February 4, 2015
Many factors influence the quality of decision making: importance, relevance, and even time of day can affect the degree to […]
January 28, 2015
Cutting-edge macroeconomic research suggests that political uncertainty heavily influences private consumption. However, evidence on the individual level how households cope […]
January 20, 2015
Policymakers increasingly see possibilities in interacting with diaspora communities to improve relationships with their countries of origin and as a […]
January 19, 2015
Authored by IZA Program Director Pierre Cahuc with Stéphane Carcillo and André Zylberberg, Labor Economics has long become the graduate-level […]
January 16, 2015
Economics is the science on scarce resources. And what is more scarce than time in modern societies? A recent literature […]
January 13, 2015
How to handle the inflow of refugees to the European Union is one of the current hot topics in the […]
December 28, 2014
Terrorist attacks have detrimental effects not only on those directly affected as victims. The negative consequences also extend to future […]
December 22, 2014
The fact that it has been difficult to document a consistent positive effect of the often huge public spending on […]
December 18, 2014
Parents have strong preferences for sending their children to the best schools available. There seems to be a general perception […]
December 16, 2014
According to a report by Nick Drydakis published by IZA World of Labor today, half of gay and lesbian employees […]
December 10, 2014
Many European countries are contemplating (or have already introduced) mandatory quotas for the share of women on the executive level […]
December 8, 2014
The hot debate about President Obama’s immigration reform shows that many Americans still view immigrants as taking jobs away from […]
December 4, 2014
Nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an individual’s labor market productivity later in life. This is […]
December 1, 2014
The signing of the Belfast Agreement on Good Friday 1998 is widely seen as the final act in the long […]
November 28, 2014
How much a younger sibling’s school achievement is affected by his/her older sibling’s achievement at school is an important question […]