IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Intimate Partner Violence: The Influence of Job Opportunities for Men and Women' in: World Bank Economic Review, 2021, 35 (2), 461 - 479

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11209

Returns to Education and Female Participation Nexus: Evidence from India

Sanghamitra Kanjilal-Bhaduri, Francesco Pastore

published in: Indian Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 61 (3), 515-536.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11086

Employment Transitions of Women in India: A Panel Analysis

Sudipa Sarkar, Soham Sahoo, Stephan Klasen

published in: World Development, 2019, 115, 291-309

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11064

The German Model of Industrial Relations: (Where) Does It Still Exist?

Michael Oberfichtner, Claus Schnabel

published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik), 2019, 239 (1), 5-37

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10942

Welfare Reform and the Intergenerational Transmission of Dependence

Robert Paul Hartley, Carlos Lamarche, James P. Ziliak

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (3), 523 - 565

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10934

Stigma of Sexual Violence and Women's Decision to Work

Tanika Chakraborty, Anirban Mukherjee, Swapnika Reddy Rachapalli, Sarani Saha

published in: World Development, 2018, 103, 226 - 238

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10905

Behavioral Responses and Welfare Reform: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Robert Paul Hartley, Carlos Lamarche

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 54, 135-151

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10826

The Gender Wage Gap in Developed Countries

Astrid Kunze

published in: Oxford Handbook on Women and the Economy, Oxford University Press, (ed.) Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys, and Saul D. Hoffman, 2018.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10769

Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States

Stephen R. G. Jones, W. Craig Riddell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10552

Globalization and Social Change: Gender-Specific Effects of Trade Liberalization in Indonesia

Krisztina Kis-Katos, Janneke Pieters, Robert Sparrow

published in: IMF Economic Review, 2018, 66 (4), 763-793

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10464

Teen Fertility and Labor Market Segmentation: Evidence from Madagascar

Catalina Herrera-Almanza, David E. Sahn, Kira M. Villa

published in: Journal of African Economies, 2019, 28 (3), 277–303

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10463

Missing from the Market: Purdah Norm and Women's Paid Work Participation in Bangladesh

Niaz Asadullah, Zaki Wahhaj

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10440

Toothless Reforms? The Remarkable Stability of Female Labor Force Participation in a Top-Reforming Country

Norberto Pignatti, Karine Torosyan, Maka Chitanava

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10398

The Effects of Computers on Children's Social Development and School Participation: Evidence from a Randomized Control Experiment

Robert W. Fairlie, Ariel Kalil

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 57, 10 - 19

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10384

Performance in Mixed-Sex and Single-Sex Tournaments: What We Can Learn from Speedboat Races in Japan

Alison L. Booth, Eiji Yamamura

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100 (4), 581 - 593

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10178

Does the Unemployment Invariance Hypothesis Hold for Canada?

Aysit Tansel, Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir, Emre Aksoy

substantially revised version published as 'Unemployment Invariance Hypothesis, Added and Discouraged Workers in Canada' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2018, 39 (7), 929-936.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10061

Turbulence and the Employment Experience of Older Workers

Etienne Lalé

published in: Quantitative Economics, 2018, 9 (2), 735-784.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10059

Commitment in the Household: Evidence from the Effect of Inheritances on the Labor Supply of Older Married Couples

David M. Blau, Ryan Goodstein

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 123 - 137

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9991

Internet and Voting in the Web 2.0 Era: Evidence from a Local Broadband Policy

Samuele Poy, Simone Schüller

revised version published in: Research Policy, 2020, 49 (1), 103861

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9924

The Mixture as Before? Student Responses to the Changing Content of School Meals in India

Farzana Afridi, Bidisha Barooah, Rohini Somanathan

published as 'Designing Effective Transfers: Lessons from India's School Meal Program' in: Review of Development Economics, 2020, 24 (1), 45-61

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9911

Information, Financial Aid and Training Participation: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Katja Görlitz, Marcus Tamm

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 138-148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9780

Effects of Welfare Reform on Women's Voting Participation

Dhaval M. Dave, Hope Corman, Nancy E. Reichman

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2017, 55 (3), 1430-1451

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. 9722

Why Are Fewer Married Women Joining the Work Force in India? A Decomposition Analysis over Two Decades

Farzana Afridi, Taryn Dinkelman, Kanika Mahajan

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (3), 783-818

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9672

Islamism and Gender Relations in the Muslim World as Reflected in Recent World Values Survey Data

Arno Tausch, Almas Heshmati

published in: Society and Economy, 2016, 38 (4), 427–453

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9643

Higher Education Expansion and Labor Market Outcomes for Young College Graduates

Dongshu Ou, Zhong Zhao

revised version published in: China & World Economy, 2022, 30 (2), 117-141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9481

Overconfidence and Health Insurance Participation among the Elderly

Wei Huang, Mi Luo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9477

Where Does Education Pay Off in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Two Cities of the Republic of Congo

Mathias Kuepie, Christophe Jalil Nordman

published in: Oxford Development Studies, 2016, 44 (1), 1-27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9343

Cultural and Ethnic Differences in the Transitions from Work to 'Retirement' of Rural Elders in China’s Minority Regions

Rachel Connelly, Margaret Maurer-Fazio

published in: B. Gustafsson, R. Hasmath. S. Ding (eds), Ethnicity and Inequality in China, New York and Oxford: Routledge, 2021, 82-109. / published in Chinese, Beijing, 2017, 56-83.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9244

Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis: Religion and Female Employment over Time

Justina A.V. Fischer, Francesco Pastore

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9212

The Effects of Longer School Days on Mothers' Labor Force Participation

Matias Berthelon, Diana Kruger, Melanie Oyarzún

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9151

The Impact of Short- and Long-Term Participation Tax Rates on Labor Supply

Charlotte Bartels, Nico Pestel

revised version published as 'Short- and Long-term Participation Tax Rates and Their Impact on Labor Supply' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2016, 23(6), 1126-1159

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8886

Employment Subsidies, Informal Economy and Women's Transition into Work in a Depressed Area: Evidence from a Matching Approach

Manuela Deidda, Adriana Di Liberto, Marta Foddi, Giovanni Sulis

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 4:7

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8843

Who Is Coming to the Artefactual Field Experiment? Participation Bias among Chinese Rural Migrants

Paul Frijters, Tao Sherry Kong, Elaine M. Liu

published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2015, 114 (C), 62-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8788

Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants

David Autor, Nicole Maestas, Kathleen Mullen, Alexander Strand

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8614

Can Immigrants Help Women "Have it All"? Immigrant Labor and Women's Joint Fertility and Labor Supply Decisions

Delia Furtado

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4 (19)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8571

Ethnic Identity and Work

Amelie F. Constant

published in: J.D. Wright (ed) the International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, 2015, 106-112

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8535

Measurement Error in Subjective Expectations and the Empirical Content of Economic Models

Tilman Drerup, Benjamin Enke, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker

published as: 'The precision of subjective data and the explanatory power of economic models' in: Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 200 (2), 378-389

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8522

Cultural Values and Decision to Work of Immigrant Women in Italy

Vincenzo Scoppa, Manuela Stranges

published in: Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2019, 33 (1), 101-123.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8407

Labour Market Progression of Canadian Immigrant Women

Alicia Adsera, Ana Ferrer

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 39, 88 - 98

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8226

Migration, Education and the Gender Gap in Labour Force Participation

Ilhom Abdulloev, Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: European Journal of Development Research, 2014, 26 (4), 509–526

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8221

The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates

Robert Dixon, Guay C. Lim, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47 (24), 2523-2539

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8132

Culture, Religiosity and Female Labor Supply

Duygu Guner, Gokce Uysal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8068

The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China

Rachel Connelly, Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Dandan Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8051

Why Pay NGOs to Involve the Community?

Ronelle Burger, Indraneel Dasgupta, Trudy Owens

published in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2015, 86 (1), 7-31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8036

Impact of Internal Migration on Political Participation in Turkey

Ali T. Akarca, Aysit Tansel

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4 (1).

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7931

Labor Market Effects of Sports and Exercise: Evidence from Canadian Panel Data

Michael Lechner, Nazmi Sari

published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 35, 1 - 15

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7920

From Aliens to Citizens: The Political Incorporation of Immigrants

Pieter Bevelander, Mikael Spång

published in: Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1A, Elsevier, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7901

Loose Knots: Strong versus Weak Commitments to Save for Education in Uganda

Dean Karlan, Leigh L. Linden

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7783

Health Status, Disability and Retirement Incentives in Belgium

Alain Jousten, Mathieu Lefèbvre, Sergio Perelman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7704

Mothers, Friends and Gender Identity

Claudia Olivetti, Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18(1), 266-301.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7690

Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England

Michael Lechner, Paul Downward

published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 49 (4), 335–348.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7612

The Impact of Incumbency on Turnout: Evidence from Italian Municipalities

Marco Alberto De Benedetto, Maria De Paola

published in: Electoral Studies, 2016, 44, 98-108

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7597

What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India?

Stephan Klasen, Janneke Pieters

published in: World Bank Economic Revew, 2015, 29 (3), 449-478

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7581

Labour Force Participation of Mature Age Men in Australia: The Role of Spousal Participation

Kostas Mavromaras, Rong Zhu

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2015, 67, 310–333

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7518

Bridging the Gap in Pension Participation: How Much Can Universal Tax-Deferred Pension Coverage Hope to Achieve?

Nadia S Karamcheva, Geoffrey Sanzenbacher

published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2014, 13 (4), 439-459

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7450

The Unintended Consequences of Education Policies on South African Participation and Unemployment

Rulof Burger, Servaas van der Berg, Dieter von Fintel

published in: SAJE South African Journal of Economics, 2015, 83 (1), 74-100

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7387

Retirement Incentives in Belgium: Estimations and Simulations Using SHARE Data

Alain Jousten, Mathieu Lefèbvre

published in: De Economist, 2013, 161 (3), 253-276

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7254

The Labor Market Behavior of Married Women with Young Children in the U.S.: Have Differences by Religion Disappeared?

Evelyn L. Lehrer, Yu Chen

published in Keister, L. and Sherkat, D. (eds.): Religion and Inequality in America - Research and Theory on Religion's Role in Stratification. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7206

Risk Tolerance and Entrepreneurship

Hans K. Hvide, Georgios A. Panos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7197

Female Labour Force Participation in MENA's Manufacturing Sector: The Implications of Firm-Related and National Factors

Ali Fakih, Pascal L. Ghazalian

publslihed as 'Female Employment in MENA’s Manufacturing Sector: The Implications of Firm-related and National Factors' in: Economic Change and Restructuring, 2015, 48 (1), 37-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7065

Mothers' Labour Market Participation: Do Grandparents Make It Easier?

Bruno Arpino, Chiara D. Pronzato, Lara P. Tavares

published in: European Journal of Population, 2014, 30, 369-390

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7055

Household Survey Data for Research on Well-Being and Behavior in Central Asia

Tilman Brück, Damir Esenaliev, Antje Kroeger, Alma Kudebayeva, Bakhrom Mirkasimov, Susan Steiner

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42 (3), 819 - 835

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7034

Migraine Headache and Labor Market Outcomes

Daniel I. Rees, Joseph J. Sabia

published in: Health Economics, 2015, 24 (6), 659-671

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6939

Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach

Alexander M. Danzer, Firat Yaman

published in: Review of International Economics, 2013, 21 (2), 311–325

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6869

Human Capital Externalities and Employment Differences across Metropolitan Areas of the U.S.

John V. Winters

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2013, 13 (5), 799-822

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6865

Opting-In: Participation Biases in the Lab

Robert Slonim, Carmen Wang, Ellen Garbarino, Danielle Merrett

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 90, 43-70

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6855

The Declines in Infant Mortality and Fertility: Evidence from British Cities in Demographic Transition

Andrew T. Newell, Ian Gazeley

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6830

Getting Back into the Labor Market: The Effects of Start-Up Subsidies for Unemployed Females

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28(4), 1005-1043

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6811

Coping with Intra-Household Job Separation in South Africa's Labor Market

Zoe McLaren

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2019, 67 (4), 757–798

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6810

The German Labor Market after the Great Recession: Successful Reforms and Future Challenges

Marco Caliendo, Jens Hogenacker

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012, 1(3), 1-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6809

Trade Liberalization and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Brazil

Isis Gaddis, Janneke Pieters

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52(2), 457-490

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6776

Are Labor Force Participation Rates Really Non-Stationary? Evidence from Three OECD Countries

Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir, Mehmet Balcilar, Aysit Tansel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6681

Peer Effects in Program Participation

Gordon B. Dahl, Katrine Vellesen Loken, Magne Mogstad

published in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (7), 2049-2074

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6616

Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Turkey: Is There an Added or a Discouraged Worker Effect?

Deniz Karaoğlan, Cagla Okten

published as 'Labor-Force Participation of Married Women in Turkey' in: Emerging Markets Finance & Trade, 2015, 51 (1), 274-290

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6603

Dynamics of Disability and Work in Canada

Umut Oguzoglu

shorter version published as 'Why Do Past Disabilities Still Haunt the Newly Healthy?' in: Review of Economic Analysis, 2020, 12 (3), 331-344

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6601

Does Promoting School Attendance Reduce Child Labour? Evidence from Burkina Faso's BRIGHT Project

Jacobus de Hoop, Furio C. Rosati

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 39, 78-96

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6538

Retirement: Does Individual Unemployment Matter? Evidence from Danish Panel Data 1980–2009

Trine Filges, Mona Larsen, Peder J. Pedersen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6537

Paid Work after Retirement: Recent Trends in Denmark

Mona Larsen, Peder J. Pedersen

published as 'To work, to retire – or both? Labor market activity after 60' in: IZA Journal of European Studies, 2013, 2:21

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6398

Grandparents' Childcare and Female Labor Force Participation

Josefina Posadas, Marian Vidal-Fernandez

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2013, 2:14

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6395

Push or Pull? Drivers of Female Labor Force Participation during India's Economic Boom

Stephan Klasen, Janneke Pieters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6392

Labour Supply and Taxes: New Estimates of the Responses of Wives to Husbands' Wages

Benoit Dostie, Lene Kromann

published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (31), 4355-4368

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6148

Rubble Women: The Long-Term Effects of Postwar Reconstruction on Female Labor Market Outcomes

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Melanie Khamis, Mutlu Yuksel

substantially revised paper appeared as DP No. 10830

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6071

The Effects of Female Labor Force Participation on Obesity

Pedro Gomis-Porqueras, Oscar A. Mitnik, Adrian Peralta-Alva, Maximilian D. Schmeiser

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6063

International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender: Unit Root or Structural Breaks?

Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir, Mehmet Balcilar, Aysit Tansel

published in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2013, 65 (S1), s142-s164.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6046

The Disappearing Gender Gap: The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work

Raquel Fernández, Joyce Cheng Wong

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6039

What Do Participation Fluctuations Tell Us About Labor Supply Elasticities?

Christian Haefke, Michael Reiter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5962

Taxing Women: A Macroeconomic Analysis

Nezih Guner, Remzi Kaygusuz, Gustavo Ventura

published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2012, 59 (5), 111–128.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5913

Relative Cohort Size, Relative Income, and Women's Labor Force Participation 1968-2010

Diane J. Macunovich

published as 'Relative Cohort Size, Relative Income, and Married Women's Labor Force Participation: United States, 1968–2010' in: Population and Development Review, 2012, 38 (4), 631-648

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5817

Migrant Women on the Labour Market: On the Role of Home- and Host-Country Participation

Suzanne Kok, Nicole Bosch, Anja Deelen, Rob Euwals

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5718

Estimating Labor Supply Responses and Welfare Participation: Using a Natural Experiment to Validate a Structural Labor Supply Model

Jörgen Hansen, Xingfei Liu

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2015, 48 (5), 1831-54.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5703

Does Cash for School Influence Young Women's Behavior in the Longer Term? Evidence from Pakistan

Andaleeb Alam, Javier E. Baez, Ximena V Del Carpio

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5473

In-Work Benefits and Unemployment