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IZA Discussion Paper No. 3364

Explaining the Evolution of Hours Worked and Employment across OECD Countries: An Equilibrium Search Approach

updated version published as 'Explaining labor wedge trends: An equilibrium search approach' in: European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 13 (1), 3 - 35

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3293

Flexibility at the Margin and Labor Market Volatility in OECD Countries

Hector Sala, José I. Silva, Manuel E. Toledo

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (3), 991-1017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3261

Telling the Truth May Not Pay Off: An Empirical Study of Centralised University Admissions in Germany

Sebastian Till Braun, Nadja Dwenger, Dorothea Kübler

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3240

Too Bad to Benefit? Effect Heterogeneity of Public Training Programs

Ulf Rinne, Marc Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff

revised version published as 'Do the skilled and prime-aged unemployed benefit more from training? Effect heterogeneity of public training programmes in Germany' in: Applied Economics, 2011, 43 (25), 3465-3494

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3230

City Air or City Markets: Productivity Gains in Urban Areas

Douglas J. Krupka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3149

Unemployed and Their Caseworkers: Should They Be Friends or Foes?

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner

published in: Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2010, 173 (1), 67-92

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3110

Too Old to Work, Too Young to Retire?

Andrea Ichino, Guido Schwerdt, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Josef Zweimüller

published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2017, 9, 14-29

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3095

Bandwidth Selection and the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Unbalanced Data

Jose C. Galdo, Jeffrey A. Smith, Dan A. Black

published in: Annales d'Economie et Statistique, 2008, 91-92, 189-216

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3092

Does the Order and Timing of Active Labor Market Programs Matter?

Michael Lechner, Stephan Wiehler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3076

Matching Bias in Labor Demand Estimation

Giovanna Aguilar, Silvio Rendon

published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100 (2), 297-299

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3053

An Empirical Assessment of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market

Rute Mendes, Gerard J. van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (6), 919-929

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3051

What Works Best for Getting the Unemployed Back to Work: Employment Services or Small-Business Assistance Programmes? Evidence from Romania

Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published as 'Channels Through Which Public Employment Services and Small-Business Assistance Programs Work' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (4), 458-485

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2962

Divorce and the Excess Burden of Lawyers

Martin Halla

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2957

On the Optimality of a Minimum Wage: New Insights from Optimal Tax Theory

Mathias Hungerbühler, Etienne Lehmann

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (3-4), 464-481

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2885

Which Program for Whom? Evidence on the Comparative Effectiveness of Public Sponsored Training Programs in Germany

Martin Biewen, Bernd Fitzenberger, Aderonke Osikominu, Marie Waller

substantially revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (4), 837-897

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2807

On the Extent of Re-Entitlement Effects in Unemployment Compensation

Javier Ortega, Laurence Rioux

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17(2), 368-382

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2800

What Did All the Money Do? On the General Ineffectiveness of Recent West German Labour Market Programmes

Conny Wunsch, Michael Lechner

published in: Kyklos, 2008, 61 (1), 134-174

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2743

Labor Search and Matching in Macroeconomics

Eran Yashiv

published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (8), 1859-1895

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2740

Kids or Courses? Gender Differences in the Effects of Active Labor Market Policies

Michael Lechner, Stephan Wiehler

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (3), 783-812

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2718

Search Frictions on Product and Labor Markets: Money in the Matching Function

Etienne Lehmann, Bruno Van der Linden

published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2010, 10(1), 56-92

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2716

Becoming an Entrepreneur

Hugo R. Nopo, Patricio Valenzuela

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2698

The Gender Wage Gap in Chile 1992-2003 from a Matching Comparisons Perspective

Hugo R. Nopo

published in: 'New Century, Old Disparities. Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean'. World Bank Publications, 2012

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2679

A Positive Analysis of Targeted Employment Protection Legislation

Juan J. Dolado, Marcel Jansen, Juan F. Jimeno

published in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Topics in Macroeconomics, 2007, 7 (1), Article 14

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2597

Job Creation and Job Destruction over the Life Cycle: The Older Workers in the Spotlight

Jean-Olivier Hairault, Arnaud Chéron, François Langot

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2542

mhbounds - Sensitivity Analysis for Average Treatment Effects

Sascha O. Becker, Marco Caliendo

published in: Stata Journal, 2007, 7(1), 71-83

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2528

Nominal Wage Rigidities in a New Keynesian Model with Frictional Unemployment

Vincent Bodart, Gregory De Walque, Olivier Pierrard, Henri R. Sneessens, Raf Wouters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2479

The Beveridge Curve

Eran Yashiv

published in: L. Blume and S. N. Durlauf (eds), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2470

Did the Hartz Reforms Speed-Up Job Creation? A Macro-Evaluation Using Empirical Matching Functions

René Fahr, Uwe Sunde

revised version published in: German Economic Review, 2009, 10 (3), 284 - 316

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2470

Did the Hartz Reforms Speed-Up Job Creation? A Macro-Evaluation Using Empirical Matching Functions

René Fahr, Uwe Sunde

revised version published in: German Economic Review, 2009, 10 (3), 284 - 316

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2464

Evaluating Active Labor Market Programs in Romania

Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Jacob Benus

published in: Empirical Economics, 2010, 38 (1), 65-84

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2454

Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market

Pierre-André Chiappori, Murat Iyigun, Yoram Weiss

published in American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (5), 1689-1713

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2411

Family and Politics: Does Parental Unemployment Cause Right-Wing Extremism?

Thomas Siedler

revised version published as 'Parental unemployment and young people's extreme right-wing party affinity: evidence from panel data' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2011, 174 (3), 737-758

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2401

Multi-Levels Bargaining and Efficiency in Search Economies

Olivier L'Haridon, Franck Malherbet

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2375

Matching Estimators and the Data from the National Supported Work Demonstration Again

Zhong Zhao

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2363

Active Labour Market Policy in East Germany: Waiting for the Economy to Take Off

Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch

published in: Economics of Transition, 2009, 17 (4), 661-702

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2355

Are Training Programs More Effective When Unemployment Is High?

Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2009, 27 (4), 653-692

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2304

Employment Protection Reform in Search Economies

Olivier L'Haridon, Franck Malherbet

published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53 (3), 255-273

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2286

Does Employment Protection Create Its Own Political Support?

Björn Brügemann

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (2), 369 - 416

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2271

Educational Homogamy: Preferences or Opportunities?

Helena Skyt Nielsen, Michael Svarer

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(4), 1066-86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2263

Hiring Freeze and Bankruptcy in Unemployment Dynamics

Pietro Garibaldi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2221

The Effects of Marginal Employment on Subsequent Labour Market Outcomes

René Böheim, Andrea Weber

published in: German Economic Review, 2011, 12 (2), 165 - 181

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2202

Does the Quality of Training Programs Matter? Evidence from Bidding Processes Data

Alberto Chong, Jose C. Galdo

updated version published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (6), 970-986

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2194

A Search Model of Unemployment and Inflation

Etienne Lehmann

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (1), 245-266.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2151

Base Period, Qualifying Period and the Equilibrium Rate of Unemployment

Elke J. Jahn, Thomas Wagner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2149

From Temporary Help Jobs to Permanent Employment: What Can We Learn from Matching Estimators and their Sensitivity?

Andrea Ichino, Fabrizia Mealli, Tommaso Nannicini

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2008, 23 (3), 305-327

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2141

The Effects of Labor Market Policies in an Economy with an Informal Sector

James Albrecht, Lucas Navarro, Susan Vroman

published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (539), 1105 - 1129

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2121

Get Training or Wait? Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in West Germany

Bernd Fitzenberger, Aderonke Osikominu, Robert Völter

revised version published in Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2008, 91-92, 321-355

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2109

Deregulating Job Placement in Europe: A Microeconometric Evaluation of an Innovative Voucher Scheme in Germany

Henrik Winterhager, Anja Heinze, Alexander Spermann

published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (4), 505-517

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2073

Employment Subsidies and Substitutable Skills: An Equilibrium Matching Approach

Gabriele Cardullo, Bruno Van der Linden

published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2007, 53 (4), 375-404

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2029

Endogenous Labor Market Participation and the Business Cycle

Christian Haefke, Michael Reiter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2024

Testing Theories of Job Creation: Does Supply Create Its Own Demand?

Mikael Carlsson, Stefan Eriksson, Nils Gottfries

revised version published as 'Product market imperfections and employment dynamics' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2013, 65 (2), 447-470

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2019

The Happiness Gains from Sorting and Matching in the Labor Market

Simon Luechinger, Alois Stutzer, Rainer Winkelmann

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2010, 30, 233–251

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1931

Evaluating the Performance of the Search and Matching Model

Eran Yashiv

published in: European Economic Review, 2006, 50 (4), 909-936

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1896

The Role of Real Wage Rigidity and Labor Market Frictions for Unemployment and Inflation Dynamics

Kai Christoffel, Tobias Linzert

published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2010, 42 (7), 1435-1446

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1873

Sensitivity of Propensity Score Methods to the Specifications

Zhong Zhao

revised version published in: Economics Letters , 2008, 98 (3), 309-319

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1868

Employment Effects of the Provision of Specific Professional Skills and Techniques in Germany

Bernd Fitzenberger, Stefan Speckesser

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1862

Employers' Search and the Efficiency of Matching

Michele Pellizzari

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2011, 49(1), 25-53

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1861

The Todaro Paradox Revisited

Yves Zenou

revised version published as 'Rural-Urban Migration and Unemployment: Theory and Policy Implications' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2011, 51 (1), 65 - 82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1857

Returning to Work from Injury: Longitudinal Evidence on Employment and Earnings

Sarah Crichton, Steven Stillman, Dean R. Hyslop

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 50 (1), 763-83

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1848

Evaluating the Dynamic Employment Effects of Training Programs in East Germany Using Conditional Difference-in-Differences

Annette Bergemann, Bernd Fitzenberger, Stefan Speckesser

revised version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2009, 24 (5), 797-823

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1823

The Relevance of Post-Match LTC: Why Has the Spanish Labor Market Become as Volatile as the US One?

Hector Sala, José I. Silva

fully revised version published in: Investigaciones Económicas, 2009, 33 (2), 145-178

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1821

Household Time Allocation and Modes of Behavior: A Theory of Sorts

Daniela Del Boca, Christopher Flinn

published as "Endogeneous Household Interaction" in: Journal of Econometrics, 2012, 166 (1), 49-6

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1786

Francois Fontaine

published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2008, 32(12), 3960-3977

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1744

Bargaining and Specialization in Marriage

Murat Iyigun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1733

Firm Productivity Dispersion and the Matching Role of UI Policy

Tomer Blumkin, Yossi Hadar, Eran Yashiv

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1722

Bargaining Frictions and Hours Worked

Stéphane Auray, Samuel Danthine

revised published as "Bargaining Frictions, Labor Income Taxation and Economic Performance" in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (6), 778-802

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1717

Evaluating Search and Matching Models Using Experimental Data

Jeremy Lise, Shannon Seitz, Jeffrey A. Smith

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:16

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1692

Don't Give Up On Me Baby: Spousal Correlation in Smoking Behaviour

Andrew E. Clark, Fabrice Etilé

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2006, 25 (5), 958-978

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1684

The Curse and Blessing of Training the Unemployed in a Changing Economy: The Case of East Germany After Unification

Michael Lechner, Ruth Miquel, Conny Wunsch

published in: German Economic Review, 2007, 8 (4), 468-509

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1660

Regional Dependencies in Job Creation: An Efficiency Analysis for Western Germany

René Fahr, Uwe Sunde

published in: Applied Economics, 2006, 38 (10), 1193-1206

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1653

The Microeconometric Estimation of Treatment Effects - An Overview

Marco Caliendo, Reinhard Hujer

published in: Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv / Journal of the German Statistical Society, 2006, 90 (1), 197-212

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1649

Education, Matching and the Allocative Value of Romance

Alison L. Booth, Melvyn Coles

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, 8(4), 744-775

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1606

Do Government Subsidies Stimulate Training Expenditure? Microeconometric Evidence from Plant Level Data

Holger Görg, Eric Strobl

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2006, 72(4), 860-876

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1588

Some Practical Guidance for the Implementation of Propensity Score Matching

Marco Caliendo, Sabine Kopeinig

published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2008, 22(1), 31-72

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1564

Dual Employment Protection Legislation: A Framework for Analysis

Juan J. Dolado, Marcel Jansen, Juan F. Jimeno

published in: Volume VIII of Series on Central Banking, Analysis and Economic Policies: Labour Markets and Institutions, Jorge E. Restrepo and Andrea Tokman (eds.), Central Bank of Chile, 2005

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1512

The Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany: A Microeconometric Evaluation

Marco Caliendo, Reinhard Hujer, Stephan L. Thomsen

published in: Millimet, D., Smith, J. and Vytlacil, E. (eds.), Advances in Econometrics, Volume 21: Estimating and Evaluating Treatment Effects in Econometrics, 2008, 383-430,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1507

The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational Attainment in Germany

Michael Fertig, Jochen Kluve

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1465

Equilibrium Search Unemployment with Explicit Spatial Frictions

Etienne Wasmer, Yves Zenou

published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (2), 143-165

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1460

Optimal Redistributive Taxation in a Search Equilibrium Model

Mathias Hungerbühler, Etienne Lehmann, Alexis Parmentier, Bruno Van der Linden

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2006, 73(3), 743-767

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1443

Long-Run Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training in West Germany

Michael Lechner, Ruth Miquel, Conny Wunsch

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (4), 742-784

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1388

Do Foreign Firms Really Pay Higher Wages? Evidence from Different Estimators

Pedro S. Martins

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1378

The Use of Alternative Work Arrangements by the Jobless: Evidence from the CAEAS/CPS

John T. Addison, Christopher J. Surfield

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2006, 27(2), 149-162

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1301

Assessing the Performance of Matching Algorithms When Selection into Treatment Is Strong

Boris Augurzky, Jochen Kluve

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2006, 22 (3), 533-557

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1301

Assessing the Performance of Matching Algorithms When Selection into Treatment Is Strong

Boris Augurzky, Jochen Kluve

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2006, 22 (3), 533-557

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1282

Do Workers Really Benefit From Their Social Networks?

Francois Fontaine

published in: Recherches Économique de Louvain / Louvan Economic Reivew, 2008, 74 (1), 5-31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1172

On the Optimality of Search Matching Equilibrium When Workers Are Risk Averse

Etienne Lehmann, Bruno Van der Linden

published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2007, 9 (5), 867-884

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1078

Michael Gerfin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1062

Dynamic Treatment Assignment – The Consequences for Evaluations Using Observational Data

Peter Fredriksson, Per Johansson

published in: Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, 2008, 26 (4), 435–445

IZA Discussion Paper No. 981

Matching as a Tool to Decompose Wage Gaps

Hugo R. Nopo

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (2), 290-299

IZA Discussion Paper No. 968

Efficiency in a Matching Model with Heterogeneous Agents: Too Many Good or Bad Jobs?

Maite Blázquez Cuesta, Marcel Jansen

revised version published as "Search, mismatch and unemployment" in: European Economic Review, 2008, 52 (3), 498-526

IZA Discussion Paper No. 967

The Effect of Disability on Labour Market Outcomes in Germany: Evidence from Matching

Michael Lechner, Rosalia Vazquez-Alvarez

IZA Discussion Paper No. 949

Minimum Wage Effects on Labor Market Outcomes under Search with Bargaining

Christopher Flinn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 923

Reducing Start-Up Costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labour Market

Uwe Dulleck, Paul Frijters, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2006, 108 (2); 317-337.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 915

Macroeconomic Impacts of ALMP on the Matching Process in West Germany

Reinhard Hujer, Christopher Zeiss

IZA Discussion Paper No. 903

Evaluating the Causal Effects of Foreign Acquisition on Domestic Skilled and Unskilled Wages

Sourafel Girma, Holger Görg

revised version published as 'Evaluating the foreign ownership wage premium using a difference-in-differences matching approach' in: Journal of International Economics, 2007, 72(1), 97-112

IZA Discussion Paper No. 838

Government Grants, Plant Survival and Employment Growth: A Micro-Econometric Analysis

Sourafel Girma, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl

revised version published as 'The effect of government grants on plant survival: A micro-econometric analysis' in: International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2007, 25(4), 701-720

IZA Discussion Paper No. 806

Multiple Equilibria and Minimum Wages in Labor Markets with Informational Frictions and Heterogeneous Production Technologies

Gerard J. van den Berg

published in: International Economic Review, 2003, 44 (4), 1337-1357

IZA Discussion Paper No. 805

The Effect of Search Frictions on Wages

Gerard J. van den Berg, Aico van Vuuren

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (6), 875-885

IZA Discussion Paper No. 786

Using State Administrative Data to Measure Program Performance

Peter R. Mueser, Kenneth Troske, Alexey Gorislavsky

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007, 89 (4), 761–783.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 772

Search Intensity, Cost of Living and Local Labor Markets in Britain

Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2006, 36(2), 227-248

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