IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Spatial and social mobility in England and Wales: a sub-national analysis of differences and trends over time' in: British Journal of Sociology, 2021, 72 (5), 1378 - 1393

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13152

Germany's Capacities to Work from Home

Jean-Victor Alipour, Oliver Falck, Simone Schüller

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13074

Provincial Trade, Financial Friction and Misallocation in China

Ohyun Kwon, Belton M. Fleisher, William H. McGuire, Min Qiang Zhao

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13071

Key Players in Economic Development

Ashani Amarasinghe, Roland Hodler, Paul A. Raschky, Yves Zenou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12806

Urban Wage Premia, Cost of Living, and Collective Bargaining

Marianna Belloc, Paolo Naticchioni, Claudia Vittori

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12765

Endogenous Local Labour Markets, Regional Aggregation and Agglomeration Economies

Jordy Meekes, Wolter Hassink

published in: Regional Studies, 2023, 57 (1), 13 - 25

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12660

Locational Choice and Spatial Wage Inequality

Felix Schran

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12331

The Pure Effect of Social Preferences on Regional Location Choices: The Evolving Dynamics of Convergence to a Steady State Population Distribution

Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski, Grzegorz Kosiorowski

published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2019, 59 (5), 883 - 909

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12329

Inter-City Spillover and Intra-City Agglomeration Effects among Local Labour Markets in China

Xiaodong Gong, Jiti Gao, Xuan Liang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12223

Relatedness, Complexity and Local Growth

Benjamin Davies, David C. Maré

published in: Regional Studies, 2021, 55 (3), 479-494

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12189

Transitioning from Solo Self-Employed to Microbusiness Employer: Local Economic Environment or Owner Characteristics?

Andrew Henley

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12031

On the Origin and Composition of the German East-West Population Gap

Christoph Eder, Martin Halla

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11951

Walled Cities and Urban Density in China

Rui Du, Junfu Zhang

published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2019, 98, 1517-1539.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11740

Creative Differences? Measuring Creative Economy Employment in the US and UK Using Microdata

Tom Kemeny, Max Nathan, Dave O'Brien

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11636

Labor Demand Shocks and Housing Prices across the US: Does One Size Fit All?

Michael J. Osei, John V. Winters

published in: Economic Development Quarterly, 2019, 33(3), 212-219

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11396

Family-Centered Measures of Access to Early Care and Education

Elizabeth E. Davis, Won Fy Lee, Aaron Sojourner

published in: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2019, 47, 472 - 486 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2018.08.001

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11354

City Size, Pollution and Emission Policies

Michael P. Pflüger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11255

The Impact of Public Employment: Evidence from Bonn

Sascha O. Becker, Stephan Heblich, Daniel M. Sturm

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 122, article 103291

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11168

Government Programs Can Improve Local Labor Markets, But Do They? A Re-Analysis of Ham, Swenson, Imrohoroğlu, and Song (2011)

David Neumark, Timothy Young

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11077

Local Labor Markets and the Persistence of Population Shocks

Sebastian Till Braun, Anica Kramer, Michael Kvasnicka

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2021, 21 (2), 231–260

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11074

What Drives Spatial Clusters of Entrepreneurship in China? Evidence from Economic Census Data

Liang Zheng, Zhong Zhao

published in: China Economic Review, 2017, 46, 228-248

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10926

Network Effects on Labor Contracts of Internal Migrants in China: A Spatial Autoregressive Model

Badi H. Baltagi, Ying Deng, Xiangjun Ma

published in: Empirical Economics 2018, 55 (1), 265-296

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10637

Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction: Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda

Luc Christiaensen, Ravi Kanbur

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10598

Local Labor Markets and Human Capital Investments

Russell Weinstein

forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10273

Comparative Advantage and Agglomeration of Economic Activity

Michael P. Pflüger, Takatoshi Tabuchi

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2019, 109, 1-13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10231

Trade Shocks and the Provision of Local Public Goods

Leo Feler, Mine Zeynep Senses

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10113

Migration and Urbanisation in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Jan David Bakker, Christopher Parsons, Ferdinand Rauch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10095

The Long-lasting Shadow of the Allied Occupation of Austria on its Spatial Equilibrium

Christoph Eder, Martin Halla

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9720

Spatial Distribution of US Employment in an Urban Wage-Efficiency Setting

J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina, Jorge Velilla

published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2018, 58, 141-158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9634

A Wage-Efficiency Spatial Model for US Self-Employed Workers

J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina, Jorge Velilla

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9104

Green Cities? Urbanization, Trade and the Environment

Rainald Borck, Michael P. Pflüger

forthcoming in: Journal of Regional Science, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9020

The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas

Kurt Schmidheiny, Jens Suedekum

published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 133, 10-13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8910

Not in My Community: Social Pressure and the Geography of Dismissals

Andrea Bassanini, Giorgio Brunello, Eve Caroli

revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (2), 429-483

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8781

Optimal Spatial Taxation: Are Big Cities Too Small?

Jan Eeckhout, Nezih Guner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8575

Foreign and Native-Born STEM Graduates and Innovation Intensity in the United States

John V. Winters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8508

The Empirics of Agglomeration Economies

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Laurent Gobillon

published in: Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, volume 5A, Gilles Duranton, Vernon Henderson and Will Strange (eds.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 247-348

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8122

Unaffordable Housing and Local Employment Growth: Evidence from California Municipalities

Ritashree Chakrabarti, Junfu Zhang

shorter version published in: Urban Studies, 2015, 52(6), 1134-1151

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8101

Does Regional Training Supply Determine Employees' Training Participation?

Katja Görlitz, Sylvi Rzepka

published in: The Annals of Regional Science, 2017, 59 (1), 281-296

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8093

Are Ghettos Good or Bad? Evidence from U.S. Internal Migration

Junfu Zhang, Liang Zheng

revised version published as 'Are People Willing to Pay for Less Segregation? Evidence from U.S. Internal Migration' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2015, 53, 97-112

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8082

The Power of Hydroelectric Dams: Agglomeration Spillovers

Edson R. Severnini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8052

UN Interventions: The Role of Geography

Juan Carlos Duque, Michael Jetter, Santiago Sosa

revised version published in: Review of International Organizations, 2015, 10(1), 67-95

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. 7562

The Preference for Larger Cities in China: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants

Chunbing Xing, Junfu Zhang

published in: China Economic Review, 2017, 43, 72-90

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7326

The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States

David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson

published in: American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 220-225

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7175

Spatial Frictions

Kristian Behrens, Giordano Mion, Yasusada Murata, Jens Suedekum

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2017, 97(1), 40-70.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7160

Measuring the Income-Distance Tradeoff for Rural-Urban Migrants in China

Junfu Zhang, Zhong Zhao

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. 6501

Sorting and Local Wage and Skill Distributions in France

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon, Sébastien Roux

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42 (6), 913-930

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6449

The Regional Distribution of Public Employment: Theory and Evidence

Sebastian G. Kessing, Chiara Strozzi

revised and updated version published in: Regional Studies, 2017, 51 (7), 1100-1114

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6352

The Size Distribution Across All "Cities": A Unifying Approach

Kristian Giesen, Jens Suedekum

substantially revised version pubslished as 'City age and city size' in: European Economic Review, 2014, 71(Nov), 193-208. [Final version]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6178

How Local Are Labor Markets? Evidence from a Spatial Job Search Model

Alan Manning, Barbara Petrongolo

American Economic Review 107: 2877-2907, 2017.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6016

Firm-Worker Matching in Industrial Clusters

Octávio Figueiredo, Paulo Guimaraes, Douglas Woodward

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5385

Labor Market Effects of Trade and FDI: Recent Advances and Research Gaps

Michael P. Pflüger, Uwe Blien, Joachim Möller, Michael Moritz

published in revised form in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2013, 233 (1), 86-116

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5257

Determinants of Employer-Provided Further Training: A Multi-Level Approach

Lutz Bellmann, Christian Hohendanner, Reinhard Hujer

published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch, 2011, 131 (4), 581-598

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5098

Entrepreneurship and Market Size: The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy

Sabrina Di Addario, Daniela Vuri

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (5), 848-858

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4573

Some Evidence on the Nature of Urbanization Economies

Douglas J. Krupka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4357

Labor Market Pooling, Outsourcing and Labor Contracts

Pierre M. Picard, David Wildasin

Published in Journal of Urban Economics, 2011, 70 (1), 47-60.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4209

No Room to Live: Urban Overcrowding in Edwardian Britain

Ian Gazeley, Andrew T. Newell

published as 'Why was urban over-crowding much more severe in Scotland than in the rest of the British Isles? Evidence from the first (1904) official household expenditure survey’ in: European Review of Economic History, 2011, 15 (1), 127-151

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. 3716

Trade and Location with Land as a Productive Factor

Michael P. Pflüger, Takatoshi Tabuchi

published in revised form as 'The size of regions with land use for production ' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2010, 40 (6), 481 - 489

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3598

On Amenities, Natural Advantage and Agglomeration

Douglas J. Krupka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3493

Human Capital Externalities and the Urban Wage Premium: Two Literatures and their Interrelations

Benedikt Halfdanarson, Daniel F. Heuermann, Jens Suedekum

published in: Urban Studies, 2010, 47 (4), 749-767

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3258

On Pitchforks and Tomahawks

Michael P. Pflüger, Jens Suedekum

published in revised form in: Journal of Regional Science, 2011, 51 (2), 292-298

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3224

Wages, Rents and Heterogeneous Moving Costs

Douglas J. Krupka, Kwame Donaldson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3180

Industry Churning and the Evolution of Cities: Evidence for Germany

Sebastian Findeisen, Jens Suedekum

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2008, 64 (2), 326-339

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2862

A Simple Theory of Industry Location and Residence Choice

Rainald Borck, Michael P. Pflüger, Matthias Wrede

published in revised form in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2010, 10 (6), 913 - 940

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2829

Home Market Effect versus Multinationals

Eric Toulemonde

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2545

The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local Labor Markets

David Neumark, Junfu Zhang, Stephen Ciccarella

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2008, 63(2), 405-430

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2256

Towards a Unifying Approach of the 'New Economic Geography'

Michael P. Pflüger, Jens Suedekum

published in revised form as 'A synthesis of footloose-entrepreneur new economic geography models: when is agglomeration smooth and easily reversible?' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2008, 8 (1), 39-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1799

Job-Hopping in Silicon Valley: Some Evidence Concerning the Micro-Foundations of a High Technology Cluster

Bruce Fallick, Charles A. Fleischman, James B. Rebitzer

published in: Review of Economic and Statistics, 2006, 88(3), 472-481

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1660

Regional Dependencies in Job Creation: An Efficiency Analysis for Western Germany

René Fahr, Uwe Sunde

published in: Applied Economics, 2006, 38 (10), 1193-1206

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1462

The Home Market Shadow

Jens Suedekum

published in: Journal of Economics, 2007, 92 (3), 208-229

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1173

Training and the Density of Economic Activity: Evidence from Italy

Giorgio Brunello, Maria De Paola

published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (1), 118-140

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1055

Agglomeration Effects on Employer-Provided Training: Evidence from the UK

Giorgio Brunello, Francesca Gambarotto

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2007, 37 (1), 1-22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1033

Agglomeration and Tax Competition

Rainald Borck, Michael P. Pflüger

published in: European Economic Review, 2006, 50 (3), 647-668

IZA Discussion Paper No. 989

Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs? Evidence from German Micro Data

Joachim Wagner

published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2004, 50 (4), 379-391

IZA Discussion Paper No. 939

Acquisition of Skills, Education Subsidies, and Agglomeration of Firms

Eric Toulemonde

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2006, 59 (3), 420-439

IZA Discussion Paper No. 911

Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-All-Trades? A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data

Joachim Wagner

published in: Applied Economics, 2006, 38 (20), 2415-2419

IZA Discussion Paper No. 748

Economic Integration, Wage Policies and Social Policies

Michael P. Pflüger

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2004, 56 (1), 135-150

IZA Discussion Paper No. 624

Personal and Regional Determinants of Entrepreneurial Activities: Empirical Evidence from the REM Germany

Joachim Wagner, Rolf Sternberg

published in: Jahrbuch für Regionalwissenschaft / Review of Regional Reseach, 2005, 25 (1), 91-105

IZA Discussion Paper No. 592

Testing Lazear’s Jack-of-All-Trades View of Entrepreneurship with German Micro Data

Joachim Wagner

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2003, 10 (11), 687-689

IZA Discussion Paper No. 521

Employment Status, Endogenous Regional Mobility, and Spatial Dependencies in Labor Markets

René Fahr, Uwe Sunde

revised version published as 'Spatial mobility and competition for jobs: Some theory and evidence for Western Germany' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2006, 36 (6), 802 - 825

IZA Discussion Paper No. 494

The Role of the Regional Milieu for the Decision to Start a New Firm: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Joachim Wagner, Rolf Sternberg

published in: Annals of Regional Science, 2004, 38 (2), 219-240

IZA Discussion Paper No. 468

The Impact of Risk Aversion, Role Models, and the Regional Milieu on the Transition from Unemployment to Self-Employment: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Joachim Wagner

published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2003, 223 (2), 204-221

IZA Discussion Paper No. 443

Identifying Functional Labour Market Areas in New Zealand: A Reconnaissance Study Using Travel-to-Work Data

Kerry L. Papps, James O. Newell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 417