IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 947

Potential, Prizes and Performance: Testing Tournament Theory with Professional Tennis Data

Uwe Sunde

substantially revised version published as 'Heterogeneity and Performance in Tournaments: A Test for Incentive Effect using Professional Tennis Data' in: Applied Economics, 2010, 41 (25), 3199-3208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 946

Earnings Instability of Job Stayers and Job Changers

Marco Leonardi

revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2017, 55(1), 260-280

IZA Discussion Paper No. 944

Much Ado About Nothing? Do Domestic Firms Really Benefit from Foreign Direct Investment?

Holger Görg, David Greenaway

published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2004, 19(2), 171-197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 943

What Have We Learned About the Employment Effects of Severance Pay? Further Iterations of Lazear et al.

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira

published in: Empirica, 2005, 32 (3-4), 345-368

IZA Discussion Paper No. 942

Dynamic Modeling of the SSDI Application Timing Decision: The Importance of Policy Variables

Richard V. Burkhauser, J. S. Butler, Gulcin Gumus

IZA Discussion Paper No. 941

Option Value and Dynamic Programming Model Estimates of Social Security Disability Insurance Application Timing

Richard V. Burkhauser, J. S. Butler, Gulcin Gumus

revised version published as 'Dynamic programming model estimates of Social Security Disability Insurance application timing" in Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2004, 19 (6), 671-685

IZA Discussion Paper No. 940

What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does It Pay? Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany

Amelie F. Constant, Yochanan Shachmurove, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: International Migration, 2007, 45 (4), 69-98

IZA Discussion Paper No. 936

Disability, Gender and the Labour Market

Melanie K. Jones, Paul L. Latreille, Peter J. Sloane

revised version published as 'Disability, gender, and the British labour market ' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2006, 58 (3), 407-449

IZA Discussion Paper No. 935

Performance, Seniority and Wages: Formal Salary Systems and Individual Earnings Profiles

Thomas Dohmen

published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (6), 741-763

IZA Discussion Paper No. 934

The Skill Bias Effect of Technological and Organisational Change: Evidence and Policy Implications

Mariacristina Piva, Enrico Santarelli, Marco Vivarelli

published in: Research Policy, 2005, 34 (2), 141-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 930

Individual Mortality and Macro-Economic Conditions from Birth to Death

Maarten Lindeboom, France Portrait, Gerard J. van den Berg

published as: 'Economic Conditions Early in Life and Individual Mortality' in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (1), 290-302

IZA Discussion Paper No. 929

Empirical Labor Search: A Survey

Zvi Eckstein, Gerard J. van den Berg

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 136 (2), 531-564

IZA Discussion Paper No. 926

Why the Apple Doesn't Fall Far: Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital

Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes

published in: American Economic Review, 2005, 95 (1), 437-449

IZA Discussion Paper No. 923

Reducing Start-Up Costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labour Market

Uwe Dulleck, Paul Frijters, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2006, 108 (2); 317-337.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 921

Sectoral Adjustment of Employment: The Impact of Outsourcing and Trade at the Micro Level

Peter Egger, Michael Pfaffermayr, Andrea Weber

published as 'Sectoral adjustment of employment to shifts in outsourcing and trade: evidence from a dynamic fixed effects multinomial logit model' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2007, 22 (3), 559-580

IZA Discussion Paper No. 920

Employment Changes, the Structure of Adjustment Costs, and Plant Size

Øivind Anti Nilsen, Kjell G. Salvanes, Fabio Schiantarelli

published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (3), 577-598

IZA Discussion Paper No. 917

A Note on the Redistributive Effect of Immigration

Rob Euwals, Hans Roodenburg

published in: Economics Letters, 2004, 85 (2), 241-256

IZA Discussion Paper No. 916

Why Some Firms Train Apprentices and Many Others Do Not

Stefan C. Wolter, Samuel Mühlemann, Jürg Schweri

published in: German Economic Review, 2006, 7(3), 249-264