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36 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13471
Dream Jobs
Giordano Mion, Luca David Opromolla, Gianmarco Ottaviano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13325
Why Didn't the College Premium Rise Everywhere? Employment Protection and On-the-Job Investment in Skills
Matthias Doepke, Ruben Gaetani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13212
Workforce Composition, Productivity and Pay: The Role of Firms in Wage Inequality
Chiara Criscuolo, Alexander Hijzen, Cyrille Schwellnus, Erling Barth, Wen-Hao Chen, Richard Fabling, Priscilla Fialho, Katarzyna Grabska, Ryo Kambayashi, Timo Leidecker, Oskar Nordström Skans, Capucine Riom, Duncan Roth, Balazs Stadler, Richard Upward, Wouter Zwysen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12874
The Wage Premium of Communist Party Membership: Evidence from China
Hongjian Wang, Plamen Nikolov, Kevin Acker
accepted/forthcoming
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12806
Urban Wage Premia, Cost of Living, and Collective Bargaining
Marianna Belloc, Paolo Naticchioni, Claudia Vittori
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12765
Endogenous Local Labour Markets, Regional Aggregation and Agglomeration Economies
Jordy Meekes, Wolter Hassink
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11657
Has the College Wage Premium Continued to Rise? Evidence from Multiple U.S. Surveys
Jared Ashworth, Tyler Ransom
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 69 (1), 149 -154.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11477
Does It Pay to Graduate from an 'Elite' University in Australia?
David Carroll, Christopher Heaton, Massimiliano Tani
published in: Economic Record, 2019, 95(310), 343-357
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11309
Firm Wage Premia, Industrial Relations, and Rent Sharing in Germany
Boris Hirsch, Steffen Müller
revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 73 (5), 1119-1146
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11091
Heterogeneity and the Public Sector Wage Policy
Pedro Maia Gomes
published in: International Economic Review, 2018, 59 (3), 1469 -1489
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11025
The Context-Bound University Selectivity Premium
Joniada Milla
published in: Review of Economic Analysis, 2018, 10, 313 - 349 [open access]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10720
The Hukou Impact on the Chinese Wage Structure
Christian Dreger, Yanqun Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10536
University Selectivity and the Graduate Wage Premium: Evidence from the UK
Ian Walker, Yu Zhu
published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 53, 230-249
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10435
Gender Differences in the Union Wage Premium? A Comparative Case Study
Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen, Kristine Nergaard
published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, First Published April 12, 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959680119840572
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9635
The Urban Wage Premium in Imperfect Labour Markets
Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn, Michael Oberfichtner
substantially revised version coauthored with Alan Manning forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9117
What Drives the Reversal of the Gender Education Gap? Evidence from Germany
Regina T. Riphahn, Caroline Schwientek
published in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47 (53), 5748-5775
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8943
Unions and Collective Bargaining in the Wake of the Great Recession
John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal, Hugo Vilares
revised version published as 'Unions and Collective Bargaining in the Wake of the Great Recession: Evidence from Portugal' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55(3), 551-576.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8626
Trends in the Returns to Social Assimilation: Earnings Premiums among U.S. Immigrants that Marry Natives
Delia Furtado, Tao Song
published in: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2015, 662 (1), 207-222
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8624
Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction
Alisher Aldashev, Alexander M. Danzer
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2020, DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2020.1779927
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7811
What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage Distribution
Alessia Matano, Paolo Naticchioni
published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2016, 56 (2), 191 - 209
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7600
Spatial Changes in Labour Market Inequality
Joanne Lindley, Stephen Machin
published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2014, 79, 121-138
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6492
Changes in China's Wage Structure
Suqin Ge, Dennis T. Yang
published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2014, 12 (2), 300-336
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6466
Exports and Wages: Rent Sharing, Workforce Composition or Returns to Skills?
Mario Macis, Fabiano Schivardi
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34(4), 945 - 978
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5789
The Impact of Bologna Process on the Graduate Labour Market: Demand and Supply
Giulio Bosio, Marco Leonardi
published as 'The impact of Bologna process on the graduate': in: Giornale degli economisti, 2010, 69 (3), 29-66
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4998
Imperfect Information, On-the-Job Training, and the Employer Size-Wage Puzzle: Theory and Evidence
Shuaizhang Feng, Bingyong Zheng
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4309
Cherry-Picking in Labor Market with Imperfect Information
Shuaizhang Feng, Bingyong Zheng
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4143
Return to Training and Establishment Size: A Reexamination of the Size-Wage Puzzle
Shuaizhang Feng
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3968
India's Increasing Skill Premium: Role of Demand and Supply
Mehtabul Azam
revised version published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. Volume 10, Issue 1, ISSN (Online) 1935-1682, October 2010
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3493
Human Capital Externalities and the Urban Wage Premium: Two Literatures and their Interrelations
Benedikt Halfdanarson, Daniel F. Heuermann, Jens Suedekum
published in: Urban Studies, 2010, 47 (4), 749-767
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3359
Higher Wages in Exporting Firms: Self-Selection, Export Effect, or Both? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
Thorsten Schank, Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner
published in: Review of World Economics, 2010, 146 (2), 303-322
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3230
City Air or City Markets: Productivity Gains in Urban Areas
Douglas J. Krupka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3145
The Formal Sector Wage Premium and Firm Size
Eliane El Badaoui, Eric Strobl, Frank Walsh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2930
Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World: Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?
Barry Hirsch
published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2008, 22 (1), 153-176
IZA Discussion Paper No. 783
Match Bias in Wage Gap Estimates Due to Earnings Imputation
Barry Hirsch, Edward J. Schumacher
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2004, 22 (3), 689-722
IZA Discussion Paper No. 429
Does Future PC Use Determine Our Wages Today? Evidence from German Panel Data
Silke Anger, Johannes Schwarze
published in: Labour, 2003, 17 (3), 337-360
IZA Discussion Paper No. 86
Money for Nothing and Your Chips for Free? The Anatomy of the PC Wage Differential
John P. Haisken-DeNew, Christoph M. Schmidt
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