IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1977

Public Implementation Eliminates Detrimental Effects of Punishment on Human Cooperation

Erte Xiao, Daniel Houser

revised version published as "Punish in Public" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (7-8), 1006-1017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1967

Is There a Social Security Tax Wedge?

Alessandro Cigno

published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (1), 68-77

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1964

Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction

Simon Luechinger, Stephan Meier, Alois Stutzer

published in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2008, 24 (2), 476-488

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1845

Generating Legitimacy for Labor Market and Welfare State Reforms: The Role of Policy Advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden

Werner Eichhorst, Ole Wintermann

published in: German Policy Studies, 2006, 3 (2), 268-309; also published as 'De l'expertise aux politiques publiques : l'exemple de l'Allemagne, des Pays-Bas et de la Suède' in: Problèmes Economiques, 2006, No. 2.912

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1834

Immigration and Public Spending

René Böheim, Karin Mayr

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1831

Why Are More Redistributive Social Security Systems Smaller? A Median Voter Approach

Marko Koethenbuerger, Panu Poutvaara, Paola Profeta

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2008, 60 (2), 275-292

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1828

Public Sector Pay and Regional Competitiveness: A First Look at Regional Public-Private Wage Differentials in Italy

Carlo Dell’Aringa, Claudio Lucifora, Federica Origo

published in: Manchester School, 2007, 75 (4), 445-478

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1825

Does Job-Search Assistance Affect Search Effort and Outcomes? A Microeconometric Analysis of Public versus Private Search Methods

Denis Fougère, Jacqueline Pradel, Muriel Roger

published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53 (7), 846-869

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1696

On the Post-Unification Development of Public and Private Pay in Germany

Axel Heitmueller, Kostas Mavromaras

published in: Manchester School, 2007, 75 (4), 422–444

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1667

Low-Wage Employment in Portugal: A Mixed Logit Approach

Carlos Pestana Barros, Isabel Proença, José António Cabral Vieira

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1646

The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation

Martijn Egas, Arno Riedl

published as 'The economics of altruistic punishment and the maintenance of cooperation' in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B -Biological Sciences, 2008, 275 (1637), 871-878

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1637

The Public Pay Gap in Britain: Small Differences That (Don't?) Matter

Fabien Postel-Vinay, Hélène Turon

published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (523), 1460-1503

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1576

Where Are the Babies? Labor Market Conditions and Fertility in Europe

Alicia Adsera

published in: European Journal of Population, 2011, 27 (1), 1 - 32

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1543

The Interaction of Tax Exemptions and Individual Tax Reform Preferences

Salvatore Barbaro, Jens Suedekum

substantially revised version published as 'Voting on income tax exemptions' in: Public Choice, 2009, 138 (1-2), 239-253