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The IZA Discussion Paper Series (ISSN: 2365-9793) disseminates high-quality research by IZA network members to the scientific community and the interested public worldwide before they are later published in academic journals. Comprising more than 17,000 papers, IZA's publication flagship is the most influential working paper series in labor economics.

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330 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8083
Dependence Measures in Bivariate Gamma Frailty Models
Gerard J. van den Berg, Georgios Effraimidis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7981
The Formation of Migrant Networks
Margherita Comola, Mariapia Mendola
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2015, 117(2), 592-618
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7913
Unemployment Insurance and Underemployment
Anna Godoy, Knut Røed
revised version published in: Labour, 2016, 30 (2), 158–179
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7835
Physician Payment Mechanisms, Hospital Length of Stay and Risk of Readmission: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Damien Échevin, Bernard Fortin
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 36, 112-124
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7774
Does Homeownership Lead to Longer Unemployment Spells? The Role of Mortgage Payments
Stijn Baert, Freddy Heylen, Daan Isebaert
revised version published in: De Economist, 2014, 152, 263 - 286
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7732
Do High-Income or Low-Income Immigrants Leave Faster?
Govert Bijwaard, Jackline Wahba
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 108, 54-68
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7727
Left-Behind Children and Return Decisions of Rural Migrants in China
Sylvie Démurger, Hui Xu
published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4:10
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7719
Does Apprenticeship Improve Job Opportunities? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Matteo Picchio, Stefano Staffolani
published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 56 (1), 23-60
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7648
Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability
Govert Bijwaard, Hans van Kippersluis, Justus Veenman
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 42, 29–43
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7630
Sanctions for Young Welfare Recipients
Gerard J. van den Berg, Arne Uhlendorff, Joachim Wolff
published in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2014, 177-208
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7605
Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
Gerard J. van den Berg, Bitte Modin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7580
Doing Well in Reforming the Labour Market? Recent Trends in Job Stability and Wages in Germany
Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Ursula Jaenichen, Thomas Rothe
published as 'The evolution of job stability and wages after the implementation of the Hartz reforms 'in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2016, 49, 269-294
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7552
Econometric Mediation Analyses: Identifying the Sources of Treatment Effects from Experimentally Estimated Production Technologies with Unmeasured and Mismeasured Inputs
James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto
published in: Econometric Reviews, 2015, 34 (1-2), 6-31
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7542
Survival of Spinoffs and Other Startups: First Evidence for the Private Sector in Germany, 1976-2008
Daniel Fackler, Claus Schnabel
substantially revised version published as 'Spinoffs in Germany: Characteristics, Survival, and the Role of their Parents', in: Small Business Economics, 2016, 46 (1), 93-114 ( co-authored by Alexandra Schmucker,)
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. 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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7268
Star Wars: The Empirics Strike Back
Abel Brodeur, Mathias Lé, Marc Sangnier, Yanos Zylberberg
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (1), 1-32
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7249
A Simple Approach to Treatment Effects on Durations When the Treatment Timing is Chosen
Myoung-jae Lee, Per Johansson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7198
Note on Lilien and Modified Lilien Index
Muhammad Rashid Ansari, Chiara Mussida, Francesco Pastore
published in: Stata Journal, 2014, 14 (2), 398-406
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7185
Return Migration of Foreign Students
Govert Bijwaard, Qi Wang
revised version published in: European Journal of Population, 2016, 32, 31-54
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7010
The Economics of Grief
Gerard J. van den Berg, Petter Lundborg, Johan Vikström
published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (604), 1794 - 1832
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6936
Spatial Disparities in Hospital Performance
Laurent Gobillon, Carine Milcent
published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2013, 13 (6), 1013-1040
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6852
The Impact of Divorce on Return-Migration of Family Migrants
Govert Bijwaard, Stijn van Doeselaar
revised version published as 'The Impact of Changes in the Marital Status on Return-Migration of Family Migrants' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27(4), 961-997
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6827
A Discrete Choice Approach to Estimating Armed Conflicts' Casualties: Revisiting the Numbers of a 'Truth Commission'
Silvio Rendon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6746
Stepping Stones versus Dead End Jobs: Exits from Temporary Contracts in Italy after the 2003 Reform
Giovanni S. F. Bruno, Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Orietta Dessy
published in: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, 2013, 1, 31-60
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6667
Measuring Segregation When Hierarchy Matters
Robert M. Hutchens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6650
Estimating the Latent Effect of Unemployment Benefits on Unemployment Duration
Simon M.S. Lo, Gesine Stephan, Ralf Wilke
fundamentally revised version published as 'Competing Risks Copula Models for Unemployment Duration: An Application to a German Hartz Reform' in Journal of Econometric Methods, 2017, 6, 1-20
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6562
Overeducation at the Start of the Career: Stepping Stone or Trap?
Stijn Baert, Bart Cockx, Dieter Verhaest
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 25, 123-140
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6520
The Impact of Early Life Economic Conditions on Cause-Specific Mortality During Adulthood
Gary Y.C. Yeung, Gerard J. van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom, France Portrait
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (3), 895-919
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6514
Offshoring and Job Stability: Evidence from Italian Manufacturing
Alessia Lo Turco, Daniela Maggioni, Matteo Picchio
published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2013, 26, 27-46
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6499
Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality
Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Arne Uhlendorff
substantially revised version available as IZA DP No. 10177
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6428
The Gender Wage Gap by Education in Italy
Chiara Mussida, Matteo Picchio
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2014, 12 (1), 117-147
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6317
Why Are So Many Disabled Individuals Not Working in Spain? A Job Search Approach
José I. Silva, Judit Vall Castello
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6181
Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model
Bart Cockx, Muriel Dejemeppe, Andrey Launov, Bruno Van der Linden
for substantially revised version please see IZA DP 10487
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6169
Migration, Openness and the Global Preconditions of 'Smart Development'
Arno Tausch, Almas Heshmati
published in: Boğaziçi Journal Review of Social, Economic and Administrative Studies, 2012, 26 (2), 27-89.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6099
The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Exploring the Role of Skills and Health Using Data on Adoptees and Twins
Petter Lundborg, Martin Nordin, Dan-Olof Rooth
published as 'The intergenerational transmission of human capital: the role of skills and health' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (4), 1035-1065.'
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6089
Lagged Duration Dependence in Mixed Proportional Hazard Models
Matteo Picchio
published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 115 (1), 108-110
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6031
Inference for Shared-Frailty Survival Models with Left-Truncated Data
Gerard J. van den Berg, Bettina Drepper
published in: Econometric Reviews, 35(6), 2016, 1075-1098
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6018
Statistical Analysis of Landmine Fatalities in Kurdistan
Almas Heshmati, Nabaz T. Khayyat
published as 'Analysis of Landmine Fatalities and Injuries in the Kurdistan Region' in: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 30(5), 2015, 2591-2615.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6004
A General Model of Technical Change with an Application to the OECD Countries
Almas Heshmati, Subal C. Kumbhakar
published in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2014, 23(1), 25-48.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5969
Then and Now: Reflections on Two Australian Mining Booms
Bob Gregory
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5937
Scarring Effects of Remaining Unemployed for Long-Term Unemployed School-Leavers
Bart Cockx, Matteo Picchio
published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2013, 176 (4), 951-980
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5932
The Trend over Time of the Gender Wage Gap in Italy
Chiara Mussida, Matteo Picchio
published in: Empirical Economics, 2014, 46 (3), 1081-1110
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5748
Unobserved Heterogeneity in Multiple-Spell Multiple-States Duration Models
Govert Bijwaard
revised version published as 'Multistate event history analysis with frailty' in: Demographic Research, 2014, 30, 1591-1620
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5741
Gender Patterns in Vietnam's Child Mortality
Thong Le Pham, Peter Kooreman, Ruud H. Koning, Doede Wiersma
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (1), 303-322
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5722
The Impact of Labour Market Dynamics on the Return-Migration of Immigrants
Govert Bijwaard, Christian Schluter, Jackline Wahba
revised version published in: Review of Economics & Statistics, 2014, 96(3), 483-494
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5669
The Effect of Product Market Competition on Job Instability
Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll
published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 35, 145 - 159
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5655
The Sick Pay Trap
Elisabeth Fevang, Simen Markussen, Knut Røed
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (2), 305-336
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5632
The Effects of Active Labour Market Policies for Immigrants Receiving Social Assistance in Denmark
Eskil Heinesen, Leif Husted, Michael Rosholm
published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2013, 2:15
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5631
The Impact of Active Labour Market Policy on Post-Unemployment Outcomes: Evidence from a Social Experiment in Denmark
Sylvie Blasco, Michael Rosholm
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