IZA Discussion Papers

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. 15762

Creative Disruption: Technology Innovation, Labour Demand and the Pandemic

Erling Barth, Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15617

Employer Cooperation, Productivity, and Wages: New Evidence from Inter-Firm Formal Network Agreements

Francesco Devicienti, Elena Grinza, Alessandro Manello, Davide Vannoni

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. 15482

Migration and Firm-Level Productivity

Richard Fabling, David C. Maré, Philip Stevens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15461

Regional Differences in Intersectoral Linkages and Diverse Patterns of Structural Transformation

Saumik Paul, Dhushyanth Raju

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14620

The UK Productivity Shortfall in an Era of Rising Labour Supply

Andrew Benito, Garry Young

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14610

The Productivity Puzzle in Business Services

Alexander S. Kritikos, Alexander Schiersch, Caroline Stiel

published as 'The productivity shock in business services' in: Small Business Economics, 2022, 59 (3), 1273 - 1299

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. 14432

Can You Teach an Old Dog New Tricks? New Evidence on the Impact of Tenure on Productivity

Nicola Gagliardi, Elena Grinza, François Rycx

published as 'Workers' Tenure and Firm Productivity: New Evidence from Matched Employer-employee Data' in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2023, 62 (1), 3-33

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14407

Barriers to Growth-Enhancing Structural Transformation: The Role of Subnational Differences in Intersectoral Productivity Gaps

Saumik Paul, Dhushyanth Raju

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14006

Estimating Production Functions in Differentiated-Product Industries with Quantity Information and External Instruments

Nicolás de Roux, Marcela Eslava, Santiago Franco, Eric Verhoogen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13898

Workplace Incentives and Organizational Learning

Francesco Amodio, Miguel A. Martinez-Carrasco

published in: Journal of Labor Economics 2023, 41 (2), 453-478

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13422

Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations

Girum Abebe, Margaret McMillan, Michel Serafinelli

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 158, 102926

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 published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 23, 729 - 753

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13152

Germany's Capacities to Work from Home

Jean-Victor Alipour, Oliver Falck, Simone Schüller

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 151,104354

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. 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. 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. 12840

Inputs, Incentives, and Self-Selection at the Workplace

Francesco Amodio, Miguel A. Martinez-Carrasco

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12621

Linguistic Diversity and Workplace Productivity

Harald Dale-Olsen, Henning Finseraas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12546

Creative Destruction, Social Security Uptake and Union Networks

Harald Dale-Olsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12433

Skill Complementarity in Production Technology: New Empirical Evidence and Implications

Andrey Stoyanov, Nick Zubanov

published in: German Economic Review, 2022, 23 (2), 233-274

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12252

Spillovers and Substitutability in Production

Kerry L. Papps, Alex Bryson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11772

Mergers and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Maternity Ward Closures

Daniel Avdic, Petter Lundborg, Johan Vikström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11651

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

Øivind Anti Nilsen, Arvid Raknerud, Diana-Cristina Iancu

published as 'Public R&D support and firm performance: A multivariate dose-response analysis' in: Research Policy, 2020, 49 (7), 104067.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11543

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

Elena Grinza, François 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. 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. 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. 10880

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

Almas Heshmati, Nam-Seok Kim

published in: M. Tsionas (ed.), Panel Data Economics: Empirical Analysis, 2019, 885 - 929

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10819

Security, Trade, and Political Violence

Francesco Amodio, Leonardo Baccini, Michele Di Maio

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (1), 1-37

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. 10749

Wages, Innovation, and Employment in China

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

revised version

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, François Rycx

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10546

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

Sebastian J. Goerg, Sebastian Kube, Jonas Radbruch

substantially revised version published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (9), 3949-4450.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10448

Estimation of Technical Change and TFP Growth Based on Observable Technology Shifters

Almas Heshmati, Masoomeh Rashidghalam

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10370

Management Practices and Productivity in Germany

Sandra Broszeit, Ursula Fritsch, Holger Görg, Marie-Christine Laible

published in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20 (4), e663-e688

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10292

Technical Efficiency, Unions and Decentralized Labor Contracts

Francesco Devicienti, Alessandro Manello, Davide Vannoni

published in: European Journal of Operational Research, 2017, 260 (3), 1129 - 1141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10229

Effects of Labor Reallocation on Productivity and Inequality: Insights from Studies on Transition

Joanna Tyrowicz, Lucas Van der Velde, Jan Svejnar

published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2017, 31 (3), 712-732

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9807

A Comparison of Panel Data Models in Estimating Technical Efficiency

Masoomeh Rashidghalam, Almas Heshmati, Ghader Dashti, Esmail Pishbahar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9510

Firm Productivity Growth and Skill

David C. Maré, Dean Hyslop, Richard Fabling

published in: New Zealand Economic Papers, 2017, 51 (3), 302-326

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9330

Strive to be First or Avoid Being Last: An Experiment on Relative Performance Incentives

E. Glenn Dutcher, Loukas Balafoutas, Florian Lindner, Dmitry Ryvkin, Matthias Sutter

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2015, 94, 39-56.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9263

Resources on the Stage: A Firm Level Analysis of the ICT Adoption in Turkey

Derya Findik, Aysit Tansel

published in: B. Christiansen and M. Erdogdu (eds.), Comparative Economics and Regional Development in Turkey, 2015, 106 - 126.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9261

Is Privatization Working in Ukraine? New Estimates from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Data, 1989-2013

J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Solomiya Shpak, Volodymyr Vakhitov

published as 'Is Privatization Working in Ukraine?' in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2019, 61 (1), 1 - 35

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9260

Reducing Risks in Wartime Through Capital-Labor Substitution: Evidence from World War II

Chris Rohlfs, Ryan Sullivan, Thomas J. Kniesner

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2016, 52 (2), 163-190.

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. 8829

The Objective Measurement of World-Leading Research

Andrew J. Oswald

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8649

Dual Labour Markets and (Lack of) On-the-Job Training: PIAAC Evidence from Spain and Other EU Countries

Antonio Cabrales, Juan J. Dolado, Ricardo Mora

published in SERIEs Journal of the Spanish Economic Association (2017), 8, 345-371.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8525

Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited

Esther Gehrke, Michael Grimm

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2018, 66 (4): 673 - 707.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8416

Who Do Unions Target? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses

Emin Dinlersoz, Jeremy Greenwood, Henry R. Hyatt

published in: ILR Review, 2017, 70(3): 733-766

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8326

Skilled Immigrants' Contribution to Productive Efficiency

Daehoon Nahm, Massimiliano Tani

published in Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 2015, 20, 594–612

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8081

Production Risk, Energy Use Efficiency and Productivity of Korean Industries

Nabaz T. Khayyat, Almas Heshmati

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7887

Unionization and Productivity: Evidence from Charter Schools

Cassandra M. D. Hart, Aaron Sojourner

published in: Industrial Relations, 2015. 55 (4), 422-448

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7886

More Is Better! What Can Firm-Specific Estimates of the Impact of Institutional Quality on Performance Tell Us?

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ralitza Dimova, Subal C. Kumbhakar, Kai Sun

published as 'Is Tinkering with Institutional Quality a Panacea for Firm Performance? Insights from a Semiparametric Approach to Modeling Firm Performance' in: Review of Development Economics, 2018, 22 (1), 1-22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7885

Do Business Groups Help or Hinder Technological Progress in Emerging Markets? Evidence from India

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ying Zhou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7702

Money on the Table? Firms' and Workers' Gains from Productivity Spillovers through Worker Mobility

Andrey Stoyanov, Nick Zubanov

revised version published as 'The Distribution of the Gains from Spillovers through Worker Mobility between Workers and Firms' in: European Economic Review, 2014, 70, 17-35

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7552

Econometric Mediation Analyses: Identifying the Sources of Treatment Effects from Experimentally Estimated Production Technologies with Unmeasured and Mismeasured Inputs

James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto

published in: Econometric Reviews, 2015, 34 (1-2), 6-31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7350

The Heterogeneous Effects of Workforce Diversity on Productivity, Wages and Profits

Andrea Garnero, François Rycx

published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2014, 53 (3), 430-477.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7277

Estimation of Productivity in Korean Electric Power Plants: A Semiparametric Smooth Coefficient Model

Almas Heshmati, Subal C. Kumbhakar, Kai Sun

published in: Energy Economics, 2014, 45, 491-500.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7235

Measurement of Environmentally Sensitive Productivity Growth in Korean Industries

Yeimin Chung, Almas Heshmati

published in: Journal of Cleaner Production, 2015, 104, 380-391.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7195

Investment under Company-Level Pacts

Lutz Bellmann, Hans-Dieter Gerner, Olaf Hübler

published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2015, 36(3), 501-522

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7146

Do Entrepreneurs Matter?

Sascha O. Becker, Hans K. Hvide

published as 'Entrepreneur Death and Startup Performance' in: Review of Finance, 2021, 26 (1), 163-185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7050

Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Christian Pfeifer, Joachim Wagner

published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2014, 47 (3), 223-231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7036

Worker Productivity and Wages: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Ana Sofia Lopes, Paulino Teixeira

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6502

The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities: Distinguishing Agglomeration from Firm Selection

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon, Diego Puga, Sébastien Roux

published in: Econometrica, 2012, 80 (6), 2543-2594

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6500

Comparing Real Wage Rates

Orley Ashenfelter

published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (2), 617 - 642

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6461

Productivity and the Welfare of Nations

Susanto Basu, Luigi Pascali, Fabio Schiantarelli, Luis Serven

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (4), 1647–1682

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6381

Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits: Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Christian Pfeifer, Joachim Wagner

published in: Contemporary Economics, 2014, 8 (1), 25-49

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6351

Does Institutional Quality Affect Firm Performance? Insights from a Semiparametric Approach

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ralitza Dimova, Subal C. Kumbhakar, Kai Sun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6193

Credit Constraints and Productive Entrepreneurship in Africa

Mina Baliamoune-Lutz, Zuzana Brixiova, Leonce Ndikumana

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6164

The Role of Peers in Estimating Tenure-Performance Profiles: Evidence from Personnel Data

Andries de Grip, Jan Sauermann, Inge Sieben

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 126, 39-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6123

Firm-Sponsored Classroom Training: Is It Worth It for Older Workers?

Benoit Dostie, Pierre Thomas Léger

published in: Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de Politiques, 2014, 40 (4), 377-390

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6034

Employment Concentration and Resource Allocation: One-Company Towns in Russia

Simon Commander, Zlatko Nikoloski, Alexander Plekhanov

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6004

A General Model of Technical Change with an Application to the OECD Countries

Almas Heshmati, Subal C. Kumbhakar

published in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2014, 23(1), 25-48.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5737

Economies of Scale in the Tunisian Industries

Almas Heshmati, Ilham Haouas

published in: International Journal of Economics and Finance, 2013, 5(1), 48-64.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5511

Does Anti-Competitive Regulation Matter for Productivity? Evidence from European Firms

Jens Arnold, Giuseppe Nicoletti, Stefano Scarpetta

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5471

Good and Bad Institutions: Is the Debate Over? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence from the Textile Industry

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ralitza Dimova

published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2014, 38(1), 109-126

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5258

Estimating the Returns to Firm-Sponsored On-the-Job and Classroom Training

Benoit Dostie

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2013, 7 (2), 161-189

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5247

Institutions and Economic Performance: What Can Be Explained?

Simon Commander, Zlatko Nikoloski

published in: Review of Economics and Institutions, 2012, 2 (2), Article 3

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5151

International Trade and its Effects on Economic Growth in China

Peng Sun, Almas Heshmati

published in: China Economic Policy Review, 2012, 1(2), 35-60.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4997

The Importance of Skill Measurement for Growth Accounting

Øivind Anti Nilsen, Arvid Raknerud, Marina Rybalka, Terje Skjerpen

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2011, 57 (2), 293-305

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4981

The Investment in Job Training: Why Are SMEs Lagging So Much Behind?

Rita K. Almeida, Reyes Aterido

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4784

Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth: The Case of Chinese Provinces

Almas Heshmati, Subal C. Kumbhakar

published in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2011, 78 (4), 575-590

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4612

Productivity, Welfare and Reallocation: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence

Susanto Basu, Luigi Pascali, Fabio Schiantarelli, Luis Serven

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4486

SME Policy and Firms’ Productivity in Latin America

Pablo Ibarrarán, Alessandro Maffioli, Rodolfo Stucchi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4199

A Sequential Malmquist-Luenberger Productivity Index

Donghyun Oh, Almas Heshmati

published as 'A sequential Malmquist–Luenberger productivity index: Environmentally sensitive productivity growth considering the progressive nature of technology ' in: Energy Economics, 2011, 32 (6), 1345 - 1355

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4028

Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity: Evidence from Micro Data

Jonathan Haskel, Raffaella Sadun

published in: Economica, 2012, 79 (315), 425-448

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3921

How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?

Jennifer Hunt, Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (2), 31-56

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