IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1431

The Size of the Shadow Economies of 145 Countries all over the World: First Results over the Period 1999 to 2003

Friedrich Schneider

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 495 - 526

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1430

Riches to Rags Every Month? The Fall in Consumption Expenditures Between Paydays

David B. Huffman, Matias Barenstein

revised version: "A Monthly Struggle for Self-Control? Hyperbolic Discounting, Mental Accounting, and the Fall in Consumption Between Paydays"

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1429

On the Returns to Training in Portugal

Santiago Budría, Pedro T. Pereira

published as "The wage effects of training in Portugal: differences across skill groups, genders, sectors and training types" in: Applied Economics, 2007, 39 (6), 787-807

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1428

Minimum Wage Effects in the Longer Run

David Neumark, Olena Y. Nizalova

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2007, 42 (2), 435-452

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1427

Technology Adoption and Workforce Skill in U.S. Manufacturing Plants

Timothy Dunne, Kenneth Troske

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2005, 52 (3), 387-405

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1426

Initial Luck, Status-Seeking and Snowballs Lead to Corporate Success and Failure

Amihai Glazer, Vesa Kanniainen, Panu Poutvaara

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1425

Gender Differences Across the Earnings Distribution: Evidence from NLS:86 & HSB:92

Spyros Konstantopoulos, Amelie F. Constant

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1424

Employment Regulations through the Eyes of Employers: Do They Matter and How Do Firms Respond to Them?

Gaëlle Pierre, Stefano Scarpetta

revised version published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2013, 2:15

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1423

On the Notion of Responsibility in Organizations

Dirk Sliwka

published in: Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2006, 22(2), 523-547

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1422

Must Skilled Migration Be a Brain Drain? Evidence from the Indian Software Industry

Simon Commander, Rupa Chanda, Mari Kangasniemi, L. Alan Winters

published in: World Economy, 2008, 31 (2), 187-211

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1421

The Effect of Firm-Level Contracts on the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

David Card, Sara de la Rica

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 59 (4), 573-592

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1420

The Transition from Welfare to Work and the Role of Potential Labor Income

Hilmar Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff

published in: Journal of Applied Social Sciences Studies, 2005, 125 (1), 51-61

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1419

Language Skills and Immigrant Adjustment: What Immigration Policy Can Do!

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Deborah Cobb-Clark and Siew-Ean Khoo (eds.), Public Policy and Immigrant Settlement, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006, 121-148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1418

A Danish Profiling System

Michael Rosholm, Michael Svarer, Bo Hammer

published in: Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift (Danish Economic Journal), 2006, 144 (2), 209-229

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1417

Do Co-Workers’ Wages Matter? Theory and Evidence on Wage Secrecy, Wage Compression and Effort

Gary Charness, Peter J. Kuhn

revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25 (4), 693-723

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1416

Fast Times at Ridgemont High? The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births

Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes

published as 'Staying in the Classroom and out of the maternity ward? The effect of compulsory schooling laws on teenage births' in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (530), 1025–1054

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1415

Recent Developments in Part-Time Work in EU-15 Countries: Trends and Policy

Hielke Buddelmeyer, Gilles Mourre, Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1414

Works Councils, Labor Productivity and Plant Heterogeneity: Evidence from Quantile Regressions

Joachim Wagner, John T. Addison, Claus Schnabel, Thorsten Schank

published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik , 2006, 226 (5), 505-518

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1413

Why Is the Public Sector More Labor-Intensive? A Distortionary Tax Argument

Panu Poutvaara, Andreas Wagener

published in: Journal of Economics, 2008, 94 (2), 105–124

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1412