IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 485

Class-Size Effects in School Systems Around the World: Evidence from Between-Grade Variation in TIMSS

Ludger Woessmann, Martin R. West

published in: European Economic Review, 2006, 50 (3), 695-736

IZA Discussion Paper No. 484

Institutional Effects in a Simple Model of Educational Production

John H. Bishop, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Education Economics, 2004, 12 (1), 17-38

IZA Discussion Paper No. 483

In-Group Cooperation in a Hostile Environment: An Economic Perspective on Some Aspects of Jewish Life in (Pre-Modern) Diaspora

Hillel Rapoport, Avi Weiss

published in: C. Chiswick, T. Lecker and N. Kahana (eds.): Jewish Society and Culture: An Economic Perspective, Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2007, 103-28.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 482

Leadership Skills and Wages

Peter J. Kuhn, Catherine Weinberger

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2005, 23 (3), 395-436

IZA Discussion Paper No. 481

Hiring Standards and Market Clearing

Ekkehart Schlicht

final version published as 'Hiring Standards and Labor Market Clearing' in: Metroeconomica, 2005, 56(2), 263-279

IZA Discussion Paper No. 480

The Complexity of Economic Policy: I. Restricted Local Optima in Tax Policy Design

Gilles Saint-Paul

IZA Discussion Paper No. 479

Unions and Employment Growth: The One Constant?

John T. Addison, Clive R. Belfield

published in: Industrial Relations, 2004, 43 (2), 305-323

IZA Discussion Paper No. 478

Uneven Technical Progress and Unemployment

Hans Gersbach, Achim Schniewind

IZA Discussion Paper No. 477

Natives, the Foreign-Born and High School Equivalents: New Evidence on the Returns to the GED

Melissa A. Clark, David A. Jaeger

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (4), 769-793

IZA Discussion Paper No. 476

Human Capital versus Social Capital: A Comparative Analysis of Immigrant Wages and Labor Market Incorporation in Japan and the United States

Wayne A. Cornelius, Takeyuki Tsuda, Zulema Valdez

published in: Migraciones Internacionales, 2004, 2 (1), 5-35

IZA Discussion Paper No. 475

A Macroeconomic Experiment in Mass Immigration

Zvi Hercowitz, Eran Yashiv

IZA Discussion Paper No. 474

Unions, Works Councils and Plant Closings in Germany

John T. Addison, Lutz Bellmann, Arnd Kölling

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2004, 42 (1), 125-148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 473

A pint a day raises a man's pay; but smoking blows that gain away

Jan C. van Ours

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2004, 23 (5), 863-886

IZA Discussion Paper No. 472

Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts of Economic Growth

Reto Foellmi, Josef Zweimüller

published as 'Structural change, Engel's consumption cycles and Kaldor's facts of economic growth' in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2008, 55 (7), 1317-1328

IZA Discussion Paper No. 471

Immigrants' Language Skills and Visa Category

Barry R. Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee, Paul W. Miller

published in: International Migration Review, 2006, 40 (2), 419-450

IZA Discussion Paper No. 470

Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?

Alessandro Cigno, Furio C. Rosati, Lorenzo Guarcello

published in: World Development, 2002, 30 (9), 1579-1589

IZA Discussion Paper No. 469

The Effect of Benefit Sanctions on the Duration of Unemployment

Rafael Lalive, Jan C. van Ours, Josef Zweimüller

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005, 3 (6), 1386-1417