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567 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13982
The Impact of Age-Specific Minimum Wages on Youth Employment and Education: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis
Meltem Dayioglu-Tayfur, Muserref Kucukbayrak, Semih Tumen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13979
Uncovering the Mechanism(s): Financial Constraints and Wages
Hamzeh Arabzadeh, Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13901
Cognitive Skills, Strategic Sophistication, and Life Outcomes
Eduardo Fe, David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13878
The Impact of Minimum Wages on Wages, Wage Spillovers, and Employment in China: Evidence from Longitudinal Individual-Level Data
Tony Fang, Morley Gunderson, Carl Lin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13747
Do Public Subsidies of Union Membership Increase Union Membership Rates?
Erling Barth, Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13673
The Dutch Labour Market Early on in the COVID-19 Outbreak: Regional Coronavirus Hotspots and the National Lockdown
Wolter Hassink, Guyonne Kalb, Jordy Meekes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13633
When the Minimum Wage Really Bites Hard: Impact on Top Earners and Skill Supply
Terry Gregory, Ulrich Zierahn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13605
How Robots Change Within-Firm Wage Inequality
Erling Barth, Marianne Roed, Pal Schone, Janis Umblijs
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13548
Are Estimates of Non-Standard Employment Wage Penalties Robust to Different Wage Measures? The Case of Zero Hours Contracts in the UK
Egidio Farina, Colin P. Green, Duncan McVicar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13542
Wage Determination and the Bite of Collective Contracts in Italy and Spain: Evidence from the Metalworking Industry
Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Ernesto Villanueva
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13538
Divergence in Labour Force Growth: Should Wages and Prices Grow Faster in Germany?
Thomas Beissinger, Joël Hellier, Martyna Marczak
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13529
Labour Markets in the Time of Coronavirus: Measuring Excess
Jonathan Wadsworth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13499
How the Minimum Wage Affects Training among Apprentices
Kerry L. Papps
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13495
Convergence Over Time or Not? U.S. Wages by Sexual Orientation, 2001-2018
Christopher Jepsen, Lisa Jepsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13490
Training, Wages and a Missing School Graduation Cohort
Matthias Dorner, Katja Görlitz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13454
An Efficiency-Wage Model with Habit Concerns about Wages
Laszlo Goerke
published as "Habit Formation and Wage Determination" in Managerial and Decision Economics, 2021, 42(1), 61-76
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13286
Minimum Wage Analysis Using a Pre-Committed Research Design: Evidence through 2018
Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13282
COVID-19, Stay-At-Home Orders and Employment: Evidence from CPS Data
Louis-Philippe Béland, Abel Brodeur, Taylor Wright
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13260
Telework and Time Use in the United States
Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, Victoria Vernon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13254
The Short-Term Economic Consequences of COVID-19: Occupation Tasks and Mental Health in Canada
Louis-Philippe Béland, Abel Brodeur, Derek Mikola, Taylor Wright
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13244
Wages, Hires, and Labor Market Concentration
Ioana E. Marinescu, Ivan Ouss, Louis-Daniel Pape
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13216
Gender-Specific Duration of Parental Leave and Current Earnings
Benedikt Gerst, Christian Grund
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13185
The Long Run Earnings Effects of a Credit Market Disruption
Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Marta De Philippis, Enrico Sette, Eliana Viviano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13159
The Short-Term Economic Consequences of COVID-19: Exposure to Disease, Remote Work and Government Response
Louis-Philippe Béland, Abel Brodeur, Taylor Wright
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13142
Labor Demand in the Past, Present, and Future
Georg Graetz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13086
Jumping the Queue: Nepotism and Public-Sector Pay
Andri Chassamboulli, Pedro Maia Gomes
published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2017, 142, 331-347
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13042
Public-Sector Compensation over the Life Cycle
Pedro Maia Gomes, Felix Wellschmied
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13033
Does Working at a Start-Up Pay Off?
Daniel Fackler, Lisa Hölscher, Claus Schnabel, Antje Weyh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13003
Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction
Mario Bossler, Thorsten Schank
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12973
The Rise of American Minimum Wages, 1912-1968
Price Fishback, Andrew Seltzer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12936
Financial Constraints and Small and Medium Enterprises: A Review
Sasan Bakhtiari, Robert Breunig, Lisa Magnani, Jacquelyn Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12935
Parental Leave Reform and Long-Run Earnings of Mothers
Corinna Frodermann, Katharina Wrohlich, Aline Zucco
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12885
Building Bridges and Widening Gaps: Wage Gains and Equity Concerns of Labor Market Expansions
Aline Bütikofer, Katrine Vellesen Loken, Alexander Willén
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12871
Public Employment Redux
Pietro Garibaldi, Pedro Maia Gomes, Thepthida Sopraseuth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12715
New Imported Inputs, Wages and Worker Mobility
Italo Colantone, Alessia Matano, Paolo Naticchioni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12714
The Institutional Adjustment Margin to Import Competition: Evidence from Italian Minimum Wages
Alessia Matano, Paolo Naticchioni, Francesco Vona
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12647
Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality
Michael Johannes Böhm, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Felix Schran
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12619
Do Workers Benefit from Resource Booms in Their Home State? Evidence from the Fracking Era
John V. Winters, Zhengyu Cai, Karen Maguire, Shruti Sengupta
published as 'Causal Effects of the Fracking Boom on Long-Term Resident Workers' in: Journal of Region Science, First published: 20 November 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12511
Immigrants and Workplace Training: Evidence from Canadian Linked Employer Employee Data
Benoit Dostie, Mohsen Javdani
published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy & Society, 2020, 59 (2), 275-315.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12449
Upstreamness, Wages and Gender: Equal Benefits for All?
Nicola Gagliardi, Benoît Mahy, Francois Rycx
forthcoming in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12410
Wages and Hours Laws: What Do We Know? What Can Be Done?
Charlie Brown, Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2019, 5 (5), 68-87 (https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.5.04)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12388
Minimum Wage Analysis Using a Pre-Committed Research Design: Evidence through 2017
Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12380
Trade and Worker Deskilling
Rui Costa, Swati Dhingra, Stephen Machin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12351
Efficiency Wages in Cournot-Oligopoly
Marco de Pinto, Laszlo Goerke
published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2019, Vol. 19(4)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12322
The Effects of Work-Life Benefits on Employment Outcomes in Canada: A Multivariate Analysis
Tony Fang, Byron Lee, Andrew R. Timming, Di Fan
forthcoming in: Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations, 2019.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12293
Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor
Daron Acemoglu, Pascual Restrepo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12292
The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labor Demand
Daron Acemoglu, Pascual Restrepo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12270
Learning through Coworker Referrals
Albrecht Glitz, Rune Majlund Vejlin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12248
Language Premium Myth or Fact: Evidence from Migrant Workers of Guangdong, China
Xiahai Wei, Tony Fang, Yang Jiao, Jiahui Li
forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Research, 2019.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12214
Firms and Wage Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe
Iga Magda, Jan Gromadzki, Simone Moriconi
forthcoming in: Journal of Comparative Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12169
Rent Sharing in China: Magnitude, Heterogeneity and Drivers
Wenjing Duan, Pedro S. Martins
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12168
All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Wages and Education for US Immigrants
Simone Bertoli, Steven Stillman
published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, Article 101749
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12093
Wage Flexibility in a Unionized Economy with Stable Wage Dispersion
Mikael Carlsson, Iida Häkkinen Skans, Oskar Nordström Skans
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12089
Labor-Market Concentration and Labor Compensation
Yue Qiu, Aaron Sojourner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12050
The Impact of Mass Migration of Syrians on the Turkish Labor Market
Ege Aksu, Refik Erzan, Murat G. Kirdar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12041
Average Gaps and Oaxaca–Blinder Decompositions: A Cautionary Tale about Regression Estimates of Racial Differences in Labor Market Outcomes
Tymon Sloczynski
forthcoming in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12002
Labor Market Adjustment to Third Party Competition: Evidence from Mexico
Raymond Robertson, Timothy J. Halliday, Sindhu Vasireddy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11996
Wages and the Value of Nonemployment
Simon Jäger, Benjamin Schoefer, Samuel Young, Josef Zweimüller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11963
Informing Employees in Small and Medium Sized Firms about Training: Results of a Randomized Field Experiment
Gerard J. van den Berg, Christine Dauth, Pia Homrighausen, Gesine Stephan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11935
How Important Are Fixed Effects and Time Trends in Estimating Returns to Schooling? Evidence from a Replication of Jacobson, Lalonde and Sullivan, 2005
Susan Dynarski, Brian A. Jacob, Daniel Kreisman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11925
The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages
Nicole Maestas, Kathleen Mullen, David Powell, Till von Wachter, Jeffrey Wenger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11894
Wages, Creative Destruction, and Union Networks
Harald Dale-Olsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11852
Vacancy Durations and Entry Wages: Evidence from Linked Vacancy-Employer-Employee Data
Andreas Kettemann, Andreas I. Mueller, Josef Zweimüller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11828
Wage Floor Rigidity in Industry-Level Agreements: Evidence from France
Denis Fougère, Erwan Gautier, Sébastien Roux
published in: Labour Economics, 2018, Vol. 55, 72-97
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11821
Globalisation and the Gender Earnings Gap: Evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia 1992-2015
Raymond Robertson, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Yevgeniya Savchenko
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11778
Minimum Wages and the Labor Market Effects of Immigration
Anthony Edo, Hillel Rapoport
published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, Article 101753
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11723
Labour Immigration and Union Strength
Henning Finseraas, Marianne Roed, Pal Schone
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11622
The State of the Economy at Graduation, Wages, and Catch-up Paths: Evidence from Switzerland
Elena Shvartsman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11598
Estimating the Impacts of Payroll Taxes: Evidence from Canadian Employer-Employee Tax Data
Jonathan Deslauriers, Benoit Dostie, Robert Gagné, Jonathan Paré
forthcoming in: Canadian Journal of Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11585
Exploiting the Irish Border to Estimate Minimum Wage Impacts in Northern Ireland
Duncan McVicar, Andrew Park, Seamus McGuinness
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 8(2)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11556
Do Startups Provide Employment Opportunities for Disadvantaged Workers?
Daniel Fackler, Michaela Fuchs, Lisa Hölscher, Claus Schnabel
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72 (5), 1123-1148
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11520
L'union fait la force? Evidence for Wage Discrimination in Firms with High Diversity
Elena Grinza, Stephan Kampelmann, Francois Rycx
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2020, 18 (2), 181-211
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11427
Minimum Wage Analysis Using a Pre-Committed Research Design: Evidence through 2016
Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11425
The Sensitivity of Structural Labor Supply Estimations to Modeling Assumptions
Max Loeffler, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11423
A Tale of Two Academic Tracks
Muhammad Asali
revised version published in: Education Economics, 2019, 27 (3), 323-337.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11325
Overeducation Wage Penalty among Ph.D. Holders: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Analysis on Italian Data
Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta, Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera, Francesco Pastore
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11320
Why Women Don't Ask: Gender Differences in Fairness Perceptions of Own Wages and Subsequent Wage Growth
Christian Pfeifer, Gesine Stephan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11314
Value Added, Wages, and Labor Market Flows at the Establishment Level
Christian Merkl, Heiko Stüber
published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2019, 26, 135-142
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11311
New Evidence on Cyclical Variation in Labor Costs in the U.S.
Grace Weishi Gu, Eswar Prasad
forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11293
Economic Pluralism in the Study of Wage Discrimination: A Note
Nick Drydakis
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2018, 39 (4), 631-636
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11246
The Short-Term Distributional Effects of the German Minimum Wage Reform
Marco Caliendo, Alexandra Fedorets, Malte Preuß, Carsten Schröder, Linda Wittbrodt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11191
Probing the Effects of the Australian System of Minimum Wages on the Gender Wage Gap
Barbara Broadway, Roger Wilkins
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11179
Masculine vs Feminine Personality Traits and Women's Employment Outcomes in Britain: A Field Experiment
Nick Drydakis, Katerina Sidiropoulou, Swetketu Patnaik, Sandra Selmanovic, Vasiliki Bozani
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2018, 39 (4), 621-630
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11165
Are School-Provided Skills Useful at Work? Results of the Wiles Test
Jacek Liwiński, Francesco Pastore
forthcoming in: Research in Higher Education
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11114
Occupational Match Quality and Gender over Two Cohorts
John T. Addison, Liwen Chen, Orgul Demet Ozturk
revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2020, 73(3), 730-767.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11111
Union Density, Productivity and Wages
Erling Barth, Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11091
Heterogeneity and the Public Sector Wage Policy
Pedro Maia Gomes
published in: International Economic Review, 2018, 59 (3), 1469 -1489
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11014
Informality, Public Employment and Employment Protection in Developing Countries
Shaimaa Yassin, François Langot
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10981
Measuring Labour Differences between Natives, Non-Natives, and Natives with an Ethnic-Minority Background
Nick Drydakis
forthcoming in: Economics Letters, 2017
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10957
Inclusive Recruitment? Hiring Discrimination against Older Workers
Nick Drydakis, Peter MacDonald, Vasiliki Bozani, Vangelis Chiotis
published in: Arenas, A., Di Marco, D., Munduate, L., Euwema, M.C. (Eds.), Shaping Inclusive Workplaces through Social Dialogue, New York: Springer Publishing, 2017, 87-102
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10894
The Role of the Housing Market in Workers' Resilience to Job Displacement after Firm Bankruptcy
Jordy Meekes, Wolter Hassink
published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2019, 109, 41-65
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10826
The Gender Wage Gap in Developed Countries
Astrid Kunze
published in: Handbook on Women and the Economy, Oxford University Press, (ed.) Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys, and Saul D. Hoffman, 2018.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10806
The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves: Reconciling Conflicting Results
Michael A. Clemens, Jennifer Hunt
published in: ILR Review, 2019, 72 (4), 818-857
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10751
Consumer Loan Response to Permanent Labor Income Shocks: Evidence from a Major Minimum Wage Increase
Ibrahim Ethem Guney, Yavuz Selim Hacihasanoglu, Semih Tumen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10726
Differences in Positions along a Hierarchy: Counterfactuals Based on an Assignment Model
Laurent Gobillon, Dominique Meurs, Sébastien Roux
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10670
The Structure of the Wage Gap for Temporary Workers: Evidence from Australian Panel Data
Inga Lass, Mark Wooden
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, 57(3), 453-478.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10665
Income Support Policies for the Working Poor
Sarah Marchal, Ive Marx, Gerlinde Verbist
Forthcoming in Lohmann, H. and I. Marx (eds) Handbook of Research on In-Work Poverty, Edward Elgar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10638
In-Work Poverty in the United States
Lane Kenworthy, Ive Marx
Forthcoming in Lohmann, H. and I. Marx (eds) Handbook of Research on In-Work Poverty, Edward Elgar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10605
The Labor Market Effects of a Refugee Wave: Synthetic Control Method Meets the Mariel Boatlift
Giovanni Peri, Vasil Yasenov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10579
Short Notice, Big Difference? The Effect of Temporary Employment on Firm Competitiveness across Sectors
Romina Giuliano, Stephan Kampelmann, Benoît Mahy, Francois Rycx
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55 (2), 421-449
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