IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9949

Work Experience from Paid Employment and the Path to Entrepreneurship: Business Takeover versus New Venture Start-Up

Guoqian Xi, Jörn Block, Frank Lasch, Frank Robert, Roy Thurik

published as 'Work experience from paid employment and entry mode to entrepreneurship: business takeover versus new venture start-up' in: Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat, 2018, 17 (2), 91-112

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9948

Insurance in Human Capital Models with Limited Enforcement

Tom Krebs, Moritz Kuhn, Mark L. J. Wright

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9947

Image versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy

S. Nageeb Ali, Roland Benabou

published as 'Image versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy' in: American Economic Review, 2020, 13 (3), 116 - 164

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9946

Profit Sharing and Peer Reporting

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Andrea Robbett, Prottoy Akbar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9945

The Cultural Diffusion of the Fertility Transition: Evidence from Internal Migration in 19th Century France

Guillaume Daudin, Raphaël Franck, Hillel Rapoport

published as 'Can internal migration foster convergence in regional fertility rates? Evidence from 19th Century France' in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (620), 1618-1692

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9944

Poverty Risk among Older Immigrants in a Scandinavian Welfare State

Vibeke Jakobsen, Peder J. Pedersen

published in: European Journal of Social Security, 2017, 19 (3), 242 - 262

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9943

Explaining the Male Native-Immigrant Employment Gap in Sweden: The Role of Human Capital and Migrant Categories

Marc-André Luik, Henrik Emilsson, Pieter Bevelander

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9942

Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants

Deepti Goel, Kevin Lang

published in: ILR Review, 2017, 72 (2), 355-381

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9941

Asymmetric Information under the Kafala Sponsorship System: Impacts on Foreign Domestic Workers' Income and Employment Status in the GCC Countries

Froilan T. Malit Jr., George S Naufal

published in: International Migration, 2016, 54(5), 76-90

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9940

Migrant Workers and the Welfare State

Torben M. Andersen, Silvia Migali

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9939

When Can Experimental Evidence Mislead? A Re-Assessment of Canada's Self Sufficiency Project

Chris Riddell, W. Craig Riddell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9938

Resampling and Bootstrap to Assess the Relevance of Variables: A New Algorithmic Approach with Applications to Entrepreneurship Data

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, Miguel Lafuente, José Alberto Molina, Jorge Velilla

published as 'Resampling and bootstrap algorithms to asses the relevance of variables: applications to cross-section entrepreneurship data' in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 56, 233-267

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9937

The Productivity Impact of R&D Investment: A Comparison between the EU and the US

Davide Castellani, Mariacristina Piva, Torben Schubert, Marco Vivarelli

published as 'R&D and Productivity in the US and the EU: Sectoral Specificities and Differences in the Crisis', Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2019, 138, 279-291.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9936

Who Wins? Evaluating the Impact of UK Public Sector Pension Scheme Reforms

Alexander M. Danzer, Peter Dolton, Chiara Rosazza Bondibene

published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2016, 237, 38-46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9935

Single and Investing: Homeownership Trends among the Never Married

Kusum Mundra, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

published in: Housing Studies, 2019, 34 (1), 162-187

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9934

Local Neighbors as Positives, Regional Neighbors as Negatives: Competing Channels in the Relationship between Others' Income, Health, and Happiness

John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Carol Lee Graham

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9933