IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 664

Skill Upgrading and Rigid Relative Wages: The Case of Danish Manufacturing

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. 661

Efficiency Wages and Effort: Are Hard Jobs Better?

Eric Strobl, Frank Walsh

revised version published as "Estimating the Shirking Model with Variable Effort" in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (3), 623-647

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. 659

Defining Unemployment in Developing Countries: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago

Eric Strobl, David Byrne

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2004, 73 (1), 465-476

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. 653

Money for Health: The Compensating Variation of Cardiovascular Diseases

Wim Groot, Henriette Maassen van den Brink, Erik Plug

published a 'Money for health: the equivalent variation of cardiovascular diseases' in: Health Economics, 2004, 13 (9), 859-872

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. 649

From Parent to Child: Early Labor Market Experiences of Second-Generation Immigrants in the Netherlands

Jan C. van Ours, Justus Veenman

published in: De Economist, 2004, 152 (4), 473-490

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 643

Parental Separation and Children's Educational Attainment: A Siblings Approach

Anders Björklund, Marianne Sundström

published as 'Parental Separation and Children's Educational Attainment: A Siblings Analysis on Swedish Register Data' in: Economica, 2006, 73 (292), 605-624

IZA Discussion Paper No. 642

The Effect of Immigration on Wages in Three European Countries

Joop Hartog, Aslan Zorlu

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18 (1), 113-151

IZA Discussion Paper No. 641

Earnings Risk and Demand for Higher Education: A Cross-Section Test for Spain

Joop Hartog, Luis Diaz-Serrano

published in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2007, 10 (1) , 1-28

IZA Discussion Paper No. 640

Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors: Does It Matter?

Joop Hartog, Nicole Jonker, Hans van Ophem

published in: Applied Economics, 2006, 38, (9), 1019-1035