IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4758

Mortgage Finance in Central and Eastern Europe: Opportunity or Burden?

Thorsten Beck, Katie Kibuuka, Erwin R. Tiongson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4751

Determinants of Lifetime Unemployment: A Micro Data Analysis with Censored Quantile Regressions

Achim Schmillen, Joachim Möller

published as "Distribution and determinants of lifetime unemployment" in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (1), 33-47

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4749

Rates of Return to University Education: The Regression Discontinuity Design

Elliott Fan, Xin Meng, Zhichao Wei, Guochang Zhao

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics 2018, 120 (4), 1011-1042.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4726

Retirement Responses to a Generous Pension Reform: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Eastern Europe

Alexander M. Danzer

revised version published as 'Benefit Generosity and the Income Effect on Labour Supply: Quasi-Experimental Evidence' in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (571), 1059-1084

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4716

Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: An Analysis for Germany

Leilanie Basilio, Thomas K. Bauer

published in: Labour, 2017, 31 (3), 245 - 264

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4711

Is Informality Bad? Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa

Olivier B. Bargain, Prudence Magejo

published as 'Earnings Structure, Informal Employment and Self-Employment: New Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2011, 57, S100-S122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4689

Instrumental Variables Estimation with Partially Missing Instruments

Magne Mogstad, Matthew Wiswall

published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 114 (2), 186-189

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4679

Class Size and the Regression Discontinuity Design: The Case of Public Schools

Danny Cohen-Zada, Mark Gradstein, Ehud Reuven

published as 'Allocation of students in public schools: Theory and new evidence' in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 34, 96-106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4670

Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach

Marco Caliendo, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Arne Uhlendorff

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (4), 604-627

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4669

Investor Protection and the Value of Shares: Evidence from Statutory Rules Governing Variations of Shareholders' Class Rights in Russia

Alexander Muravyev

revised version published as 'Investor Protection and the Value of Shares: Evidence from Statutory Rules Governing Variations of Shareholders’ Class Rights in an Emerging Market ' in: Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2013, 29(6), 1344-1383

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4668

Land Rights Insecurity and Temporary Migration in Rural China

Maëlys de la Rupelle, Deng Quheng, Shi Li, Thomas Vendryes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4658

Electoral Rules, Political Competition and Fiscal Expenditures: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities

Marcos Chamon, João M. P. de Mello, Sergio Firpo

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (1),19-38

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4655

Dynamics of the Employment Assimilation of First-Generation Immigrant Men in Sweden: Comparing Dynamic and Static Assimilation Models with Longitudinal Data

Alpaslan Akay

substantially revised version published as 'Dynamics of Employment Assimilation' in IZA Journal of Migration, 2016, 15:3

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4639

Are Foreign Migrants More Assimilated Than Native Ones?

Riccardo Faini, Steinar Strom, Alessandra Venturini, Claudia Villosio

published as 'Wage assimilation of immigrants and internal migrants: the role of linguistic distance' in: Regional Studies, 2018, 52, 1423-1434

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4627

Minimum-Income Benefits in OECD Countries: Policy Design, Effectiveness and Challenges

Herwig Immervoll

published in: D. J. Besharov and K. A. Couch (eds.), 2012, Counting the Poor, Oxford University Press, 171-209. Also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4626

Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? Wage Disparity Within and Between Firms

Krishna Pendakur, Simon D. Woodcock

published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2010, 28(1), 181-189

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4620

Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Integration

Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: M. N. Jovanovic (ed.), International Handbook on the Economics of Integration, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, 2011, 145 - 168. Revised version published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann, International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, pp. 13-36.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4607

The Effects of a Sick Pay Reform on Absence and on Health-Related Outcomes

Patrick A. Puhani, Katja Sonderhof

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2010, 29 (2), 285-302

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4600

Well-being across America

Andrew J. Oswald, Stephen Wu

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (4), 1118-1134

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4557

The Trade-off between Fertility and Education: Evidence from before the Demographic Transition

Sascha O. Becker, Francesco Cinnirella, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2010, 15 (3), 177–204