IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1971

Employees Who Become Self-Employed: Do Labour Income and Wages Have an Impact?

Pernilla Andersson Joona, Eskil Wadensjö

revised version published as 'The Best and the Brightest or the Least Successful? Self-Employment Entry among Male Wage-Earners in Sweden' in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 40(1), 155-172

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1970

Legal Default Rules: The Case of Wrongful Discharge Laws

W. Bentley MacLeod, Voraprapa Nakavachara

published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F218-F278

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1969

Human Capital Externalities and Growth of High- and Low-Skilled Jobs

Jens Suedekum

published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik (Journal of Economics and Statistics), 2010, 230 (1), 92-114

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1968

Does the Quality of Industrial Relations Matter for the Macro Economy? A Cross-Country Analysis Using Strikes Data

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira

published as 'Are Good Industrial Relations Good for the Economy?' in: German Economic Review, 2009, 10 (3), 253 - 269

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1963

Dependent Forms of Self-employment in the UK: Identifying Workers on the Border between Employment and Self-employment

René Böheim, Ulrike Muehlberger

published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung/Journal for Labour Market Research, 2009, 42 (2), 182-95

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1961

Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition: A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia

J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov, Hartmut Lehmann, Álmos Telegdy, Irina Vantu, Ruxandra Visan, Alexandru Voicu

published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2006, 48 (3), 435-457

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1928

Civic Attitudes and the Design of Labor Market Institutions: Which Countries Can Implement the Danish Flexicurity Model?

Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc

published as "Civic Virtue and Labor Market Institutions" in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2009, 1(1), 111-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1925

The Social Impact of Globalization in the Developing Countries

Eddy Lee, Marco Vivarelli

published in: International Labour Review, 2006, 145(3), 167-184

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1919

The Long-Term Effects of a Generous Income Support Program: Unemployment Insurance in New Brunswick and Maine, 1940-1991

Peter J. Kuhn, Chris Riddell

revised version published as 'The Long-Term Effects of Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from New Brunswick and Maine, 1940 - 1991' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 63 (2), 183 - 204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1910

Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-employment Proclivity: A Bi-national Study of Immigrants

Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1868

Employment Effects of the Provision of Specific Professional Skills and Techniques in Germany

Bernd Fitzenberger, Stefan Speckesser

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1848

Evaluating the Dynamic Employment Effects of Training Programs in East Germany Using Conditional Difference-in-Differences

Annette Bergemann, Bernd Fitzenberger, Stefan Speckesser

revised version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2009, 24 (5), 797-823

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1839

Job Search Monitoring and Unemployment Duration in Hungary: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial

John Micklewright, Gyula Nagy

revised version published as 'The effect of monitoring unemployment insurance recipients on unemployment duration: Evidence from a field experiment' in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 180-187

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1825

Does Job-Search Assistance Affect Search Effort and Outcomes? A Microeconometric Analysis of Public versus Private Search Methods

Denis Fougère, Jacqueline Pradel, Muriel Roger

published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53 (7), 846-869

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1817

Are US Wages Really Determined by European Labor-Market Institutions?

Jürgen Meckl

published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (5), 1924-1930

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1813

Contractual Employment Protection and the Scarring Risk of Unemployment

Elke J. Jahn, Thomas Wagner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1813