November 30, 2016
Unemployment insurance (UI) schemes face a dual challenge: By partly replacing forgone labor income, they should enable unemployed individuals to […]
November 24, 2016
Does the racial mix of students’ classmates affect their behavior later on in life? A new IZA Discussion Paper by […]
November 21, 2016
Differences in educational outcomes based on socioeconomic background is a well-documented phenomenon and a key driver of inequalities later in […]
November 11, 2016
Family stability is a prerequisite for a number of social outcomes that policy makers care about, not the least being […]
November 8, 2016
Technological change has advanced digitalization and automation in a number of industries, raising fears that human workers will eventually become […]
November 7, 2016
Economists seem to have a conspicuous interest in unexpected, far-reaching or even catastrophic events. In most cases, though, this interest […]
October 26, 2016
When you ask an applied economist what distinguishes economics from other social sciences, the likely answer will include economists’ use […]
October 19, 2016
Recent research suggests that workers living in places with a heavy manufacturing presence in the U.S. have experienced both a […]
October 18, 2016
by Milena Nikolova and Boris Nikolaev The United Kingdoms’s decision to leave the European Union, or the so-called Brexit, poses […]
September 29, 2016
Immigrants typically do not settle evenly across the countries in which they move. Rather, they tend to cluster in particular […]
September 20, 2016
Germany is currently experiencing a high influx of Muslim migrants. Their labor market integration is a crucial policy goal. However, […]
September 19, 2016
What can genetic information teach us about the intergenerational transmission of economic inequality? A new IZA Discussion Paper by Nicholas […]
September 15, 2016
By Xi Chen (Yale University and IZA) Social pensions are designed to provide the elderly population, especially those with low […]
September 13, 2016
A recent IZA World of Labor article suggests that gender differences in attitudes toward risk are less significant than previously […]
September 7, 2016
Girls largely outperform boys academically in middle and high school. Performance gaps begin to arise as early as in third […]