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published as 'The Impact of Firing Restrictions on Labour Market Equilibrium in the Presence of On-the-job Search' in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (575), 31-61.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5992

Factor Shares, the Price Markup, and the Elasticity of Substitution between Capital and Labor

Xavier Raurich, Hector Sala, Valeri Sorolla

published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2012, 4 (1), 181-198

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5991

Human Capital and Growth: Specification Matters

Uwe Sunde, Thomas Vischer

revised version published in: Economica, 2015, 82(326), 368–390

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5956

Fewer Jobs or Smaller Paychecks? Aggregate Crisis Impacts in Selected Middle-Income Countries

Gaurav Khanna, David Newhouse, Pierella Paci

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5935

Gender Gaps across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure

Claudia Olivetti, Barbara Petrongolo

published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2014, 17 (4), 842-859

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5931

Real Exchange Rate, Foreign Trade and Employment: Evidence from China

Xiangquan Zeng, Cui Yuxue, Qing Shisong, Yang Yumei

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5859

Simultaneous Search and Network Efficiency

Pieter A. Gautier, Christian Holzner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5832

The Recent Evolution of the Natural Rate of Unemployment

Mary C. Daly, Bart Hobijn, Robert G. Valletta

published as 'A Search and Matching Approach to Labor Markets: Did the Natural Rate of Unemployment Rise?' in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2012, 26 (3), 3-26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5800

What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?

Michael C. Burda, Jennifer Hunt

published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2011, Spring 2011, 273 - 319

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5796

Inequality and Employment Sensitivities to the Falling Labour Share

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala

published in: Economic and Social Review, 2012, 43 (3), 343-376

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5784

The Role of Worker Flows in the Dynamics and Distribution of UK Unemployment

Michael Elsby, Jennifer C. Smith, Jonathan Wadsworth

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2011, 27 (2), 338-363

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5778

Wage Rigidity and Disinflation in Emerging Countries

Julián Messina, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2014, 6 (1), 102-133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5742

More Alike than Different: The Spanish and Irish Labour Markets Before and After the Crisis

Pablo Agnese, Pablo F. Salvador

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, December 2012, 1:9

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5681

How Did the Great Recession Affect Different Types of Workers? Evidence from 17 Middle-Income Countries

Yoon Y. Cho, David Newhouse

published in: World Development, 2013, Vol (41), 31-50

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5649

Hidden Consequences of a First-Born Boy for Mothers

Andrea Ichino, Elly-Ann Lindström, Eliana Viviano

published in: Economic Letters, 2014, 123 (3), 274–278

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5606

Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment: Does Finance Matter?

Christophe Rault, Anne-Gaël Vaubourg

published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2012, 54 (1), 43 - 64

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5519

Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemployment and Informality in Developing Economies

Olivier Charlot, Franck Malherbet, Cristina Terra

published as 'Informality in developing economies: regulation and fiscal policies' in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2015, 51, 1–27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5477

Sorting and the Output Loss Due to Search Frictions

Pieter A. Gautier, Coen Teulings

published in: Journal of the European Association, 2015, 13 (6), 1136 - 1166

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5463

The Japanese Lost Decade and Beyond: A Chain Reaction Theory Approach

Pablo Agnese

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5458

Job Creation by Firms in Denmark

Rikke Ibsen, Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5452

Efficient Firm Dynamics in a Frictional Labor Market

Leo Kaas, Philipp Kircher

revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105(10), 3030-60

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5430

Is Short-Time Work a Good Method to Keep Unemployment Down?

Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo

published in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2011, 1(1),133-165.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5416

Applications and Interviews: A Structural Analysis of Two-Sided Simultaneous Search

Ronald P. Wolthoff

published as "Applications and Interviews: Firms' Recruiting Decisions in a Frictional Labour Market" in: Review of Economic Studies, 2018, 85 (2), 1314 - 1351

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5359

Sequentiality versus Simultaneity: Interrelated Factor Demand

Magne Krogstad Asphjell, Wilko Letterie, Øivind Anti Nilsen, Gerard A. Pfann

revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96 (5), 986-998

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5358

The Importance of Two-Sided Heterogeneity for the Cyclicality of Labour Market Dynamics

Ronald Bachmann, Peggy David

published in: The Manchester School, 2019, 87(6), 794-820

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5335

Who Pays for It? The Heterogeneous Wage Effects of Employment Protection Legislation

Marco Leonardi, Giovanni Pica

published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123, 1236-1278.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5327

Labour Market Flows: Facts from the United Kingdom

Pedro Maia Gomes

published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (2), 165-175.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5323

Dynamic Incentive Contracts under Parameter Uncertainty

Julien Prat, Boyan Jovanovic

revised version published as 'Dynamic Contracts When the Agent's Quality is Unknown' in: Theoretical Economics, 2014, 9 (3), 865-914

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5322

Interactions between Private and Public Sector Wages

António Afonso, Pedro Maia Gomes

published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2014, 39, 97-112.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5321

Fiscal Policy and the Labour Market: The Effects of Public Sector Employment and Wages

Pedro Maia Gomes

published as 'Optimal public sector wages' in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (587), 1425-1451.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5313

Analysis of Labor Tax Progression under Heterogeneous Domestic Labor Markets and Flexible Outsourcing

Erkki Koskela

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5276

Aging and Pensions in General Equilibrium: Labor Market Imperfections Matter

David de la Croix, Olivier Pierrard, Henri R. Sneessens

published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2013, 37 (1), 104-124

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5249

Are Microloans Bad for Growth?

Patrick M. Emerson, Bruce McGough

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5248

Intertemporal Substitution in Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Policy Discontinuities

Dayanand Manoli, Andrea Weber

published as "Nonparametric Evidence on the Effects of Financial Incentives on Retirement Decisions" in: American Economic Journal Economic Policy, 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5202

Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology

Markus Poschke

superseded by DP 7991.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5150

Payroll Taxes, Social Insurance and Business Cycles

Michael C. Burda, Mark Weder

published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2016, 14 (2), 436 - 467

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5126

Does Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity Dampen Wage Increases?

Heiko Stüber, Thomas Beissinger

published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (4), 870-887

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5118

Assortative Mating and Female Labor Supply

Christian Bredemeier, Falko Juessen

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (3), 603-631

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5099

The Vanishing Procyclicality of Labor Productivity

Jordi Galí, Thijs van Rens

published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (633), 302 - 326

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5092

The Wage-Productivity Gap Revisited: Is the Labour Share Neutral to Employment?

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala

published as 'The Role of the Wage-Productivity Gap in Economic Activity' in: International Review of Applied Economics, 2014, 28 (4), 436-459

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5039

Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Wages

Alessandro Barattieri, Susanto Basu, Peter T. Gottschalk

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2014, 6 (1), 70-101

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5013

Selective Reductions in Labor Taxation: Labor Market Adjustments and Macroeconomic Performance

Anna Batyra, Henri R. Sneessens

published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2010, 32 (4), 531–543

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4965

Labor Market Entry Conditions, Wages and Job Mobility

Ronald Bachmann, Thomas K. Bauer, Peggy David

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4958

Estimating Incentive and Welfare Effects of Non-Stationary Unemployment Benefits

Andrey Launov, Klaus Wälde

revised version published in: International Economic Review, 2013, 54 (4), 1159-1198

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4942

Does International Outsourcing Really Lower Workers' Income?

Erkki Koskela, Jan König

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2011, 32 (1), 21-38

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4934

The Great Recession of 2008-2009: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses

Sher Verick, Iyanatul Islam

published in: Iyanatul Islam and Sher Verick (eds.), From the Great Recession to Labour Market Recovery: Issues, Evidence and Policy Options, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; ILO/Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4924

Macroeconomic Volatilities and the Labor Market: First Results from the Euro Experiment

Christian Merkl, Tom Schmitz

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 27 (1), 44-60

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4908

On the Role of Sectoral and National Components in the Wage Bargaining Process

Christian Dreger, Hans-Eggert Reimers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4767

The Political Economy of Intergenerational Income Mobility

Andrea Ichino, Loukas Karabarbounis, Enrico Moretti

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 49 (1), 47-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4757

Measuring What Employers Really Do about Entry Wages over the Business Cycle

Pedro S. Martins, Gary Solon, Jonathan P. Thomas

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2012, 4 (4), 36-55

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4707

Profit Sharing, Wage Formation and Flexible Outsourcing under Labor Market Imperfection

Erkki Koskela, Jan König

published in: Review of International Economics, 2012, 20 (1), 18-28

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4673

How Important Are Labor Market Institutions for Labor Market Performance in Transition Countries?

Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev

revised version published in: Economics of Transition, 2012, 20 (2), 235-269

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4550

Dynamic Female Labor Supply

Zvi Eckstein, Osnat Lifshitz

published in: Econometrica, 2011, 79 (6), 1675–1726

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4544

Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly and Imperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Markets under Flexible Outsourcing

Erkki Koskela

published in: Thomas J. Sargent and Jouko Vilmunen (eds.): Macroeconomics at the Service of Public Policy, Oxford University Press, 2012, 186-214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4501

Credit Constraints and the Persistence of Unemployment

Nicolas Dromel, Elie Kolakez, Etienne Lehmann

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (5), 823-834

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4468

Endogenous Indoctrination: Occupational Choice, the Evolution of Beliefs, and the Political Economy of Reform

Gilles Saint-Paul

published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (544), 325 - 353

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4460

Apprenticeship Training and the Business Cycle

Samuel Mühlemann, Stefan C. Wolter, Adrian Wüest

published in: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2009, 1(2), 173-186

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4456

Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage

Gilles Saint-Paul

published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, 81 (4), 331-377

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4403

They Are Even Larger! More (on) Puzzling Labor Market Volatilities

Hermann Gartner, Christian Merkl, Thomas Rothe

revised version published as 'Sclerosis and Large Volatilities: Two Sides of the Same Coin' in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (1), 106–109

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4344

Employment Fluctuations with Downward Wage Rigidity: The Role of Moral Hazard

James Costain, Marcel Jansen

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, special issue: "Price and Wage Dynamics", 2010, 112(4), 782-811

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4322

Labor Turnover Costs, Workers' Heterogeneity, and Optimal Monetary Policy

Ester Faia, Wolfgang Lechthaler, Christian Merkl

revised version published as 'Labor Selection, Turnover Costs and Optimal Monetary Policy' in: Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 2014, 46 (1), 115–144

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4299

Productivity Growth and the Phillips Curve: A Reassessment of the US Experience

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala

published in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2012, 64 (3), 344–366

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4290

Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States

David Autor, David Dorn

see IZA DP No. 7068 for a substantially updated version

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4258

Cyclical Skill-Biased Technological Change

Almut Balleer, Thijs van Rens

published as 'Skill-Biased Technological Change and the Business Cycle' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95(4), 1222-1237

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4252

The US Inflation-Unemployment Tradeoff: Methodological Issues and Further Evidence

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala

published as 'The US Inflation-Unemployment Trade-off Revisited: New Evidence for Policy Making' in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2010, 32 (6), 758-777

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4201

Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting

Nikos Askitas, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2009, 55 (2), 107-120

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4184

Trade and Unemployment: What Do the Data Say?

Gabriel Felbermayr, Julien Prat, Hans-Jörg Schmerer

published in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (6), 741-758

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4178

Coming to America: Does Immigrant's Home Country Economic Status Impact the Probability of Self-Employment in the U.S.?

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Willie Belton

revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102(3), 538-542

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4174

Real Wages and the Business Cycle: Accounting for Worker and Firm Heterogeneity

Anabela Carneiro, Paulo Guimaraes, Pedro Portugal

published as 'Real Wages and the Business Cycle: Accounting for Worker, Firm and Job-Title Heterogeneity' in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2012, 4(2)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4145

An Incentive Theory of Matching

Alessio J. G. Brown, Christian Merkl, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2015, 19 (3), 643-668

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4141

Search and Offshoring in the Presence of "Animal Spirits"

Devashish Mitra, Priya Ranjan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4075

Unemployment and Finance: How Do Financial and Labour Market Factors Interact?

Donatella Gatti, Anne-Gaël Vaubourg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4063

Can Profit Sharing Lower Flexible Outsourcing? A Note

Erkki Koskela, Jan König

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4055

EU Enlargement under Continued Mobility Restrictions: Consequences for the German Labor Market

Karl Brenke, Mutlu Yuksel, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published as 'The Effects of EU Enlargement and the Temporary Measures on the German Labor Market ' in: M. Kahanec and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), EU Labor Markets after Post-Enlargement Migration, Springer: Berlin, et al. 2009, 111-129

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4014

Large Employers Are More Cyclically Sensitive

Giuseppe Moscarini, Fabien Postel-Vinay

published as 'The Contribution of Large and Small Employers to Job Creation in Times of High and Low Unemployment' in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (6), 2509-39

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3970

This Job Is 'Getting Old:' Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure

David Autor, David Dorn

published in: American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 2009, 99 (2), 45-51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3955

Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production

Michael C. Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh

published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 107 (2), 131-133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3924

Labour Market Dynamics in Australia: What Drives Unemployment?

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala

published in: Economic Record, 2010, 86 (273), 185-209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3876

The Role of Profit Sharing in a Dual Labour Market with Flexible Outsourcing

Erkki Koskela, Jan König

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3869

Unemployment Insurance Generosity: A Trans-Atlantic Comparison

Stéphane Pallage, Lyle Scruggs, Christian Zimmermann

published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2009, 95-96, 15-23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3868

Measuring Unemployment Insurance Generosity

Stéphane Pallage, Lyle Scruggs, Christian Zimmermann

published in: Political Analysis, 2013, 21(4), 524-549

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3775

Wage Formation between Newly Hired Workers and Employers: Survey Evidence

Robert E. Hall, Alan B. Krueger

published as "Evidence on the Incidence of Wage Posting, Wage Bargaining, and On-the-Job Search" in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2012, 4(4), 56-67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3714

Wage Rigidity and Job Creation

Christian Haefke, Marcus Sonntag, Thijs van Rens

published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2013, 60, 887 - 899.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3712

The Rise and Fall of Spanish Unemployment: A Chain Reaction Theory Perspective

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala

published in: Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer (eds.), International Papers in Political Economy, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3703

Identifying Adjustment Costs of Net and Gross Employment Changes

Joao Ejarque, Øivind Anti Nilsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3699