IZA - All published DPs

Logo
No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9823 Donald O. Parsons
The Simple Analytics of Job Displacement Insurance
Job displacement in the U.S. is a serious threat to the earnings of long-tenured workers, through both (i) unemployment spells and (ii) reduced reemployment wages. Although full insurance requires ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2019, 86 (2), 351 - 380)
J65, J41, J33, J08
9822 Karina Doorley
Nico Pestel
Labour Supply after Inheritances and the Role of Expectations
This paper examines the effect of wealth on labour market behaviour. Providing convincing evidence on this relationship is challenging since wealth and labour supply may be endogenously determined. ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 82(4), 843-863)
D31, J22, L26
9821 Helmuth Cremer
Pierre Pestieau
Taxing Pensions
There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes are not clear. This note reviews the general principles of pension taxes and ...
(published in: Robert Holzmann and John Piggott (eds.), The Taxation of Pensions, Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2018.)
H21, H55
9820 Friedrich Schneider
Andreas Buehn
Estimating the Size of the Shadow Economy: Methods, Problems and Open Questions
This paper presents various methods for estimating the size of the shadow economy and analyzes their strengths and weaknesses. The purpose of the paper is twofold. Firstly, it demonstrates that no ...
(published as 'Shadow Economy: Estimation Methods, Problems, Results and Open questions' in: Open Economics, 2018, 1, 1-29)
D78, E26, H2, H11, H26, K42, O5, O17
9819 Arjeta Aliaj
Xavier Flawinne
Alain Jousten
Sergio Perelman
Lin Shi
Old?Age Employment and Hours of Work Trends: Empirical Analysis for Four European Countries
For the last two decades, the increase of employment among cohorts of individuals aged 50+ has been a policy objective on the European employment agenda. The present paper takes stock of the ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Studies 2016, 5, 16 (2016))
J08, J21, J26
9818 Steffen Otterbach
Mark Wooden
Yin King Fok
Working-Time Mismatch and Mental Health
Nationally representative panel survey data for Germany and Australia are used to investigate the impact of working-time mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired work hours) on mental ...
(revised version published as 'Working-time regulation, long hours working, overemployment and mental health' in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2021, 32 (22), 4659 - 4686 )
I12, J22
9816 Britta Kohlbrecher
Christian Merkl
Business Cycle Asymmetries and the Labor Market
This paper shows that the matching function and the Beveridge curve in the United States exhibit strong nonlinearities over the business cycle. These patterns can be replicated by enhancing a search ...
(published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2022, 73, 103458)
E24, E32, J63, J64
9815 Robert Dixon
Guay C. Lim
Jan C. van Ours
Revisiting Okun's Relationship
Our paper revisits Okun's relationship between observed unemployment rates and output gaps. We include in the relationship the effect of labour market institutions as well as age and gender effects. ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49 (28), 2749-2765)
J64
9812 Magnus Lofstrom
Steven Raphael
Crime, the Criminal Justice System, and Socioeconomic Inequality
Crime rates in the United States have declined to historical lows since the early 1990s. Prison and jail incarceration rates as well as community correctional populations have increased greatly since ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30 (2), 103 - 126)
D3, D63, I3
9811 Karen Maguire
John V. Winters
Energy Boom and Gloom? Local Effects of Oil and Natural Gas Drilling on Subjective Well-Being
The United States experienced a considerable increase in oil and natural gas extraction in recent years due to technological advancements including horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. ...
(published in: Growth and Change, 2017, 48 (4), 590-610)
I10, Q40
 12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers" 
(Previous 50 papers)  (Previous 10 papers)  | (Next 10 papers)  (Next 50 papers) 
 

© IZA  Impressum  Last updated: 2025-10-22  webmaster@iza.org    |   Bookmark this page    |   Print View