IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 420

Higher Education Levels, Firms' Outside Options and the Wage Structure

Åsa Rosén, Etienne Wasmer

published in: Labour, 2005, 19 (4), 621-654

IZA Discussion Paper No. 419

The Value of Reunification in Germany: An Analysis of Changes in Life Satisfaction

Paul Frijters, John de New, Michael A. Shields

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2004, 39 (3), 649-674

IZA Discussion Paper No. 418

Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany

Markus Frölich, Patrick A. Puhani

published as 'Developing an immigration policy for Germany on the basis of a nonparametric labor market classification' in: Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv /Journal of the German Statistical Society, 2004, 88(1), 1-22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 417

Taking a Second Chance: Entrepreneurial Restarters in Germany

Joachim Wagner

published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2003, 49 (3), 255-272

IZA Discussion Paper No. 416

Employed 40 Hours or Not-Employed 39: Lessons from the 1982 Mandatory Reduction of the Workweek

Bruno Crépon, Francis Kramarz

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2002, 110 (6), 1355-1389

IZA Discussion Paper No. 415

Does Entry Regulation Hinder Job Creation? Evidence from the French Retail Industry

Marianne Bertrand, Francis Kramarz

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2002, 117 (4), 1369-1414

IZA Discussion Paper No. 414

Where Did They Go?

Anders Frederiksen, Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen

published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (5), 811-828

IZA Discussion Paper No. 413

Participation Behavior of East German Women after German Unification

Holger Bonin, Rob Euwals

published as 'Why Are Labor Force Participation Rates of East German Women So High?' in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2005, 51(4), 307-322

IZA Discussion Paper No. 412

Government Debt as Insurance against Macroeconomic Risk

Martin Barbie, Marcus Hagedorn, Ashok Kaul

IZA Discussion Paper No. 411

The Response of Consumption in Russian Households to Economic Shocks

Steven Stillman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 410

Wage Arrears and the Distribution of Earnings in Russia

Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 125-155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 409

Fertility, Female Labor Supply and Public Policy

Patricia Apps, Ray Rees

revised version published as 'Fertility, Taxation and Family Policy' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2004, 106 (4), 745-763

IZA Discussion Paper No. 408

Nonprofit Sector and Part-Time Work: An Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data of Child Care Workers

Naci Mocan, Erdal Tekin

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003, 85 (1), 38-50

IZA Discussion Paper No. 407

Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany

Ronald Schettkat, Lara Yocarini

published in: IAW-Report / Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung, 2003, 1, 7 - 66

IZA Discussion Paper No. 406

Labor Market Flows and Equilibrium Search Unemployment

Pietro Garibaldi, Etienne Wasmer

revised version published as 'Equilibrium Search Unemployment, Endogenous Participation, and Labor Market Flows' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005, 3 (4), 851-882

IZA Discussion Paper No. 405

Testing for the Option Value of Migration

Lilo Locher

IZA Discussion Paper No. 404

Human Capital Spill-Overs Within the Workplace

Harminder Battu, Clive R. Belfield, Peter J. Sloane

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2003, 65 (5), 575-594

IZA Discussion Paper No. 403

How Do Layoff Costs Affect Employment?

Lars Ljungqvist

published in: Economic Journal, 2002, 112 (482), 829-853

IZA Discussion Paper No. 402