May 11, 2013
Language acquisition of immigrants is crucially affected by the dissimilarity between the immigrant’s mother tongue and the language of the […]
May 8, 2013
Child labor is a common consequence of economic shocks in developing countries. A new IZA discussion paper by Andreas Landmann […]
April 29, 2013
Extending the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) bene fits is one of the most important policy instruments to ease economic hardships […]
April 26, 2013
In the United States the well-being of blacks is still below the well-being of whites. This has been shown by […]
April 19, 2013
Internet facilitates searching tremendously. This should not only be true when you shop online for books or software, but also […]
April 15, 2013
People tend to be more honest if they are not rewarded immediately but rather in the distant future. This is […]
April 12, 2013
Over the past 20 years, female labor participation in the U.S. has decreased remarkably relative to other Western countries: In […]
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 […]