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342 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12994
Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations
Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Hillel Rapoport
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12967
Robots and the Origin of Their Labour-Saving Impact
Fabio Montobbio, Jacopo Staccioli, Maria Enrica Virgillito, Marco Vivarelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12966
Consumer Debt and Default: A Macro Perspective
Florian Exler, Michèle Tertilt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12962
The Future of Work: Challenges for Job Creation Due to Global Demographic Change and Automation
Ana Abeliansky, Eda Algur, David E. Bloom, Klaus Prettner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12940
Can Women's Self-Help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India
Paul Anand, Swati Saxena, Rolando Gonzales Martinez, Hai-Anh Dang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12934
Adopting Mobile Money: Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Africa
Catia Batista, Pedro C. Vicente
forthcoming in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12851
Occupational Routine-Intensity and the Costs of Job Loss: Evidence from Mass Layoffs
Uwe Blien, Wolfgang Dauth, Duncan Roth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12848
Peer Networks and Entrepreneurship: A Pan-African RCT
Fernando Vega-Redondo, Paolo Pin, Diego Ubfal, Cristiana Benedetti-Fasil, Charles Brummitt, Gaia Rubera, Dirk Hovy, Tommaso Fornaciari
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12770
Skills, Tasks, and Complexity
Hans Gersbach, Samuel Schmassmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12769
The Intellectual Spoils of War? Defense R&D, Productivity and International Spillovers
Enrico Moretti, Claudia Steinwender, John Van Reenen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12762
Money for Something: Braided Funding and the Structure and Output of Research Groups
Russell J. Funk, Britta Glennon, Julia Lane, Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Matthew B. Ross
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12760
The Wife's Protector: A Quantitative Theory Linking Contraceptive Technology with the Decline in Marriage
Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Karen A. Kopecky
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12678
Three Varieties of Africa’s Industrial Future
Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12638
Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents
David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Gary Pisano, Pian Shu
forthcoming in: American Economic Review: Insights
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12631
Does Light Touch Cluster Policy Work? Evaluating the Tech City Programme
Max Nathan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12612
Testing the Employment Impact of Automation, Robots and AI: A Survey and Some Methodological Issues
Laura Barbieri, Chiara Mussida, Mariacristina Piva, Marco Vivarelli
forthcoming in: Zimmermann, K. (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, section: Technological Changes and the Labor Market, Springer Nature Switzerland
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12602
The Decline in Entrepreneurship in the West: Is Complexity Ossifying the Economy?
Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12573
Conference Presentations and Academic Publishing
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Tho Pham, Oleksandr Talavera
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12542
Determinants of Productivity Gap in the European Union: A Multilevel Perspective
Randolph Luca Bruno, Elodie Douarin, Julia Korosteleva, Slavo Radosevic
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12541
Skills-Displacing Technological Change and Its Impact on Jobs: Challenging Technological Alarmism?
Seamus McGuinness, Konstantinos Pouliakas, Paul Redmond
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12533
Migration, Innovation, and Growth: An African Story?
Linguère Mously Mbaye, Massimiliano Tani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12515
Unions and Firms' Investments: A Unified View
Fabio Berton, Stefano Dughera, Andrea Ricci
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12485
We Were the Robots: Automation and Voting Behavior in Western Europe
Massimo Anelli, Italo Colantone, Piero Stanig
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12476
Can Agricultural Extension and Input Support Be Discontinued? Evidence from a Randomized Phaseout in Uganda
Ram Fishman, Stephen C. Smith, Vida Bobic, Munshi Sulaiman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12434
Individual Consequences of Occupational Decline
Per-Anders Edin, Tiernan Evans, Georg Graetz, Sofia Hernnäs, Guy Michaels
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12428
Digitalization and the Future of Work: Macroeconomic Consequences
Melanie Arntz, Terry Gregory, Ulrich Zierahn
forthcoming in: Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12412
Migration and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Effect of Returning Refugees on Export Performance in the Former Yugoslavia
Dany Bahar, Cem Özgüzel, Andreas Hauptmann, Hillel Rapoport
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12408
Embodied and Disembodied Technological Change: The Sectoral Patterns of Job-Creation and Job-Destruction
Giovanni Dosi, Mariacristina Piva, Maria Enrica Virgillito, Marco Vivarelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12382
Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations
Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Hillel Rapoport
forthcoming in: Research Policy.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12281
Is an Army of Robots Marching on Chinese Jobs?
Osea Giuntella, Tianyi Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12251
Motivating Bureaucrats through Social Recognition: External Validity — A Tale of Two States
Varun Gauri, Julian C. Jamison, Nina Mazar, Owen Ozier
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12242
New Digital Technologies and Heterogeneous Employment and Wage Dynamics in the United States: Evidence from Individual-Level Data
Frank M. Fossen, Alina Sorgner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12218
The Race against the Robots and the Fallacy of the Giant Cheesecake: Immediate and Imagined Impacts of Artificial Intelligence
Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12191
Who Founds? An Analysis of University and Corporate Startup Entrepreneurs Based on Danish Register Data
Ulrich Kaiser, Johan Moritz Kuhn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12190
Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Mee Jung Kim, Kyung Min Lee
forthcoming in: I. Ganguli, S. Kahn, M.MacGarvie (eds.), The Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in U.S. Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship,'NBER, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12164
Glyphosate Use in Agriculture and Birth Outcomes of Surrounding Populations
Mateus Dias, Rudi Rocha, Rodrigo R. Soares
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12158
When Paywall Goes AWOL: The Demand for Open Access Education Research
Seth Gershenson, Morgan S. Polikoff, Rui Wang
forthcoming in: Educational Researcher, 2020
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. 12063
Racing With or Against the Machine? Evidence from Europe
Terry Gregory, Anna Salomons, Ulrich Zierahn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12061
Export Take-Offs and Acceleration: Unpacking Cross-Sector Linkages in the Evolution of Comparative Advantage
Dany Bahar, Samuel Rosenow, Ernesto Stein, Rodrigo Andres Wagner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12035
Firm Size and Innovation in the Service Sector
David Audretsch, Marian Hafenstein, Alexander S. Kritikos, Alexander Schiersch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12005
Artificial Intelligence, Jobs, Inequality and Productivity: Does Aggregate Demand Matter?
Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11977
Invisible Geniuses: Could the Knowledge Frontier Advance Faster?
Ruchir Agarwal, Patrick Gaule
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11954
A Theory of Conservative Revivals
Murat Iyigun, Jared Rubin, Avner Seror
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11941
Brilliant Technologies and Brave Entrepreneurs: A New Narrative for African Manufacturing
Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11868
Publishing and Promotion in Economics: The Tyranny of the Top Five
James J. Heckman, Sidharth Moktan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11856
Incubators, Accelerators and Regional Economic Development
Margarida Madaleno, Max Nathan, Henry Overman, Sevrin Waights
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11849
Globalization, Structural Change and Innovation in Emerging Economies: The Impact on Employment and Skills
Marco Vivarelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11847
Growing Together: Assessing Equity and Efficiency in an Early-Life Health Program in Chile
Damian Clarke, Gustavo Cortés Méndez, Diego Vergara Sepúlveda
forthcoming in: Journal of Population Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11787
Training and Changes in Job Tasks
Marcus Tamm
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 67, 137-147
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11737
The Race for an Artificial General Intelligence: Implications for Public Policy
Wim Naudé, Nicola Dimitri
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11711
Money for Something: The Links between Research Funding and Innovation
Britta Glennon, Julia Lane, Ridhima Sodhi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11681
Flowers of Evil? Industrialization and Long Run Development
Raphaël Franck, Oded Galor
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11651
Public R&D Support and Firms' Performance: A Panel Data Study
Øivind Anti Nilsen, Arvid Raknerud, Diana-Cristina Iancu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11640
The Distribution of the Gender Wage Gap
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Manuel Fernandez Sierra
R & R, Journal of Political Economy (revised version here)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11569
Innovation, Wages, and Polarization in China
Belton M. Fleisher, William H. McGuire, Yaqin Su, Min Qiang Zhao
revised version available
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11519
Employer Power, Labor Saving Technical Change, and Inequality
Nancy H. Chau, Ravi Kanbur
forthcoming in: Festschrift in Honor of Pranab Bardhan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11345
The Effect of the H-1B Quota on the Employment and Selection of Foreign-Born Labor
Anna Maria Mayda, Francesc Ortega, Giovanni Peri, Kevin Y. Shih, Chad Sparber
published in: European Economic Review, Volume 108, September 2018, Pages 105-128
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11312
The Shelf Life of Incumbent Workers during Accelerating Technological Change: Evidence from a Training Regulation Reform
Simon Janssen, Jens Mohrenweiser
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11298
The Effect of Computer Use on Job Quality: Evidence from Europe
Seetha Menon, Andrea Salvatori, Wouter Zwysen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11196
Public Funding and Corporate Innovation
Mathias Beck, Martin Junge, Ulrich Kaiser
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11194
Technological Innovation and Inclusive Growth in Germany
Wim Naudé, Paula Nagler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11151
The Impact of Digital Technologies on Worker Tasks: Do Labor Policies Matter?
Rita K. Almeida, Carlos Henrique Corseuil, Jennifer P. Poole
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11108
Not for the Profit, but for the Training? Gender Differences in Training in the For-Profit and Non-Profit Sectors
Benoit Dostie, Mohsen Javdani
forthcoming in: British Journal of Industrial Relations
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11103
The Intersection of the Fields of Entrepreneurship and Development Economics: A Review towards a New View
Jolanda Hessels, Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11048
The Role of Entrepreneurial Human Capital as a Driver of Endogenous Economic Growth
Isaac Ehrlich, Dunli Li, Zhiqiang Liu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11016
Does the Adoption of Complex Software Impact Employment Composition and the Skill Content of Occupations? Evidence from Chilean Firms
Rita K. Almeida, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Mariana Viollaz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11013
A Tale of Two Countries: A Story of the French and US Polarization
Julien Albertini, Jean-Olivier Hairault, François Langot, Thepthida Sopraseuth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10946
Beyond EU-US Trade Dynamics: TTIP Effects Related to Foreign Direct Investment and Innovation
Andre Jungmittag, Paul J. J. Welfens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10898
The Effects of Globalization and Technology on the Elasticity of Substitution
Hector Sala, Pedro Trivín
published in: Review of World Economics, 2018, 154 (3), 617-647
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10886
One-To-One Technology and Student Outcomes
Marie C. Hull, Katherine Duch
published in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2019, 41 (1), 79-97
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10855
Entrepreneurship, Education and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Africa
Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10846
The Role of Demand in Fostering Product vs Process Innovation: A Model and an Empirical Test
Herbert Dawid, Gabriele Pellegrino, Marco Vivarelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10828
An Advisor Like Me? Advisor Gender and Post-Graduate Careers in Science
Patrick Gaule, Mario Piacentini
published in: Research Policy, 2018, 47(4), 805-813
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10816
Industrial Espionage and Productivity
Albrecht Glitz, Erik Meyersson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10815
Racing against Time in Research: A Study of the 1995 U.S. Patent Law Amendment
Jinyoung Kim
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10749
Wages, Innovation, and Employment in China
Belton M. Fleisher, William H. McGuire, Xiaojun Wang, Min Qiang Zhao
Revision available at https://economics.osu.edu/sites/economics.osu.edu/files/Induced%20Innovation%20and%20Labor%20Productivity%20in%20China_Sep_10.pdf
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10744
Nudging Households to Take Up Health Insurance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Burkina Faso
Fadima Bocoum, Michael Grimm, Renate Hartwig, Nathalie Zongo
published as 'Can information increase the understanding and uptake of insurance? Lessons from a randomized experiment in rural Burkina Faso' in: Social Science and Medicine, 2019, 220, 102-111.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10724
What Drives Differences in Management?
Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron Jarmin, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten, John Van Reenen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10706
Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times
Philippe Aghion, Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lucking, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10703
The Ideological Roots of Institutional Change
Murat Iyigun, Jared Rubin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10689
Immigration and Innovation: Evidence from Canadian Cities
Joel Blit, Mikal Skuterud, Jue Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10641
How Sustainable Are Benefits from Extension for Smallholder Farmers? Evidence from a Randomized Phase-Out of the BRAC Program in Uganda
Ram Fishman, Stephen C. Smith, Vida Bobic, Munshi Sulaiman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10581
Is R&D Good for Employment? Microeconometric Evidence from the EU
Mariacristina Piva, Marco Vivarelli
published as 'Is Innovation Destroying Jobs? Firm-Level Evidence from the EU' in: Sustainability, 2018, 10(4), 1279
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10540
Are Robots Stealing Our Jobs?
Gabriele Pellegrino, Mariacristina Piva, Marco Vivarelli
published as 'Beyond R&D: The role of Embodied Technological Change in Affecting Employment' in: Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2019, 29, 1151-1171.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10471
Technological Change and Employment: Were Ricardo and Marx Right?
Mariacristina Piva, Marco Vivarelli
published as 'Technological Change and Employment: Is Europe Ready for the Challenge?' in: Eurasian Business Review, 2018, 8, 13-32
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10470
Is Modern Technology Responsible for Jobless Recoveries?
Georg Graetz, Guy Michaels
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10458
Teacher Assessments versus Standardized Tests: Is Acting "Girly" an Advantage?
Adriana Di Liberto, Laura Casula
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. 10421
Business Visits, Knowledge Diffusion and Productivity
Mariacristina Piva, Massimiliano Tani, Marco Vivarelli
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31, 1321-1338
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10354
R&D, Embodied Technological Change and Employment: Evidence from Italian Microdata
Laura Barbieri, Mariacristina Piva, Marco Vivarelli
published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2019, 28, 203-218.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10328
Global Talent Flows
Sari Pekkala Kerr, William Kerr, Caglar Ozden, Christopher Parsons
forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Perspectives
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10081
Research Funding and Regional Economies
Nathan Goldschlag, Stefano Bianchini, Julia Lane, Joseba SanMartin Sola, Bruce A. Weinberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10034
Trade Competition, Technology and Labour Reallocation
Selva B. Baziki, Rita Ginja, Teodora Borota Milicevic
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9987
Management as a Technology?
Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9937
The Productivity Impact of R&D Investment: A Comparison between the EU and the US
Davide Castellani, Mariacristina Piva, Torben Schubert, Marco Vivarelli
published as 'R&D and Productivity in the US and the EU: Sectoral Specificities and Differences in the Crisis', Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2019, 138, 279-291.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9897
Did Cheaper Flights Change the Direction of Science?
Christian Catalini, Christian Fons-Rosen, Patrick Gaule
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9851
Are Jobs More Polarized in ICT Firms?
Petri Böckerman, Seppo Laaksonen, Jari Vainiomäki
published as 'Does ICT Usage Erode Routine Occupations at the Firm Level?' in: Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2019, 33 (1), 26-47
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9828
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy
David de la Croix, Matthias Doepke, Joel Mokyr
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018, 133 (1), 1-70
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9788
Migration, Knowledge Diffusion and the Comparative Advantage of Nations
Dany Bahar, Hillel Rapoport
Published in: The Economic Journal, Vol 128 (612), 2018: F273-305
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