IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published as 'Ethnicity and Earnings in a Mixed-Race Labor Market' in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2007, 55 (4), 709–734

IZA Discussion Paper No. 960

Circular Movements and Time Away from the Host Country

Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann

substantially revised version published as 'Circular and Repeat Migration: Counts of Exits and Years Away from the Host Country' in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2011, 30 (4), 495-515

IZA Discussion Paper No. 956

Gerontocracy in Motion? European Cross-Country Evidence on the Labor Market Consequences of Population Ageing

Michael Fertig, Christoph M. Schmidt

published in: Wright, Robert E. (ed.), Scotland's Demographic Challenge, Scottish Economic Policy Network, Stirling-Glasgow, 2004

IZA Discussion Paper No. 953

The Impact of a Primary School Reform on Educational Stratification: A Norwegian Study of Neighbour and School Mate Correlations

Oddbjørn Raaum, Kjell G. Salvanes, Erik Ø. Sørensen

published in: Swedish Economic Policy Review, 2003, 10 (2), 143-170

IZA Discussion Paper No. 952

The Neighbourhood Is Not What It Used to Be

Oddbjørn Raaum, Kjell G. Salvanes, Erik Ø. Sørensen

published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (508), 200-222

IZA Discussion Paper No. 945

Economic Integration and Labor Market Institutions: Worker Mobility, Earnings Risk, and Contract Structure

Ronnie Schöb, David Wildasin

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2007, 37(2), 141-164

IZA Discussion Paper No. 933

Training in Europe

Wiji Arulampalam, Alison L. Booth, Mark L. Bryan

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2004, 2 (2/3), 346-360

IZA Discussion Paper No. 930

Individual Mortality and Macro-Economic Conditions from Birth to Death

Maarten Lindeboom, France Portrait, Gerard J. van den Berg

published as: 'Economic Conditions Early in Life and Individual Mortality' in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (1), 290-302

IZA Discussion Paper No. 928

Does City Structure Affect the Labor Market Outcomes of Black Workers?

Harris Selod, Yves Zenou

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2013, 74, 113-132.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 926

Why the Apple Doesn't Fall Far: Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital

Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes

published in: American Economic Review, 2005, 95 (1), 437-449

IZA Discussion Paper No. 925

Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants, Part II: Empirical Evidence

Anna Piil Damm, Michael Rosholm

combined with IZA DP 924 published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (1), 105–146

IZA Discussion Paper No. 924

Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants, Part I: Theory

Anna Piil Damm, Michael Rosholm

combined with IZA DP 925 published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (1), 105–146

IZA Discussion Paper No. 906

A Meta-Analysis of the International Gender Wage Gap

Doris Weichselbaumer, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2005, 9 (3), 479-511

IZA Discussion Paper No. 905

Rhetoric in Economic Research: The Case of Gender Wage Differentials

Doris Weichselbaumer, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published in: Industrial Relations, 2006, 45 (3), 416–436

IZA Discussion Paper No. 895

Transitions in Welfare Participation and Female Headship

John M. Fitzgerald, David C. Ribar

published in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2004, 23 (5-6), 641-670

IZA Discussion Paper No. 894

Parental Separation and Well-Being of Youths

Rainer Winkelmann

published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2006, 35 (2), 197-208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 870

Analysis of the Determinants of Fertility Decline in the Czech Republic

Stephan Klasen, Andrey Launov

revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19(1), 25-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 866

Immigrant Adjustment in France and Impacts on the Natives

Amelie F. Constant

published in: K.F. Zimmermann (ed.), European Migration: What Do We Know, Oxford: OUP, 2005

IZA Discussion Paper No. 860

Timing and Flexibility of Housework and Men and Women's Wages

Jens Bonke, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Nina Smith

published in: D.S. Hamermesh and G.A. Pfann (eds.). Contributions to Economic Analysis, Vol. 271, Elsevier Press, 2004

IZA Discussion Paper No. 857

An Economic Model of Child Custody

Marco Francesconi, Abhinay Muthoo

revised version published as 'Control Rights in Complex Partnerships' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9(3), 551-589

IZA Discussion Paper No. 851

Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Theory and Practice

Joshua Angrist

published in: Economic Journal, 2004, 114 (494), C52-C83

IZA Discussion Paper No. 827

An Evaluation of the Performance of Regression Discontinuity Design on PROGRESA

Hielke Buddelmeyer, Emmanuel Skoufias

IZA Discussion Paper No. 824

Discrimination and Workers' Expectations: Experimental Evidence

Antonio Filippin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 823

Discrimination and Workers' Expectations

Antonio Filippin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 822

The Effects of Competition and Equal Treatment Laws on the Gender Wage Differential

Doris Weichselbaumer, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published in: Economic Policy, 2007, 22 (50), 235-287

IZA Discussion Paper No. 816

The Early Retirement Burden: Assessing the Costs of the Continued Prevalence of Early Retirement in OECD Countries

Tryggvi Thor Herbertsson, Mike Orszag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 790

Hidden Information Problems in the Design of Family Allowances

Alessandro Cigno, Annalisa Luporini, Anna Pettini

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2004, 17 (4), 645-655

IZA Discussion Paper No. 788

Immigrants in the UK and in West Germany – Relative Income Position, Income Portfolio, and Redistribution Effects

Felix Büchel, Joachim R. Frick

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2004, 17 (3), 553–581

IZA Discussion Paper No. 757

Teen Births Keep American Crime High

Jennifer Hunt

published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2006, 49 (2), 533-566

IZA Discussion Paper No. 742

Building a Better Theory of Well-Being

Richard A. Easterlin

published in: Luigino Bruni and Pierluigi Porta (eds.), Economics and Happiness: Framing the Analysis, Oxford University Press, 2006

IZA Discussion Paper No. 736

The Employment Effects of Active Social Policy

Iben Bolvig, Peter Jensen, Michael Rosholm

IZA Discussion Paper No. 729

Children and Women's Participation Dynamics: Transitory and Long-Term Effects

Alexandru Voicu, Hielke Buddelmeyer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 721

Do Oppositional Identities Reduce Employment for Ethnic Minorities?

Harminder Battu, McDonald Mwale, Yves Zenou

published as 'Oppositional identities and the labor market' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 643-667

IZA Discussion Paper No. 693

Spatial Mismatch: From the Hypothesis to the Theories

Laurent Gobillon, Harris Selod, Yves Zenou

published as 'The Mechanisms of Spatial Mismatch ' in: Urban Studies, 2007, 44 (12), 2401-2427

IZA Discussion Paper No. 674

The Wealth and Asset Holdings of U.S.- Born and Foreign-Born Households: Evidence from SIPP Data

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Vincent A. Hildebrand

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2006, 51 (1), 17-42

IZA Discussion Paper No. 671

School Effects and Labor Market Outcomes for Young Adults in the 1980s and 1990s

Amelie F. Constant, Spyros Konstantopoulos

published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 49 (1), 2003, 5-22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 670

From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History

Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2007, 5 (5), 885-926,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 652

How Do Parents Raise the Educational Attainment of Future Generations?

Erik Plug

published as 'Estimating the Effect of Mother's Schooling on Children's Schooling Using a Sample of Adoptees' in: American Economic Review, 2004, 94 (1), 358-368

IZA Discussion Paper No. 649

From Parent to Child: Early Labor Market Experiences of Second-Generation Immigrants in the Netherlands

Jan C. van Ours, Justus Veenman

published in: De Economist, 2004, 152 (4), 473-490

IZA Discussion Paper No. 643

Parental Separation and Children's Educational Attainment: A Siblings Approach

Anders Björklund, Marianne Sundström

published as 'Parental Separation and Children's Educational Attainment: A Siblings Analysis on Swedish Register Data' in: Economica, 2006, 73 (292), 605-624

IZA Discussion Paper No. 642

The Effect of Immigration on Wages in Three European Countries

Joop Hartog, Aslan Zorlu

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18 (1), 113-151

IZA Discussion Paper No. 634

Doctors Without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel

Adriana Kugler, Robert M. Sauer

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2005, 23 (3), 437-466

IZA Discussion Paper No. 631

The Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality: Evidence from 1970-1990

Harriet Duleep, Mark Regets

IZA Discussion Paper No. 629

Caste, Ethnicity and Poverty in Rural India

Ira N. Gang, Kunal Sen, Myeong-Su Yun

revised version published as 'Poverty in Rural India: Caste and Tribe' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2008, 54 (1), 50-70

IZA Discussion Paper No. 626

Gender Differences in Entry Wages and Early Career Wages

Astrid Kunze

revised version published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2003, 71/72, 245-266

IZA Discussion Paper No. 621

On Market Forces and Human Evolution

Gilles Saint-Paul

published in: Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2007, 247, 397- 412,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 620

Public Policy and the Labor Market Adjustment of New Immigrants to Australia

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2003, 16 (4), 655-681

IZA Discussion Paper No. 619

The Changing Nature of Employment-Related Sexual Harassment: Evidence from the U.S. Federal Government (1978-1994)

Heather Antecol, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2004, 57(3), 443-461

IZA Discussion Paper No. 608

Economic Aspects of Human Cloning and Reprogenetics

Gilles Saint-Paul

published in: Economic Policy, 2003, 18 (36), 73-122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 604

The Effect of Family Income During Childhood on Later-Life Attainment: Evidence from Germany

Stephen P. Jenkins, Christian Schluter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 602

Migration in the Soviet Successor States

Lilo Locher

published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2002, 48 (1), 67-84

IZA Discussion Paper No. 585

Human Capital Formation, Life Expectancy and the Process of Economic Development

Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde

revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2005, 95 (5), 1653-1672

IZA Discussion Paper No. 578

Economic Strain, Ethnic Concentration and Attitudes Towards Foreigners in the European Union

Ira N. Gang, Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz, Myeong-Su Yun

revised version published as 'Changes in Attitudes toward Immigrants in Europe: Before and After the Fall of the Berlin Wall', in: Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Emerald, 2010, 649-676

IZA Discussion Paper No. 574

Understanding Interhousehold Transfers in a Transition Economy: Evidence from Russia

Randall Kuhn, Steven Stillman

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2004, 53 (1), 131-56

IZA Discussion Paper No. 571

Using Mandated Speed Limits to Measure the Value of a Statistical Life

Orley Ashenfelter, Michael Greenstone

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2004, 112 (S1), S226-S267

IZA Discussion Paper No. 558

Enclaves, Language and the Location Choice of Migrants

Thomas K. Bauer, Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18 (4), 649–662

IZA Discussion Paper No. 553

Subject of Degree and the Gender Wage Differential: Evidence from the UK and Germany

Stephen Machin, Patrick A. Puhani

published in: Economics Letters; 2003, 79 (3), 393-400

IZA Discussion Paper No. 524

Recent Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender: A Look Across the Atlantic

Juan J. Dolado, Florentino Felgueroso, Juan F. Jimeno

revised version published in: Annales D'Économie et De Statistique, 2004, 71-72, 293-315

IZA Discussion Paper No. 517

Child Care Subsidies, Wages, and Employment of Single Mothers

Erdal Tekin

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 42 (2), 2007, 453-487

IZA Discussion Paper No. 511

The Theory of Differential Overqualification: Does it Work?

Felix Büchel, Harminder Battu

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2003, 50 (1), 1-16

IZA Discussion Paper No. 509

The Timing of Careers and Human Capital Depreciation

Astrid Kunze

published as 'Types of absence from work and wages of young German workers with apprenticeship training' in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2017, 51 (5), 1-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 502

Immigrants' Language Skills: The Australian Experience in a Longitudinal Survey

Barry R. Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee, Paul W. Miller

published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2004, 71-72, 97-139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 483

In-Group Cooperation in a Hostile Environment: An Economic Perspective on Some Aspects of Jewish Life in (Pre-Modern) Diaspora

Hillel Rapoport, Avi Weiss

published in: C. Chiswick, T. Lecker and N. Kahana (eds.): Jewish Society and Culture: An Economic Perspective, Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2007, 103-28.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 476

Human Capital versus Social Capital: A Comparative Analysis of Immigrant Wages and Labor Market Incorporation in Japan and the United States

Wayne A. Cornelius, Takeyuki Tsuda, Zulema Valdez

published in: Migraciones Internacionales, 2004, 2 (1), 5-35

IZA Discussion Paper No. 471

Immigrants' Language Skills and Visa Category

Barry R. Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee, Paul W. Miller

published in: International Migration Review, 2006, 40 (2), 419-450

IZA Discussion Paper No. 470

Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?

Alessandro Cigno, Furio C. Rosati, Lorenzo Guarcello

published in: World Development, 2002, 30 (9), 1579-1589

IZA Discussion Paper No. 465

Intergenerational Social Mobility and Assortative Mating in Britain

John Ermisch, Marco Francesconi

revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (513), 659-679

IZA Discussion Paper No. 462

The Determinants of the Geographic Concentration among Immigrants: Application to Australia

Barry R. Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee, Paul W. Miller

published in: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 2001, 7 (2), 125-150

IZA Discussion Paper No. 460

Family Matters: The Role of the Family in Immigrants' Destination Language Acquisition

Barry R. Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee, Paul W. Miller

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18 (4), 631–647

IZA Discussion Paper No. 457

Health and Work of the Elderly: Subjective Health Measures, Reporting Errors and the Endogenous Relationship between Health and Work

Maarten Lindeboom, Marcel Kerkhofs

published as: 'Health and work of the elderly: subjective health measures, reporting errors and endogeneity in the relationship between health and work' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2009, 24 (6), 1024 - 1046

IZA Discussion Paper No. 452

Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Occupational Mobility: A Test of the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis

Barry R. Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee, Paul W. Miller

published in: International Migration Review, 2005, 39 (2), 332-353

IZA Discussion Paper No. 449

Do Enclaves Matter in Immigrant Adjustment?

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: City and Community, 2005, 4 (1), 5-35

IZA Discussion Paper No. 439

Does Divorce Law Matter?

Giulio Fella, Paola Manzini, Marco Mariotti

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2004, 2 (4), 607-633

IZA Discussion Paper No. 436

The Evolution of the Early Career Gender Wage Gap

Astrid Kunze

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2005, 12 (1), 73-97

IZA Discussion Paper No. 432

Employment, Wages, and Alcohol Consumption in Russia: Evidence from Panel Data

Erdal Tekin

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2004, 71 (2), 397-417

IZA Discussion Paper No. 431

The Perception of Foreigners and Jews in Germany - A Structural Analysis of a Large Opinion Survey

Michael Fertig, Christoph M. Schmidt

published as 'Attitudes towards foreigners and Jews in Germany: identifying the determinants of xenophobia in a large opinion survey ' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (1), 99-128

IZA Discussion Paper No. 409

Fertility, Female Labor Supply and Public Policy

Patricia Apps, Ray Rees

revised version published as 'Fertility, Taxation and Family Policy' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2004, 106 (4), 745-763

IZA Discussion Paper No. 407

Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany

Ronald Schettkat, Lara Yocarini

published in: IAW-Report / Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung, 2003, 1, 7 - 66

IZA Discussion Paper No. 405

Testing for the Option Value of Migration

Lilo Locher