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127 IZA Discussion Papers
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 R. 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 Schwidrowski, 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
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