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IZA Discussion Paper No. 16072
The Motherhood Wage and Income Traps
Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer, Emmanuel Thibault
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16059
Why Do Labor Unions Advocate for Minimum Wage Increases?
Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16042
Monetary Rewards, Hierarchy Level and Working Hours as Drivers of Employees' Self-Evaluations
Christian Grund, Alexandra Soboll
published in: Review of Managerial Science, 2025, 19, 729–756
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16031
The Impact of a Minimum Wage Increase on Hours Worked: Heterogeneous Effects by Gender and Sector
Paul Redmond, Seamus McGuinness
published in Economica, 2025, 92, (365), 84-106
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16024
The Quality-Adjusted Cyclical Price of Labor
Mark Bils, Marianna Kudlyak, Paulo Lins
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 42 (S1), S13–S59
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16024
The Quality-Adjusted Cyclical Price of Labor
Mark Bils, Marianna Kudlyak, Paulo Lins
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 42 (S1), S13–S59
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16015
Labor Demand Responses to Changing Gas Prices
Mario Bossler, Alexander Moog, Thorsten Schank
published in: BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2023, 23 (4), 1073–1080
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16014
Does Policy Advocacy Generate Good PR? Evidence from Labor Unions and Minimum Wages
Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16013
Workers' Perceptions of Earnings Growth and Employment Risk
Gizem Koşar, Wilbert van der Klaauw
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16001
Public-Sector Employment, Wages and Education Decisions
Andri Chassamboulli, Pedro Maia Gomes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15973
Gender Wage Gap among Young Adults: A Comparison across British Cohorts
Francesca Foliano, Alex Bryson, Heather Joshi, Bożena Wielgoszewska, David Wilkinson
published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 91, 102614
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15962
Does Offshoring Shape Labor Market Imperfections? A Comparative Analysis of Belgian and Dutch Firms
Sabien Dobbelaere, Catherine Fuss, Mark Vancauteren
substantially revised version forthcoming as 'Offshoring and labor market power: Comparing Belgian and Dutch firms' in: Industrial Relations
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15962
Does Offshoring Shape Labor Market Imperfections? A Comparative Analysis of Belgian and Dutch Firms
Sabien Dobbelaere, Catherine Fuss, Mark Vancauteren
substantially revised version forthcoming as 'Offshoring and labor market power: Comparing Belgian and Dutch firms' in: Industrial Relations
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15921
Recovering Income Distribution in the Presence of Interval-Censored Data
Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza, Fernando Rios-Avila, Flavia Sacco-Capurro
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2024, 22, 1039 - 1060
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15917
Did COVID-19 Deteriorate Mismatch in the Japanese Labor Market?
Yudai Higashi, Masaru Sasaki
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15910
Labor Market Concentration and Wages: Incumbents versus New Hires
Andrea Bassanini, Cyprien Batut, Eve Caroli
published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 81, 102338.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15903
Globalization and Firm Performance
Luis A. V. Catão, Pedro de Faria, António Martins, Miguel Portela
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15901
The Labor Market Effects of Restricting Refugees' Employment Opportunities
Achim Ahrens, Andreas Beerli, Dominik Hangartner, Selina Kurer, Michael Siegenthaler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15880
Employee-Owned Firms and the Careers of Young Workers
Gabriel Burdin, Jose Garcia-Louzao
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2025, 93, 102686
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15844
Is There a Union Wage Premium in Germany and Which Workers Benefit Most?
Marina Bonaccolto-Töpfer, Claus Schnabel
published in: Economies, 2023, 11 (2), 50
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15823
Minimum Wage in Germany: Countering the Wage and Employment Gap between Migrants and Natives?
Kai Ingwersen, Stephan L. Thomsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15822
The Gendered Crisis: Livelihoods and Mental Well-Being in India during COVID-19
Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Sanchari Roy
published in: Feminist Economics, 2023, 29 (3), 40–74.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15810
Equilibrium Effects of Payroll Tax Reductions and Optimal Policy Design
Thomas Breda, Luke Haywood, Haomin Wang
published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 91, 102646
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15801
Staggered Contracts and Unemployment during Recessions
Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Luis Díez-Catalán, Ernesto Villanueva
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15801
Staggered Contracts and Unemployment during Recessions
Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Luis Díez-Catalán, Ernesto Villanueva
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15770
Moving up the Social Ladder? Wages of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants from Developing Countries
Kevin Pineda-Hernández, François Rycx, Mélanie Volral
forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15752
The Impact of ICT and Robots on Labour Market Outcomes of Demographic Groups in Europe
Maciej Albinowski, Piotr Lewandowski
published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 87, 102481
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15740
Can Temporary Wage Incentives Increase Formal Employment? Experimental Evidence from Mexico
Martin Abel, Eliana Carranza, Kimberly Geronimo, Maria Elena Ortega
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15740
Can Temporary Wage Incentives Increase Formal Employment? Experimental Evidence from Mexico
Martin Abel, Eliana Carranza, Kimberly Geronimo, Maria Elena Ortega
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15737
Commitment and the Dynamics of Household Labor Supply
Alexandros Theloudis, Jorge Velilla, Pierre-André Chiappori, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15702
Occupational Tasks and Wage Inequality in Germany: A Decomposition Analysis
Miriam Koomen, Uschi Backes-Gellner
published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102284
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15701
The Price and Employment Response of Firms to the Introduction of Minimum Wages
Sebastian Link
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105236
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15695
Recession and Deflation?
David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson
published in: Review of Keynesian Economics, 2023, 11 (2), 234-251
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15688
Different Degrees of Skill Obsolescence across Hard and Soft Skills and the Role of Lifelong Learning for Labor Market Outcomes
Tobias Schultheiss, Uschi Backes-Gellner
published in: Industrial Relations, 2023, 62 (3), 257 - 287
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15685
The Minimum Wage and Union Membership among Minimum Wage Workers: Why Do Unions Advocate for Minimum Wage Increases?
Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15675
The Wage Elasticity of Recruitment
Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn, Alan Manning, Michael Oberfichtner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15660
Decent Wage Floors in Europe: Does the Minimum Wage Directive Get It Right?
Henri Haapanala, Ive Marx, Zachary Parolin
published in: Journal of European Social Policy, 2023, 33 (4), 421 - 435
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15644
Long Social Distancing
José María Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15639
Women's Careers and Family Formation
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Damian Clarke, Selma Walther
published in: Klaus. F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer Nature, 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15632
Technical Change, Task Allocation, and Labor Unions
Martyna Marczak, Thomas Beissinger, Franziska Brall
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15631
Opening the Labor Market to Qualified Immigrants in Absence of Linguistic Barriers
Nicolò Gatti, Fabrizio Mazzonna, Raphaël Parchet, Giovanni Pica
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15619
'The Double Dividend of Training' – Labor Market Effects of Work-Related Continuous Education in Switzerland
Stefan Denzler, Jens Ruhose, Stefan C. Wolter
forthcoming in: Economics of Education Review, 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15617
Employer Cooperation, Productivity, and Wages: New Evidence from Inter-Firm Formal Network Agreements
Francesco Devicienti, Elena Grinza, Alessandro Manello, Davide Vannoni
published in: Economica, 2025, 92 (365), 1 - 41
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15601
Labor Market Insurance Policies in the XXI Century
Tito Boeri, Pierre Cahuc
published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2023, 15 (1), 1-22
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. 15567
A Field Study of Age Discrimination in the Workplace: The Importance of Gender and Race. Pay the Gap
Nick Drydakis, Anna Paraskevopoulou, Vasiliki Bozani
published in: Employee Relations, 2023, 45 (2), 304-327
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15566
The Employment Effects of Working Time Reductions: Sector-Level Evidence from European Reforms
Cyprien Batut, Andrea Garnero, Alessandro Tondini
published in: Industrial Relations, 2023, 62 (1), 217 - 232
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15565
Global Job Quality: Evidence from Wage Employment across Developing Countries
Shoghik Hovhannisyan, Veronica Montalva-Talledo, Tyler Remick, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Kersten Stamm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15534
Using Distribution Regression Difference-in-Differences to Evaluate the Effects of a Minimum Wage Introduction on the Distribution of Hourly Wages and Hours Worked
Martin Biewen, Bernd Fitzenberger, Marian Rümmele
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15516
Returns to Education in the Public and Private Sectors: Europe and Central Asia
Claudio Montenegro, Harry Anthony Patrinos
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