IZA Policy Paper No. 118

Can Conditional Transfers Eradicate Child Marriage?

Sajeda Amin, Niaz Asadullah, Sara Hossain, Zaki Wahhaj

published in: Economic and Political Weekly, 2017, 52(6)

IZA Policy Paper No. 117

How Big is the Gig? Assessing the Preliminary Evidence on the Effects of Digitalization on the Labor Market

Werner Eichhorst, Holger Hinte, Ulf Rinne, Verena Tobsch

published in: Management Revue, 2017, 28 (3), 298-318 [Details & Download]

IZA Policy Paper No. 116

Flexible and Secure Labour Market Transitions: Towards Institutional Capacity Building in the Digital Economy

Günther Schmid

IZA Policy Paper No. 115

Inequality, Public Wealth, and the Federal Shareholder

Giacomo Corneo

IZA Policy Paper No. 114

Whither Activation Policies? Reflections for the Future

John P. Martin

IZA Policy Paper No. 113

"Tongue Tide": The Economics of Language Offers Important Lessons for How Europe Can Best Integrate Migrants

Barry R. Chiswick

forthcoming in: Finance and Development

IZA Policy Paper No. 112

In Europe We Trust?

Jo Ritzen, Jasmina Haas

IZA Policy Paper No. 111

Do Bilateral Social Security Agreements Deliver on the Portability of Pensions and Health Care Benefits? A Summary Policy Paper on Four Migration Corridors Between EU and Non-EU Member States

Robert Holzmann

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies , 2017, 5(17): 1-35.

IZA Policy Paper No. 110

Funding Mechanisms for Financing Vocational Training: An Analytical Framework

Adrian Ziderman

IZA Policy Paper No. 109

The Nordic Welfare Model in an Open European Labor Market

Bernt Bratsberg, Knut Røed

published in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2016, 6 (2), 19-42

IZA Policy Paper No. 108

Managing Immigration in the 21st Century

Barry R. Chiswick

forthcoming in: Borjas/Chiswick, Foundations of Migration Economics (edited by Constant/Zimmermann), IZA Prize Book Series, OUP

IZA Policy Paper No. 107

European Universities during the Crisis: A Public Policy Perspective, with a Brief Excursion to the US

Jo Ritzen

IZA Policy Paper No. 106

Labour Mobility and Labour Market Adjustment in the EU

Alfonso Arpaia, Aron Kiss, Balazs Palvolgyi, Alessandro Turrini

IZA Policy Paper No. 105

Precarious and Less Well Paid? Wage Differences between Permanent and Fixed-term Contracts across the EU

António Dias da Silva, Alessandro Turrini

IZA Policy Paper No. 104

Absenteeism, Pension Reforms and Grandmothers

Flavia Coda Moscarola, Elsa Fornero, Steinar Strom

IZA Policy Paper No. 103

Youth Unemployment

Niall O'Higgins

published in: Andy Furlong (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood, 2nd Edn, 2017

IZA Policy Paper No. 102

Do We Have to Be Afraid of the Future World of Work?

Werner Eichhorst

IZA Policy Paper No. 101

Public Debt Sustainability in Africa: Building Resilience and Challenges Ahead

Mthuli Ncube, Zuzana Brixiova

published in: Development Policy Review, 2015, 33 (5), 555 - 580

IZA Policy Paper No. 100

The Big Trade-Off in the World of Labor

Klaus F. Zimmermann

IZA Policy Paper No. 99

Low Pay as an Alternative to Public Direct Job Creation? Lessons from the German Case

Werner Eichhorst

published in: Korea Employment Information Service (ed.), Active Labour Market Policies in OECD Countries. 2014

IZA Policy Paper No. 98

The Institutional and Economic Limits to Bargaining Decentralization in Italy

Francesco D'Amuri, Cristina Giorgiantonio

IZA Policy Paper No. 97

A Feasible Unemployment-Based Shock Absorber for the Euro Area

Andrea Brandolini, Francesca Carta, Francesco D'Amuri

published in: the Journal of Common Market Studies, 2016, 54 (5), 1123-1141

IZA Policy Paper No. 96

Old-Age Financial Protection in Malaysia: Challenges and Options

Robert Holzmann

IZA Policy Paper No. 95

Youth Unemployment in India: From a European and Transitional Labour Market Point of View

Günther Schmid

IZA Policy Paper No. 94

Addressing Access and Behavioral Constraints through Social Intermediation Services: A Review of Chile Solidario and Red Unidos

Adriana Camacho, Wendy Cunningham, Jamele Rigolini, Veronica Silva

IZA Policy Paper No. 93

Labor Market Integration of New Immigrants in Spain

Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Natalia Nollenberger

published: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, February 2016

IZA Policy Paper No. 92

A Joint Unemployment Insurance for the European Economic and Monetary Union?

Werner Eichhorst, Florian Wozny

IZA Policy Paper No. 91

Is Unemployment Structural or Cyclical? Main Features of Job Matching in the EU after the Crisis

Alfonso Arpaia, Aron Kiss, Alessandro Turrini

IZA Policy Paper No. 90

Evidence-Based Scientific Policy Advice

Klaus F. Zimmermann

published as 'Evidenzbasierte wissenschaftliche Politikberatung' in: Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2014, 134, 259-270

IZA Policy Paper No. 89

Earnings Inequality

Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel

published in: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, 2015, Vol. 6, 765-772

IZA Policy Paper No. 88

A Decade of Labour Market Reforms in the EU: Insights from the LABREF Database

Alessandro Turrini, Gabor Koltay, Fabiana Pierini, Clarisse Goffard, Aron Kiss

IZA Policy Paper No. 87

Does the Calculation Hold? The Fiscal Balance of Migration to Denmark and Germany

Holger Hinte, Klaus F. Zimmermann

IZA Policy Paper No. 86

Why Minimum Wage Increases Are a Poor Way to Help the Working Poor

Richard V. Burkhauser

IZA Policy Paper No. 85

The Parameters of a National Minimum Hourly Wage

Philippe Askenazy

Adapted version published in: ifo DICE Report, 2019, 16(04), pages 09-13

IZA Policy Paper No. 84

Activation and Active Labour Market Policies in OECD Countries: Stylized Facts and Evidence on their Effectiveness

John P. Martin

IZA Policy Paper No. 83

Using Online Platforms for Competence Tests: A Component of the Demographic Policy of Germany

Alexander Spermann

published as "Ist die OECD-Kompetenzrevolution in Deutschland angekommen?" in: Das Demographie Netzwerk (ed.), Lust am Lernen – ein Leben lang, 2014, 8-18

IZA Policy Paper No. 82

Inclusive Growth: What Future for the European Social Model?

Günther Schmid

IZA Policy Paper No. 81

Globalisation and the Future of the Welfare State

Yu-Fu Chen, Holger Görg, Dennis Görlich, Hassan Molana, Catia Montagna, Yama Temouri

IZA Policy Paper No. 80

Youth Unemployment in Mediterranean Countries

Werner Eichhorst, Franziska Neder

published in: IEMed Mediterranean Yearbook 2014, 265-271

IZA Policy Paper No. 79

Estimating Workforce Disposal in the Italian Labour Market

Bruno Contini, Elisa Grand

IZA Policy Paper No. 78

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Sectoral and Macroeconomic Perspectives for Germany, the EU and the US

Tony Irawan, Paul J. J. Welfens

published in: International Economics and Economic Policy, 2014, 11(3), 293-328

IZA Policy Paper No. 77

Non-Standard Employment Patterns in the Netherlands

Anne C. Gielen, Trudie Schils

IZA Policy Paper No. 76

Education System Reform in Pakistan: Why, When, and How?

Mehnaz Aziz, David E. Bloom, Salal Humair, Emmanuel Jimenez, Larry Rosenberg, Zeba Sathar

IZA Policy Paper No. 75

Labor Market Reforms and the Great Recession

Klaus F. Zimmermann

IZA Policy Paper No. 74

Labor Demand Effects of Rising Electricity Prices: Evidence for Germany

Michael Cox, Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel, Sebastian Siegloch

published in: Energy Policy, 2014, 75, 266-277

IZA Policy Paper No. 73

A Vibrant European Labor Market with Full Employment

Jo Ritzen, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3:10, [Open Access]

IZA Policy Paper No. 72

Costs and Benefits of Labour Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries: Country Study on Germany

Costanza Biavaschi, Klaus F. Zimmermann

IZA Policy Paper No. 71

Who Cares for You at Home? Personal and Household Services in Europe

Annette Angermann, Werner Eichhorst

IZA Policy Paper No. 70

How Does Temporary Agency Work Impact German Agency Workers?

Alexander Spermann

published as "Wandel und Stabilität in der Arbeitswelt – Das Beispiel der Zeitarbeit" in: Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung, 2014, 68, 88-101

IZA Policy Paper No. 69

The Mobility Challenge for Growth and Integration in Europe

Klaus F. Zimmermann

substantially revised version published in: European Debates No. 4, May 2014. See also the introduction by the Editor. [Open Access] / an updated and extended version published as ‘Migration, jobs and integration in Europe’ in: Migration Policy Practice, 2014, 6(4), 4-16

IZA Policy Paper No. 68

Cooperatives in a Global Economy: Key Economic Issues, Recent Trends, and Potential for Development

Stephen C. Smith, Jonathan Rothbaum

published in: Co-operatives in a Post-Growth Era: Creating Co-operative Economics, Sonja Novkovic and Tom Webb, eds., pages 221-241, 2014, Zed Books (Distributed by University of Chicago Press)

IZA Policy Paper No. 67

Sector Surcharges for Temporary Agency Workers in Germany: A Way Out of the Low-Wage Sector?

Alexander Spermann

published in German as "Branchenzuschläge in der Zeitarbeit – ein Weg aus dem Niedriglohnsektor?" in: Bouncken, Ricarda B. u. Manfred Bornewasser u. Lutz Bellmann (Hg.), Neue Herausforderungen in der Zeitarbeit, Beiträge zur Flexibilisierung, 2013, Band 5, 105-135

IZA Policy Paper No. 66

Youth Unemployment in Belgium: Diagnosis and Key Remedies

Bart Cockx

published in: Intereconomics, 2013, 48 (4), 202-209

IZA Policy Paper No. 65

Youth Unemployment in Europe: What to Do about It?

Werner Eichhorst, Holger Hinte, Ulf Rinne

published in: Intereconomics, 2013, 48 (4), 230-235 [Details & Download]

IZA Policy Paper No. 64

The Employment of the Low-Skilled Youth in France

Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo, Klaus F. Zimmermann

official translation of a report delivered to the French Council of Economic Analysis and the French Prime Minister

IZA Policy Paper No. 63

Youth Unemployment in Korea: From a German and Transitional Labour Market Point of View

Günther Schmid

published in Korean: The HRD Review, 2013, 7 (7), 126-151

IZA Policy Paper No. 62

Green Jobs

Olivier Deschenes

IZA Policy Paper No. 61

Skill Development in Middle Level Occupations: The Role of Apprenticeship Training

Robert I. Lerman

IZA Policy Paper No. 60

Labour Market and Labour Market Policies During the Great Recession: The Case of Estonia

Raul Eamets

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:4, [Open Access]

IZA Policy Paper No. 59

The Design and Implementation of Public Pension Systems in Developing Countries: Issues and Options

David E. Bloom, Roddy McKinnon

IZA Policy Paper No. 58

Global Health Governance and Tropical Diseases

Till Bärnighausen, David E. Bloom, Salal Humair

IZA Policy Paper No. 57

The Economic Case for Devoting Public Resources to Health

David E. Bloom, Günther Fink

IZA Policy Paper No. 56

Connecting the Disconnected: Improving Education and Employment Outcomes Among Disadvantaged Youth

Peter B. Edelman, Harry J. Holzer

IZA Policy Paper No. 55

Slovakia: A Catching Up Euro Area Member In and Out of the Crisis

Jarko Fidrmuc, Caroline Klein, Robert Price, Andreas Wörgötter

IZA Policy Paper No. 54

Why Do Russian Firms Use Fixed-Term and Agency Work Contracts?

Larisa Smirnykh, Andreas Wörgötter

IZA Policy Paper No. 53

Wage and Occupational Assimilation by Skill Level: Migration Policy Lessons from Spain

Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012, 1:8, [Open Access]

IZA Policy Paper No. 52

A Guide to the Political Economy of Reforming Energy Subsidies

Simon Commander

forthcoming in: Economics of Transition

IZA Policy Paper No. 51

The State of University Policy for Progress in Europe

Cécile Hoareau, Jo Ritzen, Gabriele Marconi

IZA Policy Paper No. 50

Reforming the Benefit System to 'Make Work Pay': Options and Priorities in a Weak Labour Market

Herwig Immervoll

IZA Policy Paper No. 49

The Growth of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean: Did They Go Too Far?

Marco Stampini, Leopoldo Tornarolli

IZA Policy Paper No. 48

How Could Germany Escape the Demographic Trap?

Christoph Kahlenberg, Alexander Spermann

updated short version published as "Die Demografiestrategie der Bundesregierung – ein Weg zu mehr Wohlstand?" in: Wirtschaftsdienst, 2013, 93, 165-169

IZA Policy Paper No. 47

Fiscal Consolidation in Reformed and Unreformed Labour Markets: A Look at EU Countries

Alessandro Turrini

IZA Policy Paper No. 46

Can the United States Expand Apprenticeship? Lessons from Experience

Robert I. Lerman

IZA Policy Paper No. 45

Multidimensional Poverty Analysis: Looking for a Middle Ground

Francisco H.G. Ferreira, Maria Ana Lugo

published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2013, 28 (2), 220-235

IZA Policy Paper No. 44

Can the University Save Europe?

Jo Ritzen

IZA Policy Paper No. 43

Benchmarking Unemployment Benefits in the EU

Klara Stovicek, Alessandro Turrini

IZA Policy Paper No. 42

Raising Job Quality and Worker Skills in the US: Creating More Effective Education and Workforce Development Systems in States

Harry J. Holzer

IZA Policy Paper No. 41

Active Unemployment Insurance

Knut Røed

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2012, 1:8, [Open Access]

IZA Policy Paper No. 40

The Polish Growth Miracle: Outcome of Persistent Reform Efforts

Hartmut Lehmann

IZA Policy Paper No. 39

European Fiscal Union: What Is It? Does It Work? And Are There Really 'No Alternatives'?

Clemens Fuest, Andreas Peichl

published in: CESifo Forum, 2012, 13 (1), 3-9

IZA Policy Paper No. 38

Ethical and Economic Perspectives on Global Health Interventions

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Thomas Pogge

in: 2014, G.W. Brown, G. Yamey, S. Wamala (eds.):.Handbook of Global Health Policy, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

IZA Policy Paper No. 37

Further Austerity and Wage Cuts Will Worsen the Euro Crisis

Corrado Andini, Ricardo Cabral

IZA Policy Paper No. 36

European Union Expansion and Migration

Martin Kahanec, Lucia Mýtna Kureková

published in: Immanuel Ness (ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

IZA Policy Paper No. 35

Work Hours Constraints: Impacts and Policy Implications

Amelie F. Constant, Steffen Otterbach

IZA Policy Paper No. 34

Should Cash Transfers Be Confined to the Poor? Implications for Poverty and Inequality in Latin America

Pablo A. Acosta, Phillippe Leite, Jamele Rigolini

published in: "Social Insurance, Informality, and the Labor Market: How to Protect Workers while Creating Good Jobs". M. Frolich, D. Kaplan, C. Pages, J. Rigolini, and D. Robalino eds. Oxford University Press, 2014.

IZA Policy Paper No. 33

A Challenge for the G20: Globally Stipulated Debt Brakes and Transnational Independent Fiscal Supervisory Councils

Mathias Dolls, Andreas Peichl, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Intereconomics, 2012, 47 (1), 31-38

IZA Policy Paper No. 32

Social Policies for a Recovery

Herwig Immervoll, Ana Llena-Nozal

IZA Policy Paper No. 31

The Toll Index: Innovation-based Economic Telemetry

Nikos Askitas, Klaus F. Zimmermann

IZA Policy Paper No. 30

Surviving the Turbulence Is Not Enough: Can Côte d'Ivoire Flourish Again?

Amelie F. Constant, Bienvenue N. Tien

IZA Policy Paper No. 29

Economic Returns to Education: What We Know, What We Don't Know, and Where We Are Going – Some Brief Pointers

Colm P. Harmon

based on the introduction to a special issue of: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1118-1122

IZA Policy Paper No. 28

Immigration: High Skilled vs. Low Skilled Labor?

Barry R. Chiswick

published in: Productivity Commission 2011, A 'Sustainable' Population? - Key Policy Issues, Roundtable Proceedings, Productivity Commission, Canberra, 27-40

IZA Policy Paper No. 27

Setting It Right: Employment Protection, Labour Reallocation and Productivity

John P. Martin, Stefano Scarpetta

published in: De Economist, 2012, 16 (2), 89-116

IZA Policy Paper No. 26

Wage Setting in Modern Labor Markets: Neither Fair Nor Efficient

Ekkehart Schlicht

IZA Policy Paper No. 25

Canadian Immigration Policy and Immigrant Economic Outcomes: Why the Differences in Outcomes between Sweden and Canada?

Garnett Picot, Arthur Sweetman

published as 'Skillnaden i sysselsättningsgapet mellan Kanada och Sverige' in: Hojem, Petter; Ådahl, Martin (eds.), Kanadamodellen. Där invandring leder till jobb, FORES,Stockholm, 2011, 67-111

IZA Policy Paper No. 24

Housing Policies in China: Issues and Options

Yves Zenou

published in: Regional Science, Policy and Practice, 2013, 4, 393-417.

IZA Policy Paper No. 23

Productivity and International Firm Activities: What Do We Know?

Joachim Wagner

published in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2011 (2), 137-161

IZA Policy Paper No. 22

Immigration Policy and Less-Skilled Workers in the United States: Reflections on Future Directions for Reform

Harry J. Holzer

IZA Policy Paper No. 21

A Policy Agenda for Diversity and Minority Integration

Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: M. Kahanec and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), Ethnic Diversity in European Labor Markets. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011, 307 - 311

IZA Policy Paper No. 20

Towards an Objective-Driven System of Smart Labor Migration Management

Robert Holzmann, Yann Pouget

published in: World Bank - Economic Premise, 2010, 42, 1-5

IZA Policy Paper No. 19

China's Overt Economic Rise and Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top

Amelie F. Constant, Bienvenue N. Tien, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Jingzhou Meng

substantially revised version published as 'China's Latent Human Capital Investment: achieving milestones and competing for the top' in: Journal of Contemporary China, 2013, 22 (79), 109-130. [Open Access]