IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 673

Labour as a Buffer: Do Temporary Workers Suffer?

Alison L. Booth, Marco Francesconi, Jeff Frank

published in: Gabriel Fagan, Francesco Paolo Mongelli and Julian Morgan (eds.), Institutions and Wage Formation in the New Europe, Edward Elgar 2003

IZA Discussion Paper No. 672

Self-Selection, Earnings, and Out-Migration: A Longitudinal Study of Immigrants to Germany

Amelie F. Constant, Douglas S. Massey

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 16 (4), 2003, 631-653

IZA Discussion Paper No. 671

School Effects and Labor Market Outcomes for Young Adults in the 1980s and 1990s

Amelie F. Constant, Spyros Konstantopoulos

published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 49 (1), 2003, 5-22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 670

From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History

Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2007, 5 (5), 885-926,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 669

Assessing Unemployment Traps in Belgium Using Panel Data Sample Selection Models

Anna Cristina D'Addio, Isabelle De Greef, Michael Rosholm

IZA Discussion Paper No. 668

Solow and Heterogeneous Labor: A Neoclassical Explanation of Wage Inequality

Jürgen Meckl, Stefan Zink

published in: Economic Journal, 2004, 114 (498), 835-854

IZA Discussion Paper No. 667

Arbeitsmarkteffekte und finanzpolitische Folgen der demographischen Alterung in Deutschland

Pascal Arnds, Holger Bonin

published in: M. Herfurth, M. Kohli and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), Arbeit in einer alternden Gesellschaft (Labor in an Aging Society), Leverkusen: Leske+Budrich, 2003, 131-177

IZA Discussion Paper No. 666

Frühverrentung in Deutschland: Ökonomische Anreize und institutionelle Strukturen

Pascal Arnds, Holger Bonin

published in: M. Herfurth, M. Kohli and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), Arbeit in einer alternden Gesellschaft (Labor in an Aging Society), Leverkusen: Leske+Budrich, 2003, 65-91

IZA Discussion Paper No. 665

Fancy a Stay at the 'Hotel California'? Foreign Direct Investment, Taxation and Firing Costs

Holger Görg

revised version published as 'Fancy a stay at the 'Hotel California'? in: Kyklos, 2005, 58 (4), 519-535

IZA Discussion Paper No. 664

Skill Upgrading and Rigid Relative Wages: The Case of Danish Manufacturing

Jan Rose Skaksen, Anders Sorensen

published as 'Skill Upgrading and Rigid Relative Wages' in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Contributions to Macroeconomics, 2005, 5(1), Art. 7

IZA Discussion Paper No. 663

Another Look at the New York City School Voucher Experiment

Alan B. Krueger, Pei Zhu

published in: American Behavioral Scientist, 2004, 47 (5), 658-698

IZA Discussion Paper No. 662

Getting It Right: Employment Subsidy or Minimum Wage?

Eric Strobl, Frank Walsh

revised version published as "Dealing with Monopsony Power: the Case for Employment Subsidies" in: Economics Letters, 2007, 94 (1), 83-89

IZA Discussion Paper No. 661

Efficiency Wages and Effort: Are Hard Jobs Better?

Eric Strobl, Frank Walsh

revised version published as "Estimating the Shirking Model with Variable Effort" in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (3), 623-647

IZA Discussion Paper No. 660

Do Large Employers Pay More in Developing Countries? The Case of Five African Countries

Eric Strobl, Robert Thornton

revised version published as "A Comparative Study of the Employer Size Wage Effect in Africa" in: Journal of Economic Development, 2004, 29 (1), 137-161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 659

Defining Unemployment in Developing Countries: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago

Eric Strobl, David Byrne

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2004, 73 (1), 465-476

IZA Discussion Paper No. 658

Why Do Students Expect to Stay Longer in College? Evidence from Europe

Giorgio Brunello, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published in: Economics Letters, 2003, 80 (2), 247-253.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 657

Employment Consequences of Restrictive Permanent Contracts: Evidence from Spanish Labor Market Reforms

Adriana Kugler, Juan F. Jimeno, Virginia Hernanz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 656