IZA - All published DPs

Logo
No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9868 Johannes F. Schmieder
Simon Trenkle
Disincentive Effects of Unemployment Benefits and the Role of Caseworkers
A large literature has documented that the unemployment duration of unemployed individuals increases with the generosity of the unemployment insurance (UI) system, which has been interpreted as the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 182, 104096)
J65
9867 Stefan Pichler
Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Labor Market Effects of US Sick Pay Mandates
This paper exploits temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of US sick pay mandates to assess their labor market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55 (2), 611-659)
I12, I13, I18, J22, J28, J32
9863 Werner Eichhorst
Paul Marx
Caroline Wehner
Labor Market Reforms in Europe: Towards More Flexicure Labor Markets?
Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in important areas, including macro-economic efficiency, workers' wellbeing and ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2017, 51 (3), 1-17.)
J42, J48, J68
9861 Fabian Kosse
Thomas Deckers
Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
Armin Falk
The Formation of Prosociality: Causal Evidence on the Role of Social Environment
This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. In a first step, we show that socio-economic status (SES) as well as the ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (2), 434 - 467)
D64, C90
9860 Bradley Ruffle
Yossef Tobol
Clever Enough to Tell the Truth
We conduct a field experiment on 427 Israeli soldiers who each rolled a six-sided die in private and reported the outcome. For every point reported, the soldier received an additional half-hour early ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2017, 20, 130-155)
C93, M51
9859 Ritwik Banerjee
Corruption, Norm Violation and Decay in Social Capital
The paper studies the link between corruption and social capital (measured as trust), using data from a lab experiment. Subjects play either a harassment bribery game or a strategically identical but ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 137, 14–27)
C91, C92, D03
9858 Gadi Barlevy
Derek Neal
Allocating Effort and Talent in Professional Labor Markets
In many professional service firms, new associates work long hours while competing in up-or-out promotion contests. Our model explores why these firms require young professionals to take on heavy ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (1), 187–246)
J44, J22, M51
9857 David Freeman
Paola Manzini
Marco Mariotti
Luigi Mittone
Procedures for Eliciting Time Preferences
We study three procedures to elicit attitudes towards delayed payments: the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak procedure; the second price auction; and the multiple price list. The payment mechanisms associated ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2016, 126 (Part A), 235–242)
C91, D9
9855 Dirk Sliwka
Peter Werner
How Do Agents React to Dynamic Wage Increases? An Experimental Study
We investigate how workers' performance is affected by the timing of wages in a real-effort experiment. In all treatments agents earn the same wage sum but wage increases are distributed differently ...
(revised version published as 'Wage Increases and the Dynamics of Reciprocity' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (2), 299-344)
M12, C91
9854 Maria De Paola
Francesca Gioia
Vincenzo Scoppa
The Adverse Consequences of Tournaments: Evidence from a Field Experiment
We run a field experiment to investigate whether competing in rank-order tournaments with different prize spreads affects individual performance. Our experiment involved students from an Italian ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 151, 1-18)
J33, J31, J24, D81, D82, C93
9853 Ghazala Azmat
Manuel Bagues
Antonio Cabrales
Nagore Iriberri
What You Don't Know... Can't Hurt You? A Field Experiment on Relative Performance Feedback in Higher Education
This paper studies the effect of providing feedback to college students on their position in the grade distribution by using a randomized control experiment. This information was updated every six ...
(published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (8), 3714-3736)
J71, J44
9851 Petri Böckerman
Seppo Laaksonen
Jari Vainiomäki
Are Jobs More Polarized in ICT Firms?
We perform decompositions and regression analyses that test the routinization hypothesis and implied job polarization at the firm level. Prior studies have focused on the aggregate, industry or local ...
(published as 'Does ICT Usage Erode Routine Occupations at the Firm Level?' in: Labour, 2019, 33 (1), 26-47)
J23, J24, J31, O33
9850 David Card
Ana Rute Cardoso
Jörg Heining
Patrick Kline
Firms and Labor Market Inequality: Evidence and Some Theory
We review the literature on firm-level drivers of labor market inequality. There is strong evidence from a variety of fields that standard measures of productivity – like output per worker or total ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (S1), S13-S70)
D22, J31, J42
9849 Pedro S. Martins
Andy Snell
Heiko Stüber
Jonathan P. Thomas
Bias in Returns to Tenure When Firm Wages and Employment Comove: A Quantitative Assessment and Solution
It is well known that, unless worker-firm match quality is controlled for, returns to firm tenure (RTT) estimated directly via reduced form wage (Mincer) equations will be biased. In this paper we ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36(1), 47-74)
J31, J63, C23
9848 Robert W. Fairlie
Javier Miranda
Taking the Leap: The Determinants of Entrepreneurs Hiring their First Employee
Job creation is one of the most important aspects of entrepreneurship, but we know relatively little about the hiring patterns and decisions of startups. Longitudinal data from the Integrated ...
(published in: Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2017, 26 (1), 3 - 34)
L26
9847 Daniel Borowczyk-Martins
Etienne Lalé
Employment Adjustment and Part-time Jobs: The U.S. and the U.K. in the Great Recession
We document that fluctuations in part-time employment play a major role in movements in hours per worker, especially during cyclical swings in the labor market. Building on this result, we propose a ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2019, 11 (1), 389-435.)
E24, E32, J21
9846 Patricia Cortes
Jessica Pan
When Time Binds: Returns to Working Long Hours and the Gender Wage Gap among the Highly Skilled
This paper explores the relationship between gender differences in hours worked, the returns to working long hours, and the gender pay gap among highly educated workers. Using a cross-section of ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (2), 351-398 )
J16, J22
9845 Danny Cohen-Zada
Alex Krumer
Ze'ev Shtudiner
Psychological Momentum and Gender
We exploit a natural experiment in which two professionals compete in a one-stage contest without strategic motives and where one contestant has a clear exogenous psychological momentum advantage ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 135, 66-81)
J16, J24, L83
9843 Laurens Cherchye
Bram De Rock
Selma Walther
Frederic Vermeulen
Where Did It Go Wrong? Marriage and Divorce in Malawi
Do individuals divorce for economic reasons? Can we measure the attractiveness of new matches in the marriage market? We answer these questions using a structural model of the household and a rich ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2021, 12 (2), 505 - 545)
D11, D12, D13, J12
9842 José Alberto Molina
Alfredo Ferrer
José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
Carlos Gracia-Lazaro
Yamir Moreno
Angel Sanchez
The Effect of Kinship on Intergenerational Cooperation: A Lab Experiment with Three Generations
In this paper, we analyze how kinship among family members affects intergenerational cooperation in a public good game. 165 individuals from 55 families, comprising three generations (youths, ...
(published as 'Intergenerational cooperation within the household: a Public Good game with three generations' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 17, 535 - 552)
D03, D64, D70
9841 Stefano Gagliarducci
Marco Manacorda
Politics in the Family: Nepotism and the Hiring Decisions of Italian Firms
In this paper we investigate the effect of family connections to politicians on individuals' labor market outcomes. We combine data for Italy over almost three decades from longitudinal social ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12 (2), 67 - 95)
D72, D73, H72, J24, J30, M51
9839 Mikael Elinder
Oscar Erixson
Daniel Waldenström
Inheritance and Wealth Inequality: Evidence from Population Registers
We use new population-wide register data on inheritances and wealth in Sweden to estimate the causal impact of inheritances on wealth inequality. We find that inheritances reduce relative wealth ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 165, 17 - 30)
H24, D63, E21
9838 Sander Gerritsen
Dinand Webbink
Bas ter Weel
Sorting around the Discontinuity Threshold: The Case of a Neighbourhood Investment Programme
This paper investigates the empirical validity of the setup of a large-scale government neighbourhood investment programme in the Netherlands. Selection of neighbourhoods into the programme was ...
(published in: De Economist, 2017, 165 (1), 101-128)
C90, D70, R58
9837 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Katarina Katz
Torun Österberg
Residential Segregation from Generation to Generation: Intergenerational Association in Socio-Spatial Context among Visible Minorities and the Majority Population in Metropolitan Sweden
In this paper, we investigate to what degree young adults live in neighbourhoods that are similar, in terms of relative average household income, to the neighbourhoods in which they grew up. We use ...
(published in Population, Space and Place, 2017, 23 (4), e2028)
J15, J62, R23
9835 Irene Mosca
Robert E. Wright
Use It or Lose It: Irish Evidence
A small but growing body of research suggests that retirement and cognitive decline are related. In fact, some have argued that retirement causes cognitive decline. The aim of this paper is to add to ...
(published as 'Effect of Retirement on Cognition: Evidence From the Irish Marriage Bar' in: Demography, 2018, 55 (4), 1317- 1341)
J14, J26
9834 Marco Bertoni
Giorgio Brunello
Gianluca Mazzarella
Does Postponing Minimum Retirement Age Improve Healthy Behaviours Before Retirement? Evidence from Middle-Aged Italian Workers
By increasing the residual working horizon of employed individuals, pension reforms that raise minimum retirement age are likely to affect the returns to investments in health-promoting behaviours ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 215 - 227)
H55, I12, J26
9833 Zemzem Shigute
Anagaw Derseh Mebratie
Robert Sparrow
Zelalem Yilma
Getnet Alemu
Arjun S. Bedi
Uptake of Health Insurance and the Productive Safety Net Program in Rural Ethiopia
Due to lack of well-developed insurance, credit and labor markets, rural families in Ethiopia are exposed to a range of covariate and idiosyncratic risks. In 2005, to deal with the consequences of ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2017, 176, 133-141)
J65, J48, I13
9831 Joseph J. Sabia
Thanh Tam Nguyen
The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on Labor Market Outcomes
A number of recent studies have found that medical marijuana laws (MMLs) are associated with increased marijuana use among adults, in part due to spillover effects into the recreational market. This ...
(published in: Journal of Law & Economics, 2018, 61 (3), 361–396)
J31, J38, I18
9830 D. Mark Anderson
Joseph J. Sabia
Child Access Prevention Laws, Youth Gun Carrying, and School Shootings
Despite intense public interest in keeping guns out of schools, next to nothing is known about the effects of gun control policies on youth gun carrying or school violence. Using data from the Youth ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2018, 61 (3), 489-524)
K4, I2, H7
9829 Kurt Wang
Joseph J. Sabia
Resul Cesur
Sleepwalking through School: New Evidence on Sleep and Academic Performance
Policymakers advocating for later school starting times argue that increased sleep duration may generate important schooling benefits. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2017, 35 (2), 331 - 344)
I12
9828 David de la Croix
Matthias Doepke
Joel Mokyr
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy
In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018, 133 (1), 1-70)
E02, J24, N10, N30, O33, O43
9827 Robert A. Hart
Mirko Moro
J. Elizabeth Roberts
Who Gained from the Introduction of Free Universal Secondary Education in England and Wales?
This paper investigates the introduction of free universal secondary education in England and Wales in 1944. It focuses on its effects in relation to a prime long-term goal of pre-war Boards of ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69 (3), 707-733)
I21, I24, I28
9826 Nick Drydakis
The Effect of University Attended on Graduates' Labour Market Prospects: A Field Study of Great Britain
Utilizing data for comparable BSc graduates in economics who have studied in different universities that had set the same entry standards, we compare job seekers' employment prospects when they ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 192 - 208)
I23, I26
9825 Simen Markussen
Knut Røed
The Market for Paid Sick Leave
In many countries, general practitioners (GPs) are assigned the task of controlling the validity of their own patients' insurance claims. At the same time, they operate in a market where patients are ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 55, 244-261)
H55, I11, I18
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
9810 N. Meltem Daysal
Mircea Trandafir
Reyn van Ewijk
Heterogeneous Effects of Medical Interventions on the Health of Low-Risk Newborns
We investigate the impact of early-life medical interventions on low-risk newborn health. A policy rule in The Netherlands creates large discontinuities in medical treatments at gestational week 37. ...
(revised version published as 'Low-risk isn't no-risk: Perinatal treatments and the health of low-income newborns' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 64, 55-67. )
I11, I12, I18, J13
9809 Grant Miller
Christine Valente
Population Policy: Abortion and Modern Contraception Are Substitutes
There is longstanding debate in population policy about the relationship between modern contraception and abortion. Although theory predicts that they should be substitutes, the existing body of ...
(published in: Demography, 2016, 53(4), 979–1009)
J13, N35
9808 Pushkar Maitra
Sarmistha Pal
Anurag Sharma
Absence of Altruism? Female Disadvantage in Private School Enrolment in India
Using two nationally representative datasets from household surveys conducted in India in 2005 and 2012, the present paper examines the causal effect of gender in private school choice. We argue that ...
(published in: World Development, 2016, 86, 105–125)
C21, I25, O10
9806 Steffen Müller
Renate Neubäumer
Size of Training Firms: The Role of Firms, Luck, and Ability in Young Workers' Careers
This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2018, 39 (5), 658-673)
D21, L10, L25, L26, L29, M13
9805 Jutta Viinikainen
Guido Heineck
Petri Böckerman
Mirka Hintsanen
Olli Raitakari
Jaakko Pehkonen
Born Entrepreneur? Adolescents' Personality Characteristics and Self-Employment in Adulthood
Is there an entrepreneurial personality and does it appear early in life? We provide a new answer on this question by using the so-called Type A behavior traits (Aggression, Leadership, ...
(published in: Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2017, 8, 9-12)
L26
9804 Giorgio Di Pietro
The Impact of Television Programmes on Teenage Career Aspirations The 'MasterChef Effect'
In recent years, in Italy, a larger number of students have chosen to attend vocational hospitality and catering schools. This paper investigates the extent to which this increase may have been ...
(revised version published as 'Do media play a role in promoting vocational education and training? The case of MasterChef' in: Policy Studies, 2018, 39 (1), 37-53)
I21, J44, C23
 12982Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers" 
(Previous 50 papers)  (Previous 10 papers)  | (Next 10 papers)  (Next 50 papers) 
 

© IZA  Impressum  Last updated: 2025-10-16  webmaster@iza.org    |   Bookmark this page    |   Print View