IZA - All published DPs

Logo
No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1383 Mirko Cardinale
Mike Orszag
Severance Pay and Corporate Finance: Empirical Evidence from a Panel of Austrian and Italian Firms
This paper examines the empirical link between severance pay and corporate finance. Severance pay is an economic debt of the employer and hence should be taken into account by the market in its ...
(published in: Empirica, 2005, 32 (3-4), 309-343)
J65, J32, G39
1382 Pedro S. Martins
Firm-Level Social Returns to Education
Do workers benefit from the education of their co-workers? This question is examined first by introducing a model of on-the-job schooling, which argues that educated workers may transfer part of ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23(2), 539-558)
J24, J31, I20
1381 Armin Falk
Urs Fischbacher
Simon Gächter
Living in Two Neighborhoods: Social Interactions in the Lab
Field evidence suggests that people belonging to the same group often behave similarly, i.e., behaviour exhibits social interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids the identification ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51 (1), 563–578)
C91, H41, K42, H26
1380 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Selection Policy and the Labour Market Outcomes of New Immigrants
Many countries are placing a greater emphasis on productive skills in the immigrant selection policies as a way of achieving national objectives regarding immigration. These changes stem primarily ...
(published in: D.A. Cobb-Clark and S. Khoo (eds.), Public Policy and Immigrant Settlement, Edward Elgar 2006)
J61, J22, J20
1378 John T. Addison
Christopher J. Surfield
The Use of Alternative Work Arrangements by the Jobless: Evidence from the CAEAS/CPS
Alternative work arrangements (AWAs), such as contracting, consulting, and temporary work, have been criticized as providing only atypical, even precarious, employment. Yet they may also allow ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2006, 27(2), 149-162)
J21, J24, J63, M50
1376 Pedro S. Martins
Rent Sharing Before and After the Wage Bill
Many biases plague the estimation of rent sharing in labour markets. Using a Portuguese matched employer-employee panel, these biases are addressed in this paper in three complementary ways: 1) ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2009, 41(17), 2133-2151)
C33, J31, J41
1375 Simon Gächter
Arno Riedl
Dividing Justly in Bargaining Problems with Claims: Normative Judgments and Actual Negotiations
Theoretical research on claims problems has concentrated on normative properties and axiomatizations of solution concepts. We complement these analyses by empirical evidence on the predictability ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2006, 27, 571-594)
D63, C78, C92
1373 Wiji Arulampalam
Alison L. Booth
Mark L. Bryan
Is There a Glass Ceiling over Europe? Exploring the Gender Pay Gap across the Wages Distribution
Using harmonised data from the European Union Household Panel, we analyse gender pay gaps by sector across the wages distribution for ten countries. We find that the mean gender pay gap in the raw ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (2), 163-186)
J16, J31, J7
1372 Holger Görg
Aoife Hanley
Does Outsourcing Increase Profitability?
We investigate the relationship between outsourcing and profitability paying particular attention to the endogeneity of outsourcing. The empirical analysis uses unique plant level data for the ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2004, 35(3), 267-288)
L23, L63
1371 Tito Boeri
J. Ignacio Conde-Ruiz
Vincenzo Galasso
Cross-Skill Redistribution and the Tradeoff between Unemployment Benefits and Employment Protection
We document the presence of a trade-off between unemployment benefits (UB) and employment protection legislation (EPL) in the provision of insurance against labor market risk. Different countries' ...
(revised version published as 'The Political Economy Of Flexicurity' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (4), 684–715)
J68, J65, D72
 12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers" 
(Previous 50 papers)  (Previous 10 papers)  | (Next 10 papers)  (Next 50 papers) 
 

© IZA  Impressum  Last updated: 2025-10-21  webmaster@iza.org    |   Bookmark this page    |   Print View