IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4261

The Effect of Adversity on Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives

published as 'Do Higher Costs Spur Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives? Evidence from a Natural Experiment' in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2013, 22 (3), 529–550

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4259

Government Decentralization as a Disincentive for Transnational Terror? An Empirical Analysis

Axel Dreher, Justina A.V. Fischer

published in: International Economic Review, 2010, 51 (4), 981 - 1002

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4253

How Does Retirement Affect Health?

Stefanie Behncke

published as 'Does retirement trigger ill health?' in: Health Economics, 2012, 21 (3), 282 - 300

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4236

Long-Term Impact of Youth Minimum Wages: Evidence from Two Decades of Individual Longitudinal Data

Ana Rute Cardoso

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2019, 121 (4), 1337 - 1380

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4233

Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia: Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Klara Sabirianova Peter, Dmitriy Stolyarov

revised version published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2010, 13 (1), 209 - 237

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4228

Global Reform of Personal Income Taxation, 1981-2005: Evidence from 189 Countries

Klara Sabirianova Peter, Steve Buttrick, Denvil Duncan

published in: National Tax Journal, 2010, 63 (3), 447-478

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4222

How Do Shocks to Non-Cognitive Skills Affect Test Scores?

Stefanie Behncke

published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 107/108, 155 - 173

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4221

How Does Entry Regulation Influence Entry into Self-Employment and Occupational Mobility?

Susanne Prantl, Alexandra Spitz-Oener

published in: Economics of Transition, 2009, 17 (4), 769-802

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4218

Parental Education and Wages: Evidence from China

Yuanyuan Chen, Shuaizhang Feng

published in: Frontiers of Economics in China, 2011, 6 (4), 568-591

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4214

Do International Labor Standards Contribute to the Persistence of the Child Labor Problem?

Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti

published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2010, 15(1), 1-31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4212

Military Conscription and University Enrolment: Evidence from Italy

Giorgio Di Pietro

revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 619-644

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4211

Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework

Robin Douhan, Mirjam C. van Praag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4210

Boon or Bane? Others' Unemployment, Well-being and Job Insecurity

Andrew E. Clark, Andreas Knabe, Steffen Rätzel

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 52-61

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4209

No Room to Live: Urban Overcrowding in Edwardian Britain

Ian Gazeley, Andrew T. Newell

published as 'Why was urban over-crowding much more severe in Scotland than in the rest of the British Isles? Evidence from the first (1904) official household expenditure survey’ in: European Review of Economic History, 2011, 15 (1), 127-151

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4197

Demografie und Ungleichheit: Der Einfluss von Veränderungen der Haushaltsstruktur auf die Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland

Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel, Hilmar Schneider

substantially revised version available as IZA Standpunkt No. 18, published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2011, 43(4), 327-338

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4189

Relational Contracts, Taxation and the Household

Patricia Apps, Ray Rees

published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, 57 (2), 245-258

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4178

Coming to America: Does Immigrant's Home Country Economic Status Impact the Probability of Self-Employment in the U.S.?

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Willie Belton

revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102(3), 538-542

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4176

Still Waiting for Mister Right? Asymmetric Information, Abortion Laws and the Timing of Marriage

Simon W. Bowmaker, Patrick M. Emerson

published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (22), 3151-3169