IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'World gone wrong: the financial crisis, labor market transitions and earnings in Serbia' in: Economic Change and Restructuring, 2014, 47(3), 187-226

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6047

Labour Market Under-Utilisation of Recent Higher Education Graduates: New Australian Panel Evidence

David Carroll, Massimiliano Tani

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 32, 207-218

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6018

Statistical Analysis of Landmine Fatalities in Kurdistan

Almas Heshmati, Nabaz T. Khayyat

published as 'Analysis of Landmine Fatalities and Injuries in the Kurdistan Region' in: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 30(5), 2015, 2591-2615.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5975

Productivity Gains from R&D Investment: Are High-Tech Sectors Still Ahead?

Raquel Ortega-Argilés, Mariacristina Piva, Marco Vivarelli

published in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2015, 24(3), 204-222

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5938

Does It Pay to Be Productive? The Case of Age Groups

Alessandra Cataldi, Stephan Kampelmann, Francois Rycx

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (3), 264-283

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5827

Employed and Unemployed Job Seekers: Are They Substitutes?

Simonetta Longhi, Mark P. Taylor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5824

Caught in the Bulimic Trap? Persistence and State Dependence of Bulimia Among Young Women

Michelle S. Goeree, John C. Ham, Daniela Iorio

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5791

Does Wage Dispersion Make All Firms Productive?

Benoît Mahy, Francois Rycx, Mélanie Volral

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 58 (4), 455-489

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5775

Social Contacts and the Economic Performance of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany

Agnieszka Kanas, Barry R. Chiswick, Tanja van der Lippe, Frank van Tubergen

published in: International Migration Review, 2012, 46 (3), 680-709

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5683

Europe Agreements and Trade Balance: Evidence form Four New EU Members

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Christophe Rault, Robert Sova, Anamaria Sova

published in: The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development,Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 21(6), pages 839-863, January 2012

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5670

Crime, Prosecutors, and the Certainty of Conviction

Horst Entorf

published jointly with Hannes Spengler in: European Journal of Law and Economics, 2015, 39(1), 167–201

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5443

Consistent Estimation of the Fixed Effects Ordered Logit Model

Gregori Baetschmann, Kevin E. Staub, Rainer Winkelmann

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, 2015, 178, 685–703.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5408

Disability and Multi-State Labour Force Choices with State Dependence

Umut Oguzoglu

revised version published in: Economic Record, 2016, 92 (296), 28 - 46 [Online]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5363

Poverty and Survival

Sonia R. Bhalotra

Journal of Development Studies, 2012, 48 (2), 145-167

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5349

Cronyism

Pedro S. Martins

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5315

Determinants of Further Training: Evidence for Germany

Christian Grund, Johannes Martin

revised version published in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2012, 23 (17), 3536-3558

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5298

What Do We Work For? An Anatomy of Pre- and Post-Tax Earnings Growth

Anders Frederiksen, Timothy J. Halliday, Alexander K. Koch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5269

The Heterogeneous Effects of Training Incidence and Duration on Labor Market Transitions

Bernd Fitzenberger, Aderonke Osikominu, Marie Paul

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5261

Solow or Lucas? Testing Speed of Convergence on a Panel of OECD Countries

Jens Arnold, Andrea Bassanini, Stefano Scarpetta

published in: Research in Economics, 2011, 65 (2), 110-123

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5260

Immigrant Heterogeneity and the Earnings Distribution in the United Kingdom and United States: New Evidence from a Panel Data Quantile Regression Analysis

Sherrilyn M. Billger, Carlos Lamarche

published in: Empirical Economics, 2015, 49, 705-750.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5217

Macroeconometric Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies in Austria

Wolfgang Dauth, Reinhard Hujer, Katja Wolf

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5183

The Post-Entry Performance of Cohorts of Export Starters in German Manufacturing Industries

Joachim Wagner

published in: International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2012, 19 (2), 169-193

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5176

Panel Data Estimates of the Production Function and Product and Labor Market Imperfections

Sabien Dobbelaere, Jacques Mairesse

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (1), 1-46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5163

Within- and Cross-Firm Mobility and Earnings Growth

Anders Frederiksen, Timothy J. Halliday, Alexander K. Koch

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2016, 69 (2), 320-353

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5151

International Trade and its Effects on Economic Growth in China

Peng Sun, Almas Heshmati

published in: China Economic Policy Review, 2012, 1(2), 35-60.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5120

Skin Tone's Decreasing Importance on Employment: Evidence from a Longitudinal Dataset, 1985-2000

Randall K. Q. Akee, Mutlu Yuksel

revised version published as 'The Decreasing Effect of Skin Tone on Women's Full-Time Employment' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2012, 65 (2), 398-426

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5088

Job Changes and Individual-Job Specific Wage Dynamics

Laura Hospido

published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 81-93 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2015.03.012

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5076

Hedonic Wage Equilibrium: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Thomas J. Kniesner, John D. Leeth

published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2010, 5 (4), 229-299

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5014

Earnings Dynamics and Inequality among Men in Luxembourg, 1988-2004: Evidence from Administrative Data

Denisa Maria Sologon, Cathal O'Donoghue

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4995

Do Gun Buybacks Save Lives? Evidence from Panel Data

Andrew Leigh, Christine Neill

published in: American Law and Economics Review, 2010, 12 (2), 462-508

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4964

Productivity Premia for German Manufacturing Firms Exporting to the Euro-Area and Beyond: First Evidence from Robust Fixed Effects Estimations

Vincenzo Verardi, Joachim Wagner

published in: The World Economy, 2012, 35 (6), 694-712

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4928

Robust Estimation of Linear Fixed Effects Panel Data Models with an Application to the Exporter Productivity Premium

Vincenzo Verardi, Joachim Wagner

published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2011, 231 (4), 546-557

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4909

Firm Ownership and Rent Sharing

Natália Pimenta Monteiro, Miguel Portela, Odd Rune Straume

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2011, 32 (3), 210 - 236

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4816

The Added Worker Effect and the Discouraged Worker Effect for Married Women in Australia

Xiaodong Gong

published as 'The Added Worker Effect for Married Women in Australia' in: Economic Record, 2011, 87 (278), 414-426

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4712

Modelling Heterogeneity and Dynamics in the Volatility of Individual Wages

Laura Hospido

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2012, 27 (3), 386-414

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4642

Equalizing or Disequalizing Lifetime Earnings Differentials? Earnings Mobility in the EU: 1994-2001

Denisa Maria Sologon, Cathal O'Donoghue

published in: John A. Bishop and Rafael Salas (eds.), Inequality, Mobility, and Segregation: Essays in Honor of Jacques Silber (Research in Economic Inequality, Vol 20), 2012, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 237-283

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4605

Offshoring and Firm Performance: Self-Selection, Effects on Performance, or Both?

Joachim Wagner

published in: Review of World Economics, 2011, 147 (2), 217-247

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4602

Interrelated Dynamics of Health and Poverty in Australia

Hielke Buddelmeyer, Lixin Cai

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4554

What Do Unions Do to Temporary Employment?

Andrea Salvatori

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4508

Policy Relevant Heterogeneity in the Value of Statistical Life: New Evidence from Panel Data Quantile Regressions

Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi, James P. Ziliak

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2010, 40 (1), 15-32

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4441

The KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel: Design and Research Potential

Helmut Fryges, Sandra Gottschalk, Karsten Kohn

published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2010, 130 (1), 117-131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4369

Health Inequality over the Life-Cycle

Timothy J. Halliday

published in: BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2011, 11(3), Article 5

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4336

Smoking Persistence Across Countries: An Analysis Using Semi-Parametric Dynamic Panel Data Models with Selectivity

Dimitris Christelis, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

revised version published as 'Smoking Persistence Across Countries: a Panel Data Analysis' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (5), 1077 - 1093

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4311

Increased Opportunity to Move Up the Economic Ladder? Earnings Mobility in EU: 1994-2001

Denisa Maria Sologon, Cathal O'Donoghue

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4242

Forecasting with Spatial Panel Data

Badi H. Baltagi, Georges Bresson, Alain Pirotte

published in: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 2012, 56 (11), 3381–3397

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4213

The Role of "Skill Enhancing Trade" in Brazil: Some Evidence from Microdata

Bruno Cesar Araújo, Francesco Bogliacino, Marco Vivarelli

published in: CEPAL Review, 2012, 105, 157-171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4164

Does Offshoring of Materials and Business Services Affect Employment? Evidence from a Small Open Economy

Bernhard Michel, Francois Rycx

published in: Applied Economics, 2012, 44 (2), 229 - 251

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4154

Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-Employment

Peter Haan, Michal Myck

revised version published as 'Dynamics of Health and Labour Market Risks' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2009, 28 (6), 1116-1125

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4151

Policy, Institutional Factors and Earnings Mobility

Denisa Maria Sologon, Cathal O'Donoghue

published in: The European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2011, 8(2), pp. 175-202

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4090

Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare and Increase Work?

Martin Huber, Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch, Thomas Walter

published as 'Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare Dependency and Increase Employment?' in: German Economic Review, 2011, 12 (2), 182-204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4076

Subsidies and Exports in Germany: First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data

Sourafel Girma, Holger Görg, Joachim Wagner

published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2009, 55 (3), 179-195

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4066

Changing Fertility Preferences One Migrant at a Time: The Impact of Remittances on the Fertility Rate

George S Naufal, Carlos Vargas-Silva

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4041

Agency and Communication in IMF Conditional Lending: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Silvia Marchesi, Laura Sabani, Axel Dreher

published as 'Read my lips: The role of information transmission in multilateral reform design ' in: Journal of International Economics. 2011, 84 (1), 86 - 98

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4012

Earnings Dynamics and Inequality among Men across 14 EU Countries, 1994-2001: Evidence from ECHP

Denisa Maria Sologon, Cathal O'Donoghue

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3854

Higher Productivity in Importing German Manufacturing Firms: Self-Selection, Learning from Importing, or Both?

Alexander Vogel, Joachim Wagner

published in: Review of World Economics, 2009, 145 (4), 641-665

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3783

The Determinants of Regional Migration in Great Britain: A Duration Approach

Martyn J. Andrews, Ken Clark, William Whittaker

revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2011, 174(1), 127-153.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3782

On the Bilateral Trade Effects of Free Trade Agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 Countries

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Christophe Rault, Anamaria Sova, Robert Sova

published in: Review of World Economics, 2009, 145 (2), 189-206

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3749

Am I Missing Something? The Effects of Absence from Class on Student Performance

Wiji Arulampalam, Robin Naylor, Jeremy Smith

revised version publishd in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (4), 363-375

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3698

A Dynamic Analysis of the Demand for Health Insurance and Health Care

Jonneke Bolhaar, Maarten Lindeboom, Bas van der Klaauw

published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (4), 669-690

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3559

Long-Run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities

Michael Lechner

published as 'Long-run labour market and health effects of individual sports activities' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2009, 28 (4), 839 - 854

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3520

Parents’ Incomes and Children’s Outcomes: A Quasi-Experiment

Randall K. Q. Akee, William Copeland, Gordon Keeler, Adrian Angold, Jane E. Costello

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, 2 (1), 86-115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3487

Fixed Effects Bias in Panel Data Estimators

Hielke Buddelmeyer, Paul H. Jensen, Umut Oguzoglu, Elizabeth Webster

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3463

Heterogeneity, State Dependence and Health

Timothy J. Halliday

published in: Econometrics Journal, 2008, 11(3), 499-516

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3423

Migration and the Wage Curve: A Structural Approach to Measure the Wage and Employment Effects of Migration

Herbert Brücker, Elke J. Jahn

revised version published as: 'Migration and Wage-Setting: Reassessing the Labor Market Effects of Migration' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2011, 113 (2), 286-317

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3338

R&D and Productivity: Testing Sectoral Peculiarities Using Micro Data

Lesley Potters, Raquel Ortega-Argilés, Marco Vivarelli

published in: Empirical Economics, 2011, 41 (3), 817-839

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3256

Does Job Satisfaction Improve the Health of Workers? New Evidence Using Panel Data and Objective Measures of Health

Justina A.V. Fischer, Alfonso Sousa-Poza

published in: Health Economics, 2009, 18 (1), 71-89

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3234

Income Volatility and Health

Timothy J. Halliday

substantially revised version published as IZA DP No. 6367, February 2012

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3231

Joining Panel Data with Cross-Sections for Efficiency Gains: An Application to a Consumption Equation for Nicaragua

Randolph Luca Bruno, Marco Stampini

published in: Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 2009, 68 (2), 149-173

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3170

Born To Be Mild? Cohort Effects Don’t (Fully) Explain Why Well-Being Is U-Shaped in Age

Andrew E. Clark

published in: Mariano Rojas (ed.), The Economics of Happiness: How the Easterlin Paradox Transformed our Understanding of Well-being and Progress, New York: Springer, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3107

Pinning Down the Value of Statistical Life

Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi, Christopher Woock, James P. Ziliak

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (1) , 74-87

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3092

Does the Order and Timing of Active Labor Market Programs Matter?

Michael Lechner, Stephan Wiehler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3043

Item Non-Response and Imputation of Annual Labor Income in Panel Surveys from a Cross-National Perspective

Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka

published in: Janet A. Harkness et al. (eds): Survey Methods in Multicultural, Multinational, and Multiregional Contexts, Wiley & Sons, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3039

Simplified Implementation of the Heckman Estimator of the Dynamic Probit Model and a Comparison with Alternative Estimators

Wiji Arulampalam, Mark Stewart

completely revised published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 71 (5), 659-681

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3003

A Positive Theory of the Earnings Relationship of Unemployment Benefits

Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg, Heinrich W. Ursprung

published in: Public Choice, 2010, 145 (1-2), 137-163

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2975

The Fertility Effect of Catastrophe: U.S. Hurricane Births

Richard W. Evans, Yingyao Hu, Zhong Zhao

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 1 - 36 [Details & Download]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2931

Firms and Early Retirement: Offers That One Does Not Refuse

Lutz Bellmann, Florian Janik

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2897

A Dynamic Mincer Equation with an Application to Portuguese Data

Corrado Andini

published in: Applied Economics, 2010, 42 (16), 2091-2098

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2868

How Did the Elimination of the Earnings Test above the Normal Retirement Age Affect Retirement Expectations?

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Arthur van Soest

published in: Fiscal Studies, 2008, 29 (2), 197-231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2851

Modeling International Trade Flows Between Eastern European Countries and OECD Countries

Christophe Rault, Robert Sova, Anamaria Sova

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2009, 16(15), 1547-1554

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2827

Understanding the Drivers of Poverty Dynamics in Australian Households

Hielke Buddelmeyer, Sher Verick

published in: Economic Record, 2008, 84 (266), 310-321

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2810

East-West Migration and Gender: Is there a “Double Disadvantage” vis-à-vis Stayers?

Anzelika Zaiceva

substantially revised version published as "East-West Migration and Gender: Is There a Differential Effect for Migrant Women?" in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (2), 443-454

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2800

What Did All the Money Do? On the General Ineffectiveness of Recent West German Labour Market Programmes

Conny Wunsch, Michael Lechner

published in: Kyklos, 2008, 61 (1), 134-174

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2756

Diagnostic Tests of Cross Section Independence for Nonlinear Panel Data Models

Cheng Hsiao, M. Hashem Pesaran, Andreas Pick

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2740

Kids or Courses? Gender Differences in the Effects of Active Labor Market Policies

Michael Lechner, Stephan Wiehler

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (3), 783-812

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2693