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376 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5007
Quantifying Optimal Growth Policy
Volker Grossmann, Thomas M. Steger, Timo Trimborn
published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2016, 18 (3), 451-485
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4943
North-South Trade-Related Technology Diffusion: Virtuous Growth Cycles in Latin America
Maurice Schiff, Yanling Wang
published in: El Trimestre Economico, 2012, 79 (2), 289-311 (Lead Article)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4936
Bidding for Brains: Intellectual Property Rights and the International Migration of Knowledge Workers
Carol McAusland, Peter J. Kuhn
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 95 (1), 77-87
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4895
Employment Protection, Technology Choice, and Worker Allocation
Eric Bartelsman, Pieter A. Gautier, Joris De Wind
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4786
Financial Constraints and Innovation: Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Monika Schnitzer
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11(5), 1115-1152
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4728
The Job Creation Effect of R&D Expenditures
Francesco Bogliacino, Marco Vivarelli
published in: Australian Economic Papers, 2012, 51 (2), 96-113
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4678
Outsourcing and Technological Change
Ann P. Bartel, Saul Lach, Nachum Sicherman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4657
Corporate R&D and Firm Efficiency: Evidence from Europe’s Top R&D Investors
Subal C. Kumbhakar, Raquel Ortega-Argilés, Lesley Potters, Marco Vivarelli, Peter Voigt
published in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2012, 37, 125-140
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4592
When Supply Meets Demand: Wage Inequality in Portugal
Mario Centeno, Alvaro A. Novo
published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3 (23)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4487
Co-determination and Innovation
Kornelius Kraft, Jörg Stank, Ralf Dewenter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4486
SME Policy and Firms’ Productivity in Latin America
Pablo Ibarrarán, Alessandro Maffioli, Rodolfo Stucchi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4474
Openness and Technological Innovation in East Asia: Have They Increased the Demand for Skills?
Rita K. Almeida
published in: Asia-Pacific Development Journal, 2010, 17 (1), 63-96
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4445
The Americanization of European Higher Education and Research
Lex Borghans, Frank Cörvers
published in: Charles T. Clotfelter (ed.), American Universities in a Global Market, NBER, 2010
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4404
Services Outsourcing and Innovation: An Empirical Investigation
Holger Görg, Aoife Hanley
published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 49(2), 321-333
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4338
Financial Liberalization and Democracy: The Role of Reform Reversals
Nauro F. Campos, Fabrizio Coricelli
published as 'Financial liberalization and reversals: political and economic determinants' in: Economic Policy, 2012, 27 (71), 483-513
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4313
A Suggested Method for the Measurement of World-Leading Research (Illustrated with Data on Economics)
Andrew J. Oswald
published in: Scientometrics, 2010, 84 (1), 99 - 113
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4301
How Do Young Innovative Companies Innovate?
Gabriele Pellegrino, Mariacristina Piva, Marco Vivarelli
published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2012, 23 (4), 329-340
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4290
Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States
David Autor, David Dorn
see IZA DP No. 7068 for a substantially updated version
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4261
The Effect of Adversity on Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives
Benoit Dostie, Rajshri Jayaraman
published as 'Do Higher Costs Spur Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives? Evidence from a Natural Experiment' in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2013, 22 (3), 529–550
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4213
The Role of "Skill Enhancing Trade" in Brazil: Some Evidence from Microdata
Bruno Cesar Araújo, Francesco Bogliacino, Marco Vivarelli
published in: CEPAL Review, 2012, 105, 157-171
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4129
Technological Capabilities and Patterns of Cooperation of UK Firms: A Regional Investigation
Simona Iammarino, Mariacristina Piva, Marco Vivarelli, Nick Von Tunzelmann
published as 'Technological Capabilities and Patterns of Innovative Cooperation of Firms in the UK Regions' in: Regional Studies, 2012, 46 (10), 1283-1301
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4039
Coordination under the Shadow of Career Concerns
Alexander K. Koch, Albrecht Morgenstern
published in: B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics: Topics in Theoretical Economics, 2010, 10 (1), Article 10
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4005
The Elite Brain Drain
Rosalind S. Hunter, Andrew J. Oswald, Bruce G. Charlton
published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (538), F231 - F251
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3962
Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises
Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3945
Is Corporate R&D Investment in High-Tech Sectors More Effective? Some Guidelines for European Research Policy
Raquel Ortega-Argilés, Mariacristina Piva, Lesley Potters, Marco Vivarelli
published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2010, 28 (3), 353-365
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3919
Regional Measures of Human Capital in the European Union
Christian Dreger, Georg Erber, Daniela Glocker
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3887
Trade Openness and the Demand for Skills: Evidence from Turkish Microdata
Elena Meschi, Erol Taymaz, Marco Vivarelli
published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (S1), S60-S70
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3841
Does the Growth Process Discriminate against Older Workers?
François Langot, Eva Moreno-Galbis
published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2013, 38, 286-306
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3792
Understanding the Technology of Computer Technology Diffusion: Explaining Computer Adoption Patterns and Implications for the Wage Structure
Lex Borghans, Bas ter Weel
published in: Journal of Income Distribution, 2008, 17 (3-4), 37-70
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3676
Management Compensation and Firm-Level Income Inequality
Anders Frederiksen, Odile Poulsen
published as 'Income Inequality: The Consequences of Skill-Upgrading - When Firms Have Hierarchical Organizational Structures' in Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (2), 1224-1239
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3666
Determinants of Inter-Country Internet Diffusion Rates
Phanindra V. Wunnava, Daniel B. Leiter
published in: American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2009, 68 (2), 413-426
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3612
Organizational Redesign, Information Technologies and Workplace Productivity
Benoit Dostie, Rajshri Jayaraman
published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy, 2012, 12.1, Article 4.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3602
Consumers and the Brain Drain: Product Design and the Gains from Emigration
Peter J. Kuhn, Carol McAusland
published in: Journal of International Economics, 2009, 78(2), 287–291
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3485
Social Change
Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner
published in: International Economic Review, 2010, 51(4), 893-923
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3459
Growing out of Poverty: Trends and Patterns of Urban Poverty in China 1988–2002
Simon Appleton, Lina Song, Qingjie Xia
published in: World Development, 2010, 38 (5), 665-678
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3389
Entrepreneurial Innovation and Sustained Long-Run Growth without Weak or Strong Scale Effects
Volker Grossmann
published as "Entrepreneurial Innovation and Economic Growth" in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2009, 31 (4), 602-613
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3383
North-South Technology Spillovers: The Relative Impact of Openness and Foreign R&D
Maurice Schiff, Yanling Wang
published in International Economic Journal, 2010, 24 (2), 159-69
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3379
The Assignment of Workers to Tasks, Wage Distribution and Technical Change: A Critical Review
Arnaud Dupuy
published in: Journal of Income Distribution, 2008, 17 (3-4), 12-36
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3366
International Mobility of the Highly Skilled, Endogenous R&D, and Public Infrastructure Investment
Volker Grossmann, David Stadelmann
published as "Does International Mobility of High-Skilled Workers Aggravate Between-Country Inequality?" in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 95 (1), 88 - 94
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3341
Social Capital, Innovation and Growth: Evidence from Europe
I. Semih Akçomak, Bas ter Weel
published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53 (5), 544-567
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3338
R&D and Productivity: Testing Sectoral Peculiarities Using Micro Data
Lesley Potters, Raquel Ortega-Argilés, Marco Vivarelli
published in: Empirical Economics, 2011, 41 (3), 817-839
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3334
Outsourcing and Technological Innovations: A Firm-Level Analysis
Ann P. Bartel, Saul Lach, Nachum Sicherman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3312
A Microfoundation for Production Functions: Assignment of Heterogenous Workers to Heterogenous Jobs
Arnaud Dupuy
published in: Economica, 2012, 79 (315), 534-556.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3311
How Do Very Open Economies Absorb Large Immigration Flows? Recent Evidence from Spanish Regions
Libertad Gonzalez, Francesc Ortega
published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (1), 57–70
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3211
Jobless Growth through Creative Destruction: Ireland’s Industrial Development Path 1972–2003
Qi Li, Patrick Paul Walsh, Ciara Whelan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3132
Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure
Arghya Ghosh, Takao Kato, Hodaka Morita
revised version published as 'Incremental innovation and competitive pressure in the presence of discrete innovation' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 135, 1-14
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3126
The Catalysing Role of In-House R&D in Fostering the Complementarity of Innovative Inputs
Alessandra Catozzella, Marco Vivarelli
published in: Industry and Innovation, 2014, 21, 179-196
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3124
Immigrants, English Ability and the Digital Divide
Hiroshi Ono, Madeline Zavodny
published in: Social Forces, 2008, 86 (4), 1455-1480
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3084
Estimating the Need for PhDs n the Academic Sector via a Survey of Employers
Jaan Masso, Raul Eamets, Hanna Kanep
revised version is published in: Baltic Journal of Economics, 2009, 9 (1), 5-29
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