IZA Discussion Papers

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. 2164

Income Taxes and Entrepreneurial Choice: Empirical Evidence from Germany

Frank M. Fossen, Viktor Steiner

revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2009, 36 (3), 487-513

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2156

Corruption and Bureaucratic Structure in a Developing Economy

John Bennett, Saul Estrin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2143

Control Rights in Public-Private Partnerships

Marco Francesconi, Abhinay Muthoo

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (3), 551-589

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2137

The Intrahousehold Allocation of Private and Public Consumption: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Data

Olivier Donni

published as "A Simple Approach to Investigate Intrahousehold Allocation of Private and Public Goods" in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91 (3), 617-628

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2121

Get Training or Wait? Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in West Germany

Bernd Fitzenberger, Aderonke Osikominu, Robert Völter

revised version published in Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2008, 91-92, 321-355

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2117

What Shapes Attitudes Toward Paying Taxes? Evidence from Multicultural European Countries

Benno Torgler, Friedrich Schneider

published in: Social Science Quarterly, 88(2) 2007, 443–470

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2116

Wage Rigidity or Fiscal Redistribution? The Unemployment Bias of Time Consistent Redistributive Policies

Etienne Lehmann

revised version published as 'Manon Domingues dos santos and Etienne Lehmann, 'Wage Rigidity or Fiscal Redistribution: The credibility Issue' in: Economics Bulletin, 2012, 32 (4), 2801-2807

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2114

The Impact of Brazil's Tax-Benefit System on Inequality and Poverty

Herwig Immervoll, Horacio Levy, José Ricardo Nogueira, Cathal O'Donoghue, Rozane Bezerra de Siqueira

published in: Klasen, S. and F. Nowak-Lehmann (eds.), Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America, MIT Press, 2009

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2109

Deregulating Job Placement in Europe: A Microeconometric Evaluation of an Innovative Voucher Scheme in Germany

Henrik Winterhager, Anja Heinze, Alexander Spermann

published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (4), 505-517

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2108

Friendship in a Public Good Experiment

Marco Haan, Peter Kooreman, Tineke Riemersma

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2106