Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13608

Import Competition and Gender Differences in Labor Reallocation

Hani Mansour, Pamela Medina, Andrea Velasquez

published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 76, 102149.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13606

Artificial Intelligence, Income Distribution and Economic Growth

Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé

published in: W. Naudé and T. Gries and N. Dimitri (eds.), Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives and Models, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13605

How Robots Change Within-Firm Wage Inequality

Erling Barth, Marianne Roed, Pal Schone, Janis Umblijs

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13575

Economic Impact of Targeted Government Responses to COVID-19: Evidence from the First Large-scale Cluster in Seoul

Jinwook Shin, Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 192, 199-221

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13557

Rising Concentration and Wage Inequality

Matias Cortes, Jeanne Tschopp

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2024, 126 (2), 320-354

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13538

Divergence in Labour Force Growth: Should Wages and Prices Grow Faster in Germany?

Thomas Beissinger, Joël Hellier, Martyna Marczak

published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2025, 67, 949-988. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41294-025-00266-0

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13526

Minimum Wage and Financially Distressed Firms: Another One Bites the Dust

Fernando Alexandre, Pedro Bação, João Cerejeira, Hélder Costa, Miguel Portela

published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 24, 102088

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13472

Measuring Employer-to-Employer Reallocation

Shigeru Fujita, Giuseppe Moscarini, Fabien Postel-Vinay

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2024, 16 (3), 1–51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13439

The Lockdown Impact on Unemployment for Heterogeneous Workers

Malak Kandoussi, François Langot

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13438

Uncertainty Shocks and Unemployment Dynamics

Malak Kandoussi, François Langot

published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 201, 110760

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13415

The Agricultural Productivity Gap and Self-Employment Bias in the Labor Income Share

Saumik Paul, Liam Thomas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13393

Recessions and Occupational Match Quality: The Role of Age, Gender, and Education

John T. Addison, Liwen Chen, Orgul Demet Ozturk

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13366

Unequal Consequences of COVID-19 across Age and Income: Representative Evidence from Six Countries

Michèle Belot, Syngjoo Choi, Egon Tripodi, Eline van den Broek-Altenburg, Julian C. Jamison, Nicholas W. Papageorge

published as 'Unequal consequences of Covid 19: representative evidence from six countries' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, 19, 769–783

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13354

Short-Term Impact of COVID-19 on Consumption and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Singapore

Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh, Xuan Zhang

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2022, 55 (Suppl. 1), 115–134.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13353

The Short-Run Macro Implications of School and Child-Care Closures

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Moritz Kuhn, Michèle Tertilt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13349

Culture and Adult Financial Literacy: Evidence from the United States

Maddalena Davoli, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 78, 102013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13325

Why Didn't the College Premium Rise Everywhere? Employment Protection and On-the-Job Investment in Skills

Matthias Doepke, Ruben Gaetani

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2024, 16 (3), 268–309

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13307

Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Ludo Visschers

published in: Econometrica, 2021, 91 (3), 1119-1153

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13294

Unemployment Paths in a Pandemic Economy

Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, Robert G. Valletta

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

published as 'Sentiment and Firm Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 195, 185 - 198

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13243

Does Electricity Drive Structural Transformation? Evidence from the United States

Paul Gaggl, Rowena Gray, Ioana E. Marinescu, Miguel Morin

published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 68, 101944

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13240

Recruitment Policies, Job-Filling Rates and Matching Efficiency

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Hermann Gartner, Leo Kaas

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (6), 2413 - 2459

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13239

The Accumulation of Human and Market Capital in the United States: The Long View, 1948–2013

Barbara M. Fraumeni, Michael S. Christian, Jon D. Samuels

published in: Barbara M. Fraumeni (Ed.), Human Capital Measurement, Academic Press, 2021, 167 - 197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13237

Job Search during the COVID-19 Crisis

Lena Hensvik, Thomas Le Barbanchon, Roland Rathelot

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 194, 104349

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13222

The Insights and Illusions of Consumption Measurements

Erich Battistin, Michele De Nadai, Nandini Krishnan

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023,161, 102991

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13206

Investigating the Genetic Architecture of Non-Cognitive Skills Using GWAS-By-Subtraction

Perline A. Demange, Margherita Malanchini, Travis T. Mallard, Pietro Biroli

published in: Nature Genetics, 2021, 53, 35 - 44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13187

The Perceived Well-Being and Health Costs of Exiting Self-Employment

Milena Nikolova, Boris Nikolaev, Olga Popova

published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57(4), 1819-1836

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13185

The Long Run Earnings Effects of a Credit Market Disruption

Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Marta De Philippis, Enrico Sette, Eliana Viviano

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13177

Beyond Cobb-Douglas: Flexibly Estimating Matching Functions with Unobserved Matching Efficiency

Fabian Lange, Theodore Papageorgiou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13156

Why Are Average Hours Worked Lower in Richer Countries?

Alexander Bick, Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, David Lagakos, Hitoshi Tsujiyama

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13131

Moving from a Poor Economy to a Rich One: The Contradictory Roles of Technology and Job Tasks

Eran Yashiv

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13129

The Effect of Labor Market Conditions at Entry on Workers' Long-Term Skills

Jaime Arellano-Bover

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104(5), 1028-1045

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13127

Sibling Spillover in Rural China: A Story of Sisters and Daughters

Cynthia Bansak, Xuan Jiang, Guanyi Yang

published as 'Sibling spillovers in rural China: A story of sisters' in: China Economic Review, 2022, 76, 101873

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13086

Jumping the Queue: Nepotism and Public-Sector Pay

Andri Chassamboulli, Pedro Maia Gomes

published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2017, 142, 331-347

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13044

Long-Term Evolution of Inequality of Opportunity

Maurizio Bussolo, Daniele Checchi, Vito Peragine

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023, 21, 277 - 323

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13042

Public-Sector Compensation over the Life Cycle

Pedro Maia Gomes, Felix Wellschmied

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13009

The Long-Term Effects of Labor Market Entry in a Recession: Evidence from the Asian Financial Crisis

Eleanor J. Choi, Jaewoo Choi, Hyelim Son

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 67, 101926

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12974

Output Costs of Education and Skill Mismatch

Pietro Garibaldi, Pedro Maia Gomes, Thepthida Sopraseuth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12969

Career Consequences of Firm Heterogeneity for Young Workers: First Job and Firm Size

Jaime Arellano-Bover

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 549-589.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12966

Consumer Debt and Default: A Macro Perspective

Florian Exler, Michèle Tertilt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12961

Life Satisfaction of Employees, Labour Market Tightness and Matching Efficiency

Pablo de Pedraza, Martin Guzi, Kea Tijdens

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2020, 42 (3), 341-355

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12933

Short- vs Long-Term Intergenerational Correlations of Employment and Self-Employment in Europe

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina, Jorge Velilla

published as 'Intergenerational correlation of self-employment in Western Europe' in: Economic Modelling, 2022, 108, 105741

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12913

The Macroeconomics of Automation: Data, Theory, and Policy Analysis

Nir Jaimovich, Itay Saporta-Eksten, Henry E. Siu, Yaniv Yedid-Levi

published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2021, 122, 1-16

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12912

The Effect of Unfair Chances and Gender Discrimination on Labor Supply

Nickolas Gagnon, Kristof Bosmans, Arno Riedl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12889

The Importance of Hiring Frictions in Business Cycles

Renato Faccini, Eran Yashiv

published in: Quantitative Economics, 2022, 13 (3), 1101 - 1143

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12871

Public Employment Redux

Pietro Garibaldi, Pedro Maia Gomes, Thepthida Sopraseuth

published in: Journal of Government and Economics, 2021, 1, 100003

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12852

Labor Income Share at the Firm Level: Global Trends

Saumik Paul, Hironobu Isaka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12836

Who Bears the Welfare Costs of Monopoly? The Case of the Credit Card Industry

Kyle Herkenhoff, Gajendran Raveendranathan

published online in: Review of Economic Studies, rdae098, 24 October 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12805

Individual and Market-Level Effects of UI Policies: Evidence from Missouri

Fatih Karahan, Kurt Mitman, Brendan Moore

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12804

Rising Intergenerational Income Persistence in China

Yi Fan, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021, 13 (1), 202 - 230