IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3551

The Economic Returns to a Second Official Language: English in Quebec and French in the Rest-of-Canada

published as "The Economic Returns to the Knowledge and Use of a Second Official Language: English in Quebec and French in the Rest-of-Canada" in: Canadian Public Policy, 2010, 36(2), 137-158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3549

The Role of Educational Choice in Occupational Gender Segregation: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago

Sandra Sookram, Eric Strobl

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2009, 28 (1), 1-10

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3534

Employment Assimilation of Immigrants in the Netherlands: Catching Up and the Irrelevance of Education

Aslan Zorlu, Joop Hartog

published in: International Journal of Population Research, 2012, Article ID 634276

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3532

Using Achievement Tests to Measure Language Assimilation and Language Bias among Immigrant Children

Richard Akresh, Ilana Redstone Akresh

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2011, 46(3), 647-667

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3523

A Note on Risk Aversion and Labour Market Outcomes: Further Evidence from German Survey Data

Christian Pfeifer

published as "Risk Aversion and Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from German Survey Data" in: Empirical Economics Letters, 2009, 8(3)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3520

Parents’ Incomes and Children’s Outcomes: A Quasi-Experiment

Randall K. Q. Akee, William Copeland, Gordon Keeler, Adrian Angold, Jane E. Costello

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, 2 (1), 86-115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3519

Informality and Macroeconomic Fluctuations

Norbert M. Fiess, Marco Fugazza, William F. Maloney

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3505

Self-Selection into Teaching: The Role of Teacher Education Institutions

Stefan Denzler, Stefan C. Wolter

published in: Cambridge Journal of Education, 2009, 39(4), 423-441

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3503

Risk Aversion and Sorting into Public Sector Employment

Christian Pfeifer

published in: German Economic Review, 2011, 12 (1), 85 - 99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3481

Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases

Jörg Oechssler, Andreas Roider, Patrick W. Schmitz

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 72 (1), 147-152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3476

Never the Same After the First Time: The Satisfaction of the Second-Generation Self-Employed

Andrew E. Clark, Nathalie Colombier, David Masclet

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2008, 29 (7), 591-609

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3465

Cost and Benefit of Apprenticeship Training: A Comparison of Germany and Switzerland

Regina Dionisius, Samuel Mühlemann, Harald Pfeifer, Günter Walden, Felix Wenzelmann, Stefan C. Wolter

published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2009, 55(1), 7-36

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3451

Efficient Tax Policy Ranks Education Higher Than Saving

Wolfram F. Richter

revised version based on DP 2328 and DP 3451 published as "Taxing education in Ramsey's tradition" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (11-12), 1254-1260

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3446

Occupational Selection in Multilingual Labor Markets

Núria Quella, Silvio Rendon

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (8), 918-937

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3444

The "Bologna Process" and College Enrolment Decisions

Lorenzo Cappellari, Claudio Lucifora

published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (6), 638-647

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3440

Feedback and Incentives: Experimental Evidence

Tor Eriksson, Anders Poulsen, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (6), 679-688