IZA Discussion Papers

forthcoming in: Data Science for Entrepreneurship, edited by W.J. Liebregts, W.J.A.M. van den Heuvel and J.A. van den Born, to be published by Springer.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13645

Uncertainty and Firms' Labour Decisions. Evidence from European Countries

Marta Martinez-Matute, Alberto Urtasun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13568

Demand or Supply? Price Adjustment during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Almut Balleer, Sebastian Link, Manuel Menkhoff, Peter Zorn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13486

Assessing the Role of Women in Tourism Related Sectors in the Caribbean

Francesco Pastore, Allan Webster, Kevin Hope

forthcoming in: International Journal of Tourism Research, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13457

Sudden Stop: When Did Firms Anticipate the Potential Consequences of COVID-19?

Lukas Buchheim, Carla Krolage, Sebastian Link

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13422

Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations

Girum Abebe, Margaret McMillan, Michel Serafinelli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13419

A Firm Scientific Community: Industry Participation and Knowledge Diffusion

Stefano Baruffaldi, Felix Pöge

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13410

The Effects of EU-Funded Enterprise Grants on Firms and Workers

Balázs Muraközy, Álmos Telegdy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13330

The Finance of Unemployment Compensation and its Consequence for the Labor Market

Audrey Guo, Andrew C. Johnston

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13285

Management Practices, Worker Commitment, and Workplace Representation

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13253

Firm-level Expectations and Behavior in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis

Lukas Buchheim, Jonas Dovern, Carla Krolage, Sebastian Link

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13229

The COVID-19 Crisis and Telework: A Research Survey on Experiences, Expectations and Hopes

Stijn Baert, Louis Lippens, Eline Moens, Johannes Weytjens, Philippe Sterkens

revised version accepted as 'How do employees think the COVID-19 crisis will affect their careers?' for publication in Plos One

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13212

Workforce Composition, Productivity and Pay: The Role of Firms in Wage Inequality

Chiara Criscuolo, Alexander Hijzen, Cyrille Schwellnus, Erling Barth, Wen-Hao Chen, Richard Fabling, Priscilla Fialho, Katarzyna Grabska, Ryo Kambayashi, Timo Leidecker, Oskar Nordström Skans, Capucine Riom, Duncan Roth, Balazs Stadler, Richard Upward, Wouter Zwysen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13152

Germany's Capacities to Work from Home

Jean-Victor Alipour, Oliver Falck, Simone Schüller

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13147

The Effects of Local Market Concentration and International Competition on Firm Productivity: Evidence from Mexico

Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Luis-Felipe López-Calva, Oscar Barriga Cabanillas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13117

Unemployment-Insurance Taxes and Labor Demand: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Administrative Data

Andrew C. Johnston

forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13072

Induced Innovation: Evidence from China's Secondary Industry

Belton M. Fleisher, William H. McGuire, Xiaojun Wang, Min Qiang Zhao

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13017

Technical Progress and Induced Innovation in China: A Variable Profit Function Approach

Gary Wong, Belton M. Fleisher, Min Qiang Zhao, William H. McGuire

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12970

Do Financial Constraints Affect the Composition of Workers in a Firm?

Robert Breunig, Diana Hourani, Sasan Bakhtiari, Elisabetta Magnani

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12936

Financial Constraints and Small and Medium Enterprises: A Review

Sasan Bakhtiari, Robert Breunig, Lisa Magnani, Jacquelyn Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12926

Enterprising Women in Southern Africa: When Does Land Ownership Matter?

Zuzana Brixiova, Thierry Kangoye, Fiona Tregenna

published in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2020, 41 (1), 37 - 51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12905

When Too Good Is Too Much: Social Incentives and Job Selection

Tommaso G. Reggiani, Rainer Michael Rilke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12840

Inputs, Incentives, and Self-Selection at the Workplace

Francesco Amodio, Miguel A. Martinez-Carrasco

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12793

Direct and Indirect Effects of Subsidized Dual Apprenticeships

Bruno Crépon, Patrick Premand

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12667

Paying Gig Workers – Evidence from a Field Experiment

Sebastian Butschek, Roberto González Amor, Patrick Kampkötter, Dirk Sliwka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12621

Linguistic Diversity and Workplace Productivity

Harald Dale-Olsen, Henning Finseraas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12587

Why Join a Team?

David J. Cooper, Krista Saral, Marie Claire Villeval

Revised version forthcoming in Management Science, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12546

Creative Destruction, Social Security Uptake and Union Networks

Harald Dale-Olsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12518

The Likelihood of Divorce and the Riskiness of Financial Decisions

Oded Stark, Krzysztof Szczygielski

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12514

The Effects of Access to Credit on Productivity: Separating Technological Changes from Changes in Technical Efficiency

Nusrat Abedin Jimi, Plamen Nikolov, Mohammad Abdul Malek, Subal C. Kumbhakar

published in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2019, 52 (1-3), 37-55

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12495

Welfare Effect and Elite Capture in Agricultural Cooperatives Intervention: Evidence from Ethiopian Villages

Dambala Gelo, Edwin Muchapondwa, Abebe Shimeles, Johane Dikgang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12479

Open Labor Markets and Firms’ Substitution between Training Apprentices and Hiring Workers

Manuel Aepli, Andreas Kuhn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12433

Skill Complementarity in Production Technology: New Empirical Evidence and Implications

Andrey Stoyanov, Nick Zubanov

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12401

Outsourcing Public Services: Contractibility, Cost, and Quality

Fredrik Andersson, Henrik Jordahl, Jens Josephson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12305

The Effect of Employment Protection on Firms' Worker Selection

Sebastian Butschek, Jan Sauermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12252

Spillovers and Substitutability in Production

Kerry L. Papps, Alex Bryson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12214

Firms and Wage Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe

Iga Magda, Jan Gromadzki, Simone Moriconi

forthcoming in: Journal of Comparative Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12159

Local Norms Describing the Role of the State and the Private Provision of Training

Andreas Kuhn, Jürg Schweri, Stefan C. Wolter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12036

Does "Network Closure" Beef up Import Premium?

Alessio Muscillo, Paolo Pin, Tiziano Razzolini, Francesco Serti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12007

Real Estate Prices and Corporate Investment: Theory and Evidence of Heterogeneous Effects across Firms

Denis Fougère, Rémy Lecat, Simon Ray

published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2019, 51(6), 1503-1546

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11789

Prosocial Managers, Employee Motivation, and the Creation of Shareholder Value

Agne Kajackaite, Dirk Sliwka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11772

Mergers and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Maternity Ward Closures

Daniel Avdic, Petter Lundborg, Johan Vikström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11750

Pathways to Formalization: Going beyond the Formality Dichotomy

Juan Jose Diaz, Juan Chacaltana, Jamele Rigolini, Claudia Ruiz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11747

Employment Adjustments Following Rises and Reductions in Minimum Wages: New Insights from a Survey Experiment

Mario Bossler, Michael Oberfichtner, Claus Schnabel

published in: Labour, 2020, 34 (3), 323-346

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11745

Firm Dynamics with Frictional Product and Labor Markets

Leo Kaas, Bihemo Kimasa

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11668

Bribes vs. Taxes: Market Structure and Incentives

Francesco Amodio, Jieun Choi, Giacomo De Giorgi, Aminur Rahman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11662

High-Growth Entrepreneurship

J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Mee Jung Kim, Kyung Min Lee

forthcoming as 'Start-Ups, Job Creation, and Founder Characteristics' in: Industrial and Corporate Change

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11651

Public R&D Support and Firms' Performance: A Panel Data Study

Øivind Anti Nilsen, Arvid Raknerud, Diana-Cristina Iancu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11581

Multitasking and Subjective Performance Evaluations: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in a Bank

Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka

forthcoming in: Management Science, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11543

The Impact of Sickness Absenteeism on Productivity: New Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data

Elena Grinza, Francois Rycx

published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2020, 59 (1), 150-194

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11521

Using Social Connections and Financial Incentives to Solve Coordination Failure: A Quasi-Field Experiment in India's Manufacturing Sector

Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Sherry Xin Li, Swati Sharma

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 144, 102445

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11479

Organisational Accreditation and Worker Upskilling in Britain

Getinet Astatike Haile

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11401

Resource Misallocation in European Firms: The Role of Constraints, Firm Characteristics and Managerial Decisions

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Debora Revoltella, Jan Svejnar, Christoph T. Weiss

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11393

Police Patrols and Crime

Jordi Blanes i Vidal, Giovanni Mastrobuoni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11387

Time Is on My Side: Relational Contracts and Aggregate Welfare

Bohdan Kukharskyy, Michael P. Pflüger

forthcoming in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11257

Heterogeneous Effects of Credit Constraints on SMEs' Employment: Evidence from the Great Recession

David Cornille, Francois Rycx, Ilan Tojerow

published as 'Heterogeneous Effects of Credit Constraints on SME's Employment: Evidence from the European Sovereign Debt Crisis' in : Journal of Financial Stability, 2019, 41, 1-13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11253

Why Does Emissions Trading under the EU ETS Not Affect Firms' Competitiveness? Empirical Findings from the Literature

Eugénie Joltreau, Katrin Sommerfeld

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11249

Labor Reallocation and Demographics

Joanna Tyrowicz

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46(1), pages 381-412

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11227

Exclusion and Reintegration in a Social Dilemma

Alice Solda, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2019, 58 (1), 120-149

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11225

Labor Market Imperfections, Markups and Productivity in Multinationals and Exporters

Sabien Dobbelaere, Kozo Kiyota

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 53, 198-212

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11156

Comparing Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Two Different Econometric Models

Sabien Dobbelaere, Jacques Mairesse

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 18-26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10924

Offshoring and Wage Inequality: Theory and Evidence from China

Liugang Sheng, Dennis T. Yang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10880

The Relationship between Economic Growth and Democracy: Alternative Representations of Technological Change

Almas Heshmati, Nam-Seok Kim

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10878

Take a Chance on ABBA

Danny Cohen-Zada, Alex Krumer, Offer Moshe Shapir

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10819

Security, Trade, and Political Violence

Francesco Amodio, Leonardo Baccini, Michele Di Maio

Latest version available at https://sites.google.com/site/fscoamodio/home/paper_abdm.pdf?attredirects=0

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10816

Industrial Espionage and Productivity

Albrecht Glitz, Erik Meyersson

published in: American Economic Review, 2020, 110 (4), 1055-1103

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10815

Racing against Time in Research: A Study of the 1995 U.S. Patent Law Amendment

Jinyoung Kim

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10749

Wages, Innovation, and Employment in China

Belton M. Fleisher, William H. McGuire, Xiaojun Wang, Min Qiang Zhao

Revision available at https://economics.osu.edu/sites/economics.osu.edu/files/Induced%20Innovation%20and%20Labor%20Productivity%20in%20China_Sep_10.pdf

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10735

Healer or Gatekeeper? Physicians' Role Conflict When Symptoms Are Non-Verifiable

Benedicte Carlsen, Karine Nyborg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10579

Short Notice, Big Difference? The Effect of Temporary Employment on Firm Competitiveness across Sectors

Romina Giuliano, Stephan Kampelmann, Benoît Mahy, Francois Rycx

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55 (2), 421-449

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10554

Impact of Financial Crises on Dynamics of Capital Structure: Evidence from Korean Listed Companies

Lyubov Tsoy, Almas Heshmati

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10546

The Effectiveness of Incentive Schemes in the Presence of Implicit Effort Costs