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392 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3456
The Impact of Population Aging on the Labor Market: The Case of Sri Lanka
Milan Vodopivec, Nisha Arunatilake
published in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2011, 4 (3), 141-163
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3322
Migration, Risk and the Intra-Household Allocation of Labor in El Salvador
Timothy J. Halliday
substantially revised version published as IZA DP No. 4903, April 2010
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3274
A Public Good Version of the Collective Household Model: An Empirical Approach with an Application to British Household Data
Chris van Klaveren, Bernard M. S. van Praag, Henriette Maassen van den Brink
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2008, 6 (2), 169-191
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3233
Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores
Alberto Alesina, Andrea Ichino, Loukas Karabarbounis
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011, 3 (2), 1-40
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3128
Optimal Taxation: The Design of Child Related Cash- and In-Kind-Benefits
Peter Haan, Katharina Wrohlich
published in: German Economic Review, 2010, 11(3), 278-301
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3037
Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries
Oddbjørn Raaum, Bernt Bratsberg, Knut Røed, Eva Österbacka, Tor Eriksson, Markus Jäntti, Robin Naylor
published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2007, 7 (2), Article 7
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3034
Labor Supply with Social Interactions: Econometric Estimates and Their Tax Policy Implications
Andrew Grodner, Thomas J. Kniesner
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 1-23
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2946
Working Hours Flexibility and Older Workers' Labor Supply
Anne C. Gielen
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2009, 61(2), 240-274
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2909
Why Are Married Men Working So Much? Home Production, Household Bargaining and Per-Capita Hours
John Knowles
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (3), 1055-1085
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2888
Intertemporal Labor Supply and Involuntary Unemployment
Peter Haan, Arne Uhlendorff
published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44, 661-683
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2845
Why Are Mothers Working Longer Hours in Austria than in Germany? A Comparative Micro Simulation Analysis
Helene Dearing, Helmut Hofer, Christine Lietz, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Katharina Wrohlich
published in: Fiscal Studies, 2007, 28 (4), 463-495
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2748
Maximum Fee vs. Child Benefit: A Welfare Analysis of Swedish Child-Care Fee Reform
Anne Brink, Katarina Nordblom, Roger Wahlberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2693
Short-Run and Long-Term Effects of Childbirth on Mothers’ Employment and Working Hours Across Institutional Regimes: An Empirical Analysis Based on the European Community Household Panel
Johannes Geyer, Viktor Steiner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2619
The Effects of Marriage on Couples’ Allocation of Time Between Market and Non-Market Hours
Abdel Rahmen El Lahga, Nicolas Moreau
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2559
Rent Taxation in a Small Open Economy: The Effect on Transitional Generations
Marko Koethenbuerger, Panu Poutvaara
published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2009, 16 (5), 697-709
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2539
The SES Health Gradient on Both Sides of the Atlantic
James Banks, Michael Marmot, Zoë Oldfield, James P. Smith
published in: David Wise (ed.), Developments in the Economics of Aging, University of Chicago Press, pp. 359-406, 2009
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2443
Gender Differences in Labor Supply to Monopsonistic Firms: An Empirical Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany
Boris Hirsch, Thorsten Schank, Claus Schnabel
substantially revised version published as "Differences in Labor Supply to Monopsonistic Firms and the Gender Pay Gap: An Empirical Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany" in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (2), 291-330
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2400
Incentives and the Allocation of Effort Over Time: The Joint Role of Affective and Cognitive Decision Making
Lorenz Götte, David B. Huffman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2399
Workfare: Eine wirksame Alternative zum Kombilohn
Holger Bonin, Hilmar Schneider
published in: Wirtschaftsdienst, 2006, 86 (10), 645-650
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2365
Active Labor Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe: A Survey
Annette Bergemann, Gerard J. van den Berg
published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2008, 91/92, 385-408
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2332
Classification Error in Dynamic Discrete Choice Models: Implications for Female Labor Supply Behavior
Michael P. Keane, Robert M. Sauer
published in: Econometrica, 2009, 77(3), 975-991
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2258
Pulls, Pushes and Entitlement Failures in Labor Markets: Does the State of Development Matter?
Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ralitza Dimova, Jeffrey B. Nugent
published as 'Off-farm Labour Supply and Labour Markets in Rapidly Changing Circumstances: Bulgaria during Transition' in: Economic Systems, 2011, 35 (3), 378 - 389
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2242
Do Wages Compensate for Anticipated Working Time Restrictions? Evidence from Seasonal Employment in Austria
Emilia Del Bono, Andrea Weber
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26(1), 181-221
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2240
The Effect of Filipino Overseas Migration on the Non-Migrant Spouse’s Market Participation and Labor Supply Behavior
Emily Cabegin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2195
Working Hours in Japan: Who Is Time-Privileged?
Scott M. Fuess, Jr.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2180
Changes in the Labor Supply Behavior of Married Women: 1980-2000
Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25(3), 393-438
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2172
A Collective Household Model of Time Allocation: A Comparison of Native Dutch and Immigrant Households in the Netherlands
Chris van Klaveren, Bernard M. S. van Praag, Henriette Maassen van den Brink
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2130
On the Identification of Frisch Labor Supplies
Olivier Donni
published in: Economics Letters, 2007, 95 (1), 1-6
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2115
Female Labor Market Transitions in Europe
Lutz C. Kaiser
published German version: Arbeitsmarktflexibilität, Arbeitsmarktübergänge und Familie: Die Europäische Perspektive, in: Szydlik, Marc (Ed.) (2008), Flexibilisierung – Folgen für Arbeit und Familie. Springer VS, pp. 295-313
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2107
Empirical Estimation Results of a Collective Household Time Allocation Model
Chris van Klaveren, Bernard M. S. van Praag, Henriette Maassen van den Brink
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2060
Cues for Coordination: Light, Longitude and Letterman
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Caitlin Knowles Myers, Mark L. Pocock
published as 'Cues for Timing and Coordination: Latitude, Letterman and Longitude' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (2), 223-246
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2053
Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market
Katharina Wrohlich
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2029
Endogenous Labor Market Participation and the Business Cycle
Christian Haefke, Michael Reiter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2025
Beans for Breakfast? How Exportable Is the British Workfare Model?
Olivier Bargain, Kristian Orsini
revised version published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 25, 165-198
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2004
Nonparametric Analysis of Household Labor Supply: Goodness-of-Fit and Power of the Unitary and the Collective Model
Laurens Cherchye, Frederic Vermeulen
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (2), 267-274
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1924
The Expanding Workweek? Understanding Trends in Long Work Hours Among U.S. Men, 1979-2004
Peter J. Kuhn, Fernando A. Lozano
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (2), 311-343
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1919
The Long-Term Effects of a Generous Income Support Program: Unemployment Insurance in New Brunswick and Maine, 1940-1991
Peter J. Kuhn, Chris Riddell
revised version published as 'The Long-Term Effects of Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from New Brunswick and Maine, 1940 - 1991' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 63 (2), 183 - 204
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1915
The Economics of Dual Job Holding: A Job Portfolio Model of Labor Supply
Francesco Renna, Ronald L. Oaxaca
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1890
Affect as a Source of Motivation in the Workplace: A New Model of Labor Supply, and New Field Evidence on Income Targeting and the Goal Gradient
Lorenz Götte, David B. Huffman
published in: Vohs, K.D, Baumeister, R.F; Loewenstein, G. (eds.): Do emotions help or hurt decision making? A Hedgefoxian Perspective, New York, Sage, 2007
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1876
Gender-Job Satisfaction Differences across Europe: An Indicator for Labor Market Modernization
Lutz C. Kaiser
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2007, 28 (1), 75-94
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1831
Why Are More Redistributive Social Security Systems Smaller? A Median Voter Approach
Marko Koethenbuerger, Panu Poutvaara, Paola Profeta
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2008, 60 (2), 275-292
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1820
SSI, Labor Supply, and Migration
David Neumark, Elizabeth T. Powers
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (3), 447-479
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1787
The Division of Labor by New Parents: Does Child Gender Matter?
Shelly Lundberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1785
Collective Labour Supply: Heterogeneity and Nonparticipation
Richard Blundell, Pierre-André Chiappori, Thierry Magnac, Costas Meghir
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2007, 74 (2), 417-445
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. 1752
Building the Family Nest: Pre-Marital Investments, Marriage Markets and Spousal Allocations
Murat Iyigun, Randall P. Walsh
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2007, 74 (2), 507-532
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1744
Bargaining and Specialization in Marriage
Murat Iyigun
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1706
Employment Dynamics of Married Women in Europe
Pierre-Carl Michaud, Konstantinos Tatsiramos
substantially revised paper appeared as DP No. 3853
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1688
How Do Marital Status, Wage Rates, and Work Commitment Interact?
Avner Ahituv, Robert I. Lerman
published in: Demography, 2007, 44 (3), 623-647
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1680
The Economics of Workaholism: We Should Not Have Worked on This Paper
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Joel Slemrod
published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2008, 8 (1), Article 3
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1657
Increasing Returns to Education and the Skills Under-Investment Trap
Alison L. Booth, Melvyn Coles
published as 'A Microfoundation for Increasing Returns in Human Capital Accumulation and the Under-Participation Trap' in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (7), 1661-1681
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1648
How Damaging Is Part-Time Employment to a Woman's Occupational Prospects?
Victoria L. Prowse
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1623
State Dependence in a Multi-State Model of Employment Dynamics
Victoria L. Prowse
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1613
Does Parental Leave Affect Fertility and Return-to-Work? Evidence from a "True Natural Experiment"
Rafael Lalive, Josef Zweimüller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1577
Employment-Contingent Health Insurance, Illness, and Labor Supply of Women: Evidence from Married Women with Breast Cancer
Cathy J. Bradley, David Neumark, Zhehui Luo, Heather L. Bednarek
published in: Health Economics, 2007, 16 (7), 719-737
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1511
Labor Supply, Home Production and Welfare Comparisons
Olivier Donni
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 92 (7), 1720-1737
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1502
Beware of Workaholics: Household Preferences and Individual Equilibrium Utility
Hans Gersbach, Hans Haller
updated version published as ' "Hard Workers" and Labor Restrictions' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2012, 25 (2), 469 - 494
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1490
Wohlfahrts- und Verteilungseffekte eines allgemeinen Freibetrags bei den Sozialabgaben
Hilmar Schneider, Holger Bonin
published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2005, 38 (4), 475-492
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1480
Cooperative Models in Action: Simulation of a Nash-Bargaining Model of Household Labor Supply with Taxation
Olivier Bargain, Nicolas Moreau
published as 'The Impact of Tax-Benefit Reforms on Labor Supply in a Simulated Nash-bargaining Framework' in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2013, 34(1), 77-86
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1455
On Modeling Household Labor Supply with Taxation
Olivier Bargain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1451
Is the Collective Model of Labor Supply Useful for Tax Policy Analysis? A Simulation Exercise
Olivier Bargain, Nicolas Moreau
published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2007 (14), 317-344
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1445
In-Work Policies in Europe: Killing Two Birds with One Stone?
Olivier Bargain, Kristian Orsini
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (6), 667-693
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1441
Normative Evaluation of Tax Policies: From Households to Individuals
Olivier Bargain
revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2008, 21 (2), 339-371
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1420
The Transition from Welfare to Work and the Role of Potential Labor Income
Hilmar Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff
published in: Journal of Applied Social Sciences Studies, 2005, 125 (1), 51-61
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1412
Incentives and Effort in the Public Sector: Have U.S. Education Reforms Increased Teachers’ Work Hours?
Christiana Stoddard, Peter J. Kuhn
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2008, 27 (1), 1-13
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1358
Fly Me to the Moon: The Determinants of Secondary Jobholding in Germany and the UK
Guido Heineck, Johannes Schwarze
published as 'The determinants of secondary jobholding in Germany and the UK' in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2009, 42 (2), 107-120
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1319
Mass Migration to Israel and Natives' Transitions from Employment
Sarit Cohen Goldner, M. Daniele Paserman
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 59 (4), 630-652
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1315
The Dynamic Impact of Immigration on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Israel
Sarit Cohen Goldner, M. Daniele Paserman
published in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (8), 1027-1045
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1309
Timing Constraints and the Allocation of Time: The Effects of Changing Shopping Hours Regulations in the Netherlands
Joyce P. Jacobsen, Peter Kooreman
published in: European Economic Review, 2005, 49 (1), 9-27
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1294
A Collective Retirement Model: Identification and Estimation in the Presence of Externalities
Pierre-Carl Michaud, Frederic Vermeulen
published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 159-167
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1288
Women's Hours of Market Work in Germany: The Role of Parental Leave
Monika Merz
published in: R. Goméz-Salvador et al. (eds.), Labour Supply and Incentive to Work in Europe, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1251
Joint Estimation of Sequential Labor Force Participation and Fertility Decisions Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques
Kenneth Troske, Alexandru Voicu
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 150-169
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1220
Females' Willingness to Work and the Discouragement Effect of a Poor Local Childcare Provision
Maarten van Ham, Felix Büchel
published in: [Applied Economics Quarterly], 2004, 50 (4), 363 - 378
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1097
Single Mothers and Work
Libertad Gonzalez
published in: Socio-Economic Review, 2004, 2 (2), 285-313
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1034
Unwilling or Unable? Spatial, Institutional and Socio-Economic Restrictions on Females' Labor Market Access
Maarten van Ham, Felix Büchel
published in: [Regional Studies], 2006, 40(3), 1-12
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1002
Do Workers Work More When Wages Are High? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Ernst Fehr, Lorenz Götte
published in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (1), 298-317
IZA Discussion Paper No. 927
Loss Aversion and Labor Supply
Lorenz Götte, David B. Huffman, Ernst Fehr
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2004, 2 (2-3), 216-228
IZA Discussion Paper No. 891
From Welfare to Work: Evaluating a Proposed Tax and Benefit Reform Targeted at Single Mothers in Sweden
Lennart Flood, Elina Pylkkänen, Roger Wahlberg
published in: Labour, 2007, 21 (3), 443-471
IZA Discussion Paper No. 816
The Early Retirement Burden: Assessing the Costs of the Continued Prevalence of Early Retirement in OECD Countries
Tryggvi Thor Herbertsson, Mike Orszag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 796
Gender, Time Use and Models of the Household
Patricia Apps
IZA Discussion Paper No. 769
Household Labor Supply and Welfare Participation in Sweden
Lennart Flood, Jörgen Hansen, Roger Wahlberg
published in Journal of Human Resources, 2004, 39 (4), 1008-1032
IZA Discussion Paper No. 729
Children and Women's Participation Dynamics: Transitory and Long-Term Effects
Alexandru Voicu, Hielke Buddelmeyer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 694
What Determines the Reservation Wages of Unemployed Workers? New Evidence from German Micro Data
Eswar Prasad
published in: Gabriel Fagan, Francesco Mongelli and Julian Morgan (eds.), Institutions and Wage Formation in the New Europe: Proceedings of the ECB's Annual Labor Market Workshop, London: Edward Elgar, 2004
IZA Discussion Paper No. 637
Household Labor Supply Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies in Germany
Holger Bonin, Wolfram Kempe, Hilmar Schneider
published in: Journal of Applied Social Sciences Studies, 2003, 123 (1), 199-208
IZA Discussion Paper No. 587
Kombilohn oder Workfare? Zur Wirksamkeit zweier arbeitsmarktpolitischer Strategien
Holger Bonin, Wolfram Kempe, Hilmar Schneider
published in: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, 2003, 72 (1), 51-67
IZA Discussion Paper No. 530
Unemployment Invariance
Marika Karanassou, Dennis J. Snower
published in: German Economic Review, 2004, 5 (3), 297-317
IZA Discussion Paper No. 463
Labor Supply Dynamics, Umemployment and Human Capital Investments
Etienne Wasmer
published in:Recherches Economiques de Louvan / Louvain Economic Review, 2004, 70 (4), 461-482
IZA Discussion Paper No. 409
Fertility, Female Labor Supply and Public Policy
Patricia Apps, Ray Rees
revised version published as 'Fertility, Taxation and Family Policy' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2004, 106 (4), 745-763
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. 292
Between-group Competition in the Labor Market and the Rising Returns to Skill: US and France 1964-2000
Etienne Wasmer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 289
Old-Age Support in Developing Countries: Labor Supply, Intergenerational Transfers and Living Arrangements
Lisa A. Cameron, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
published as 'Do coresidency and financial transfers from the children reduce the need for elderly parents to works in developing countries?' in : Journal of Population Economics, 2008, 21(4), 1007-1033
IZA Discussion Paper No. 29
Causes of Changing Earnings Inequality
Dennis J. Snower
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