IZA Discussion Papers

forthcoming in: G. Meramveliotakis and M. Manioudis (eds). Sustainable Economic Development Perspectives from Political Economy and Economics Pluralism, London: Routledge, 2025, 237-264.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17245

Measuring Bias in Job Recommender Systems: Auditing the Algorithms

Shuo Zhang, Peter J. Kuhn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17218

Sailing Ship Technology, Navigation and the Duration of Voyages to Australia, 1848-85

Timothy J. Hatton

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17206

The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (KSTE+I) Approach and the Advent of AI Technologies: Evidence from the European Regions

Francesco D’Alessandro, Enrico Santarelli, Marco Vivarelli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17194

Fast Internet, Women Identity, and Female Genital Mutilation

Jorge Garcia-Hombrados, Daniel Pérez-Parra, Ricardo Ciacci

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17183

Is Artificial Intelligence Generating a New Paradigm? Evidence from the Emerging Phase

Giacomo Damioli, Vincent Van Roy, Daniel Vertesy, Marco Vivarelli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17177

Online versus In-Person Services: Effects on Patients and Providers

Amanda Dahlstrand, Nestor Le Nestour, Guy Michaels

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17097

How Scary Is the Risk of Automation? Evidence from a Large Scale Survey Experiment

Maria Alejandra Cattaneo, Christian Gschwendt, Stefan C. Wolter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17055

Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship

Frank M. Fossen, Trevor McLemore, Alina Sorgner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17026

R&D Decisions and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Switzerland and the Netherlands

Sabien Dobbelaere, Michael D. König, Andrin Spescha, Martin Wörter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17003

The Role of Technological Change in the Evolution of the Employment to Output Elasticity

Pablo Egana-delSol, Alejandro Micco

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16992

The Adoption of ChatGPT

Anders Humlum, Emilie Vestergaard

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16980

Half Empty and Half Full? Women in Economics and the Rise in Gender-Related Research

Francisca M. Antman, Kirk Doran, Xuechao Qian, Bruce A. Weinberg

forthcoming in: AEA Papers and Proceedings

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16979

Demographic Diversity and Economic Research: Fields of Specialization and Research on Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality

Francisca M. Antman, Kirk Doran, Xuechao Qian, Bruce A. Weinberg

forthcoming in: AEA Papers and Proceedings

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16972

Artificial Intelligence and the Skill Premium

David E. Bloom, Klaus Prettner, Jamel Saadaoui, Mario Veruete

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16948

The Political Economy of AI: Towards Democratic Control of the Means of Prediction

Maximilian Kasy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16944

Algorithmic Bias and Racial Inequality: A Critical Review

Maximilian Kasy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16916

Is the Scholarly Field of Entrepreneurship at Its End?

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16869

The Anatomy of Chinese Innovation: Insights on Patent Quality and Ownership

Philipp Boeing, Loren Brandt, Ruochen Dai, Kevin Lim, Bettina Peters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16766

Artificial Intelligence and the Discovery of New Ideas: Is an Economic Growth Explosion Imminent?

Derick Almeida, Wim Naudé, Tiago Neves Sequeira

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16740

De-Routinization in the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Firm-Level Evidence

Melanie Arntz, Sabrina Genz, Terry Gregory, Florian Lehmer, Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16717

AI Unboxed and Jobs: A Novel Measure and Firm-Level Evidence from Three Countries

Erik Engberg, Holger Görg, Magnus Lodefalk, Farrukh Javed, Martin Längkvist, Natália Pimenta Monteiro, Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås, Sarah Schroeder, Aili Tang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16687

Automatability of Occupations, Workers' Labor-Market Expectations, and Willingness to Train

Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Wedel, Katharina Werner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16659

Technological Change and Returns to Training

Roman Klauser, Marcus Tamm

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16638

"This Time It's Different" - Generative Artificial Intelligence and Occupational Choice

Daniel Goller, Christian Gschwendt, Stefan C. Wolter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16631

Gender Diversity and Diversity of Ideas

Michèle Belot, Madina Kurmangaliyeva, Johanna Reuter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16499

Automation and Income Inequality in Europe

Karina Doorley, Jan Gromadzki, Piotr Lewandowski, Dora Tuda, Philippe Van Kerm

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16487

Bottom-up Policies Trump Top-down Missions

Magnus Henrekson, Mikael Stenkula

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16485

Artificial Intelligence and Workers' Well-Being

Osea Giuntella, Johannes König, Luca Stella

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16365

Why Has Science Become an Old Man's Game?

Christian Fons-Rosen, Patrick Gaule, Taras Hrendash

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16362

Contested Transparency: Digital Monitoring Technologies and Worker Voice

Filippo Belloc, Gabriel Burdin, Stefano Dughera, Fabio Landini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16347

Gender-Biased Technological Change: Milking Machines and the Exodus of Women from Farming

Philipp Ager, Marc Goñi, Kjell G. Salvanes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16345

Effects of E-commerce on Local Labor Markets

Anahid Bauer, Sofía Fernández Guerrico

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16317

The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage and Political Participation

Tianyi Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16301

The Profit Motive in the Classroom - Friend or Foe?

Niklas Elert, Magnus Henrekson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16281

Emigrant Voyages from the UK to North America and Australasia, 1853-1913

Timothy J. Hatton

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16274

Time on the Crossing: Emigrant Voyages across the Atlantic, 1853 to 1913

Timothy J. Hatton

published in: European Review of Economic History, 2024, 28 (1), 120–133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16227

New Technologies and Jobs in Europe

Stefania Albanesi, António Dias da Silva, Juan F. Jimeno, Ana Lamo, Alena Wabitsch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16226

Household and Individual Economic Responses to Different Health Shocks: The Role of Medical Innovations

Volha Lazuka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16203

Managerial Practices and Student Performance: Evidence from Changes in School Principals

Adriana Di Liberto, Ludovica Giua, Fabiano Schivardi, Marco Sideri, Giovanni Sulis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16199

Innovation and the Labor Market: Theory, Evidence and Challenges

Nicoletta Corrocher, Daniele Moschella, Jacopo Staccioli, Marco Vivarelli

published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2024, 33 (3), 519–540

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16191

We Already Live in a Degrowth World, and We Do Not like It

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16139

Melancholy Hues: The Futility of Green Growth and Degrowth, and the Inevitability of Societal Collapse

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16114

Socioeconomic Inequality in Low-Carbon Technology Adoption

Andrew Burlinson, Apostolos Davillas, Monica Giulietti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16108

The Long-Term Causal Effects of Winning an ERC Grant

Corinna Ghirelli, Enkelejda Havari, Elena Claudia Meroni, Stefano Verzillo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16101

Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Catia Batista, Pedro C. Vicente

published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 May 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16046

Social Media Charity Campaigns and Pro-social Behaviour. Evidence from the Ice Bucket Challenge

Andrea Fazio, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Francesco Scervini

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2023, 96, 102624

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16043

Africa's Industrialization Prospects: A Fresh Look

Wim Naudé, Fiona Tregenna

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16034

Military Spending and Innovation: Learning from 19th Century World Fair Exhibition Data

Alexander M. Danzer, Natalia Danzer, Carsten Feuerbaum

published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2024, 33 (4), 831–854,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16007

Political Connections, Business Groups and Innovation

Simon Commander, Saul Estrin, Thamashi De Silva

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16000

Artificial Intelligence and the Economics of Decision-Making

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15997

Robots and Workers: Evidence from the Netherlands

Daron Acemoglu, Hans R.A. Koster, Ceren Ozgen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15980

Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space

Stephen Hansen, Peter John Lambert, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Raffaella Sadun, Bledi Taska

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15924

Extraterrestrial Artificial Intelligence: The Final Existential Risk?

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15842

Does Access to Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Reduce Women Household Burden? Evidence from India

Qinghe Su, Mehtabul Azam

published in: Energy Economics, 2023, 119, 106529

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15772

Technological and Organizational Change and the Careers of Workers

Michele Battisti, Christian Dustmann, Uta Schönberg

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (4), 1551–1594

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15767

Social Networks, Gender Norms and Women's Labor Supply: Experimental Evidence Using a Job Search Platform

Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Sanchari Roy, Nikita Sangwan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15752

The Impact of ICT and Robots on Labour Market Outcomes of Demographic Groups in Europe

Maciej Albinowski, Piotr Lewandowski

published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 87, 102481

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15731

The Empirics of Technology, Employment and Occupations: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead

Fabio Montobbio, Jacopo Staccioli, Maria Enrica Virgillito, Marco Vivarelli

published online in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 11 December 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15725

Government Subsidies as a Risk-Sharing Policy Tool in Innovation Investment

Hao Lu, Claudia De Fuentes, Joniada Milla, Soheil Ahmadi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15713

The Future Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Mythical Agents, a Singleton and the Dark Forest

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15711

Medical Innovation and Health Disparities

Barton H. Hamilton, Andrés Hincapié, Emma C. Kalish, Nicholas W. Papageorge

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15710

Investment and Subjective Uncertainty

Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Lucia Foster, Scott Ohlmacher, Itay Saporta-Eksten

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15708

The Identification of Time-Invariant Variables in Panel Data Model: Exploring the Role of Science in Firms’ Productivity

Sara Amoroso, Randolph Luca Bruno, Laura Magazzini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15700

Pension Reforms, Longer Working Horizons and Depression. Does the Risk of Automation Matter?

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello, Filippo Da Re

published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 85, 102447

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15689

Does Updating Education Curricula Accelerate Technology Adoption in the Workplace? Evidence from Dual Vocational Education and Training Curricula in Switzerland

Tobias Schultheiss, Uschi Backes-Gellner

published in: Journal of Technology Transfer, 2024, 49, 191–235

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15632

Technical Change, Task Allocation, and Labor Unions

Martyna Marczak, Thomas Beissinger, Franziska Brall

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15618

Filling the Gap: The Consequences of Collaborator Loss in Corporate R&D

Felix Poege, Fabian Gaessler, Karin Hoisl, Dietmar Harhoff, Matthias Dorner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15608

German Financial State Aid during COVID-19 Pandemic: Higher Impact among Digitalized Self-Employed

Irene Bertschek, Jörn Block, Alexander S. Kritikos, Caroline Stiel

published in: Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 2024, 36 (1–2), 76–97

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15607

The Ossified Economy: The Case of Germany, 1870-2020

Wim Naudé, Paula Nagler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15605

To Be or Not to Be: The Entrepreneur in Neo-Schumpeterian Growth Theory

Magnus Henrekson, Dan Johansson, Johan Karlsson

accepted for publication in: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15575

Demographic Transitions across Time and Space

Matthew J. Delventhal, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Nezih Guner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15529

Dynamics of First-Time Patenting Firms

Øivind Anti Nilsen, Arvid Raknerud

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15517

Competition and Innovation: The Breakup of IG Farben

Felix Poege

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15506

Using Online Vacancy and Job Applicants' Data to Study Skills Dynamics

Fidel Bennett, Veronica Escudero, Hannah Liepmann, Ana Podjanin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15423

China's Skill-Biased Imports

Hongbin Li, Lei Li, Hong Ma

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15419

Technological Progress, Occupational Structure and Gender Gaps in the German Labour Market

Ronald Bachmann, Myrielle Gonschor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15413

M-Health Apps and Physical and Mental Health Outcomes of Sexual Minorities

Nick Drydakis

published in: Journal of Homosexuality, 2023, 70 (14), 3421-3448

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15381

Bring a Friend: Strengthening Women's Social Networks and Reproductive Autonomy in India

S Anukriti, Catalina Herrera-Almanza, Mahesh Karra

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15379

A Note on Evaluating Formal Education for Adults

Anders Stenberg

published as 'Does Formal Education for Adults Yield Long-Term Multiplier Effects or Human Capital Depreciation?' in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 90, 102306

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15315

Influence of Freedom of Choice on Happiness

Somayeh Koohborfardhaghighi, Christopher R. Summers, Almas Heshmati, Jörn Altmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15313

Regional Structural Change and the Effects of Job Loss

Melanie Arntz, Boris Ivanov, Laura Pohlan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15303

The Impact of Robots on Labour Market Transitions in Europe

Ronald Bachmann, Myrielle Gonschor, Piotr Lewandowski, Karol Madoń

published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2024, 70, 422-441

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15280

The Third Mission in the Academic Profession: Empirical Insights into Academic Identities