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50 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17597
Unions and Collective Bargaining in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Insights from Quantitative Studies
Uwe Jirjahn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17116
Offshoring and the Decline of Unions
Jakob R. Munch, William W. Olney
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16727
Corporate Globalization and Worker Representation
Uwe Jirjahn
published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16510
The Role of Global Value Chains for Worker Tasks and Wage Inequality
Piotr Lewandowski, Karol Madoń, Deborah Winkler
published in: World Economy, 2024, 47, 4389–4435
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16381
International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker Level
Wolfgang Keller, Hale Utar
published in: Journal of International Economics, 2023, 145, 103810.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16363
Globalization and Inequality in Latin America
Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Brian K. Kovak
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16243
Medical Brain Drain – Assessing the Role of Job Attributes and Individual Traits
Marco Bertoni, Debdeep Chattopadhyay, Yuanyuan Gu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16231
Skill-Biased Imports, Skill Acquisition, and Migration
Jingting Fan, Lei Li
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15782
On Trade Policy Preference and Offshoring Ties
Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, Devashish Mitra
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15760
Import Competition, Formalization, and the Role of Contract Labor
Pavel Chakraborty, Rahul Singh, Vidhya Soundararajan
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2024, 38 (4), 741–771,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15243
Enhanced Intergenerational Occupational Mobility through Trade Expansion: Evidence from Vietnam
Devashish Mitra, Hoang Pham, Beyza Ural Marchand
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14783
Membership in Employers' Associations and Collective Bargaining Coverage in Germany
Uwe Jirjahn
revised version published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2023, 44 (3), 798-826
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14650
Import Competition and Informal Employment: Empirical Evidence from China
Feicheng Wang, Zhe Liang, Hartmut Lehmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14055
Women's Employment and Natural Shocks
Eugenia Canessa, Gianna Claudia Giannelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13957
Globalization and Female Empowerment: Evidence from Myanmar
Teresa Molina, Mari Tanaka
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2023, 71 (2), 519-565
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13626
Trade Liberalization and the Gender Employment Gap in China
Feicheng Wang, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Minghai Zhou
published as 'Import Competition and the Gender Employment Gap in China' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (6), 1830-1864
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13267
Automation, Globalization and Vanishing Jobs: A Labor Market Sorting View
Ester Faia, Sébastien Laffitte, Maximilian Mayer, Gianmarco Ottaviano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13259
Hit by the Silk Road: How Wage Coordination in Europe Mitigates the China Shock
Erling Barth, Henning Finseraas, Anders Kjelsrud, Karl Ove Moene
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13194
The Importance of Cognitive Domains and the Returns to Schooling in South Africa: Evidence from Two Labor Surveys
Plamen Nikolov, Nusrat Abedin Jimi
published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101849.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13095
Pioneering a New Approach to Improving Working Conditions in Developing Countries: Better Factories Cambodia
Raymond Robertson
published in: Handbook on Globalisation and Labour Standards, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12593
Offshoring and Skill-Biased Technical Change in the Context of US Protectionism
Pablo Agnese, Jana Hromcová
published as 'Offshoring, welfare, and flexibility in the context of US Protectionism' in: International Economic Journal, 2021, 35 (4), 391 - 410
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12449
Upstreamness, Wages and Gender: Equal Benefits for All?
Nicola Gagliardi, Benoît Mahy, François Rycx
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 59 (1), 52-83
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12380
Trade and Worker Deskilling
Rui Costa, Swati Dhingra, Stephen Machin
published as 'New Dawn Fades: Trade, Labour and the Brexit Exchange Rate Depreciation' in: Journal of International Economics, 2024,152, 103993
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12327
Workers in the Crowd: The Labour Market Impact of the Online Platform Economy
Michele Cantarella, Chiara Strozzi
revised and updated version published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2021, 30 (6), 1429 - 1458
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12246
Access to Imported Intermediates and Intra-Firm Wage Inequality
Ying Ge, Tony Fang, Yeheng Jiang
published in: World Economy, 2019, 42 (8), 2364-2384.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11885
Capital Market Integration and Gender Inequality
Mizuki Komura, Hikaru Ogawa
published in: Review of Development Economics, 2019, 23(3), 1387-1413.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11821
Globalisation and the Gender Earnings Gap: Evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia 1992-2015
Raymond Robertson, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Yevgeniya Savchenko
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11790
Collateral Damage? Labour Market Effects of Competing with China – at Home and Abroad
Sónia Cabral, Pedro S. Martins, João Pereira dos Santos, Mariana Tavares
published in: Economica, 2021, 88 (350), 570-600
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11480
The Impact of Immigration on Firm-Level Offshoring
William W. Olney, Dario Pozzoli
revised version published as 'The Impact of Immigration on Firm-Level Offshoring' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103 (1), 177 - 195
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11154
Foreign Ownership and Intra-Firm Union Density in Germany
Uwe Jirjahn
revised version published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2021, 42 (4), 1052-1079
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10602
On the Implications of Immigration Policy Restricting Citizenship: Evidence from the Dominican Republic
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Carlos Gratereaux Hernández, Susan Pozo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10559
The Effect of Fertility on Mothers' Labor Supply over the Last Two Centuries
Daniel Aaronson, Rajeev Dehejia, Andrew Jordan, Cristian Pop-Eleches, Cyrus Samii, Karl Schulze
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10299
Offshoring, Endogenous Skill Decision, and Labor Market Outcomes
Pablo Agnese, Jana Hromcová
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10156
Tracking Wage Inequality Trends with Prices and Different Trade Models: Evidence from Mexico
Timothy J. Halliday, Daniel Lederman, Raymond Robertson
published in: Review of World Economics, 2018, 154 (1), 47 - 73
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10025
Laws, Costs, Norms, and Learning: Improving Working Conditions in Developing Countries
Drusilla Brown, Rajeev Dehejia, Raymond Robertson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9973
Disentangling the Wage Impacts of Offshoring on a Developing Country: Theory and Policy
Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, Devashish Mitra
revised version published as 'Consequences of Offshoring to Developing Nations: Labor-Market Outcomes, Welfare and Corrective Interventions' in: Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58 (1), 209 -224
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9952
Euro, Crisis and Unemployment: Youth Patterns, Youth Policies?
Atanu Ghoshray, Javier Ordóñez, Hector Sala
published in: Economic Modelling, 2016, 58, 442-453.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9764
Competition and the Racial Wage Gap: Testing Becker's Model of Employer Discrimination
Guilherme Hirata, Rodrigo R. Soares
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 146, Article 102519
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9672
Islamism and Gender Relations in the Muslim World as Reflected in Recent World Values Survey Data
Arno Tausch, Almas Heshmati
published in: Society and Economy, 2016, 38 (4), 427–453
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9422
Human Resources and Innovation: Total Factor Productivity and Foreign Human Capital
Claudio Fassio, Sona Kalantaryan, Alessandra Venturini
published as 'Foreign Human Capital and Total Factor Productivity: A Sectoral Approach' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2020, 66 (3), 613 - 646
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9421
Female Migration and Native Marital Stability: Insights from Italy
Daniele Vignoli, Alessandra Venturini, Elena Pirani
published in :Journal of Family and Economic, 2017, 38 (5), 118-128
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9037
Top Incomes in Canada: Evidence from the Census
Thomas Lemieux, W. Craig Riddell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8881
International Migration Opportunities and Occupational Choice: A Case Study of Philippine Nurses 2002 to 2014
Mary P. Arends-Kuenning, Alvaro Calara, Stella Go
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8743
Migration and the Demographic Shift
Anzelika Zaiceva, Klaus F. Zimmermann
substantially revised version published in: Piggott, J. and A. Woodland (Eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, Elsevier, North Holland, 2016, Vol. 1A, Ch. 3, 119-177.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8328
Migration in Italy is Backing the Old Age Welfare
Daniela Del Boca, Alessandra Venturini
published in: M. Kahanec and K.F. Zimmermann (eds.), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, 2016
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. 8164
Low-Skill Offshoring: Labor Market Policies and Welfare Effects
Pablo Agnese, Jana Hromcová
published as 'Low-skill offshoring and welfare compensation policies' in: Economic Modelling, 2016, 52, part B, 408 - 426
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8125
Labour Demand Research: Towards a Better Match between Better Theory and Better Data
John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal, José Varejão
published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 4-11
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7494
Exporting and Labor Demand: Micro-Level Evidence from Germany
Andreas Lichter, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch
revised version published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2017, 50 (4), 1161-1189
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7095
FDI and Wages: Evidence from Firm-Level and Linked Employer-Employee Data in Hungary, 1986-2008
John S. Earle, Álmos Telegdy, Gábor Antal
published as 'Foreign Ownership and Wages: Evidence from Hungary, 1986 -2008 ' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2017, 71 (2), 458 - 491
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