IZA Discussion Papers

published in: John A. Bishop and Rafael Salas (eds.), Inequality, Mobility, and Segregation: Essays in Honor of Jacques Silber (Research in Economic Inequality, Vol 20), 2012, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 237-283

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4605

Offshoring and Firm Performance: Self-Selection, Effects on Performance, or Both?

Joachim Wagner

published in: Review of World Economics, 2011, 147 (2), 217-247

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4602

Interrelated Dynamics of Health and Poverty in Australia

Hielke Buddelmeyer, Lixin Cai

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4599

You Can't Be Happier than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce

Cahit Guven, Claudia Senik, Holger Stichnoth

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012, 82 (1), 110-130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4554

What Do Unions Do to Temporary Employment?

Andrea Salvatori

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4508

Policy Relevant Heterogeneity in the Value of Statistical Life: New Evidence from Panel Data Quantile Regressions

Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi, James P. Ziliak

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2010, 40 (1), 15-32

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4441

The KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel: Design and Research Potential

Helmut Fryges, Sandra Gottschalk, Karsten Kohn

published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2010, 130 (1), 117-131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4438

Do Foreigners Replace Native Immigrants? Evidence from a Panel Cointegration Analysis

Herbert Brücker, Stefano Fachin, Alessandra Venturini

published in: Economic Modelling, 2010, 2011, 28 (3), 1078 - 1089

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4390

Life Satisfaction and Relative Income: Perceptions and Evidence

Guy Mayraz, Gert G. Wagner, Jürgen Schupp

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4369

Health Inequality over the Life-Cycle

Timothy J. Halliday

published in: BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2011, 11(3), Article 5

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4337

Time and Income Poverty: An Interdependent Multidimensional Poverty Approach with German Time Use Diary Data

Joachim Merz, Tim Rathjen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4336

Smoking Persistence Across Countries: An Analysis Using Semi-Parametric Dynamic Panel Data Models with Selectivity

Dimitris Christelis, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

revised version published as 'Smoking Persistence Across Countries: a Panel Data Analysis' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (5), 1077 - 1093

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4311

Increased Opportunity to Move Up the Economic Ladder? Earnings Mobility in EU: 1994-2001

Denisa Maria Sologon, Cathal O'Donoghue

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4242

Forecasting with Spatial Panel Data

Badi H. Baltagi, Georges Bresson, Alain Pirotte

published in: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 2012, 56 (11), 3381–3397

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4213

The Role of "Skill Enhancing Trade" in Brazil: Some Evidence from Microdata

Bruno Cesar Araújo, Francesco Bogliacino, Marco Vivarelli

published in: CEPAL Review, 2012, 105, 157-171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4164

Does Offshoring of Materials and Business Services Affect Employment? Evidence from a Small Open Economy

Bernhard Michel, Francois Rycx

published in: Applied Economics, 2012, 44 (2), 229 - 251

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4154

Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-Employment

Peter Haan, Michal Myck

revised version published as 'Dynamics of Health and Labour Market Risks' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2009, 28 (6), 1116-1125

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4151

Policy, Institutional Factors and Earnings Mobility

Denisa Maria Sologon, Cathal O'Donoghue

published in: The European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2011, 8(2), pp. 175-202

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4114

Understanding Inter-Industry Wage Structures in the Euro Area

Véronique Genre, Karsten Kohn, Daphne Momferatou

published in: Applied Economics, 2011, 43 (11), 1299 - 1313

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4090

Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare and Increase Work?

Martin Huber, Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch, Thomas Walter

published as 'Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare Dependency and Increase Employment?' in: German Economic Review, 2011, 12 (2), 182-204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4076

Subsidies and Exports in Germany: First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data

Sourafel Girma, Holger Görg, Joachim Wagner

published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2009, 55 (3), 179-195

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4066

Changing Fertility Preferences One Migrant at a Time: The Impact of Remittances on the Fertility Rate

George S Naufal, Carlos Vargas-Silva

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4041

Agency and Communication in IMF Conditional Lending: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Silvia Marchesi, Laura Sabani, Axel Dreher

published as 'Read my lips: The role of information transmission in multilateral reform design ' in: Journal of International Economics. 2011, 84 (1), 86 - 98

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4038

International Financial Integration and Real Exchange Rate Long-Run Dynamics in Emerging Countries: Some Panel Evidence

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Thouraya Hadj Amor Essid, Christophe Rault

published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2011, 20 (6), 789 - 808

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4012

Earnings Dynamics and Inequality among Men across 14 EU Countries, 1994-2001: Evidence from ECHP

Denisa Maria Sologon, Cathal O'Donoghue

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3854

Higher Productivity in Importing German Manufacturing Firms: Self-Selection, Learning from Importing, or Both?

Alexander Vogel, Joachim Wagner

published in: Review of World Economics, 2009, 145 (4), 641-665

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3783

The Determinants of Regional Migration in Great Britain: A Duration Approach

Martyn J. Andrews, Ken Clark, William Whittaker

revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2011, 174(1), 127-153.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3782

On the Bilateral Trade Effects of Free Trade Agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 Countries

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Christophe Rault, Anamaria Sova, Robert Sova

published in: Review of World Economics, 2009, 145 (2), 189-206

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3749

Am I Missing Something? The Effects of Absence from Class on Student Performance

Wiji Arulampalam, Robin Naylor, Jeremy Smith

revised version publishd in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (4), 363-375

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3710

Is Being 'Soft on Crime' the Solution to Rising Crime Rates? Evidence from Germany

Horst Entorf, Hannes Spengler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3698

A Dynamic Analysis of the Demand for Health Insurance and Health Care

Jonneke Bolhaar, Maarten Lindeboom, Bas van der Klaauw

published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (4), 669-690

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3647

Enlarging the EMU to the East: What Effects on Trade?

Ansgar H. Belke, Julia Spies

published in: Empirica, 2008, 35 (4), 369-389

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3559

Long-Run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities

Michael Lechner

published as 'Long-run labour market and health effects of individual sports activities' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2009, 28 (4), 839 - 854

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3520

Parents’ Incomes and Children’s Outcomes: A Quasi-Experiment

Randall K. Q. Akee, William Copeland, Gordon Keeler, Adrian Angold, Jane E. Costello

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, 2 (1), 86-115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3487

Fixed Effects Bias in Panel Data Estimators

Hielke Buddelmeyer, Paul H. Jensen, Umut Oguzoglu, Elizabeth Webster

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3463

Heterogeneity, State Dependence and Health

Timothy J. Halliday

published in: Econometrics Journal, 2008, 11(3), 499-516

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3423

Migration and the Wage Curve: A Structural Approach to Measure the Wage and Employment Effects of Migration

Herbert Brücker, Elke J. Jahn

revised version published as: 'Migration and Wage-Setting: Reassessing the Labor Market Effects of Migration' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2011, 113 (2), 286-317

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3338

R&D and Productivity: Testing Sectoral Peculiarities Using Micro Data

Lesley Potters, Raquel Ortega-Argilés, Marco Vivarelli

published in: Empirical Economics, 2011, 41 (3), 817-839

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3256

Does Job Satisfaction Improve the Health of Workers? New Evidence Using Panel Data and Objective Measures of Health

Justina A.V. Fischer, Alfonso Sousa-Poza

published in: Health Economics, 2009, 18 (1), 71-89

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3254

Panel Unit Root Tests in the Presence of a Multifactor Error Structure

M. Hashem Pesaran, L. Vanessa Smith, Takashi Yamagata

revised version published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2013, 175(2), 94-115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3234

Income Volatility and Health

Timothy J. Halliday

substantially revised version published as IZA DP No. 6367, February 2012

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3231

Joining Panel Data with Cross-Sections for Efficiency Gains: An Application to a Consumption Equation for Nicaragua

Randolph Luca Bruno, Marco Stampini

published in: Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 2009, 68 (2), 149-173

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3231

Joining Panel Data with Cross-Sections for Efficiency Gains: An Application to a Consumption Equation for Nicaragua

Randolph Luca Bruno, Marco Stampini

published in: Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 2009, 68 (2), 149-173

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3229

Physicians' Multitasking and Incentives: Empirical Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Etienne Dumont, Bernard Fortin, Nicolas Jacquemet, Bruce S. Shearer

revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27(6), 1436-1450

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3206

Infinite Dimensional VARs and Factor Models

Alexander Chudik, M. Hashem Pesaran

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2011, 163 (1), 4-22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3170

Born To Be Mild? Cohort Effects Don’t (Fully) Explain Why Well-Being Is U-Shaped in Age

Andrew E. Clark

published in: Mariano Rojas (ed.), The Economics of Happiness: How the Easterlin Paradox Transformed our Understanding of Well-being and Progress, New York: Springer, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3108

Well-Being and Ill-Being: A Bivariate Panel Data Analysis

Wang-Sheng Lee, Umut Oguzoglu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3107

Pinning Down the Value of Statistical Life

Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi, Christopher Woock, James P. Ziliak

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (1) , 74-87

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3092

Does the Order and Timing of Active Labor Market Programs Matter?

Michael Lechner, Stephan Wiehler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3043

Item Non-Response and Imputation of Annual Labor Income in Panel Surveys from a Cross-National Perspective

Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka

published in: Janet A. Harkness et al. (eds): Survey Methods in Multicultural, Multinational, and Multiregional Contexts, Wiley & Sons, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3039

Simplified Implementation of the Heckman Estimator of the Dynamic Probit Model and a Comparison with Alternative Estimators

Wiji Arulampalam, Mark Stewart

completely revised published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 71 (5), 659-681

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3032

Large Panels with Common Factors and Spatial Correlations

M. Hashem Pesaran, Elisa Tosetti

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2011, 161 (2), 182-202

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3003

A Positive Theory of the Earnings Relationship of Unemployment Benefits

Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg, Heinrich W. Ursprung

published in: Public Choice, 2010, 145 (1-2), 137-163

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2975

The Fertility Effect of Catastrophe: U.S. Hurricane Births

Richard W. Evans, Yingyao Hu, Zhong Zhao

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 1 - 36 [Details & Download]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2931

Firms and Early Retirement: Offers That One Does Not Refuse

Lutz Bellmann, Florian Janik

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2915

Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants in Germany: The Importance of Heterogeneity and Attrition Bias

Michael Fertig, Stefanie Schurer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2897

A Dynamic Mincer Equation with an Application to Portuguese Data

Corrado Andini

published in: Applied Economics, 2010, 42 (16), 2091-2098

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2887

Purchasing Power Parity for Developing and Developed Countries: What Can We Learn from Non-Stationary Panel Data Models?

Imed Drine, Christophe Rault

published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2008, 22 (4), 752-773

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2868

How Did the Elimination of the Earnings Test above the Normal Retirement Age Affect Retirement Expectations?

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Arthur van Soest

published in: Fiscal Studies, 2008, 29 (2), 197-231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2867

Dynamics of Work Limitation and Work in Australia

Umut Oguzoglu

revised version published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (6), 656-669

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2851

Modeling International Trade Flows Between Eastern European Countries and OECD Countries

Christophe Rault, Robert Sova, Anamaria Sova

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2009, 16(15), 1547-1554

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2827

Understanding the Drivers of Poverty Dynamics in Australian Households

Hielke Buddelmeyer, Sher Verick

published in: Economic Record, 2008, 84 (266), 310-321

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2810

East-West Migration and Gender: Is there a “Double Disadvantage” vis-à-vis Stayers?

Anzelika Zaiceva

substantially revised version published as "East-West Migration and Gender: Is There a Differential Effect for Migrant Women?" in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (2), 443-454

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2800

What Did All the Money Do? On the General Ineffectiveness of Recent West German Labour Market Programmes

Conny Wunsch, Michael Lechner

published in: Kyklos, 2008, 61 (1), 134-174

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2793

Lumpy Price Adjustments: A Microeconometric Analysis

Emmanuel Dhyne, Catherine Fuss, M. Hashem Pesaran, Patrick Sevestre

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2756

Diagnostic Tests of Cross Section Independence for Nonlinear Panel Data Models

Cheng Hsiao, M. Hashem Pesaran, Andreas Pick

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2740

Kids or Courses? Gender Differences in the Effects of Active Labor Market Policies

Michael Lechner, Stephan Wiehler

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (3), 783-812

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2693

Short-Run and Long-Term Effects of Childbirth on Mothers’ Employment and Working Hours Across Institutional Regimes: An Empirical Analysis Based on the European Community Household Panel

Johannes Geyer, Viktor Steiner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2693

Short-Run and Long-Term Effects of Childbirth on Mothers’ Employment and Working Hours Across Institutional Regimes: An Empirical Analysis Based on the European Community Household Panel

Johannes Geyer, Viktor Steiner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2690

Bias Corrections for Two-Step Fixed Effects Panel Data Estimators

Iván Fernández-Val, Francis Vella

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2011, 163 (2), 144-162

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2651

Full-time Schooling, Part-time Schooling, and Wages: Returns and Risks in Portugal

Corrado Andini, Pedro T. Pereira

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2635

Trade Union Membership and Works Councils in West Germany

Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg

published in: Industrielle Beziehungen, 2007, 14 (2), 154-175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2619

The Effects of Marriage on Couples’ Allocation of Time Between Market and Non-Market Hours

Abdel Rahmen El Lahga, Nicolas Moreau

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2561

Self-Employment: A Way to End Unemployment? Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data

Daniela Glocker, Viktor Steiner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2543

Stunting and Selection Effects of Famine: A Case Study of the Great Chinese Famine

Tue Gorgens, Xin Meng, Rhema Vaithianathan

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 97 (1), 99 - 111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2523

Is It the Way She Moves? New Evidence on the Gender Wage Growth Gap in the Early Careers of Men and Women in Italy

Emilia Del Bono, Daniela Vuri

published as "Job mobility and the gender wage gap in Italy" in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (1), 130-142

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2519

Reconciling the Estimates of Potential Migration into the Enlarged European Union

Anzelika Zaiceva

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2489

Macroeconomic Effects of Short-Term Training Measures on the Matching Process in Western Germany

Reinhard Hujer, Christopher Zeiss

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2482

From No Pay to Low Pay and Back Again? A Multi-State Model of Low Pay Dynamics

Arne Uhlendorff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2472

A Dynamic Model of Demand for Private Health Insurance in Ireland

Claire Finn, Colm P. Harmon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2411

Family and Politics: Does Parental Unemployment Cause Right-Wing Extremism?

Thomas Siedler

revised version published as 'Parental unemployment and young people's extreme right-wing party affinity: evidence from panel data' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2011, 174 (3), 737 - 758

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2363

Active Labour Market Policy in East Germany: Waiting for the Economy to Take Off

Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch

published in: Economics of Transition, 2009, 17 (4), 661-702

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2355

Are Training Programs More Effective When Unemployment Is High?

Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2009, 27 (4), 653-692

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2351

Wage Dynamics and Promotions Inside and Between Firms

António Dias da Silva, Bas van der Klaauw

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (4), 1513-1548