IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12849

What Does a Job Candidate's Age Signal to Employers?

Hannah Van Borm, Ian Burn, Stijn Baert

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11125

Human Capital, Signaling, and Employer Learning: What Insights Do We Gain from Regression Discontinuity Designs?

Georg Graetz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10911

University Selectivity, Initial Job Quality, and Longer-Run Salary

Russell Weinstein

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9649

Does It Pay to Care? Prosocial Engagement and Employment Opportunities

Stijn Baert, Suncica Vujic

revised version published as 'Does it Pay to Care? Volunteering and Employment Opportunities' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (3), 819 - 836 [online]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9597

Local Signals and the Returns to Foreign Education

Massimiliano Tani

new version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 61, 174-190.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9536

Hiring a Homosexual, Taking a Risk? A Lab Experiment on Employment Discrimination and Risk Aversion

Stijn Baert

revised version published as 'Hiring a Gay Man, Taking a Risk?: A Lab Experiment on Employment Discrimination and Risk Aversion' in: Journal of Homosexuality, , 2018, 65.(8), 1015 - 1031 [Online Access]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8826

A Question of Degree: The Effects of Degree Class on Labor Market Outcomes

Andy Feng, Georg Graetz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8602

Do Female Executives Make a Difference? The Impact of Female Leadership on Gender Gaps and Firm Performance

Luca Flabbi, Mario Macis, Andrea Moro, Fabiano Schivardi

published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (622), 2390-2423

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8319

Is Ethnic Discrimination Due to Distaste or Statistics?

Stijn Baert, Ann-Sophie De Pauw

revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 125 (2), 270 - 273 [Online Access]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8185

The Gender-Career Estimation Gap

Lutz C. Kaiser

published in: M. Connerley, J. Wu (eds.), The Handbook on Well-Being of Working Women, Springer 2016, pp. 429-448

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5961

Why Are So Few Females Promoted into CEO and Vice-President Positions? Danish Empirical Evidence 1997-2007

Nina Smith, Valdemar Smith, Mette Verner

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (2), 380-408

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5474

The Consequences of Being Different: Statistical Discrimination and the School-to-Work Transition

Barbara Mueller, Stefan C. Wolter

published as 'The Role of Hard-to-Obtain Information on Ability for the School-to-Work Transition' in: Empirical Economics, 2014, 46(4), 1447-1471

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3810

Is It Your Foreign Name or Foreign Qualifications? An Experimental Study of Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring

Magnus Carlsson, Dan-Olof Rooth

revised version published as: "Experimental evidence of discrimination in the hiring of first- and second-generation immigrants", Labour, 2010, 24(3), 263-278

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3533

Analysing the Gender Wage Gap Using Personnel Records of a Large German Company

Christian Pfeifer, Tatjana Sohr

published in: Labour, 2009, 23 (2), 257-282

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2305

Statistical Discrimination in Labor Markets: An Experimental Analysis

David L. Dickinson, Ronald L. Oaxaca

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2009, 76 (1), 16-31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1944

Diagnosing Discrimination: Stock Returns and CEO Gender

Justin Wolfers

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2006, 4 (2-3), 531-541