IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3801

Intergenerational Top Income Mobility in Sweden: A Combination of Equal Opportunity and Capitalistic Dynasties

Anders Björklund, Jesper Roine, Daniel Waldenström

revised version published as 'Intergenerational top income mobility in Sweden: Capitalist dynasties in the land of equal opportunity?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (5-6), 474-484

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3799

Automatically Activated Stereotypes and Differential Treatment Against the Obese in Hiring

Dan-Olof Rooth

revised version published (with Jens Agerström) as 'The Role of Automatic Obesity Stereotypes in Real Hiring Discrimination ' in: Journal of Applied Psychology, 2011, 96 (4), 790 - 805

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3783

The Determinants of Regional Migration in Great Britain: A Duration Approach

Martyn J. Andrews, Ken Clark, William Whittaker

revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2011, 174(1), 127-153.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3779

Crime, Unemployment, and Xenophobia? An Ecological Analysis of Right-Wing Election Results in Hamburg, 1986−2005

Ralph Rotte, Martin Steininger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3778

City Beautiful

Gerald A. Carlino, Albert Saiz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3775

Wage Formation between Newly Hired Workers and Employers: Survey Evidence

Robert E. Hall, Alan B. Krueger

published as "Evidence on the Incidence of Wage Posting, Wage Bargaining, and On-the-Job Search" in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2012, 4(4), 56-67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3772

Wage Subsidies for Needy Job-Seekers and Their Effect on Individual Labour Market Outcomes after the German Reforms

Sarah Bernhard, Hermann Gartner, Gesine Stephan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3768

Do Targeted Hiring Subsidies and Profiling Techniques Reduce Unemployment?

Elke J. Jahn, Thomas Wagner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3767

The Relative Effectiveness of Selected Active Labour Market Programmes and the Common Support Problem

Gesine Stephan, André Pahnke

revised version published as 'The Relative Effectiveness of Selected Active Labor Market Programs: An Empiriccal Investigation for Germany' in: Manchester School, 2011, 79(6), 1262-1293

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3764

Electoral Participation as a Measure of Social Inclusion for Natives, Immigrants and Descendants in Sweden

Pieter Bevelander, Ravi Pendakur

revised version published as 'Voting and social inclusion in Sweden' in: International Migration, 2011, 49 (4), 67 - 92

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3759

Intergenerational Education Mobility among the Children of Canadian Immigrants

Abdurrahman B. Aydemir, Wen-Hao Chen, Miles Corak

published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2013, 39 (S1), S107-S122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3750

Measuring the Importance of Labor Market Networks

Judith K. Hellerstein, Melissa McInerney, David Neumark

published as 'Neighbors and Coworkers: The Importance of Residential Labor Market Networks' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (4), 659 - 695

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3740

Ethnic Intermarriage among Immigrants: Human Capital and Assortative Mating

Barry R. Chiswick, Christina A. Houseworth

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (2), 149-180

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3738

Heterogeneous Treatment and Self-Selection in a Wage Subsidy Experiment

Dany Brouillette, Guy Lacroix

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (7-8), 479-492

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3735

What More Than Parental Income? An Exploration of What Swedish Siblings Get from Their Parents

Anders Björklund, Lena Lindahl, Matthew J. Lindquist

revised version published as 'What More Than Parental Income, Education and Occupation? An Exploration of What Swedish Siblings Get from Their Parents' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 102

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3732

The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation across Immigrant Generations

Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn, Albert Yung-Hsu Liu, Kerry L. Papps

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 405-435

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3725

Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation among Immigrants: 1980-2000

Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn, Kerry L. Papps

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (1), 43-58

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3723

How Working Time Reduction Affects Employment and Earnings

Pedro Raposo, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 106 (1), 61-63