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81 IZA Policy Papers
IZA Policy Paper No. 59
The Design and Implementation of Public Pension Systems in Developing Countries: Issues and Options
David E. Bloom, Roddy McKinnon
IZA Policy Paper No. 54
Why Do Russian Firms Use Fixed-Term and Agency Work Contracts?
Larisa Smirnykh, Andreas Wörgötter
IZA Policy Paper No. 53
Wage and Occupational Assimilation by Skill Level: Migration Policy Lessons from Spain
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012, 1:8, [Open Access]
IZA Policy Paper No. 51
The State of University Policy for Progress in Europe
Cécile Hoareau, Jo Ritzen, Gabriele Marconi
IZA Policy Paper No. 48
How Could Germany Escape the Demographic Trap?
Christoph Kahlenberg, Alexander Spermann
updated short version published as "Die Demografiestrategie der Bundesregierung – ein Weg zu mehr Wohlstand?" in: Wirtschaftsdienst, 2013, 93, 165-169
IZA Policy Paper No. 46
Can the United States Expand Apprenticeship? Lessons from Experience
Robert I. Lerman
IZA Policy Paper No. 44
Can the University Save Europe?
Jo Ritzen
IZA Policy Paper No. 42
Raising Job Quality and Worker Skills in the US: Creating More Effective Education and Workforce Development Systems in States
Harry J. Holzer
IZA Policy Paper No. 35
Work Hours Constraints: Impacts and Policy Implications
Amelie F. Constant, Steffen Otterbach
IZA Policy Paper No. 28
Immigration: High Skilled vs. Low Skilled Labor?
Barry R. Chiswick
published in: Productivity Commission 2011, A 'Sustainable' Population? - Key Policy Issues, Roundtable Proceedings, Productivity Commission, Canberra, 27-40
IZA Policy Paper No. 27
Setting It Right: Employment Protection, Labour Reallocation and Productivity
John P. Martin, Stefano Scarpetta
published in: De Economist, 2012, 16 (2), 89-116
IZA Policy Paper No. 26
Wage Setting in Modern Labor Markets: Neither Fair Nor Efficient
Ekkehart Schlicht
IZA Policy Paper No. 19
China's Overt Economic Rise and Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top
Amelie F. Constant, Bienvenue N. Tien, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Jingzhou Meng
substantially revised version published as 'China's Latent Human Capital Investment: achieving milestones and competing for the top' in: Journal of Contemporary China, 2013, 22 (79), 109-130. [Open Access]
IZA Policy Paper No. 17
A New Cost-Benefit and Rate of Return Analysis for the Perry Preschool Program: A Summary
James J. Heckman, Seong Hyeok Moon, Rodrigo Pinto, Peter Savelyev, Adam Yavitz
published in: Arthur Reynolds, Arthur Rolnick, Michelle Englund, and Judy A. Temple (eds.), Childhood Programs and Practices in the First Decade of Life: A Human Capital Integration . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 366 - 380
IZA Policy Paper No. 16
Labor Market and Globalization: A Comparison of the Latin American and the East Asian Experiences in the 1980s and 1990s
Randolph Luca Bruno
IZA Policy Paper No. 15
Agenda 2020: Strategies to Achieve Full Employment in Germany
Hilmar Schneider, Klaus F. Zimmermann
IZA Policy Paper No. 14
Macedonia’s Accession to the EU and the Labor Market: What Can Be Learned from the New Member States?
Hartmut Lehmann
IZA Policy Paper No. 5
Some Remarks on the Effectiveness of Primary Education Interventions
Olmo Silva
IZA Policy Paper No. 4
How to Avoid a Pension Crisis: A Question of Intelligent System Design
Alessandro Cigno
published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2010, 56, 21-37
IZA Policy Paper No. 3
A Good Time for Making Work Pay? Taking Stock of In-Work Benefits and Related Measures across the OECD
Herwig Immervoll, Mark Pearson
also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper
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