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143 IZA Policy Papers
IZA Policy Paper No. 143
New Education Models for the Workforce of the Future
Francesco Pastore
IZA Policy Paper No. 142
Reform Reversal in Former Transition Economies (FTEs) of the European Union: Areas, Circumstances and Motivations
István P. Székely, Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger
IZA Policy Paper No. 141
Risk-Sharing in Higher Education: A Policy Proposal
Douglas A. Webber
IZA Policy Paper No. 140
The PISA Shock, Socioeconomic Inequality, and School Reforms in Germany
Maddalena Davoli, Horst Entorf
IZA Policy Paper No. 139
Inclusive Growth: The Case of Germany
Günther Schmid
shorter version forthcoming in a special issue of: International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations
IZA Policy Paper No. 138
Skills for the 21st Century: Findings and Policy Lessons from the OECD Survey of Adult Skills
John P. Martin
IZA Policy Paper No. 137
Policy Experimentation and Impact Evaluation: The Case of a Student Voucher System in New Zealand
Sholeh A. Maani
IZA Policy Paper No. 136
Deterring Emigration with Foreign Aid: An Overview of Evidence from Low-Income Countries
Michael A. Clemens, Hannah M. Postel
forthcoming in: Population and Development Review, 2019
IZA Policy Paper No. 135
Investing in Human Capital to Boost Growth!
Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Francesco Pastore
IZA Policy Paper No. 134
Digital Challenges for the Welfare State
Werner Eichhorst, Ulf Rinne
published in: CESifo Forum, 2017, 18 (4), 3-8 [Details & Download]
IZA Policy Paper No. 133
Basic Income and a Public Job Offer: Complementary Policies to Reduce Poverty and Unemployment
Felix FitzRoy, Jim Jin
IZA Policy Paper No. 132
Tertiary Education for All and Wage Inequality: Policy Insights from Quantile Regression
Corrado Andini
IZA Policy Paper No. 131
Boom, Slump, Sudden Stops, Recovery, and Policy Options: Portugal and the Euro
Olivier Blanchard, Pedro Portugal
IZA Policy Paper No. 130
The ABCs of Nonfinancial Defined Contribution (NDC) Schemes
Robert Holzmann
published in: International Social Security Review, 2017, Vol. 70, No.3.
IZA Policy Paper No. 129
The US Unemployment Insurance, a Federal-State Partnership: Relevance for Reflections at the European Level
Georg Fischer
IZA Policy Paper No. 128
The European Youth Guarantee: A Preliminary Assessment and Broader Conceptual Implications
Werner Eichhorst, Ulf Rinne
published in: CESifo Forum, 2017, 18 (2), 34-38 [Details & Download]
IZA Policy Paper No. 127
Getting It Right: Youth Employment Policy within the EU
Francesco Pastore
published in: CESifo Forum, 2017, 18 (2), 26–33.
IZA Policy Paper No. 126
A Sustainable Immigration Policy for the EU
Jo Ritzen, Martin Kahanec
IZA Policy Paper No. 125
EU Mobility
Jo Ritzen, Martin Kahanec, Jasmina Haas
IZA Policy Paper No. 124
Statutory Minimum Wages in the EU: Institutional Settings and Macroeconomic Implications
Alfonso Arpaia, Pedro Cardoso, Aron Kiss, Kristine Van Herck, Anneleen Vandeplas
IZA Policy Paper No. 123
Policies to Expand Digital Skills for the Machine Age
John P. Martin
IZA Policy Paper No. 122
Labor Market Institutions and the Future of Work: Good Jobs for All?
Werner Eichhorst
also available in Spanish: http://repositorio.cepal.org/bitstream/handle/11362/42539/1/S1700870_es.pdf
IZA Policy Paper No. 121
European Identity and the Learning Union
Jo Ritzen, Jasmina Haas, Annemarie Neeleman, Pedro N. Teixeira
IZA Policy Paper No. 120
A Sustainable Euro Area with Exit Options
Jo Ritzen, Jasmina Haas
IZA Policy Paper No. 119
Promoting Youth Employment in Europe: Evidence-based Policy Lessons
Werner Eichhorst, Ulf Rinne
published in: Miguel Angel Malo and Almudena Moreno Minguez (eds.): Youth Labour Markets. Problems and Policies. Cham: Springer, 2018, 189-204 [Info & Abstract]
IZA Policy Paper No. 118
Can Conditional Transfers Eradicate Child Marriage?
Sajeda Amin, Niaz Asadullah, Sara Hossain, Zaki Wahhaj
published in: Economic and Political Weekly, 2017, 52(6)
IZA Policy Paper No. 117
How Big is the Gig? Assessing the Preliminary Evidence on the Effects of Digitalization on the Labor Market
Werner Eichhorst, Holger Hinte, Ulf Rinne, Verena Tobsch
published in: Management Revue, 2017, 28 (3), 298-318 [Details & Download]
IZA Policy Paper No. 116
Flexible and Secure Labour Market Transitions: Towards Institutional Capacity Building in the Digital Economy
Günther Schmid
IZA Policy Paper No. 115
Inequality, Public Wealth, and the Federal Shareholder
Giacomo Corneo
IZA Policy Paper No. 114
Whither Activation Policies? Reflections for the Future
John P. Martin
IZA Policy Paper No. 113
"Tongue Tide": The Economics of Language Offers Important Lessons for How Europe Can Best Integrate Migrants
Barry R. Chiswick
forthcoming in: Finance and Development
IZA Policy Paper No. 112
In Europe We Trust?
Jo Ritzen, Jasmina Haas
IZA Policy Paper No. 111
Do Bilateral Social Security Agreements Deliver on the Portability of Pensions and Health Care Benefits? A Summary Policy Paper on Four Migration Corridors Between EU and Non-EU Member States
Robert Holzmann
published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies , 2017, 5(17): 1-35.
IZA Policy Paper No. 110
Funding Mechanisms for Financing Vocational Training: An Analytical Framework
Adrian Ziderman
IZA Policy Paper No. 109
The Nordic Welfare Model in an Open European Labor Market
Bernt Bratsberg, Knut Røed
forthcoming in: Nordic Economic Policy Review
IZA Policy Paper No. 108
Managing Immigration in the 21st Century
Barry R. Chiswick
forthcoming in: Borjas/Chiswick, Foundations of Migration Economics (edited by Constant/Zimmermann), IZA Prize Book Series, OUP
IZA Policy Paper No. 107
European Universities during the Crisis: A Public Policy Perspective, with a Brief Excursion to the US
Jo Ritzen
IZA Policy Paper No. 106
Labour Mobility and Labour Market Adjustment in the EU
Alfonso Arpaia, Aron Kiss, Balazs Palvolgyi, Alessandro Turrini
IZA Policy Paper No. 105
Precarious and Less Well Paid? Wage Differences between Permanent and Fixed-term Contracts across the EU
António Dias da Silva, Alessandro Turrini
IZA Policy Paper No. 104
Absenteeism, Pension Reforms and Grandmothers
Flavia Coda Moscarola, Elsa Fornero, Steinar Strom
IZA Policy Paper No. 103
Youth Unemployment
Niall O'Higgins
published in: Andy Furlong (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood, 2nd Edn, 2017
IZA Policy Paper No. 102
Do We Have to Be Afraid of the Future World of Work?
Werner Eichhorst
IZA Policy Paper No. 101
Public Debt Sustainability in Africa: Building Resilience and Challenges Ahead
Mthuli Ncube, Zuzana Brixiova
published in: Development Policy Review, 2015, 33 (5), 555 - 580
IZA Policy Paper No. 100
The Big Trade-Off in the World of Labor
Klaus F. Zimmermann
IZA Policy Paper No. 99
Low Pay as an Alternative to Public Direct Job Creation? Lessons from the German Case
Werner Eichhorst
published in: Korea Employment Information Service (ed.), Active Labour Market Policies in OECD Countries. 2014
IZA Policy Paper No. 98
The Institutional and Economic Limits to Bargaining Decentralization in Italy
Francesco D'Amuri, Cristina Giorgiantonio
IZA Policy Paper No. 97
A Feasible Unemployment-Based Shock Absorber for the Euro Area
Andrea Brandolini, Francesca Carta, Francesco D'Amuri
forthcoming in: the Journal of Common Market Studies
IZA Policy Paper No. 96
Old-Age Financial Protection in Malaysia: Challenges and Options
Robert Holzmann
IZA Policy Paper No. 95
Youth Unemployment in India: From a European and Transitional Labour Market Point of View
Günther Schmid
IZA Policy Paper No. 94
Addressing Access and Behavioral Constraints through Social Intermediation Services: A Review of Chile Solidario and Red Unidos
Adriana Camacho, Wendy Cunningham, Jamele Rigolini, Veronica Silva
IZA Policy Paper No. 93
Labor Market Integration of New Immigrants in Spain
Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Natalia Nollenberger
forthcoming in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy
IZA Policy Paper No. 92
A Joint Unemployment Insurance for the European Economic and Monetary Union?
Werner Eichhorst, Florian Wozny
IZA Policy Paper No. 91
Is Unemployment Structural or Cyclical? Main Features of Job Matching in the EU after the Crisis
Alfonso Arpaia, Aron Kiss, Alessandro Turrini
IZA Policy Paper No. 90
Evidence-Based Scientific Policy Advice
Klaus F. Zimmermann
published as 'Evidenzbasierte wissenschaftliche Politikberatung' in: Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2014, 134, 259-270
IZA Policy Paper No. 89
Earnings Inequality
Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel
published in: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, 2015, Vol. 6, 765-772
IZA Policy Paper No. 88
A Decade of Labour Market Reforms in the EU: Insights from the LABREF Database
Alessandro Turrini, Gabor Koltay, Fabiana Pierini, Clarisse Goffard, Aron Kiss
IZA Policy Paper No. 87
Does the Calculation Hold? The Fiscal Balance of Migration to Denmark and Germany
Holger Hinte, Klaus F. Zimmermann
IZA Policy Paper No. 86
Why Minimum Wage Increases Are a Poor Way to Help the Working Poor
Richard V. Burkhauser
IZA Policy Paper No. 85
The Parameters of a National Minimum Hourly Wage
Philippe Askenazy
IZA Policy Paper No. 84
Activation and Active Labour Market Policies in OECD Countries: Stylized Facts and Evidence on their Effectiveness
John P. Martin
IZA Policy Paper No. 83
Using Online Platforms for Competence Tests: A Component of the Demographic Policy of Germany
Alexander Spermann
published as "Ist die OECD-Kompetenzrevolution in Deutschland angekommen?" in: Das Demographie Netzwerk (ed.), Lust am Lernen – ein Leben lang, 2014, 8-18
IZA Policy Paper No. 82
Inclusive Growth: What Future for the European Social Model?
Günther Schmid
IZA Policy Paper No. 81
Globalisation and the Future of the Welfare State
Yu-Fu Chen, Holger Görg, Dennis Görlich, Hassan Molana, Catia Montagna, Yama Temouri
IZA Policy Paper No. 80
Youth Unemployment in Mediterranean Countries
Werner Eichhorst, Franziska Neder
published in: IEMed Mediterranean Yearbook 2014, 265-271
IZA Policy Paper No. 79
Estimating Workforce Disposal in the Italian Labour Market
Bruno Contini, Elisa Grand
IZA Policy Paper No. 78
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Sectoral and Macroeconomic Perspectives for Germany, the EU and the US
Tony Irawan, Paul J. J. Welfens
published in: International Economics and Economic Policy, 2014, 11(3), 293-328
IZA Policy Paper No. 77
Non-Standard Employment Patterns in the Netherlands
Anne C. Gielen, Trudie Schils
IZA Policy Paper No. 76
Education System Reform in Pakistan: Why, When, and How?
Mehnaz Aziz, David E. Bloom, Salal Humair, Emmanuel Jimenez, Larry Rosenberg, Zeba Sathar
IZA Policy Paper No. 75
Labor Market Reforms and the Great Recession
Klaus F. Zimmermann
IZA Policy Paper No. 74
Labor Demand Effects of Rising Electricity Prices: Evidence for Germany
Michael Cox, Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel, Sebastian Siegloch
published in: Energy Policy, 2014, 75, 266-277
IZA Policy Paper No. 73
A Vibrant European Labor Market with Full Employment
Jo Ritzen, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3:10, [Open Access]
IZA Policy Paper No. 72
Costs and Benefits of Labour Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries: Country Study on Germany
Costanza Biavaschi, Klaus F. Zimmermann
IZA Policy Paper No. 71
Who Cares for You at Home? Personal and Household Services in Europe
Annette Angermann, Werner Eichhorst
IZA Policy Paper No. 70
How Does Temporary Agency Work Impact German Agency Workers?
Alexander Spermann
published as "Wandel und Stabilität in der Arbeitswelt – Das Beispiel der Zeitarbeit" in: Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung, 2014, 68, 88-101
IZA Policy Paper No. 69
The Mobility Challenge for Growth and Integration in Europe
Klaus F. Zimmermann
substantially revised version published in: European Debates No. 4, May 2014. See also the introduction by the Editor. [Open Access] / an updated and extended version published as ‘Migration, jobs and integration in Europe’ in: Migration Policy Practice, 2014, 6(4), 4-16
IZA Policy Paper No. 68
Cooperatives in a Global Economy: Key Economic Issues, Recent Trends, and Potential for Development
Stephen C. Smith, Jonathan Rothbaum
published in: Co-operatives in a Post-Growth Era: Creating Co-operative Economics, Sonja Novkovic and Tom Webb, eds., pages 221-241, 2014, Zed Books (Distributed by University of Chicago Press)
IZA Policy Paper No. 67
Sector Surcharges for Temporary Agency Workers in Germany: A Way Out of the Low-Wage Sector?
Alexander Spermann
published in German as "Branchenzuschläge in der Zeitarbeit – ein Weg aus dem Niedriglohnsektor?" in: Bouncken, Ricarda B. u. Manfred Bornewasser u. Lutz Bellmann (Hg.), Neue Herausforderungen in der Zeitarbeit, Beiträge zur Flexibilisierung, 2013, Band 5, 105-135
IZA Policy Paper No. 66
Youth Unemployment in Belgium: Diagnosis and Key Remedies
Bart Cockx
published in: Intereconomics, 2013, 48 (4), 202-209
IZA Policy Paper No. 65
Youth Unemployment in Europe: What to Do about It?
Werner Eichhorst, Holger Hinte, Ulf Rinne
published in: Intereconomics, 2013, 48 (4), 230-235 [Details & Download]
IZA Policy Paper No. 64
The Employment of the Low-Skilled Youth in France
Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo, Klaus F. Zimmermann
official translation of a report delivered to the French Council of Economic Analysis and the French Prime Minister
IZA Policy Paper No. 63
Youth Unemployment in Korea: From a German and Transitional Labour Market Point of View
Günther Schmid
published in Korean: The HRD Review, 2013, 7 (7), 126-151
IZA Policy Paper No. 62
Green Jobs
Olivier Deschenes
IZA Policy Paper No. 61
Skill Development in Middle Level Occupations: The Role of Apprenticeship Training
Robert I. Lerman
IZA Policy Paper No. 60
Labour Market and Labour Market Policies During the Great Recession: The Case of Estonia
Raul Eamets
published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:4, [Open Access]
IZA Policy Paper No. 59
The Design and Implementation of Public Pension Systems in Developing Countries: Issues and Options
David E. Bloom, Roddy McKinnon
IZA Policy Paper No. 58
Global Health Governance and Tropical Diseases
Till Bärnighausen, David E. Bloom, Salal Humair
IZA Policy Paper No. 57
The Economic Case for Devoting Public Resources to Health
David E. Bloom, Günther Fink
IZA Policy Paper No. 56
Connecting the Disconnected: Improving Education and Employment Outcomes Among Disadvantaged Youth
Peter B. Edelman, Harry J. Holzer
IZA Policy Paper No. 55
Slovakia: A Catching Up Euro Area Member In and Out of the Crisis
Jarko Fidrmuc, Caroline Klein, Robert Price, Andreas Wörgötter
IZA Policy Paper No. 54
Why Do Russian Firms Use Fixed-Term and Agency Work Contracts?
Larisa Smirnykh, Andreas Wörgötter
IZA Policy Paper No. 53
Wage and Occupational Assimilation by Skill Level: Migration Policy Lessons from Spain
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012, 1:8, [Open Access]
IZA Policy Paper No. 52
A Guide to the Political Economy of Reforming Energy Subsidies
Simon Commander
forthcoming in: Economics of Transition
IZA Policy Paper No. 51
The State of University Policy for Progress in Europe
Cécile Hoareau, Jo Ritzen, Gabriele Marconi
IZA Policy Paper No. 50
Reforming the Benefit System to 'Make Work Pay': Options and Priorities in a Weak Labour Market
Herwig Immervoll
IZA Policy Paper No. 49
The Growth of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean: Did They Go Too Far?
Marco Stampini, Leopoldo Tornarolli
IZA Policy Paper No. 48
How Could Germany Escape the Demographic Trap?
Christoph Kahlenberg, Alexander Spermann
updated short version published as "Die Demografiestrategie der Bundesregierung – ein Weg zu mehr Wohlstand?" in: Wirtschaftsdienst, 2013, 93, 165-169
IZA Policy Paper No. 47
Fiscal Consolidation in Reformed and Unreformed Labour Markets: A Look at EU Countries
Alessandro Turrini
IZA Policy Paper No. 46
Can the United States Expand Apprenticeship? Lessons from Experience
Robert I. Lerman
IZA Policy Paper No. 45
Multidimensional Poverty Analysis: Looking for a Middle Ground
Francisco H.G. Ferreira, Maria Ana Lugo
published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2013, 28 (2), 220-235
IZA Policy Paper No. 44
Can the University Save Europe?
Jo Ritzen
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