New Discussion Papers from the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Tipping and Residential Segregation: A Unified Schelling Model
Junfu Zhang
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The Right Amount of Trust
Jeffrey V. Butler, Paola Giuliano, Luigi Guiso
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The Effect of the Timing and Spacing of Births on the Level of Labor Market Involvement of Married Women
Kenneth Troske, Alexandru Voicu
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The Causal Effect of Education on Wages Revisited
Matt Dickson
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Do as the Neighbors Do: The Impact of Social Networks on Immigrant Employment
Fredrik Andersson, Simon Burgess, Julia Lane
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Modelling Charitable Donations to an Unexpected Natural Disaster: Evidence from the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Sarah Brown, Mark N. Harris, Karl Taylor
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Immigrants and Employer-Provided Training
Alan Barrett, Seamus McGuinness, Martin O’Brien, Philip J. O’Connell
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Do Means-Tested School Lunch Subsidies Change Children’s Weekly Consumption Patterns?
Larry L. Howard, Nishith Prakash
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Estimating Employment Dynamics across Occupations and Sectors of Industry
(forthcoming in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2010)
Frank Cörvers, Arnaud Dupuy
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Disability and Skill Mismatch
Melanie K. Jones, Peter J. Sloane
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