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330 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17943
Weathering the Storms? Minimum-Income Benefits as a Crisis Response
Herwig Immervoll, Felizia Pasteiner
also available in: OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers series
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17881
Do Financial Incentives for Training and Caseworker Meetings Enhance Re-Employment?
Tomi Kyyrä, Jouko Kullervo Verho
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17869
Welfare Conditionality in the OECD and in Latin America: A Comparative Perspective
Herwig Immervoll, Florencia Antía, Carlo Knotz, Cecilia Rossel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17839
Deter and Deteriorate: The Effects of Application Processing Times on Welfare Receipt and Employment
Heike Vethaak, Ernst-Jan de Bruijn, Marike Knoef, Pierre Koning
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17839
Deter and Deteriorate: The Effects of Application Processing Times on Welfare Receipt and Employment
Heike Vethaak, Ernst-Jan de Bruijn, Marike Knoef, Pierre Koning
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17786
The Effects of State Paid Sick Leave Mandates on Parental Childcare Time
J. Catherine Maclean, Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia
forthcoming in: Journal of Health Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17688
The Labor Market Effects of Pregnancy Accommodation Laws
Emily Battaglia, Jessica H. Brown
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17600
Taxes Today, Benefits Tomorrow
Thomas Le Barbanchon
forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17538
What Is the Value of the Child and Dependent Care Credit?
Gabrielle Pepin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17477
How Reliable Are Social Safety Nets in Situations of Acute Economic Need? Extended Estimates for 14 OECD Countries
Raphaela Hyee, Herwig Immervoll, Rodrigo Fernandez, Jongmi Lee, Karl Handscomb
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17456
Universal Child Benefit and Child Poverty: The Role of Fertility Adjustments
Jan Gromadzki
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17348
How Does Potential Unemployment Insurance Benefit Duration Affect Reemployment Timing and Wages?
Rahel Felder, Hanna Frings, Nikolas Mittag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17182
Work Meaningfulness and Effort
Femke Cnossen, Milena Nikolova
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17100
The Failed History of Quarantines, and Its Implications for Public Health
Sanjeev Sabhlok, Paul Frijters, Gigi Foster, Jay Bhattacharya, Ari R Joffe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16966
Changing Fertility and Heterogeneous Motherhood Effects: Revisiting the Effects of a Parental Benefits Reform
Bernd Fitzenberger, Arnim Seidlitz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16910
Small Children, Big Problems: Childbirth and Crime
Diogo Britto, Roberto Hsu Rocha, Paolo Pinotti, Breno Sampaio
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16904
Combining Part-Time Work and Social Benefits: Empirical Evidence from Finland
Salla Kalin, Tomi Kyyrä, Tuomas Matikka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16839
Talking Therapy: Impacts of a Nationwide Mental Health Service in England
Christian Krekel, Sorawoot Srisuma
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16435
Educational Reforms and Their Positive Externalities on the Labor Market
Fabio Elsenberger, Michael Jan Kendzia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16435
Educational Reforms and Their Positive Externalities on the Labor Market
Fabio Elsenberger, Michael Jan Kendzia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16435
Educational Reforms and Their Positive Externalities on the Labor Market
Fabio Elsenberger, Michael Jan Kendzia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16435
Educational Reforms and Their Positive Externalities on the Labor Market
Fabio Elsenberger, Michael Jan Kendzia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16370
The Dynastic Benefits of Early Childhood Education: Participant Benefits and Family Spillovers
Frederik H. Bennhoff, Jorge Luis García, Duncan Ermini Leaf
published in: Human Capital, 2024, 18 (1), 44-73.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16370
The Dynastic Benefits of Early Childhood Education: Participant Benefits and Family Spillovers
Frederik H. Bennhoff, Jorge Luis García, Duncan Ermini Leaf
published in: Human Capital, 2024, 18 (1), 44-73.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16308
Back to Edgeworth? Estimating the Value of Time Using Hedonic Experiences
Christian Krekel, George MacKerron
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16299
Short-Term Labor Supply Response to the Timing of Transfer Payments: Evidence from the SNAP Program
Mindy Marks, Silvia Prina, Redina Tahaj
published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 91, 102646
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16238
Maternity Benefits and Marital Stability after Birth: Evidence from the Soviet Baltic Republics
Elizabeth Brainerd, Olga Malkova
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36 (4), 2309-2345
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16186
Labor Supply Effects of a Universal Cash Transfer
Jan Gromadzki
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105248
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16124
Long-Run Consequences of Informal Elderly Care and Implications of Public Long-Term Care Insurance
Thorben Korfhage, Björn Fischer
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 96, 102884
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15981
Blowin' in the Wind of an Invisible Killer: Long-Term Exposure to Ozone and Respiratory Mortality in the United States
Ziheng Liu, Xi Chen, Qinan Lu
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, 53 (2025)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15978
The Micro and Macro Effects of Changes in the Potential Benefit Duration
Jonas Jessen, Robin Jessen, Ewa Galecka-Burdziak, Marek Góra, Jochen Kluve
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15978
The Micro and Macro Effects of Changes in the Potential Benefit Duration
Jonas Jessen, Robin Jessen, Ewa Galecka-Burdziak, Marek Góra, Jochen Kluve
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15771
Promoting Equity through Equitable Risk Tradeoffs
Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi
published in: Journal of Benefit Cost Analysis, 2023, 14 (1), 8-34
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15747
Do Job Seekers Understand the UI Benefit System (And Does It Matter)?
Steffen Altmann, Sofie Cairo, Robert Mahlstedt, Alexander Sebald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15592
The Fiscal Effect of Immigration: Reducing Bias in Influential Estimates
Michael A. Clemens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15582
Tax Incentives for High Skilled Migrants: Evidence from a Preferential Tax Scheme in the Netherlands
Lisa Marie Timm, Massimo Giuliodori, Paul Muller
forthcoming as 'Tax Incentives for Migrants With Mid-Level Earnings: Evidence From the Netherlands' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15573
Three Criteria for Evaluating Social Programs
Jorge Luis García, James J. Heckman
published in: Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2022, 13 (3), 281 - 286
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15472
The Benefits and Costs of U.S. Employer COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates
Maddalena Ferranna, Lisa A. Robinson, Daniel Cadarette, Michael R. Eber, David E. Bloom
published in: Risk Analysis, 2023, 43 (10), 2053-2068
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15399
COVID-19 Private Pension Withdrawals and Unemployment Tenures
Tristram Sainsbury, Robert Breunig, Timothy Watson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15351
Take-up of Social Benefits
Wonsik Ko, Robert A. Moffitt
published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15317
The Economic and Fiscal Effects on the United States from Reduced Numbers of Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Michael A. Clemens
published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2022, 38 (3), 449-486.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15289
De-facto Gaps in Social Protection for Standard and Non-standard Workers: An Approach for Monitoring the Accessibility and Levels of Income Support
Herwig Immervoll, Rodrigo Fernandez, Raphaela Hyee, Jongmi Lee, Daniele Pacifico
elements published in: Left on your own? Social protection when labour markets are in flux, OECD, 2019, and in two OECD country studies: Korea, 2023, United States, 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15279
The Full Returns to the Choice of Occupation and Education
Andrew E. Clark, Maria Cotofan, Richard Layard
published as 'Do wages underestimate the inequality in workers’ rewards? The joint distribution of job quality and wages across occupations' in: Economica, 2024, 91 (362), 497-546
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15232
How Reliable Are Social Safety Nets? Value and Accessibility in Situations of Acute Economic Need
Herwig Immervoll, Raphaela Hyee, Rodrigo Fernandez, Jongmi Lee
updated and extended version published as: IZA DP No. 17477, 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15188
On Criteria for Evaluating Social Programs
Jorge Luis García, James J. Heckman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15117
Compensating Differentials for Occupational Health and Safety Risks: Implications of Recent Evidence
Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2023, 50, 83-116
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14825
Higher Education Expansion and Supply of Teachers in China
Fengyan Dai, Lei Xu, Yu Zhu
published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 71, 101732
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14819
Redistributive Effect and the Progressivity of Taxes and Benefits: Evidence for the UK, 1977-2018
Nicolas Herault, Stephen P. Jenkins
published in: Journal of Income Distribution, 2022, 31 (3 - 4), 10 - 45
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14752
Two Decades of Welfare Reforms in Australia: How Did They Affect Single Mothers and Their Children?
Alexandra de Gendre, Stefanie Schurer, Angela Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14601
Welfare Effects of Unemployment Benefits When Informality Is High
Hannah Liepmann, Clemente Pignatti
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 229, 105032.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14525
The Dynastic Benefits of Early Childhood Education
Jorge Luis García, Frederik H. Bennhoff, Duncan Ermini Leaf, James J. Heckman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14525
The Dynastic Benefits of Early Childhood Education
Jorge Luis García, Frederik H. Bennhoff, Duncan Ermini Leaf, James J. Heckman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14525
The Dynastic Benefits of Early Childhood Education
Jorge Luis García, Frederik H. Bennhoff, Duncan Ermini Leaf, James J. Heckman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14395
Employers' Willingness to Invest in the Training of Temporary Workers: A Discrete Choice Experiment
Davey Poulissen, Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge, Annemarie Künn-Nelen
revised version published as 'Employers’ willingness to invest in the training of temporary versus permanent workers: A discrete choice experiment' in: Labour Economics, 2023, 84, 102430
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14360
The Gender Gap in Income and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Karina Doorley, Cathal O'Donoghue, Denisa Maria Sologon
published in: Social Sciences, 2022, 11 (7), 311
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14340
The Effects of Shortening Potential Benefit Duration: Evidence from Regional Cut-Offs and a Policy Reform
Ewa Galecka-Burdziak, Marek Góra, Jonas Jessen, Robin Jessen, Jochen Kluve
updated version available as IZA DP 15978
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14340
The Effects of Shortening Potential Benefit Duration: Evidence from Regional Cut-Offs and a Policy Reform
Ewa Galecka-Burdziak, Marek Góra, Jonas Jessen, Robin Jessen, Jochen Kluve
updated version available as IZA DP 15978
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14274
The Effect of Child Benefits on Financial Difficulties and Spending Habits: Evidence from Poland's Family 500+ Program
Stefani Milovanska-Farrington
published in: International Economics and Economic Policy, 2022, 19, 719 - 739
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14248
Labor Demand Response to Labor Supply Incentives: Lessons from the German Mini-Job Reform
Gabriela Galassi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14189
The Lock-in Effects of Part-Time Unemployment Benefits
Helène Benghalem, Pierre Cahuc, Pierre Villedieu
published online as 'The Lock-in Effects of Information on Part-time Unemployment Benefits' in: Journal of Human Resources, 06 October 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14181
Addressing the COVID-19 Pandemic: Comparing Alternative Value Frameworks
Maddalena Ferranna, J.P. Sevilla, David E. Bloom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13990
Technology, Labour Market Institutions and Early Retirement: Evidence from Finland
Naomitsu Yashiro, Tomi Kyyrä, Hyunjeong Hwang, Juha Tuomala
published in: Economic Policy, 2022, 37, 811-849
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13990
Technology, Labour Market Institutions and Early Retirement: Evidence from Finland
Naomitsu Yashiro, Tomi Kyyrä, Hyunjeong Hwang, Juha Tuomala
published in: Economic Policy, 2022, 37, 811-849
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13786
Tax-Benefit Systems and the Gender Gap in Income
Karina Doorley, Claire Keane
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2024, 22, 285 - 309
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13684
The Effect of Job Search Requirements on Welfare Receipt
Nicolas Herault, Ha Vu, Roger Wilkins
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (3), 635 - 657
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13632
The Forgotten Numbers: A Closer Look at COVID-19 Non-Fatal Valuations
Thomas J. Kniesner, Ryan Sullivan
published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Special Issue: Valuation and Risk Perceptions of the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020, 61(2), 155-176
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13589
Can Childcare Benefits Increase Maternal Employment? Evidence from Childcare Benefits Policy in Japan
Shinsuke Asakawa, Masaru Sasaki
published as 'Can child benefit reductions increase maternal employment? Evidence from Japan' in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2022, 66, 101231
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13539
Designing Disability Insurance Reforms: Tightening Eligibility Rules or Reducing Benefits?
Andreas Haller, Stefan Staubli, Josef Zweimüller
published in: Econometrica, 2024, 92 (1), 79-110.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13484
Universal Credit and Crime
Rocco d'Este, Alex Harvey
published as 'The Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reforms: Universal Credit, Financial Insecurity, and Crime' in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2024, 40 (1), 129 - 181
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13379
If Sick-Leave Becomes More Costly, Will I Go Back to Work? Could It Be Too Soon?
Olivier Marie, Judit Vall Castello
published as 'Sick Leave Cuts and (Unhealthy) Returns to Work' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41, 923-956.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13373
Allocating Subsidies for Private Investments to Maximize Jobs Impacts
David A. Robalino, Jose M. Romero, Ian Walker
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13341
The Effect of Unemployment Benefits on the Duration of Unemployment Insurance Receipt: New Evidence from a Regression Kink Design in Missouri, 2003-2013
David Card, Andrew C. Johnston, Pauline Leung, Alexandre Mas, Zhuan Pei
published in: American Economics Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2015, 105 (5), 126-130
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13331
Potential Unemployment Insurance Duration and Labor Supply: The Individual and Market-Level Response to a Benefit Cut
Andrew C. Johnston, Alexandre Mas
pubished in: Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126 (6), 2480-2522
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13132
Mandated Sick Pay: Coverage, Utilization, and Welfare Effects
J. Catherine Maclean, Stefan Pichler, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13112
What Makes Work Meaningful and Why Economists Should Care about It
Milena Nikolova, Femke Cnossen
published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101847
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12982
Dynamic Incentives in Retirement Earnings-Replacement Benefits
Andres Dean, Sebastian Fleitas, Mariana Zerpa
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (3), 762–777.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12957
Efficiency Versus Equity in the Provision of In-Kind Benefits: Evidence from Cost Containment in the California WIC Program
Katherine Meckel, Maya Rossin-Slater, Lindsey Uniat
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12892
Analysing Tax-Benefit Reforms in the Netherlands: Using Structural Models and Natural Experiments
Henk-Wim de Boer, Egbert L. W. Jongen
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36 (1), 179-209
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12608
Catching up Is Hard to Do: Undergraduate Prestige, Elite Graduate Programs, and the Earnings Premium
Joni Hersch
published in: Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2019, 10 (3), 503 - 553
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12608
Catching up Is Hard to Do: Undergraduate Prestige, Elite Graduate Programs, and the Earnings Premium
Joni Hersch
published in: Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2019, 10 (3), 503 - 553
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12502
Does Tax-Benefit Linkage Matter for the Incidence of Social Security Contributions?
Antoine Bozio, Thomas Breda, Julien Grenet
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12322
The Effects of Work-Life Benefits on Employment Outcomes in Canada: A Multivariate Analysis
Tony Fang, Byron Lee, Andrew R. Timming, Di Fan
published in: Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations, 2019, 74(2), 323-351.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12280
Behavioral Economics and the Value of a Statistical Life
Thomas J. Kniesner
published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2019, 58(2-3), 207-217
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12260
Hartz IV and the Decline of German Unemployment: A Macroeconomic Evaluation
Brigitte Hochmuth, Britta Kohlbrecher, Christian Merkl, Hermann Gartner
published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 127, 2021, 104114
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12121
What Aspects of Formality Do Workers Value? Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Bangladesh
Minhaj Mahmud, Italo A. Gutierrez, Krishna B. Kumar, Shanthi Nataraj
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12106
Delivering Parenting Interventions through Health Services in the Caribbean
Susan P. Walker, Christine Powell, Susan M. Chang, Helen Baker-Henningham, Sally Grantham-McGregor, Marcos Vera-Hernandez, Florencia López Bóo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12064
Employer and Employee Preferences for Worker Benefits: Evidence from a Matched Survey on the Bangladesh Informal Sector
Krishna B. Kumar, Minhaj Mahmud, Shanthi Nataraj, Yoon Y. Cho
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12017
Learning from the
Olivier B. Bargain, Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo, Prudence Magejo, Miracle Benhura
published as 'Income Distribution and the Potential of Redistributive Systems in Africa: A Decomposition Approach ' in: Journal of African Economies, 2022, 31 (4), 293 - 328
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11996
Wages and the Value of Nonemployment
Simon Jäger, Benjamin Schoefer, Samuel Young, Josef Zweimüller
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020, 135 (4), 1905-1963.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11962
The Labeling Effect of a Child Benefits System: Evidence from Russia 1994-2015
Louise Grogan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11960
Migration with Pension Reform Expectations
Marek Góra, Anna Ruzik-Sierdzińska
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11850
The Social Cost of Unemployment: The Spanish Labour Market from a Social Welfare Approach
Lucía Gorjón, Sara de la Rica, Antonio Villar
published as 'The Cost of Unemployment from a Social Welfare Approach: The Case of Spain and Its Regions' in: Social Indicators Research, 2020, 150, 955–976
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11794
Parental Leave Policies and Socio-Economic Gaps in Child Development: Evidence from a Substantial Benefit Reform Using Administrative Data
Mathias Huebener, Daniel Kühnle, C. Katharina Spieß
published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101754
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11769
The Growing American Health Penalty: International Trends in the Employment of Older Workers with Poor Health
Ben Baumberg Geiger, René Böheim, Thomas Leoni
published in: Social Science Research, 82, 18–32, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11704
How Demanding Are Activation Requirements for Jobseekers?
Herwig Immervoll, Carlo Knotz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11667
Financial Incentives and Earnings of Disability Insurance Recipients: Evidence from a Notch Design
Philippe Ruh, Stefan Staubli
revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019, 11(2), 269-300
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11621
Inequality in an OLG Economy with Heterogeneous Cohorts and Pension Systems
Joanna Tyrowicz, Krzysztof Makarski, Marcin Bielecki
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2018, 16 (4), 583-606
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. 11311
New Evidence on Cyclical Variation in Labor Costs in the U.S.
Grace Weishi Gu, Eswar Prasad
published as 'New Evidence on Cyclical Variation in Average Labor Costs in the United States ' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (5), 966–979.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11310
The Relationship between Union Membership and Net Fiscal Impact
Aaron Sojourner, José Pacas
published in: Industrial Relations, 2019, 58 (1), 86-107
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