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IZA Discussion Paper No. 7520

Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility

Miles Corak

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2013, 27 (3), 79-102

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7514

Interpreting Trends in Intergenerational Income Mobility

Martin Nybom, Jan Stuhler

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (8), 2531–2570

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7509

Can Parents' Right to Work Part-Time Hurt Childbearing-Aged Women? A Natural Experiment with Administrative Data

Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

substantially revised version published as 'Too Family Friendly? The Consequences of Parents' Right to Request Part-Time Work' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 197, 104407

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7482

The Effect of Migration Experience on Occupational Mobility in Estonia

Jaan Masso, Raul Eamets, Pille Mõtsmees

revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2014, 35 (6), 753-775

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7476

Parental Investment and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences and Attitudes

Maria Zumbühl, Thomas Dohmen, Gerard A. Pfann

published as 'Parental Involvement and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences, Attitudes, and Personality Traits' in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (638), 2642–2670

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7428

A Model of Worker Investment in Safety and Its Effects on Accidents and Wages

José R. Guardado, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

revised version published as 'Worker Investment in Safety, Workplace Accidents, and Compensating Wage Differentials' in: International Economic Review, 2019, 60 (1), 133-155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7415

Intergenerational Long Term Effects of Preschool: Structural Estimates from a Discrete Dynamic Programming Model

James J. Heckman, Lakshmi K. Raut

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2016, 191 (1), 164 - 175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7318

Post-Socialist Transition and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education in Kyrgyzstan

Tilman Brück, Damir Esenaliev

published in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2018, 26 (1), 61 - 89

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7259

Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt

Christine Binzel, Jean-Paul Carvalho

revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (607), 2553 - 2580

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7124

Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Ludo Visschers

published in: Econometrica, 2023, 91 (3), 1119 - 1153

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7123

Early, Late or Never? When Does Parental Education Impact Child Outcomes?

Matt Dickson, Paul Gregg, Harriet Robinson

published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126, F184-F231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7104

Wage Growth through Job Hopping in China

Kenn Ariga, Fumio Ohtake, Masaru Sasaki, Zheren Wu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7072

Mobility Across Multiple Generations: The Iterated Regression Fallacy

Jan Stuhler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7068

The Growth of Low Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market

David Autor, David Dorn

published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (5), 1553-1597

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6995

The Impact of Teenage Motherhood on the Education and Fertility of their Children: Evidence for Europe

Maria Navarro Paniagua, Ian Walker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6987

Alike in Many Ways: Intergenerational and Sibling Correlations of Brothers' Earnings

Paul Bingley, Lorenzo Cappellari

revised version circulated as IZA DP 10761

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6983

Assortative Matching and Gender

Luca Paolo Merlino, Pierpaolo Parrotta, Dario Pozzoli

published in: Industrial Relations, 2018, 57 (4), 671-709.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6981

Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution

Thomas Siedler, Bettina Sonnenberg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6907

Intergenerational Income Persistency in Urban China

Deng Quheng, Björn Anders Gustafsson, Shi Li

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2013, 59 (3), 416-436

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6873

Promotion and Wages in Mid-Career: Gender, Unionism, and Sector

John T. Addison, Orgul Demet Ozturk, Si Wang

revised version published as 'The Role of Gender in Promotion and Pay over a Career' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 8 (3), 280-317

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6820

Good Skills in Bad Times: Cyclical Skill Mismatch and the Long-Term Effects of Graduating in a Recession

Kai Liu, Kjell G. Salvanes, Erik Ø. Sørensen

published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 84, 3-17.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6740

Why Do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children?

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

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 32 (2), 269–296

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6675

Extra Status and Extra Stress: Are Promotions Good for Us?

David W. Johnston, Wang-Sheng Lee

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (1), 32-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6671

How Are Firms Affected by the Crisis and How Do They React?

Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen, Ioana Neamtu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6660

Unemployment Insurance, Job Search and Informal Employment

David N. Margolis, Lucas Navarro, David A. Robalino

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6657

Worker Matching and Firm Value

Espen R. Moen, Eran Yashiv

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6656

Maternal Gender Role Attitudes, Human Capital Investment, and Labour Supply of Sons and Daughters

David W. Johnston, Stefanie Schurer, Michael A. Shields

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2014, 66 (3), 631-659

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6587

A Price for Flexibility? The Temp Agency Wage Gap in Sweden 1998-2008

Pernilla Andersson Joona, Eskil Wadensjö

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6543

Wage and Occupational Assimilation by Skill Level

Miguel Angel Alcobendas, Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Raquel Vegas

published in: A. Artal-Tur, G. Peri, F. Requena-Silvente, The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration Flows: Effects on Trade, Remittances, Output, and the Labour Market (Population Economics Series), Springer, 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6542

Moroccans', Ecuadorians' and Romanians' Assimilation in Spain

Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Raquel Vegas

substantially revised version published as 'Do Moroccan Migrants to Spain Fare Better or Worse than Other Migrants?' in: Middle East Development Journal, 2014, 6 (2), 308 - 328

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6540

Quit Behavior and the Role of Job Protection

Anne C. Gielen, Konstantinos Tatsiramos

published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (4), 624 - 632

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6535

Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in OECD Countries: Evidence from Cross-Country/Cross-Industry Data

Andrea Bassanini, Andrea Garnero

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21 (1), 25-41

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6514

Offshoring and Job Stability: Evidence from Italian Manufacturing

Alessia Lo Turco, Daniela Maggioni, Matteo Picchio

published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2013, 26, 27-46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6508

Is Recipiency of Disability Pension Hereditary?

Espen Bratberg, Øivind Anti Nilsen, Kjell Vaage

revised version published as 'Assessing the Intergenerational Correlation in Disability Pension Recipiency' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2015, 67(2), 205-226

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6490

Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender 1970-2009: Adjusting for the Impact of Changes in the Occupational Coding System

Francine D. Blau, Peter Brummund, Albert Yung-Hsu Liu

published in: Demography, 2013, 50 (2), 493-494

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6487

"I Wish I Had 100 Dollars a Month …" - The Intergenerational Transfer of Poverty in Mongolia

Francesco Pastore

substantially revised version published as 'I wish I had 100 dollars a month…: The Determinants of Poverty in Mongolia' in: European Journal of Development Research, 2016, 28 (5), 934-956

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6486

Horizontal Transfer and Promotion: New Evidence and an Interpretation from the Perspective of Task-Specific Human Capital

Masaru Sasaki, Katsuya Takii, Junmin Wan

published as 'Synchronized job transfer and task-specific human capital' in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2020, 56, 101075

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6470

The Relationship Between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures

Anke Becker, Thomas Deckers, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse

published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2012, 4, 453-478

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6463

The Intergenerational Persistence of Human Capital: An Empirical Analysis of Four Generations

Mikael Lindahl, Mårten Palme, Sofia Sandgren Massih, Anna Sjögren

split into two papers and published as 'A test of the Becker-Tomes model of human capital transmission using microdata on four generation' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 7(1), 80-96 and as 'Long-term intergenerational persistence of human capital: an empirical analysis of four generations' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50(1), 1-33.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6444

Do Women Top Managers Help Women Advance? A Panel Study Using EEO-1 Records

Fidan Ana Kurtulus, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey

published as 'Do Female Top Managers Help Women to Advance? A Panel Study Using EEO-1 Records' in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2022, 639, 173-197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6368

Moroccans' Assimilation in Spain: Family-Based versus Labor-Based Migration

Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Raquel Vegas

published in: Middle East Development Journal, 2011, 3 (2), 119-139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6366

Search Capital

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Eric Smith

published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2017, 23, 191 - 211.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6276

The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians

Brian Duncan, Stephen J. Trejo

published in: ILR Review, 2017, 70 (5), 1146-1175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6261

Immigration: The European Experience

Christian Dustmann, Tommaso Frattini

published in David Card and Steve Raphael (eds.), Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality, Russell Sage Foundation, 2013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6242

The Impact of Parents' Years since Migration on Children's Academic Achievement

Helena Skyt Nielsen, Beatrice Schindler Rangvid

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1:6

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6139

Decline in Social Mobility: Unfulfilled Aspirations among Egypt's Educated Youth

Christine Binzel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6117

Family Background, Self-Confidence and Economic Outcomes

Antonio Filippin, Marco Paccagnella

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31, 824-834

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6062

Testing the 'Residential Rootedness'-Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK

Darja Reuschke, Maarten van Ham

published in: Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2013, 45 (5), 1219-1239

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6014

Evidence on the Long Shadow of Poor Mental Health across Three Generations

David W. Johnston, Stefanie Schurer, Michael A. Shields

published as "Exploring the intergenerational persistence of mental health: Evidence from three generations" in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (6), 1077-1089

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. 5964

Low-Skilled Immigrants and the U.S. Labor Market

Brian Duncan, Stephen J. Trejo

published as 'The Employment of Low-Skilled Immigrant Men in the United States' in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (3), 549-554

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5937

Scarring Effects of Remaining Unemployed for Long-Term Unemployed School-Leavers

Bart Cockx, Matteo Picchio

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2013, 176 (4), 951-980

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5894

Do Employment Quotas Explain the Occupational Choices of Disadvantaged Minorities in India?

Larry L. Howard, Nishith Prakash

published in: International Review of Applied Economics, 2012, 26 (4), 489 - 513

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. 5851

The Portability of New Immigrants' Human Capital: Language, Education and Occupational Matching

Gustave Goldmann, Arthur Sweetman, Casey Warman

published as: 'The Portability of New Immigrants’ Human Capital: Language, Education, and Occupational Skills' in: Canadian Public Policy , 2015, 41 (S1), 64-79.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5834

Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality: Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US

Judith Niehues, Andreas Peichl

revised version published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2014, 43 (1), 73-99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5806

Career Changers in Teaching Jobs: A Case Study Based on the Swiss Vocational Education System

Stefanie Hof, Mirjam Strupler Leiser, Stefan C. Wolter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5697

Heterogeneous Income Profiles and Life-Cycle Bias in Intergenerational Mobility Estimation

Martin Nybom, Jan Stuhler

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2016, 51 (1), 239-268

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5646

Parental Education, Grade Attainment and Earnings Expectations among University Students

Liam Delaney, Colm P. Harmon, Cathy Redmond

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1136-1152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5593

The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers in Canada and Denmark

Paul Bingley, Miles Corak, Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen

published in: John Ermisch, Markus Jantti, and Timothy Smeeding (editors). From Parents to Children: The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage. Russell Sage Foundation, 2012.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5588

Labor Market Adjustment: Is Russia Different?

Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov

published in: The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy, Oxford, OUP, 2013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5581

Occupational Mobility of Immigrants in a Low Skilled Economy: The Spanish Case

Hipólito Simón, Raul Ramos, Esteban Sanromá

published in: European Journal of Population, 2014, 30 (2), 223-255

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5538

Wage Premia for Newly Hired Employees: Theory and Evidence

Patrick Kampkötter, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 31, 45–60

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5477

Sorting and the Output Loss Due to Search Frictions

Pieter A. Gautier, Coen Teulings

published in: Journal of the European Association, 2015, 13 (6), 1136 - 1166

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5466

Equality of Opportunity and the Distribution of Long-Run Income in Sweden

Anders Björklund, Markus Jäntti, John E. Roemer

revised version published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2012, 39, 675-696

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5403

Chutes and Ladders: Dual Tracks and the Motherhood Dip

Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Aitor Lacuesta, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published as 'The Motherhood Earnings Dip: Evidence from Administrative Records' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2013, 48 (1), 169-197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5324

Do Parents' Social Skills Influence Their Children's Sociability?

Tsunao Okumura, Emiko Usui

published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2014, 14 (3), 1081-1116

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5285

Quantity over Quality? A European Comparison of the Changing Nature of Transitions between Non-Employment and Employment

Werner Eichhorst, Regina Konle-Seidl, Alison Koslowski, Paul Marx

published in: Jochen Clasen and Daniel Clegg (eds.), Regulating the Risk of Unemployment. National Adaptations to Post-Industrial Labour Markets in Europe, Oxford: OUP, 2011, 281-296

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5245

Empirical Strategies to Eliminate Life-Cycle Bias in the Intergenerational Elasticity of Earnings Literature

Jan Stuhler

substantially revised version appeared as IZA DP No. 5697

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5179

Gender Differentials in the Payoff to Schooling in China

Weiwei Ren, Paul W. Miller

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2012, 48 (1), 133-150

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5154

Women Move Differently: Job Separations and Gender

Boris Hirsch, Claus Schnabel

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2012, 33 (4), 417-442

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5128

Explaining the Labour Market Outcomes of First, Second and Third Generation Immigrants in Canada

Jiong Tu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5025

Fair and Unfair Income Inequalities in Europe

Daniele Checchi, Vito Peragine, Laura Serlenga

revised version published as “Inequality of Opportunity in Europe: is there a role for institutions ?” in Inequality: Causes and Consequences - Research in Labor Economics, Volume 43/2015, pp.1-44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4965

Labor Market Entry Conditions, Wages and Job Mobility

Ronald Bachmann, Thomas K. Bauer, Peggy David

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4876

Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and the Inheritance of Employers

Miles Corak, Patrizio Piraino

revised version published as: 'The Inheritance of Employers and Nonlinearities in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility.' in: Kaushik Basu and Joseph Stiglitz (editors). Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2016, 1 - 34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4866

Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility

Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux

published in: O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 4B, Chapter 16, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4819

The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers

Miles Corak, Patrizio Piraino

slightly revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (1), 37-68

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4814

Economic Mobility, Family Background, and the Well-Being of Children in the United States and Canada

Miles Corak, Lori Curtis, Shelley Phipps

published in: Timothy M. Smeeding et al. (eds.), Persistence, Privilege, and Parenting: The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2011. Parts also published (Miles Corak only) as 'Chasing the Same Dream, Climbing Different Ladders'. Washington: PEW Charitable Trusts, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4797

Social Mobility: Is There an Advantage in Being English in Scotland?

Maarten van Ham, Allan M. Findlay, David Manley, Peteke Feijten

published as 'Migration, Occupational Mobility, and Regional Escalators in Scotland' in: [Urban Studies Research], 2012 (2012), Article ID 827171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4767

The Political Economy of Intergenerational Income Mobility

Andrea Ichino, Loukas Karabarbounis, Enrico Moretti

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 49 (1), 47-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4677

Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in Germany: Moving with Natives or Stuck in their Neighborhoods?

Mutlu Yuksel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4662

Outsourcing, Public Input Provision and Policy Cooperation

Thomas Aronsson, Erkki Koskela

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4640

Olof Aslund, Lena Hensvik, Oskar Nordström Skans

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32(3), 405–442

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4591

Have Labour Market Reforms at the Turn of the Millennium Changed Job Durations of the New Entrants? A Comparative Study for Germany and Italy

Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Ursula Jaenichen, Claudia Villosio

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2012, 33, 143 - 172

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4590

The Economic Progress of American Jewry: From 18th Century Merchants to 21st Century Professionals

Barry R. Chiswick

published in: Aaron Levine (ed.), Judaism and Economics, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 625-645

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4585

Nature, Nurture and Egalitarian Policy: What Can We Learn from Molecular Genetics?

Petter Lundborg, Anders Stenberg

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 8 (3), 320-330

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4528

Immigration, Citizenship, and the Size of Government

Francesc Ortega

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4480

The Gender Gap in Early Career in Mongolia

Francesco Pastore

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2010, 31 (2), 188-207

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4437

Georgios A. Panos, Konstantinos Pouliakas, Alexandros Zangelidis

published as 'Multiple jobholding, Skill diversification and Mobility' in: Industrial Relations, 2014, 53 (2), 223-272

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4394

Immigrants' Assimilation Process in a Segmented Labor Market

Miguel Angel Alcobendas, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

substantially revised version published in: A. Artal-Tur, G. Peri, F. Requena-Silvente, The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration Flows: Effects on Trade, Remittances, Output, and the Labour Market (Population Economics Series), Springer, 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4342

The Part-Time Pay Penalty in a Segmented Labor Market

Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (5), 591-606

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4325

Monitoring Job Offer Decisions, Punishments, Exit to Work, and Job Quality

Gerard J. van den Berg, Johan Vikström

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 116 2014, 284-334

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4312

Immigrant Circulation and Citizenship: Hotel Canada?

Don J. DeVoretz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4290