Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18176

The Immediate and Lasting Effects of Heat Waves On Workers

Hannah Klauber, Nicolas Koch, Nico Pestel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18167

Ageing, Health and Predicting Future Employment Exits: A Penalised Regression Approach

Apostolos Davillas, Andrew M. Jones

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18133

Developing a New European Indicator of Potential Skill Shortages

Seamus McGuinness, Elisa Staffa, Sangwoo Lee, Lorcan Kelly, Paul Redmond

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18037

Short- and Long-Term Effects of Universal Preschool: Evidence from the Arab Population in Israel

Elad DeMalach, Analia Schlosser

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17993

Measuring the Incidence and Impacts of Skill Gaps Among European Workers

Seamus McGuinness, Elisa Staffa

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17680

American Workers' Experience with Socialism During the World Wars

John H. Pencavel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17613

Decomposing Recruitment Elasticity in Job Matching

Ryo Kambayashi, Kohei Kawaguchi, Suguru Otani

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17598

Labour Market Dynamics of Minimum Wage Workers

Paul Redmond, Seamus McGuinness, Elish Kelly

published online in: Applied Economics, 4 March 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17588

Couples' Remote Work Arrangements and Labor Supply

Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, Victoria Vernon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17536

How Regulations Impact the Labor Market: A Review of the Literatures on Product and Labor Market Regulations

David Alzate, Eliana Carranza, Joana Duran-Franch, Truman Packard, Celina Proffen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17532

Hope, Noise, and the Efficiency of Perfect Meritocracy

Luca Beltrametti, Gabriele Cardullo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17520

Why Don't Jobseekers Search More? Barriers and Returns to Search on a Job Matching Platform

Kate Vyborny, Robert Garlick, Nivedhitha Subramanian, Erica Field

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17197

The Impact of Macroeconomic Conditions on Long-Term Care: Evidence on Prices

Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Mia Teschner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17179

Driving the Gig Economy

Katharine G. Abraham, John C. Haltiwanger, Claire Hou, L. Kristin Sandusky, James R. Spletzer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17153

Business Cycle Turning Points and Local Labour Markets

Karl Taylor, Soumya Bhadury, Jane Binner, Anandadeep Mandal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17061

Work Schedules

Jed DeVaro

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16973

The Economic Consequences of Being Widowed by War: A Life-Cycle Perspective

Sebastian Till Braun, Jan Stuhler

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 16973

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16833

Moving Out of the Comfort Zone: How Cultural Norms Affect Attitudes toward Immigration

Yvonne Giesing, Björn Kauder, Lukas Mergele, Niklas Potrafke, Panu Poutvaara

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16823

Global Labor Market Power

Francesco Amodio, Emanuele Brancati, Peter Brummund, Nicolás de Roux, Michele Di Maio

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16810

Do Medical Treatments Work for Work? Evidence from Breast Cancer Patients

N. Meltem Daysal, William N. Evans, Mikkel Hasse Pedersen, Mircea Trandafir

published in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2025, 17(4), 379-409.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16772

Nursing before and after COVID-19: Outflows, Inflows and Self-Employment

Guyonne Kalb, Jordy Meekes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16517

The Shifting Reasons for Beveridge-Curve Shifts

Gadi Barlevy, Bart Hobijn, Jason Faberman, Aysegül Sahin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16449

Signaling Specific Skills and the Labor Market of College Graduates

Matias Busso, Sebastián Montaño, Juan S. Muñoz-Morales

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16420

Remote Work, Wages, and Hours Worked in the United States

Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, Victoria Vernon

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, 18

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16206

Gender and Career Progression in Academia: European Evidence

Lucio Morettini, Massimiliano Tani

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16136

Women's Transitions in the Labour Market as a Result of Childbearing: The Challenges of Formal Sector Employment in Indonesia

Lisa A. Cameron, Diana Contreras Suarez, Yi-Ping Tseng

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15978

The Micro and Macro Effects of Changes in the Potential Benefit Duration

Jonas Jessen, Robin Jessen, Ewa Galecka-Burdziak, Marek Góra, Jochen Kluve

forthcoming in: The Review of Economic Studies, 2026

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15791

Automation and Low-Skill Labor

Katja Mann, Dario Pozzoli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15717

How Substitutable Are Workers? Evidence from Worker Deaths

Simon Jäger, Jörg Heining

revise and resubmit: American Economic Review

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15637

Economic Development and the Organisation of Labour: Evidence from the Jobs of the World Project

Oriana Bandiera, Ahmed Elsayed, Anton Heil, Andrea Smurra

published in: the Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (6), 2226 - 2270

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15595

Cousins from Overseas: The Labour Market Impact of a Major Forced Return Migration Shock

Lara Bohnet, Susana Peralta, João Pereira dos Santos

published in: European Economic Review, 2025, 172, 104925

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15566

The Employment Effects of Working Time Reductions: Sector-Level Evidence from European Reforms

Cyprien Batut, Andrea Garnero, Alessandro Tondini

published in: Industrial Relations, 2023, 62 (1), 217 - 232

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15499

Minimum Wages and Restaurant Employment for Teens and Adults in Metropolitan and Non-metropolitan Areas

John V. Winters

published in: Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (JAAEA), 2022, 1 (3), 254-269

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15465

The Wage Curve after the Great Recession

David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson, Jackson Spurling

published in: Economica, 2024, 91 (362), 653-668

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15423

China's Skill-Biased Imports

Hongbin Li, Lei Li, Hong Ma

published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 74, 101809

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15406

Inequalities in Job Loss and Income Loss in Sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 Crisis

Ivette Contreras-Gonzalez, Gbemisola Oseni, Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Janneke Pieters, Michael Weber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15293

Monopsony Makes Firms Not Only Small but Also Unproductive: Why East Germany Has Not Converged

Rüdiger Bachmann, Christian Bayer, Heiko Stüber, Felix Wellschmied

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15182

People versus Machines: The Impact of Being in an Automatable Job on Australian Worker's Mental Health and Life Satisfaction

Grace Lordan, Eliza-Jane Stringer

published in: Economics & Human Biology 2022, 46, 101144

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15114

The Long-Run Impacts of Adolescent Drinking: Evidence from Zero Tolerance Laws

Tatiana Abboud, Andriana Bellou, Joshua Lewis

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 231, 105066

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15061

Pell Grants and Labor Supply: Evidence from a Regression Kink

Michael S. Kofoed

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15013

Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries

Titan Alon, Matthias Doepke, Kristina Manysheva, Michèle Tertilt

published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2022, 112, 272 - 276

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14933

Crowdwork for Young People: Risks and Opportunities

Niall O'Higgins, Luis Pinedo Caro

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14859

Did the Australian Jobkeeper Program Save Jobs by Subsidizing Temporary Layoffs?

Jeff Borland, Jennifer Hunt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14723

The Effect of Work Schedule Control on Volunteering among Early Career Employees

Noemi Mantovan, Robert M. Sauer, John Wilson

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 60 (3), 536-562

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14699

The Early Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Labour Market Outcomes of Natives and Migrants in the UK

Greta Morando

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14673

Labor Market Transitions of Members of Opposite-Sex Couples: Nonparticipation, Unemployed Search, and Employment

Hans Bloemen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14622

Preference Signaling and Worker-Firm Matching: Evidence from Interview Auctions

Ron A. Laschever, Russell Weinstein

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14616

Teenage Conduct Problems: A Lifetime of Disadvantage in the Labour Market?

Sam Parsons, Alex Bryson, Alice Sullivan

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2024, 78 (1), 60 - 80

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14560

Temperature, Workplace Safety, and Labor Market Inequality

R. Jisung Park, Nora Pankratz, A. Patrick Behrer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14541

An Examination of the Intracorrelation of Family Health Insurance

Marion Aouad

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14422

Do Universities Improve Local Economic Resilience?

Greg Howard, Russell Weinstein, Yuhao Yang

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (4), 1129–1145.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14380

California's Paid Family Leave Law and the Employment of 45-64 Year Old Adults

Ann P. Bartel, Soohyun Kim, Christopher J. Ruhm, Jane Waldfogel

published in: Work, Aging and Retirement, 2023, 9 (2), 169–178

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14340

The Effects of Shortening Potential Benefit Duration: Evidence from Regional Cut-Offs and a Policy Reform

Ewa Galecka-Burdziak, Marek Góra, Jonas Jessen, Robin Jessen, Jochen Kluve

updated version available as IZA DP 15978

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14290

Worker Commitment and Establishment Performance

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira

revised version published as 'Worker Commitment and Establishment Performance in Europe' in: Manchester School, 2024, 92 (1), 40-66.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14223

From Mancession to Shecession: Women's Employment in Regular and Pandemic Recessions

Titan Alon, Sena Coskun, Matthias Doepke, David Koll, Michèle Tertilt

published in: NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 2022, 362022, 83–151

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14200

Grades and Employer Learning

Anne Toft Hansen, Ulrik Hvidman, Hans Henrik Sievertsen

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (3), 659–682

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13970

Problem on the Plains: College Earnings Premiums in Small Metropolitan Areas

John V. Winters

published in: Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy, 2021, 51 (1), 1-13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13963

Being on the Frontline? Immigrant Workers in Europe and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Francesco Fasani, Jacopo Mazza

published in: ILR Review, 2023, 76 (5), 890-918

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13950

Worker Surveillance Capital, Labour Share and Productivity

Philippe Askenazy

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, 74 (1), 85–93

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13843

Essential Work and Emergency Childcare: Identifying Gender Differences in COVID-19 Effects on Labour Demand and Supply

Jordy Meekes, Wolter Hassink, Guyonne Kalb

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2023, 75 (2), 393 - 417

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13682

Smallholders, Market Failures, and Agricultural Production: Evidence from India

Joshua D. Merfeld

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13673

The Dutch Labour Market Early on in the COVID-19 Outbreak: Regional Coronavirus Hotspots and the National Lockdown

Wolter Hassink, Guyonne Kalb, Jordy Meekes

published as "Regional coronavirus hotspots during the COVID-19 outbreak in the Netherlands" in: De Economist, 2021, 169 (2), 127-140

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13562

This Time It's Different: The Role of Women's Employment in a Pandemic Recession

Titan Alon, Matthias Doepke, Jane Olmstead-Rumsey, Michèle Tertilt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13411

A Literature Review of the Economics of COVID-19

Abel Brodeur, David M. Gray, Anik Islam, Suraiya Jabeen Bhuiyan

published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2021, 35(4), 1007-1044

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13369

Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers

Hyejin Ku

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (2), 325-359

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13266

The Distributional Impacts of Early Employment Losses from COVID-19

Seung Jin Cho, John V. Winters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13136

The COVID-19 Conundrum in the Developing World: Protecting Lives or Protecting Jobs?

David A. Robalino

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13009

The Long-Term Effects of Labor Market Entry in a Recession: Evidence from the Asian Financial Crisis

Eleanor J. Choi, Jaewoo Choi, Hyelim Son

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 67, 101926

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12871

Public Employment Redux

Pietro Garibaldi, Pedro Maia Gomes, Thepthida Sopraseuth

published in: Journal of Government and Economics, 2021, 1, 100003

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12833

The Long-Run Impacts of Adolescent Drinking: Evidence from Zero Tolerance Laws

Tatiana Abboud, Andriana Bellou, Joshua Lewis

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 231, 105066

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12619

Do Workers Benefit from Resource Booms in Their Home State? Evidence from the Fracking Era

John V. Winters, Zhengyu Cai, Karen Maguire, Shruti Sengupta

published as 'Causal Effects of the Fracking Boom on Long-Term Resident Workers' in: Journal of Region Science, 2021, 61 (2), 387 - 406

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12614

Industry Fluctuations and College Major Choices: Evidence from an Energy Boom and Bust

Luyi Han, John V. Winters

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 77, 101996

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12521

Labor Demand Shocks at Birth and Cognitive Achievement during Childhood

Krishna Regmi, Daniel J. Henderson

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 73, 101917

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12349

Who Benefits from Local Oil and Gas Employment? Labor Market Composition in the Oil and Gas Industry in Texas

Zhengyu Cai, Karen Maguire, John V. Winters

published in: Energy Economics, 2019, 84, 104515

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12279

Wage Equalization and Regional Misallocation: Evidence from Italian and German Provinces

Tito Boeri, Andrea Ichino, Enrico Moretti, Johanna Posch

published in: Journal of the European Association, 2021,19 (6), 3249 - 3292

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12278

Matching in Cities

Wolfgang Dauth, Sebastian Findeisen, Enrico Moretti, Jens Suedekum

published in: Journal of the Europen Economic Association, 2022, 20 (4), 1478 - 1521

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12277

Estimating Who Benefits from Productivity Growth: Direct and Indirect Effects of City Manufacturing TFP Growth on Wages, Rents, and Inequality

Richard Hornbeck, Enrico Moretti

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024,106 (3), 587 - 607

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12129

Improving Estimation of Labor Market Disequilibrium Using Shortage Indicators, with an Application to the Market for Anesthesiologists

Matthew Baird, Lindsay Daugherty, Krishna B. Kumar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12067

What Drives Female Labor Force Participation? Comparable Micro-Level Evidence from Eight Developing and Emerging Economies

Stephan Klasen, Janneke Pieters, Manuel Santos Silva, Le Thi Ngoc Tu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12062

Coordination of Hours within the Firm

Claudio Labanca, Dario Pozzoli

revised version published as 'Constraints on Hours within the Firm' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (2), 473 -503

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12046

The Race between Demand and Supply: Tinbergen's Pioneering Studies of Earnings Inequality

James J. Heckman

published in: De economist, 2019, 167, 243–258

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11739

Demography, Unemployment, Automation, and Digitalization: Implications for the Creation of (Decent) Jobs, 2010–2030

David E. Bloom, Matthew J. McKenna, Klaus Prettner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11600

Optimal Fiscal Policy with Labor Selection

Sanjay K. Chugh, Wolfgang Lechthaler, Christian Merkl

published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2018, 94, 142-189

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11562

Structural Labour Supply Models and Microsimulation

Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino

revised version published in: International Journal of Microsimulation, 2018, 11 (1), 162 - 197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11495

Taxation, Work and Gender Equality in Ireland

Karina Doorley

published in: Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2017-18, 47, 71-87

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11462

Do Board Gender Quotas Matter? Selection, Performance and Stock Market Effects

Giulia Ferrari, Valeria Ferraro, Paola Profeta, Chiara D. Pronzato

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11428

How Do Households Adjust to Trade Liberalization? Evidence from China's WTO Accession

Mi Dai, Wei Huang, Yifan Zhang

published as 'How do households adjust to tariff liberalization? Evidence from China's WTO accession' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 150, 102628

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11264

The Effects of Supply Shocks in the Market for Apprenticeships: Evidence from a German High School Reform

Samuel Mühlemann, Gerard A. Pfann, Harald Pfeifer, Hans Dietrich

published as 'Supply Shocks in the Market for Apprenticeship Training' in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 86, 102197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11098

Overoptimistic Entrepreneurs: Predicting Wellbeing Consequences of Self-Employment

Reto Odermatt, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Alois Stutzer

revised version published as 'Are Newly Self-Employed Overly Optimistic About Their Future Well-Being?' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2021, 95, 101779

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11085

Maternal Employment and Child Outcomes: Evidence from the Irish Marriage Bar

Irene Mosca, Vincent O'Sullivan, Robert E. Wright

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11072

Rising Wage Inequality in Germany: Increasing Heterogeneity and Changing Selection into Full-Time Work

Martin Biewen, Bernd Fitzenberger, Jakob de Lazzer

revised version published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 7:10

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10822

The Economic Value of Breaking Bad: Misbehavior, Schooling and the Labor Market

Nicholas W. Papageorge, Victor Ronda, Yu Zheng

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10718

Skill Premium, Labor Supply and Changes in the Structure of Wages in Latin America

Manuel Fernandez Sierra, Julián Messina

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 135, 555-573

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10698

Does a Satisfied Student Make a Satisfied Worker?

Adele Whelan, Seamus McGuinness

heavily revised version published as 'The determinants of degree programme satisfaction' in: Studies in Higher Education, 2021, 46 (1), 2262 - 2278

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10489

The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on the Labor Supply of Older Adults: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Lauren Hersch Nicholas, J. Catherine Maclean

published in: Journal of policy analysis and management, 2019, 38 (2), 455-80.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10241

Labor Market Imperfections and the Firm's Wage Setting Policy

Sónia Félix, Pedro Portugal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10239

Gender Quotas: Challenging the Boards, Performance, and the Stock Market

Giulia Ferrari, Valeria Ferraro, Paola Profeta, Chiara D. Pronzato

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10066

Wage Flexibility and Employment Fluctuations: Evidence from the Housing Sector

Jörn-Steffen Pischke

published in: Economics, 2018, 85 (339), 407 - 427

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9802

Families in Macroeconomics

Matthias Doepke, Michèle Tertilt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9708

Peer Effects in Employment Status: Evidence from Housing Lotteries for Forced Evacuees in Fukushima

Ayako Kondo, Masahiro Shoji

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2019, 113, 103195