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116 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7776
The Cyclical Behaviour of Employers' Monopsony Power and Workers' Wages
Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn, Claus Schnabel
substantially revised version published as "Do employers have more monopsony power in slack labor markets?" in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2018, 71(3), 676-704
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7770
Bride Price and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from Rural Senegal
Linguère Mously Mbaye, Natascha Wagner
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2017, 53 (6). Open access
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7742
Inference with Difference-in-Differences Revisited
Mike Brewer, Thomas F. Crossley, Robert Joyce
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7585
Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India
Karthik Muralidharan, Nishith Prakash
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9 (3), 321- 350
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7280
Mincer Equation, Power Law of Learning, and Efficient Education Policy
Wolfram F. Richter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7241
Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from France
Luis Garicano, Claire Lelarge, John Van Reenen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7031
The Efficacy and Efforts of Interest Groups in Post Elections Policy Formation
Gil S. Epstein, Yosef Mealem, Shmuel Nitzan
published in: Economics of Governance, 2013, 14(1), 77-105
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7029
Use and Abuse of Authority: A Behavioral Foundation of the Employment Relation
Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, Klaus M. Schmidt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6847
It's a Boy! Women and Non-Monetary Benefits from a Son in India
Laura V Zimmermann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6842
Electricity Prices, River Temperatures and Cooling Water Scarcity
Grant R. McDermott, Øivind Anti Nilsen
revised version published in: Land Economics, 2014 90 (1), 131-148.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6648
Is It Money or Brains? The Determinants of Intra-Family Decision Power
Graziella Bertocchi, Marianna Brunetti, Costanza Torricelli
revised version published as 'Who Holds the Purse Strings within the Household? The Determinants of Intra-family Decision Making' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, 101, 65-86
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6637
Survey of Models on Demand, Customer Base-Line and Demand Response and Their Relationships in the Power Market
Almas Heshmati
published in: Journal of Economics Surveys, 2014, 28(5), 862-888.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6590
Moral Hypocrisy, Power and Social Preferences
Aldo Rustichini, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 107, 10-24.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6347
Empowering Women through Education and Influence: An Evaluation of the Indian Mahila Samakhya Program
Eeshani Kandpal, Kathy Baylis, Mary P. Arends-Kuenning
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6165
Bargaining Over Labor: Do Patients Have Any Power?
Joshua S. Gans, Andrew Leigh
published in: Economic Record, 2012, 88 (281), 182 - 194
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6115
The German Manufacturing Sector is a Granular Economy
Joachim Wagner
published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2012, 19 (17), 1663-1665
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6090
A Critique and Reframing of Personality in Labour Market Theory: Locus of Control and Labour Market Outcomes
Eileen Trzcinski, Elke Holst
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6048
Foreign Direct Investment, Black Economic Empowerment and Labour Productivity in South Africa
Anagaw Derseh Mebratie, Arjun S. Bedi
published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2013, 22 (1), 94-115
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6029
Intrahousehold Distribution and Child Poverty: Theory and Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire
Olivier Bargain, Olivier Donni, Prudence Magejo
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 107, 262-276
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5989
Cross-Assignment Discrimination in Pay: A Test Case of Major League Baseball
Örn B. Bodvarsson, John G. Sessions
published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 28. 84-95
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5896
How Policy Changes Affect Shareholder Wealth: The Case of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster
André Betzer, Markus Doumet, Ulf Rinne
published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2013, 20 (8), 799-803 [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5896
How Policy Changes Affect Shareholder Wealth: The Case of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster
André Betzer, Markus Doumet, Ulf Rinne
published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2013, 20 (8), 799-803 [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5875
Let's Take Bargaining Models Seriously: The Decline in Union Power in Germany, 1992-2009
Boris Hirsch, Claus Schnabel
substantially revised version published as 'What Can We Learn from Bargaining Models about Union Power? The Decline in Union Power in Germany, 1992-2009' in: Manchester School, 2014, 82 (3), 347-362
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5845
Contractual Dualism, Market Power and Informality
Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, Ravi Kanbur
revised version forthcoming in: Economic Journal [Online First]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5637
Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?
Matthias Doepke, Michèle Tertilt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5518
Collective Bargaining under Non-Binding Contracts
Sabien Dobbelaere, Roland Iwan Luttens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5438
Mother's Autonomy and Child Welfare: A New Measure and Some New Evidence
Tanika Chakraborty, Prabal K. De
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5043
Employer Preferences and Social Policy: Business and the Development of Job Security Regulations in Germany since World War I
Patrick Emmenegger, Paul Marx
revised version published as 'Business and the Development of Job Security Regulations: The Case of Germany' in: Socio-Economic Review, 2011, 9 (4), 729-756
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4791
Increasing Income Inequality: Productivity, Bargaining and Skill-Upgrading
Anders Frederiksen, Odile Poulsen
published as 'Income Inequality: The Consequences of Skill-Upgrading - When Firms Have Hierarchical Organizational Structures' in Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (2), 1224-1239
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4525
Testing the Correlated Random Coefficient Model
James J. Heckman, Daniel Schmierer, Sergio Urzua
published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2010, 158 (2), 177-203
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4307
The Effect of Power Outages and Cheap Talk on Willingness to Pay to Reduce Outages
Fredrik Carlsson, Peter Martinsson, Alpaslan Akay
revised version published in: Energy Economics, 2011, 33 (5), 790 - 798
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4288
Linking Individuals and Societies
Guillermina Jasso
published in: Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 2010, 34 (1), 1-51
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4096
Integration, Labor Market Regulation, Lobbying, and Technological Change
Tapio K. Palokangas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4091
Economic Growth with Political Lobbying and Wage Bargaining
Tapio K. Palokangas
revised version published in: IFAC Papers on Control Applications of Optimization 7 (2010)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3850
A New Model of Wage Determination and Wage Inequality
Guillermina Jasso
published in: Rationality and Society, 2009, 21 (1), 113-168
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3773
Institutions, Social Norms, and Bargaining Power: An Analysis of Individual Leisure Time in Couple Households
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Leslie S. Stratton
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (3), 325-343
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3753
Incorporating Cost in Power Analysis for Three-Level Cluster Randomized Designs
Spyros Konstantopoulos
published in: Evaluation Review, 2009, 33 (4), 335-357
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3752
Two to Tangle: Financial Development, Political Instability and Economic Growth in Argentina (1896–2000)
Nauro F. Campos, Menelaos G. Karanasos, Bin Tan
published in: Journal of Banking and Finance, 2012, 36 (1), 290 - 304
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3685
Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment
Paul Grout, Wendelin Schnedler
improved version is available here
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3464
In Search of Gender Bias in Household Resource Allocation in Rural China
Lina Song
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3460
Shall We Kill or Enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar Model
Guillermina Jasso
published in: Advances in Group Processes, 2008, 25, 327-343
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3451
Efficient Tax Policy Ranks Education Higher Than Saving
Wolfram F. Richter
revised version based on DP 2328 and DP 3451 published as "Taxing education in Ramsey's tradition" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (11-12), 1254-1260
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3320
Empowerment Zones, Neighborhood Change and Owner Occupied Housing
Douglas J. Krupka, Douglas S. Noonan
revision published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2009, 39(4), 386-396
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3243
A New Unified Theory of Sociobehavioral Forces
Guillermina Jasso
published in: European Sociological Review, 2008, 24 (4), 411-434
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3087
Growth, Volatility and Political Instability: Non-Linear Time-Series Evidence for Argentina, 1896–2000
Nauro F. Campos, Menelaos G. Karanasos
published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100 (1), 135-137
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. 2817
The Terms and Relations of Comparison, Referential, and Relative Processes
Guillermina Jasso
published in: Andreas Diekmann, Klaus Eichner, Peter Schmidt, and Thomas Voss (eds.), Rational Choice: Theoretische Analyse und Empirische Resultate. Festschrift für Karl-Dieter Opp. Wiesbaden, Germany: VS Verlag, 2008
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2749
Two Types of Inequality: Inequality Between Persons and Inequality Between Subgroups
Guillermina Jasso, Samuel Kotz
published in: Sociological Methods and Research, 2008, 37 (1), 31-74
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2641
Theoretical Unification in Justice and Beyond
Guillermina Jasso
published in: Social Justice Research, 2007, 20(3), 336-371
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2412
The Power of the Test in Three-Level Designs
Spyros Konstantopoulos
published in: Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2008, 1(1), 1-23
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