Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17399

Are Alternative Work Arrangements a Substitute for Standard Employment? Evidence from Worker-Level Data

Bernardo Fanfani, Filippo Passerini

forthcoming in: International Journal of Manpower, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16865

The Missing Type: Where Are the Inequality Averse (Students)?

Thomas Epper, Julien Senn, Ernst Fehr

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16594

Consistent Estimation of Panel Data Sample Selection Models

Badi H. Baltagi, Sergi Jimenez-Martin, José M. Labeaga, Majid al Sadoon

published online in: Econometrics and Statistic, 11 November 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15070

Heterogeneous Peer Effects under Endogenous Selection: An Application to Local and Migrant Children in Elementary Schools in Shanghai

Yuanyuan Chen, Shuaizhang Feng, Chao Yang

published in: China Economic Review, 2024, 87, 102207

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15002

Updates on Returns to Education in India: Analysis Using PLFS 2018-19 Data

Jie Chen, Sanghamitra Kanjilal-Bhaduri, Francesco Pastore

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15000

Performance-Related Pay and Objective Measures of Health after Correcting for Sample Selection

Nicole Andelic, Julia Allan, Keith A. Bender, Daniel Powell, Ioannis Theodossiou

published as 'Performance-related Pay, Mental and Physiological Health' in: Industrial Relations, 2024, 63 (1), 3-25.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14475

The Social Value of a SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine: Willingness to Pay Estimates from Four Western Countries

Joan Costa-Font, Caroline Rudisill, Sayward Harrison, Luca Salmasi

published in: Health Economics, 2023, 32 (8), 1818 - 1835

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14428

Identifying Marginal Treatment Effects in the Presence of Sample Selection

Otávio Bartalotti, Désiré Kédagni, Vítor Augusto Possebom

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14167

Selection and Endogenous Treatment Models with Social Interactions: An Application to the Impact of Exercise on Self-Esteem

Zhongjian Lin, Francis Vella

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14139

"Study Hard and Make Progress Every Day": Updates on Returns to Education in China

Jie Chen, Francesco Pastore

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13531

Early Child Development and Parents' Labor Supply

Lukáš Lafférs, Bernhard Schmidpeter

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021, 36 (2), 190-208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13016

Hours Worked and the U.S. Distribution of Real Annual Earnings 1976–2016

Iván Fernández-Val, Franco Peracchi, Aico van Vuuren, Francis Vella

published in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2024, 39 (4), 659 - 678

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12486

Estimating Selection Models without Instrument with Stata

Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Arnaud Maurel, Xiaoyun Qiu, Yichong Zhang

published in: Stata Journal, 2020, 20(2), 297-308

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12094

The Impact of Migration on Family Left Behind: Estimation in Presence of Intra-Household Selection of Migrants

Elie Murard

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11895

Public versus Private Sector Wage Gap in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data

Aysit Tansel, Halil Ibrahim Keskin, Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir

substantially revised version published as 'Public-Private Sector Wage Gap by Gender in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data, 1998-2018' in: World Development, 2020, 135, 105060

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11294

Nonseparable Sample Selection Models with Censored Selection Rules: An Application to Wage Decompositions

Iván Fernández-Val, Aico van Vuuren, Francis Vella

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. 10841

The Assimilation of Young Workers into the Labour Market in France: A Stochastic Earnings Frontier Approach

Stephen Bazen, Khalid Maman Waziri

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10729

The Changing Nature of Gender Selection into Employment: Europe over the Great Recession

Juan J. Dolado, Cecilia García-Peñalosa, Linas Tarasonis

published in: Economic Policy, 2020, 104, 637-676.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10673

Is the Gender Pay Gap in the US Just the Result of Gender Segregation at Work?

Katie Meara, Francesco Pastore, Allan Webster

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10157

Wage Decompositions Using Panel Data Sample Selection Correction

Ronald L. Oaxaca, Chung Choe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9049

Overeducation: A Disease of the School-to-Work Transition System

Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Francesco Pastore

published in: G. Coppola and N. O'Higgins (eds): Youth and the Crisis: Unemployment, Education and Health in Europe, Routledge, 2016, 36-56

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8256

Extremal Quantile Regressions for Selection Models and the Black-White Wage Gap

Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Arnaud Maurel, Yichong Zhang

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2018, 203 (1), 129-142

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7841

The Causal Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants' Labor Market Outcomes in the UK

Alfonso Miranda, Yu Zhu

published as 'The Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants' Wage in the UK: Correcting for measurement error, endogenous treatment, and sample selection bias' in: Applied Economics Letters, 2021, 28 (5), 349-353

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7788

Overeducation at a Glance: Determinants and Wage Effects of the Educational Mismatch, Looking at the AlmaLaurea Data

Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Francesco Pastore

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2018, 137 (3): 999-1032.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7721

Immigrants' Educational Mismatch and the Penalty of Over-Education

Eleni Kalfa, Matloob Piracha

published in: Education Economics, 2017, 22(5), 462-481

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7671

Succeeding in Innovation: Key Insights on the Role of R&D and Technological Acquisition Drawn from Company Data

Andrea Conte, Marco Vivarelli

published in: Empirical Economics, 2014, 47(4), 1317-1340

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7529

The Effect of Sexual Activity on Wages

Nick Drydakis

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36 (2), 192-215

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7504

Perception of Workplace Discrimination among Immigrants and Native Born New Zealanders

Bridget Daldy, Jacques Poot, Matthew Roskruge

published in: Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2013, 16 (1), 137-154

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7103

Estimating Returns to Education when the IV Sample is Selective

Le Wang

published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21, 74-85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7003

A Flexible Sample Selection Model: A GTL-Copula Approach

Takuya Hasebe, Wim P. Vijverberg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6008

Semiparametric Selection Models with Binary Outcomes

Roger Klein, Chan Shen, Francis Vella

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5372

Endogenous Treatment Effects for Count Data Models with Sample Selection or Endogenous Participation

Massimiliano Bratti, Alfonso Miranda

revised version published in: Health Economics, 2011, 20 (9), 1090-1109

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5302

Immigrant Over- and Under-education: The Role of Home Country Labour Market Experience

Matloob Piracha, Massimiliano Tani, Florin Vadean

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1, Article 3

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5210

Returns to Education in Four Transition Countries: Quantile Regression Approach

Anita Staneva, Reza Arabsheibani, Philip D. Murphy

published in: S. Mendolina, M. O'Brien, A. R. Paloya, O. Yearkhin (eds.), Critical Perspectives of Economics of Education, 2022, Chapter 9

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5207

Occupational Choice of Return Migrants in Moldova

Daniela Borodak, Matloob Piracha

published in: Eastern European Economics, 2011, 49 (4), 24-46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4926

Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic Research

Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economics Letters, 2011, 110 (2), 79-82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4783

Gender Wage Gap: A Semi-Parametric Approach with Sample Selection Correction

Matteo Picchio, Chiara Mussida

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (5), 564-578

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4689

Instrumental Variables Estimation with Partially Missing Instruments

Magne Mogstad, Matthew Wiswall

published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 114 (2), 186-189

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4334

Another Look at the Identification at Infinity of Sample Selection Models

Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Arnaud Maurel

published in: Econometric Theory, 2013, 29 (1), 213-224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4301

How Do Young Innovative Companies Innovate?

Gabriele Pellegrino, Mariacristina Piva, Marco Vivarelli

published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2012, 23 (4), 329-340

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4287

Circular Migration or Permanent Return: What Determines Different Forms of Migration?

Florin Vadean, Matloob Piracha

published in: Gil Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds.): Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 467-495

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4195

Intrapreneurship or Entrepreneurship?

Simon C. Parker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3922

Return Migration and Occupational Choice

Matloob Piracha, Florin Vadean

published in: World Development, 2010, 38(8), 1141-1155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3068

The Employment and Earnings of Migrants in Great Britain

Martyn J. Andrews, Ken Clark, William Whittaker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2915

Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants in Germany: The Importance of Heterogeneity and Attrition Bias

Michael Fertig, Stefanie Schurer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2035

Testing Exclusion Restrictions at Infinity in the Semiparametric Selection Model

Bruno Crépon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1941

Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps

Claudia Olivetti, Barbara Petrongolo

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (4), 621 - 654

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1819

Household Migration Decisions as Survival Strategy: The Case of Burkina Faso

Adama Konseiga

published in: Journal of African Economies, 2007, 16 (2), 198-233

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1303

Survey Non-Response and Unemployment Duration

Gerard J. van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom, Peter Dolton

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 2006, 169 (3), 585-604

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1132

Non-Linearities in the Expansion of Capital Stock

Sher Verick, Wilko Letterie, Gerard A. Pfann

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (3), 263-280

IZA Discussion Paper No. 992

Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Scotland: An Endogenous Switching Model

Axel Heitmueller

published as 'Public-private sector pay differentials in a devolved Scotland' in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2006, 9, 295-323

IZA Discussion Paper No. 918

Dropping out of School? A Competing Risks Analysis of Young Immigrants’ Progress in the Educational System

Vibeke Jakobsen, Michael Rosholm

IZA Discussion Paper No. 669

Assessing Unemployment Traps in Belgium Using Panel Data Sample Selection Models

Anna Cristina D'Addio, Isabelle De Greef, Michael Rosholm

IZA Discussion Paper No. 436

The Evolution of the Early Career Gender Wage Gap

Astrid Kunze

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2005, 12 (1), 73-97

IZA Discussion Paper No. 365

Qualifications, Discrimination, or Assimilation? An Extended Framework for Analysing Immigrant Wage Gaps

Helena Skyt Nielsen, Michael Rosholm, Nina Smith, Leif Husted

published in: Empirical Economics, 2004, 29 (4), 855-885

IZA Discussion Paper No. 294

Estimating the Effect of Unemployment Insurance Compensation on the Labor Market Histories of Displaced Workers

Štepán Jurajda

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2002, 108(2), 227-252

IZA Discussion Paper No. 162

Selection Correction in Panel Data Models: An Application to Labour Supply and Wages

Christian Dustmann, María Engracia Rochina-Barrachina

published as 'Selection correction in panel data models: An application to the estimation of females' wage equations' in: Econometrics Journal, 2007, 10 (2), 263 - 293

IZA Discussion Paper No. 72

Are Austrian Returns to Education Falling Over Time?

Josef Fersterer, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published in: Labour Economics, 2003, 10 (1), 73-89