Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12201

The Intergenerational Transmission of Teaching

Alberto Jacinto, Seth Gershenson

published in: American Educational Research Journal, 2021, 58 (3), 635-672.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12086

The Effects of Status Mobility and Group Identity on Trust

Rémi Suchon, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 163, 430-463

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11980

Does Education Affect Attitudes Towards Immigration? Evidence from Germany

Shushanik Margaryan, Annemarie Paul, Thomas Siedler

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56 (2), 446-479

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11904

Immigration and Social Mobility

Maria F. Hoen, Simen Markussen, Knut Røed

published as 'Immigration and economic mobility' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 1589 -1630

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11813

Is the U.S. Labor Market for Truck Drivers Broken? An Empirical Analysis Using Nationally Representative Data

Stephen V. Burks, Kristen Monaco

shorter version published as 'Is the U.S. Labor Market for Truck Drivers Broken?' in: Monthly Labor Review, Bureau of Labor Statistics, March, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11793

Linguistic Skills and the Intergenerational Transmission of Language

Ramon Caminal, Lorenzo Cappellari, Antonio Di Paolo

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