IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1287

What Accounts for International Differences in Student Performance? A Re-Examination Using PISA Data

Thomas Fuchs, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Empirical Economics, 2007, 32 (2-3), 433-464

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1268

Labor Market Institutions, Wages, and Investment

Jörn-Steffen Pischke

published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2005, 51 (1), 47-75

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1265

High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Europe

Thomas K. Bauer

published in: RWI-Mitteilungen, 2003/2004, 54/55 (1), 57-85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1264

Unions, Training, and Firm Performance: Evidence from the British Workplace Employee Relations Survey

John T. Addison, Clive R. Belfield

published as 'Unions, Training, and Firm Performance' in: Journal of Labor Market Research/Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung, 2007, 40 (4), 361-381

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1261

Why Do Part-Time Workers Earn Less? The Role of Worker and Job Skills

Barry Hirsch

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2005, 58 (4), 525-551

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1247

A Simulation of an Income Contingent Tuition Scheme in a Transition Economy

Milan Vodopivec

published in: Higher Education, 2009, 57 (4), 429-448

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1246

Linguistic Distance: A Quantitative Measure of the Distance Between English and Other Languages

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005, 26 (1), 1-11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1238

The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 2000: A Preliminary Report

Barry R. Chiswick, Michael Wenz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1234

Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen: Proclivity and Performance

Amelie F. Constant

substantially revised version published in: Kyklos, 2006, 59 (4), 465-480

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1233

Do a Few Months of Compulsory Schooling Matter? The Education and Labour Market Impact of School Leaving Rules

Emilia Del Bono, Fernando Galindo-Rueda

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1229

Incentive Effects of Bonus Payments: Evidence from an International Company

Axel Engellandt, Regina T. Riphahn

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64 (2), 241-257

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1222

Does Monitoring Decrease Work Effort? The Complementarity Between Agency and Crowding-Out Theories

David L. Dickinson, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2008, 63 (1), 56-76.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1216

Parents and Children Talk: The Family Dynamics of English Language Proficiency

Barry R. Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee, Paul W. Miller

published as 'Parents and Children Talk: English Language Proficiency within Immigrant Families' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2005, 3 (3), 243-268

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1197

Employee Training and Wage Compression in Britain

Filipe Almeida-Santos, Karen A. Mumford

revised version published in: Manchester School, 2005, 73 (3), 321-342

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1195

Candidate Quality

Panu Poutvaara, Tuomas Takalo

published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2007, 14 (1), 7-27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1189

Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality

Gueorgui Kambourov, Iourii Manovskii

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2009, 76 (2), 731-759