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40 IZA Policy Papers
IZA Policy Paper No. 214
Expelling Excellence: Exchange Visitor Restrictions on High-Skill Migrants in the United States
Michael A. Clemens, Jeremy Neufeld, Amy M. Nice
IZA Policy Paper No. 200
The Economic Effects of COVID-19 in Sweden: A Report on Income, Taxes, Distribution, and Government Support Policies
Nikolay Angelov, Daniel Waldenström
IZA Policy Paper No. 196
The Labor Market in Ukraine: Rebuild Better
Giacomo Anastasia, Tito Boeri, Marianna Kudlyak, Oleksandr Zholud
IZA Policy Paper No. 185
The Effect of the War on Human Capital in Ukraine and the Path for Rebuilding
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Marianna Kudlyak, Aysegül Sahin
IZA Policy Paper No. 183
A Pacific Skills Visa: Improving Opportunities for Skilled Migration throughout the Pacific Region
Satish Chand, Michael A. Clemens, Helen Dempster
forthcoming in: Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies
IZA Policy Paper No. 179
The Impact of COVID-19 on Economic Activity: Evidence from Administrative Tax Registers
Nikolay Angelov, Daniel Waldenström
IZA Policy Paper No. 177
What Shifts Did COVID-19 Year 2020 Bring to the Labour Market in Europe?
Stijn Baert
revised version published in: Applied Economics Letters [Online Access]
IZA Policy Paper No. 175
Underrepresentation of Women in Undergraduate Economics Degrees in Europe: A Comparison with STEM and Business
Rigissa Megalokonomou, Marian Vidal-Fernández, Duygu Yengin
IZA Policy Paper No. 166
Training for Jobs of the Future: Improving Access, Certifying Skills, and Expanding Apprenticeship
Robert I. Lerman, Pamela J. Loprest, Daniel Kuehn
IZA Policy Paper No. 150
What Limits College Success? A Review and Further Analysis of Holzer and Baum's 'Making College Work'
Philip Oreopoulos
IZA Policy Paper No. 143
New Education Models for the Workforce of the Future
Francesco Pastore
IZA Policy Paper No. 138
Skills for the 21st Century: Findings and Policy Lessons from the OECD Survey of Adult Skills
John P. Martin
IZA Policy Paper No. 135
Investing in Human Capital to Boost Growth!
Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Francesco Pastore
Revised version published with the title “The Italian low growth conundrum. An assessment and some policy lessons” in CESIFO Forum, 2019, 20(1), 33-39.
IZA Policy Paper No. 134
Digital Challenges for the Welfare State
Werner Eichhorst, Ulf Rinne
published in: CESifo Forum, 2017, 18 (4), 3-8 [Details & Download]
IZA Policy Paper No. 128
The European Youth Guarantee: A Preliminary Assessment and Broader Conceptual Implications
Werner Eichhorst, Ulf Rinne
published in: CESifo Forum, 2017, 18 (2), 34-38 [Details & Download]
IZA Policy Paper No. 127
Getting It Right: Youth Employment Policy within the EU
Francesco Pastore
published in: CESifo Forum, 2017, 18 (2), 26–33.
IZA Policy Paper No. 123
Policies to Expand Digital Skills for the Machine Age
John P. Martin
IZA Policy Paper No. 122
Labor Market Institutions and the Future of Work: Good Jobs for All?
Werner Eichhorst
also available in Spanish: http://repositorio.cepal.org/bitstream/handle/11362/42539/1/S1700870_es.pdf
IZA Policy Paper No. 119
Promoting Youth Employment in Europe: Evidence-based Policy Lessons
Werner Eichhorst, Ulf Rinne
published in: Miguel Angel Malo and Almudena Moreno Minguez (eds.): Youth Labour Markets. Problems and Policies. Cham: Springer, 2018, 189-204 [Info & Abstract]
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. 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. 110
Funding Mechanisms for Financing Vocational Training: An Analytical Framework
Adrian Ziderman
IZA Policy Paper No. 100
The Big Trade-Off in the World of Labor
Klaus F. Zimmermann
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. 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. 80
Youth Unemployment in Mediterranean Countries
Werner Eichhorst, Franziska Neder
published in: IEMed Mediterranean Yearbook 2014, 265-271
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. 61
Skill Development in Middle Level Occupations: The Role of Apprenticeship Training
Robert I. Lerman
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. 51
The State of University Policy for Progress in Europe
Cécile Hoareau, Jo Ritzen, Gabriele Marconi
IZA Policy Paper No. 46
Can the United States Expand Apprenticeship? Lessons from Experience
Robert I. Lerman
IZA Policy Paper No. 44
Can the University Save Europe?
Jo Ritzen
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. 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. 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. 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
IZA Policy Paper No. 5
Some Remarks on the Effectiveness of Primary Education Interventions
Olmo Silva
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