IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5001

Implicit Contracts, Unemployment, and Labor Market Segmentation

Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman

substantially revised version published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2014, 81 (1), 30-56

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4993

Quantile Treatment Effects in the Regression Discontinuity Design: Process Results and Gini Coefficient

Markus Frölich, Blaise Melly

revised version published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2012, 168 (2), 382-395

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4987

Inequality in Vietnamese Urban-Rural Living Standards, 1993-2006

Huong Thu Le, Alison L. Booth

revised version published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2014, 60 (4), 862–886

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4977

Real Wages, Working Time, and the Great Depression: What Does Micro Evidence Tell Us?

Robert A. Hart, J. Elizabeth Roberts

published as 'Real wage cyclicality in the Great Depression: evidence from British engineering and metal working firms' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2013, 65 (2), 197-218

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4976

The Self-Employment of Immigrants and Natives in Sweden

Henrik Ohlsson, Per Broomé, Pieter Bevelander

published in: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 2012, 24 (5-6), 405-423

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4958

Estimating Incentive and Welfare Effects of Non-Stationary Unemployment Benefits

Andrey Launov, Klaus Wälde

revised version published in: International Economic Review, 2013, 54 (4), 1159-1198

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4911

Rising Wage Inequality, the Decline of Collective Bargaining, and the Gender Wage Gap

Dirk Antonczyk, Bernd Fitzenberger, Katrin Sommerfeld

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (5), 835-847

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4879

The Dynamics of Women's Labour Supply in Developing Countries

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Marcela Umana-Aponte

revised version available

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4870

What Makes a Good Conference? Analysing the Preferences of Labor Economists

Lex Borghans, Margo Romans, Jan Sauermann

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (5), 868-874

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4862

Enhanced Fee-for-Service Model and Access to Physician Services: Evidence from Family Health Groups in Ontario

Jasmin Kantarevic, Boris Kralj, Darrel Weinkauf

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (1), 99-111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4853

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Use of Drug Therapy

John R. Bowblis, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Social Science Research, 2010, 39 (4), 674-684

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4850

Recent Advances in the Economics of Individual Subjective Well-Being

Alois Stutzer, Bruno S. Frey

published in: Social Research, 2010, 77 (2), 679-714

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4847

Does Education Reduce the Risk of Hypertension? Estimating the Biomarker Effect of Compulsory Schooling in England

Nattavudh Powdthavee

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2010, 4 (2), 173-202

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4846

Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment: Comment

Martin G. Kocher, Marc V. Lenz, Matthias Sutter

substantially extended version published as: 'Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments: New Evidence from Randomized Natural Experiments' in: Management Science, 2012, 58 (8), 1585-1591

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4842

Polarization and Rising Wage Inequality: Comparing the U.S. and Germany

Dirk Antonczyk, Thomas DeLeire, Bernd Fitzenberger

published in: Econometrics, 2018, 6 (2), 1-33

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4836

The Impact of Degree Class on the First Destinations of Graduates: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Giorgio Di Pietro

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4834

Excess Leverage and Productivity Growth in Emerging Economies: Is There A Threshold Effect?

Fabrizio Coricelli, Nigel Driffield, Sarmistha Pal, Isabelle Roland

revised version published as 'When does leverage hurt productivity growth? A firm-level analysis' in: Journal of International Money and Finance, 2012, 31 (6), 1674-1694

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4821

Employee Training and Wage Dispersion: White and Blue Collar Workers in Britain

Filipe Almeida-Santos, Yekaterina Chzhen, Karen A. Mumford

published in: Research In Labor Economics, 2010, 30, 35-60

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4820

The Costs of Favoritism: Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?

Axel Dreher, Stephan Klasen, James Raymond Vreeland, Eric Werker

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2013, 62 (1), 157-191

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4803

Measuring the Willingness to Pay to Avoid Guilt: Estimation Using Equilibrium and Stated Belief Models

Charles Bellemare, Alexander Sebald, Martin Strobel

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 26 (3), 437-453