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151 IZA Policy Papers
IZA Policy Paper No. 151
An Auctions Approach to Immigration Policy
Pia M. Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny
IZA Policy Paper No. 150
What Limits College Success? A Review and Further Analysis of Holzer and Baum's 'Making College Work'
Philip Oreopoulos
IZA Policy Paper No. 149
Conflict and Poverty in Afghanistan's Transition
Vincent A. Floreani, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Martin Rama
IZA Policy Paper No. 148
The US Labor Market in 2050: Supply, Demand and Policies to Improve Outcomes
Harry J. Holzer
IZA Policy Paper No. 147
Willingness to Sacrifice for Climate Mitigation in Representative Samples of Indian Adults
Dean Spears, Payal Hathi, Diane Coffey
IZA Policy Paper No. 146
New Technology and Increasing Returns: The End of the Antitrust Century?
Kaushik Basu
IZA Policy Paper No. 145
The German Statutory Minimum Wage and Its Effects on Regional Employment and Unemployment
Holger Bonin, Ingo E. Isphording, Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Andreas Lichter, Nico Pestel, Ulf Rinne
published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 240 (2-3), 295-319 [Details & Download]
IZA Policy Paper No. 144
Short-Term and Long-Term Determinants of Moderate Wage Growth in the EU
Aron Kiss, Kristine Van Herck
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
published in: Population and Development Review, 2018, 44 (4), 667-693
IZA Policy Paper No. 135
Investing in Human Capital to Boost Growth!
Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Francesco Pastore
Revised version published with the title “The Italian low growth conundrum. An assessment and some policy lessons” in CESIFO Forum, 2019, 20(1), 33-39.
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
Published in Portuguese Economic Journal, 2017, Volume 16, Nº 3.
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
published in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2016, 6 (2), 19-42
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
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