IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Split Families and the Future of Children: Immigration Enforcement and Foster Care Placements' in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 108, 368-372

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10705

Growth in the Shadows: Effect of the Shadow Economy on U.S. Economic Growth over More Than a Century

Rajeev K. Goel, James W. Saunoris, Friedrich Schneider

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10638

In-Work Poverty in the United States

Lane Kenworthy, Ive Marx

Forthcoming in Lohmann, H. and I. Marx (eds) Handbook of Research on In-Work Poverty, Edward Elgar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10512

Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion

Michael A. Clemens, Ethan Gatewood Lewis, Hannah M. Postel

published in: American Economic Review, 2018, 108 (6), 1468–1487.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10492

The Effect of Occupational Visas on Native Employment: Evidence from Labor Supply to Farm Jobs in the Great Recession

Michael A. Clemens

forthcoming in: Review of International Economics, 2022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10357

How Information Affects Support for Education Spending: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States

Martin R. West, Ludger Woessmann, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 167, 138-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10166

Settling for Academia? H-1B Visas and the Career Choices of International Students in the United States

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Delia Furtado

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9933

Commuting Time and Sex Ratios in the US

J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina, Jorge Velilla

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9867

Labor Market Effects of US Sick Pay Mandates

Stefan Pichler, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55(2): 611-659

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9839

Inheritance and Wealth Inequality: Evidence from Population Registers

Mikael Elinder, Oscar Erixson, Daniel Waldenström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9574

New Job Matches and Their Stability Before and During the Crisis

Amparo Nagore García, Arthur van Soest

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9555

Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform

Eric A. Hanushek, Jens Ruhose, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2017, 11 (4), 447-486

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9413

State and Local Sales Taxes and Business Activity in the United States

Nicholas Saxon, Mehmet S. Tosun, Jingjing Yang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9130

Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States

Eric A. Hanushek, Jens Ruhose, Ludger Woessmann

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2017, 9 (4), 184-224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8777

Community Entrepreneurship in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Comparing UK Community Enterprises with US Community Development Corporations

David P. Varady, Reinout Kleinhans, Maarten van Ham

published as: "The Potential of Community Entrepreneurship for Neighbourhood Revitalization in the United Kingdom and the United States". published in: [ Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy], 2015, 9(3), 253-276.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7921

Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States

Julia Jauer, Thomas Liebig, John P. Martin, Patrick A. Puhani

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7828

Inefficient Equilibrium Unemployment in a Duocentric Economy with Matching Frictions

Etienne Lehmann, Paola L. Montero Ledezma, Bruno Van der Linden

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2016, 91, 26-44.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7285

Migration Strategies of the Crisis-Stricken Youth in an Enlarged European Union

Martin Kahanec, Brian Fabo

published in: Transfer: European Review of Labor and Research, 2013, 19 (3), 365-380

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6485

Labor Mobility in an Enlarged European Union

Martin Kahanec

published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, pp. 137-152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6384

Is Religiosity of Immigrants a Bridge or a Buffer in the Process of Integration? A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States

Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman

revised version published as 'Bridges or Buffers? Motives behind Immigrants' Religiosity' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2013, 2:23. A different revised version published as 'Immigration-Religiosity Intersections at the Two Sides of the Atlantic: Europe and the United States' in: Constant A. and Zimmermann K. (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, 2013, Eward Elgar Publishing

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4938

Small State Regional Cooperation, South-South and South-North Migration, and International Trade

Maurice Schiff

published as 'Small States, Micro States, and their International Negotiation and Migration' in: Journal of Economic Integration, 2014, 29 (3), 430-449

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4937

The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries over the Twentieth Century

Tony Atkinson, Andrew Leigh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4814

Economic Mobility, Family Background, and the Well-Being of Children in the United States and Canada

Miles Corak, Lori Curtis, Shelley Phipps

published in: Timothy M. Smeeding et al. (eds.), Persistence, Privilege, and Parenting: The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2011. Parts also published (Miles Corak only) as 'Chasing the Same Dream, Climbing Different Ladders'. Washington: PEW Charitable Trusts, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4502

The Extent of Collective Bargaining and Workplace Representation: Transitions between States and their Determinants. A Comparative Analysis of Germany and Great Britain

John T. Addison, Alex Bryson, Paulino Teixeira, André Pahnke, Lutz Bellmann

revised version published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 60 (2), 182-209.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4260

EU Enlargement and Ireland's Labour Market

Alan Barrett

published in: M. Kahanec and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), EU Labor Markets after Post-Enlargement Migration, Springer: Berlin et al. 2009, 145-161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4135

Financing Social Security: Simulating Different Welfare State Systems for Germany

Caroline Dieckhoener, Andreas Peichl

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. 3870

Welfare and Employment: A European Dilemma?

Werner Eichhorst, Anton Hemerijck

published in: Jens Alber and Neil Gilbert (eds.), United in Diversity? Comparing Social Models in Europe and America, Oxford: OUP, 2010, 201-236

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3597

New Estimates of the Effects of Minimum Wages in the U.S. Retail Trade Sector

John T. Addison, McKinley L. Blackburn, Chad Cotti

published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (4), 397-408

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3479

The Immigrant Earnings Disadvantage across the Earnings and Skills Distributions: The Case of Immigrants from the EU’s New Member States in Ireland

Alan Barrett, Seamus McGuinness, Martin O`Brien

revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2012, 50 (3), 457-481

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3398

Brain Drain and its Determinants: A Major Issue for Small States

Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier, Maurice Schiff

revised version published in: Artal-Tur/Peri/Requena-Silvente (Eds.),The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration Flows - Springer: 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3388

Measuring Skilled Emigration Rates: The Case of Small States

Frédéric Docquier, Maurice Schiff

revised version published in: Artal-Tur/Peri/Requena-Silvente (Eds.),The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration Flows - Springer: 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2298

First and Second Generation Immigrant Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes: A Comparison of the United States and Canada

Abdurrahman Aydemir, Arthur Sweetman

Published as: Aydemir, Abdurrahman and Arthur Sweetman. 2008. "First and Second Generation Immigrant Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes: A Comparison of the United States and Canada". Research in Labor Economics 27: 215-70.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2007

The Narrowing of the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap, 1959-1999: A Cohort-Based Analysis

Catherine Weinberger, Peter J. Kuhn

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 63 (3), 384-406

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2003

Income Mobility of Individuals in China and the United States

Niny Khor, John Pencavel

published in: Economics of Transition, 2006, 14 (3), 417-458

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1147

Labour Market Flexibility and Employment Protection Regulation in the Baltic States

Raul Eamets, Jaan Masso

revised version published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2005, 11 (1), 71-90