IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1658

Who Are the Workers Who Never Joined a Union? Empirical Evidence from Germany

published in: Industrielle Beziehungen, 2006, 13 (2), 118-131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1657

Increasing Returns to Education and the Skills Under-Investment Trap

published as 'A Microfoundation for Increasing Returns in Human Capital Accumulation and the Under-Participation Trap' in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (7), 1661-1681

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1656

Are Student Exchange Programs Worth It?

Dolores Messer, Stefan C. Wolter

published in: Higher Education, 2007, 54 (5), 647-663

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1655

Revolutionary Effects of New Information Technologies

Gerard J. van den Berg

published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (509), F10-F28

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1654

Unhealthy Assimilation: Why Do Immigrants Converge to American Health Status Levels?

Heather Antecol, Kelly Bedard

published in: Demography, 2006, 43 (2), 337-360

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1653

The Microeconometric Estimation of Treatment Effects - An Overview

Marco Caliendo, Reinhard Hujer

published in: Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv / Journal of the German Statistical Society, 2006, 90 (1), 197-212

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1652

Cross-National Surveys of Learning Achievement: How Robust are the Findings?

Giorgina Brown, John Micklewright, Sylke V. Schnepf, Robert Waldmann

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2007, 170 (3), 623-646

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1651

Real Wage Cyclicality of Job Stayers, Within-Company Job Movers, and Between-Company Job Movers

Paul J. Devereux, Robert A. Hart

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 60 (1), 105-119

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1650

Job Displacement Penalties in Japan

Michael L. Bognanno, Lisa Delgado

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 225-250

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1649

Education, Matching and the Allocative Value of Romance

Alison L. Booth, Melvyn Coles

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, 8(4), 744-775

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1648

How Damaging Is Part-Time Employment to a Woman's Occupational Prospects?

Victoria L. Prowse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1647

The Neuroeconomics of Mind Reading and Empathy

Tania Singer, Ernst Fehr

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1646

The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation

Martijn Egas, Arno Riedl

published as 'The economics of altruistic punishment and the maintenance of cooperation' in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B -Biological Sciences, 2008, 275 (1637), 871-878

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1645

Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany: Evidence and Interpretation

Jörn-Steffen Pischke, Till von Wachter

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (2), 592-598

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1644

Do Financial Bonuses to Employees Reduce Their Absenteeism? Outcome of a Lottery

Wolter Hassink, Pierre Koning

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2009, 62 (3), 327 - 342

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1643

Optimal Incentive Contracts under Inequity Aversion

Florian Englmaier, Achim Wambach

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2010, 69 (2), 312-328