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153 IZA Policy Papers
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
IZA Policy Paper No. 14
Macedonia’s Accession to the EU and the Labor Market: What Can Be Learned from the New Member States?
Hartmut Lehmann
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