IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2121

Get Training or Wait? Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in West Germany

Bernd Fitzenberger, Aderonke Osikominu, Robert Völter

revised version published in Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2008, 91-92, 321-355

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2119

revised version published as 'Punishment, inequality, and welfare : a public good experiment' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2008, 31 (3), 475–502.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2118

Economic Returns to Communist Party Membership: Evidence from Urban Chinese Twins

Hongbin Li, Pak-Wai Liu, Junsen Zhang, Ning Ma

published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (523), 1504 - 1520

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2115

Female Labor Market Transitions in Europe

Lutz C. Kaiser

published German version: Arbeitsmarktflexibilität, Arbeitsmarktübergänge und Familie: Die Europäische Perspektive, in: Szydlik, Marc (Ed.) (2008), Flexibilisierung – Folgen für Arbeit und Familie. Springer VS, pp. 295-313

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2114

The Impact of Brazil's Tax-Benefit System on Inequality and Poverty

Herwig Immervoll, Horacio Levy, José Ricardo Nogueira, Cathal O'Donoghue, Rozane Bezerra de Siqueira

published in: Klasen, S. and F. Nowak-Lehmann (eds.), Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America, MIT Press, 2009

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2112

Calculation of Multivariate Normal Probabilities by Simulation, with Applications to Maximum Simulated Likelihood Estimation

Lorenzo Cappellari, Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: Stata Journal, 2006, 6 (2), 156-189

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2111

Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Jens Ludwig, Douglas L. Miller

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, 122 (1), 159-208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2108

Friendship in a Public Good Experiment

Marco Haan, Peter Kooreman, Tineke Riemersma

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2107

Empirical Estimation Results of a Collective Household Time Allocation Model

Chris van Klaveren, Bernard M. S. van Praag, Henriette Maassen van den Brink

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2106

Mutual Monitoring in Teams: Theory and Experimental Evidence on the Importance of Reciprocity

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 71(2), 221-232

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2104

Labor Market Assimilation of Recent Immigrants in Spain

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Sara de la Rica

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2007, 45 (2), 257-285

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2103

Daughters and Left-Wing Voting

Andrew J. Oswald, Nattavudh Powdthavee

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92 (2), 213-227

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2102

Market Power, Dismissal Threat and Rent Sharing: The Role of Insider and Outsider Forces in Wage Bargaining

Anabela Carneiro, Pedro Portugal

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2008, 29 (1), 30-47

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2101

Hispanic Self-Employment: A Dynamic Analysis of Business Ownership

Magnus Lofstrom, Chunbei Wang

substantially revised version published as 'Mexican- American Self-Employment : A Dynamic Analysis of Business Ownership' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 197 - 227

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2099

On the Stability of the German Beveridge Curve: A Spatial Econometric Perspective

Reinhold Kosfeld, Christian Dreger, Hans-Friedrich Eckey

published in: Annals of Regional Science, 2008, 42, 967-986

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2098

Rising Wage Dispersion, After All! The German Wage Structure at the Turn of the Century

Karsten Kohn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2097

Wage Inequality and Job Insecurity among Permanent and Contract Workers in India: Evidence from Organized Manufacturing Industries

Amit Kumar Bhandari, Almas Heshmati

published in: ICFAI Journal of Applied Economics, 2008, 7(1), 80-111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2096