IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5357

Great Expectations: Law, Employment Contracts, and Labor Market Performance

W. Bentley MacLeod

published in: O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 4B, Chapter 18, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5295

Trends in Quality-Adjusted Skill Premia in the United States, 1960-2000

Pedro Carneiro, Sokbae Lee

published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 110 (6), 2309-2349

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5280

Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin: The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion

Decio Coviello, Andrea Ichino, Nicola Persico

published as 'Time Allocation and Task Juggling' in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (2), 609-623 (theoretical model), and as 'The Inefficiency of Worker Time Use' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 5 (19), 906 - 947 (empirical part)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5278

Employment, Inequality and the UK National Minimum Wage over the Medium-Term

Peter Dolton, Chiara Rosazza-Bondibene, Jonathan Wadsworth

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (1), 78-106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5266

Can Targeted, Non-Cognitive Skills Programs Improve Achievement? Evidence from EPIS

Pedro S. Martins

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5138

Independent Individual Decision-Makers in Household Models and the New Home Economics

Shoshana Grossbard

published in: J. Alberto Molina (ed.), Household Economic Behaviors, Springer: 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5094

Youth Labour Markets in Europe and Central Asia

Niall O'Higgins

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5064

The Prostitute's Allure: Examining Returns to Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination

Raj Arunachalam, Manisha Shah

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2012, 12 (1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5059

A Political Economy of the Immigrant Assimilation: Internal Dynamics

Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 325-339

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5058

Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motives: Standard and Behavioral Approaches to Agency and Labor Markets

James B. Rebitzer, Lowell J. Taylor

published in: O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 4A, Chapter 8, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4982

Formal Education, Mismatch and Wages after Transition: Assessing the Impact of Unobserved Heterogeneity Using Matching Estimators

Ana Lamo, Julián Messina

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (6), 1089-1099

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4941

Lab Labor: What Can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab?

Gary Charness, Peter J. Kuhn

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4934

The Great Recession of 2008-2009: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses

Sher Verick, Iyanatul Islam

published in: Iyanatul Islam and Sher Verick (eds.), From the Great Recession to Labour Market Recovery: Issues, Evidence and Policy Options, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; ILO/Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4905

Local Labor Markets

Enrico Moretti

published in: O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 4B, Chapter 14, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4859

Are Attitudes Towards Economic Risk Heritable? Analyses Using the Australian Twin Study of Gambling

Anh T. Le, Paul W. Miller, Wendy S. Slutske, Nicholas G. Martin

published in: Twin Research and Human Genetics, 2010, 13 (4), 330-339

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4779

Learning from Latin America's Experience: Europe's Failure in the "Lisbon Process"

Arno Tausch, Almas Heshmati

published in: Alternatives, Turkish Journal of International Relations, 2010, 9(4), 3-90.