IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18240

The Wage Effects of Restricting Temporary Foreign Workers: Evidence from Canada’s 2014 TFWP Reforms

Wen-Hao Chen, Tony Fang

published online as 'Restricting temporary foreign labour: evidence on wage effects from Canada’s 2014 policy reform' in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 24 October 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17854

Building Without Income Mixing: Public Housing Quotas in France

Guillaume Chapelle, Laurent Gobillon, Benjamin Vignolles

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17399

Are Alternative Work Arrangements a Substitute for Standard Employment? Evidence from Worker-Level Data

Bernardo Fanfani, Filippo Passerini

forthcoming in: International Journal of Manpower, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17337

Multipliers from a Major Public Sector Relocation: The BBC Moves to Salford

Max Nathan, Henry Overman, Capucine Riom, Maria Sanchez-Vidal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16839

Talking Therapy: Impacts of a Nationwide Mental Health Service in England

Christian Krekel, Sorawoot Srisuma

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16777

Let's Roll Back! The Challenging Task of Regulating Temporary Contracts

Davide Fiaschi, Cristina Tealdi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16694

When Randomization Is Not Feasible: The Case of Parenting Skills Programs

Daniela Del Boca, Chiara D. Pronzato, Lucia Schiavon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16495

Structural Empirical Analysis of Vacancy Referrals with Imperfect Monitoring and the Strategic Use of Sickness Absence

Gerard J. van den Berg, Hanno Foerster, Arne Uhlendorff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16108

The Long-Term Causal Effects of Winning an ERC Grant

Corinna Ghirelli, Enkelejda Havari, Elena Claudia Meroni, Stefano Verzillo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15976

The Employment Effects of Generous and Unconditional Cash Support

Timo Verlaat, Federico Todeschini, Xavier Ramos

published as 'The employment effects of a means-tested guaranteed income policy' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2025, 248, 105420

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15633

The Effect of Preferential Admissions on the College Participation of Disadvantaged Students: The Role of Pre-College Choices

Michela M. Tincani, Fabian Kosse, Enrico Miglino

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15505

Much Ado about Nothing? School Curriculum Reforms and Students' Educational Trajectories

Maurizio Strazzeri, Chantal Oggenfuss, Stefan C. Wolter

published as 'Early exposure to foreign language training and students’ educational trajectories' in: Economics of Education Review, 2025, 108, 102684 (with Enzo Brox)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15176

Sometimes It Works! The Effect of a Reform of the Short Vocational Track on School-to-Work Transition

Simona Lorena Comi, Mara Grasseni, Federica Origo

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2022, 43 (7),1601 -1619

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14852

Misappropriation of R&D Subsidies: Estimating Treatment Effects with One-Sided Noncompliance

Philipp Boeing, Bettina Peters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14486

Active Labour Market Policies for the Long-Term Unemployed: New Evidence from Causal Machine Learning

Daniel Goller, Tamara Harrer, Michael Lechner, Joachim Wolff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14376

Killing Prescriptions Softly: Low Emission Zones and Child Health from Birth to School