Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1058

Equilibrium Unemployment and Investment Under Product and Labour Market Imperfections

Heikki Kauppi, Erkki Koskela, Rune Stenbacka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1052

Consumption Smoothing and the Structure of Labor and Credit Markets

Giuseppe Bertola, Winfried Koeniger

published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (8), 1941-1958

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1044

Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition

J. David Brown, John S. Earle

IZA Discussion Paper No. 965

Labor and the Market Value of the Firm

Monika Merz, Eran Yashiv

published in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (4), 1419 - 1431

IZA Discussion Paper No. 957

Product Market Deregulation and Labor Market Outcomes

Monique Ebell, Christian Haefke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 948

Effects of Employment Protection and Product Market Regulations on the Italian Labor Market

Adriana Kugler, Giovanni Pica

published in: J. Messina, C. Michelacci, J. Turunen and G. Zoega (eds.), Labour Market Adjustments in Europe, Edward Elgar 2006

IZA Discussion Paper No. 943

What Have We Learned About the Employment Effects of Severance Pay? Further Iterations of Lazear et al.

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira

published in: Empirica, 2005, 32 (3-4), 345-368

IZA Discussion Paper No. 920

Employment Changes, the Structure of Adjustment Costs, and Plant Size

Øivind Anti Nilsen, Kjell G. Salvanes, Fabio Schiantarelli

published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (3), 577-598

IZA Discussion Paper No. 919

The Impact of Economic Integration on Employment – An Assessment in the Context of EU Enlargement

Michael Fertig

IZA Discussion Paper No. 915

Macroeconomic Impacts of ALMP on the Matching Process in West Germany

Reinhard Hujer, Christopher Zeiss

IZA Discussion Paper No. 910

On-the-Job Training, Firing Costs and Employment

Pilar Diaz-Vazquez, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy, 2005, 4 (1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 871

The Impact of Growth, Labour Cost and Working Time on Employment: Lessons from the French Experience

Yannick L'Horty, Christophe Rault

published in: Labour, 2005, 19 (3), 595-620

IZA Discussion Paper No. 835

Job Turnover, Unemployment and Labor Market Institutions

Gilles Joseph, Olivier Pierrard, Henri R. Sneessens

published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (4), 451-468

IZA Discussion Paper No. 833

Structural Reforms and the Macroeconomy: The Role of General Equilibrium Effects

Hans Gersbach

published in: R. Solow (ed.), Macroeconomics and Structural Reform, Palgrave 2004

IZA Discussion Paper No. 800

Sind Nominallöhne starr? Neuere Evidenz und wirtschaftspolitische Implikationen

Thomas Beissinger, Christoph Knoppik

published in: Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 2005, 6 (2), 171-188

IZA Discussion Paper No. 799

General Human Capital and Employment Adjustment in the Great Depression: Apprentices and Journeymen in UK Engineering

Robert A. Hart

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2005, 57 (1), 169-189

IZA Discussion Paper No. 784

Low-Skilled Unemployment, Biased Technological Shocks and Job Competition

Olivier Pierrard, Henri R. Sneessens

revised version published as "Biased Technological Shocks, Relative Wage Rigidities and Low-Skilled Unemployment”in Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 55(3), 330-352

IZA Discussion Paper No. 776

Determinants of Profit Sharing in the Finnish Corporate Sector

Laura Arranz-Aperte, Almas Heshmati

published in: Indian Economic Review, 2004, 39 (1), 55-79

IZA Discussion Paper No. 764

A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Patrick A. Puhani

published as 'Transatlantic Differences in Labour Markets: Changes in Wage and Non-Employment Structures in the 1980s and the 1990s' in: German Economic Review, 2008, 9 (3), 312-338

IZA Discussion Paper No. 723

A Test between Unemployment Theories Using Matching Data

Melvyn Coles, Barbara Petrongolo

published in: International Economic Review, 2008, 49 (4), 1113-1141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 701

Earnings-Related Unemployment Benefits in a Unionised Economy

Laszlo Goerke, Jakob B. Madsen

published in: Economic Systems, 2003, 27 (1), 41-62

IZA Discussion Paper No. 689

The Effects of Union Wage-Settings on Firms’ Production Factor Decisions

Almas Heshmati, Ilham Haouas

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2004, 11 (7), 415-420

IZA Discussion Paper No. 688

The Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Employment and Wages in Tunisian Industries

Ilham Haouas, Mahmoud Yagoubi, Almas Heshmati

published in: Journal of International Development, 2005, 17 (4), 527-551

IZA Discussion Paper No. 687

Labour-Use Efficiency in Tunisian Manufacturing Industries

Ilham Haouas, Mahmoud Yagoubi, Almas Heshmati

published in: Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 2003, 1 (3), 195-214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 684

The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment: Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants

Patrick A. Puhani

published as 'Relative Demand Shocks and Relative Wage Rigidities During the Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment' in: Kyklos, 2003, 56 (4),541-562

IZA Discussion Paper No. 675

Gross Job Flows in Ukraine: Size, Ownership and Trade Effects

Jozef Konings, Olga Kupets, Hartmut Lehmann

published in: Economics of Transition, 2003, 11 (2), 321-356

IZA Discussion Paper No. 656

The Impact of the Unemployment Benefit System on International Spillover Effects

Thomas Beissinger, Oliver Buesse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 644

Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth Under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition

J. David Brown, John S. Earle

IZA Discussion Paper No. 633

Employee Referrals and Efficiency Wages

Adriana Kugler

published in: Labour Economics, 2003, 10 (5), 531-556

IZA Discussion Paper No. 622

Should UI Benefits Really Fall Over Time?

John Hassler, José V. Rodriguez Mora

IZA Discussion Paper No. 616

Macroeconometric Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies in Germany – A Dynamic Panel Approach Using Regional Data

Reinhard Hujer, Uwe Blien, Marco Caliendo, Christopher Zeiss

published in: Carloeo, F.E. and Destefanis, S. (eds.): The European Labour Market - Regional Dimensions, Physica Verlag, 2006, 287-310

IZA Discussion Paper No. 586

On-the-Job Training and the Effects of Insider Power

Pilar Diaz-Vazquez, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (3), 317-341

IZA Discussion Paper No. 583

On the Efficiency of Job Search with Social Networks

Pierre Cahuc, Francois Fontaine

published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2009, 11 (3), 411–439

IZA Discussion Paper No. 564

The Reallocation of Workers and Jobs in Russian Industry: New Evidence on Measures and Determinants

J. David Brown, John S. Earle

published in: Economics of Transition, 2003, 11 (2), 221-252

IZA Discussion Paper No. 510

Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom, 1975-99

Eswar Prasad

published in: IMF Staff Papers, 2002, 49 (3), 339-362

IZA Discussion Paper No. 506

Can Insider Power Affect Employment?

Pilar Diaz-Vazquez, Dennis J. Snower

published in: German Economic Review, 2003, 4 (2), 139-150

IZA Discussion Paper No. 497

European Integration and Employment: A New Role for Active Fiscal Policies?

Donatella Gatti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 478

Uneven Technical Progress and Unemployment

Hans Gersbach, Achim Schniewind

IZA Discussion Paper No. 475

A Macroeconomic Experiment in Mass Immigration

Zvi Hercowitz, Eran Yashiv

IZA Discussion Paper No. 463

Labor Supply Dynamics, Umemployment and Human Capital Investments

Etienne Wasmer

published in:Recherches Economiques de Louvan / Louvain Economic Review, 2004, 70 (4), 461-482

IZA Discussion Paper No. 458

Inventories, Employment and Hours

Marzio Galeotti, Louis J. Maccini, Fabio Schiantarelli

published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2005, 52 (3), 575-600

IZA Discussion Paper No. 446

Macroeconomic Policy Lessons of Labor Market Frictions

Eran Yashiv

published in: European Economic Review, 2004, 48 (2), 259-284

IZA Discussion Paper No. 414

Where Did They Go?

Anders Frederiksen, Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen

published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (5), 811-828

IZA Discussion Paper No. 407

Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany

Ronald Schettkat, Lara Yocarini

published in: IAW-Report / Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung, 2003, 1, 7 - 66

IZA Discussion Paper No. 403

How Do Layoff Costs Affect Employment?

Lars Ljungqvist

published in: Economic Journal, 2002, 112 (482), 829-853

IZA Discussion Paper No. 394

Awareness of General Equilibrium Effects and Unemployment

Hans Gersbach, Achim Schniewind

published as 'Collective Bargaining, Wareness of General Equilibrium Effects, and Unemployment' in: International Economic Review, 2011, 52 (3), 693 - 712

IZA Discussion Paper No. 390

The Impact of Labor Market Reforms on Capital Flows, Wages and Unemployment

Thomas Beissinger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 389

Dynamic Wage Bargaining if Benefits are Tied to Individual Wages

Thomas Beissinger, Hartmut Egger

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2004, 56 (3), 437-460

IZA Discussion Paper No. 381

The Economics of Employment Protection

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2003, 24 (1), 85-129

IZA Discussion Paper No. 358

Bismarck versus Beveridge: Which Unemployment Compensation System is More Prone to Labor Market Shocks?

Thomas Beissinger, Oliver Buesse

published in: FinanzArchiv, 2001, 58 (1),78-102

IZA Discussion Paper No. 357

How Rigid are Nominal Wages? Evidence and Implications for Germany

Christoph Knoppik, Thomas Beissinger

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2003, 105 (4), 619-641

IZA Discussion Paper No. 351

Gross Job Flows in Russian Industry Before and After Reforms: Has Destruction Become More Creative?

J. David Brown, John S. Earle

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2002, 30 (1), 96-133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 335

Disaggregate Matching Functions

René Fahr, Uwe Sunde

revised version published as 'Occupational Job Creation: Patterns and Implications' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2004, 56 (3), 407-436

IZA Discussion Paper No. 276

The Impact of Product Market Competition on Employment and Wages

Bruno Amable, Donatella Gatti

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2004, 56 (4), 667-686

IZA Discussion Paper No. 273

Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs

Gilles Saint-Paul

published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (511), 382-407

IZA Discussion Paper No. 255

Product Market Reforms and Unemployment in Europe

Hans Gersbach, Achim Schniewind

IZA Discussion Paper No. 254

Learning of General Equilibrium Effects and the Unemployment Trap

Hans Gersbach, Achim Schniewind

IZA Discussion Paper No. 188

The Myth of Worksharing

Arie Kapteyn, Adriaan Kalwij, Asghar Zaidi

published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (3), 293-313

IZA Discussion Paper No. 181

Space, Search and Efficiency

Etienne Wasmer, Yves Zenou

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2002, 51(3), 515-541

IZA Discussion Paper No. 147

Does the Recent Success of Some OECD Countries in Lowering their Unemployment Rates Lie in the Clever Design of their Labour Market Reform?

Michèle Belot, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2004, 56 (4), 621-642

IZA Discussion Paper No. 144

Flexibility vs. Rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both Worlds?

Gilles Saint-Paul

published in: Jonas Agell, Michael Keen and Alfons Weichenrieder (eds.), Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation, 2004, 101-122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 136

Unemployment and Productivity Growth: An Empirical Analysis within the Augmented Solow Model

Michael Bräuninger, Markus Pannenberg

published in: Economic Modelling, 2002, 19 (1), 105-120

IZA Discussion Paper No. 134

Hiring and Firing Costs, Adverse Selection and Long-term Unemployment

Adriana Kugler, Gilles Saint-Paul

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2004, 22(3), 553-584.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 132

Hours and Wages in the Depression: British Engineering, 1926-1938

Robert A. Hart

published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2001, 38 (4), 478-502

IZA Discussion Paper No. 109

Combining Micro and Macro Unemployment Duration Data

Gerard J. van den Berg, Bas van der Klaauw

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2001, 102 (2), 271-309

IZA Discussion Paper No. 36

The Effects of European Economic and Monetary Union on Wage Behaviour

Charlotte Lauer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 33

Price Dynamics and Production Lags

Assar Lindbeck, Dennis J. Snower

published in: American Economic Review, 1999, 89 (2), 81-88