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published as 'Language-in-education, language skills and the intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 70, 101975

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11787

Training and Changes in Job Tasks

Marcus Tamm

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 67, 137-147

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11753

Trends in Assortative Mating and Offspring Outcomes

Bernt Bratsberg, Simen Markussen, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed, Ole J. Røgeberg

revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (651), 928 - 950

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11570

Long-Run Patterns of Labour Market Polarisation: Evidence from German Micro Data

Ronald Bachmann, Merve Cim, Colin P. Green

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, 57 (2), 350-376

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11561

Are Estimates of Intergenerational Mobility Biased by Non-Response? Evidence from the Netherlands

Bart H.H. Golsteyn, Stefa Hirsch

published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2019, 52 (1), 29-63

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11544

Environmental Bottlenecks on Children's Genetic Potential for Adult Socioeconomic Attainments: Evidence from a Health Shock

Jason M. Fletcher

published in: Population Studies: A Journal of Demography, 2019, 73 (1), 139-148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11481

Status and Progress in Cross-Border Portability of Social Security Benefits

Robert Holzmann, Jacques Wels

published in: International Social Security Review, 2020, 73(1), 65-107

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11418

The Occupational Status of Jews in the United States on the Eve of the US Civil War

Barry R. Chiswick

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11337

Evaluating Intergenerational Persistence of Economic Preferences: A Large Scale Experiment with Families in Bangladesh

Shyamal Chowdhury, Matthias Sutter, Klaus F. Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11334

Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance

Gordon B. Dahl, Anne C. Gielen

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13 (2), 116-150

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11278

Intergenerational Effects of Incarceration

Manudeep Bhuller, Gordon B. Dahl, Katrine Vellesen Loken, Magne Mogstad

published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 108, 234-240.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11217

The Native-Migrant Gap in the Progression into and through Upper-Secondary Education

Stefan C. Wolter, Maria Zumbühl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11158

Socio-Economic Status and Inequalities in Children's IQ and Economic Preferences

Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Pia Pinger, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129 (9), 2504 -2545

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11123

Does Segregation Reduce Socio-Spatial Mobility? Evidence from Four European Countries with Different Inequality and Segregation Contexts

Jaap Nieuwenhuis, Tiit Tammaru, Maarten van Ham, Lina Hedman, David Manley

published in: Urban Studies, 2020, 57 (1), 176 - 197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11070

Intergenerational Disadvantage: Learning about Equal Opportunity from Social Assistance Receipt

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Nicolás Salamanca, Anna Zhu

published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102276

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11052

Comparing Retrospective and Panel Data Collection Methods to Assess Labor Market Dynamics

Ragui Assaad, Caroline Krafft, Shaimaa Yassin

published in IZA Journal of Development and Migration 2018, 8:17.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11029

Where Are Migrants from? Inter- vs. Intra-Provincial Rural-Urban Migration in China

Yaqin Su, Petros Tesfazion, Zhong Zhao

published in: China Economic Review, 2018, 47, 142-155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11021

Immobile Australia: Surnames Show Strong Status Persistence, 1870 - 2017

Gregory Clark, Andrew Leigh, Mike Pottenger

published as 'Frontiers of mobility: Was Australia 1870 - 2017 a more socially mobile society than England?' in: Explorations in Economic History, 2020, 76 (C), 101327

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11020

Direct Measures of Intergenerational Income Mobility for Australia

Chelsea Murray, Robert Clark, Silvia Mendolia, Peter Siminski

published in: Economic Record, 2018, 94 (307), 445-68

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11015

Media and Occupational Choice

Alexander Konon, Alexander S. Kritikos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11013

A Tale of Two Countries: A Story of the French and US Polarization

Julien Albertini, Jean-Olivier Hairault, François Langot, Thepthida Sopraseuth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11005

'Inequality Is the Root of Social Evil,' or Maybe Not? Two Stories about Inequality and Public Policy

Miles Corak

published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2016, 42 (4), 367-414

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10970

Excluded Generation: The Growing Challenges of Labor Market Insertion for Egyptian Youth

Ragui Assaad, Caroline Krafft

published in: Journal of Youth Studies, 2020, 24 (2),186-212

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10942

Welfare Reform and the Intergenerational Transmission of Dependence

Robert Paul Hartley, Carlos Lamarche, James P. Ziliak

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (3), 523 - 565

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10851

Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment

Agnieszka Postepska

published in Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34 (4), 606-611

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10797

Adults Behaving Badly: The Effects of Own and Peer Parents' Incarceration on Adolescent Criminal Activities

Jason M. Fletcher

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10761

Correlations of Brothers' Earnings and Intergenerational Transmission

Paul Bingley, Lorenzo Cappellari

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (2), 370 - 383

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10696

The Temporal Stability of Children's Neighborhood Experiences: A Follow-up from Birth to Age 15

Tom Kleinepier, Maarten van Ham

published in: Demographic Research, 2017, 36, 1813 - 1826

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10677

The Long-Run Impact of Childhood Poverty and the Mediating Role of Education

Luna Bellani, Michela Gianna Bia

revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, 2019, 182 (1), 37-68

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10664

Egalitarianism under Pressure: Toward Lower Economic Mobility in the Knowledge Economy?

Simen Markussen, Knut Røed

revised version published as 'Economic Mobility under Pressure' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (4), 1844–1885,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10645

Equality of Opportunity, Moral Hazard and the Timing of Luck

Arnaud Lefranc, Alain Trannoy

published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2017, 49 (3/4), 469 - 497

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10623

What Do We Know So Far about Multigenerational Mobility?

Gary Solon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10601

Job-to-Job Transitions, Sorting, and Wage Growth

David Carson Jinkins, Annaig Morin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10529

The Intergenerational Causal Effect of Tax Evasion: Evidence from the Commuter Tax Allowance in Austria

Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Jörg Paetzold

revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17 (6), 1843-1880,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10514

Persistent Occupational Hierarchies among Immigrant Worker Groups in the United States Labor Market

Agnieszka Postepska, Francis Vella

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10422

The Labour Market Effect of Immigration: Accounting for Effective Immigrant Work Experience in New Zealand

Michael M. H. Tse, Sholeh A. Maani

published as 'Effective Work Experience and Labour Market Impacts of New Zealand Immigration' in: J. Poot, M. Roskruge (eds.), Population Change and Impacts in Asia and the Pacific, Springer, 2020, 221-246

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10401

Career Choice and the Strength of Weak Ties

Semih Tumen

published in: Central Bank Review, 2017, 17(3), 91-97

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10300

The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital and Earnings in Contemporary Russia

Gleb V. Borisov, Christopher A. Pissarides

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10278

On the Origins of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Sibling Correlations

Matthew J. Lindquist, Joeri Sol, Mirjam C. van Praag, Theodor Vladasel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10277

Spatial Segregation and Socio-Economic Mobility in European Cities

Maarten van Ham, Tiit Tammaru, Elise de Vuijst, Merle Zwiers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10136

Money or Fun? Why Students Want to Pursue Further Education

Chris Belfield, Teodora Boneva, Christopher Rauh, Jonathan Shaw

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10126

Intergenerational Wealth Mobility and the Role of Inheritance: Evidence from Multiple Generations

Adrian Adermon, Mikael Lindahl, Daniel Waldenström

published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (612), F482-F513

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10089

Family, Community and Long-Term Earnings Inequality

Paul Bingley, Lorenzo Cappellari, Konstantinos Tatsiramos

revised version published as 'Family, Community and Long-Term Socioeconomic Inequality: Evidence from Siblings and Youth Peers' in: Economic Journal, 2020, 131 (636), 1515 -1554

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10068

Providing Advice to Job Seekers at Low Cost: An Experimental Study on Online Advice

Michèle Belot, Philipp Kircher, Paul Muller

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86 (4), 1411-1447

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10047

Intergenerational Mobility in Income and Economic Status in Ethiopia

Getinet Astatike Haile

published as 'Intergenerational Mobility in Socio-economic Status in Ethiopia' in: Journal of International Development, 2018, 30 (8), 1392 - 1413

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9999

The Chips Are Down: The Influence of Family on Children's Trust Formation

Corrado Giulietti, Enrico Rettore, Sara Tonini

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 36, 211 - 233

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9929

Inequality from Generation to Generation: The United States in Comparison

Miles Corak

published in: Robert Rycroft (editor). The Economics of Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination in the 21st Century. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9918

Cognitive Skills, Non-Cognitive Skills, and Family Background: Evidence from Sibling Correlations

Silke Anger, Daniel D. Schnitzlein

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (2), 591-620

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9917

Does Family Background Affect Earnings through Education? A Generalised Approach to Mediation Analysis

Silvia Mendolia, Peter Siminski

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 59, 1-12

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9837

Residential Segregation from Generation to Generation: Intergenerational Association in Socio-Spatial Context among Visible Minorities and the Majority Population in Metropolitan Sweden

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Katarina Katz, Torun Österberg

published in Population, Space and Place, 2017, 23 (4), e2028

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9783

Levelling the Playing Field: The Effects of Slovenia's 2013 Labour Market Reform

Matija Vodopivec, Suzana Laporsek, Milan Vodopivec

published in: Economic and Business Review, 2019, 21(1).

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9753

More Unequal, But More Mobile? Earnings Inequality and Mobility in OECD Countries

Andrea Garnero, Alexander Hijzen, Sébastien Martin

published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 56, 26-35

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9728

Intergenerational Persistence of Health in the U.S.: Do Immigrants Get Healthier as They Assimilate?

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Adriana Kugler

revised version published as 'Intergenerational Persistence of Health: Do Immigrants Get Healthier as They Remain in the U.S. for More Generations?' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 23, 136-148.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9662

Intergenerational Transmission of Skills and Differences in Labor Market Outcomes for Blacks and Whites

Tsunao Okumura, Emiko Usui

published in: Research in Labor Economics, Special Issue on Inequality: Causes and Consequences, 2016, 43

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9590

Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Turkey

Aysit Tansel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9585

Mismatch of Talent: Evidence on Match Quality, Entry Wages, and Job Mobility

Peter Fredriksson, Lena Hensvik, Oskar Nordström Skans

published in: American Economic Review, 2018, 108 (11), 3303-3338.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9550

The Impact of Family Friendly Policies in Spain and their Use throughout the Business Cycle

Sara de la Rica, Lucía Gorjón

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9394

New Estimates of Intergenerational Mobility in Australia

Silvia Mendolia, Peter Siminski

published in: Economic Record, 2016, 92 (298), 361-373.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9380

Moving Up or Falling Behind? Gender, Promotions, and Wages in Canada

Mohsen Javdani, Andrew McGee

published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2019, 58 (2), 189-228.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9366

Quit Turnover and the Business Cycle: A Survey

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Melvyn Coles

published in: Saridakis, G.; Cooper, C. (eds.) Research Handbook on Employee Turnover, Chapter 13, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2016.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9356

Intergenerational Correlations of Extreme Right-Wing Party Preferences and Attitudes toward Immigration

Alexandra Avdeenko, Thomas Siedler

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, 119 (3), 768-800

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9256

Wage Risk and the Value of Job Mobility in Early Employment Careers

Kai Liu

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (1), 139 - 185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9227

Poor Little Rich Kids? The Determinants of the Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth

Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Petter Lundborg, Kaveh Majlesi

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2020, 87 (4), 1683–1725.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9112

Do the Unemployed Accept Jobs Too Quickly? A Comparison with Employed Job Seekers

Simonetta Longhi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9074

Do Parental Networks Pay Off? Linking Children's Labor-Market Outcomes to their Parents' Friends

Erik Plug, Bas van der Klaauw, Lennart Ziegler

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2108, 120 (1), 268-295

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9006

Mobility across Firms and Occupations among Graduates from Apprenticeship

Bernd Fitzenberger, Stefanie Licklederer, Hanna Zwiener

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8977

How Does Socio-Economic Status Shape a Child's Personality?

Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8893

Earnings, Disposable Income, and Consumption of Allowed and Rejected Disability Insurance Applicants

Andreas Ravndal Kostøl, Magne Mogstad

published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (5), 137–141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8884

Accounting for Mismatch Unemployment

Benedikt Herz, Thijs van Rens

published in: Journal of the European Economics Association, 2020, 18 (4), 1619 - 1654

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8797

Why Are There So Few Women in Executive Positions? An Analysis of Gender Differences in the Life-Cycle of Executive Employment

Anders Frederiksen, Timothy J. Halliday

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8688

Polarization or Upgrading? Evolution of Employment in Transitionary Russia

Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov

published in: Russian Journal of Economics, 2016, 2 (2), 192-218

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8672

An Analysis of Sibling Correlations in Health Using Latent Variable Models

Timothy J. Halliday, Bhashkar Mazumder

published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (12), e108-e12

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8668

The Long-term Earnings Consequences of General vs. Specific Training of the Unemployed

Anders Stenberg, Olle Westerlund

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015, 4:22.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8573

Migration of Graduates within a Sequential Decision Framework: Evidence from Poland

Mikolaj Herbst, Pawel Kaczmarczyk, Piotr Wojcik

published in: Central European Economic Journal, 2017, 1 (48), 1-18

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8546

Trends in the Intergenerational Transmission of Education among Black South Africans

Prudence Magejo, Miracle Benhura, Tendai Gwatidzo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8513

Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment: Evidence for German Sons

Miriam Mäder, Steffen Müller, Regina T. Riphahn, Caroline Schwientek

published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik), 2016, 235 (4-5), 355–375

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8503

Equalization of Opportunity: Definitions, Implementable Conditions and Application to Early-Childhood Policy Evaluation

Francesco Andreoli, Tarjei Havnes, Arnaud Lefranc

published as 'Robust Inequality of Opportunity Comparisons: Theory and Application to Early Childhood Policy Evaluation' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101, (2), 355 - 369

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8380

Social Mobility and the Importance of Networks: Evidence for Britain

Oscar Marcenaro Gutierrez, John Micklewright, Anna Vignoles

published in: Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 2015, 6 (2), 190-211

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8265

Family Welfare Cultures

Gordon B. Dahl, Andreas Ravndal Kostøl, Magne Mogstad

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014, 129 (4), 1711-1752

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8246

Taxation and the Long Run Allocation of Labor: Theory and Danish Evidence

Claus Thustrup Kreiner, Jakob R. Munch, Hans Jørgen Whitta-Jacobsen

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 127, 74-86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8159

The Lifetime Earnings Premium in the Public Sector: The View from Europe

Matt Dickson, Fabien Postel-Vinay, Hélène Turon

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 31, 141–161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8091

Migration, Crisis and Adjustment in an Enlarged E(M)U: The Spanish Perspective

Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Lídia Farré

published in: M. Kahanec and K.F. Zimmermann (eds.): Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7861

Eastern Partnership Migrants in Germany: Outcomes, Potentials and Challenges

Costanza Biavaschi, Klaus F. Zimmermann

revised version published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3:7

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7854

Equality under Threat by the Talented: Evidence from Worker-Managed Firms

Gabriel Burdin

revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126(594), 1372-1403

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7818

Opportunity-Sensitive Poverty Measurement

Paolo Brunori, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Maria Ana Lugo, Vito Peragine

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7816

Employment Polarization in Spain along the Cycle 1997-2012

Brindusa Anghel, Sara de la Rica, Aitor Lacuesta

published as 'The Impact of the Great Recession on Employment Polarization in Spain' in: SERIEs, 2014, 5 (2-3), 143-171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7784

Age and Opportunities for Promotion

C. Sofia Machado, Miguel Portela

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7740

Structural Empirical Evaluation of Job Search Monitoring

Gerard J. van den Berg, Bas van der Klaauw

published in: International Economic Review, 2019, 60 (2), 879-903

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7725

The Economic Payoff of Name Americanization

Costanza Biavaschi, Corrado Giulietti, Zahra Siddique

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (4), 1089-1116

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7708

What If You Had Been Less Fortunate: The Effects of Poor Family Background on Current Labor Market Outcomes

Sungwook Cho, Almas Heshmati

published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2015, 42 (1), 20-33.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7643

Party Membership and State Jobs in Urban China

Yuanyuan Ma, Patrick Paul Walsh

published in: Asian Economic Papers, 2017, 16(2), 167-184

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7635

Costs and Benefits of Labour Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries Country Study: Italy

Sabrina Marchetti, Daniela Piazzalunga, Alessandra Venturini

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3:8

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7608

Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in India

Mehtabul Azam

published as 'Intergenerational Occupational Mobility among Men in India' in: Journal of Development Studies , 2015, 51(10), 1389-1408

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7580

Doing Well in Reforming the Labour Market? Recent Trends in Job Stability and Wages in Germany

Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Ursula Jaenichen, Thomas Rothe

published as 'The evolution of job stability and wages after the implementation of the Hartz reforms 'in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2016, 49, 269-294

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7558

Immigrants from Eastern Partnership (EaP) Countries in Spain

Lídia Farré, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3:1

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