8203

Bouncing Back from Health Shocks: Locus of Control, Labor Supply, and Mortality

Stefanie Schurer

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,133, 1-20, 2017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8198

Work and Tax Evasion Incentive Effects of Social Insurance Programs: Evidence from an Employment-Based Benefit Extension

Marcelo Bergolo, Guillermo Cruces

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 117, 211-228

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8187

The Effect of Public Insurance Coverage for Childless Adults on Labor Supply

Laura Dague, Thomas DeLeire, Lindsey Leininger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8115

Social Norms and Mothers' Labor Market Attachment: The Medium-Run Effects of Parental Benefits

Jochen Kluve, Sebastian Schmitz

revised version published as 'Back to Work: parental benefits and mothers' labor market outcomes in the medium-run' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review 2018, 71 (1), 143 - 173

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8114

Single Mothers and the Earned Income Tax Credit: Insurance Without Disincentives?

Kartik Athreya, Devin Reilly, Nicole B. Simpson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8103

The Superstar Quest: Does Youth Talent Predict Professional Success for Female and Male Tennis Players?

Wayne A. Grove, Michael Jetter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8074

Health Information, Treatment, and Worker Productivity: Experimental Evidence from Malaria Testing and Treatment among Nigerian Sugarcane Cutters

Andrew Dillon, Jed Friedman, Pieter Serneels

forthcoming in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7997

Culture and Household Decision Making: Balance of Power and Labor Supply Choices of US-born and Foreign-born Couples

Sonia Oreffice

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2014, 35(2), 162-184

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7968

Parental Response to Early Human Capital Shocks: Evidence from the Chernobyl Accident

Martin Halla, Martina Zweimüller

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7937

Common Law Marriage and Male/Female Convergence in Labor Supply and Time Use

Shoshana Grossbard, Victoria Vernon

Research in Labor Economics (Gender Convergence in the Labor Market), 2015, 41,43-175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7917

Circumstantial Risk: Impact of Future Tax Evasion and Labor Supply Opportunities on Risk Exposure

Philipp Doerrenberg, Denvil Duncan, Christopher Zeppenfeld

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7895

Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Georgi Kocharkov, Cezar Santos

published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2014, 104(5), 348-353

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7804

Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: Efficient, but Regressive?

Nico Pestel, Eric Sommer

revised version published as 'Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: More Employment and more Inequality?' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2017, 63 (3), 524-563

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7768

After-School Care and Parents' Labor Supply

Christina Felfe, Michael Lechner, Petra Thiemann

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 62-75

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7741

Penalized Quantile Regression with Semiparametric Correlated Effects: Applications with Heterogeneous Preferences

Matthew Harding, Carlos Lamarche

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32, 342-358

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7705

Assessing the Impact of the Maternity Capital Policy in Russia Using a Dynamic Model of Fertility and Employment

Fabian Slonimczyk, Anna Yurko

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 265-281

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7699

Aggregation and Labor Supply Elasticities

Alois Kneip, Monika Merz, Lidia Storjohann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7698

Steady-State Labor Supply Elasticities: A Survey

Olivier Bargain, Andreas Peichl

published as "Own-wage labor supply elasticities: variation across time and estimation methods" in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 5(10)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7658

Labor Market Transparency

Eskil Wadensjö

published in: Jens Forssbaeck and Lars Oxelheim (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Economic and Institutional Transparency, New York: Oxford University Press, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7602

Motivating Agents: How Much Does the Mission Matter?

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Erick Gong

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7549

Immigrants, Household Production and Women's Retirement

Giovanni Peri, Agnese Romiti, Mariacristina Rossi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7508

Putting Structure on the RD Design: Social Transfers and Youth Inactivity in France

Olivier Bargain, Karina Doorley

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, vol. 52(4), pages 1032-1059.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7462

Maternity Leave and the Responsiveness of Female Labor Supply to a Household Shock