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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