IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 838

Government Grants, Plant Survival and Employment Growth: A Micro-Econometric Analysis

Sourafel Girma, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl

revised version published as 'The effect of government grants on plant survival: A micro-econometric analysis' in: International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2007, 25(4), 701-720

IZA Discussion Paper No. 816

The Early Retirement Burden: Assessing the Costs of the Continued Prevalence of Early Retirement in OECD Countries

Tryggvi Thor Herbertsson, Mike Orszag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 811

Firms, Industries, and Unemployment Insurance: An Analysis Using Employer-Employee Data

Miles Corak, Wen-Hao Chen

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 299-336

IZA Discussion Paper No. 790

Hidden Information Problems in the Design of Family Allowances

Alessandro Cigno, Annalisa Luporini, Anna Pettini

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2004, 17 (4), 645-655

IZA Discussion Paper No. 750

New Evidence on the Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany - A Matching Approach with Threefold Heterogeneity

Reinhard Hujer, Marco Caliendo, Stephan L. Thomsen

published in: Research in Economics, 2004, 58(4), 257-302

IZA Discussion Paper No. 745

Educational Production in East Asia: The Impact of Family Background and Schooling Policies on Student Performance

Ludger Woessmann

published in: German Economic Review, 2005, 6 (3), 331-353

IZA Discussion Paper No. 744

Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence

Martin R. West, Ludger Woessmann

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2006, 22 (4), 944-968

IZA Discussion Paper No. 735

Micro-Simulation of Social Security Reforms in Belgium

Raphaël Desmet, Alain Jousten, Sergio Perelman, Pierre Pestieau

published in: J. Gruber and D. Wise, (eds.), “Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: Fiscal Implications of Reform”, 2007, University of Chicago Press and NBER

IZA Discussion Paper No. 728

What is the Value Added by Caseworkers?

Michael Lechner, Jeffrey A. Smith

published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (2), 135-151

IZA Discussion Paper No. 697

Differences in US-German Time-Allocation: Why Do Americans Work Longer Hours than Germans?

Ronald Schettkat

IZA Discussion Paper No. 678

Fostering Within-Family Human Capital Investment: An Intragenerational Insurance Perspective of Social Security

Martin Barbie, Marcus Hagedorn, Ashok Kaul

IZA Discussion Paper No. 667

Arbeitsmarkteffekte und finanzpolitische Folgen der demographischen Alterung in Deutschland

Pascal Arnds, Holger Bonin

published in: M. Herfurth, M. Kohli and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), Arbeit in einer alternden Gesellschaft (Labor in an Aging Society), Leverkusen: Leske+Budrich, 2003, 131-177

IZA Discussion Paper No. 666

Frühverrentung in Deutschland: Ökonomische Anreize und institutionelle Strukturen

Pascal Arnds, Holger Bonin

published in: M. Herfurth, M. Kohli and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), Arbeit in einer alternden Gesellschaft (Labor in an Aging Society), Leverkusen: Leske+Budrich, 2003, 65-91

IZA Discussion Paper No. 665

Fancy a Stay at the 'Hotel California'? Foreign Direct Investment, Taxation and Firing Costs

Holger Görg

revised version published as 'Fancy a stay at the 'Hotel California'? in: Kyklos, 2005, 58 (4), 519-535

IZA Discussion Paper No. 639

Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?

Gilles Saint-Paul

published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (1), 129-144

IZA Discussion Paper No. 637

Household Labor Supply Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies in Germany

Holger Bonin, Wolfram Kempe, Hilmar Schneider

published in: Journal of Applied Social Sciences Studies, 2003, 123 (1), 199-208