IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 214

Family Structure and Female Labour Supply in Mexico City

Xiaodong Gong, Arthur van Soest

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2002, 37(1), 163-191

IZA Discussion Paper No. 213

Mobility in the Urban Labor Market: A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico

Xiaodong Gong, Arthur van Soest, Elizabeth Villagomez

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2004, 53 (1), 1-36

IZA Discussion Paper No. 212

Sexual Bias and Household Consumption: A Semiparametric Analysis of Engel Curves in Rural China

Xiaodong Gong, Arthur van Soest, Ping Zhang

revised version published as 'The effects of the gender of children on expenditure patterns in rural China: A semiparametric analysis' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2005, 20 (4), 509-527

IZA Discussion Paper No. 211

A Structural Labour Supply Model with Nonparametric Preferences

Arthur van Soest, Marcel Das, Xiaodong Gong

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2002, 107 (1-2), 345-374

IZA Discussion Paper No. 210

Housing, Mobility and Unemployment

Thomas Dohmen

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2005, 35 (3), 305-325

IZA Discussion Paper No. 209

Dynamic Efficiency and Pareto Optimality in a Stochastic OLG Model with Production and Social Security

Martin Barbie, Marcus Hagedorn, Ashok Kaul

IZA Discussion Paper No. 208

Dutch Migrants in New Zealand: Did they Fare Well?

Joop Hartog, Rainer Winkelmann

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2003, 16 (4), 683-705

IZA Discussion Paper No. 207

Arbeitsmarktpolitische Maßnahmen und ihre Evaluierung: eine Bestandsaufnahme

Christoph M. Schmidt

published in: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, 2000, 69 (3), 425-437

IZA Discussion Paper No. 206

The Evaluation of Community-Based Interventions: Group Randomization, Limits and Alternatives

Christoph M. Schmidt, Rob Baltussen, Rainer Sauerborn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 205

Temporary Jobs: Stepping Stones or Dead Ends?

Alison L. Booth, Marco Francesconi, Jeff Frank

published in: Economic Journal, 2002, 112 (480), F585-606

IZA Discussion Paper No. 204

Labor Market Interactions Between Legal and Illegal Immigrants

Gil S. Epstein

published in: Review of Development Economics, 2003, 7 (1), 30-43

IZA Discussion Paper No. 203

The Tail of Two Countries: Minimum Wages and Employment in France and the United States

John M. Abowd, Francis Kramarz, David N. Margolis, Thomas Philippon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 202

Gender Wage Differentials in a Competitive Labor Market: The Household Interaction Effect

Patrick Francois, Jan C. van Ours

IZA Discussion Paper No. 201

Worker Separations in a Nonstationary Corporate Environment

Thomas Dohmen, Gerard A. Pfann

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2004, 48 (3), 645-663

IZA Discussion Paper No. 200

What are Migration Networks?

Thomas K. Bauer, Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

revised version published as 'Measuring ethnic linkages among migrants' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1-2), 56-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 199

Rational Migration Policy Should Tolerate Non-Zero Illegal Migration Flows: Lessons from Modelling the Market for Illegal Migration

Horst Entorf

published in: International Migration, 40 (1), 2002, 27-43

IZA Discussion Paper No. 198

A Forgotten Issue: Distributional Effects of Day Care Subsidies in Germany

Michaela Kreyenfeld, C. Katharina Spieß, Gert G. Wagner

published in: European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2003, 11 (2), 159-175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 197

Options to Quit

Gerard A. Pfann

published in: Economics Letters, 2001, 70 (2), 59-265

IZA Discussion Paper No. 196

Equilibrium Wage Arrears: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Institutional Lock-In

John S. Earle, Klara Sabirianova Peter

revised version published as' Complementarity and Custom in Wage Contract Violation' in: Review of Economicss and Statistics, 2009, 91 (4), 832 - 849

IZA Discussion Paper No. 195

Overeducation, Undereducation, and the Theory of Career Mobility

Felix Büchel, Antje Mertens

published in: Applied Economics, 2004, 36 (8), 803 - 816

IZA Discussion Paper No. 194

Regional Unemployment and Industrial Restructuring in Poland

Andrew T. Newell, Francesco Pastore

published in: Eastern European Economics, 2006, 44 (3), 5-28

IZA Discussion Paper No. 193

The Determination of Wages and the Gender Wage Gap: A Survey

Astrid Kunze

substantially revised version published as 'Gender wage gap studies: Consistency and decomposition' in: Empirical Economics, 2008, 35 (1), 63-76

IZA Discussion Paper No. 192

Absolute Risk Aversion and the Returns to Education

Giorgio Brunello

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2002, 21(6), 635-640

IZA Discussion Paper No. 191

Joint Decisions on Household Membership and Human Capital Accumulation of Youths - The role of expected earnings and local markets

Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Chiara Monfardini

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2003, 16 (2), 265-285

IZA Discussion Paper No. 190

Racial and Economic Factors in Attitudes to Immigration

Christian Dustmann, Ian Preston

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2007, 7 (1), Article 62

IZA Discussion Paper No. 189

Is Unemployment Really Scarring? Effects of Unemployment Experiences on Wages

Wiji Arulampalam

published in: Economic Journal, 2001, 111 (475), F585-606

IZA Discussion Paper No. 188

The Myth of Worksharing

Arie Kapteyn, Adriaan Kalwij, Asghar Zaidi

published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (3), 293-313

IZA Discussion Paper No. 187

Immigration Policy, Assimilation of Immigrants and Natives' Sentiments towards Immigrants: Evidence from 12 OECD-Countries

Thomas K. Bauer, Magnus Lofstrom, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Swedish Economic Policy Review, 2000, 7 (2), 11-53

IZA Discussion Paper No. 186

Temporary Migration and Economic Assimilation

Christian Dustmann

published in: Swedish Economic Policy Review, 2000, 7 (2), 213-244

IZA Discussion Paper No. 185

The Post-Unification German Labor Market

Holger Bonin, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: R. T. Riphahn/ D. J. Snower / K. F. Zimmermann (Eds.), Employment Policy in Transition: The Lessons of German Integration for the Labor Market, Springer Verlag, 2001, 8-30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 184

Intergenerational Influences on the Receipt of Unemployment Insurance in Canada and Sweden

Miles Corak, Björn Anders Gustafsson, Torun Österberg

published in: Miles Corak (ed.), Generational Income Mobility in North America and Europe. Cambridge University Press 2004

IZA Discussion Paper No. 183

Aggregate-Level Migration Studies as a Tool for Forecasting Future Migration Streams

Michael Fertig, Christoph M. Schmidt

published in: Slobodan Djajic (ed.), International Migration: Trends, Policy and Economic Impact, London/New York, 2021, 110-136

IZA Discussion Paper No. 182

Discretionary Measures of Active Labor Market Policy: The German Employment Promotion Reform in Perspective

Michael Fertig, Christoph M. Schmidt

published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2000, 120 (4), 537-565

IZA Discussion Paper No. 181

Space, Search and Efficiency

Etienne Wasmer, Yves Zenou

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2002, 51(3), 515-541

IZA Discussion Paper No. 180

Sibling Rivalry in Educational Attainment: The German Case

Thomas K. Bauer, Ira N. Gang

published in: Labour, 2001, 15 (2), 237-255

IZA Discussion Paper No. 179

The Macroeconomics of Labor and Credit Market Imperfections

Etienne Wasmer, Philippe Weil

published in: American Economic Review, 2004, 94 (4), 944-963

IZA Discussion Paper No. 178

The Remuneration of British Academics

Rob Euwals, Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

published in: Applied Economics, 2005, 37 (14), 1655-1672

IZA Discussion Paper No. 177

Immigrant Adjustment in Israel: Literacy and Fluency in Hebrew and Earnings

Barry R. Chiswick, Gaston Repetto

published in: Djajic, S. (ed.), International Migration: Trends, Policy and Economic Impact, New York, 2001, 204-228

IZA Discussion Paper No. 176

Industrial Relations and the Wage Differentials between Skilled and Unskilled Blue-Collar Workers within Establishments: An Empirical Analysis with Data of Manufacturing Firms

Olaf Hübler, Wolfgang Meyer

published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften /Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2001, 121(3), 285-312

IZA Discussion Paper No. 175

Self-Employment and Earnings among High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States

Magnus Lofstrom

published in: Cornelius, W. A. / Espenshade, T. J. (eds.), The International Migration of the Highly Skilled: Demand, Supply and Development Consequences, La Jolla, CA, 163-195

IZA Discussion Paper No. 174

Does Money Illusion Matter? An Experimental Approach

Ernst Fehr, Jean-Robert Tyran

published in: American Economic Review, 2001, 91 (5), 1239-1262

IZA Discussion Paper No. 173

Timing, Togetherness and Time Windfalls

Daniel S. Hamermesh

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2002, 15 (4), 601-623

IZA Discussion Paper No. 172

Reforming the Financial Incentives of the Welfare System

David Card

IZA Discussion Paper No. 171

Wages and the Demand for Health - A Life Cycle Analysis

Christian Dustmann, Frank Windmeijer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 170

Immigration Policy in Integrated National Economies

Thomas K. Bauer, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: C. Lankowski (ed.): Responses to Globalization in Germany and the United States, AICGS Research Report No. 10, Washington, D. C., 1999, 15-30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 169

Immigration Policies and their Impact: The Case of New Zealand and Australia

Rainer Winkelmann

published in: Djajic, Slobodan (ed.), International Migration: Trends, Policies and Economic Impact, Routledge, 2001, 1-20

IZA Discussion Paper No. 168

Social Harmony at the Boundaries of the Welfare State: Immigrants and Social Transfers

Gil S. Epstein, Arye L. Hillman

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2003, 87 (7-8), 1641-1655

IZA Discussion Paper No. 167

Earnings Inequality, Returns to Education and Immigration into Ireland

Alan Barrett, John FitzGerald, Brian Nolan

published in: Labour Economics, 2002, 9 (5), 665-680

IZA Discussion Paper No. 166

The Impact of Alcohol Consumption on Occupational Attainment in England

Ziggy MacDonald, Michael A. Shields

published in: Economica, August 2001, 68 (271), 427-453

IZA Discussion Paper No. 165

Immigration in a High Unemployment Economy: The Recent Danish Experience

Peder J. Pedersen

published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.): European Migration - What Do We Know?, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005

IZA Discussion Paper No. 164

Racial Harassment, Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Quit: Evidence from the British Nursing Profession

Michael A. Shields, Stephen Wheatley Price

published in: Economica, 2002, 69(274), 295-326

IZA Discussion Paper No. 163

Why Do Firms Pay an Overtime Premium?

Robert A. Hart, Yue Ma

IZA Discussion Paper No. 162

Selection Correction in Panel Data Models: An Application to Labour Supply and Wages

Christian Dustmann, María Engracia Rochina-Barrachina

published as 'Selection correction in panel data models: An application to the estimation of females' wage equations' in: Econometrics Journal, 2007, 10 (2), 263 - 293

IZA Discussion Paper No. 161

Public Employment and Redistributive Politics: Evidence from Russia’s Regions

Vladimir Gimpelson, Daniel Treisman, Galina Monusova

revised version published as 'Fiscal Games and Public Employment: A Theory with Evidence from Russia' in: World Politics, 2002, 54 (2), 145-183

IZA Discussion Paper No. 160

A Comparison of the Human Capital and Signaling Models: The Case of the Self-Employed and the Increase in the Schooling Premium in the 1980's

Magnus Lofstrom

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2001, 20, 191-215

IZA Discussion Paper No. 159

Preemptive Behavior in Sequential Tournaments

Peter J. Jost, Matthias Kräkel

published in: Economics of Governance, 2005, 6(3), 245-252

IZA Discussion Paper No. 158

Brother Correlations in Earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden Compared to the United States

Anders Björklund, Tor Eriksson, Markus Jäntti, Oddbjørn Raaum, Eva Österbacka

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 15 (4), 2002, 757-772

IZA Discussion Paper No. 157

Household Production, Full Consumption and the Costs of Children

Patricia Apps, Ray Rees

published in: Labour Economics, 2001, 8 (6), 621-648

IZA Discussion Paper No. 156

Language Proficiency and Labour Market Performance of Immigrants in the UK

Christian Dustmann, Francesca Fabbri

published in: Economic Journal, 2003, 113 (489), 695-717

IZA Discussion Paper No. 155

The Duration of Immigrants' Unemployment Spells: Evidence from Sweden

Jörgen Hansen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 154

Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland

Michael Gerfin, Michael Lechner

published in: Economic Journal, 2002, 112 (482), 854-893

IZA Discussion Paper No. 153

Overtime Hours in Great Britain over the Period 1975-1999: A Panel Data Analysis

Adriaan Kalwij, Mary Gregory

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2005, 168 (1), 207-231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 152

The Role of the Minimum Wage in the Welfare State: An Appraisal

Juan J. Dolado, Florentino Felgueroso, Juan F. Jimeno

published in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie und Statistik / Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 136 (2000), 1-33

IZA Discussion Paper No. 151

Gender, Salary and Promotion in the Academic Profession

Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2001, 48 (3), 283-302

IZA Discussion Paper No. 150

Unions and the Labor Market for Managers

John DiNardo, Kevin F. Hallock, Jörn-Steffen Pischke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 149

The Impact of Active Labor Market Programs and Benefit Entitlement Rules on the Duration of Unemployment

Rafael Lalive, Jan C. van Ours, Josef Zweimüller

published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (525), 235–257

IZA Discussion Paper No. 148

Employment Effects of Labour Taxation in an Efficiency Wage Model with Alternative Budget Constraints and Time Horizons

Laszlo Goerke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 147

Does the Recent Success of Some OECD Countries in Lowering their Unemployment Rates Lie in the Clever Design of their Labour Market Reform?

Michèle Belot, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2004, 56 (4), 621-642

IZA Discussion Paper No. 146

Employer Learning and the Returns to Schooling

Thomas K. Bauer, John de New

published in: Labour Economics, 2001, 8 (2), 161-180

IZA Discussion Paper No. 145

Decomposition Analysis for a Binary Choice Model

Myeong-Su Yun

see DP 877 for a revised and general decomposition method

IZA Discussion Paper No. 144

Flexibility vs. Rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both Worlds?

Gilles Saint-Paul

published in: Jonas Agell, Michael Keen and Alfons Weichenrieder (eds.), Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation, 2004, 101-122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 143

Wage Determination in Russia: An Econometric Investigation

Peter L. Luke, Mark E Schaffer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 142

Explaining Youth Labor Market Problems in Spain: Crowding-Out, Institutions, or Technology Shifts?

Juan J. Dolado, Florentino Felgueroso, Juan F. Jimeno

published in: European Economic Review, 2000, 44 (4-6), 943-956

IZA Discussion Paper No. 141

The Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training on Individual Employment Performance in East Germany

Reinhard Hujer, Marc Wellner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 140

Education and Earnings Growth: Evidence from 11 European Countries

Giorgio Brunello, Simona Lorena Comi

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2004, 23 (1), 75-83

IZA Discussion Paper No. 139

Wages, Hours and Human Capital over the Live Cycle

Robert A. Hart, Yue Ma

published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2008, 228 (5-6), 446-464, (Special Issue: Labormetrics)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 138

Firm-specific Training: Consequences for Job Mobility

Josef Zweimüller, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published as 'On-the-job-training, job search and job mobility' in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie und Statistik / Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2003, 139 (4), 563-576

IZA Discussion Paper No. 137

Continuous Training in Germany

Jörn-Steffen Pischke

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2001, 14 (3), 523-548

IZA Discussion Paper No. 136

Unemployment and Productivity Growth: An Empirical Analysis within the Augmented Solow Model

Michael Bräuninger, Markus Pannenberg

published in: Economic Modelling, 2002, 19 (1), 105-120

IZA Discussion Paper No. 135

Is There a Wage Premium for Returning Irish Migrants?

Alan Barrett, Philip J. O'Connell

published in: Economic and Social Review, 2001, 32(1), 1-21

IZA Discussion Paper No. 134

Hiring and Firing Costs, Adverse Selection and Long-term Unemployment

Adriana Kugler, Gilles Saint-Paul

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2004, 22(3), 553-584.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 133

Paid and Unpaid Overtime Working in Germany and the UK

David N.F. Bell, Robert A. Hart, Olaf Hübler, Wolfgang Schwerdt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 132

Hours and Wages in the Depression: British Engineering, 1926-1938

Robert A. Hart

published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2001, 38 (4), 478-502

IZA Discussion Paper No. 131

Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis

Barry R. Chiswick

published in: Brettel, C./J. Hollifield (eds.), Migration Theory, New York 2000, 61-76 / 2nd ed., 2008, 63-82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 130

The Returns to Education in Italy: A New Look at the Evidence

Giorgio Brunello, Simona Lorena Comi, Claudio Lucifora

published in: Harmon, C./I. Walker/N. Westergard-Nielsen (eds.), The Returns to Education in Europe, Edward Elgar, 2001

IZA Discussion Paper No. 129

The Employment, Unemployment and Unemployment Compensation Benefits of Immigrants

Barry R. Chiswick, Michael E. Hurst

published in: Bassi, L. J./Woodbury, S. A. (eds.), Long-Term Unemployment and Reemployment Policies (Research in Employment Policy, V. 2), Stamford, Conn. (2000), 87-115.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 128

Do Unemployment Insurance Recipients Actively Seek Work? Evidence From Randomized Trials in Four U.S. States

Orley Ashenfelter, David Ashmore, Olivier Deschenes

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2005, 125 (1-2), 53-75

IZA Discussion Paper No. 127

Characteristics of Unemployment Dynamics: The Chain Reaction Approach

Marika Karanassou, Dennis J. Snower

IZA Discussion Paper No. 126

Smoking, Discount Rates, and Returns to Education

Josef Fersterer, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2003, 22 (6), 561-566

IZA Discussion Paper No. 125

The Income Portfolio of Immigrants in Germany - Effects of Ethnic Origin and Assimilation Or: Who Gains from Income Re-Distribution?

Felix Büchel, Joachim R. Frick

published as 'Income Composition and Redistribution in Germany: The Role of Ethnic Origin and Assimilation' in: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, 2001, 70 (1), 135-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 124

Rational Poverty or Poor Rationality? The Take-up of Social Assistance Benefits

Regina T. Riphahn

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2001, 47(3), 379-398

IZA Discussion Paper No. 123

Why Do People Still Live in East Germany?

Jennifer Hunt

published as "Staunching Emigration from East Germany: Age and the Determinants of Migration" in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2006, 4 (5), 1014–1037

IZA Discussion Paper No. 122

Returns to Human Capital under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy

Daniel Münich, Jan Svejnar, Katherine Terrell

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2005, 87 (1), 100-123

IZA Discussion Paper No. 121

Do Active Labor Market Policies Help Unemployed Workers to Find and Keep Regular Jobs?

Jan C. van Ours

published in: Michael Lechner and Friedhelm Pfeiffer (eds.), Econometric Evaluation of Labour Market Policies, Physica-Verlag (2001), 125-152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 120

Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries

Pedro T. Pereira, Pedro S. Martins

published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (3), 355-371