IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 677

Class Ridden or Meritocratic? An Economic Analysis of Recent Changes in Britain

Fernando Galindo-Rueda, Anna Vignoles

IZA Discussion Paper No. 676

Agriculture: Transition Buffer or Black Hole? A Three-State Model of Employment Dynamics

Alexandru Voicu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 675

Gross Job Flows in Ukraine: Size, Ownership and Trade Effects

Jozef Konings, Olga Kupets, Hartmut Lehmann

published in: Economics of Transition, 2003, 11 (2), 321-356

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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

The Impact of the Unemployment Benefit System on International Spillover Effects

Thomas Beissinger, Oliver Buesse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 654

Deaths Rise in Good Economic Times: Evidence From the OECD

Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Christopher J. Ruhm

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2006, 4 (3), 298-316.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 652

How Do Parents Raise the Educational Attainment of Future Generations?

Erik Plug

published as 'Estimating the Effect of Mother's Schooling on Children's Schooling Using a Sample of Adoptees' in: American Economic Review, 2004, 94 (1), 358-368

IZA Discussion Paper No. 651

Social Evolution, Corporate Culture, and Exploitation

Ekkehart Schlicht

final version published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2004, 160 (2), 232-42

IZA Discussion Paper No. 650

Overeducation and Ethnic Minorities in Britain

Harminder Battu, Peter J. Sloane

published in: Manchester School, 2004, 72 (4), 535-559

IZA Discussion Paper No. 647

Envy and Compassion in Tournaments

Christian Grund, Dirk Sliwka

revised version published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2005, 14 (1), 187-207