IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3223

Revolution and Family in Rural China: Influence of Family Background on Current Family Wealth

Hiroshi Sato, Shi Li

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3176

Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies

Štepán Jurajda, Katherine Terrell

published in: Economics of Transition, 2009, 17 (2), 241–274

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3167

Ethnic Competition and Specialization

Martin Kahanec

published in: Gil Epstein and Ira Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 205-229

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3160

The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment: New Evidence from Germany

Thomas Cornelissen, Christian Pfeifer

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (1), 94-103

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3154

Educational Self-Selection, Tasks Assignment and Rising Wage Inequality

Arnaud Dupuy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3122

Earnings-Tenure Profiles: Tests of Agency and Human Capital Theories Using Individual Performance Data

Xiao-Yuan Dong, Derek C. Jones, Takao Kato

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3104

Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms

Josef Fersterer, Jörn-Steffen Pischke, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 104 (4), 733-753

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3097

Africa’s Education Enigma? The Nigerian Story

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 91 (1), 128-139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3074

Intergenerational Transmission of Language Capital and Economic Outcomes

Teresa Casey, Christian Dustmann

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2008, 43 (3), 660 - 687

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3067

How General Is Human Capital? A Task-Based Approach

Christina Gathmann, Uta Schönberg

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (1), 1 - 49

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3035

Brain Drain or Brain Gain? Micro Evidence from an African Success Story

Catia Batista, Aitor Lacuesta, Pedro C. Vicente

substantially revised version available as IZA DP No. 5048

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2987

Location-Specific Human Capital, Location Choice and Amenity Demand

Douglas J. Krupka

revised version published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2009, 49 (5), 833 - 854

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2985

Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment in Germany: The Last Five Decades

Guido Heineck, Regina T. Riphahn

published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2009, 229 (1), 36-60

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2974

Modeling Immigrants' Language Skills

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 27, 75-128

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2945

The Sexual Orientation Wage Gap: The Role of Occupational Sorting, Human Capital, and Discrimination

Heather Antecol, Anneke Jong, Michael D. Steinberger

published as 'The Sexual Orientation Wage Gap: The Role of Occupational Sorting and Human Capital' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008, 61 (4), 518-543

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2905

Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility: A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition

Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde

see IZA DP 7199 for a substantially revised and extended version

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2886

Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History

Sascha O. Becker, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, 124(2), 531-596

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2882

Age-Dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education: Simulation Based Evidence

Friedhelm Pfeiffer, Karsten Reuss

published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (4), 631-646