April 8, 2013
Do people become less productive when they grow old? According to a new IZA Discussion Paper by Marco Bertoni, Giorgio […]
April 5, 2013
According to a comprehensive study of 19 European countries over a period from 1993 to 2008, national differences in unemployment […]
April 3, 2013
Almost 60 years after the famous Montgomery Bus Boycott triggered by black civil rights activist Rosa Parks, a new IZA […]
March 29, 2013
A new IZA Discussion paper by Cristina Cattaneo, Carlo V. Fiorio and Giovanni Peri evaluates the effect of immigrants on […]
March 25, 2013
Formal economic models rarely consider the mental conditions of individuals when analyzing their behavior and the decisions they make. In […]
March 22, 2013
Most academic disciplines use a statistical threshold to decide whether a hypothesis is likely to be true. If a test […]
March 19, 2013
Nowadays more women attend university than men. Yet, women are still under-represented in the highest levels of technical subjects such […]
March 14, 2013
A decade ago the German labor market was regarded as a sick patient. Today it is performing exceptionally well and […]
March 12, 2013
Germany has not only successfully managed to escape the unemployment trap it was caught in for a couple of decades, […]
March 9, 2013
The U.S. budget cuts bear large economic and political risks for U.S. citizens as they will aggravate income inequality. This […]
February 20, 2013
A recent IZA Discussion Paper by Reto Odermatt and Alois Stutzer shows that smoking bans increase the happiness of smokers […]
February 20, 2013
Ask two doctors and you get two opinions, ask two economists and you get three. It often seems that professional […]
February 19, 2013
A new paper by Leandro Carvalho and Rodrigo R. Soares analyzes the members of drug-trafficking gangs in the favelas (slums) […]
February 2, 2013
The key democratic task of the press is to be a watchdog for governments and politicians. Do the media carry […]
January 27, 2013
A recent IZA working paper by Juanna Schrøter Joensen and Helena Skyt Nielsen suggests that taking more Math courses in […]