IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Micro and Macro Implications of Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2015, 123(6), 1410-1455

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7335

Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital

Solomon Polachek, Tirthatanmoy Das, Rewat Thamma-Apiroam

published as 'Micro and Macro Implications of Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2015, 123(6), 1410-1455

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7330

Extended Unemployment Benefits and Early Retirement: Program Complementarity and Program Substitution

Lukas Inderbitzin, Stefan Staubli, Josef Zweimüller

revised version published in: American Economics Journal: Economic Policy, 2016, 8(1), 1-37

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7311

Does Mental Productivity Decline with Age? Evidence from Chess Players

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello, Lorenzo Rocco

published as 'Selection and the Age-Productivity Profile: Evidence from Chess Players' in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2015, 110, 45–58

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7240

Does Better Pre-Migration Performance Accelerate Immigrants' Wage Assimilation?

Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn, Ott Toomet, Daniela Hochfellner

published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 212-222

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7237

A Structural Model of Educational Attainment in Canada

Jörgen Hansen, Xingfei Liu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7193

Unemployment and Subsequent Employment Stability: Does Labour Market Policy Matter?

Melike Wulfgramm, Lukas Fervers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7169

Meet the Press: How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit

Francesco Drago, Tommaso Nannicini, Francesco Sobbrio

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2014, 6 (3), 159-188

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7137

Getting Disabled Workers Back to Work: How Important Are Economic Incentives?

Elisabeth Fevang, Inés Hardoy, Knut Røed

revised version published as: 'Temporary disability and economic incentives' in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (603), 1410–1432.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7136

U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads

Harriet Duleep

published as 'U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads: Should the U.S. Continue Its Family-Friendly Policy?' in: International Migration Review, 2014, 48 (3), 823-845

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7136

U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads

Harriet Duleep

published as 'U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads: Should the U.S. Continue Its Family-Friendly Policy?' in: International Migration Review, 2014, 48 (3), 823-845

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7128

Unemployment Insurance, Wage Dynamics and Inequality over the Life Cycle

Paul Bingley, Lorenzo Cappellari, Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen

published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (568), 341–372

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7122

The Changing of the Guards: Can Physicians Contain Social Insurance Costs?

Simen Markussen, Knut Røed, Ole J. Røgeberg

revised version published as 'The Changing of the Guards: Can Family Doctors Contain Worker Absenteeism?' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (6), 1230–1239

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7077

Is Longer Unemployment Rewarded with Longer Job Tenure?

Miki Kohara, Masaru Sasaki, Tomohiro Machikita

published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2013, 29, 44-56

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7060

The Developmental Approach to Child and Adult Health

Gabriella Conti, James J. Heckman

published in: Pediatrics, 131 (supplement 2), 2013, 133-141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7059

Going to School in Purdah: Female Schooling, Mobility Norms and Madrasas in Bangladesh

Niaz Asadullah, Zaki Wahhaj

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7044

Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Sander M. Hoogendoorn, Simon C. Parker, Mirjam C. van Praag

published online in: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, 30 November 2017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6997

Cognitive Skills, Gender and Risk Preferences

Alison L. Booth, Pamela Katic

published in: Economic Record, 2013, 89 (284),19-30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6932

Worker Cooperatives and Democratic Governance

John H. Pencavel

published in: Anna Grandori (ed.), Handbook of Economic Organization, Edward Elgar, 2013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6906

The Cyclicality of the Separation and Job Finding Rates in France

Jean-Olivier Hairault, Thomas Le Barbanchon, Thepthida Sopraseuth

published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 76, 60-84

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6877

An Alternative Explanation for the Variation in Reported Estimates of Risk Aversion

Denis Conniffe, Donal O'Neill

published in: Journal of Risk, 2013, 15 (4), 91-102

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6868

Self Investments of Adolescents and their Cognitive Development

Daniela Del Boca, Chiara Monfardini, Cheti Nicoletti

published as 'Parental and child time and cognitive development of adolescents' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (2), 565-608

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6818

"Employability-Miles" and Worker Employability Awareness

Ruud Gerards, Andries de Grip, Maaike Witlox

published in: Applied Economics, 2014, 46, 952-965

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6742

Liability-of-Foreignness Effects on Job Success of Immigrant Job Seekers

Tony Fang, Al-Karim Samnani, Milorad M. Novicevic, Mark N. Bing

published in: Journal of World Business (Columbia); 2013, 48 (1), 98–109

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6729

Delayed Entry into First Marriage: Further Evidence on the Becker-Landes-Michael Hypothesis

Evelyn L. Lehrer, Yu Chen

published in: Demographic Research, 2013, 29 (20), 521-542

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6729

Delayed Entry into First Marriage: Further Evidence on the Becker-Landes-Michael Hypothesis

Evelyn L. Lehrer, Yu Chen

published in: Demographic Research, 2013, 29 (20), 521-542

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6704

Can Pro-Marriage Policies Work? An Analysis of Marginal Marriages

Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published in: Demography, 2014, 51(4), 1357-1379

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6702

How Financial Incentives Induce Disability Insurance Recipients to Return to Work

Andreas Ravndal Kostøl, Magne Mogstad

published in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (2), 624-655

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6687

Bureaucratic Delay, Local-Level Monitoring, and Delivery of Small Infrastructure Projects: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bolivia

Monica Yanez-Pagans, Carlos Gustavo Machicado

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6677

How Immigration May Affect U.S. Native Entrepreneurship: Theoretical Building Blocks and Preliminary Results

Harriet Duleep, David A. Jaeger, Mark Regets

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6677

How Immigration May Affect U.S. Native Entrepreneurship: Theoretical Building Blocks and Preliminary Results

Harriet Duleep, David A. Jaeger, Mark Regets

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6649

Immigrant Networks and the Take-Up of Disability Programs: Evidence from US Census Data

Delia Furtado, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (1), 247–267

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6603

Dynamics of Disability and Work in Canada

Umut Oguzoglu

shorter version published as 'Why Do Past Disabilities Still Haunt the Newly Healthy?' in: Review of Economic Analysis, 2020, 12 (3), 331-344

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6555

A 'Glass-Ceiling' Effect for Immigrants in the Italian Labour Market?

Carlo Dell’Aringa, Claudio Lucifora, Laura Pagani

published as: 'Earnings differentials between immigrants and natives: the role of occupational attainment' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 4 (8), 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6553

Early Interventions and Disability Insurance: Experience from a Field Experiment

Per Engström, Pathric Hägglund, Per Johansson

published in: Economic Journal, 2017,127 (600), 363 - 392

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6524

Electoral Impacts of Uncovering Public School Quality: Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities

Sergio Firpo, Renan Pieri, André Portela Souza

published in: EconomiA., 2017, 18 (1), 1-17

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6524

Electoral Impacts of Uncovering Public School Quality: Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities

Sergio Firpo, Renan Pieri, André Portela Souza

published in: EconomiA., 2017, 18 (1), 1-17

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. 6499

Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Arne Uhlendorff

substantially revised version available as IZA DP No. 10177

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6482

Evaluating the Impact of a Reduction in the Generosity of Disability Benefits: The 2008 Spanish Reform

José I. Silva, Judit Vall Castello

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6457

Political Instability and Labor Market Institutions

Claudio Lucifora, Simone Moriconi

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 39, 2015, 201–221

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6400

Salience, Risky Choices and Gender

Alison L. Booth, Patrick J. Nolen

published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (2), 517 - 520

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6400

Salience, Risky Choices and Gender

Alison L. Booth, Patrick J. Nolen

published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (2), 517 - 520

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6381

Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits: Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Christian Pfeifer, Joachim Wagner

published in: Contemporary Economics, 2014, 8 (1), 25-49

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6375

What Are Over-the-Road Truckers Paid For? Evidence from an Exogenous Regulatory Change on the Role of Social Comparisons and Work Organization in Wage Determination

Stephen V. Burks, Frederick Guy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6317

Why Are So Many Disabled Individuals Not Working in Spain? A Job Search Approach

José I. Silva, Judit Vall Castello

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6218

Evidence of State-Level Variability in the Economic and Demographic Well-Being of People with Disabilities in India

Nidhiya Menon, Susan L. Parish, Roderick A. Rose

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6169

Migration, Openness and the Global Preconditions of 'Smart Development'

Arno Tausch, Almas Heshmati

published in: Boğaziçi Journal Review of Social, Economic and Administrative Studies, 2012, 26 (2), 27-89.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6152

Disability and Job Mismatches in the Australian Labour Market

Melanie K. Jones, Kostas Mavromaras, Peter J. Sloane, Zhang Wei

published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2014, 38 (5), 1221-1246

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6134

Education, Job Search and Re-employment Outcomes among the Unemployed

W. Craig Riddell, Xueda Song

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6133

Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development?

Alison L. Booth, Lina Marcela Cardona Sosa, Patrick J. Nolen

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 99, 126-154

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6041

The Captain of the Men of Death and His Shadow: Long-Run Impacts of Early Life Pneumonia Exposure

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Atheendar Venkataramani

Second R&R Journal of Political Economy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5987

The Structure of Collective Bargaining and Worker Representation: Change and Persistence in the German Model

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Alex Bryson, André Pahnke

revised version published as 'Collective Agreement Status and Survivability: Change and Persistence in the German Model' in: Labour, 2013, 27 (3), 288-309

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5954

Women's Age at First Marriage and Marital Instability: Evidence from the 2006-2008 National Survey of Family Growth

Evelyn L. Lehrer, Yu Chen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5943

The Stability of Big-Five Personality Traits

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Stefanie Schurer

published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 115 (1), 11-15

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. 5810

The Decline of Early Retirement Pathways in the Netherlands: An Empirical Analysis for the Health Care Sector

Rob Euwals, Annemiek van Vuren, Daniel van Vuuren

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5803

Does Early Life Health Predict Schooling Within Twin Pairs?

Petter Lundborg, Anton Nilsson, Dan-Olof Rooth

published as 'The health-schooling relationship: evidence from Swedish twins' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29, 1191-1215

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5779

Estimating Heterogeneous Take-up and Crowd-Out Responses to Marginal and Non-Marginal Medicaid Expansions

John C. Ham, Serkan Ozbeklik, Lara Shore-Sheppard

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (4), 872-905

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5774

The Roles of Incentives and Voluntary Cooperation for Contractual Compliance

Simon Gächter, Esther Kessler, Manfred Königstein

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5766

Exports, Imports and Profitability: First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises

Joachim Wagner

published in: Open Economies Review, 2012, 23 (5), 747-765

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5757

Mobility, Taxation and Welfare

Sami Bibi, Jean-Yves Duclos, Abdelkrim Araar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5739

Flu Shots, Mammograms, and the Perception of Probabilities

Katherine Grace Carman, Peter Kooreman

published as 'Probability Perceptions and Preventive Health Care' in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2014, 49(1), 43-71

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5720

Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay

Armin Falk, Ingo Menrath, Pablo Emilio Verde, Johannes Siegrist

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5715

Portability of Pension, Health, and Other Social Benefits: Facts, Concepts, Issues

Robert Holzmann, Johannes Koettl

published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, 61 (2), 377– 415,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5665

Returns to Education in Professional Football

René Böheim, Mario Lackner

published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 114 (3), 326-328

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5630

Two Economists’ Musings on the Stability of Locus of Control

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Stefanie Schurer

published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (570), F358-F400

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5527

Exit Exams and High School Dropout

Dave E. Marcotte

published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013, 32 (2), 323-350

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5420

Negative and Positive Assimilation, Skill Transferability, and Linguistic Distance

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2012, 6 (1), 35-55

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5408

Disability and Multi-State Labour Force Choices with State Dependence

Umut Oguzoglu

revised version published in: Economic Record, 2016, 92 (296), 28 - 46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5402

Protestantism and Education: Reading (the Bible) and Other Skills

Timo Boppart, Josef Falkinger, Volker Grossmann

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2014, 52 (2), 874-895

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. 5338

Work, Risk and Health: Differences between Immigrants and Natives in Spain

Meritxell Solé, Luis Diaz-Serrano, Marisol Rodriguez Martinez

published as 'Disparities in Work, Risk, and Health between Immigrants and Native-Born' in: Social Science and Medicine, 179-187

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5326

Child Ability and Household Human Capital Investment Decisions in Burkina Faso

Richard Akresh, Emilie Bagby, Damien de Walque, Harounan Kazianga

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2012, 61 (1), 157-186

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