Employment, Industrial Relations & Training

Fighting Youth Unemployment: The Effects of Active Labor Market Policies

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This 54-page discussion paper analyzes the short- and long-term impacts for a variety of different programmes designed to assist the young unemployed into employment or further education

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Families, Children & YouthPosted: 2012-01-09

The Effect of Children on the Level of Labor Market Involvement of Married Women: What is the Role of Education?

IZA

This 51-page discussion paper analyzes the way women's education influences the effect of children on their level of labour market involvement

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Families, Children & YouthPosted: 2009-04-05

Another Economic Miracle? The German Labor Market and the Great Recession

IZA

This discussion paper analyzes the mild response of the German labour market to the worst global recession in post-war history

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Economic PolicyPosted: 2012-01-17

Explaining the Spread of Temporary Jobs and its Impact on Labor Turnover

IZA

This 55-page discussion paper provides a simple model which explains the choice between permanent and temporary jobs

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2012-03-07

Unemployment and Finance: How Do Financial and Labour Market Factors Interact?

IZA

This 29-page discussion paper investigates how labour and financial factors interact to determine unemployment levels

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Economic PolicyPosted: 2009-04-06

Do Unemployed Workers Benefit from Enterprise Zones? The French Experience

IZA

This 44-page discussion paper presents an impact evaluation of the French enterprise zone programme which was initiated in 1997 to help unemployed workers find employment by granting a significant wage-tax exemption (about one third of total labour costs) to firms hiring at least 20% of their labor force locally

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2012-03-05

What Explains the Gender Earnings Gap in Self-Employment? A Decomposition Analysis with German Data

IZA

This 32-page discussion paper analyses the gender earnings gap in self-employment

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2012-04-18

The Global Economic Crisis: Long-Term Unemployment in the OECD

IZA

This 87-page paper analyses the impact of the global economic crisis on unemployment and long term unemployment in the OECD

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2011-11-15

Are Short-Lived Jobs Stepping Stones to Long-Lasting Jobs?

IZA

This 38-page discussion paper assesses whether short-lived jobs (lasting one quarter or less and involuntarily ending in unemployment) are stepping stones to long-lasting jobs (enduring one year or more)

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2009-03-11

Increasing the Legal Retirement Age: The Impact on Wages, Worker Flows and Firm Performance

IZA

This 31-page discussion paper studies the effects of higher legal retirement ages at the firm level

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , AgeingPosted: 2009-06-04

Scarring Effects of Remaining Unemployed for Long-Term Unemployed School-Leavers

IZA

This 39-page study investigates whether and to what extent further unemployment experience for youths who are already long-term unemployed imposes a penalty on subsequent labor market outcomes

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Families, Children & YouthPosted: 2011-09-16

Is Internet Job Search Still Ineffective?

IZA

A 36-page discussion paper studying the effectiveness of internet job search in the US

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2011-09-29

Fewer Jobs or Smaller Paychecks? Aggregate Crisis Impacts in Selected Middle-Income Countries

IZA

This 24-page discussion paper examines how the recent financial crisis affected jobs and workers' income in 44 middle-income countries

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2011-09-29

Minimum Wage Increases Under Straightened Circumstances

IZA

This 44-page discussion paper studies whether apparently large minimum wage increases in an environment of recession produce clearer evidence of disemployment effects than is typically observed

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Social PolicyPosted: 2011-11-02

Vacancy Referrals, Job Search, and the Duration of Unemployment: A Randomized Experiment

IZA

A 28-page discussion paper reporting results from a randomized Swedish experiment where the outcome of vacancy referrals to the unemployed is examined

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Social PolicyPosted: 2009-02-25

Stepping Stone or Dead End? The Effect of the EITC on Earnings Growth

IZA

This discussion paper examines whether the jobs taken by single mothers as a result of the US EITC incentives are “dead-end” jobs or jobs that have the potential for earnings growth

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Social PolicyPosted: 2009-05-06

Immigrant Wages in the Spanish Labour Market: Does the Origin of Human Capital Matter?

IZA

This 27-page discussion paper analyses the role played by the different components of human capital in the wage determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market

Immigration & Refugees, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2009-05-12

Private and Public Provision of Counseling to Job-Seekers: Evidence from a Large Controlled Experiment

IZA

This 61-page discussion paper compares the efficiency of public employment service vs. private providers in delivering similar job-search intensive counseling

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2012-05-14

Labor Mobility in an Enlarged European Union

IZA

This 50-page discussion paper summarizes and comparatively evaluates what we know about labour mobility in an enlarged Europe to date

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , European UnionPosted: 2012-05-03

Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-Employment

IZA

This 24-page discussion paper studies the relationship between poor health and non-employment

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , HealthPosted: 2009-05-10

Taxing Childcare: Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children

IZA

This discussion paper estimates for how female labour supply responds to childcare prices

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Families, Children & YouthPosted: 2012-04-19

This Time It's Different? Youth Labour Markets During 'The Great Recession'

IZA

This 24-page discussion paper looks at the effects of the 'Great Recession' on young people's labour market experiences in the European Union

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Families, Children & YouthPosted: 2012-04-19

Do Dropouts Benefit from Training Programs? Korean Evidence Employing Methods for Continuous Treatments

IZA

A 39-page discussion paper estimating the average employment effects of different lengths of exposure to a programme by dropouts in a Korean job training programme

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2011-11-14

Innovation, Employment and Skills in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Survey of the Literature

IZA

This 45-page discussion paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatory power of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on the issue, with reference both to advanced economies and developing countries

Science & Technology, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2012-02-12

Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity

IZA

This 37-page discussion paper uses administrative and survey data from a large sample of participants in two distinct start-up programs and a control group of unemployed individuals. It finds that over 80% of participants are integrated in the labor market and have relatively high labor income five years after start-up

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Social PolicyPosted: 2010-03-18

Youth Unemployment: Déjà Vu?

IZA

This 58-page paper reviews current issues in youth labour markets in developed countries

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Families, Children & YouthPosted: 2010-02-04

Labor Market and Income Effects of a Legal Minimum Wage in Germany

IZA

A discussion paper analyzing the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage in Germany

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Social PolicyPosted: 2010-05-15

Joblessness and Perceptions about the Effectiveness of Democracy

IZA

A discussion paper analyzing the extent to which joblessness of individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in a country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy

Governance & Politics, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2010-05-16

The Employment Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies

IZA

This discussion paper examines the employment effects of a Finnish payroll tax subsidy scheme, which is targeted at the employers of older, full-time, low-wage workers

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Social PolicyPosted: 2010-05-16

Rational Expectations and the Puzzling No-Effect of the Minimum Wage

IZA

This discussion paper argues that expectations are an important element that needs to be included into the analysis of the effects of the minimum wage on employment

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Social PolicyPosted: 2010-05-16

Does International Outsourcing Really Lower Workers' Income?

IZA

A 27-page discussion paper analyzing the impact of international outsourcing on income, if the domestic labor market is imperfect

Globalisation & International Trade, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2010-05-28

Income Support Systems, Labor Market Policies and Labor Supply: The German Experience

IZA

The aim of this 37-page discussion paper is to give a brief overview of the German income support systems and labor market polices, their recent reforms and – where already possible –effects of these reform

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Social PolicyPosted: 2010-01-18

Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach

IZA

A 37-page discussion paper identifying the effect of extended benefit duration on unemployment duration and post-unemployment outcomes

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Social PolicyPosted: 2010-01-15

Rising Wages: Has China Lost Its Global Labor Advantage?

IZA

A 46-page discussion paper documenting dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Globalisation & International TradePosted: 2010-06-29

Carrot and Stick: How Reemployment Bonuses and Benefit Sanctions Affect Job Finding Rates

IZA

This 31-page discussion paper investigates how benefit sanctions and reemployment bonuses affect job finding rates of welfare recipients

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Social PolicyPosted: 2010-07-30

Non-Standard Employment and Labour Force Participation: A Comparative View of the Recent Development in Europe

IZA

A 55-page discussion paper presenting the extent and changes of nonstandard employment relationships (part-time work, fixed-term contracts, and self-employment) in 24 EU member states

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , European UnionPosted: 2010-08-05

Youth Labour Markets in Europe and Central Asia

IZA

A 79-page discussion paper examining developments in and around the transition of young people from education to work in the ECA region in recent years

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , European UnionPosted: 2010-08-09

Labor Market Policy: A Comparative View on the Costs and Benefits of Labor Market Flexibility

IZA

A 36-page discussion paper reviewing theories and evidence on wage-setting institutions and labor market policies in an international comparative context. These include collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and active labor market policies

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Social PolicyPosted: 2010-08-15

Immigrants at New Destinations: How They Fare and Why

IZA

This discussion paper identifies the determinants of immigrants’ earnings in the Portuguese labour market

Immigration & Refugees, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2010-04-29

Mental Health and Labour Market Participation: Evidence from IV Panel Data Models

IZA

This 26-page discussion paper estimates the effect of mental health on labour market participation using various models, including instrumental variable models that exploit individual variation observed in panel data

Health, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2010-04-27

Minimum Wages and Employment: Reconsidering the Use of a Time-Series Approach as an Evaluation Tool

IZA

This 37-page discussion paper uses an approach based on aggregate time-series data that allows us to determine if minimum wage changes have significant effects on employment

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Families, Children & YouthPosted: 2010-02-19

The Design of Unemployment Transfers: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Life-Cycle Model

IZA

A 41-page discussion paper analyzing the employment, fiscal and welfare effects induced by unemployment insurance

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Social PolicyPosted: 2010-03-18

The Effect of Part-Time Work on Post-Secondary Educational Attainment: New Evidence from French Data

IZA

This 44-page paper provides new evidence on the effect of part-time work on postsecondary educational attainment

Education, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2010-08-01

Employee Training and Wage Dispersion: White and Blue Collar Workers in Britain

IZA

This 29-page discussion paper explores the wage returns associated with training incidence and intensity (duration) for British employees

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2010-03-25

The Added Worker Effect and the Discouraged Worker Effect for Married Women in Australia

IZA

This 26-page discussion paper investigates both the added worker effect (the labour supply responses of women to their partners' job losses) and the discouraged worker effect (workers withdrawing from the labour market because of failed searches) for married women in Australia, with the emphasis on the former

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2010-03-25

Cream-Skimming, Parking and Other Intended and Unintended Effects of Performance-Based Contracting in Social Welfare Services

IZA

This 52-page dicussion paper analyzes the incentive effects of performance-based contracts, as well as their impacts on provider job placement rates, using unique data on cohorts of unemployed and disabled workers that were assigned to private social welfare providers

Social Policy, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2010-03-28

Age, Wage and Productivity

IZA

A 50-page discussion paper analyzing the relationship between age, wage and productivity using a matched worker-firm panel dataset from Dutch manufacturing covering the period 2000-2005

Ageing, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2010-03-10

Hazard Analysis of Unemployment Duration by Gender in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey

IZA

A 49-page discussion paper studying the duration aspect of unemployment in a developing country, Turkey

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , International DevelopmentPosted: 2010-03-30

Wage Effects of Non-Wage Labour Costs

IZA

This 43-page discussion paper studies short- and long-term wage effects of two important elements of non-wage labour costs: firing costs and payroll taxes

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Social PolicyPosted: 2010-04-27

Mental Health and Working Conditions in European Countries

IZA

This 38-page discussion paper investigates the links between contractual arrangements, working conditions and mental health for 15 European countries

Health, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2010-03-04

Retire Later or Work Harder?

IZA

This 35-page discussion paper reviews the theory, models the trade-off between later retirement versus increased work intensity, produces relevant background facts, and provides estimates of the policy trade-offs

Social Policy, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2010-03-04

The Job Creation Effect of R&D Expenditures

IZA

This 22-page discussion paper uses a unique database covering 25 manufacturing and service sectors for 16 European countries and applies panel estimations of a demand-for-labour equation augmented with technology

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Science & TechnologyPosted: 2010-02-26

An Inquiry into the Theory, Causes and Consequences of Monitoring Indicators of Health and Safety at Work

IZA

This 40-page discussion paper engages in an interdisciplinary survey of the current state of knowledge related to the theory, determinants and consequences of occupational safety and health (OSH)

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , HealthPosted: 2010-02-25

Returning to the Question of a Wage Premium for Returning Migrants

IZA

A 22-page discussion papere stimating the extent to which people who have emigrated from Ireland and returned earn more relative to comparable people who have never lived abroad

Immigration & Refugees, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2010-02-24

Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay

IZA

By combining country-level performance-pay measures with rich PISA-2003 international achievement micro data, this 32-page discussion paper estimates student-level international education production functions

Education, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2010-08-15

Are Older Workers Worthy of Their Pay? An Empirical Investigation of Age-Productivity and Age-Wage Nexuses

IZA

A 23-page discussion paper comparing age-wage and age-productivity profiles

Ageing, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2010-08-29

To Shape the Future: How Labor Market Entry Conditions Affect Individuals' Long-Run Wage Profiles

IZA

A 64-page discussion paper studying the long-run effects of initial labor market conditions on wages

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2009-12-11

Offshoring and Job Stability: Evidence from Italian Manufacturing

IZA

A 36-page discussion paper studying the relationship between offshoring and job stability

Globalisation & International Trade, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2012-05-14

Job Creation by Firms in Denmark

IZA

This 33-page discussion paper examines job creation and destruction in firms

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2011-02-14

Job Search and Job Finding in a Period of Mass Unemployment: Evidence from High-Frequency Longitudinal Data

IZA

This 60-page discussion paper presents findings from a survey of 6,025 unemployed workers who were interviewed every week for up to 24 weeks in the autumn of 2009 and spring of 2010

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2011-02-14

Immigration and the Occupational Choice of Natives

IZA

This 43-page discussion paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962-1999

Immigration & Refugees, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2011-02-14

Retirement and Subjective Well-Being

IZA

This 40-page discussion paper provides an explanation for the common finding that the effect of retirement on life satisfaction is negligible

Ageing, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2011-03-10

Looking Inside the Perpetual-Motion Machine: Job and Worker Flows in OECD Countries

IZA

This discussion paper uses cross-country comparable data on both job and worker flows to examine key determinants of these flows and of their cross-country differences

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2009-10-15

Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers

IZA

This 34-page discussion paper analyses the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers

Ageing, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2011-03-21

What Should Be Done About Rising Unemployment in the OECD?

IZA

A 53-page discussion paper studying the threat of unemployment in OECD countries

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Globalisation & International TradePosted: 2009-10-15

The Relative Efficiency of Active Labour Market Policies

IZA

This 36-page discussion paper re-analyzes the effects of a Danish active labour market program social experiment that included a range of sub-treatments, including monitoring, job search assistance and training

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Social PolicyPosted: 2011-04-12

Youth Unemployment in Europe and the United States

IZA

This 29-page discussion paper focuses on youth unemployment, why we should be concerned about it, why it is increasing again, how the present difficulties of young people entering the labour market differ from those of the past and what useful lessons have been learned that may guide future policy

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Families, Children & YouthPosted: 2011-05-18

The Crisis, Policy Reactions and Attitudes to Globalization and Jobs

IZA

This 33-page discussion paper considers the effects of the financial crisis and subsequent recession on world labour markets

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Globalisation & International TradePosted: 2011-05-19

How Did the Great Recession Affect Different Types of Workers?

IZA

This 50-page discussion paper examines how different types of workers in 17 middle-income countries were affected by labor market retrenchment during the great recession

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Social PolicyPosted: 2011-05-19

Labor Market Effects of Immigration: Evidence from Neighborhood Data

IZA

This 22-page discussion paper combines individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with economic and demographic postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities of high- and low-skilled natives

Immigration & Refugees, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2011-05-26

Disability and Multi-State Labour Force Choices with State Dependence

IZA

This working paper studies the impact of work-limiting disabilities on disaggregated labour choices

Disability, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2011-01-18

Is the Minimum Wage a Pull Factor for Immigrants?

IZA

This 25-page discussion paper studies the impact of the minimum wage on immigration

Immigration & Refugees, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2011-01-17

Unions, Dynamism, and Economic Performance

IZA

This 48-page discussion paper explores the relationship between economic performance and US unionism

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Economic PolicyPosted: 2010-12-06

Fatal Attraction? Access to Early Retirement and Mortality

IZA

A 58-page discussion paper estimating the causal effect of early retirement on mortality for blue-collar workers

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , HealthPosted: 2010-09-16

Minimum Wages, Labor Market Institutions, and Female Employment and Unemployment: A Cross-Country Analysis

IZA

This 32-page discussion paper estimates the effect of minimum wage regulation in 16 OECD countries, 1970-2008

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2010-09-16

Does Self-Employment Increase the Economic Well-Being of Low-Skilled Workers?

IZA

This 49-page discussion paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic returns to business ownership among low-skilled workers and addresses the essential question of whether self-employment is a good option for low-skilled individuals that policymakers might consider encouraging

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2009-11-16

The Dilemma of Delegating Search: Budgeting in Public Employment Services

IZA

This 24-page discussion paper considers the poor performance often attributed to many public employment services

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2010-09-22

The Determinants of Education-Job Match among Canadian University Graduates

IZA

This 32-page discussion paper looks at the determinants of education-job for Canadian university graduates

Education, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2009-11-12

Stimulating Local Public Employment: Do General Grants Work?

IZA

This 37-page discussion paper estimates causal effects of intergovernmental grants on personnel in different local government sectors

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Governance & PoliticsPosted: 2010-09-23

Efficient Redistribution: Comparing Basic Income with Unemployment Benefits

IZA

This 25-page discussion paper compares two systems of income redistribution, unemployment benefits and basic income

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Social PolicyPosted: 2010-10-20

Employment, Inequality and the UK National Minimum Wage over the Medium-Term

IZA

This 43-page discussion paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the decade since its introduction in 1999

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Social PolicyPosted: 2010-11-08

The Impact of the Crisis on Employment and the Role of Labour Market Institutions

IZA

This 38-page discussion paper takes a comparative perspective on the labour market impact on G20 and EU countries of the financial and economic crisis that began in 2008

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Economic PolicyPosted: 2010-11-26

How Effective Are Unemployment Benefit Sanctions? Looking Beyond Unemployment Exit

IZA

A 54-page discussion paper providing a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Social PolicyPosted: 2009-11-10

The Threat of Monitoring Job Search: A Discontinuity Design

IZA

A 40-page discussion paper on the effects of monitoring the job search effort of long-term unemployed benefit claimants

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Social PolicyPosted: 2010-12-03

Two-Tier Labor Markets in the Great Recession: France vs. Spain

IZA

This 55-page discussion paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , European UnionPosted: 2010-12-06

Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? Evidence from a Workfare Reform in a Generous Welfare State

IZA

This 30-page discussion paper analyzes the consequences of a major Norwegian workfare reform of the generous welfare system for lone mothers

Social Policy, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2009-11-04

Unintended Effects of a Family-Friendly Law in a Segmented Labor Market

IZA

This 44-page discussion paper examines the unintended effects of a family-friendly law in a segmented labour market

Social Policy, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2011-05-26

Does Employment Protection Help Immigrants?

IZA

This 45-page paper studies the effect of employment protection legislation on immigrants and native workers in Spain and Italy

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2008-03-28

Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies

IZA

This 41-page discussion paper examines the relationship between human capital endowment and regional unemployment variations in post-communist countries

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2007-11-27

Social Determinants of Labour Market Status of Ethnic Minorities in Britain

IZA

This 35-page discussion paper investigates the labour market outcomes of ethnic minorities in advances societies and their dependence on social relationships and social networks

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2007-11-19

The Elasticity of Labor Demand and the Minimum Wage

IZA

A 22-page working paper aiming to provide an improved framework for analyzing how a minimum wage policy affects workers' welfare

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2007-11-19

Employment Protection, Firm Selection and Growth

IZA

A 41-page working paper analyzing the effect of firing costs on aggregate productivity growth

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Social PolicyPosted: 2007-11-19

Labour Markets Policies and Outcomes: Cross-Country Evidence for the EU-27

IZA

This 56-page working paper conducts a comparative analysis of labour market policies and outcomes for the EU member states for the period 2000-2005

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2007-11-19

The Impact of Welfare Reform on Leaver Characteristics, Employment and Recidivism

IZA

A 62-page discussion paper analyzing ther characteristics and employment of welfare recipients in two US states

Social Policy, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2007-11-06

The Persistence of Welfare Participation

IZA

A 35-page discussion paper examining the persistence of welfare participation in Sweden among Swedish-born and foreign-born households

Social Policy, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2007-10-31

Moving Down: Women's Part-Time Work and Occupational Change in Britain 19991-2001

IZA

A 43-page discussion paper analyzing the nature of occupational change as women make the transition between full-time and part-time work

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Families, Children & YouthPosted: 2007-10-31

Too Old to Work, Too young to Retire?

IZA

This 41-page discussion paper investigates the effect of age on employment prospects, based on Austrian records

Ageing, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2007-10-29

Structural Estimation of Search Intensity

IZA

A 60-page discussion paper presenting a framework for evaluating policies intended to increase job search intensity

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Social PolicyPosted: 2007-09-25

Earnings Over the Lifecycle: The Mincer Earnings Function and its Application

IZA

This 111-page discussion paper studies how earnings are distributed across the population, and why

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Social PolicyPosted: 2007-11-30

Labor Markets in the EU New Member States

IZA

This discussion paper documents the recent changes in labour market conditions in Europe's transition countries, offers tentative explanations and suggests policies to address the emerging challenges

European Union, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2007-12-18