IZA Discussion Papers

published online as 'Intersectional analysis of the labour market impacts of COVID on women with young children and in low-skilled jobs' in: International Journal of Manpower, 19 September 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17225

Age Discrimination, Apprenticeship Training and Hiring: Evidence from a Scenario Experiment

Axana Dalle, Toon Wybo, Stijn Baert, Dieter Verhaest

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17153

Business Cycle Turning Points and Local Labour Markets

Karl Taylor, Soumya Bhadury, Jane Binner, Anandadeep Mandal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17027

Immigrant Overeducation across Generations: The Role of Gender and Part-Time Work

Kevin Pineda-Hernández, François Rycx, Mélanie Volral

forthcoming in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16965

The Effect of Ukrainian Refugees on the Local Labour Markets: The Case of Czechia

Agnieszka Postepska, Anastasiia Voloshyna

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16934

Labor Market Externalities of Pre-retirement Employment Protection

Paweł Chrostek, Krzysztof Karbownik, Michal Myck

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16849

Labour Market Disadvantages of Citizens with a Migration Background in Belgium: A Systematic Review

Louise Devos, Louis Lippens, Dries Lens, François Rycx, Mélanie Volral, Stijn Baert

forthcoming in: De Economist, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16804

The Subsidy Trap: Explaining the Unsatisfactory Effectiveness of Hiring Subsidies for the Senior Unemployed

Axana Dalle, Elsy Verhofstadt, Stijn Baert

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16777

Let's Roll Back! The Challenging Task of Regulating Temporary Contracts

Davide Fiaschi, Cristina Tealdi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16728

Unintended Consequences? The Changing Composition of Immigration to the UK after Brexit

Jonathan Portes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16685

Job Displacement and Local Employment Density

David C. Maré, Richard Fabling, Dean R. Hyslop

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16475

Making Their Own Weather? Estimating Employer Labour-Market Power and Its Wage Effects

Pedro S. Martins, António Melo

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2024, 139, 103614

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16472

Migration and Productivity in the UK: An Analysis of Employee Payroll Data

Hoseong Nam, Jonathan Portes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16417

What If It Never Happened? Subjective Treatment Effects of a Negative Shock on Youth Labour Market Outcomes in Developing Countries

Marta Favara, Richard Freund, Marcello Perez-Alvarez

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16395

The Economics of Abortion Policy

Damian Clarke

published online in: The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, 18 June 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16136

Women's Transitions in the Labour Market as a Result of Childbearing: The Challenges of Formal Sector Employment in Indonesia

Lisa A. Cameron, Diana Contreras Suarez, Yi-Ping Tseng

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16057

A Poisoned Gift? The Hireability Signals of an Income-Support Program for the Senior Unemployed

Axana Dalle, Philippe Sterkens, Stijn Baert

published online in: JODE Journal of Demographic Economics, 18 September 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16039

Pension Reforms and Couples' Labour Supply Decisions

Hamed Markazi Moghadam, Patrick A. Puhani, Joanna Tyrowicz

published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 91, 102627

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16035

Seeking Shelter in Times of Crisis? Unemployment, Perceived Job Insecurity and Trade Union Membership

Adrian Chadi, Laszlo Goerke

published in: Economica, 2023, 90 (359), 1041-1088

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16021

Non-compete Agreements in a Rigid Labour Market: The Case of Italy

Tito Boeri, Andrea Garnero, Lorenzo Giovanni Luisetto

published online in: Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 24 April 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15980

Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space

Stephen Hansen, Peter John Lambert, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Raffaella Sadun, Bledi Taska

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15954

Gender Differences in the Early Career Earnings of Economics Graduates

Stephen Bazen, Kadija Charni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15883

The Impact of the Post-Brexit Migration System on the UK Labour Market

Jonathan Portes, John Springford

published in: Contemporary Social Science, 2023, 18:2, 132-149

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15770

Moving up the Social Ladder? Wages of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants from Developing Countries

Kevin Pineda-Hernández, François Rycx, Mélanie Volral

forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15675

The Wage Elasticity of Recruitment

Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn, Alan Manning, Michael Oberfichtner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15641

Labor Market Concentration and Competition Policy across the Atlantic

Satoshi Araki, Andrea Bassanini, Andrew Green, Luca Marcolin, Cristina Volpin

published in: The University of Chicago Law Review, 2023, 90 (2), 339-378

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15609

Analysis of Twins

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Damian Clarke

published in: Klaus. F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer Nature, 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15595

Cousins from Overseas: The Labour Market Impact of a Major Forced Return Migration Shock

Lara Bohnet, Susana Peralta, João Pereira dos Santos

published in: European Economic Review, 2025, 172, 104925

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15513

The Relation between Skills and Job Security: Identifying the Contractual Return to Skills

Ron Diris, Olaf Van Vliet

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15475

Disparities in Labour Market and Income Trends during the First Year of the COVID-19 Crisis – Evidence from Germany

Carsten Braband, Valentina Sara Consiglio, Markus M. Grabka, Natascha Hainbach, Sebastian Königs

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15419

Technological Progress, Occupational Structure and Gender Gaps in the German Labour Market

Ronald Bachmann, Myrielle Gonschor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15401

Why Should We Integrate Income and Employment Support? A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation

Antonia Asenjo, Veronica Escudero, Hannah Liepmann

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2024, 60 (1), 1-20.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15358

Heterogeneous Returns to Active Labour Market Programs for Indigenous Populations

Donn. L. Feir, Kelly Foley, Maggie E. C. Jones

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15358

Heterogeneous Returns to Active Labour Market Programs for Indigenous Populations

Donn. L. Feir, Kelly Foley, Maggie E. C. Jones

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15352

Gender Differences in STEM Persistence after Graduation

Judith M. Delaney, Paul J. Devereux

published in: Economica, 2022, 89 (356), 862-883.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15340

Minimum Wages in Developing Countries

Tony Fang, Viet Hoang Ha

published in: Klaus F. Zimmermannn (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15303

The Impact of Robots on Labour Market Transitions in Europe

Ronald Bachmann, Myrielle Gonschor, Piotr Lewandowski, Karol Madoń

published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2024, 70, 422-441

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15284

Accounting for Firms in Ethnicity Wage Gaps throughout the Earnings Distribution

Van Phan, Carl Singleton, Alex Bryson, John Forth, Felix Ritchie, Lucy Stokes, Damian Whittard

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15231

Labour Market Concentration, Wages and Job Security in Europe

Andrea Bassanini, Giulia Bovini, Eve Caroli, Jorge Casanova Ferrando, Federico Cingano, Paolo Falco, Florentino Felgueroso, Marcel Jansen, Pedro S. Martins, António Melo, Michael Oberfichtner, Martin Popp

revised version published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 6 March 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15163

Poor Workers in Rich Democracies: On the Nature of In-Work Poverty and Its Relationship to Labour Market Policies

Rod Hick, Ive Marx

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15102

Scarring Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Italian Labour Market

Davide Fiaschi, Cristina Tealdi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15102

Scarring Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Italian Labour Market

Davide Fiaschi, Cristina Tealdi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15099

Good Job, Bad Job, No Job? Ethnicity and Employment Quality for Men in the UK

Ken Clark, Nico Ochmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15080

Robots and Unions: The Moderating Effect of Organised Labour on Technological Unemployment

Henri Haapanala, Ive Marx, Zachary Parolin

published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2023, 44 (3), 827-852

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15066

An Impact Assessment of ESF Training Courses for Unemployed in the Province of Bolzano

Francesco Pastore, Marco Pompili

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15044

I Won't Make the Same Mistake Again: Burnout History and Job Preferences

Philippe Sterkens, Stijn Baert, Eline Moens, Eva Derous, Joey Wuyts

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14977

Does Relative Age Affect Speed and Quality of Transition from School to Work?

Luca Fumarco, Alessandro Vandromme, Levi Halewyck, Eline Moens, Stijn Baert

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14933

Crowdwork for Young People: Risks and Opportunities

Niall O'Higgins, Luis Pinedo Caro

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14929

COVID-19 Government Responses to Labour Market Disruptions and Economic Impacts: The New Zealand Model

Sholeh A. Maani

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14879

Labour-Saving Automation and Occupational Exposure: A Text-Similarity Measure

Fabio Montobbio, Jacopo Staccioli, Maria Enrica Virgillito, Marco Vivarelli

published as 'Labour-saving automation: a direct measure of occupational exposure' in: World Economy, 2024, 47, 332–361

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14847

Population Growth, Immigration and Labour Market Dynamics

Michael Elsby, Jennifer C. Smith, Jonathan Wadsworth

published in: Demography, 2024, 61 (5), 1559–1584.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14699

The Early Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Labour Market Outcomes of Natives and Migrants in the UK

Greta Morando

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14616

Teenage Conduct Problems: A Lifetime of Disadvantage in the Labour Market?

Sam Parsons, Alex Bryson, Alice Sullivan

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2024, 78 (1), 60 - 80

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14486

Active Labour Market Policies for the Long-Term Unemployed: New Evidence from Causal Machine Learning

Daniel Goller, Tamara Harrer, Michael Lechner, Joachim Wolff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14479

Young People between Education and the Labour Market during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy

Davide Fiaschi, Cristina Tealdi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14367

Are Temporary Jobs Stepping Stones or Dead Ends? A Meta-Analytical Review of the Literature

Mattia Filomena, Matteo Picchio

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2022, 43 (9), 60 - 74.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14357

Why a Labour Market Boom Does Not Necessarily Bring Down Inequality: Putting Together Germany's Inequality Puzzle

Martin Biewen, Miriam Sturm

published in: Fiscal Studies, 2022, 43 (2), 121-149

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14294

Working Beyond the Normal Retirement Age in Urban China and Urban Russia

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Ludmila Nivorozhkina, Haiyuan Wan

published in: IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2021, 12 (1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14278

By Choice or by Force? Exploring the Nature of Informal Employment in Urban Mexico

Robert Duval Hernández

published as 'Choices and Constraints: The Nature of Informal Employment in Urban Mexico' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2022, 58 (7), 1349-1362

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14254

A General Methodology to Measure Labour Market Dynamics

Davide Fiaschi, Cristina Tealdi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14254

A General Methodology to Measure Labour Market Dynamics

Davide Fiaschi, Cristina Tealdi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14162

Do Non-tariff Barriers to Trade Save American Jobs and Wages?

Marco Leonardi, Elena Meschi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14121

Political Economy of Labour Market Institutions in a Globalised Era

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Richard Frensch, Stephan Huber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13993

Can Placement of Governmental Sector Jobs Spur Private Sector Employment and Performance?

Harald Dale-Olsen, Pal Schone

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13975

Does Robotization Affect Job Quality? Evidence from European Regional Labour Markets

José-Ignacio Antón, Enrique Fernández-Macías, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published in: Industrial Relations, 2023, 62 (3), 232 - 256

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13944

Long-Lasting Effects of Communist Indoctrination in School: Evidence from Poland

Joan Costa-Font, Jorge Garcia-Hombrados, Anna Nicińska

published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 161, 104641

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13869

The Spanish Labour Market at the Crossroads: COVID-19 Meets the Megatrends

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

published in: Applied Economic Analysis, 2021, 29 (85), 21-41.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13760

The Crisis and Job Guarantees in Urban India

Swati Dhingra, Stephen Machin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13687

The Weight of Patriarchy? Gender Obesity Gaps in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Joan Costa-Font, Mario Gyori

published in: Social Science and Medicine, 220, 266, 113353

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13642

Delineating Functional Labour Market Areas with Estimable Classification Stabilities

Benjamin Davies, David C. Maré

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13572

Obstacles to Labour Market Participation among Arab Women in Israel

Sami H. Miaari, Nabil Khattab, Maha Sabbah-Karkabi

published in: International Labour Review 2023, 162 (4), 587 - 614

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13523

Is Labour Market Discrimination against Ethnic Minorities Better Explained by Taste or Statistics? A Systematic Review of the Empirical Evidence

Louis Lippens, Stijn Baert, Abel Ghekiere, Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe, Eva Derous

revised version published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2022, 48 (17), 4243 - 4276

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13512

The Iceberg Decomposition: A Parsimonious Way to Map the Health of Labour Markets

Stijn Baert

revised version published in: Economic Analysis and Policy , 2021, 69, 350 - 365

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13512

The Iceberg Decomposition: A Parsimonious Way to Map the Health of Labour Markets

Stijn Baert

revised version published in: Economic Analysis and Policy , 2021, 69, 350 - 365

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13220

The Regional Anatomy of School Dropouts in Spain: The Role of the Industry Structure of Local Labour Markets

Luis Diaz-Serrano, William Nilsson

published as 'The regional anatomy of youths' educational attainment in Spain: The role of the employment structure in local labour markets' in: Papers in Regional Science, 2020, 99 (5), 1487-1508.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13208

Racial Discrimination and White First Name Adoption: Evidence from a Correspondence Study in the Australian Labour Market

Shyamal Chowdhury, Evarn Ooi, Robert Slonim

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13181

Elementary Facts about Immigration in Italy: What Do We Know about Immigration and Its Impact?

Rama Dasi Mariani, Alessandra Pasquini, Furio C. Rosati

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13171

Echo Effects of Early-Life Health Shocks: The Intergenerational Consequences of Prenatal Malnutrition during the Great Leap Forward Famine in China

Jinhu Li, Nidhiya Menon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13112

What Makes Work Meaningful and Why Economists Should Care about It

Milena Nikolova, Femke Cnossen

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101847

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12875

Priority to Unemployed Immigrants? A Causal Machine Learning Evaluation of Training in Belgium

Bart Cockx, Michael Lechner, Joost Bollens

published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 80, 102306

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12856

Labour Market Outcomes for Cancer Survivors: A Review of the Reviews

Adelina Sharipova, Stijn Baert

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12851

Occupational Routine-Intensity and the Costs of Job Loss: Evidence from Mass Layoffs

Uwe Blien, Wolfgang Dauth, Duncan H.W. Roth

published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 68, 101953

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12825

New Evidence on Disability Benefit Claims in the UK: The Role of Health and the Local Labour Market

Jennifer Roberts, Karl Taylor

published in: Economica, 2022, 89, 131-169

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12773

Employment Protection and Firm-Provided Training: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Labour Market Reform

Massimiliano Bratti, Maurizio Conti, Giovanni Sulis

revised version published as 'Employment Protection and Firm-provided Training in Dual Labour Markets' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 69, 101972

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12765

Endogenous Local Labour Markets, Regional Aggregation and Agglomeration Economies

Jordy Meekes, Wolter Hassink

published in: Regional Studies, 2023, 57 (1), 13 - 25

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12679

Occupational Mobility in Europe: Extent, Determinants and Consequences

Ronald Bachmann, Peggy Bechara, Christina Vonnahme

published in: De Economist, 2020, 168(1), 79-108

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12659

Are Political and Economic Integration Intertwined?

Bernt Bratsberg, Giovanni Facchini, Tommaso Frattini, Anna Rosso

published in: Economica, 2023, 90 (360), 1265 - 1306

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12594

Does Integration Policy Integrate? The Employment Effects of Sweden's 2010 Reform of the Introduction Program

Haodong Qi, Nahikari Irastorza, Henrik Emilsson, Pieter Bevelander

published as 'Integration policy and refugees’ economic performance: Evidence from Sweden’s 2010 reform of the introduction programme' in: International Migration, 2021, 59 (4), 42 - 58

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12538

Those Who Can't Sort, Steal: Caste, Occupational Mobility, and Rent-Seeking in Rural India

Nicholas Lawson, Dean Spears

published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2021, 87 (1), 107–140.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12526

Does the Estimation of the Propensity Score by Machine Learning Improve Matching Estimation? The Case of Germany's Programmes for Long Term Unemployed

Daniel Goller, Michael Lechner, Andreas Moczall, Joachim Wolff

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101855

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12402

Did the Post-1986 Decline in the Homeownership Rate Benefit the New Zealand Labour Market? A Spatial-Econometric Exploration

William Cochrane, Jacques Poot

published in: Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 2020, 4 (1), 261-284