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214 IZA Policy Papers
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]
IZA Policy Paper No. 18
Social Protection as an Automatic Stabilizer
Mathias Dolls, Clemens Fuest, Andreas Peichl
revised version published as 'Automatic stabilization and discretionary fiscal policy in the financial crisis' in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2012, 1:4
IZA Policy Paper No. 17
A New Cost-Benefit and Rate of Return Analysis for the Perry Preschool Program: A Summary
James J. Heckman, Seong Hyeok Moon, Rodrigo Pinto, Peter Savelyev, Adam Yavitz
published in: Arthur Reynolds, Arthur Rolnick, Michelle Englund, and Judy A. Temple (eds.), Childhood Programs and Practices in the First Decade of Life: A Human Capital Integration . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 366 - 380
IZA Policy Paper No. 16
Labor Market and Globalization: A Comparison of the Latin American and the East Asian Experiences in the 1980s and 1990s
Randolph Luca Bruno
IZA Policy Paper No. 15
Agenda 2020: Strategies to Achieve Full Employment in Germany
Hilmar Schneider, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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