IZA Discussion Papers

published in: M. A. Malo and D. Sciulli (eds.), Disadvantaged Workers: Empirical Evidence and Labour Policies, AIEL Series in Labour Economics, Springer, 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7433

A Note on Height and Surnames: The Role of Networks

Wolter Hassink, Bas van Leeuwen

published in: Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 2014, 19 (4), 579-587

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7336

Job Search Channels, Neighborhood Effects and Wages Inequality in Developing Countries: The Colombian Case

Gustavo Adolfo Garcia, Catia Nicodemo

published in: Developing Economies, 2015, 53 (2), 75 - 99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7274

Social Capital and Immigrants' Labour Market Performance

Matloob Piracha, Massimiliano Tani, Matias Vaira-Lucero

published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2016, 95, S107-S126.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7261

The Earned Income Tax Credit, Health, and Happiness

Casey Boyd-Swan, Chris M. Herbst, John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 126, 18-38

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7237

A Structural Model of Educational Attainment in Canada

Jörgen Hansen, Xingfei Liu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7200

Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of West German Wage Inequality

David Card, Jörg Heining, Patrick Kline

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7184

Views among Economists: Professional Consensus or Point-Counterpoint?

Roger Gordon, Gordon B. Dahl

published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 629-635

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7165

Time Preferences and Lifetime Outcomes

Bart H.H. Golsteyn, Hans Grönqvist, Lena Lindahl

published as 'Adolescent Time Preferences Predict Lifetime Outcomes' in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (580), F739-F761

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7118

The Value of Earning for Learning: Performance Bonuses in Immigrant Language Training

Olof Aslund, Mattias Engdahl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7112

How do Principals Assign Students to Teachers? Finding Evidence in Administrative Data and the Implications for Value-added

Steven G. Dieterle, Cassandra M. Guarino, Mark D. Reckase, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2015, 34 (1), 461-480

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7102

Experimental Labor Markets and Policy Considerations: Incomplete Contracts and Macroeconomic Aspects

Fortuna Casoria, Arno Riedl

published in: Charles N. Noussair, Steven Tucker (eds.), A Collection of Surveys on Market Experiments, Wiley, 2014.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7090

The Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey: Towards a Better Understanding of Labor Markets in Transition

Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2012, 1, Article 9

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7049

The Labor Demand Was Downward Sloping: Disentangling Migrants' Inflows and Outflows, 1929-1957

Costanza Biavaschi

published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (3), 531–534

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7016

Internal Migration and Life Satisfaction: Well-Being Effects of Moving as a Young Adult

Maggie Switek

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6996

Job Loss Fears and (Extremist) Party Identification: First Evidence from Panel Data

Ingo Geishecker, Thomas Siedler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6959

Welfare Programs and Labor Supply in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Latin America

María Laura Alzúa, Guillermo Cruces, Laura Ripani

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26(4), 1255-1284

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6880

Active Labor Market Programs: Employment Gain or Fiscal Drain?

Alessio J. G. Brown, Johannes Koettl

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:12

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6867

Grades, Aspirations and Post-Secondary Education Outcomes

Louis N. Christofides, Michael Hoy, Joniada Milla, Thanasis Stengos

published in: Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2015, 45 (1), 48-82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6838

Musn't Grumble: Immigration, Health and Health Service Use in the UK and Germany

Jonathan Wadsworth

published in: Fiscal Studies, 2013, 34 (1), 55-82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6769

A Second Chance at Education for Early School Leavers

Cain Polidano, Domenico Tabasso, Yi-Ping Tseng

published in: Education Economics, 2015, 23(3), 358-375

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6697

The Effect of Breastfeeding on Children's Cognitive and Noncognitive Development

Cristina Borra, Maria Iacovou, Almudena Sevilla

published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19(4), 496-515.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6682

Sharpening the Effectiveness of Natural Experiments as an Analytical Tool

Harriet Duleep

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6670

Temporary Work as an Active Labor Market Policy: Evaluating an Innovative Program for Disadvantaged Youths

Christoph Ehlert, Jochen Kluve, Sandra Schaffner

published in: Economics Bulletin, 2012, 32 (2), 765-773

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6602

Can Value-Added Measures of Teacher Performance Be Trusted?

Cassandra M. Guarino, Mark D. Reckase, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2015, 10 (1), 117-156

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6464

No Pass No Drive: Education and Allocation of Time

Rashmi Barua, Marian Vidal-Fernandez

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 8(4), 399-431

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6378

The Pitfalls of Work Requirements in Welfare-to-Work Policies: Experimental Evidence on Human Capital Accumulation in the Self-Sufficiency Project

Chris Riddell, W. Craig Riddell

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 117, 39-49

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6336

Labour Market Reforms and Outcomes in Estonia

Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Balázs Égert

published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2012, 54 (1), 103 - 120

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6307

Long-Run Effects of Gestation During the Dutch Hunger Winter Famine on Labor Market and Hospitalization Outcomes

Robert Scholte, Gerard J. van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 39, 17–30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6182

Decomposing the Sources of Earnings Inequality: Assessing the Role of Reallocation

Fredrik W. Andersson, Elizabeth E. Davis, Matthew L. Freedman, Julia Lane, Brian P. McCall, L. Kristin Sandusky

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6097

Adjusting to Skill Shortages: Complexity and Consequences

Joshua Healy, Kostas Mavromaras, Peter J. Sloane

published as 'Adjusting to skill shortages in Australian SMEs' in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47(24), 2470-2487

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6090

A Critique and Reframing of Personality in Labour Market Theory: Locus of Control and Labour Market Outcomes

Eileen Trzcinski, Elke Holst

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6003

Double-Sided Moral Hazard in Job Displacement Insurance Contracts

Donald O. Parsons

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5996

Does Expanding Health Insurance Beyond Formal-Sector Workers Encourage Informality? Measuring the Impact of Mexico's Seguro Popular

Reyes Aterido, Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Carmen Pagés

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5990

Following in Your Father's Footsteps: A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of Income between Twin Fathers and their Sons

Vikesh Amin, Petter Lundborg, Dan-Olof Rooth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5984

A Guide and Advice for Economists on the U.S. Junior Academic Job Market (2011-2012 Edition)

John Cawley

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5946

Mothers Do Matter: New Evidence on the Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling Using Swedish Twin Data

Vikesh Amin, Petter Lundborg, Dan-Olof Rooth

published as 'The intergenerational transmission of schooling: Are mothers really less important than fathers?' in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 47, 100–117

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5933

Minimum Wages and Teen Employment: A Spatial Panel Approach

Charlene M. Kalenkoski, Donald J. Lacombe

published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2013, 92 (2), 407-417

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5899

HRM Practices and Performance of Family-Run Workplaces: Evidence from the 2004 WERS

W. Stanley Siebert, Fei Peng, Yasheng Maimaiti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5872

What Explains Prevalence of Informal Employment in European Countries: The Role of Labor Institutions, Governance, Immigrants, and Growth

Mihails Hazans

published as: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5917, 2011/12

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5860

Explaining Differences in Job Search Outcomes Between Employed and Unemployed Job Seekers

Simonetta Longhi, Mark P. Taylor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5776

Mandated Severance Pay and Firing Cost Distortions: A Critical Review of the Evidence

Donald O. Parsons

published in: Robert Holzmann and Milan Vodopivec (eds.), Reforming Severance Pay: An International Perspective, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2012, 121-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5710

A Flexicurity Labour Market in the Great Recession: The Case of Denmark

Torben M. Andersen

published in: De Economist, 2012, 160, 117–140

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5674

Young People and the Great Recession

David N.F. Bell, David G. Blanchflower

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2011, 27 (2), 241 - 267

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5658

The Impact of Worker Effort on Public Sentiment Towards Temporary Migrants

Gil S. Epstein, Alessandra Venturini

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2011, 33, 239-261

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5624

Understanding Social Interactions: Evidence from the Classroom

Giacomo De Giorgi, Michele Pellizzari

published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124(579), 917–953

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5577

Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts in Latin America: Overview and Assessment

Ana Ferrer, W. Craig Riddell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5505

Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market

Morris M. Kleiner, Alan B. Krueger

published in: Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (S1, Part 2), S173–S202

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5492

The Labor Market Value to Legal Status

Fernando A. Lozano, Todd A. Sorensen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5483

A Labor Market Approach to the Crisis of Health Care Professionals in Africa

Mabel Andalón, Gary S. Fields

published in: Agnes Soucat and Richard Sheffler (eds.): The Labor Market for Health Workers in Africa: A New Look at the Crisis, The World Bank, 2013, 33-48

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5463

The Japanese Lost Decade and Beyond: A Chain Reaction Theory Approach

Pablo Agnese

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5410

Is the Minimum Wage a Pull Factor for Immigrants?

Corrado Giulietti

substantially revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67 (3), 649-674

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5368

Workers' Views of the Impact of Trade on Jobs

Clair Brown, Julia Lane, Timothy Sturgeon

published in: Industrial Relations, 2013, 52 (1), 1 - 21

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5357

Great Expectations: Law, Employment Contracts, and Labor Market Performance

W. Bentley MacLeod

published in: O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 4B, Chapter 18, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5295

Trends in Quality-Adjusted Skill Premia in the United States, 1960-2000

Pedro Carneiro, Sokbae Lee

published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 110 (6), 2309-2349

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5280

Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin: The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion

Decio Coviello, Andrea Ichino, Nicola Persico

published as 'Time Allocation and Task Juggling' in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (2), 609-623 (theoretical model), and as 'The Inefficiency of Worker Time Use' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 5 (19), 906 - 947 (empirical part)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5278

Employment, Inequality and the UK National Minimum Wage over the Medium-Term

Peter Dolton, Chiara Rosazza-Bondibene, Jonathan Wadsworth

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (1), 78-106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5266

Can Targeted, Non-Cognitive Skills Programs Improve Achievement? Evidence from EPIS

Pedro S. Martins

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5138

Independent Individual Decision-Makers in Household Models and the New Home Economics

Shoshana Grossbard

published in: J. Alberto Molina (ed.), Household Economic Behaviors, Springer: 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5094

Youth Labour Markets in Europe and Central Asia

Niall O'Higgins

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5064

The Prostitute's Allure: Examining Returns to Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination

Raj Arunachalam, Manisha Shah

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2012, 12 (1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5059

A Political Economy of the Immigrant Assimilation: Internal Dynamics

Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 325-339

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5058

Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motives: Standard and Behavioral Approaches to Agency and Labor Markets

James B. Rebitzer, Lowell J. Taylor

published in: O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 4A, Chapter 8, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4982

Formal Education, Mismatch and Wages after Transition: Assessing the Impact of Unobserved Heterogeneity Using Matching Estimators

Ana Lamo, Julián Messina

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (6), 1089-1099

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4941

Lab Labor: What Can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab?

Gary Charness, Peter J. Kuhn

published in: O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4934

The Great Recession of 2008-2009: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses

Sher Verick, Iyanatul Islam

published in: Iyanatul Islam and Sher Verick (eds.), From the Great Recession to Labour Market Recovery: Issues, Evidence and Policy Options, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; ILO/Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4905

Local Labor Markets

Enrico Moretti

published in: O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 4B, Chapter 14, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4859

Are Attitudes Towards Economic Risk Heritable? Analyses Using the Australian Twin Study of Gambling

Anh T. Le, Paul W. Miller, Wendy S. Slutske, Nicholas G. Martin

published in: Twin Research and Human Genetics, 2010, 13 (4), 330-339

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4779

Learning from Latin America's Experience: Europe's Failure in the "Lisbon Process"

Arno Tausch, Almas Heshmati

published in: Alternatives, Turkish Journal of International Relations, 2010, 9(4), 3-90.