IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4711

Is Informality Bad? Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa

published as 'Earnings Structure, Informal Employment and Self-Employment: New Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2011, 57, S100-S122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4666

Time to Work or Time to Play: The Effect of Student Employment on Homework, Sleep, and Screen Time

Charlene M. Kalenkoski, Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia

published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (2), 211-221

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4659

Welfare Usage in the U.S.: Does Immigrant Birthplace and Immigration Status Matter?

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Maharouf Oyolola

revised version published as 'Do Immigrant Groups Differ in Welfare Usage? Evidence from the U.S.A' in: Atlantic Economic Journal, 2011, 39 (3), 231-247

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4651

Was there a Skills Shortage in Australia?

Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4650

The Family Gap in Wages: What Wombmates Reveal

Marianne Simonsen, Lars Skipper

published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (1), 102-112

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4645

Happiness and Productivity

Andrew J. Oswald, Eugenio Proto, Daniel Sgroi

revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (4), 789-822

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4641

The Determinants of High School Closures: Lessons from Longitudinal Data throughout Illinois

Sherrilyn M. Billger, Frank D. Beck

published in: Journal of Education Finance, 2012, 38 (2), 83-101

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4636

The Gender Wage Gap as a Function of Educational Degree Choices in an Occupationally Segregated EU Country

Ilias Livanos, Konstantinos Pouliakas

published as 'Educational segregation and the gender wage gap in Greece' in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2012, 39 (5), 554-575

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4635

What's the Use of Marriage?

Alessandro Cigno

published as 'Marriage as a commitment device' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2012, 10 (2), 171-192

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4629

Efficient Subsidization of Human Capital Accumulation with Overlapping Generations and Endogenous Growth

Wolfram F. Richter, Christoph Braun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4628

Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees

Mirjam C. van Praag, Arjen van Witteloostuijn, Justin van der Sluis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4613

Local Human Capital Externalities and Wages at the Firm Level: The Case of Italian Manufacturing

Massimiliano Bratti, Roberto Leombruni

revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 41, 161-175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4606

Inference on a Generalized Roy Model, with an Application to Schooling Decisions in France

Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Arnaud Maurel

published as 'Inference on an Extended Roy Model, with an Application to Schooling Decisions in France' in: Journal of Econometrics, 2013, 174 (2), 95–106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4590

The Economic Progress of American Jewry: From 18th Century Merchants to 21st Century Professionals

Barry R. Chiswick

published in: Aaron Levine (ed.), Judaism and Economics, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 625-645

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4589

Substitution between Managers and Subordinates: Evidence from British Football

Sue Bridgewater, Lawrence M. Kahn, Amanda H. Goodall

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18(3), 275-286

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4569

New Estimates of Public Employment and Training Program Net Impacts: A Nonexperimental Evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act Program

Carolyn J. Heinrich, Peter R. Mueser, Kenneth Troske, Kyung-Seong Jeon, Daver C. Kahvecioglu

published as "Do Public Employment and Training Programs Work?" in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2013, 2:6