IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4846

Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment: Comment

Martin G. Kocher, Marc V. Lenz, Matthias Sutter

substantially extended version published as: 'Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments: New Evidence from Randomized Natural Experiments' in: Management Science, 2012, 58 (8), 1585-1591

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4842

Polarization and Rising Wage Inequality: Comparing the U.S. and Germany

Dirk Antonczyk, Thomas DeLeire, Bernd Fitzenberger

published in: Econometrics, 2018, 6 (2), 1-33

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4840

Overconfidence is a Social Signaling Bias

Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Lorenz Götte, Aldo Rustichini

revised version published as 'Overconfidence and Social Signalling' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (3), 949-983

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4835

The Distinction between Dictatorial and Incentive Policy Interventions and its Implication for IV Estimation

Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4834

Excess Leverage and Productivity Growth in Emerging Economies: Is There A Threshold Effect?

Fabrizio Coricelli, Nigel Driffield, Sarmistha Pal, Isabelle Roland

revised version published as 'When does leverage hurt productivity growth? A firm-level analysis' in: Journal of International Money and Finance, 2012, 31 (6), 1674-1694

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4828

Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern

Daniel Baumgarten, Ingo Geishecker, Holger Görg

published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 61 (1), 132-152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4823

Wages and Immigrant Occupational Composition in Sweden

Jörgen Hansen, Roger Wahlberg, Sharif Faisal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4821

Employee Training and Wage Dispersion: White and Blue Collar Workers in Britain

Filipe Almeida-Santos, Yekaterina Chzhen, Karen A. Mumford

published in: Research In Labor Economics, 2010, 30, 35-60

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4816

The Added Worker Effect and the Discouraged Worker Effect for Married Women in Australia

Xiaodong Gong

published as 'The Added Worker Effect for Married Women in Australia' in: Economic Record, 2011, 87 (278), 414-426

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4809

The Evolution of the Returns to Human Capital in Canada, 1980-2005

Brahim Boudarbat, Thomas Lemieux, W. Craig Riddell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4806

Anticipation, Free-Rider Problem, and Adaptation to Trade Union: Re-examining the Curious Case of Dissatisfied Union Members

Nattavudh Powdthavee

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64 (5), 1000-1019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4802

The Returns to English-Language Skills in India

Mehtabul Azam, Aimee Chin, Nishith Prakash

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2013, 61 (2), 335-367

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4789

Non-Response Biases in Surveys of School Children: The Case of the English PISA Samples

John Micklewright, Sylke V. Schnepf, Chris Skinner

revised version published as 'Non-response biases in surveys of schoolchildren: the case of the English Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) samples' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2012, 175 (4), 915-938

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4783

Gender Wage Gap: A Semi-Parametric Approach with Sample Selection Correction

Matteo Picchio, Chiara Mussida

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (5), 564-578

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4777

Job Competition and the Wage Curve

Simonetta Longhi

published in: Regional Studies, 2012, 46 (5), 611-620

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4776

Wage Work for Women: The Menstrual Cycle and the Power of Water

Yasheng Maimaiti, W. Stanley Siebert

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4771