IZA - All published DPs

Logo
No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7035 Hartmut Lehmann
Alexander Muravyev
Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries
This paper analyzes, using country-level panel data from transition economies and Latin America, the impact of labor market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal ...
(published in: Froelich, M., Kaplan, D., Pages, C., Rigolini, J. and D. Robalino (Eds.): Social Insurance ad Labor Markets: How to Protect Workers while Creating Good Jobs, Oxford University Press, 2014, 375-410.)
E24, J21, J42, O17, P20
7034 Daniel I. Rees
Joseph J. Sabia
Migraine Headache and Labor Market Outcomes
While migraine headache can be physically debilitating, no study has attempted to estimate its effects on labor market outcomes. Using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2015, 24 (6), 659-671)
I10, J30
7033 Jan-Emmanuel De Neve
Andrew J. Oswald
Estimating the Influence of Life Satisfaction and Positive Affect on Later Income Using Sibling Fixed-Effects
The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue across the social, psychological, and behavioral sciences. Much research has found ...
(published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012, 109 (49), 19953-19958)
I13, I31, J31
7032 Gil S. Epstein
Yosef Mealem
Shmuel Nitzan
Lotteries vs. All-Pay Auctions in Fair and Biased Contests
The form of contests for a single fixed prize can be determined by a designer who maximizes the contestants' efforts. This paper establishes that, under common knowledge of the two asymmetric ...
(published in: Economics and Politics, 2013, 25(1), 48–60)
D70, D71, D72
7031 Gil S. Epstein
Yosef Mealem
Shmuel Nitzan
The Efficacy and Efforts of Interest Groups in Post Elections Policy Formation
This paper presents a new model of interest groups and policy formation in the legislature. In our setting, the already given party ideological predispositions and power distribution determine the ...
(published in: Economics of Governance, 2013, 14(1), 77-105)
D70, D72, D74, D78
7030 Ernst Fehr
Holger Herz
Tom Wilkening
The Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power
Authority and power permeate political, social, and economic life, but empirical knowledge about the motivational origins and consequences of authority is limited. We study the motivation and ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (4), 1325-59)
C92, D83, D23
7028 Michael A. Clemens
Erwin R. Tiongson
Split Decisions: Family Finance when a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work
Labor markets are increasingly global. Overseas work can enrich households but also split them geographically, with ambiguous net effects on decisions about work, investment, and education. These net ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99 (3), 531-543)
J61, O15, R23
7027 Pierre-Philippe Combes
Gilles Duranton
Laurent Gobillon
The Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities
We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86(4), 1556-1589)
R14, R21, R31
7026 Suqin Ge
Dennis T. Yang
Junsen Zhang
Population Policies, Demographic Structural Changes, and the Chinese Household Saving Puzzle
Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 101, 181 - 209)
E21, J11, J13
7025 Joop Hartog
Michael Sattinger
Nash Bargaining and the Wage Consequences of Educational Mismatches
The paper provides a theoretical foundation for the empirical regularities observed in estimations of wage consequences of overeducation and undereducation. Workers with more education than required ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 23, 50-56)
J31, J24, C78, C51
 12984Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers" 
(Previous 50 papers)  (Previous 10 papers)  | (Next 10 papers)  (Next 50 papers) 
 

© IZA  Impressum  Last updated: 2025-10-18  webmaster@iza.org    |   Bookmark this page    |   Print View