IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7659

Thumbscrews for Agencies or for Individuals? How to Reduce Unemployment

substantially revised version published as 'The Employment Effect of Reforming a Public Employment Agency' in: European Economic Review, 2016, 84, 140-164

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7614

Do Firms Benefit from Active Labour Market Policies?

Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch, Patrycja Scioch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7580

Doing Well in Reforming the Labour Market? Recent Trends in Job Stability and Wages in Germany

Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Ursula Jaenichen, Thomas Rothe

published as 'The evolution of job stability and wages after the implementation of the Hartz reforms 'in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2016, 49, 269-294

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7559

The Effect of Extended Unemployment Benefit on the Job Finding Hazards: A Quasi-Experiment in Japan

Tomohiro Machikita, Miki Kohara, Masaru Sasaki

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7490

Youth Unemployment in Old Europe: The Polar Cases of France and Germany

Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo, Ulf Rinne, Klaus F. Zimmermann

revised version published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:18

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7460

Regional Effect Heterogeneity of Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn

published in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48 (6), 1108-1134

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7447

Robustness of the Encouragement Design in a Two-Treatment Randomized Control Trial

Luc Behaghel, Bruno Crépon, Marc Gurgand

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7403

Is the Contracting-Out of Intensive Placement Services More Effective than Provision by the PES? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Gerhard Krug, Gesine Stephan

revised version published as 'Private and Public Placement Services for Hard-To-Place Unemployed: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment' in: ILR Review, 2016, 69, 471-500

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7291

The Role of Short-Time Work Schemes during the Global Financial Crisis and Early Recovery: A Cross-Country Analysis

Alexander Hijzen, Sébastien Martin

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2013, 2:5

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7266

Monitoring Job Search Effort with Hyperbolic Time Preferences and Non-Compliance: A Welfare Analysis

Bart Cockx, Corinna Ghirelli, Bruno Van der Linden

revised version published as 'Is it Socially Efficient to Impose Job Search Requirements on Unemployed Benefit Claimants with Hyperbolic Preferences?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 113, 80-95

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7260

Is Germany the North Star of Labor Market Policy?

Ulf Rinne, Klaus F. Zimmermann

substantially revised version published in: IMF Economic Review, 2013, 61 (4), 702-729

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7193

Unemployment and Subsequent Employment Stability: Does Labour Market Policy Matter?

Melike Wulfgramm, Lukas Fervers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7077

Is Longer Unemployment Rewarded with Longer Job Tenure?

Miki Kohara, Masaru Sasaki, Tomohiro Machikita

published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2013, 29, 44-56

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7013