IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11931

Institutional Reforms and an Incredible Rise in Old Age Employment

published as 'Institutional Reforms of 2006 and the Dramatic Rise in Old-Age Employment in Germany' in: ILR Review, 2020, 73 (5), 1185-1225.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11822

Can Economic Pressure Overcome Social Norms? The Case of Female Labor Force Participation

Ana Rute Cardoso, Louis-Philippe Morin

published online as 'War-driven permanent emigration, sex ratios, and female labor force participation' in: Journal of Human Resources, October 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11716

Fertility and Labor Market Responses to Reductions in Mortality

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Atheendar Venkataramani, Selma Walther

published as 'Women’s Fertility and Labor Market Responses to a Health Innovation' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (4), 1595–1646,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11638

Twins, Family Size, and Female Labor Force Participation in Iran

Mahdi Majbouri

published in: Applied Economics, 2019, 51 (4), 387-397

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11557

State Merit Aid Programs and Youth Labor Market Attachment

David E. Frisvold, Melinda Pitts

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11385

Explaining the MENA Paradox: Rising Educational Attainment, Yet Stagnant Female Labor Force Participation

Ragui Assaad, Rana Hendy, Moundir Lassassi, Shaimaa Yassin

published in: IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2018, 8 (17)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11322

Fertility and the Puzzle of Female Employment in the Middle East

Mahdi Majbouri

forthcoming in: Economics of Transition, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10934

Stigma of Sexual Violence and Women's Decision to Work

Tanika Chakraborty, Anirban Mukherjee, Swapnika Reddy Rachapalli, Sarani Saha

published in: World Development, 2018, 103, 226 - 238

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10826

The Gender Wage Gap in Developed Countries

Astrid Kunze

published in: Oxford Handbook on Women and the Economy, Oxford University Press, (ed.) Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys, and Saul D. Hoffman, 2018.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10769

Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States

Stephen R. G. Jones, W. Craig Riddell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10769

Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States

Stephen R. G. Jones, W. Craig Riddell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10534

Estimating Labor Force Joiners and Leavers Using a Heterogeneity Augmented Two-Tier Stochastic Frontier

Tirthatanmoy Das, Solomon Polachek

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 199, 156-172.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10464

Teen Fertility and Labor Market Segmentation: Evidence from Madagascar

Catalina Herrera-Almanza, David E. Sahn, Kira M. Villa

published in: Journal of African Economies, 2019, 28 (3), 277–303

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10440

Toothless Reforms? The Remarkable Stability of Female Labor Force Participation in a Top-Reforming Country

Norberto Pignatti, Karine Torosyan, Maka Chitanava

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10178

Does the Unemployment Invariance Hypothesis Hold for Canada?

Aysit Tansel, Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir, Emre Aksoy

substantially revised version published as 'Unemployment Invariance Hypothesis, Added and Discouraged Workers in Canada' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2018, 39 (7), 929-936.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10061

Turbulence and the Employment Experience of Older Workers

Etienne Lalé

published in: Quantitative Economics, 2018, 9 (2), 735-784.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10059

Commitment in the Household: Evidence from the Effect of Inheritances on the Labor Supply of Older Married Couples

David M. Blau, Ryan Goodstein

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 123 - 137

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9761

Racial Differences in Labor Market Transitions and the Great Recession

Kenneth A. Couch, Robert W. Fairlie, Huanan Xu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9745