IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 549

Interpreting Europe and US Labor Markets Differences: The Specificity of Human Capital Investments

Etienne Wasmer

revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (3), 811-831

IZA Discussion Paper No. 541

Do the Higher Educated Unemployed Crowd Out the Lower Educated Ones in a Competition for Jobs?

Bart Cockx, Muriel Dejemeppe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 540

High Skilled Migration and the Exertion of Effort by the Local Population

Gil S. Epstein, Astrid Kunze, Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 56 (3), 332–352

IZA Discussion Paper No. 537

Unemployment Vouchers versus Low-Wage Subsidies

Mike Orszag, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Edmund S. Phelps (ed.), Designing Inclusion: Tools to Raise Low-end Pay and Employment in Private Enterprise, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 131 - 160

IZA Discussion Paper No. 534

The Insider-Outsider Theory: A Survey

Assar Lindbeck, Dennis J. Snower

IZA Discussion Paper No. 532

From Unemployment Benefits to Unemployment Accounts

Mike Orszag, Dennis J. Snower

IZA Discussion Paper No. 531

Unemployment in the European Union: A Dynamic Reappraisal

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Economic Modelling, 2003, 20 (2), 237-273

IZA Discussion Paper No. 530

Unemployment Invariance

Marika Karanassou, Dennis J. Snower

published in: German Economic Review, 2004, 5 (3), 297-317

IZA Discussion Paper No. 529

Incapacity Benefits and Employment Policy

Mike Orszag, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Labour Economics, 2002, 9 (5), 631-641

IZA Discussion Paper No. 527

The Locking-in Effect of Subsidized Jobs

Jan C. van Ours

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2004, 32 (1), 37-55

IZA Discussion Paper No. 521

Employment Status, Endogenous Regional Mobility, and Spatial Dependencies in Labor Markets

René Fahr, Uwe Sunde

revised version published as 'Spatial mobility and competition for jobs: Some theory and evidence for Western Germany' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2006, 36 (6), 802 - 825

IZA Discussion Paper No. 520

Unobserved Bilateral Search on the Labor Market: A Theory-Based Correction for a Common Flaw in Empirical Matching Studies

Uwe Sunde

substantially revised version published as 'Empirical Matching Functions: Searchers, Vacancies, and (Un-)biased Elasticities' in: Economica, 2007, 74 (295), 537-560

IZA Discussion Paper No. 519

Labor Mobility of Immigrants: Training, Experience, Language and Opportunities

Sarit Cohen Goldner, Zvi Eckstein

published in: International Economic Review, 2008, 49 (3), 837-872

IZA Discussion Paper No. 511

The Theory of Differential Overqualification: Does it Work?

Felix Büchel, Harminder Battu

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2003, 50 (1), 1-16

IZA Discussion Paper No. 506

Can Insider Power Affect Employment?

Pilar Diaz-Vazquez, Dennis J. Snower

published in: German Economic Review, 2003, 4 (2), 139-150