IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7403

Is the Contracting-Out of Intensive Placement Services More Effective than Provision by the PES? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Gerhard Krug, Gesine Stephan

revised version published as 'Private and Public Placement Services for Hard-To-Place Unemployed: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment' in: ILR Review, 2016, 69, 471-500

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7402

A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms

Gustavo Henrique de Andrade, Miriam Bruhn, David McKenzie

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2016, 30 (1), 24-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7401

Eliciting Illegal Migration Rates through List Randomization

David McKenzie, Melissa Siegel

published in: Migration Studies, 2013, 1(3): 276-91

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7400

Seek and Ye Shall Find: How Search Requirements Affect Job Finding Rates of Older Workers

Patrick Hullegie, Jan C. van Ours

published in De Economist, 2014, 162 (4), 377 - 395

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7392

Coworker Networks in the Labour Market

Albrecht Glitz

published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 44, 218–230

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7389

Negative and Positive Assimilation By Prices and By Quantities

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2015, 18 (1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7388

Who Moves and For How Long: Determinants of Different Forms of Migration

Daniela Borodak, Matloob Piracha

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7387

Retirement Incentives in Belgium: Estimations and Simulations Using SHARE Data

Alain Jousten, Mathieu Lefèbvre

published in: De Economist, 2013, 161 (3), 253-276

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7382

The Value of Hiring through Referrals

Stephen V. Burks, Bo Cowgill, Mitchell Hoffman, Michael Housman

revised version published as 'The Value of Hiring through Employee Referrals' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2015, 130(2), 805-839

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7378

Intra-Firm Upward Mobility and Immigration

Mohsen Javdani, Andrew McGee

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7376

Family Ties

Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano

published in Philippe Aghion and Steven Durlauf (eds.), Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol. 2A, The Netherlands: North Holland, pp. 177-215, 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7370

Showing Off to the New Neighbors? Income, Socioeconomic Status and Consumption Patterns of Internal Migrants

Alexander M. Danzer, Barbara Dietz, Kseniia Gatskova, Achim Schmillen

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42(1), 230-245

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7367

Foreign Scientists and Engineers and Economic Growth in Canadian Labor Markets

Giovanni Peri, Kevin Y. Shih

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7365

The Marginal Income Effect of Education on Happiness: Estimating the Direct and Indirect Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Well-Being in Australia

Nattavudh Powdthavee, Warn N. Lekfuangfu, Mark Wooden

substantially revised version published as: 'What's the good of education on our overall quality of life? A simultaneous equation model of education and life satisfaction for Australia' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2015, 54 (1), 10-21

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7362

South-South Migration and the Labor Market: Evidence from South Africa

Giovanni Facchini, Anna Maria Mayda, Mariapia Mendola

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2018, 18 (4), 823-853.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7361

Works Councils, Quits and Dismissals in Germany

Christian Grund, Andreas Schmitt

revised version published in: German Journal of Human Resource Management, 2016, 30, 53-75, together with Johannes Martin as an additional co-author

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7358

Trade and Labor Reallocation with Heterogeneous Enforcement of Labor Regulations

Rita K. Almeida, Jennifer P. Poole

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2017, 126, 154-166