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43 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16564
Sliding into Safety Net Participation: A Unified Analysis across Multiple Programs
Derek Wu, Jonathan Zhang
published online in: National Tax Journal, 24 January 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16376
The Growth of Disability Insurance in Belgium: Determinants and Policy Implications
Octave De Brouwer, Ilan Tojerow
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15579
Privatizing Disability Insurance
Arthur Seibold, Sebastian Seitz, Sebastian Siegloch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15289
De-facto Gaps in Social Protection for Standard and Non-standard Workers: An Approach for Monitoring the Accessibility and Levels of Income Support
Herwig Immervoll, Rodrigo Fernandez, Raphaela Hyee, Jongmi Lee, Daniele Pacifico
elements published in: Left on your own? Social protection when labour markets are in flux, OECD, 2019, and in two OECD country studies: Korea, 2023, United States, 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14357
Why a Labour Market Boom Does Not Necessarily Bring Down Inequality: Putting Together Germany's Inequality Puzzle
Martin Biewen, Miriam Sturm
published in: Fiscal Studies, 2022, 43 (2), 121-149
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14150
Increasing the Effective Retirement Age: Key Factors and Interaction Effects
Tilbe Atav, Egbert L. W. Jongen, Simon Rabat
published as 'Increasing the Retirement Age: Policy Effects and Underlying Mechanisms' in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16 (1), 259-291.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14093
Can Information Influence the Social Insurance Participation Decision of China's Rural Migrants?
John T. Giles, Xin Meng, Sen Xue, Guochang Zhao
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021,150,102645.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14063
Does the Rise of China Lead to the Fall of European Welfare States?
Erling Barth, Henning Finseraas, Anders Kjelsrud, Karl Ove Moene
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13850
Comrades in the Family? Soviet Communism and Informal Family Insurance
Joan Costa-Font, Anna Nicinska
published in: Kyklos, 2023, 76 (4), 526-612
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13772
Long-Term Effects of Individual Placement and Support Services for Disability Benefits Recipients with Severe Mental Illnesses
Marloes De Graaf-Zijl, Marcel Spijkerman, Wim Zwinkels
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13258
Integrating Social Insurance and Social Assistance Programs for the Future World of Labor
Robert Palacios, David A. Robalino
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13132
Mandated Sick Pay: Coverage, Utilization, and Welfare Effects
J. Catherine Maclean, Stefan Pichler, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12248
Language Premium Myth or Fact: Evidence from Migrant Workers of Guangdong, China
Xiahai Wei, Tony Fang, Yang Jiao, Jiahui Li
published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2019, 40, 356–386.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12128
Optimal Social Insurance and Rising Labor Market Risk
Tom Krebs, Martin Scheffel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11882
Unequal Use of Social Insurance Benefits: The Role of Employers
Sarah Bana, Kelly Bedard, Maya Rossin-Slater, Jenna Stearns
published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2023, 233 (2), 633 - 660
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11539
Domain-Specific Risk and Public Policy
Ohto Kanninen, Petri Böckerman, Ilpo Suoniemi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11482
Immigrant Responses to Social Insurance Generosity
Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed
published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101854
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11310
The Relationship between Union Membership and Net Fiscal Impact
Aaron Sojourner, José Pacas
published in: Industrial Relations, 2019, 58 (1), 86-107
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10918
Social Insurance and Health
Nicolas R. Ziebarth
short version published as 'Social Insurance and Health' in: Baltagi, B. H. and Moscone, F. (eds.), Health Econometrics, Emerald Publishing, 1st ed., 2018.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10903
Social Insurance Reform and Labor Market Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia
Admasu Shiferaw, Arjun S. Bedi, Mans Söderbom, Getnet Alemu
published as 'Social insurance reform and workers’ compensation' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102214
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10513
Immigrant Labor Market Integration across Admission Classes
Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed
published in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2017, 7 , 17-54.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9866
The Value of Social Security: Are Formal Jobs Better?
Lucia Madrigal, Carmen Pagés, Agustina Suaya
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9651
Social Insurance with Competitive Insurance Markets and Risk Misperception
Helmuth Cremer, Kerstin Roeder
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 138-147.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9090
Can Compulsory Dialogues Nudge Sick-Listed Workers Back to Work?
Simen Markussen, Knut Røed, Ragnhild Camilla Schreiner
published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (610), 1276-1303
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8376
Social Protection beyond the Bottom Billion
Susan Murphy, Patrick Paul Walsh
published in: Economic and Social Review, 2014, 45 (2), 261 - 284
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8292
Immigrants, Labor Market Performance, and Social Insurance
Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed
published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (580), F644-F683
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8291
Labour Migrant Adjustments in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis
Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed
published in: Tarmo Valkonen and Vesa Vihriälä (eds.): The Nordic model – challenged but capable of reform, TemaNord 2014:531
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8245
Leaving Poverty Behind? The Effects of Generous Income Support Paired with Activation
Simen Markussen, Knut Røed
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016, 8 (1), 180–211
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8198
Work and Tax Evasion Incentive Effects of Social Insurance Programs: Evidence from an Employment-Based Benefit Extension
Marcelo Bergolo, Guillermo Cruces
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 117, 211-228
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7892
The Impacts of Vocational Rehabilitation
Simen Markussen, Knut Røed
published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 31, 1-13.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7879
Social Insurance, Informality and Labor Markets: How to Protect Workers While Creating Good Jobs
Carmen Pagés, Jamele Rigolini, David A. Robalino
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7772
Aid to Jobless Workers in Florida in the Face of the Great Recession: The Interaction of Unemployment Insurance and the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program
Colleen M. Heflin, Peter R. Mueser
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7555
China's 2008 Labor Contract Law: Implementation and Implications for China's Workers
Mary Gallagher, John T. Giles, Albert Park, Meiyan Wang
revised version published in: Human Relations, 2015, 68 (2), 197-235
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7250
The Effects of Expanding the Generosity of the Statutory Sickness Insurance System
Nicolas R. Ziebarth, Martin Karlsson
short version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2014, 29(2), 208-230
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5655
The Sick Pay Trap
Elisabeth Fevang, Simen Markussen, Knut Røed
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (2), 305-336
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5412
Social Support Substitution and the Earnings Rebound: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform
Lex Borghans, Anne C. Gielen, Erzo F.P. Luttmer
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, 6 (4), 34-70
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4897
Disability in the Welfare State: An Unemployment Problem in Disguise?
Bernt Bratsberg, Elisabeth Fevang, Knut Røed
revised version published as 'Job Loss and Disability Insurance' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 137–150
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4085
Whatever Happened to the Bismarckian Welfare State? From Labor Shedding to Employment-Friendly Reforms
Anton Hemerijck, Werner Eichhorst
published in: Bruno Palier (ed.), A long good-bye to Bismarck, Amsterdam: AUP, 2010, 301-332
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2947
Worker Absenteeism in Search Equilibrium
Per Engström, Bertil Holmlund
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2007, 109 (3), 439-467,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1015
Analytical Prediction of Transitions Probabilities in the Conditional Logit Model
Holger Bonin, Hilmar Schneider
published in: Economics Letters, 2006, 90 (1), 102-107
IZA Discussion Paper No. 533
Assessing Welfare Accounts
Stefan Fölster, Robert Gidehag, Mike Orszag, Dennis J. Snower
published in: Torben Andersen and Per Molander (eds,): Alternatives for Welfare Policy: Coping with Internationalisation and Demographic Change, Cambridge, 2003, 255 - 275
IZA Discussion Paper No. 456
International Integration, Risk and the Welfare State
Torben M. Andersen
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2002, 104 (3), 343-364
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11
Employment Effects of Payroll Taxes - An Empirical Test for Germany
Thomas K. Bauer, Regina T. Riphahn
published in: Applied Economics, 2002, 34 (7), 865-876
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