IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1461

Openness and Human Capital as Sources of Productivity Growth: An Empirical Investigation from the MENA Countries

Ilham Haouas, Mahmoud Yagoubi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1439

Specialisation Patterns and the Synchronicity of Regional Employment Cycles in Europe

Ansgar H. Belke, Jens M. Heine

published in: International Economics and Economic Policy, 2006, 3 (2), 91-104

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1435

Training and Union Wages

Christian Dustmann, Uta Schönberg

revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91 (2), 363-376

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1429

On the Returns to Training in Portugal

Santiago Budría, Pedro T. Pereira

published as "The wage effects of training in Portugal: differences across skill groups, genders, sectors and training types" in: Applied Economics, 2007, 39 (6), 787-807

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1417

Do Co-Workers’ Wages Matter? Theory and Evidence on Wage Secrecy, Wage Compression and Effort

Gary Charness, Peter J. Kuhn

revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25 (4), 693-723

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1414

Works Councils, Labor Productivity and Plant Heterogeneity: Evidence from Quantile Regressions

Joachim Wagner, John T. Addison, Claus Schnabel, Thorsten Schank

published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik , 2006, 226 (5), 505-518

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1402

The Dispersion of Employees’ Wage Increases and Firm Performance

Christian Grund, Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen

revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008, 61 (4), 485-501

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1400

Decomposing the Gender Wage Gap in the Netherlands with Sample Selection Adjustments

James Albrecht, Aico van Vuuren, Susan Vroman

published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (4), 383-396

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1386

Self-Employment Dynamics Across the Business Cycle: Migrants Versus Natives

Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann

substantially revised version published as 'Self-employment against employment or unemployment: Markov transitions across the business cycle' in: Eurasian Business Review, 2014, 4 (1), 51-87

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1375

Dividing Justly in Bargaining Problems with Claims: Normative Judgments and Actual Negotiations

Simon Gächter, Arno Riedl

published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2006, 27, 571-594

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1373

Is There a Glass Ceiling over Europe? Exploring the Gender Pay Gap across the Wages Distribution

Wiji Arulampalam, Alison L. Booth, Mark L. Bryan

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (2), 163-186

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1361

The Determinants of Part-Time Work in EU Countries: Empirical Investigations with Macro-Panel Data

Hielke Buddelmeyer, Gilles Mourre, Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1355

Is There a Risk-Return Trade-Off across Occupations? Evidence from Spain

Luis Diaz-Serrano, Joop Hartog

published as 'Is there a risk-return trade-off in educational choices? Evidence from Spain' in: Investigaciones Economicas, 2006, 30 (2), 353-380

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1352

Fairness and Freight-Handlers: Local Labor-Market Conditions and Wage-Fairness Perceptions in a Trucking Firm

Eric Verhoogen, Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter

revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (4), 477-498

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1343

What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania

J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Dana Lup

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2005, 54 (1), 33-70

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1341

Comparing Students to Workers: The Effects of Social Framing on Behavior in Distribution Games

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Stephen V. Burks, Eric Verhoogen

published in: J. Carpenter, G. Harrison, and J. List (eds.), Field Experiments in Economics (Research in Experimental Economics, 10), 2005, 261 - 289

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1338

Growth, Inequality and Poverty Relationships

Almas Heshmati

published in: A. Heshmati ; A. Tausch (eds.), Roadmap to Bangalore? Globalization, the EU Lisbon Process and the Structure of Global Inequality, Hauppauge and New York, 2007, 109-137

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1328

Is the Child Health / Family Income Gradient Universal? Evidence from England

Alison Currie, Michael A. Shields, Stephen Wheatley Price

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2007, 26 (2), 213-232

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1302

Cyclicality and the Labor Market

Craig A. Gallet, John A. List, Peter F. Orazem

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2005, 72 (2), 284-304

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1296

Families, Human Capital, and Small Business: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey

Robert W. Fairlie, Alicia Robb

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (2), 225-245