IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1459

Pupil Achievement, School Resources and Family Background

Torbjørn Haegeland, Oddbjørn Raaum, Kjell G. Salvanes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1452

Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in Urban China, 1986-2000

Xin Meng, Bob Gregory, Youjuan Wang

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005, 33 (4), 710-729

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1448

Impact of Income Growth and Economic Reform on Nutrition Intake in Urban China: 1986-2000

Xin Meng, Xiaodong Gong, Youjuan Wang

published as 'Impact of Income Growth and Economic Reform on Nutrition Availability in Urban China: 1986–2000' in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2009, 57 (2), 261-295

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1444

Skill Policies for Scotland

James J. Heckman, Dimitriy V. Masterov

published in: D. Coyle, W. Alexander and B. Ashcroft, eds., New Wealth for Old Nations: Scotland's Economic Prospects, Princeton University Press: 2005

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1437

Separating Uncertainty from Heterogeneity in Life Cycle Earnings

Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman, Salvador Navarro

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2005, 57 (2), 191-261

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1435

Training and Union Wages

Christian Dustmann, Uta Schönberg

revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91 (2), 363-376

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1433

Unilingual Versus Bilingual Education System: A Political Economy Analysis

Javier Ortega, Thomas P. Tangerås

revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008, 6(5), 1078-1108

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. 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. 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. 1412

Incentives and Effort in the Public Sector: Have U.S. Education Reforms Increased Teachers’ Work Hours?

Christiana Stoddard, Peter J. Kuhn

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2008, 27 (1), 1-13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1404

The Political Economy of Job Protection and Income Redistribution

Bruno Amable, Donatella Gatti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1398

How Different Are Immigrants? A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement

Sylke V. Schnepf

published in: C. A. Parsons ; T. M. Smeeding (eds.), Immigration and the Transformation of Europe, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1391