IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17612

Do Early Active Labor Market Policies Improve Outcomes of Not-Yet-Unemployed Workers? Findings from a Randomized Field Experiment

Gerard J. van den Berg, Gesine Stephan, Arne Uhlendorff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16664

Job Ladder and Wealth Dynamics in General Equilibrium

Leo Kaas, Etienne Lalé, Nawid Siassi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16373

Labor Force Transition Dynamics: Unemployment Rate or Job Posting Counts?

Kailing Shen, Yanran Zhu

published in: B. Elsner and S. W. Polachek (eds.), Big Data Applications in Labor Economics, Part A (Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 52 A), 2024, 1-33

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16348

Intergenerational Power Shift and the Rise of Non-arranged Marriages among Refugees

Andrew Foster, Merve Betül Gökçe, Murat Güray Kirdar

published as 'Intergenerational Power Shift and the Rise of Nonarranged Marriages Among Refugees' in: Demography, 2024, 61 (5), 1427 - 1454

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16136

Women's Transitions in the Labour Market as a Result of Childbearing: The Challenges of Formal Sector Employment in Indonesia

Lisa A. Cameron, Diana Contreras Suarez, Yi-Ping Tseng

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15091

The COVID-19 Pandemic in Latin American and Caribbean Countries: The Labor Supply Impact by Gender

Mariana Viollaz, Mauricio Salazar-Saenz, Luca Flabbi, Monserrat Bustelo, Mariano Bosch

published in: IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2023, 14 (1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15030

Employer-to-Employer Transitions and Time Aggregation Bias

Antoine Bertheau, Rune Majlund Vejlin

published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 75, 102130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14673

Labor Market Transitions of Members of Opposite-Sex Couples: Nonparticipation, Unemployed Search, and Employment

Hans Bloemen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14548

Too Family Friendly? The Consequences of Parent Part-Time Working Rights

Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 197, 104407

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13918

The Duration of Compulsory Education and the Transition to Secondary Education: Panel Data Evidence from Low-Income Countries

Luis Diaz-Serrano

published in: International Journal of Educational Development, 2020, 75, 102189

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13764

The Transition to Self-Employment and Perceived Skill-Mismatches: Panel Data Evidence from Eleven EU Countries

Judit Albiol Sanchez, Luis Diaz-Serrano, Mercedes Teruel

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2021, 153, 957-977

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13472

Measuring Employer-to-Employer Reallocation

Shigeru Fujita, Giuseppe Moscarini, Fabien Postel-Vinay

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2024, 16 (3), 1–51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13154

Apprenticeship and Youth Unemployment

Pierre Cahuc, Jeremy Hervelin

published as 'The effect of workplace vs school-based vocational education on youth unemployment: Evidence from France' in: European Economic Review, 2024, 162, 104637

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12842

Medicaid Expansion and the Unemployed

Thomas C. Buchmueller, Helen Levy, Robert G. Valletta

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (S2), S575–S617

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12778

The Impact of Internship Experience during Secondary Education on Schooling and Labour Market Outcomes

Brecht Neyt, Dieter Verhaest, Stijn Baert

published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2022, 68 (2), 127–154

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12011

The Impact of Dual Apprenticeship Programs on Early Labour Market Outcomes: A Dynamic Approach

Brecht Neyt, Dieter Verhaest, Stijn Baert

revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 78, 102022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11905

Is Quick Formal Access to the Labor Market Enough? Refugees' Labor Market Integration in Belgium

Dries Lens, Ive Marx, Suncica Vujic

revised version published as 'Double Jeopardy: How Refugees Fare in One European Labor Market' in: IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2019, 10 (1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11384

Family Structure and the Turnout Gender Gap: Evidence from Italy

Giorgio Bellettini, Carlotta Berti Ceroni, Enrico Cantoni, Chiara Monfardini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11127

Student Work, Educational Achievement, and Later Employment: A Dynamic Approach

Stijn Baert, Brecht Neyt, Eddy Omey, Dieter Verhaest

revised version published as 'Student work during secondary education, educational achievement, and later employment: a dynamic approach' in: Empirical Economics, 2022, 63, 1605 - 1635

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11063

Worker Churn and Employment Growth at the Establishment Level

Rüdiger Bachmann, Christian Bayer, Christian Merkl, Stefan Seth, Heiko Stüber, Felix Wellschmied

published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2021, 117, 781-797

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10769

Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States

Stephen R. G. Jones, W. Craig Riddell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10358

Higher Education Access and Outcomes for the 2008 South African National Matric Cohort

Hendrik van Broekhuizen, Servaas van der Berg, Heleen Hofmeyr

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9699

Life-Cycle Educational Choices: Evidence for Two German Cohorts

Martin Biewen, Madalina Tapalaga

substantially revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 56, 80-94

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9660

When Do Gender Wage Differences Emerge? A Study of Azerbaijan's Labor Market

Francesco Pastore, Sarosh Sattar, Nistha Sinha, Erwin R. Tiongson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9588

Worker Flows and Labour Market Adjustment during the Great Recession: Evidence from a Large Shock

Hartmut Lehmann, Tiziano Razzolini, Anzelika Zaiceva

thoroughly revised version published as 'The Great Recession and Labor Market Adjustment: Evidence from Latvia' in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2020, 62 (1), 149 - 181.

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. 9366

Quit Turnover and the Business Cycle: A Survey

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Melvyn Coles

published in: Saridakis, G.; Cooper, C. (eds.) Research Handbook on Employee Turnover, Chapter 13, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2016.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9358

Entering and Leaving Self-Employment: A Panel Data Analysis for 12 Developing Countries

Yoon Y. Cho, David A. Robalino, Jose M. Romero

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9233

Labour Market Dynamics and Worker Heterogeneity during the Great Recession: Evidence from Europe

Ronald Bachmann, Peggy Bechara, Anica Kramer, Sylvi Rzepka

IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2017, 4:19

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9170

A Signal of Diligence? Student Work Experience and Later Employment Chances

Stijn Baert, Olivier Rotsaert, Dieter Verhaest, Eddy Omey

revised version published as 'Student Employment and Later Labour Market Success: No Evidence for Higher Employment Chances' in: Kyklos, 2016, 69 (3), 401 - 425

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8752

Native-Immigrant Gaps in Educational and School-to-Work Transitions in the Second Generation: The Role of Gender and Ethnicity

Stijn Baert, Frank Heiland, Sanders Korenman

revised version published in: De Economist, 2016, 164, 159 - 186

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8627

Immigrants' Wage Growth and Selective Out-Migration

Govert Bijwaard, Jackline Wahba

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 81, 1065-1094

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8613

Gender, Time-Use, and Fertility Recovery in Industrialized Countries

Javier García-Manglano, Natalia Nollenberger, Almudena Sevilla

published in: International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8447

Do Employer Preferences Contribute to Sticky Floors?

Stijn Baert, Ann-Sophie De Pauw, Nick Deschacht

revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2016, 69 (3), 714 - 736.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8401

Changes in Labour Market Transitions in Ireland over the Great Recession

Adele Bergin, Elish Kelly, Seamus McGuinness

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2015, 4 (9)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8312

Unemployment or Overeducation: Which is a Worse Signal to Employers?

Stijn Baert, Dieter Verhaest

revised version published in: De Economist, 2019, 167, 1 - 21

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8149

Declining Migration within the US: The Role of the Labor Market

Raven Molloy, Christopher L. Smith, Abigail Wozniak

published in: Demography, 2017, 54 (2), 631-653.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8149

Declining Migration within the US: The Role of the Labor Market

Raven Molloy, Christopher L. Smith, Abigail Wozniak

published in: Demography, 2017, 54 (2), 631-653.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7845

Labour Market Discrimination against Former Juvenile Delinquents: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Stijn Baert, Elsy Verhofstadt

revised version published in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47 (11), 1061 - 1072

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7821

Asset Stripping, Rule of Law and Firm Survival: The Hoff-Stiglitz Model and Mass Privatization in Montenegro

Matjaž Koman, Milan Lakičević, Janez Prašnikar, Jan Svejnar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7732

Do High-Income or Low-Income Immigrants Leave Faster?

Govert Bijwaard, Jackline Wahba

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 108, 54-68

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7532

Poverty and Transitions in Health

Maja Adena, Michal Myck

revised version published as 'Poverty and Transitions in Health in Later Life' in: Social Science and Medicine, 2014, 116, 202–210

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7509

Can Parents' Right to Work Part-Time Hurt Childbearing-Aged Women? A Natural Experiment with Administrative Data

Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

substantially revised version published as 'Too Family Friendly? The Consequences of Parents' Right to Request Part-Time Work' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 197, 104407

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7474

Indicative and Updated Estimates of the Collective Bargaining Premium in Germany

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Katalin Evers, Lutz Bellmann

published in: Industrial Relations, 2014, 53 (1), 125-157.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7461

Gender Differences in Earnings and Labor Supply in Early Career: Evidence from Kosovo's School-to-Work Transition Survey

Francesco Pastore, Sarosh Sattar, Erwin R. Tiongson

published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2013, 2:5

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7441

Democracy, Dictatorship and the Cultural Transmission of Political Values

Davide Ticchi, Thierry Verdier, Andrea Vindigni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7262

Pure Ethnic Gaps in Educational Attainment and School to Work Transitions: When Do They Arise?

Stijn Baert, Bart Cockx

revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 35, 276 - 294

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6893

Wage Growth and Job Mobility in the Early Career: Testing a Statistical Discrimination Model of the Gender Wage Gap

Philippe Belley, Nathalie Havet, Guy Lacroix

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2015, 42, 231-260

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6835

Earnings Losses and Labor Mobility over the Lifecycle

Philip Jung, Moritz Kuhn

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17 (3), 678–724

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6562

Overeducation at the Start of the Career: Stepping Stone or Trap?

Stijn Baert, Bart Cockx, Dieter Verhaest

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 25, 123-140

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6535

Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in OECD Countries: Evidence from Cross-Country/Cross-Industry Data

Andrea Bassanini, Andrea Garnero

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21 (1), 25-41

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6103

Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers

Magnus Lofstrom, Timothy Bates, Simon C. Parker

published as 'Why Are Some People More Likely to Become Small-Businesses Owners than Others: Entrepreneurship Entry and Industry-specific Barriers' in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2014, 29(2), 232–251

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5987

The Structure of Collective Bargaining and Worker Representation: Change and Persistence in the German Model

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

revised version published as 'Collective Agreement Status and Survivability: Change and Persistence in the German Model' in: Labour, 2013, 27 (3), 288-309

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5825

The Effect of Public Sector Employment on Women's Labour Market Outcomes

Brindusa Anghel, Sara de la Rica, Juan J. Dolado

published in: I. Sanchez de Madariaga, S. de la Rica and J. Dolado (Eds.), Libro Blanco sobre la Situación de la Mujer en la Ciencia Espaniola. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Madrid, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5572

The Impact of Education on Unemployment Incidence and Re-employment Success: Evidence from the U.S. Labour Market

W. Craig Riddell, Xueda Song

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (4), 453-463

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5476

Incentive Effects of Risk Pooling, Redistributive and Savings Arrangements in Unemployment Benefit Systems: Evidence from a Job-Search Model for Brazil

David A. Robalino, Eduardo Zylberstajn, Juan David Robalino

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5285

Quantity over Quality? A European Comparison of the Changing Nature of Transitions between Non-Employment and Employment

Werner Eichhorst, Regina Konle-Seidl, Alison Koslowski, Paul Marx

published in: Jochen Clasen and Daniel Clegg (eds.), Regulating the Risk of Unemployment. National Adaptations to Post-Industrial Labour Markets in Europe, Oxford: OUP, 2011, 281-296

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5098

Entrepreneurship and Market Size: The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy

Sabrina Di Addario, Daniela Vuri

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (5), 848-858

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5030

The State of Collective Bargaining and Worker Representation in Germany: The Erosion Continues

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4530

Labour Market Status and Migration Dynamics

Govert Bijwaard

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. 4480

The Gender Gap in Early Career in Mongolia

Francesco Pastore

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2010, 31 (2), 188-207

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4418

Persistence of Civil Wars

Daron Acemoglu, Davide Ticchi, Andrea Vindigni

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, 8 (2-3), 664-676

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4094

The Effect of Neighbourhood Housing Tenure Mix on Labour Market Outcomes: A Longitudinal Perspective

Maarten van Ham, David Manley

published as 'The effect of neighbourhood housing tenure mix on labour market outcomes: a longitudinal investigation of neighbourhood effects' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2010, 10 (2), 257 - 282

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3992

Job Durations with Worker and Firm Specific Effects: MCMC Estimation with Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data

Guillaume Horny, Rute Mendes, Gerard J. van den Berg

published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statisticsc, 30(3) 2012, 468-480

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3579

Unemployment Assistance and Transition to Employment in Argentina

Ana Iturriza, Arjun S. Bedi, Robert Sparrow

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2011, 59 (4), 811-837

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3483

Imposed Benefit Sanctions and the Unemployment-to-Employment Transition: The German Experience

Kai-Uwe Müller, Viktor Steiner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3392

A Theory of Military Dictatorships

Daron Acemoglu, Davide Ticchi, Andrea Vindigni

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (1), 1-42

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2888

Intertemporal Labor Supply and Involuntary Unemployment

Peter Haan, Arne Uhlendorff

published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44, 661-683

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2115

Female Labor Market Transitions in Europe

Lutz C. Kaiser

published German version: Arbeitsmarktflexibilität, Arbeitsmarktübergänge und Familie: Die Europäische Perspektive, in: Szydlik, Marc (Ed.) (2008), Flexibilisierung – Folgen für Arbeit und Familie. Springer VS, pp. 295-313

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2034

Does More Generous Student Aid Increase Enrolment Rates into Higher Education? Evaluating the German Student Aid Reform of 2001

Hans J. Baumgartner, Viktor Steiner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1850

Econometrics of Individual Labor Market Transitions

Denis Fougère, Thierry Kamionka

published in: Patrick Sevestre and Lazlo Matyas (eds.), The Econometrics of Panel Data: Handbook of Theory and Applications, 3rd ed., Springer, 2008, 865-905

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1737

The Effects of Smoking Ban Regulations on Individual Smoking Rates

Hielke Buddelmeyer, Roger Wilkins

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1690

The Dynamics of the National Minimum Wage: Transitions Between Different Labour Market States

Melanie K. Jones, Richard J. Jones, Philip D. Murphy, Peter J. Sloane

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1319

Mass Migration to Israel and Natives' Transitions from Employment

Sarit Cohen Goldner, M. Daniele Paserman

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 59 (4), 630-652

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1225

Estimating the Return to Training and Occupational Experience: The Case of Female Immigrants