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427 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18246
Motherhood and Labour Market Outcomes: Penalty or Premium?
Souvik Banerjee, Sankar Mukhopadhyay, Preeti Jaiswal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18167
Ageing, Health and Predicting Future Employment Exits: A Penalised Regression Approach
Apostolos Davillas, Andrew M. Jones
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17879
Improving First-Generation College Students’ Education and Employment Outcomes: Effects of a Targeted Scholarship Program
Gopinath Annadurai, Soham Sahoo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17855
The Impact of Regional Identity on Hiring Chances: An Experiment Examining Employer Bias
Louise Devos, Louis Lippens, Dagmar Claus, Stijn Baert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17658
Child Penalties and Marriage Dissolution
Sara Ayllón, Linda Kirkpatrick, Alexander T. Plum
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17598
Labour Market Dynamics of Minimum Wage Workers
Paul Redmond, Seamus McGuinness, Elish Kelly
published online in: Applied Economics, 4 March 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17562
Migrants from Afghanistan on the Swedish Labour Market
Fredrik W. Andersson, Eskil Wadensjö
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17494
Does Early Timing of First Birth Lead to Lower Earnings in Midlife in Britain?
Jessica Nisén, Johanna Tassot, Francesco Iacoella, Peter Eibich
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17489
Biased Returns to Tenure: The Impact of Firm-Specific Shocks on Base and Non-base Earnings
Daniel Schaefer, Carl Singleton, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17476
Heritability in the Labour Market: Evidence from Italian Twins
Sonia Brescianini, Lorenzo Cappellari, Daniele Checchi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17435
Fertility, Pregnancy, and Parenthood Discrimination in the Labour Market: A Systematic Review
Morien El Haj, Stijn Baert, Luc Van Ootegem, Elsy Verhofstadt, Louis Lippens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17378
Revisiting Dualism? The Governance of the Low Pay-Low Skill Labour Market in Four European Countries
Werner Eichhorst, Gemma Scalise
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17347
Feeling Observed? A Field Experiment on the Effects of Intense Survey Participation on Job Seekers' Labour Market Outcomes
Gesine Stephan, Clemens Hetschko, Julia Schmidtke, Michael Eid, Mario Lawes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17278
The Perceived Impact of Immigration on Native Workers' Labour Market Outcomes
Bernd Hayo, Duncan H.W. Roth
published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 85, 102610
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17235
Intersectional Analysis of the Labour Market Impacts of COVID: The Triple-Whammy of Females, Children, and Lower Skill
Tony Fang, Morley Gunderson, Viet Hoang Ha, Hui Ming
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
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2025, 77 (2), 445-465
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
published in: De Economist, 2025, 173 (1), 121–175
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
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 227, 106713
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
published online in: National Institute Economic Review, 06 January 2025
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 in: JODE Journal of Demographic Economics, 2024, 90 (4), 553-588
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
published online in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 01 February 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
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