IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2173

An Age Perspective on Economic Well-Being and Social Protection in Nine OECD Countries

Thai-Thanh Dang, Herwig Immervoll, Daniela Mantovani, Kristian Orsini, Holly Sutherland

also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2171

Shortening the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits Does Not Affect the Quality of Post-Unemployment Jobs: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Jan C. van Ours, Milan Vodopivec

revised version published as 'Does reducing unemployment insurance generosity reduce job match quality?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (3-4), 684-695

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2081

Optimal Accumulation in an Endogenous Growth Setting with Human Capital

Frédéric Docquier, Oliver Paddison, Pierre Pestieau

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2006, 134 (1), 361-378

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2022

Military Draft and Economic Growth in OECD Countries

Katarina Keller, Panu Poutvaara, Andreas Wagener

published in: Defense and Peace Economics, 2009, 20 (5), 373-393

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1995

Welfare State Retrenchment: The Partisan Effect Revisited

Bruno Amable, Donatella Gatti, Jan Schumacher

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2006, 22 (3), 426-444

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1967

Is There a Social Security Tax Wedge?

Alessandro Cigno

published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (1), 68-77

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1923

Israel, the Palestinian Factions, and the Cycle of Violence

David A. Jaeger, M. Daniele Paserman

published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (2), 45-49

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1906

Education Policy and Equality of Opportunity

Gabriela Schütz, Heinrich W. Ursprung, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Kyklos, 2008, 61 (2), 279-308

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1863

International Capital Market Integration, Educational Choice and Economic Growth

Hartmut Egger, Peter Egger, Josef Falkinger, Volker Grossmann

published as 'The Impact of Capital Market Integration on Educational Choice and the Consequences for Economic Growth' in: World Economy, 2010, 33 (10), 1241-1268

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1854

Why Is the Timing of School Tracking So Heterogeneous?

Kenn Ariga, Giorgio Brunello, Roki Iwahashi, Lorenzo Rocco

substantial revision published as 'On the efficiency costs of de-tracking secondary schools in Europe" in: Education Economics, [iFirst]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1853

Crime and Police Resources: The Street Crime Initiative

Stephen Machin, Olivier Marie

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (4), 678 - 701

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1834

Immigration and Public Spending

René Böheim, Karin Mayr

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1831