IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1314

Key Elasticities in Job Search Theory: International Evidence

John T. Addison, Mario Centeno, Pedro Portugal

published as 'Unemployment Benefits and Reservation Wages: Key Elasticities from a Stripped-Down Job Search Approach' in Economica, 2010, 77 (305), 46-59.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1312

Health and Wealth of Elderly Couples: Causality Tests Using Dynamic Panel Data Models

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Arthur van Soest

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (5), 1312-1325

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1311

Jobs for Young University Graduates: Is It Worth Having a Degree?

Ana Rute Cardoso

published in: Economics Letters, 2007, 94 (2), 271-277

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1310

The Brain Drain: Some Evidence from European Expatriates in the United States

Gilles Saint-Paul

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1309

Timing Constraints and the Allocation of Time: The Effects of Changing Shopping Hours Regulations in the Netherlands

Joyce P. Jacobsen, Peter Kooreman

published in: European Economic Review, 2005, 49 (1), 9-27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1308

Female Breadwinner Families: Their Existence, Persistence and Sources

Robert Drago, David Black, Mark Wooden

published in: Journal of Sociology, 2005, 41 (4), 343-362

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1306

Measuring the Returns to the GED: Using an Exogenous Change in GED Passing Standards as a Natural Experiment

Magnus Lofstrom, John Tyler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1304

International Migration in the Long-Run: Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy

Timothy J. Hatton, Jeffrey G. Williamson

published in: D. Snower (ed.) Labour Mobility and the World Economy, Kiel: Kiel Institute for World Economics, 2005

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1303

Survey Non-Response and Unemployment Duration

Gerard J. van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom, Peter Dolton

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 2006, 169 (3), 585-604

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1302

Cyclicality and the Labor Market

Craig A. Gallet, John A. List, Peter F. Orazem

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2005, 72 (2), 284-304

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1300

Estimating the Threat Effect of Active Labour Market Programmes

Michael Rosholm, Michael Svarer

Published as: 'The Threat Effect of Active Labour Market Programmes' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (2), 385 - 401

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1299

Are Wages in Southern Europe More Flexible? The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings

Giorgio Brunello, Charlotte Lauer

published as "The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings" in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 273 - 290

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1297

Worker Displacement during the Transition: Experience from Slovenia

Peter F. Orazem, Milan Vodopivec, Ruth Wu

published in: Economics of Transition, 2005, 13 (2), 311-340

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1296

Families, Human Capital, and Small Business: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey

Robert W. Fairlie, Alicia Robb

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (2), 225-245

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1294

A Collective Retirement Model: Identification and Estimation in the Presence of Externalities

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Frederic Vermeulen

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 159-167

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1293

Nascent Entrepreneurs

Joachim Wagner

published in: Simon C. Parker (ed.), The Life Cycle of Entrepreneurial Ventures (International Handbook Series on Entrepreneurship, Vol. 3), New York: Springer 2006, 15-37

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1292

Why Are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than White-Owned Businesses? The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital

Robert W. Fairlie, Alicia Robb

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25 (2), 289-323

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1291

Labour Market Institutions and Wage Inequality

Winfried Koeniger, Marco Leonardi, Luca Nunziata

revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (3), 340-356

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1290

Does Employment Protection Reduce the Demand for Unskilled Labor?

Kirsten Daniel, W. Stanley Siebert

published in: International Economic Journal, 2005, 19 (2), 197-222