IZA - All published DPs

Logo
No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
788 Felix Büchel
Joachim R. Frick
Immigrants in the UK and in West Germany – Relative Income Position, Income Portfolio, and Redistribution Effects
Based on data from the BHPS and the GSOEP, we analyse the economic performance of various ethnic groups in the UK and West Germany, as well as the effects of income redistribution on these ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2004, 17 (3), 553–581)
J15, J18, D31
787 Pietro Garibaldi
Lia Pacelli
Andrea Borgarello
Employment Protection Legislation and the Size of Firms
The existing literature ignores the fact that in most European countries the strictness of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) varies across the firm size distribution. In Italy firms are ...
(published in: Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 2004, 33 (1), 33 - 68)
J4
786 Peter R. Mueser
Kenneth Troske
Alexey Gorislavsky
Using State Administrative Data to Measure Program Performance
This paper uses administrative data from Missouri to examine the sensitivity of job training program impact estimates based on alternative nonexperimental methods. In addition to simple regression ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007, 89 (4), 761–783.)
J2, J6, C1
785 Rita K. Almeida
The Effects of Foreign Owned Firms on the Labor Market
Cross sectional evidence shows that foreign firms have a more educated workforce and pay higher wages than domestic firms. These results do not necessarily imply that foreign direct investment ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2007, 72 (1), 75-96)
C31, F23, J31
784 Olivier Pierrard
Henri R. Sneessens
Low-Skilled Unemployment, Biased Technological Shocks and Job Competition
The unemployment rise in EU countries has been particularly strong for low-skilled workers. This observation has often been explained in terms of biased technical change and relative wage ...
(revised version published as "Biased Technological Shocks, Relative Wage Rigidities and Low-Skilled Unemployment”in Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 55(3), 330-352)
E24, J21, J23
783 Barry Hirsch
Edward J. Schumacher
Match Bias in Wage Gap Estimates Due to Earnings Imputation
About 30% of workers in the CPS have earnings imputed. Wage gap estimates are biased toward zero when the attribute being studied (e.g., union status) is not a criterion used to match donors to ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2004, 22 (3), 689-722)
J3, J5, C81
782 Maia Güell
Barbara Petrongolo
How Binding Are Legal Limits? Transitions from Temporary to Permanent Work in Spain
In the mid-1980s, several European countries, characterized by high levels of employment protection, introduced fixed-term contracts. Since then most accessions to employment have been through ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (2), 153-183 )
C41, J41, J60
780 Axel Engellandt
Regina T. Riphahn
Temporary Contracts and Employee Effort
Temporary contracts provide employers with a tool to screen potential new employees and have been shown to provide "stepping stones" into permanent employment for workers. For both reasons workers ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2005, 12 (3), 281-299)
J24, J41, M50, C25
779 Martin Biewen
Who Are the Chronic Poor? Evidence on the Extent and the Composition of Chronic Poverty in Germany
Based on a multiple spells approach, this paper studies the extent and the composition of chronic poverty in Germany. The results indicate that about one third of cross-sectional poverty in a given ...
(published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2006, 13 (1), 31-62)
C23, D31, I32
777 Armin Falk
Michael Kosfeld
It's all about Connections: Evidence on Network Formation
We present an economic experiment on network formation, in which subjects can decide to form links to one another. Direct links are costly but being connected is valuable. The gametheoretic basis ...
(published in: Review of Network Economics: 2012, 11 (3), Article 2)
C92, C72, D63, Z13
 13018Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers" 
(Previous 50 papers)  (Previous 10 papers)  | (Next 10 papers)  (Next 50 papers) 
 

© IZA  Impressum  Last updated: 2025-11-28  webmaster@iza.org    |   Bookmark this page    |   Print View