IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7418

Polarization of Time and Income – A Multidimensional Approach with Well-Being Gap and Minimum 2DGAP: German Evidence

Joachim Merz, Bettina Scherg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7417

Homeownership and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Commitment and Mortgage Debt

Philippe Bracke, Christian Hilber, Olmo Silva

heavily revised version published as 'Mortgage debt and entrepreneurship' in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 103, 52 - 66

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7416

Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start in Life?

Guyonne Kalb, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 40, 1-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7415

Intergenerational Long Term Effects of Preschool: Structural Estimates from a Discrete Dynamic Programming Model

James J. Heckman, Lakshmi K. Raut

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2016, 191 (1), 164 - 175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7414

The Paradox of Redistribution Revisited: And That It May Rest in Peace?

Ive Marx, Lina Salanauskaite, Gerlinde Verbist

revised version published in: Social Forces, 2016, 95 (1), 1-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7413

Worker Identity, Employment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policy

Dennis J. Snower, Wolfgang Lechthaler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7412

Are Worker-Managed Firms Really More Likely to Fail?

Gabriel Burdin

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67(1), 202-238

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7411

Can You Trust the Good Guys? Trust Within and Between Groups with Different Missions

Sebastian Fehrler, Michael Kosfeld

published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 121, 400-404

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7410

Gender Differences in the Effects of Behavioral Problems on School Outcomes

Jannie H. G. Kristoffersen, Nina Smith

revised version published as 'Gender Differences in Behavioral Problems and School Outcomes' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 75–93

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7409

Analyzing Regional Variation in Health Care Utilization Using (Rich) Household Microdata

Peter Eibich, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: Health Policy, 2014, 114 (1), 41-53

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7408

Gender Differences in the Effects of Vocational Training: Constraints on Women and Drop-Out Behavior

Yoon Y. Cho, Davie Kalomba, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Victor Orozco

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7407

Post Schooling Human Capital Investments and the Life Cycle Variance of Earnings

Thierry Magnac, Nicolas Pistolesi, Sébastien Roux

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126(3), 1219-1249.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7406

Transfer Behaviour in Migrant Sending Communities

Tanika Chakraborty, Bakhrom Mirkasimov, Susan Steiner

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43(3), 690–705

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7405

Working Conditions and Job Satisfaction of China's New Generation of Migrant Workers: Evidence from an Inland City

Huashu Wang, Lei Pan, Nico Heerink

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7404

The Role of Institutions and Firm Heterogeneity for Labour Market Adjustment: Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence

Peter N. Gal, Alexander Hijzen, Zoltan Wolf

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7403

Is the Contracting-Out of Intensive Placement Services More Effective than Provision by the PES? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Gerhard Krug, Gesine Stephan

revised version published as 'Private and Public Placement Services for Hard-To-Place Unemployed: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment' in: ILR Review, 2016, 69, 471-500

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7402

A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms

Gustavo Henrique de Andrade, Miriam Bruhn, David McKenzie

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2016, 30 (1), 24-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7401

Eliciting Illegal Migration Rates through List Randomization

David McKenzie, Melissa Siegel

published in: Migration Studies, 2013, 1(3): 276-91

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7400

Seek and Ye Shall Find: How Search Requirements Affect Job Finding Rates of Older Workers

Patrick Hullegie, Jan C. van Ours

published in De Economist, 2014, 162 (4), 377 - 395