IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1263

Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality

Almas Heshmati

revised version published in: A. Heshmati (ed.), Global Trends in Income Inequality, Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2007

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1259

Family Structure and Child Outcomes in the United States and Sweden

Anders Björklund, Donna K. Ginther, Marianne Sundström

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (1), 183-201

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1256

Do Financial Incentives Promote the Employment of the Disabled?

Sher Verick

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1255

Private Tutoring Expenditures in Turkey

Aysit Tansel, Fatma Bircan

revised version published as 'Demand for education in Turkey: A tobit analysis of private tutoring expenditures' in: Economics of Education Review, 2006, 25, 303-313

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1248

The Consequences of ‘In-Work’ Benefit Reform in Britain: New Evidence from Panel Data

Marco Francesconi, Wilbert van der Klaauw

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2007, 42 (1), 1-31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1247

A Simulation of an Income Contingent Tuition Scheme in a Transition Economy

Milan Vodopivec

published in: Higher Education, 2009, 57 (4), 429-448

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1246

Linguistic Distance: A Quantitative Measure of the Distance Between English and Other Languages

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005, 26 (1), 1-11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1245

The Heterogeneous Effect of Selection in Secondary Schools: Understanding the Changing Role of Ability

Fernando Galindo-Rueda, Anna Vignoles

published in: P. Peterson and L. Woessmann (eds.), Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem, MIT Press: 2007

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1233

Do a Few Months of Compulsory Schooling Matter? The Education and Labour Market Impact of School Leaving Rules

Emilia Del Bono, Fernando Galindo-Rueda

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1232

Ethnic Networks and International Trade

Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: Foders, Federico and Langhammer, Rolf J. (eds), Labor Mobility and the World Economy. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg 2006, 85-103

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1226

Pre-School Enrollment: An Analysis by Immigrant Generation

Barry R. Chiswick, Noyna DebBurman

published in: Social Science Research, 2006, 35 (1), 60-87

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1221

A Review of Decomposition of Income Inequality

Almas Heshmati

revised version published in: A. Heshmati (Ed), Global Trends in Income Inequality, Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2007, 27-48

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1219

Inequalities and Their Measurement

Almas Heshmati

published in: A. Heshmati (Ed), Global Trends in Income Inequality, Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2007, 11-25

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1218

Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness… Or Does It? A Reconsideration Based on the Combined Effects of Wealth, Income and Consumption

Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels, Mark Wooden

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2008, 87(1), 65-82.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1209

Poverty Persistence in Sweden

Jörgen Hansen, Roger Wahlberg

revised version published as 'Poverty and its Persistence: A Comparison of Natives and Immigrants in Sweden' in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2009, 7 (2), 105-132

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1202

Approval of Equal Rights and Gender Differences in Well-Being

Rafael Lalive, Alois Stutzer

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (3), 933-962

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1200

Living Conditions of Children and Parental Well-Being – Evidence from German Data on Life Satisfaction

Johannes Schwarze

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1199

The Return to a University Education in Great Britain

Peter J. Sloane, Nigel C. O'Leary

published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2005, 193 (1), 75-89

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1194