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425 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4331
Gender Gaps across the Earnings Distribution in Britain: Are Women Bossy Enough?
Yekaterina Chzhen, Karen A. Mumford
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (6), 837-844
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4304
A Note on Adapting Propensity Score Matching and Selection Models to Choice Based Samples
James J. Heckman, Petra E. Todd
published in: Econometric Journal, 2009, 12 (Supplement), S230-S234
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. 4286
The Informal Sector Wage Gap: New Evidence Using Quantile Estimations on Panel Data
Olivier B. Bargain, Prudence Magejo
revised version published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2015, 63 (1), 117-153
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4282
Competing on Good Politicians
Vincenzo Galasso, Tommaso Nannicini
published in: American Political Science Review, 2011, 105 (1), 79-99
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4256
Trade Reforms and Market Selection: Evidence from Manufacturing Plants in Colombia
Marcela Eslava, John C. Haltiwanger, Adriana Kugler, Maurice Kugler
published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2013, 16 (1), 135-158.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4235
Pay for Politicians and Candidate Selection: An Empirical Analysis
Kaisa Kotakorpi, Panu Poutvaara
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (7-8), 877 - 885
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4195
Intrapreneurship or Entrepreneurship?
Simon C. Parker
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4125
Negative Externalities and Equilibrium Existence in Competitive Markets with Adverse Selection
Ferdinand von Siemens, Michael Kosfeld
revised version published as 'Team production in competitive labor markets with adverse selection' in: European Economic Review, 2014, 68, 181–198
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3995
Optimal Bandwidth Choice for the Regression Discontinuity Estimator
Guido W. Imbens, Karthik Kalyanaraman
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79 (3), 933-959
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3978
Gender Pay Gap and Quantile Regression in European Families
Catia Nicodemo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3950
Ethnicity and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to the United States
Guillermina Jasso
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1+2), 26-42
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. 3881
Worker Self-Selection and the Profits from Cooperation
Michael Kosfeld, Ferdinand von Siemens
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 573 - 582
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3816
Who Becomes an Entrepreneur? Labor Market Prospects and Occupational Choice
Markus Poschke
published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2013, 37 (3), 693-710
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3804
Optimal Income Taxation with Endogenous Participation and Search Unemployment
Etienne Lehmann, Alexis Parmentier, Bruno Van der Linden
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (11-12), 1523-1537
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. 3738
Heterogeneous Treatment and Self-Selection in a Wage Subsidy Experiment
Dany Brouillette, Guy Lacroix
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (7-8), 479-492
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3705
The Economics of Labor Market Intermediation: An Analytic Framework
David Autor
published in: David Autor (ed.), Studies of Labor Market Intermediation, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009
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. 3632
Minimizing Bias in Selection on Observables Estimators When Unconfoundness Fails
Daniel L. Millimet, Rusty Tchernis
published as 'Estimation of Treatment Effects Without an Exclusion Restriction: with an Application to the Analysis of the School Breakfast Program' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (6), 982-1017
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3630
The Causal Effect of Parent's Schooling on Children's Schooling: A Comparison of Estimation Methods
Helena Holmlund, Mikael Lindahl, Erik Plug
published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2011, 49 (3), 615-651, revised version available here
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3564
Selection Criteria and the Skill Composition of Immigrants: A Comparative Analysis of Australian and U.S. Employment Immigration
Guillermina Jasso, Mark R. Rosenzweig
published in: Jagdish Bhagwati and Gordon H. Hanson (eds.), Skilled Migration Today: Phenomenon, Prospects, Problems, Policies. New York: Oxford, 2009
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3558
Allocation of Labour in Urban West Africa: Implication for Development Policies
Ralitza Dimova, Christophe Jalil Nordman, François Roubaud
published as 'Allocation of Labor in Urban West Africa: Insights from the Pattern of Labor Supply and Skill Premiums' in: Review of Development Economics, 2010, 14 (1), 75 - 92
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3507
Discounting Financial Literacy: Time Preferences and Participation in Financial Education Programs
Stephan Meier, Charles Sprenger
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 95, 159–174
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3505
Self-Selection into Teaching: The Role of Teacher Education Institutions
Stefan Denzler, Stefan C. Wolter
published in: Cambridge Journal of Education, 2009, 39(4), 423-441
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3458
Selective Migration and Health
Timothy J. Halliday, Michael C. Kimmitt
published as: 'Selective Migration and Health in the USA, 1984 - 93' in: Population Studies, 2007, 61 (3), 321 - 334
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3446
Occupational Selection in Multilingual Labor Markets
Núria Quella, Silvio Rendon
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (8), 918-937
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3427
Public Sector Pay Gap in France: New Evidence Using Panel Data
Olivier B. Bargain, Blaise Melly
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3330
On the Dynamics of Interstate Migration: Migration Costs and Self-Selection
Christian Bayer, Falko Juessen
published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2012, 15 (3), 377-401
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3295
Outside Income and Moral Hazard: The Elusive Quest for Good Politicians
Stefano Gagliarducci, Tommaso Nannicini, Paolo Naticchioni
published as 'Moonlighting Politicians' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (9-10), 688-699
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3290
Sexual Orientation, Disclosure and Earnings
Erik Plug, Peter Berkhout
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3280
The Matching Method for Treatment Evaluation with Selective Participation and Ineligibles
Monica Costa Dias, Hidehiko Ichimura, Gerard J. van den Berg
revised version published as 'Treatment Evaluation With Selective Participation and Ineligibles' in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 108(502) 2013, 441-455
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3268
Who Leaves and Who Returns? Deciphering Immigrant Self-Selection from a Developing Country
Randall K. Q. Akee
revised version published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2010, 58 (2), 323-344.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3245
Fertility Differences between Married and Cohabiting Couples: A Switching Regression Analysis
Junfu Zhang, Xue Song
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3229
Physicians' Multitasking and Incentives: Empirical Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Etienne Dumont, Bernard Fortin, Nicolas Jacquemet, Bruce S. Shearer
revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27(6), 1436-1450
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3204
Migrant Networks, Migrant Selection, and High School Graduation in Mexico
Alfonso Miranda
revised version published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2011, 33, 263-306
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3171
On the Inverse Relationship between Unemployment and Absenteeism: Evidence from Natural Experiments and Worker Heterogeneity
René Fahr, Bernd Frick
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3164
Employment Protection, Firm Selection, and Growth
Markus Poschke
published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2009, 56(8), 1074-1085
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. 2983
Wages and Ageing: Is There Evidence for the "Inverse-U" Profile?
Michal Myck
revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (3), 282-306
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2927
Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture
Michael Kosfeld, Ferdinand von Siemens
published in: RAND Journal of Economics, 2011, 42 (1), 23–43
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. 2878
Birth Spacing, Fertility Selection and Child Survival: Analysis Using a Correlated Hazard Model
Pushkar Maitra, Sarmistha Pal
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (3), 690-705
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2823
Access to Higher Education and Inequality: The Chinese Experiment
Xiaojun Wang, Belton M. Fleisher, Haizheng Li, Shi Li
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 42, 78-92
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2784
Post-Secondary Education in Canada: Can Ability Bias Explain the Earnings Gap Between College and University Graduates?
Vincenzo Caponi, Miana Plesca
revised version published in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2009, 42 (3), 1100-1131
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2738
Heterogeneous Treatment Effects: Instrumental Variables without Monotonicity?
Tobias J. Klein
published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2010, 155 (2), 99-116
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2732
Endogenous Leadership: Selection and Influence
Emrah Arbak, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published as 'Voluntary leadership: motivation and influence' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2013, 40 (3), 635-662.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2697
Performance Pay, Group Selection and Group Performance
Manfred Königstein, Gabriele K. Ruchala
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2596
Educational Effects of Widening Access to the Academic Track: A Natural Experiment
Eric Maurin, Sandra McNally
published as 'The Effect of Tracking Students by Ability into Different Schools: A Natural Experiment' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 47 (3), 684-721
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2585
An Economic Analysis of Exclusion Restrictions for Instrumental Variable Estimation
Gerard J. van den Berg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2431
Intergenerational Transmission of Abilities and Self Selection of Mexican Immigrants
Vincenzo Caponi
published in: International Economic Review, 2011, 52 (2), 523 - 547
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2377
Can Anyone Be “The” One? Evidence on Mate Selection from Speed Dating
Michèle Belot, Marco Francesconi
revised version published as 'Dating Preferences and Meeting Opportunities in Mate Choice Decisions' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 48 (2), 474-507
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2375
Matching Estimators and the Data from the National Supported Work Demonstration Again
Zhong Zhao
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2373
Grow Rich While You Sleep: Selection in Experiments with Voluntary Participation
Pieter A. Gautier, Bas van der Klaauw
published as 'Selection in a field experiment with voluntary participation' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2012, 27, 63-84
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2370
The Return to Schooling in Structural Dynamic Models: A Survey
Christian Belzil
published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (5), 1059-1105
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2349
Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets
Isabel Günther, Andrey Launov
revised version published as 'Informal employment in developing countries: Opportunity or last resort?' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 97 (1), 88-98
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2293
Trust as a Signal of a Social Norm and the Hidden Costs of Incentive Schemes
Dirk Sliwka
published in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (3), 999-1012
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2087
How Important Is Selection? Experimental vs. Non-Experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration
David McKenzie, John Gibson, Steven Stillman
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, 8(4), 913-945
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2062
Incentives for Managers and Inequality Among Workers: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment
Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay, Imran Rasul
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, 122 (2), 729-773
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2052
The (Self-)Selection of International Migrants Reconsidered: Theory and New Evidence
Herbert Brücker, Cécily Defoort
published in: Journal of International Manpower, 2009, 30 (7), 742-764.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2035
Testing Exclusion Restrictions at Infinity in the Semiparametric Selection Model
Bruno Crépon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2027
Equilibrium Allele Distribution in Trading Populations
Gilles Saint-Paul
published in: Natural Science, 2015, 7, 103-116.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2019
The Happiness Gains from Sorting and Matching in the Labor Market
Simon Luechinger, Alois Stutzer, Rainer Winkelmann
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2010, 30, 233–251
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1983
Self-Selection and the Efficiency of Tournaments
Tor Eriksson, Sabrina Teyssier, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2009, 47(3), 530-548.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1960
Employment Protection, Product Market Regulation and Firm Selection
Winfried Koeniger, Julien Prat
revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F302 - F332
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1942
Self-Selection in Migration and Returns to Unobservable Skills
Benoit Dostie, Pierre Thomas Léger
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22(4), 1005-1024
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. 1811
Does Marriage Make People Happy, Or Do Happy People Get Married?
Alois Stutzer, Bruno S. Frey
published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2006, 35 (2), 326-347
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1775
Doctor Who? Who Gets Admission Offers in UK Medical Schools
Wiji Arulampalam, Robin Naylor, Jeremy Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1705
Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency: Selection on Productivity or Profitability?
Lucia Foster, John C. Haltiwanger, Chad Syverson
published in: American Economic Review, 2008, 98 (1), 394-425
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1637
The Public Pay Gap in Britain: Small Differences That (Don't?) Matter
Fabien Postel-Vinay, Hélène Turon
published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (523), 1460-1503
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1585
A Structural Analysis of the Correlated Random Coefficient Wage Regression Model with an Application to the OLS-IV Puzzle
Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen
Published in: Journal of Econometrics, 140 (2), 2007, 333-948
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1429
On the Returns to Training in Portugal
Santiago Budría, Pedro T. Pereira
published as "The wage effects of training in Portugal: differences across skill groups, genders, sectors and training types" in: Applied Economics, 2007, 39 (6), 787-807
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1400
Decomposing the Gender Wage Gap in the Netherlands with Sample Selection Adjustments
James Albrecht, Aico van Vuuren, Susan Vroman
published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (4), 383-396
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1380
Selection Policy and the Labour Market Outcomes of New Immigrants
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
published in: D.A. Cobb-Clark and S. Khoo (eds.), Public Policy and Immigrant Settlement, Edward Elgar 2006
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1350
Changes in the Distribution of Male and Female Wages Accounting for Employment Composition Using Bounds
Richard Blundell, Amanda Gosling, Hidehiko Ichimura, Costas Meghir
published in: Econometrica, 2007, 75(2), 323–363
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1348
In the Right Place at the Wrong Time: The Role of Firms and Luck in Young Workers' Careers
Till von Wachter, Stefan Bender
published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (5), 1679-1705
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. 1301
Assessing the Performance of Matching Algorithms When Selection into Treatment Is Strong
Boris Augurzky, Jochen Kluve
published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2006, 22 (3), 533-557
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1297
Worker Displacement during the Transition: Experience from Slovenia
Peter F. Orazem, Milan Vodopivec, Ruth Wu
published in: Economics of Transition, 2005, 13 (2), 311-340
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1245
The Heterogeneous Effect of Selection in Secondary Schools: Understanding the Changing Role of Ability
Fernando Galindo-Rueda, Anna Vignoles
published in: P. Peterson and L. Woessmann (eds.), Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem, MIT Press: 2007
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1201
Reforms and Productivity Dynamics in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
Peter McGoldrick, Patrick Paul Walsh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1191
Other-Regarding Preferences and Performance Pay – An Experiment on Incentives and Sorting
Tor Eriksson, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published as 'Performance-pay, sorting and social motivation ' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 68 (2), 412-421.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1158
Self-Selection and Earnings During Volatile Transition
Ralitza Dimova, Ira N. Gang
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2007, 35 (3), 612-629
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1156
Earnings and Community College Field of Study Choice in Canada
Brahim Boudarbat
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2008, 27 (1), 79-93
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1142
Interethnic Marriages and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants
Jasmin Kantarevic
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. 1108
Real Time Econometrics
M. Hashem Pesaran, Allan Timmermann
published in: Econometric Theory, 2005, 21 (1), 212-231
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1094
The Self-Selection of Migrant Workers Revisited
Eran Yashiv
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1013
Money Illusion and Coordination Failure
Ernst Fehr, Jean-Robert Tyran
published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2007, 59 (2), 246-268
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. 986
Do the Best Go West? An Analysis of the Self-Selection of Employed East-West Migrants in Germany
Herbert Brücker, Parvati Trübswetter
published in: Empirica, 2007, 34 (4), 371-395
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. 890
Differences in Early Occupational Earnings of UK Male Graduates by Degree Subject: Evidence from the 1980-1993 USR
Massimiliano Bratti, Luca Mancini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 831
Analyzing the Effect of Dynamically Assigned Treatments Using Duration Models, Binary Treatment Models, and Panel Data Models
Jaap H. Abbring, Gerard J. van den Berg
published in: Empirical Economics, 2004, 29 (1), 5-20
IZA Discussion Paper No. 826
The Effect of Schooling and Ability on Achievement Test Scores
Karsten T. Hansen, James J. Heckman, Kathleen Mullen
published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2004, 121 (1-2), 39-98
IZA Discussion Paper No. 761
Output-Based Pay: Incentives, Retention or Sorting?
Edward Lazear
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2004, 23, 1-25
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