IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7717

Is there a Trade-off between Employment and Productivity?

published as 'Macroeconomic and Sectoral Issues in Youth Employment Policy' in: O'Higgins, N., Ebell, M.; Junankar, P.N. (eds.), Rising to the Youth Employment Policy, Geneva, 2017, Ch.2

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7467

Youth Employment in Africa: New Evidence and Policies from Swaziland

Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Thierry Kangoye

published in: M. A. Malo and D. Sciulli (eds.), Disadvantaged Workers: Empirical Evidence and Labour Policies, AIEL Series in Labour Economics, Springer, 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7464

Trust, Growth and Well-being: New Evidence and Policy Implications

Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc

published in: S.N. Durlauf and P. Aghion (eds.): Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol.2 , 2014, 49-120

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7286

Life Expectancy, Schooling, and Lifetime Labor Supply: Theory and Evidence Revisited

Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde

published in: Econometrica, 2013, 81 (5), 2055–2086

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6934

Are We There Yet? Time for Checks and Balances on New Institutionalism

Murat Iyigun

published in: Annual Proceedings of the Wealth & Well-Being of Nations, 2013, 5, 73-84

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6926

The Role of Sectoral Growth Patterns in Labor Market Development

Francisco Javier Arias-Vazquez, Jean Nahrae Lee, David Newhouse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6754

Constitutions and Economic Development: Evidence from the American Indian Nations

Randall K. Q. Akee, Miriam Jorgensen, Uwe Sunde

revised version published as 'Critical junctures and economic development – Evidence from the adoption of constitutions among American Indian Nations' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43 (4), 844 - 861

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6548

The Impact of Indian Job Guarantee Scheme on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Mehtabul Azam

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6532

Gender Effects of Education on Economic Development in Turkey

Aysit Tansel, Nil Demet Güngör

published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2013, 40 (6), 794-821.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6327

Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits

Oded Galor, Stelios Michalopoulos

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2012, 147(2), 759-780

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6319

Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations

Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6192

The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery

Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico

revised version published as 'The Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2012, 40, 581-595

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6024

Should Easier Access to International Credit Replace Foreign Aid?

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Sajal Lahiri, Javed Younas

revised version published as 'Financing Growth Through Foreign Aid and Private Foreign Loans: Nonlinearities and Complementarities' in: Journal of International Money and Finance, 2015, 56, 75-96

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6017

Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi

Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico

revised version published as 'De Jure and De Facto Determinants of Power: Evidence from Mississippi' in: Constitutional Political Economy, 2017, 28, 321-345

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5991

Human Capital and Growth: Specification Matters

Uwe Sunde, Thomas Vischer

revised version published in: Economica, 2015, 82(326), 368–390

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5969

Then and Now: Reflections on Two Australian Mining Booms

Bob Gregory

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5901

Health and Economic Development: Evidence from the Introduction of Public Health Care

Anthony Strittmatter, Uwe Sunde

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (4), 1549-1584

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5836