IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17213

Trading Places: Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock

David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16648

The World's Rust Belts: The Heterogeneous Effects of Deindustrialization on 1,993 Cities in Six Countries

Luisa Gagliardi, Enrico Moretti, Michel Serafinelli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16344

Displacement Effects in Manufacturing and Structural Change

Ines Helm, Alice Kügler, Uta Schönberg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15865

The Role of Firm Dynamics in the Green Transition: Carbon Productivity Decomposition in Finnish Manufacturing

Natalia Kuosmanen, Terhi Maczulskij

published as 'Going green while getting lean: Decomposing carbon and total factor green productivity' in: Journal of Environmental Management, 2024, 352, 120046.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15594

Opening the Black Box: Task and Skill Mix and Productivity Dispersion

G.Jacob Blackwood, Cindy Cunningham, Matt Dey, Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John C. Haltiwanger, Rachel Nesbit, Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, Jay Stewart, Cody Tuttle, Zoltan Wolf

forthcoming in: CRIW Conference volume on Technology, Productivity and Economic Growth.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15518

Manufacturing Employment and Women's Agency: Evidence from Lesotho 2004-2014

Louise Grogan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15215

Little Divergence in America — Market Access and Demographic Transition in the United States

Melanie Guldi, Ahmed S. Rahman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15183

Can Meaning Make Cents? Making the Meaning of Work Salient for US Manufacturing Workers

Alberto Salamone, Grace Lordan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15160

Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War

Hale Utar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14804

On the Persistence of the China Shock

David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson

published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2021, 381-476

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14667

Conditional Cash Transfers and Labor Market Conditions

Teresa Molina, Joaquim Vidiella-Martin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14459

Dispersion in Dispersion: Measuring Establishment-Level Differences In Productivity

Cindy Cunningham, Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John C. Haltiwanger, Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, Jay Stewart, Zoltan Wolf

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2023, 69 (4), 999-1032

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14422

Do Universities Improve Local Economic Resilience?

Greg Howard, Russell Weinstein, Yuhao Yang

forthcoming in: The Review of Economics and Statistics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12678

Three Varieties of Africa’s Industrial Future

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12565

The Yen Exchange Rate and the Hollowing Out of the Japanese Industry

Ansgar H. Belke, Ulrich Volz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12141

The Past and Future of Manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe: Ready for Industry 4.0?

Wim Naudé, Aleksander Surdej, Martin Cameron

forthcoming in: Industry 4.0 and Engineering for the Future

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11614

Torn Apart? The Impact of Manufacturing Employment Decline on Black and White Americans

Eric D. Gould

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11501

Business Cycles and Start-ups across Industries: An Empirical Analysis of German Regions

Alexander Konon, Michael Fritsch, Alexander S. Kritikos

published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2018, 33(6), 742-761

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11376

The Puzzles and Contradictions of the Indian Labour Market: What Will the Future of Work Look Like?

Sher Verick

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11132

Temperature Effects on Productivity and Factor Reallocation: Evidence from a Half Million Chinese Manufacturing Plants

Peng Zhang, Olivier Deschenes, Kyle C. Meng, Junjie Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11054

Product Market Competition and Employer Provided Training in Germany

John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn, Annika Pfister

revised version published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2020, 29 (2), 533-556

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10469

Trade and Manufacturing Jobs in Germany

Wolfgang Dauth, Sebastian Findeisen, Jens Suedekum

published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107 (5), 337-342

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9923

Labour Productivity in Kenyan Manufacturing and Service Industries

Almas Heshmati, Masoomeh Rashidghalam

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9222

Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan

David Atkin, Azam Chaudhry, Shamyla Chaudry, Amit K. Khandelwal, Eric Verhoogen

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2017, 132 (3), 1101–1164,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9217

People and Machines: A Look at the Evolving Relationship Between Capital and Skill in Manufacturing 1860-1930 Using Immigration Shocks

Jeanne Lafortune, José Tessada, Ethan Gatewood Lewis

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (1), 30–43.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9157

Why Do South Korean Firms Produce So Much More Output per Worker than Ghanaian Ones?

Simon Baptist, Francis J. Teal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9107

Explaining the Unexplained: Residual Wage Inequality, Manufacturing Decline, and Low-Skilled Immigration

Eric D. Gould

published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (619), 1281–1326

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7673

Industry-Wide Work Rules and Productivity: Evidence from Argentine Union Contract Data

Carlos Lamarche

published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2013, 2:11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7662

Non-Standard Employment across Occupations in Germany: The Role of Replaceability and Labour Market Flexibility

Werner Eichhorst, Paul Marx, Verena Tobsch

published in: Werner Eichhorst and Paul Marx (eds.), Non-Standard Employment in Post-Industrial Labour Markets, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7197

Female Labour Force Participation in MENA's Manufacturing Sector: The Implications of Firm-Related and National Factors

Ali Fakih, Pascal L. Ghazalian

publslihed as 'Female Employment in MENA’s Manufacturing Sector: The Implications of Firm-related and National Factors' in: Economic Change and Restructuring, 2015, 48 (1), 37-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7138

'Make-or-Buy' of Peripheral Services in Manufacturing: Evidence from Spanish Plant-Level Data

Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez, Ricard Gil

published as 'Outsourcing of Peripheral Services: Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Plant-Level Data' in: European Economic Review, 2015, 78, 328-344

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6785

Subcontracting and the Size and Composition of the Informal Sector: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing

Ana Isabel Moreno-Monroy, Janneke Pieters, Abdul Azeez Erumban

published as 'Formal Sector Subcontracting and Informal Sector Employment in Indian Manufacturing' in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3(22)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6514

Offshoring and Job Stability: Evidence from Italian Manufacturing

Alessia Lo Turco, Daniela Maggioni, Matteo Picchio

published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2013, 26, 27-46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6383

Fiscal Zoning, Sales Taxes, and Employment: Do Higher Sales Taxes Lead to More Jobs in Retailing and Fewer Jobs in Manufacturing?

Daria Burnes, David Neumark, Michelle J. White

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5908

R&D and Employment: Some Evidence from European Microdata

Francesco Bogliacino, Mariacristina Piva, Marco Vivarelli

short version published as 'R&D and employment: An application of the LSDVC estimator using European microdata' in: Economics Letters, 2012 (1), 116, 56-59

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5768

Productivity Gains and Spillovers from Offshoring

Bernhard Michel, François Rycx

published in: Review of International Economics, 2014, 22(1), 73-85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4613

Local Human Capital Externalities and Wages at the Firm Level: The Case of Italian Manufacturing

Massimiliano Bratti, Roberto Leombruni

revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 41, 161-175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3923

Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in Services: Direct Evidence from a Firm Survey

Daniel Radowski, Holger Bonin

published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 106 (3), 227-229

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3747

Union Membership Effect on Wage Premiums: Evidence from Organized Manufacturing Industries in India

Amit Kumar Bhandari

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3347

Impact of Reforms on Plant-Level Productivity and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from the Indian Manufacturing Sector

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Subal C. Kumbhakar

published in: Journal of Asian Economics, 21(2): 219-232, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3211

Jobless Growth through Creative Destruction: Ireland’s Industrial Development Path 1972–2003

Qi Li, Patrick Paul Walsh, Ciara Whelan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2808

Productivity and Trade Orientation in UK Manufacturing

Marian Rizov, Patrick Paul Walsh

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 71 (6), 821-849

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2097

Wage Inequality and Job Insecurity among Permanent and Contract Workers in India: Evidence from Organized Manufacturing Industries

Amit Kumar Bhandari, Almas Heshmati

published in: ICFAI Journal of Applied Economics, 2008, 7(1), 80-111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1596

Labour Use and Its Adjustment in Indian Manufacturing Industries

Amit Kumar Bhandari, Almas Heshmati

published in: Global Economic Review, 2005, 32(3), 261-290

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1578

Measurement of Globalization and Its Variations Among Countries, Regions and Over Time

Amit Kumar Bhandari, Almas Heshmati

published in: Arno Tausch and Almas Heshmati (eds.), Roadmap to Bangalore? Globalization, the EU's Lisbon Process, the Structures of Global Inequality, Nova Science Publishers, USA, 2007

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1084

Trade Liberalization and Labor-Demand Elasticities: Empirical Evidence from Tunisia

Ilham Haouas, Mahmoud Yagoubi

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2008, 15 (4), 277-286

IZA Discussion Paper No. 934

The Skill Bias Effect of Technological and Organisational Change: Evidence and Policy Implications

Mariacristina Piva, Enrico Santarelli, Marco Vivarelli

published in: Research Policy, 2005, 34 (2), 141-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 896

What Can We Learn About the Decline in U.S. Union Membership from International Data?

Solomon Polachek

published in: Phanindra V. Wunnava (ed.), The Changing Forms of Unions: New Forms of Representation, M.E. Sharpe 2004