IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3071

Assessing Forecast Uncertainties in a VECX Model for Switzerland: An Exercise in Forecast Combination across Models and Observation Windows

Katrin Assenmacher-Wesche, M. Hashem Pesaran

published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2008, 203 (1), 91–108

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3069

The Effect of Job Displacement on the Transitions to Employment and Early Retirement for Older Workers in Four European Countries

Konstantinos Tatsiramos

revised version published as "Job displacement and the transitions to re-employment and early retirement for non-employed older workers" in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (4), 517-535

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3068

The Employment and Earnings of Migrants in Great Britain

Martyn J. Andrews, Ken Clark, William Whittaker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3067

How General Is Human Capital? A Task-Based Approach

Christina Gathmann, Uta Schönberg

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (1), 1 - 49

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3065

The Determinants of Performance Appraisal Systems: A Note (Do Brown and Heywood’s Results for Australia Hold Up for Britain?)

John T. Addison, Clive R. Belfield

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2008, 46 (3), 521 - 531

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3064

Performance Measurement, Expectancy and Agency Theory: An Experimental Study

Randolph Sloof, Mirjam C. van Praag

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 67 (3-4), 794 - 809

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3062

The Revealed Preference Approach to Collective Consumption Behavior: Testing, Recovery and Welfare Analysis

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Frederic Vermeulen

published as 'The revealed preference approach to collective consumption behavior: testing and sharing rule recovery' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2011, 78 (1), 175 - 198

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3060

Migration Creation, Diversion, and Retention: New Deal Grants and Migration: 1935-1940

Todd A. Sorensen, Price Fishback, Samuel K. Allen, Shawn Kantor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3058

Why Are the Returns to Education Higher for Entrepreneurs than for Employees?

Justin van der Sluis, Mirjam C. van Praag, Arjen van Witteloostuijn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3057

Who Gives for Overseas Development?

John Micklewright, Sylke V. Schnepf

published in: Journal of Social Policy, 2009, 38(2), 317-341

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3055

The Wage Impact of Trade Unions in the UK Public and Private Sectors

David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson

published in: Economica, 2010, 77 (305), 92-209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3054

The Value Relevance of Top Executive Departures: Evidence from the Netherlands

Kees Cools, Mirjam C. van Praag

published in: Journal of Corporate Finance 13(5), 721-742

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3053

An Empirical Assessment of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market

Rute Mendes, Gerard J. van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (6), 919-929

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3051

What Works Best for Getting the Unemployed Back to Work: Employment Services or Small-Business Assistance Programmes? Evidence from Romania

Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published as 'Channels Through Which Public Employment Services and Small-Business Assistance Programs Work' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (4), 458-485

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3049

Real Wage Rigidities and the Cost of Disinflations

Guido Ascari, Christian Merkl

published in: Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 2009, 41 (2-3), 417-435

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3048

Spillovers from High-Skill Consumption to Low-Skill Labor Markets

Francesca Mazzolari, Giuseppe Ragusa

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (1), 74-86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3046

Poverty in Britain in 1904: An Early Social Survey Rediscovered

Ian Gazeley, Andrew T. Newell

published as 'Poverty in Edwardian Britain' in: Economic History Review, 2011, 64 (1), 52 - 71