IZA Discussion Papers

forthcoming in: Data Science for Entrepreneurship, edited by W.J. Liebregts, W.J.A.M. van den Heuvel and J.A. van den Born, to be published by Springer.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13634

Entrepreneurship Education and Teacher Training in Rwanda

Moussa P. Blimpo, Todd Pugatch

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 149, 102583

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13616

The Economic Impacts of Direct Natural Disaster Exposure

Meliyanni Johar, David W. Johnston, Michael A. Shields, Peter Siminski, Olena Stavrunova

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13615

The Persistence of Union Membership within the Coalfields of Britain

Huw Beynon, Helen Blakely, Alex Bryson, Rhys Davies

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13510

Does the Dream of Home Ownership Rest upon Biased Beliefs? A Test Based on Predicted and Realized Life Satisfaction

Reto Odermatt, Alois Stutzer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13465

Union Membership and Collective Bargaining: Trends and Determinants

Claus Schnabel

published in: K. F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, Cham, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13443

Initial Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Employment and Hours of Self-Employed Coupled and Single Workers by Gender and Parental Status

Charlene M. Kalenkoski, Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13436

Entrepreneurial Recovery from COVID-19: Decentralization, Democratization, Demand, Distribution, and Demography

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13428

Timing Matters: Shifting Economic Activity and Intra-Day Variation in Ambient Ozone Concentrations

David Adler, Edson R. Severnini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13414

The Effects of Non-Compete Agreements on Different Types of Self-Employment: Evidence from Massachusetts and Utah

Ege Can, Frank M. Fossen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13390

Does Emigration Drain Entrepreneurs?

Massimo Anelli, Gaetano Basso, Giuseppe Ippedico, Giovanni Peri

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13373

Allocating Subsidies for Private Investments to Maximize Jobs Impacts

David A. Robalino, Jose M. Romero, Ian Walker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13368

The Effect of Business Cycle Expectations on the German Apprenticeship Market: Estimating the Impact of COVID-19

Samuel Mühlemann, Harald Pfeifer, Bernhard Wittek

published in: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2020, 12, Article 8 (2020)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13350

The CPS Citizenship Question and Survey Refusals: Causal and Semi-Causal Evidence Featuring a Two-Stage Regression Discontinuity Design

Robert Bernhardt, Phanindra V. Wunnava

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13311

The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: Evidence of Early-Stage Losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey

Robert W. Fairlie

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13238

Towards Economic Democracy and Social Justice: Profit Sharing, Co-Determination, and Employee Ownership

Felix FitzRoy, Michael A. Nolan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13236

Immigration and Work Schedules: Theory and Evidence

Timothy N. Bond, Osea Giuntella, Jakub Lonsky

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13209

Entrepreneurship among Low-, Mid- and High-Income Workers in South America: A Fuzzy-Set Analysis

Jorge Velilla, José Alberto Molina, Raquel Ortega

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13187

The Perceived Well-Being and Health Costs of Exiting Self-Employment

Milena Nikolova, Boris Nikolaev, Olga Popova

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13180

2D:4D and Self-Employment Using SOEP Data: A Replication Study

Frank M. Fossen, Levent Neyse, Magnus Johannesson, Anna Dreber Almenberg

revised version forthcoming in: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258720985478

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13173

Tenancy by the Entirety and the Value of Wealth Insurance for Entrepreneurs

Jeffrey Traczynski

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13154

Apprenticeship and Youth Unemployment

Pierre Cahuc, Jeremy Hervelin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13130

Exposure to Transit Migration, Public Attitudes and Entrepreneurship

Nicolas Ajzenman, Cevat Giray Aksoy, Sergei Guriev

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13061

Same-Sex Couples and the Marital Surplus: The Importance of the Legal Environment

Scott M. Delhommer, Daniel S. Hamermesh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13061

Same-Sex Couples and the Marital Surplus: The Importance of the Legal Environment

Scott M. Delhommer, Daniel S. Hamermesh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12975

Education-Occupation Mismatch and Social Networks for Hispanics in the US: Role of Citizenship

Kusum Mundra, Fernando Rios-Avila

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12960

The Demand for Interns

David A. Jaeger, John M. Nunley, R. Alan Seals, Jr., Eric J. Wilbrandt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12959

Do Women Shy Away from Public Speaking? A Field Experiment

Maria De Paola, Rosetta Lombardo, Valeria Pupo, Vincenzo Scoppa

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12943

Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Seema Jayachandran

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12878

Selection and Absolute Advantage in Farming and Entrepreneurship

Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francesco Amodio, Markus Poschke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12877

Prenatal Sunshine Exposure and Birth Outcomes in China

Xin Zhang, Yixuan Wang, Xi Chen, Xun Zhang

forthcoming in: Science of the Total Environment, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12866

Is Scholarly Refereeing Productive (at the Margin)?

Aboozar Hadavand, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Wesley W. Wilson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12856

Labour Market Outcomes for Cancer Survivors: A Review of the Reviews

Adelina Sharipova, Stijn Baert

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. 12828

Don't Patronize Me! An Experiment on Preferences for Authorship

Silvia Lübbecke, Wendelin Schnedler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12802

Endogenous Hours and the Wealth of Entrepreneurs

Felix Wellschmied, Emircan Yurdagul

published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2021, 39, 79-99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12793

Direct and Indirect Effects of Subsidized Dual Apprenticeships

Bruno Crépon, Patrick Premand

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12784

Greater US Gun Ownership, Lethality and Murder Rates: Analysis and Policy Proposals

Maurice Schiff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12778

The Impact of Internship Experience during Secondary Education on Schooling and Labour Market Outcomes

Brecht Neyt, Dieter Verhaest, Stijn Baert

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12777

Training, Human Capital, and Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurial Performance

Zuzana Brixiova, Thierry Kangoye, Mona Said

published in: Economic Modelling, 2020, 85, 367-380

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12771

Labor Market Frictions and Lowest Low Fertility

Nezih Guner, Ezgi Kaya, Virginia Sánchez Marcos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12761

Former Communist Party Membership and Present-Day Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe

Artjoms Ivlevs, Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova

forthcoming in: Small Business Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12742

What Makes an Employer?

Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12726

Female Workers, Male Managers: Gender, Leadership, and Risk-Taking

Ulf Rinne, Hendrik Sonnabend

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12707

Gender Differences in the Effect of Employee-Manager Friendships on Salary Dynamics in CPA Firms

Yossef Tobol, Ronen Bar-El, Yuval Arbel, Ofer H. Azar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12705

The Heterogeneous Effects of Workers' Countries of Birth on Over-Education

Valentine Jacobs, Benoît Mahy, Francois Rycx, Mélanie Volral

published as 'Over-education Among Immigrants: The Role of Demographics, Time, and Firm Characteristics' in: Applied Economics, 2021, 53 (1), 61-78

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12696

Passports for Sale: The Political Economy of Conflict and Cooperation in a Meta-Club

Kai A. Konrad, Ray Rees

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12690

Catching up or Lagging Behind? The Long-Term Business and Innovation Potential of Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Martin Weissenberger

published in: Research Policy, 2020, 49 (10), 1-14

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12678

Three Varieties of Africa’s Industrial Future

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12669

Local Labor Demand and Participation in Social Insurance Programs

Asbjørn Goul Andersen, Simen Markussen, Knut Røed

published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101767

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12656

Making Use of Home Equity: The Potential of Housing Wealth to Enhance Retirement Security

Jorge Miguel Bravo, Mercedes Ayuso, Robert Holzmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12642

Not Just a Work Permit: EU Citizenship and the Consumption Behavior of Documented and Undocumented Immigrants

Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Ezgi Kaya

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2020, 53, 1552-1598

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12611

Do Workers Discriminate against Female Bosses?

Martin Abel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12607

Entrepreneurial Persistence beyond Survival: Measurement and Determinants

Marco Caliendo, Maximilian Göthner, Martin Weißenberger

published in: Journal of Small Business Management, 2020, 58 (3), 617-647.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12602

The Decline in Entrepreneurship in the West: Is Complexity Ossifying the Economy?

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12580

What Does Leadership Look like in Schools and Does It Matter for School Performance?

Lucy Stokes, Alex Bryson, David Wilkinson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12580

What Does Leadership Look like in Schools and Does It Matter for School Performance?

Lucy Stokes, Alex Bryson, David Wilkinson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12573

Conference Presentations and Academic Publishing

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Tho Pham, Oleksandr Talavera

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12540

The Role of Leaders in Inducing and Maintaining Cooperation: The CC Strategy

Michael Kosfeld

forthcoming in: The Leadership Quarterly

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12516

Symbolism Matters: The Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Legalization on Partnership Stability

Shuai Chen, Jan C. van Ours

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12499

Entrepreneurship over the Business Cycle in the United States: A Decomposition

Frank M. Fossen

revised version forthcoming in: Small Business Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-020-00375-3

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12479

Open Labor Markets and Firms’ Substitution between Training Apprentices and Hiring Workers

Manuel Aepli, Andreas Kuhn

revised version forthcoming in: Labour Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12478

Do Internships Pay Off? The Effects of Student Internships on Earnings

Shushanik Margaryan, Nils Saniter, Mathias Schumann, Thomas Siedler

forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12457

From Citizen's Rights to Civic Responsibilities

Lucas Ronconi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12453

Gender Pay Gap Patterns in Domestic and Foreign-Owned Firms

Iga Magda, Katarzyna Salach

forthcoming in: Empirical Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12453

Gender Pay Gap Patterns in Domestic and Foreign-Owned Firms

Iga Magda, Katarzyna Salach

forthcoming in: Empirical Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12445

Who Gains from Active Learning in Higher Education?

Giulio Bosio, Federica Origo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12402

Did the Post-1986 Decline in the Homeownership Rate Benefit the New Zealand Labour Market? A Spatial-Econometric Exploration

William Cochrane, Jacques Poot

published in: Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 2020, 4 (1), 261-284

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12379

Labor Productivity during the Great Depression in UK Manufacturing

Robert A. Hart

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12367

Wage Employment, Unemployment and Self-Employment across Countries

Markus Poschke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12336

Types of Institutions and Well-Being of Self-Employed and Paid Employees in Europe

Michael Fritsch, Alina Sorgner, Michael Wyrwich

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12325

The Impact of Soft-Skills Training for Entrepreneurs in Jamaica

Diego Ubfal, Irani Arraiz, Diether Beuermann, Michael Frese, Alessandro Maffioli, Daniel Verch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12303

Do Employee Share Owners Face Too Much Financial Risk?

Douglas L. Kruse, Joseph Blasi, Dan Weltmann, Saehee Kang, Jung Ook Kim, William Castellano

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12282

Bullshitters. Who Are They and What Do We Know about Their Lives?

John Jerrim, Phil Parker, Nikki Shure

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12249

Do Party Positions Affect the Public's Policy Preferences?

Elisabeth Grewenig, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 179, 523-543

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12219

A Decline in Labor's Share with Capital Accumulation and Complementary Factor Inputs: An Application of the Morishima Elasticity of Substitution

Saumik Paul

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12183

Student Internships and Employment Opportunities after Graduation: A Field Experiment

Stijn Baert, Brecht Neyt, Thomas Siedler, Ilse Tobback, Dieter Verhaest

revised version available on request

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12159

Local Norms Describing the Role of the State and the Private Provision of Training

Andreas Kuhn, Jürg Schweri, Stefan C. Wolter

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

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