IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2334

The Earnings Effect of Education at Community Colleges

Dave E. Marcotte

published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2010, 28(1), 36-51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2328

Taxing Human Capital Efficiently: The Double Dividend of Taxing Non-Qualified Labour More Heavily Than Qualified Labour

Wolfram F. Richter

revised version based on DP 2328 and DP 3451 published as "Taxing education in Ramsey's tradition" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (11-12), 1254-1260

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2308

The Role of Marriage in Immigrants’ Human Capital Investment under Liquidity Constraints

Sarit Cohen Goldner, Chemi Gotlibovski, Nava Kahana

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (4), 983-1003

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2300

Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants

Laura V Zimmermann, Liliya Gataullina, Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 98 (3), 235-239

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2289

Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers: Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data Set

Anabela Carneiro, Pedro Portugal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2212

The Economic Determinants of Ethnic Assimilation

Carmel U. Chiswick

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (4), 859 - 880

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2123

Can Risk Aversion Explain Schooling Attainments? Evidence from Italy

Christian Belzil, Marco Leonardi

published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (6), 657-970

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2081

Optimal Accumulation in an Endogenous Growth Setting with Human Capital

Frédéric Docquier, Oliver Paddison, Pierre Pestieau

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2006, 134 (1), 361-378

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2052

The (Self-)Selection of International Migrants Reconsidered: Theory and New Evidence

Herbert Brücker, Cécily Defoort

published in: Journal of International Manpower, 2009, 30 (7), 742-764.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2050

Ethnic Specialization and Earnings Inequality: Why Being a Minority Hurts but Being a Big Minority Hurts More

Martin Kahanec

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1989

Human Capital and Interethnic Marriage Decisions

Delia Furtado

pubished in: Economic Inquiry, 2010, [Early View]

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. 1962

The Risk-Return Trade-Off in Human Capital Investment

Charlotte Christiansen, Juanna Schrøter Joensen, Helena Skyt Nielsen

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (6), 971-986

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1927

A Human Capital Model of the Effects of Abilities and Family Background on Optimal Schooling Levels

Tracy L. Regan, Galen Burghardt, Ronald L. Oaxaca

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2007, 45 (4), 721-738

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1903

On Human Capital Formation with Exit Options: Comment and New Results

Panu Poutvaara

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2008, 21 (3), 679-684

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1702

Layoffs, Lemons, Race and Gender

Luojia Hu, Christopher Taber

substantially revised version published as `Displacement, Asymmetric Information and Heterogeneous Human Capita' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (1), 113-152.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1668

Brain Drain in Developing Regions (1990-2000)

Frédéric Docquier, Olivier Lohest, Abdeslam Marfouk

revised version published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2007, 21 (2), 193-218

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1664

Inter-Regional Wage Dispersion in Portugal

José António Cabral Vieira, João Pedro Almeida Couto, Maria Teresa Borges Tiago

published in: Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies, 2006, 6 (1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1645

Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany: Evidence and Interpretation

Jörn-Steffen Pischke, Till von Wachter

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (2), 592-598