IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2505

Employment Regulation and Labor Market Policy in Germany, 1991-2005

published in: Paul de Beer and Trudie Schils (eds.), The Labour Market Triangle Employment Protection, Unemployment Compensation and Activation in Europe, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2009, 119-144

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2504

How to Help Unemployed Find Jobs Quickly: Experimental Evidence from a Mandatory Activation Program

Brian Krogh Graversen, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (10-11), 2020-2035

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2503

Immigration and the Neighborhood

Albert Saiz, Susan M. Wachter

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011, 3 (2), 169-188

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2502

Educational Inputs and Outcomes Before the Transition from Communism

John Beirne, Nauro F. Campos

published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15 (1), 57-76

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2501

Social Relations and Remittances: Evidence from Canadian Micro Data

Don J. DeVoretz, Florin Vadean

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2500

Reciprocity and Payment Schemes: When Equality Is Unfair

Johannes Abeler, Steffen Altmann, Sebastian Kube, Matthias Wibral

substantially revised version appeared as DP No. 4262

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2499

The Age of Mass Migration: Economic and Institutional Determinants

Graziella Bertocchi, Chiara Strozzi

revised version published as "International Migration and the Role of Institutions" in: Public Choice, 2008, 137(1), 81-102

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2498

Intra-Household Allocation of Resources: Inferences from Non-Resident Fathers’ Child Support Payments

John Ermisch, Chiara D. Pronzato

published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (527), 347-362

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2497

Minimum Wages, Globalization and Poverty in Honduras

T. H. Gindling, Katherine Terrell

revised version published in: World Development, 2010, 38(6), 908-918

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2496

Wages, Productivity and Aging

Benoit Dostie

published in: De Economist, 2011, 159 (2), 139 - 158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2495

Changing Patterns of Ethnic Minority Self-Employment in Britain: Evidence from Census Microdata

Ken Clark, Stephen Drinkwater

revised version published as 'Patterns of Ethnic Self-Employment in Time and Space: Evidence from British Census Microdata' in: Small Business Economics, 2010, 34 (3), 323-338

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2494

Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification

Richard A. Easterlin, Anke Zimmermann

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 68 (3-4), 433-444

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2493

The International Migration of Knowledge Workers: When Is Brain Drain Beneficial?

Peter J. Kuhn, Carol McAusland

revised version published as 'Consumers and the brain drain: Product and process design and the gains from emigration' in: Journal of International Economics, 2009, 78 (2), 287–291

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2492

Financial Incentives and the Timing of Retirement: Evidence from Switzerland

Barbara Hanel, Regina T. Riphahn

published as 'The Timing of Retirement - New Evidence from Swiss Female Workers' in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19(5), 718-728

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2491

Which Factors Determine the Grades of Undergraduate Students in Economics? Some Evidence from Spain

Juan J. Dolado, Eduardo Morales

published in: Investigaciones Económicas (2009), 23, 179-210.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2490

Student Achievement and University Classes: Effects of Attendance, Size, Peers, and Teachers

Pedro S. Martins, Ian Walker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2489