IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2616

Should Old-Age Benefits Be Earnings-Tested?

Niku Määttänen, Panu Poutvaara

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2615

The Impact of the Recent Migration from Eastern Europe on the UK Economy

David G. Blanchflower, Jumana Saleheen, Chris Shadforth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2614

Empirical Modeling of Deprivation Contagion among Social Exclusion Dimensions (Using MCMC Methods)

Ambra Poggi, Xavier Ramos

published in: Jacques Silber (ed.), The Measurement of Individual Well-Being and Group Inequalities: Essays in Memory of Z.M. Berrebi, Routledge, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2613

The Racial Test Score Gap and Parental Involvement in Britain

Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou

published in: Economics Letters, 2009, 102, 49-52

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2612

On the Emergence of Toyboys: Equilibrium Matching with Ageing and Uncertain Careers

Melvyn Coles, Marco Francesconi

published in: International Economic Review, 2011, 52 (3), 825-853

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2611

Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform

Eric V. Edmonds, Nina Pavcnik, Petia Topalova

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, 2 (4), 42-75

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2610

Minimum Wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Employment: Evidence from the Post-Welfare Reform Era

David Neumark, William Wascher

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2609

New Insights on Unemployment Duration and Post Unemployment Earnings in Germany: Censored Box-Cox Quantile Regression at Work

Bernd Fitzenberger, Ralf Wilke

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (6), 794 - 826

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2608

Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighborhood Quality and/or Parents’ Involvement?

Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou

published as 'Neighborhood Effects and Parental Involvement in the Intergenerational Transmission of Education' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2011, 51 (5), 987 - 1013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2607

A Model with Endogenous Programme Participation: Evaluating the Tax Credit in France

Hans Bloemen, Elena G. F. Stancanelli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2606

Child Labor

Eric V. Edmonds

published in: Handbook of Development Economics Volume 4: T.P. Shultz and J. Strauss, eds., 2008

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2605

Dann waren's nur noch vier… Wie viele (und welche) Maßnahmen der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik brauchen wir noch? Eine Bilanz nach der Evaluation der Hartz-Reformen

Werner Eichhorst, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published as ,And Then There Were Four… How Many (and Which) Measures of Active Labor Market Policy Do We Still Need?' English version; in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2007, 53 (3), 243-272

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2604

Workers’ Flows and Real Wage Cyclicality

Anabela Carneiro, Pedro Portugal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2603

Territorial Differences in Italian Students’ Mathematical Competencies: Evidence from PISA 2003

Massimiliano Bratti, Daniele Checchi, Antonio Filippin

revised version published as "Geographical Differences in Italian Students' Mathematical Competencies: Evidence from PISA 2003" in: Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 2007, 66(3), 299-333

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2602

Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces

Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007, 21(2), 27-52

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2601

Are Shirking and Leisure Substitutable? An Empirical Test of Efficiency Wages Based on Urban Economic Theory

Stephen L. Ross, Yves Zenou

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2008, 38, 498-517

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2600

Inflation Persistence and the Phillips Curve Revisited

Marika Karanassou, Dennis J. Snower

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2599