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440 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17762
Firms’ Beliefs About Wage Setting
Antoine Bertheau, Christian Philip Hoeck
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17736
High-Skilled Migration from Myanmar: Responses to Signals of Political and Economic Stabilization
Yashodhan Ghorpade, Muhammad Saad Imtiaz, Theingie Han
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17735
From Conflict to Compromise: Experimental Evidence on Occupational Downgrading in Migration from Myanmar
Yashodhan Ghorpade, Muhammad Saad Imtiaz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17655
Workers' Job Prospects and Young Firm Dynamics
Seula Kim
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17572
Gravity Predictions of International Migration Flows
Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Gonzalo López Molina
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17549
Measuring Quality of Life Under Spatial Frictions
Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Fabian Bald, Duncan H.W. Roth, Tobias Seidel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17520
Why Don't Jobseekers Search More? Barriers and Returns to Search on a Job Matching Platform
Kate Vyborny, Robert Garlick, Nivedhitha Subramanian, Erica Field
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17510
Labor Market Frictions and Spillover Effects from Publicly Announced Sectoral Minimum Wages
Gökay Demir
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17384
Youngism: Discrimination and Stereotypes
Vojtech Bartos, Michal Bauer, Jana Cahlíková, Julie Chytilová
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17383
Within-Group Inequality and Caste-Based Crimes in India
Kanishka Bhowmick, Indraneel Dasgupta, Sarmistha Pal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17339
Why Do Workers Dislike Inflation? Wage Erosion and Conflict Costs
Joao Guerreiro, Jonathon Hazell, Chen Lian, Christina Patterson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17329
The New Wave? The Role of Human Capital and STEM Skills in Technology Adoption in the UK
Mirko Draca, Max Nathan, Viet Nguyen-Tien, Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Anna Rosso, Anna Valero
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17312
A Rent-Seeking Perspective on Imperial Peace
Indraneel Dasgupta
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17163
Empowerment or Indoctrination? Female Training Programs under Dictatorship
Felipe González, Mounu Prem, Cristine von Dessauer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17124
The Wage of Temporary Agency Workers
Antonin Bergeaud, Pierre Cahuc, Clément Malgouyres, Sara Signorelli, Thomas Zuber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17105
ICT Skills and Labor Market Outcomes in India: Evidence from Cell Tower Expansion
Mehtabul Azam, M. Shahe Emran, Forhad Shilpi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16989
Dictatorship, Higher Education, and Social Mobility
María Angélica Bautista, Felipe González, Luis R. Martinez, Pablo Muñoz, Mounu Prem
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16962
The Effect of Conflict on Refugees' Return and Integration: Evidence from Ukraine
Joop Adema, Cevat Giray Aksoy, Yvonne Giesing, Panu Poutvaara
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16862
Hometown Conflict and Refugees' Integration Efforts
Cevat Giray Aksoy, Gaurav Khanna, Victoria Marino, Semih Tumen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16824
Spatial Search
Xiaoming Cai, Pieter A. Gautier, Ronald P. Wolthoff
published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2025, 224, 105976
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16822
Simultaneous Search and Adverse Selection
Sarah Auster, Piero Gottardi, Ronald P. Wolthoff
published online in: Review of Economic Studies, 27 February 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16797
The Impact of Insufficient Sleep on the Serial Reproduction of Information
David L. Dickinson, Sean P.A. Drummond
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. 16626
Measuring Employment Readiness for Hard-to-Place Individuals
Simon Tranberg Bodilsen, Søren Albeck Nielsen, Michael Rosholm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16614
Anticipation Effects of EU Accession on Immigrants' Labour Market Outcomes
Alberto Dalmazzo, Roberto Leombruni, Tiziano Razzolini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16603
The Ins and Outs of Selling Houses: Understanding Housing-Market Volatility
L. Rachel Ngai, Kevin D. Sheedy
published in: International Economic Review, 2024, 65 (3), 1415-1440
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16574
Food Aid and Violent Conflict: A Review of Literature
Maximilian Koppenberg, Ashok K. Mishra, Stefan Hirsch
published as 'Food aid and violent conflict: A review and Empiricist’s companion' in: Food Policy, 2023, 121, 102542
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16569
Mothers at Peace: International Peacebuilding and Post-conflict Fertility
Vincenzo Bove, Jessica Di Salvatore, Leandro Elia, Roberto Nistico
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 167, 103226
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16544
Instrumenting the Effect of Terrorism on Education in Kenya
Marco Alfano, Joseph-Simon Goerlach
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16535
The Fundamental Properties, Stability and Predictive Power of Distributional Preferences
Ernst Fehr, Thomas Epper, Julien Senn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16522
Jobseekers' Beliefs about Comparative Advantage and (Mis)Directed Search
Andrea Kiss, Robert Garlick, Kate Orkin, Lukas Hensel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16522
Jobseekers' Beliefs about Comparative Advantage and (Mis)Directed Search
Andrea Kiss, Robert Garlick, Kate Orkin, Lukas Hensel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16494
Religion and Growth
Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2024, 62 (3), 1094–1142.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16455
Minimum Wages, Wage Dispersion and Financial Constraints in Firms
Hamzeh Arabzadeh, Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke, Ahmet Ali Taskin
published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 163, 104678
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16426
Predicting Re-Employment: Machine Learning versus Assessments by Unemployed Workers and by Their Caseworkers
Gerard J. van den Berg, Max Kunaschk, Julia Lang, Gesine Stephan, Arne Uhlendorff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16372
Eggs When Young, Chicken When Old. Time Consistency and Addiction over the Life Cycle
Luca Piccoli, Silvia Tiezzi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16271
Wage Employment, Unemployment and Self-Employment across Countries
Markus Poschke
published in: Journal of Monetary Economics. 2025, 149, 103684
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16251
Mobility Restrictions and Alcohol Use during Lockdown: 'A Still and Dry Pandemic for the Many'?
Martina Celidoni, Joan Costa-Font, Luca Salmasi
published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2023, 50,101268
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16225
Are Informal Self-Employment and Informal Employment as Employee Behaviorally Distinct Labor Force States?
Luca Flabbi, Mauricio Tejada
published in: Economics Letters, 2023, 231, 111278, October
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16204
Labor Market Frictions and Spillover Effects from Publicly Announced Sectoral Minimum Wages
Gökay Demir
updated version available as DP 17510
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16204
Labor Market Frictions and Spillover Effects from Publicly Announced Sectoral Minimum Wages
Gökay Demir
updated version available as DP 17510
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16183
Driving, Dropouts, and Drive-Throughs: Mobility Restrictions and Teen Human Capital
Valerie Bostwick, Christopher Severen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16120
British Voting Intentions and the Far Reach of 11 September Terrorist Attacks in New York
Elena G. F. Stancanelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16054
Peacefully Demobilizing Rebels: Identity, Emotional Cues, and the FARC
Juan P. Aparicio, Michael Jetter, Christopher Parsons
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16020
Identity, Communication, and Conflict: An Experiment
Sumon K. Bhaumik, Subhasish M Chowdhury, Ralitza Dimova, Hanna Fromell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15969
Does War Foster Cooperation or Parochialism? Evidence from a Natural Experiment among Turkish Conscripts
Arzu Kıbrıs, Resul Cesur
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15969
Does War Foster Cooperation or Parochialism? Evidence from a Natural Experiment among Turkish Conscripts
Arzu Kıbrıs, Resul Cesur
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15960
Guilt Aversion in (New) Games: Does Partners' Payoff Vulnerability Matter?
Giuseppe Attanasi, Claire Rimbaud, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2023, 142, 690-717
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15946
State-Based Conflict and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Evidence
Wim Naudé, Ernesto Amorós, Tilman Brück
published in: W. Naudé and B. Power, Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict, Edward Elgar, 2024, 106–140
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15900
The True Cost of War
Erhan Artuc, Nicolas Gomez-Parra, Harun Onder
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15896
Geographic Mobility over the Life-Cycle
Antonia Diaz, Álvaro Jáñez, Felix Wellschmied
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15863
Effects of an Online Self-Assessment Tool on Teachers' Digital Competencies
Giovanni Abbiati, Davide Azzolini, Anja Balanskat, Katja Engelhart, Daniela Piazzalunga, Enrico Rettore, Patricia Wastiau
published online as 'Exploring the Potential of Self-Assessment for Teachers’ Development of ICT Competencies and Beliefs' in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 24 January 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15856
Deterrence or Backlash? Arrests and the Dynamics of Domestic Violence
Sofia Amaral, Gordon B. Dahl, Victoria Endl-Geyer, Timo Hener, Helmut Rainer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15830
The Direct and Indirect Effects of Online Job Search Advice
Steffen Altmann, Anita Marie Glenny, Robert Mahlstedt, Alexander Sebald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15761
Spatial Spillovers of Conflict in Somalia
Marco Alfano, Thomas Cornelissen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15757
Dynamic Relationships between Criminal Offending and Victimization
Christopher Erwin, Juliane Hennecke, Lisa Meehan, Gail Pacheco
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15757
Dynamic Relationships between Criminal Offending and Victimization
Christopher Erwin, Juliane Hennecke, Lisa Meehan, Gail Pacheco
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15752
The Impact of ICT and Robots on Labour Market Outcomes of Demographic Groups in Europe
Maciej Albinowski, Piotr Lewandowski
published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 87, 102481
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15747
Do Job Seekers Understand the UI Benefit System (And Does It Matter)?
Steffen Altmann, Sofie Cairo, Robert Mahlstedt, Alexander Sebald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15677
AI, Skill, and Productivity: The Case of Taxi Drivers
Kyogo Kanazawa, Daiji Kawaguchi, Hitoshi Shigeoka, Yasutora Watanabe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15613
Preference for Redistribution during Structural Change with Labor Mobility Frictions
Krzysztof Makarski, Joanna Tyrowicz
published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 77, 102316
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15574
The Downward Spiral
Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Karen A. Kopecky
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15570
Is Secessionism Mostly about Income or Identity? A Global Analysis of 3,003 Subnational Regions
Klaus Desmet, Ignacio Ortuño Ortín, Ömer Özak
published online in: Economic Journal, 06 December 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15485
Persecution, Pogroms and Genocide: A Conceptual Framework and New Evidence
Sascha O. Becker, Sharun Mukand, Ivan Yotzov
published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2022, 86, 101471
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15451
No Place like Home: Place-Based Attachments and Regional Science
John V. Winters
published in: Review of Regional Studies, 2022, 52, 159–175
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15445
Were Small Businesses More Likely to Permanently Close in the Pandemic?
Robert W. Fairlie, Frank M. Fossen, Reid Johnsen, Gentian Droboniku
revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2023, 60, 1613-1629
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15445
Were Small Businesses More Likely to Permanently Close in the Pandemic?
Robert W. Fairlie, Frank M. Fossen, Reid Johnsen, Gentian Droboniku
revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2023, 60, 1613-1629
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15409
Labour Market Effects of Digital Matching Platforms: Experimental Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Sam Jones, Kunal Sen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15311
Types of Communications Technology and Civil Conflict
Tushar Bharati, Michael Jetter, Muhammad Nauman Malik
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 170, 103312
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15174
Misallocation and Inequality
Nezih Guner, Alessandro Ruggieri
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15134
Facing Displacement and a Global Pandemic: Evidence from a Fragile State
Michele Di Maio, Francesco Fasani, Valerio Leone Sciabolazza, Vasco Molini
published online in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 25 October 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15111
Societal Movement Restrictions and Adverse Mental Health Outcomes
Ho Fai Chan, Zhiming Cheng, Silvia Mendolia, Alfredo R. Paloyo, Massimiliano Tani, Damon Proulx, David Savage, Benno Torgler
published in: Scientific Reports, 2024,14,1790
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15090
Information Frictions among Firms and Households
Sebastian Link, Andreas Peichl, Christopher Roth, Johannes Wohlfart
published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2023,135, 99-115
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15042
Strangers and Foreigners: Trust and Attitudes toward Citizenship
Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico, Gian Luca Tedeschi
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2025, 39, 42-60
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15011
The Intended and Unintended Effects of Promoting Labor Market Mobility
Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Robert Mahlstedt
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 November 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14932
Spatial and Time Spillovers of Driving Restrictions: Causal Evidence from Lima's Pico Y Placa Policy
Edgar Salgado, Oscar A. Mitnik
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14923
Visual Inference and Graphical Representation in Regression Discontinuity Designs
Christina Korting, Carl Lieberman, Jordan Matsudaira, Zhuan Pei, Yi Shen
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023, 138 (3), 1977–2019,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14917
Discontinuities in the Age-Victimization Profile and the Determinants of Victimization
Anna Bindler, Randi Hjalmarsson, Nadine Ketel, Andreea Mitrut
published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (657), 95–134
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14916
Digital Access to Healthcare Services and Healthcare Utilization: A Quasi-Experiment
Armenak Antinyan, Stefania Bellio, Marco Bertoni, Luca Corazzini, Elena Narne
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14871
Internal versus External Rent-Seeking with In-Group Inequality and Public Good Provision
Dripto Bakshi, Indraneel Dasgupta
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14782
The Long-Term Health Impact of Agent Orange: Evidence from the Vietnam War
Duong Trung Le, Thanh Minh Pham, Solomon Polachek
published in: World Development, 2022, 155, 105813
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14779
The Right Person for the Right Job: Workers' Prosociality as a Screening Device
Maria Bigoni, Matteo Ploner, Thi-Thanh-Tam Vu
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 212, 53 - 73
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14776
How Civilian Attitudes Respond to the State's Violence: Lessons from the Israel- Gaza Conflict
Amit Loewenthal, Sami H. Miaari, Alexei Abrahams
published in: Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2023, 40 (4), 441 - 463
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14776
How Civilian Attitudes Respond to the State's Violence: Lessons from the Israel- Gaza Conflict
Amit Loewenthal, Sami H. Miaari, Alexei Abrahams
published in: Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2023, 40 (4), 441 - 463
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14738
Herding, Warfare, and a Culture of Honor: Global Evidence
Yiming Cao, Benjamin Enke, Armin Falk, Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14707
Water Scarcity and Social Conflict
Kerstin Unfried, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Tilman Poser
published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2022, 113, 102633
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14682
COVID-19 Mobility Policies Impacts: How Credible Are Difference-in-Differences Estimates?
Joakim A. Weill, Matthieu Stigler, Olivier Deschenes, Michael R. Springborn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14608
Shifting Punishment on Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating
Michal Bauer, Jana Cahlíková, Julie Chytilová, Gerald Roland
published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (652), 1626–1640
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14598
Operation Allied Force: Unintended Consequences of the NATO Bombing on Children's Outcomes
Lara Lebedinski, Giuseppe Migali, Miloš Popović, Suncica Vujic
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14587
Exposure to Neighborhood Violence and Child-Parent Conflict among a Longitudinal Sample of Dutch Adolescents
Jaap Nieuwenhuis, Matt Best, Matt Vogel, Maarten van Ham, Susan Branje, Wim Meeus
published in: Cities, 2023, 136, 104258
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14579
Does Violent Conflict Affect Labor Supply of Farm Households? The Nigerian Experience
John Chiwuzulum Odozi, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
published in: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2021, 50 (3), 401 - 435.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14579
Does Violent Conflict Affect Labor Supply of Farm Households? The Nigerian Experience
John Chiwuzulum Odozi, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
published in: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2021, 50 (3), 401 - 435.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14579
Does Violent Conflict Affect Labor Supply of Farm Households? The Nigerian Experience
John Chiwuzulum Odozi, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
published in: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2021, 50 (3), 401 - 435.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14579
Does Violent Conflict Affect Labor Supply of Farm Households? The Nigerian Experience
John Chiwuzulum Odozi, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
published in: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2021, 50 (3), 401 - 435.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14536
The Impact of Sleep Restriction on Interpersonal Conflict Resolution and the Narcotic Effect
David L. Dickinson, David M. McEvoy, David Bruner
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 194, 71-90.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14536
The Impact of Sleep Restriction on Interpersonal Conflict Resolution and the Narcotic Effect
David L. Dickinson, David M. McEvoy, David Bruner
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 194, 71-90.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14501
Search, Screening and Sorting
Xiaoming Cai, Pieter A. Gautier, Ronald P. Wolthoff
forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14501
Search, Screening and Sorting
Xiaoming Cai, Pieter A. Gautier, Ronald P. Wolthoff
forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14329
Short-Time Work and Precautionary Savings
Thomas Dengler, Britta Gehrke
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14265
Aid and Radicalization: The Case of Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza
Amit Loewenthal, Sami H. Miaari, Anke Hoeffler
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2023, 59 (8), 1187–1212.
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