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51 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18128
Unions in Developing Countries
Alex Bryson, Mari Tanaka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17072
Schooling Mobility across Three Generations in Six Latin American Countries
Pablo Celhay, Sebastian Gallegos
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, 23 (2025)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16741
The Effects of Immigration in a Developing Country: Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration
David Escamilla-Guerrero, Andrea Papadia, Ariell Zimran
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16417
What If It Never Happened? Subjective Treatment Effects of a Negative Shock on Youth Labour Market Outcomes in Developing Countries
Marta Favara, Richard Freund, Marcello Perez-Alvarez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16193
Entitled to Property: How Breaking the Gender Barrier Improves Child Health in India
Md Shahadath Hossain, Plamen Nikolov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15926
When You Can't Afford to Wait for a Job: The Role of Time Discounting for Own-Account Workers in Developing Countries
Thiago Scarelli, David N. Margolis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15742
Do Pension Benefits Accelerate Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Rural China
Plamen Nikolov, Md Shahadath Hossain
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 594 - 617
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15514
Employer Power and Employment in Developing Countries
Nancy H. Chau, Ravi Kanbur, Vidhya Soundararajan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15432
Reaping the Rewards Later: How Education Improves Old-Age Cognition in South Africa
Plamen Nikolov, Steve Yeh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15340
Minimum Wages in Developing Countries
Tony Fang, Viet Hoang Ha
published in: Klaus F. Zimmermannn (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14944
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Labor Markets in Developing Countries: A New Method with an Illustration for Lao PDR and Viet Nam
Francesco Carbonero, Jeremy Davies, Ekkehard Ernst, Frank M. Fossen, Daniel Samaan, Alina Sorgner
revised version published in: Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2023, 33, 707-736
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14858
Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries
Eric Verhoogen
published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2023, 61 (4), 1410–1464
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14498
Entitled to Property: Inheritance Laws, Female Bargaining Power, and Child Health in India
Md Shahadath Hossain, Plamen Nikolov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13932
Pension Policies, Retirement and Human Capital Depreciation in Late Adulthood
Plamen Nikolov, Alan Adelman
updated version of this paper published as DP15742
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13194
The Importance of Cognitive Domains and the Returns to Schooling in South Africa: Evidence from Two Labor Surveys
Plamen Nikolov, Nusrat Abedin Jimi
published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101849.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13136
The COVID-19 Conundrum in the Developing World: Protecting Lives or Protecting Jobs?
David A. Robalino
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13081
Do Public Program Benefits Crowd Out Private Transfers in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence
Plamen Nikolov, Matthew Bonci
published in: World Development, 2020, 134, 104967
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12985
Teacher Labor Markets in Developing Countries
Lee Crawfurd, Todd Pugatch
published in: Brian P. McCall (ed.), Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Education, Routledge, 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12538
Those Who Can't Sort, Steal: Caste, Occupational Mobility, and Rent-Seeking in Rural India
Nicholas Lawson, Dean Spears
published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2021, 87 (1), 107–140.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12532
Do Private Household Transfers to the Elderly Respond to Public Pension Benefits? Evidence from Rural China
Plamen Nikolov, Alan Adelman
published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2019, 14, 100204
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