IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3269

Informal Employment Relationships and Labor Market Segmentation in Transition Economies: Evidence from Ukraine

Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3266

Do Legal Standards Affect Ethical Concerns of Consumers?

Dirk Engelmann, Dorothea Kübler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3265

Why Are Hispanic and African-American Dropout Rates So High?

Magnus Lofstrom

published in: Williams Review, 2007, 2, 91-121

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3255

Evaluating Continuous Training Programs Using the Generalized Propensity Score

Jochen Kluve, Hilmar Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff, Zhong Zhao

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2012, 175 (2), 587-617

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3240

Too Bad to Benefit? Effect Heterogeneity of Public Training Programs

Ulf Rinne, Marc Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff

revised version published as 'Do the skilled and prime-aged unemployed benefit more from training? Effect heterogeneity of public training programmes in Germany' in: Applied Economics, 2011, 43 (25), 3465-3494

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3236

Distributive Justice and CEO Compensation

Guillermina Jasso, Eva M. Meyersson Milgrom

published in: Acta Sociologica, 2008, 51 (2), 123-143

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3235

A Gendered Assessment of the Brain Drain

Frédéric Docquier, B. Lindsay Lowell, Abdeslam Marfouk

published in: Population and Development Review, 2009, 35 (2), 297-321

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3228

Determinants of Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine

Tilman Brück, Alexander M. Danzer, Alexander Muravyev, Natalia Danzer

revised version published as 'Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2010, 38 (2), 123-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3216

The American High School Graduation Rate: Trends and Levels

James J. Heckman, Paul A. LaFontaine

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92 (2), 244-262

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3215

Training the Unemployed in France: How Does It Affect Unemployment Duration and Recurrence?

Bruno Crépon, Marc Ferracci, Denis Fougère

published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2012, 107-108, 175-199.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3193

Time Allocation between Work and Family over the Life-Cycle: A Comparative Gender Analysis of Italy, France, Sweden and the United States

Dominique Anxo, Lennart Flood, Letizia Mencarini, Ariane Pailhé, Anne Solaz, Maria Letizia Tanturri

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3191

Why Are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?

Marcos Chamon, Eswar Prasad

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (1), 93-130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3189

Does Marriage Matter for Children? Assessing the Causal Impact of Legal Marriage

Anders Björklund, Donna K. Ginther, Marianne Sundström

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. 3136

The Problem of Overskilling in Australia and Britain

Kostas Mavromaras, Seamus McGuinness, Nigel C. O'Leary, Peter J. Sloane, Yin King Fok

published in: Manchester School, 2010, 78(3), 219-238

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3121

Flexible Approximation of Subjective Expectations Using Probability Questions: An Application to the Investment Game

Charles Bellemare, Luc Bissonnette, Sabine Kröger

published separately as ‘Flexible Approximation of Subjective Expectations Using Probability Questions ‘in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2012, 30 (1), 125 - 131 and as ‘Bounding Preference Parameters under Different Assumptions about Beliefs: a Partial Identification Approach’ in: Experimental Economics, 2010, 13, 334 - 345

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3115

The Evolution of Inequality, Heterogeneity and Uncertainty in Labor Earnings in the U.S. Economy

Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3109

Family Bargaining and Taxes: A Prolegomenon to the Analysis of Joint Taxation

Robert Pollak

published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, 57 (2), 216-244

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. 3066