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86 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17418
Stress in the Air: A Conjecture
Oded Stark
published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2024, 55, 101430
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17175
Can Term Limits Accelerate Women's Access to Top Political Positions? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Italy
Carolina Kansikas, Manuel Bagues
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17109
Reducing the Child Penalty by Incentivizing Maternal Part-Time Work?
Laurenz Baertsch, Malte Sandner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16873
An Optimal Allocation of Asylum Seekers
Oded Stark, Grzegorz Kosiorowski
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024, 220, 1 - 11
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16728
Unintended Consequences? The Changing Composition of Immigration to the UK after Brexit
Jonathan Portes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16472
Migration and Productivity in the UK: An Analysis of Employee Payroll Data
Hoseong Nam, Jonathan Portes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16468
A Bad Break-up? Assessing the Effects of the 2016 Brexit Referendum on Migration
Joanna Clifton-Sprigg, Ines Homburg, Jonathan James, Suncica Vujic
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16460
The Shift Premium: Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment
Sam Desiere, Christian Walter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16156
Expecting Brexit and UK Migration: Should I Go?
Valentina Di Iasio, Jackline Wahba
published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 157, 104484
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15883
The Impact of the Post-Brexit Migration System on the UK Labour Market
Jonathan Portes, John Springford
published in: Contemporary Social Science, 2023, 18:2, 132-149
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15692
Labor Market Effects of Bounds on Domestic Outsourcing
Bruno Jiménez, Silvio Rendon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15146
The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration Policy on Firms: Evidence from Visa Lotteries
Kirk Doran, Alexander Gelber, Adam Isen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15066
An Impact Assessment of ESF Training Courses for Unemployed in the Province of Bolzano
Francesco Pastore, Marco Pompili
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14326
Encouragement and Distortionary Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers
Gharad Bryan, Shyamal Chowdhury, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Melanie Morten, Joeri Smits
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14078
Targeting Intensive Job Assistance to Ex-Offenders by the Nature of Offense: Results from a Randomized Control Trial
Christopher R. Bollinger, Aaron Yelowitz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13994
Unearned Income and Labor Supply: Evidence from Survivor Pensions in Austria
René Böheim, Michael Topf
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13669
Teacher Allocation and School Performance in Italy
Alex Bryson, Lorenzo Corsini, Irene Martelli
published in: Labour, 2022, 36 (4), 409 - 423
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13548
Are Estimates of Non-Standard Employment Wage Penalties Robust to Different Wage Measures? The Case of Zero Hours Contracts in the UK
Egidio Farina, Colin P. Green, Duncan McVicar
published in: Industrial Relations, 2021, 60 (3), 370 - 399
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. 13116
Is Precarious Employment Bad for Worker Health? The Case of Zero Hours Contracts in the UK
Egidio Farina, Colin P. Green, Duncan McVicar
published as 'Zero hours contracts and self-reported (mental) health in the UK' in: BJIR, 2024, 62 (1), 50-71
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12609
Wage Fairness in a Subcontracted Labor Market
Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, Vidhya Soundararajan
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 168, 24 - 42
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12487
The Effectiveness of Interventions to Reduce Informality in Low- and Middle Income Countries
Jonas Jessen, Jochen Kluve
revised version published in: World Development, 2021, 138, 105256
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12383
Impact of Increased Long-Term Care Insurance Payments on Employment and Wages in Formal Long-Term Care
Ayako Kondo
published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2019, 53, 101034
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12291
Zero Hours Contracts and Their Growth
Egidio Farina, Colin P. Green, Duncan McVicar
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58(3), 507-531
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12074
Assessing the Impact of Off- and On-The-Job Training on Employment Outcomes: A Counterfactual Evaluation of the PIPOL Program
Francesco Pastore, Marco Pompili
published in: Evaluation Review, 2020, 44 (2-3), 145-184
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12023
Does Paternity Leave Reduce Fertility?
Lídia Farré, Libertad González
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11909
Race-Blind Admissions, School Segregation, and Student Outcomes: Evidence from Race-Blind Magnet School Lotteries
Jason B. Cook
published as 'Race-blind admissions, school segregation, and student outcomes' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105237
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11582
The Unemployment Impact of Product and Labour Market Regulation: Evidence from European Countries
Céline Piton, François Rycx
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2019, 9 (2), 1-32
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. 11390
Unsafe Sex in the City: Risk Pricing in the London Area
Alexander Muravyev, Oleksandr Talavera
published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 65(5), 528-549
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11378
Worker Representation and Temporary Employment in Germany: The Deployment and Extent of Fixed-Term Contracts and Temporary Agency Work
John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Philipp Grunau, Lutz Bellmann
revised version published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2019, 2 (1), 24-46.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11151
The Impact of Digital Technologies on Worker Tasks: Do Labor Policies Matter?
Rita K. Almeida, Carlos Henrique Corseuil, Jennifer P. Poole
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10991
Activation against Absenteeism: Evidence from a Sickness Insurance Reform in Norway
Øystein Hernaes
revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 62, 60-68
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10966
The Impact of the Action Plan for Promoting Employment and Combating Unemployment on Employment Informality in Algeria
Ali Souag, Ragui Assaad
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10865
The Effects of Paternity Leave on Fertility and Labor Market Outcomes
Lídia Farré, Libertad González
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10704
Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Skills in Low-Income Countries
Zuzana Brixiova, Balázs Égert
published in: Economic Modelling, 2017, 67, 381 - 391
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10669
Wage Rigidities in Colombia: Measurement, Causes, and Policy Implications
Sonia A. Agudelo, Hector Sala
published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2017, 39 (3), 547-567
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10582
The Impact of Traineeships on the Employment of the Mentally Ill: The Role of Partial Compliance
Alberto Martini, Enrico Rettore, Gianpaolo Barbetta
published as 'When Non-Compliance Carries the Day: Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Employment Program for the Severely Mentally Ill' in: Evaluation Review, 2022, 46 (5), 555–577
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10541
Recent Developments in the Irish Labour Market: Is It All Good News?
Elish Kelly, Alan Barrett
published as "Atypical Work and Ireland's Labour Market Collapse and Recovery" in: Economic and Social Review, 2017, 48 (4) 463-488
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10263
Do Youth Employment Programs Improve Labor Market Outcomes? A Systematic Review
Jochen Kluve, Olga Susana Puerto, David A. Robalino, Jose M. Romero, Friederike Rother, Jonathan Stöterau, Felix Weidenkaff, Marc J. Witte
published as 'Do youth employment programs improve labor market outcomes? A quantitative review' in: World Development, 2019, 114, 237 - 253
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. 10100
Deconstructing Informality: A Response to Vulnerability or an Optimal Choice?
Lina Song, Simon Appleton, Zhe Liang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9863
Labor Market Reforms in Europe: Towards More Flexicure Labor Markets?
Werner Eichhorst, Paul Marx, Caroline Wehner
published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2017, 51 (3), 1-17.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9833
Uptake of Health Insurance and the Productive Safety Net Program in Rural Ethiopia
Zemzem Shigute, Anagaw Derseh Mebratie, Robert Sparrow, Zelalem Yilma, Getnet Alemu, Arjun S. Bedi
published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2017, 176, 133-141
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9587
Collective Bargaining Systems and Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Flexibility: The Quest for Appropriate Institutional Forms in Advanced Economies
John T. Addison
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2016, 5: 19
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9571
Are Unemployment Rates in OECD Countries Stationary? Evidence from Univariate and Panel Unit Root Tests
Naceur Khraief, Muhammad Shahbaz, Almas Heshmati, Muhammad Azam
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9203
Performance Standards and Employee Effort: Evidence from Teacher Absences
Seth Gershenson
published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2016, 35(3), 615-638
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8023
Unanticipated Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program
Tirthatanmoy Das, Solomon Polachek
published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2015, 33 (4), 619-635.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7553
Entrepreneurship and the Business Environment in Africa: An Application to Ethiopia
Zuzana Brixiova, Mthuli Ncube
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7239
For Better or for Worse: The Long-Term Effects of Postwar Reconstruction on Family Formation
Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Melanie Khamis, Mutlu Yuksel
published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 8(29): 2771-2784.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7106
Corruption, Shadow Economy and Income Inequality: Evidence from Asia
Saibal Kar, Shrabani Saha
published in: Economic Systems, 2021, 45 (2), 100774
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6682
Sharpening the Effectiveness of Natural Experiments as an Analytical Tool
Harriet Duleep
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6639
The Economic Status of Asian Americans Before and After the Civil Rights Act
Harriet Duleep, Seth G. Sanders
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6638
The Civil Rights Act and the Earnings of Lower Income Hispanic Men in the 1960's
Harriet Duleep, Mark Regets
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6600
Creating New Administrative Data to Describe the Scientific Workforce: The STAR METRICS Program
Julia Lane, Lou Schwarz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6598
Employment Effects of State Legislation against the Hiring of Unauthorized Immigrant Workers
Sarah Bohn, Magnus Lofstrom
published in: David Card and Steven Raphael (eds.) Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality, Russell Sage, 2013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6149
Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Care and Education
Christopher J. Ruhm, Jane Waldfogel
published in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, Economics of Education, 2012, 23-51
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. 5682
Did the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act Reduce the State's Unauthorized Immigrant Population?
Sarah Bohn, Magnus Lofstrom, Steven Raphael
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96(2), 258-269
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5546
Free vs. Restricted Immigration: Bilateral Country Study
Assaf Razin, Jackline Wahba
revised version published as 'Welfare Magnet Hypothesis, Fiscal Burden and Immigration Skill Selectivity' in: Journal of Scandinavian Economics, 2015, 177 (2), 369 - 402
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5343
The Case for Presenteeism
Simen Markussen, Arnstein Mykletun, Knut Røed
revised version published as 'The Case for Presenteeism - Evidence from Norway's Sickness Insurance Program' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (11-12), 959-972
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. 5162
Minimum Wages, Labor Market Institutions, and Female Employment and Unemployment: A Cross-Country Analysis
John T. Addison, Orgul Demet Ozturk
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2012, 65 (4), 779-809
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5087
Non-Standard Employment and Labour Force Participation: A Comparative View of the Recent Development in Europe
Günther Schmid
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4651
Was there a Skills Shortage in Australia?
Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4614
Is Informal Sector Work an Alternative to Workfare Benefits? The Case of Pre-Program Expansion and Economic Crisis
Melanie Khamis
published in: Review of Development Economics, 2012, 16 (4), 579–593
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4569
New Estimates of Public Employment and Training Program Net Impacts: A Nonexperimental Evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act Program
Carolyn J. Heinrich, Peter R. Mueser, Kenneth Troske, Kyung-Seong Jeon, Daver C. Kahvecioglu
published as "Do Public Employment and Training Programs Work?" in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2013, 2:6
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4267
Causes and Consequences of a Father's Child Leave: Evidence from a Reform of Leave Schemes
Helena Skyt Nielsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3979
Cream-Skimmer or Underdog? Labor Type Selectivity, Pre-Program Wage, and Rural Labor Training Program Outcome
Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3952
Self-Employment and the Role of Health Insurance
Gulcin Gumus, Tracy L. Regan
revised version published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2015, 30 (3), 357-374
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3434
Minimum Wages and Welfare in a Hotelling Duopsony
Leo Kaas, Paul Madden
published in: Economic Theory, 2010, 43 (2), 167 - 188
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3373
The Impact of the Public Sector Pay Review Bodies in the UK
Peter Dolton, Gerry Makepeace
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2866
Tax Incentives as a Solution to the Uninsured: Evidence from the Self-Employed
Gulcin Gumus, Tracy L. Regan
revised version published in: Inquiry, 2013, 50 (4), 275-295.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2861
How Tax Progression Affects Effort and Employment
Erkki Koskela, Ronnie Schöb
published as 'Is Tax Progression Good for Employment? Efficiency Wages and the Role of the Prereform Tax Structure' in: FinanzArchiv, 2009, 65 (1), 51 - 72
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2675
The Gradual Transformation of Continental European Labor Markets: France and Germany Compared
Werner Eichhorst
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2662
Principals as Agents? Investigating Accountability in the Compensation and Performance of School Principals
Sherrilyn M. Billger
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 61(1), 90-107
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2424
Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed: Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany
Peter Haan, Viktor Steiner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2381
Politico-Economic Causes of Labor Regulation in the United States: Rent Seeking, Alliances, Raising Rivals' Costs (Even Lowering One's Own?), and Interjurisdictional Competition
John T. Addison
published in: R. Vaubel and P. Bernholz (eds.), Political Competition and Economic Regulation, London: Routledge 2007
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2343
Do Changes in Regulation Affect Employment Duration in Temporary Work Agencies?
Manfred Antoni, Elke J. Jahn
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2009, 62 (2), 226-251
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2304
Employment Protection Reform in Search Economies
Olivier L'Haridon, Franck Malherbet
published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53 (3), 255-273
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2120
Kombilöhne und Mindestlöhne als Instrumente der Beschäftigungspolitik – Erfahrungen und Handlungsoptionen
Werner Eichhorst
published in: Lothar Funk (ed.), Anwendungsorientierte Marktwirtschaftslehre und Neue Politische Ökonomie, Marburg: Metropolis, 2008
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2043
Holdup in Oligopsonistic Labour Markets: A New Role for the Minimum Wage
Leo Kaas, Paul Madden
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (3), 356-371
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1985
Beschäftigung Älterer in Deutschland: Der unvollständige Paradigmenwechsel
Werner Eichhorst
published in: Zeitschrift für Sozialreform/Journal of Social Policy Research, 2006, 52 (1), 101-123
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1799
Job-Hopping in Silicon Valley: Some Evidence Concerning the Micro-Foundations of a High Technology Cluster
Bruce Fallick, Charles A. Fleischman, James B. Rebitzer
published in: Review of Economic and Statistics, 2006, 88(3), 472-481
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1617
Parental Leave – A Policy Evaluation of the Swedish "Daddy-Month" Reform
John Ekberg, Rickard Eriksson, Guido Friebel
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 97, 131-143
IZA Discussion Paper No. 600
Explaining Gender Differences in Unemployment with Micro Data on Flows in Post-Communist Economies
Jana Stefanová Lauerová, Katherine Terrell
published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2007, 49 (1), 128-155
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