IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4876

Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and the Inheritance of Employers

revised version published as: 'The Inheritance of Employers and Nonlinearities in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility.' in: Kaushik Basu and Joseph Stiglitz (editors). Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2016, 1 - 34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4874

Selection Policy and Immigrants' Remittance Behaviour

Stephane Mahuteau, Matloob Piracha, Massimiliano Tani

revised as DP 10927

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4866

Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility

Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux

published in: O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 4B, Chapter 16, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4864

Can Training Programs or Rather Wage Subsidies Bring the Unemployed Back to Work? A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation for Germany

Renate Neubäumer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4858

The Glass Door: The Gender Composition of Newly-Hired Workers Across Hierarchical Job Levels

Wolter Hassink, Giovanni Russo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4852

Shutdown Contests in Multi-Plant Firms and Governmental Intervention

Matthias Kräkel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4844

Hazard Analysis of Unemployment Duration by Gender in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey

Aysit Tansel, H. Mehmet Tasci

published in: Labour, 2010, 24 (4), 501-530

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4832

A Simple Theory of Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Equilibrium Unemployment

Mathias Hungerbühler, Etienne Lehmann, Alexis Parmentier, Bruno Van der Linden

published in: Economie Publique/Public Economics, 2012, 22-23 (1-2), 203-218

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4819

The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers

Miles Corak, Patrizio Piraino

slightly revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (1), 37-68

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4816

The Added Worker Effect and the Discouraged Worker Effect for Married Women in Australia

Xiaodong Gong

published as 'The Added Worker Effect for Married Women in Australia' in: Economic Record, 2011, 87 (278), 414-426

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4814

Economic Mobility, Family Background, and the Well-Being of Children in the United States and Canada

Miles Corak, Lori Curtis, Shelley Phipps

published in: Timothy M. Smeeding et al. (eds.), Persistence, Privilege, and Parenting: The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2011. Parts also published (Miles Corak only) as 'Chasing the Same Dream, Climbing Different Ladders'. Washington: PEW Charitable Trusts, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4799

Education and the Welfare Gains from Employment Protection

Olivier Charlot, Franck Malherbet

published as 'Education and Employment Protection' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 20, 3-23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4797

Social Mobility: Is There an Advantage in Being English in Scotland?

Maarten van Ham, Allan M. Findlay, David Manley, Peteke Feijten

published as 'Migration, Occupational Mobility, and Regional Escalators in Scotland' in: [Urban Studies Research], 2012 (2012), Article ID 827171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4794

Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects on Hazard Rates

Simen Gaure, Knut Røed, Gerard J. van den Berg, Tao Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4792

The Design of Unemployment Transfers: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Life-Cycle Model

Peter Haan, Victoria L. Prowse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4791

Increasing Income Inequality: Productivity, Bargaining and Skill-Upgrading

Anders Frederiksen, Odile Poulsen

published as 'Income Inequality: The Consequences of Skill-Upgrading - When Firms Have Hierarchical Organizational Structures' in Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (2), 1224-1239

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4790

Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 311-331

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4773

Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies: The Role of Job Search Assistance

Conny Wunsch

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (3), 1030-1045

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4767

The Political Economy of Intergenerational Income Mobility

Andrea Ichino, Loukas Karabarbounis, Enrico Moretti

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 49 (1), 47-69