IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3138

Investment Climate and Employment Growth: The Impact of Access to Finance, Corruption and Regulations Across Firms

Reyes Aterido, Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Carmen Pagés

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3125

Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials Using LEED from Hungary, 1986–2003

published in: Analysis of Firms and Employees - Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (F. Andersson, S. Bender, J. Lane, K. Shaw, and T. von Wachter, eds.), NBER and University of Chicago, 2008.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3080

Return Migration, Investment in Children, and Intergenerational Mobility: Comparing Sons of Foreign and Native Born Fathers

Christian Dustmann

Published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2008, 43(2), 299 - 324

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2989

Analyzing the Labor Market Activity of Immigrant Families in Germany

Leilanie Basilio, Thomas K. Bauer, Mathias Sinning

published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (5), 510-520

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2924

Interprovincial Migration in China: The Effects of Investment and Migrant Networks

Shuming Bao, Örn B. Bodvarsson, Jack W. Hou, Yaohui Zhao

published in: Chinese Economy, 2009, 42 (4), 7-29

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2899

The Effect of Marriage on Education of Immigrants: Evidence from a Policy Reform Restricting Spouse Import

Helena Skyt Nielsen, Nina Smith, Aycan Celikaksoy

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2009, 111(3), 457 - 486

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2852

Elite Dominance and Under-Investment in Mass Education: Disparity in the Social Development of the Indian States, 1960-92

Sarmistha Pal, Sugata Ghosh

published as 'Poverty, Elite Heterogeneity and the Allocation of Public Spending: Panel Evidence from the Indian States' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2012, 58 (1), 51-78

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2801

How to Increase R&D in Transition Economies? Evidence from Slovenia

Polona Domadenik, Janez Prašnikar, Jan Svejnar

published in: Review of Development Economics, 12(1), 193-208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2795

Skilled Migration, FDI and Human Capital Investment

Daniele Checchi, Gianfranco De Simone, Riccardo Faini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2725

The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children

James J. Heckman, Dimitriy V. Masterov

published in: Review of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 29 (3), 446-493

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2515

School Drop-Out and Push-Out Factors in Brazil: The Role of Early Parenthood, Child Labor, and Poverty

Ana Rute Cardoso, Dorte Verner

published as 'Factores de la deserción escolar en Brasil. El papel de la paternidad temprana, la mano de obra infantil y la pobreza' in: El Trimestre Económico, 2011, 69 (2) 310, 347-372

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2454

Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market

Pierre-André Chiappori, Murat Iyigun, Yoram Weiss

published in American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (5), 1689-1713

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2415

Population Aging and Continued Education

Regina T. Riphahn, Parvati Trübswetter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2336

Does Foreign Direct Investment Affect Wage Inequality? An Empirical Investigation

Paolo Figini, Holger Görg

published in: World Economy, 2011, 34 (9), 1455-1475

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2328

Taxing Human Capital Efficiently: The Double Dividend of Taxing Non-Qualified Labour More Heavily Than Qualified Labour

Wolfram F. Richter

revised version based on DP 2328 and DP 3451 published as "Taxing education in Ramsey's tradition" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (11-12), 1254-1260

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2308

The Role of Marriage in Immigrants’ Human Capital Investment under Liquidity Constraints

Sarit Cohen Goldner, Chemi Gotlibovski, Nava Kahana

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (4), 983-1003

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2143

Control Rights in Public-Private Partnerships

Marco Francesconi, Abhinay Muthoo

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (3), 551-589

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2043

Holdup in Oligopsonistic Labour Markets: A New Role for the Minimum Wage

Leo Kaas, Paul Madden

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (3), 356-371