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We analyze the short-run impact of the introduction of the new statutory minimum wage in Germany on further training at the workplace level. Applying difference-in-difference methods to data from the IAB Estab...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2017 6:8
Published on: 29 June 2017
Original Article
Firm shutdown creates a turbulent situation for workers as it leads directly to layoffs for its workers. An additional consideration is whether a firm’s shutdown within an industry creates turbulence for worke...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2017 6:7
Published on: 13 June 2017
Original article
Panel data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey are used to examine the impact of involuntary job loss on the mental health of spouses and adolescent children. Estimates from fixe...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2017 6:6
Published on: 11 May 2017
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
We use a natural experiment in Indonesia to study the medium- and long-term effects of air pollution on labor supply. We find that exposure to air pollution reduces hours worked and while the medium-term effec...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2017 6:5
Published on: 28 April 2017
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The aim of this paper is to measure the effect of the interaction between age for the population of males and females aged 18 to 74 and region-level GDP per capita on labour market transition probabilities in ...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2017 6:4
Published on: 21 April 2017
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In this paper we analyze career dynamics for US workers who have more schooling than their peers in the same occupation. We use data from the NLSY79 combined with the CPS to analyze transitions into and out of...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2017 6:3
Published on: 9 March 2017
Original article
Field-of-study mismatch occurs when a worker, trained in a particular field, works in another field. This study draws on the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) to explore how skill supply and labour market demand ...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2017 6:2
Published on: 30 January 2017
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This paper proposes a new measure of skill mismatch to be applied to the recent OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC). The measure is derived from a formal theory and combines information about skill proficiency...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2017 6:1
Published on: 13 January 2017
Review
There is a huge variation in the size of labor supply elasticities in the literature, which hampers policy analysis. While recent studies show that preference heterogeneity across countries explains little of ...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2016 5:10
Published on: 31 October 2016
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This paper provides evidence of the effect of age at school entry on college admission and earnings. It does so by exploiting a number of features in the application process to one of the major flagship univer...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2016 5:9
Published on: 26 July 2016
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This paper develops a four-sector equilibrium search and matching model with informal sector employment opportunities and educational choice. We show that underground activities reduce educational attainments ...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2016 5:8
Published on: 12 July 2016
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Craigslist, a website that hosts job- and help-wanted ads, expanded rapidly across the states in the USA over a very short period of time, thereby changing abruptly the market structure faced by competing empl...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2016 5:7
Published on: 28 June 2016
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Self-employed workers account for between 8 and 30 % of participants in the labor markets of OECD countries (Blanchower, Self-employment: more may not be better, 2004). This paper develops and estimates a gene...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2016 5:6
Published on: 10 June 2016
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
This article appeals to heterogeneity in workers’ non-wage preferences to model taste-based discrimination. Firms hire both types of workers and pay lower wages to minority workers, whatever their taste for di...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2016 5:5
Published on: 29 April 2016
Original article
About 5 % of US workers hold multiple jobs, which can exacerbate or mitigate employment changes over the business cycle. Theory is ambiguous and prior literature is not fully conclusive. We examine the relatio...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2016 5:4
Published on: 13 April 2016
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Technological progress and the internet brought about new possibilities of creating, storing, exchanging, replicating, and using various kinds of data for research. This paper discusses some of the dangers emb...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2016 5:3
Published on: 26 February 2016
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This paper examines how Congress’s 2008 expansion of who is disabled under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) impacts the labor market outcomes of newly covered individuals. Focusing on obese individual...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2016 5:2
Published on: 28 January 2016
Original article
Along with the advancement of the Internet in the last decade, researchers have increasingly identified the web as a research platform and a data source, pointing out its value for labour market analysis. This...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2016 5:1
Published on: 18 January 2016
Original article
Recent attempts to incorporate spatial heterogeneity in minimum-wage employment models have been targeted for using overly simplistic trend controls and for neglecting the potential impact of wage minima on em...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:24
Published on: 29 December 2015
Original article
This study examines the differential effects of the unemployment rate at labor market entry, defined as the time of leaving school, on subsequent wages across gender and race using the National Longitudinal Su...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:23
Published on: 10 December 2015
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We study urban, private sector Chinese employers’ preferences between workers with and without a local permanent residence permit (hukou) using callback information from an Internet job board. We find that these ...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:22
Published on: 27 November 2015
Original article
Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic crisis. These studies are based on research designs that do not allow for excluding that ...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:21
Published on: 13 November 2015
Original article
Wage dispersion among observationally similar workers is still only partially unexplained by economists from both a theoretical and an empirical point of view. Given that jobs can be broken down into tasks, na...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:20
Published on: 5 November 2015
Research
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and education and labour market choices. In particular, we investigate the impact of locus of control, effort and diligence, a...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:19
Published on: 29 October 2015
Original article
This paper discusses methodological issues arising from the use of online job vacancy data and voluntary web-based surveys to analyse the labour market. We highlight the advantages and possible disadvantages o...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:18
Published on: 25 September 2015
