IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 665

Fancy a Stay at the 'Hotel California'? Foreign Direct Investment, Taxation and Firing Costs

Holger Görg

revised version published as 'Fancy a stay at the 'Hotel California'? in: Kyklos, 2005, 58 (4), 519-535

IZA Discussion Paper No. 664

Skill Upgrading and Rigid Relative Wages: The Case of Danish Manufacturing

published as 'Skill Upgrading and Rigid Relative Wages' in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Contributions to Macroeconomics, 2005, 5(1), Art. 7

IZA Discussion Paper No. 662

Getting It Right: Employment Subsidy or Minimum Wage?

Eric Strobl, Frank Walsh

revised version published as "Dealing with Monopsony Power: the Case for Employment Subsidies" in: Economics Letters, 2007, 94 (1), 83-89

IZA Discussion Paper No. 660

Do Large Employers Pay More in Developing Countries? The Case of Five African Countries

Eric Strobl, Robert Thornton

revised version published as "A Comparative Study of the Employer Size Wage Effect in Africa" in: Journal of Economic Development, 2004, 29 (1), 137-161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 657

Employment Consequences of Restrictive Permanent Contracts: Evidence from Spanish Labor Market Reforms

Adriana Kugler, Juan F. Jimeno, Virginia Hernanz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 656

The Impact of the Unemployment Benefit System on International Spillover Effects

Thomas Beissinger, Oliver Buesse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 654

Deaths Rise in Good Economic Times: Evidence From the OECD

Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Christopher J. Ruhm

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2006, 4 (3), 298-316.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 652

How Do Parents Raise the Educational Attainment of Future Generations?

Erik Plug

published as 'Estimating the Effect of Mother's Schooling on Children's Schooling Using a Sample of Adoptees' in: American Economic Review, 2004, 94 (1), 358-368

IZA Discussion Paper No. 651

Social Evolution, Corporate Culture, and Exploitation

Ekkehart Schlicht

final version published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2004, 160 (2), 232-42

IZA Discussion Paper No. 650

Overeducation and Ethnic Minorities in Britain

Harminder Battu, Peter J. Sloane

published in: Manchester School, 2004, 72 (4), 535-559

IZA Discussion Paper No. 647

Envy and Compassion in Tournaments

Christian Grund, Dirk Sliwka

revised version published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2005, 14 (1), 187-207

IZA Discussion Paper No. 646

The Return of the Long-Run Phillips Curve

Liam Graham, Dennis J. Snower

IZA Discussion Paper No. 645

Long-Run Inflation-Unemployment Dynamics: The Spanish Phillips Curve and Economic Policy

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2008, 30 (2), 279-300

IZA Discussion Paper No. 644

Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth Under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition

J. David Brown, John S. Earle

IZA Discussion Paper No. 643

Parental Separation and Children's Educational Attainment: A Siblings Approach

Anders Björklund, Marianne Sundström

published as 'Parental Separation and Children's Educational Attainment: A Siblings Analysis on Swedish Register Data' in: Economica, 2006, 73 (292), 605-624

IZA Discussion Paper No. 642

The Effect of Immigration on Wages in Three European Countries

Joop Hartog, Aslan Zorlu

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18 (1), 113-151

IZA Discussion Paper No. 640

Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors: Does It Matter?

Joop Hartog, Nicole Jonker, Hans van Ophem

published in: Applied Economics, 2006, 38, (9), 1019-1035

IZA Discussion Paper No. 639

Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?

Gilles Saint-Paul

published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (1), 129-144