IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5596

The Relative Efficiency of Active Labour Market Policies: Evidence from a Social Experiment and Non-Parametric Methods

Johan Vikström, Michael Rosholm, Michael Svarer

published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 58-67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5534

Long-term Effects of Famine on Life Expectancy: A Re-analysis of the Great Finnish Famine of 1866-1868

Gabriele Doblhammer, Gerard J. van den Berg, Lambert H. Lumey

published as 'A re-analysis of the long-term effects on life expectancy of the Great Finnish Famine of 1866-86', in: Population Studies, 67(3) 2013, 309-322

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5478

Aggregation in Large Dynamic Panels

M. Hashem Pesaran, Alexander Chudik

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2014, 178, Part 2, 273-285

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5454

The Role of Marriage in the Causal Pathway from Economic Conditions Early in Life to Mortality

Gerard J. van den Berg, Sumedha Gupta

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 40, 141–158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5333

What Drives the Demand for Temporary Agency Workers?

Elke J. Jahn, Jan Bentzen

published in: LABOUR, 2012, 26 (3), 341-355

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5265

Analyzing the Anticipation of Treatments Using Data on Notification Dates

Bruno Crépon, Marc Ferracci, Grégory Jolivet, Gerard J. van den Berg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5072

Cumulation of Cross-Section Surveys: Evaluation of Alternative Concepts for the Cumulated Continuous Household Budget Surveys (LWR) 1999 until 2003 Compared to the Sample Survey of Income and Expenditures (EVS) 2003

Joachim Merz, Henning Stolze

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5055

Carrot and Stick: How Reemployment Bonuses and Benefit Sanctions Affect Job Finding Rates

Bas van der Klaauw, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (2), 275–296

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5041

Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure in Romania: A Multilevel Analysis

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Christophe Rault, Robert Sova, Anamaria Sova

published as 'Improving Environmental Performance: A Challenge for Romania' in: Environmental and Resource Economics, 2014, 57 (3), 431-452

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4973

Looking Beyond the Bridge: How Temporary Agency Employment Affects Labor Market Outcomes

Elke J. Jahn, Michael Rosholm

published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 65 (1) 108-125

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4844

Hazard Analysis of Unemployment Duration by Gender in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey

Aysit Tansel, H. Mehmet Tasci

published in: Labour, 2010, 24 (4), 501-530

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4796

The Effect of Education on Smoking Behavior: New Evidence from Smoking Durations of a Sample of Twins

Pierre Koning, Dinand Webbink, Nicholas G. Martin

revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2015, 48 (4), 1479-1497

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4794

Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects on Hazard Rates

Simen Gaure, Knut Røed, Gerard J. van den Berg, Tao Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4784

Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth: The Case of Chinese Provinces

Almas Heshmati, Subal C. Kumbhakar

published in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2011, 78 (4), 575-590

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4783

Gender Wage Gap: A Semi-Parametric Approach with Sample Selection Correction

Matteo Picchio, Chiara Mussida

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (5), 564-578

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4681

Incentive Effects of Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts: Evidence from Chile

Gonzalo Reyes Hartley, Jan C. van Ours, Milan Vodopivec

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (6), 798-809

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4670

Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach

Marco Caliendo, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Arne Uhlendorff

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (4), 604-627

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4638

Quick Job Entry or Long-Term Human Capital Development? The Dynamic Effects of Alternative Training Schemes

Aderonke Osikominu

revised version published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (1), 313-342

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4591

Have Labour Market Reforms at the Turn of the Millennium Changed Job Durations of the New Entrants? A Comparative Study for Germany and Italy

Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Ursula Jaenichen, Claudia Villosio

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2012, 33, 143 - 172

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4543

A Simple GMM Estimator for the Semi-Parametric Mixed Proportional Hazard Model

Govert Bijwaard, Geert Ridder

published in: Journal of Econometric Methods, 2013, 2, 1-23 [PDF]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4530

Labour Market Status and Migration Dynamics

Govert Bijwaard

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4459

Asabiyya: Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies

Arno Tausch, Almas Heshmati

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4325

Monitoring Job Offer Decisions, Punishments, Exit to Work, and Job Quality

Gerard J. van den Berg, Johan Vikström

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 116 2014, 284-334

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4240

The Anatomy of Absenteeism

Simen Markussen, Knut Røed, Ole J. Røgeberg, Simen Gaure

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (2), 277-292

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4227

Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program on the Re-Employment Rate of Displaced Workers

Sandra Cavaco, Denis Fougère, Julien Pouget

published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44 (1), 261-287.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4199

A Sequential Malmquist-Luenberger Productivity Index

Donghyun Oh, Almas Heshmati

published as 'A sequential Malmquist–Luenberger productivity index: Environmentally sensitive productivity growth considering the progressive nature of technology ' in: Energy Economics, 2011, 32 (6), 1345 - 1355

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4079

How a Mandatory Activation Program Reduces Unemployment Durations: The Effects of Distance

Brian Krogh Graversen, Jan C. van Ours

published as 'An Activation Program as a Stick to Job Finding' in: Labour, 2011, 25 (2), 167 - 181

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4072

TIPping the Scales towards Greater Employment Chances? Evaluation of a Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for Newly-Arrived Immigrants Based on Random Program Assignment

Pernilla Andersson Joona, Lena Nekby

updated version published as 'Intensive Coaching of New Immigrants: An Evaluation Based on Random Program Assignment' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (2), 576-600

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4050

Can a Task-Based Approach Explain the Recent Changes in the German Wage Structure?

Dirk Antonczyk, Bernd Fitzenberger, Ute Leuschner

published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2009, 229 (2-3), 214-238

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4025

Persistencies in the Labour Market

Paul Frijters, Maarten Lindeboom, Gerard J. van den Berg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4024

How Do Training Programs Assign Participants to Training? Characterizing the Assignment Rules of Government Agencies for Welfare-to-Work Programs in California

Oscar A. Mitnik

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4011

Measuring Inequality Using Censored Data: A Multiple Imputation Approach

Stephen P. Jenkins, Richard V. Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, Jeff Larrimore

revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2011, 174 (1), 63 - 81

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4007

Are Short-Lived Jobs Stepping Stones to Long-Lasting Jobs?

Bart Cockx, Matteo Picchio

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (5), 646 - 675

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3992

Job Durations with Worker and Firm Specific Effects: MCMC Estimation with Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data

Guillaume Horny, Rute Mendes, Gerard J. van den Berg

published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statisticsc, 30(3) 2012, 468-480

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3971

Multivariate Decomposition for Hazard Rate Models

Daniel A. Powers, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Sociological Methodology, 2009, 39(1), 233-263

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3920

The Effect of Receiving Supplementary UI Benefits on Unemployment Duration

Tomi Kyyrä, Pierpaolo Parrotta, Michael Rosholm

published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21, 122-133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3907

Explaining How Delayed Motherhood Affects Fertility Dynamics in Europe

Massimiliano Bratti, Konstantinos Tatsiramos

revised version published as 'The Effect of Delaying Motherhood on the Second Childbirth in Europe' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 25 (1), 291-321

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3886

So Many Rocket Scientists, So Few Marketing Clerks: Estimating the Effects of Economic Reform on Occupational Mobility in Estonia

Nauro F. Campos, Aurelijus Dabušinskas

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 25 (2), 261-275

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3849

The Effect of Integration Policies on the Time until Regular Employment of Newly Arrived Immigrants: Evidence from Denmark

Jens Clausen, Eskil Heinesen, Hans Hummelgaard, Leif Husted, Michael Rosholm

published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (4), 409-417

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3848

Active Labor Market Policy Effects in a Dynamic Setting

Bruno Crépon, Marc Ferracci, Grégory Jolivet, Gerard J. van den Berg

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7, (2-3), 595 - 605