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216 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10697
The Effects of Physical Restructuring on the Socioeconomic Status of Neighborhoods: Selective Migration and Upgrading
Merle Zwiers, Maarten van Ham, Reinout Kleinhans
published in: Urban Studies, 2019, 56 (8), 1647 - 1663
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10695
Structural and Exchange Components in Processes of Neighbourhood Change: A Social Mobility Approach
Tal Modai-Snir, Maarten van Ham
published in: Applied spatial analysis and policy, 2019, 12 (2), 423 - 443
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10440
Toothless Reforms? The Remarkable Stability of Female Labor Force Participation in a Top-Reforming Country
Norberto Pignatti, Karine Torosyan, Maka Chitanava
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10230
Earnings among Nine Ethnic Minorities and the Han Majority in China's Cities
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Xiuna Yang
published in Journal of Asia Pacific Economy, 2017, 22 (3), 525-546
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10160
Population Decline in Lithuania: Who Lives in Declining Regions and Who Leaves?
Rūta Ubarevičienė, Maarten van Ham
published in: Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2017, 4 (1), 57 - 79
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10139
Informal Employment in China: Trends, Patterns and Determinants of Entry
Zhe Liang, Simon Appleton, Lina Song
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10130
The Lasting Effect of Sex Ratio Imbalance on Marriage and Family: Evidence from World War II in Russia
Elizabeth Brainerd
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99 (2), 229–242.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9890
Regulation and Firm Value: Curious Case of Transparency and Disclosure Laws in Russia
Suman Banerjee, Ronald Masulis, Sarmistha Pal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9636
Does Joining the EU Make You Happy? Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
Milena Nikolova, Boris Nikolaev
published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2017, 18, 1593 - 1623
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9603
Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities: Increasing Separation between Poor and Rich
Sako Musterd, Szymon Marcińczak, Maarten van Ham, Tiit Tammaru
published in: Urban Geography, 2017, 38 (7), 1062-1083
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9588
Worker Flows and Labour Market Adjustment during the Great Recession: Evidence from a Large Shock
Hartmut Lehmann, Tiziano Razzolini, Anzelika Zaiceva
thoroughly revised version published as 'The Great Recession and Labor Market Adjustment: Evidence from Latvia' in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2020, 62 (1), 149 - 181.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9484
Minding the Happiness Gap: Political Institutions and Perceived Quality of Life in Transition
Milena Nikolova
published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 45 (Suppl.), 129 - 148
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9466
What Do Unions Do in Times of Economic Crisis? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe
Artjoms Ivlevs, Michail Veliziotis
published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 23 (1), 81-96
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9259
Does Foreign Entry Spur Innovation?
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jan Svejnar, Katherine Terrell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9245
The Economic Costs of Mass Surveillance: Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany
Andreas Lichter, Max Löffler, Sebastian Siegloch
substantially revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (2), 741 - 789
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9018
Are China's Ethnic Minorities Less Likely to Move?
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Xiuna Yang
published in: Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2015, 56 (1), 44-69
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9017
Happy Moves? Assessing the Link Between Life Satisfaction and Emigration Intentions
Artjoms Ivlevs
published in: Kyklos, 2015, 68(3), 335-356.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8919
United, Yet Apart? A Note on Persistent Labour Market Differences between Western and Eastern Germany
Claus Schnabel
published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik), 2016, 236 (2), 157-180
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8882
Divided Cities: Increasing Socio-Spatial Polarization within Large Cities in the Netherlands
Merle Zwiers, Reinout Kleinhans, Maarten van Ham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8868
Financial Development, Environmental Quality, Trade and Economic Growth: What Causes What in MENA Countries
Anis Omri, Saida Daly, Christophe Rault, Anissa Chaibi
published in: Energy Economics, 2015, 48, 242 - 252
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8687
Informal Employment in Transition Countries: Empirical Evidence and Research Challenges
Hartmut Lehmann
published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2015, 57 (1), 1-30
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8631
In Search of Opportunities? The Barriers to More Efficient Internal Labor Mobility in Ukraine
Johannes Koettl, Olga Kupets, Anna Olefir, Indhira Santos
published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2014, 3:21
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8624
Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction
Alisher Aldashev, Alexander M. Danzer
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2020, 56 (12), 2308-2326
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8510
The Productivity Consequences of Political Turnover: Firm-Level Evidence from Ukraine's Orange Revolution
John S. Earle, Scott Gehlbach
published in: American Journal of Political Science, 2015, 59(3), 708-723
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8397
Financial Development and Economic Growth: Evidence from Ten New EU Members
Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Christophe Rault, Robert Sova, Anamaria Sova
published in: International Journal of Finance and Economics, 2015, 20 (1), 48–60
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8279
Between Light and Shadow: Informality in the Russian Labour Market
Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov
published in: S.Oxenstierna (ed.), The Challenges for Russia's Politicized Economic System: Routledge, 2015
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8241
Yuan and Roubles: Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Shi Li, Ludmila Nivorozhkina, Haiyuan Wan
published in: China Economic Review, 2015, 35, 248-265
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8068
The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China
Rachel Connelly, Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Dandan Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8026
Shrinking Regions in a Shrinking Country: The Geography of Population Decline in Lithuania 2001-2011
Rūta Ubarevičienė, Maarten van Ham, Donatas Burneika
published in: Urban Studies Research, 2106, Article 5395379 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5395379)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7844
Re-defining Informal Employment and Measuring its Determinants: Evidence from Russia
Hartmut Lehmann, Anzelika Zaiceva
published in: Journal of International Development, 2015, 27 (4), 464 - 488
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7824
When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jan Svejnar, Katherine Terrell
published in : Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42(4), 954-969
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7821
Asset Stripping, Rule of Law and Firm Survival: The Hoff-Stiglitz Model and Mass Privatization in Montenegro
Matjaž Koman, Milan Lakičević, Janez Prašnikar, Jan Svejnar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7643
Party Membership and State Jobs in Urban China
Yuanyuan Ma, Patrick Paul Walsh
published in: Asian Economic Papers, 2017, 16(2), 167-184
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7603
Is There Convergence of Russia's Regions? Exploring the Empirical Evidence: 1995–2010
Hartmut Lehmann, Maria Giulia Silvagni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7567
Do Institutions Affect Social Preferences? Evidence from Divided Korea
Byung-Yeon Kim, Syngjoo Choi, Jungmin Lee, Sokbae Lee, Kyunghui Choi
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45 (4), 865 - 888
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7336
Job Search Channels, Neighborhood Effects and Wages Inequality in Developing Countries: The Colombian Case
Gustavo Adolfo Garcia, Catia Nicodemo
published in: Developing Economies, 2015, 53 (2), 75 - 99
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7212
Women Political Leaders, Corruption and Learning: Evidence from a Large Public Program in India
Farzana Afridi, Vegard Iversen, M.R. Sharan
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2017, 66(1): 1-30
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7142
The Effects of the State Sector on Wage Inequality in Urban China: 1988–2007
Qingjie Xia, Lina Song, Shi Li, Simon Appleton
published in: Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2014, 12(1), 29-45
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7126
Primum vivere… Industrial Change, Job Destruction and the Geographical Distribution of Unemployment
Francesco Pastore
published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012, 1:7
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7101
Understanding Urban Wage Inequality in China 1988-2008: Evidence from Quantile Analysis
Simon Appleton, Lina Song, Qingjie Xia
published in: World Development, 2014, 62, 1-13
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7090
The Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey: Towards a Better Understanding of Labor Markets in Transition
Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2012, 1, Article 9
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7074
Labour Turnover and the Spatial Distribution of Unemployment: A Panel Data Analysis Using Employment Registry Data
Francesco Pastore, Joanna Tyrowicz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7035
Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries
Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev
published in: Froelich, M., Kaplan, D., Pages, C., Rigolini, J. and D. Robalino (Eds.): Social Insurance ad Labor Markets: How to Protect Workers while Creating Good Jobs, Oxford University Press, 2014, 375-410.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6954
Is There a Southern-Sclerosis? Worker Reallocation and Regional Unemployment in Italy
Chiara Mussida, Francesco Pastore
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6903
Ethnic Discrimination in China's Internet Job Board Labor Market
Margaret Maurer-Fazio
published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1:12
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6887
A Control Function Approach to Estimating Dynamic Probit Models with Endogenous Regressors, with an Application to the Study of Poverty Persistence in China
John T. Giles, Irina Murtazashvili
published as 'A Control Function Approach to Estimating Dynamic Probit Models with Endogenous Regressors' in: Journal of Econometric Methods, 2013, 2 (1), 69-87
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6653
Does It Pay to Be a Cadre? Estimating the Returns to Being a Local Official in Rural China
Jian Zhang, John T. Giles, Scott Rozelle
Journal of Comparative Economics, 2012, 40 (3), 337-356
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6519
Does Corporate Governance Reform Necessarily Boost Firm Performance? Recent Evidence from Russia
Mihails Kuznecovs, Sarmistha Pal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6236
Migration as a Substitute for Informal Activities: Evidence from Tajikistan
Ilhom Abdulloev, Ira N. Gang, John Landon-Lane
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 34, 205-227
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5905
Labor Markets and Labor Market Institutions in Transition Economies
Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev
published in: Paul Hare and Gerard Turley (eds.): The Handbook of the Economics and Political Economy of Transition, Routledge, 2013, pp. 350-362
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