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685 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3292
Gone for Good? Determinants of School Dropout in Southern Italy
Niall O'Higgins, Marcello D'Amato, Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Adriana Barone
published in: Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 2007, 66(2), 207-246
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3272
Clash of Career and Family: Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement
Emilia Del Bono, Andrea Weber, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (4), 659 - 683
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3235
A Gendered Assessment of the Brain Drain
Frédéric Docquier, B. Lindsay Lowell, Abdeslam Marfouk
published in: Population and Development Review, 2009, 35 (2), 297-321
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3223
Revolution and Family in Rural China: Influence of Family Background on Current Family Wealth
Hiroshi Sato, Shi Li
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3176
Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies
Štepán Jurajda, Katherine Terrell
published in: Economics of Transition, 2009, 17 (2), 241–274
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3167
Ethnic Competition and Specialization
Martin Kahanec
published in: Gil Epstein and Ira Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 205-229
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3160
The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment: New Evidence from Germany
Thomas Cornelissen, Christian Pfeifer
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (1), 94-103
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3154
Educational Self-Selection, Tasks Assignment and Rising Wage Inequality
Arnaud Dupuy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3122
Earnings-Tenure Profiles: Tests of Agency and Human Capital Theories Using Individual Performance Data
Xiao-Yuan Dong, Derek C. Jones, Takao Kato
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3104
Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms
Josef Fersterer, Jörn-Steffen Pischke, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 104 (4), 733-753
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3097
Africa’s Education Enigma? The Nigerian Story
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 91 (1), 128-139
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3074
Intergenerational Transmission of Language Capital and Economic Outcomes
Teresa Casey, Christian Dustmann
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2008, 43 (3), 660 - 687
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3067
How General Is Human Capital? A Task-Based Approach
Christina Gathmann, Uta Schönberg
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (1), 1 - 49
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3035
Brain Drain or Brain Gain? Micro Evidence from an African Success Story
Catia Batista, Aitor Lacuesta, Pedro C. Vicente
substantially revised version available as IZA DP No. 5048
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2987
Location-Specific Human Capital, Location Choice and Amenity Demand
Douglas J. Krupka
revised version published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2009, 49 (5), 833 - 854
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2985
Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment in Germany: The Last Five Decades
Guido Heineck, Regina T. Riphahn
published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2009, 229 (1), 36-60
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2974
Modeling Immigrants' Language Skills
Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 27, 75-128
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2945
The Sexual Orientation Wage Gap: The Role of Occupational Sorting, Human Capital, and Discrimination
Heather Antecol, Anneke Jong, Michael D. Steinberger
published as 'The Sexual Orientation Wage Gap: The Role of Occupational Sorting and Human Capital' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008, 61 (4), 518-543
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2905
Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility: A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition
Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde
see IZA DP 7199 for a substantially revised and extended version
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2886
Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
Sascha O. Becker, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, 124(2), 531-596
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