IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 254

Learning of General Equilibrium Effects and the Unemployment Trap

Hans Gersbach, Achim Schniewind

IZA Discussion Paper No. 250

Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration out of Africa

Timothy J. Hatton, Jeffrey G. Williamson

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2003, 105 (3), 465-486

IZA Discussion Paper No. 249

"Should I Pay for You or for Myself?" The Optimal Level and Composition of Retirement Benefit Systems

Bernard M. S. van Praag, Pedro Cardoso

IZA Discussion Paper No. 247

Schooling, Family Background, and Adoption: Is it Nature or is it Nurture?

Erik Plug, Wim P. Vijverberg

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2003, 111 (3), 611-641

IZA Discussion Paper No. 246

Schooling, Family Background, and Adoption: Does Family Income Matter?

Erik Plug, Wim P. Vijverberg

published as 'Does Family Income Matter for Schooling Outcomes? Using Adoptees as a Natural Experiment' in: Economic Journal, 2005, 115 (506), 879-906

IZA Discussion Paper No. 245

Globalization and Human Capital Formation

Fredrik W. Andersson, Kai A. Konrad

published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2003, 10(3), 211-228

IZA Discussion Paper No. 244

Pay and Productivity in a Corporatist Economy: Evidence from Austria

Scott M. Fuess Jr., Meghan Millea

IZA Discussion Paper No. 243

Economic Reform and Mortality in the Former Soviet Union: A Study of the Suicide Epidemic in the 1990s

Elizabeth Brainerd

published in: European Economic Review, 2001, 45 (4-6), 1007-1019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 241

Trade, Labor Market Rigidities, and Government-Financed Technological Change

Winfried Koeniger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 240

Labor and Financial Market Interactions: The Case of Labor Income Risk and Car Insurance in the UK 1969-95

Winfried Koeniger

revised version published in: Geneva Papers of Risk and Insurance Theory, 2004, 29 (1), 55-74.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 239

Human Capital Investment and Globalization in Extortionary States

Fredrik W. Andersson, Kai A. Konrad

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2003, 87 (7-8), 1539-1555

IZA Discussion Paper No. 238

The Saving Behaviour of Two Person Households: Evidence from Dutch Panel Data

Rob Euwals, Axel H. Börsch-Supan, Angelika Eymann

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2004, 25 (2), 195-211

IZA Discussion Paper No. 237

Surviving Unemployment without State Support: Unemployment and Household Formation in South Africa

Stephan Klasen, Ingrid Woolard

published in: Journal of African Economies, 2009, 18 (1), 1-51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 236

Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policy: Methodological Concepts and Empirical Estimates

Reinhard Hujer, Marco Caliendo

published in: Becker, I., Ott, N. and Rolf, G. (eds.), Soziale Sicherung in einer dynamischen Gesellschaft, Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt, 583-617, 2001

IZA Discussion Paper No. 234

Sozioökonomische Determinanten extremistischer Wahlerfolge in Deutschland: Das Beispiel der Europawahlen 1994 und 1999

Ralph Rotte, Martin Steininger

published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2001, 121 (3), 53-406

IZA Discussion Paper No. 233

The Wage Performance of Immigrant Women: Full-Time Jobs, Part-Time Jobs, and the Role of Selection

Christian Dustmann, Christoph M. Schmidt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 232

The Effect of Non-Standard Employment on Mental Health in Britain

Elena Bardasi, Marco Francesconi

published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2004, 58 (9), 1671-1688

IZA Discussion Paper No. 231

The Economics of Human Cloning

Gilles Saint-Paul

published as 'Economic aspects of human cloning and reprogenetics' in: Economic Policy, 2003, 18 (36), 72 - 122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 230