IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7057

Heterogeneity in Subjective Wellbeing: An Application to Occupational Allocation in Africa

Paolo Falco, William F. Maloney, Bob Rijkers, Mauricio Sarrias

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7042

Effect of Perceptions and Behaviour on Access to and Use of Financial Service: Evidence from South Africa

Samuel Annim, Thankom Gopinath Arun, Philip Kostov

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7035

Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries

Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev

published in: Froelich, M., Kaplan, D., Pages, C., Rigolini, J. and D. Robalino (Eds.): Social Insurance ad Labor Markets: How to Protect Workers while Creating Good Jobs, Oxford University Press, 2014, 375-410.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6979

Loan Regulation and Child Labor in Rural India

Basab Dasgupta, Christian Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6890

Youth Unemployment and Vocational Training

Costanza Biavaschi, Werner Eichhorst, Corrado Giulietti, Michael Jan Kendzia, Alexander Muravyev, Janneke Pieters, Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Ricarda Schmidl, Klaus F. Zimmermann

substantially revised version published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2013, 9 (1-2), 1-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6836

How Different Are the Wage Curves for Formal and Informal Workers? Evidence from Turkey

Badi H. Baltagi, Yusuf Soner Baskaya, Timur Hulagu

published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2013, 92, 271-283.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6785

Subcontracting and the Size and Composition of the Informal Sector: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing

Ana Isabel Moreno-Monroy, Janneke Pieters, Abdul Azeez Erumban

published as 'Formal Sector Subcontracting and Informal Sector Employment in Indian Manufacturing' in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3(22)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6660

Unemployment Insurance, Job Search and Informal Employment

David N. Margolis, Lucas Navarro, David A. Robalino

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6653

Does It Pay to Be a Cadre? Estimating the Returns to Being a Local Official in Rural China

Jian Zhang, John T. Giles, Scott Rozelle

Journal of Comparative Economics, 2012, 40 (3), 337-356

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6617

Life Skills, Employability and Training for Disadvantaged Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation Design

Pablo Ibarrarán, Laura Ripani, Bibiana Taboada, Juan Miguel Villa, Brígida García

published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3:10

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6604

The Formal Sector Wage Premium and Firm Size for Self-employed Workers

Olivier B. Bargain, Eliane El Badaoui, Prudence Magejo, Eric Strobl, Frank Walsh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6599

From Polygyny to Serial Monogamy: A Unified Theory of Marriage Institutions

David de la Croix, Fabio Mariani

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2015, 82(2), 565-607

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6556

The Formal/Informal Employment Earnings Gap: Evidence from Turkey

Aysit Tansel, Elif Öznur Acar

published in: John A. Bishop and Juan Gabriel Rodrigue (eds.), Inequality after the 20th Century: Papers from the Sixth ECINEQ Meeting (Research on Economic Inequality Book 24) ,2016, 123-156

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6522

On the Reversibility of Structural Reforms

Nauro F. Campos, Roman Horváth

published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (1), 217 - 219

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6442

The Demand for, and Consequences of, Formalization among Informal Firms in Sri Lanka

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5 (2), 122-50

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6439

The Impact of Colombia's Pension and Health Insurance Systems on Informality

Valentina Calderón-Mejía, Ioana E. Marinescu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6406