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The IZA Discussion Paper Series (ISSN: 2365-9793) disseminates high-quality research by IZA network members to the scientific community and the interested public worldwide before they are later published in academic journals. Comprising more than 17,000 papers, IZA's publication flagship is the most influential working paper series in labor economics.

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1,187 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17933
Tourism and Growth in the Local Labor Market
Laura Conti, Marco Francesconi, Giulio Papini, Michel Serafinelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17881
Do Financial Incentives for Training and Caseworker Meetings Enhance Re-Employment?
Tomi Kyyrä, Jouko Kullervo Verho
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17869
Welfare Conditionality in the OECD and in Latin America: A Comparative Perspective
Herwig Immervoll, Florencia Antía, Carlo Knotz, Cecilia Rossel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17731
Closing the Mismatch: Encouraging Jobseekers to Reskill for Shortage Occupations
Elisabeth Leduc, Ilan Tojerow
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. 17600
Taxes Today, Benefits Tomorrow
Thomas Le Barbanchon
forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17497
Not a Lucky Break? Why and When a Career Hiatus Hijacks Hiring Chances
Liam D'hert, Louis Lippens, Stijn Baert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17470
Investigating the Impact of Integration Agreements on Labor Market Outcomes for Welfare Recipients: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Gerard J. van den Berg, Sarah Bernhard, Gesine Stephan, Arne Uhlendorff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17463
Crisis Resilience of European Welfare States: The Role of Multiple Layers of Protection
Werner Eichhorst, Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Mathias Dolls, Max Lay
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17375
Hard Times, Hard Attitudes? The Effect of Economic Downturns on Gender Norms
Inés Berniell, Leonardo Gasparini, Mariana Marchionni, Mariana Viollaz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17359
Affordable Housing and Individual Labor Market Outcomes
Wolfgang Dauth, Andreas Mense, Matthias Wrede
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17348
How Does Potential Unemployment Insurance Benefit Duration Affect Reemployment Timing and Wages?
Rahel Felder, Hanna Frings, Nikolas Mittag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17348
How Does Potential Unemployment Insurance Benefit Duration Affect Reemployment Timing and Wages?
Rahel Felder, Hanna Frings, Nikolas Mittag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17340
Layoff Costs and Learning about Employer Financial Distress
Andreas Ravndal Kostøl, Matthew C. Merkle, Morten Grindaker
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17299
Navigating Unemployment without Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from Singapore
Seonghoon Kim, Lanjie Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17276
Impact of Stock Market Manias and Panics on the U.S. Labor Market
Douglas Mwangi Waithaka, Michael Jan Kendzia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17268
Economic Shocks and Worker Careers: Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Transitions Out of Unemployment?
Mara Buhmann, Laura Pohlan, Duncan H.W. Roth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17198
The Accuracy of Job Seekers' Wage Expectations
Marco Caliendo, Robert Mahlstedt, Aiko Schmeißer, Sophie Wagner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17197
The Impact of Macroeconomic Conditions on Long-Term Care: Evidence on Prices
Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Mia Teschner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17141
Unemployment, Inactivity, and Hiring Chances: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Liam D'hert, Stijn Baert, Louis Lippens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17139
Pandemic Layoffs and the Role of Stay-at-Home Orders
Marianna Kudlyak, Erin L. Wolcott
published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 242, 111894
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17107
Labor Market Outcomes of Same-Sex Couples in Countries with Legalized Same-Sex Marriage
Honorata Bogusz, Jan Gromadzki
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17095
Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Program Interactions
Zachary Parolin, Clemente Pignatti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17068
I Can't Forget about U: Lifetime Unemployment and Retirement Well-Being
Andrew E. Clark, Anthony Lepinteur
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17058
Unemployment, Segregation, and the Structure of Cities
Daniel F. Heuermann, Philipp Vom Berge
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16924
Do Reemployment Bonuses Increase Employment? Evidence from the Idaho Return to Work Bonus Program
Duncan Hobbs, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16908
Mom's Out: Employment after Childbirth and Firm-Level Responses
Francesca Carta, Alessandra Casarico, Marta De Philippis, Salvatore Lattanzio
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16888
How Cyclical Is the User Cost of Labor?
Marianna Kudlyak
published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2024, 28 (2), 159–180
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16878
Life-Cycle Worker Flows and Cross-Country Differences in Aggregate Employment
Jonathan Créchet, Etienne Lalé, Linas Tarasonis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16799
Unveiling Shadows: The Impact of Unemployment on Child Maltreatment
Dan Brown, Elisabetta De Cao
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16790
Job Loss, Unemployment Insurance, and Health: Evidence from Brazil
Guilherme Amorim, Diogo Britto, Alexandre Fonseca, Breno Sampaio
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16779
Can Voluntary Adult Education Reduce Unemployment? Causal Evidence from East Germany after Reunification
Li Kathrin Kaja Rupieper, Stephan L. Thomsen
published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2025, 59, 2 (2025)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16722
Assessing Labor Market Conditions in Canada with Public-Use Microdata
Etienne Lalé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16696
Which Occupations Do Unemployed Workers Target? Insights from Online Job Search Profiles
Steffen Altmann, Robert Mahlstedt, Malte Jacob Rattenborg, Alexander Sebald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16685
Job Displacement and Local Employment Density
David C. Maré, Richard Fabling, Dean R. Hyslop
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16642
Unemployment, Immigration, and Populism
Shuai Chen
published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2024, 67 (4), 951 - 986
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16581
The Active Role of the Natural Rate of Unemployment during Cyclical Recoveries
Robert E. Hall, Marianna Kudlyak
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16581
The Active Role of the Natural Rate of Unemployment during Cyclical Recoveries
Robert E. Hall, Marianna Kudlyak
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16579
You'll Never Walk Alone: Unemployment, Social Networks and Leisure Activities
Mattia Filomena, Matteo Picchio
forthcoming in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16542
No Longer Qualified? Changes in the Supply and Demand for Skills within Occupations
Alicia Sasser Modestino, Mary A. Burke, Shahriar Sadighi, Rachel Sederberg, Tomere Stern, Bledi Taska
This version: February 2025.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16541
The Societal Costs of Inflation and Unemployment
Olga Popova, Sarah Grace See, Milena Nikolova, Vladimir Otrachshenko
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16517
The Shifting Reasons for Beveridge-Curve Shifts
Gadi Barlevy, Bart Hobijn, Jason Faberman, Aysegül Sahin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16509
Unemployment Insurance with Response Heterogeneity
Conny Wunsch, Véra Zabrodina
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16495
Structural Empirical Analysis of Vacancy Referrals with Imperfect Monitoring and the Strategic Use of Sickness Absence
Gerard J. van den Berg, Hanno Foerster, Arne Uhlendorff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16495
Structural Empirical Analysis of Vacancy Referrals with Imperfect Monitoring and the Strategic Use of Sickness Absence
Gerard J. van den Berg, Hanno Foerster, Arne Uhlendorff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16481
Bonus Question: Does Flexible Incentive Pay Dampen Unemployment Dynamics?
Meghana Gaur, John Grigsby, Jonathon Hazell, Abdoulaye Ndiaye
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16467
Labor Market Dynamics with Sorting
Bastian Schulz
published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2024, 158, 104776
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16455
Minimum Wages, Wage Dispersion and Financial Constraints in Firms
Hamzeh Arabzadeh, Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke, Ahmet Ali Taskin
published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 163, 104678
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16426
Predicting Re-Employment: Machine Learning versus Assessments by Unemployed Workers and by Their Caseworkers
Gerard J. van den Berg, Max Kunaschk, Julia Lang, Gesine Stephan, Arne Uhlendorff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16426
Predicting Re-Employment: Machine Learning versus Assessments by Unemployed Workers and by Their Caseworkers
Gerard J. van den Berg, Max Kunaschk, Julia Lang, Gesine Stephan, Arne Uhlendorff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16423
Suspended from Work and School? Impacts of Layoff Events and Unemployment Insurance on Student Disciplinary Incidence
Riley Acton, Jo Al Khafaji-King, Austin C. Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16400
Macroeconomic Effects of UI Extensions at Short and Long Durations
Miguel Acosta, Andreas I. Mueller, Emi Nakamura, Jón Steinsson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16400
Macroeconomic Effects of UI Extensions at Short and Long Durations
Miguel Acosta, Andreas I. Mueller, Emi Nakamura, Jón Steinsson
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. 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. 16351
Sticky Wages on the Layoff Margin
Steven J. Davis, Pawel M. Krolikowski
published in: American Economic Review, 2025, 115 (2), 491 - 524
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16277
The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic Recession on Less Educated Women's Human Capital: Some Projections
Mark Drozd, Robert A. Moffitt, Xinyu Zhao
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 289–323
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16271
Wage Employment, Unemployment and Self-Employment across Countries
Markus Poschke
published in: Journal of Monetary Economics. 2025, 149, 103684
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16199
Innovation and the Labor Market: Theory, Evidence and Challenges
Nicoletta Corrocher, Daniele Moschella, Jacopo Staccioli, Marco Vivarelli
published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2024, 33 (3), 519–540
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16196
The Employment Effects of a Wage Subsidy for the Young during an Economic Recovery
Astrid Kunze, Marta Palczyńska, Iga Magda
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16153
Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Low-Educated Unemployed Youths
Andrea Albanese, Bart Cockx, Muriel Dejemeppe
revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 235, 105137
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16121
A Theory of Non-Coasean Labor Markets
Andrés Blanco, Andres Drenik, Christian Moser, Emilio Zaratiegui
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16103
Intergenerational Scars: The Impact of Parental Unemployment on Individual Health Later in Life
Michele Ubaldi, Matteo Picchio
published in: German Economic Review, 2025, 26 (1), 35-70
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16066
Minimum Income Support Systems as Elements of Crisis Resilience in Europe
Werner Eichhorst, Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Paul Marx, Mathias Dolls, Max Lay
updated version available as DP 17463
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16001
Public-Sector Employment, Wages and Education Decisions
Andri Chassamboulli, Pedro Maia Gomes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15978
The Micro and Macro Effects of Changes in the Potential Benefit Duration
Jonas Jessen, Robin Jessen, Ewa Galecka-Burdziak, Marek Góra, Jochen Kluve
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15971
Wage-Specific Search Intensity
Silvio Rendon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15955
The Nature of Long-Term Unemployment: Predictability, Heterogeneity and Selection
Andreas I. Mueller, Johannes Spinnewijn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15927
Parental Unemployment and Adolescents' Academic Performance
Nick Drydakis
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2023, 44 (7), 1362-1381.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15905
Labour Market Expectations and Unemployment in Europe
David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15830
The Direct and Indirect Effects of Online Job Search Advice
Steffen Altmann, Anita Marie Glenny, Robert Mahlstedt, Alexander Sebald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15797
The Effects of Employers' Disability and Unemployment Insurance Costs on Benefit Inflows
Tomi Kyyrä, Juha Tuomala
published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 85, 102434
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15753
Public Opinion, Racial Bias, and Labor Market Outcomes
Kaveh Majlesi, Silvia Prina, Paul Sullivan
published in: Nature Human Behaviour, 2024, 8, 1493–1505
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15747
Do Job Seekers Understand the UI Benefit System (And Does It Matter)?
Steffen Altmann, Sofie Cairo, Robert Mahlstedt, Alexander Sebald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15721
The Puzzle of Educated Unemployment in West Africa
Esther Mirjam Girsberger, Romuald Meango
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15698
Empirical Evaluation of Broader Job Search Requirements for Unemployed Workers
Bas van der Klaauw, Heike Vethaak
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15695
Recession and Deflation?
David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson
published in: Review of Keynesian Economics, 2023, 11 (2), 234-251
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15688
Different Degrees of Skill Obsolescence across Hard and Soft Skills and the Role of Lifelong Learning for Labor Market Outcomes
Tobias Schultheiss, Uschi Backes-Gellner
published in: Industrial Relations, 2023, 62 (3), 257 - 287
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15645
Lost Mind, Lost Job? Unequal Effects of Corporate Downsizings on Employees
Petri Böckerman, Mika Haapanen, Edvard Johansson
published in: German Journal of Human Resource Management, 2024, 38 (4), 413—429
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15628
Old-Age Unemployment and Labor Supply: An Application to Belgium
Octave De Brouwer, Ilan Tojerow
published in: Empirical Economics, 2024, 67, 253 - 587
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15619
'The Double Dividend of Training' – Labor Market Effects of Work-Related Continuous Education in Switzerland
Stefan Denzler, Jens Ruhose, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15610
Matching Efficiency and Heterogeneous Workers in the UK
Elena Lisauskaite
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15603
Cyclical Earnings, Career and Employment Transitions
Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Ludo Visschers, David Wiczer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15601
Labor Market Insurance Policies in the XXI Century
Tito Boeri, Pierre Cahuc
published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2023, 15 (1), 1-22
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15591
The Kids Aren't Alright: Parental Job Loss and Children's Outcomes within and beyond Schools
Diogo Britto, Caíque Melo, Breno Sampaio
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15561
Assessing Australian Monetary Policy in the Twenty-First Century
Isaac Gross, Andrew Leigh
published in: Economic Record, 2022, 98 (322), 271 - 295
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15507
Boomerang College Kids: Unemployment, Job Mismatch and Coresidence
Stefania Albanesi, Rania Gihleb, Ning Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15468
Economic Recession, Parental Unemployment and Adolescents’ Health-Related Quality of Life and Mental Health Outcomes in Greece
Nick Drydakis
published in: Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 2023, 23 (2), 275-298.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15465
The Wage Curve after the Great Recession
David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson, Jackson Spurling
published in: Economica, 2024, 91 (362), 653-668
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15452
Do the Long-Term Unemployed Benefit from Automated Occupational Advice during Online Job Search?
Michèle Belot, Philipp Kircher, Paul Muller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15439
Losing Prospective Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits. Impact on Educational Attainment
Bart Cockx, Koen Declercq, Muriel Dejemeppe
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 95, 102424
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15433
Unemployment and Health: A Meta-Analysis
Matteo Picchio, Michele Ubaldi
published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2024, 38 (4), 1437-1472
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15409
Labour Market Effects of Digital Matching Platforms: Experimental Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Sam Jones, Kunal Sen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15404
The Great Canadian Recovery: The Impact of COVID-19 on Canada's Labour Market
Stephen R. G. Jones, Fabian Lange, W. Craig Riddell, Casey Warman
published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2023, 56 (3), 791-838
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15401
Why Should We Integrate Income and Employment Support? A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation
Antonia Asenjo, Veronica Escudero, Hannah Liepmann
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2024, 60 (1), 1-20.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15399
COVID-19 Private Pension Withdrawals and Unemployment Tenures
Tristram Sainsbury, Robert Breunig, Timothy Watson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15399
COVID-19 Private Pension Withdrawals and Unemployment Tenures
Tristram Sainsbury, Robert Breunig, Timothy Watson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15390
Combining Survey and Geospatial Data Can Significantly Improve Gender-Disaggregated Estimates of Labor Market Outcomes
Joshua D. Merfeld, David Newhouse, Michael Weber, Partha Lahiri
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15389
Children in the Aftermath of the Great Recession
Carsten Andersen, Mikkel Aagaard Houmark, Helena Skyt Nielsen, Michael Svarer
published in: Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift/ Danish Economic Journal, 2022, 2022 (1), Article 3
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15372
Partisanship and Survey Refusal
Mark Borgschulte, Heepyung Cho, Darren Lubotsky
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 200, 332-357
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