IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9138

Direct and Indirect Effects of Training Vouchers for the Unemployed

Martin Huber, Michael Lechner, Anthony Strittmatter

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), 2018, 181 (3), 441-463 (

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9137

The Early Labour Market Effects of Generally and Vocationally Oriented Higher Education: Is There a Trade-off?

Dieter Verhaest, Stijn Baert

revised version published as 'The effects of workplace learning in higher education on employment and match quality: Is there an early-career trade-off?' in: Empirical Economics, 2018, 44, 1229 - 1270

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9136

Experimental Evidence on the Long-Term Impacts of a Youth Training Program

Pablo Ibarrarán, Jochen Kluve, Laura Ripani, David Rosas Shady

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72 (1), 85-222

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9135

Gender Differentials in Unemployment Ins and Outs during the Great Recession in Spain

Sara de la Rica, Yolanda Fatima Rebollo-Sanz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9134

How to Fight Long-Term Unemployment: Lessons from Germany

Alexander Spermann

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 4:15

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9133

Estimating the External Returns to Education: Evidence from China

Wen Fan, Yuanyuan Ma, Liming Wang

published in: Asian Economic Papers, 2015, 14 (3), 88-104

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9132

Cognitive, Non-Cognitive Skills and Gender Wage Gaps: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data in Bangladesh

Christophe Jalil Nordman, Leopold Sarr, Smriti Sharma

published as 'Skills, Personality Traits and Gender Wage Gaps: Evidence from Bangladesh' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, 71(3), 687-708

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9130

Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States

Eric A. Hanushek, Jens Ruhose, Ludger Woessmann

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2017, 9 (4), 184-224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9128

The Effect of a Sibling's Gender on Earnings, Education and Family Formation

Noemi Peter, Petter Lundborg, Dinand Webbink

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 54, 61-78

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9127

Welfare Rules, Incentives, and Family Structure

Robert A. Moffitt, Brian J. Phelan, Anne E. Winkler

substantially revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55 (1), 1 - 42

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9126

Children's Media Use and Homework Time

Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia

published in: Charlene M. Kalenkoski and Gigi Foster (eds.): The Economics of Multitasking, 2015, New York, 91-107

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9125

Micro-Evidence on Product and Labor Market Regime Differences between Chile and France

Sabien Dobbelaere, Rodolfo Lauterbach, Jacques Mairesse

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (2), 229 - 252

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9124

Comparing Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Three Different Approaches

Sabien Dobbelaere, Jacques Mairesse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9122

The Information Value of Central School Exams

Guido Schwerdt, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 56, 65-79

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9121

A Big Fish in a Small Pond: Ability Rank and Human Capital Investment

Benjamin Elsner, Ingo E. Isphording

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35(3), 787-828

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9120

Do Wage Expectations Influence the Decision to Enroll in Nursing College?

Jürg Schweri, Joop Hartog

published as 'Do wage expectations predict college enrollment? Evidence from healthcare' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 141, 135 - 150

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9119

Peers' Composition Effects in the Short and in the Long Run: College Major, College Performance and Income

Massimo Anelli, Giovanni Peri

published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (618), 553-602

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9117

What Drives the Reversal of the Gender Education Gap? Evidence from Germany

Regina T. Riphahn, Caroline Schwientek

published in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47 (53), 5748-5775

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9116

The Heterogeneous Impact of Pension Income on Elderly Living Arrangements: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme

Lingguo Cheng, Hong Liu, Ye Zhang, Zhong Zhao

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31(1), 155-192