IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published as 'Job Gain and Job Loss Dynamics in the Truck Transportation Industry' in: Journal of Business Logistics, 2024, 45 (3), e123912024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16072

The Motherhood Wage and Income Traps

Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer, Emmanuel Thibault

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15865

The Role of Firm Dynamics in the Green Transition: Carbon Productivity Decomposition in Finnish Manufacturing

Natalia Kuosmanen, Terhi Maczulskij

published as 'Going green while getting lean: Decomposing carbon and total factor green productivity' in: Journal of Environmental Management, 2024, 352, 120046.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15737

Commitment and the Dynamics of Household Labor Supply

Alexandros Theloudis, Jorge Velilla, Pierre-André Chiappori, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15506

Using Online Vacancy and Job Applicants' Data to Study Skills Dynamics

Fidel Bennett, Veronica Escudero, Hannah Liepmann, Ana Podjanin

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2024, 52B, 35-99.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15443

Consumption Choices and Earnings Expectations: Empirical Evidence and Structural Estimation

Christian A. Stoltenberg, Arne Uhlendorff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15385

The Shift to Remote Work Lessens Wage-Growth Pressures

José María Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Brent Meyer, Emil Mihaylov

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15236

Dynamic Heterogeneous Distribution Regression Panel Models, with an Application to Labor Income Processes

Iván Fernández-Val, Wayne Yuan Gao, Yuan Liao, Francis Vella

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15148

Return versus Onward Migration: Go Back or Move On?

Govert Bijwaard, Jackline Wahba

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2023, 69 (3), 640-667

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15115

Inequality and Income Dynamics in Germany

Moritz Drechsel-Grau, Andreas Peichl, Johannes Schmieden, Kai D. Schmid, Hannes Walz, Stefanie Wolter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15033

The Unequal Cost of Job Loss across Countries

Antoine Bertheau, Edoardo Acabbi, Cristina Barcelo, Andreas Gulyas, Stefano Lombardi, Raffaele Saggio

published in: American Economic Review: Insights, 2023, 5 (3), 393-408

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15014

Firm Pay Dynamics

Niklas Engbom, Christian Moser, Jan Sauermann

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2023, 233 (1), 396 - 423

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14869

Equilibrium Job Turnover and the Business Cycle

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Alex Clymo, Melvyn Coles

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14847

Population Growth, Immigration and Labour Market Dynamics

Michael Elsby, Jennifer C. Smith, Jonathan Wadsworth

published in: Demography, 2024, 61 (5), 1559–1584.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14822

Nonlinearities and Workers' Heterogeneity in Unemployment Dynamics

Stéphane Adjemian, Frédéric Karamé, François Langot

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14726

Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention

Sule Alan, Gozde Corekcioglu, Matthias Sutter

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023, 138 (1), 151-203

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14596

Dual Returns to Experience

Jose Garcia-Louzao, Laura Hospido, Alessandro Ruggieri

published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 80, 102290

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14544

Poverty in Russia: A Bird's-Eye View of Trends and Dynamics in the past Quarter of Century

Kseniya Abanokova, Hai-Anh H Dang

published in: Jacques Silber (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, Edward Elgar Press, 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14313

Gaining, Losing, and Regaining Merit-Based Scholarships

David C. Ribar, Ross Rubenstein

published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2023, 18 (4), 597–622

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14202

COVID-19: Erroneous Modelling and Its Policy Implications

Yinon Bar-On, Tatiana Baron, Ofer Cornfeld, Ron Milo, Eran Yashiv

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14182

Asian Discrimination in the Coronavirus Era: Implications for Business Formation and Survival

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Cristina Borra, Chunbei Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14141

Employment Structures in China from 1990 to 2015: Demographic and Technological Change

Peng Ge, Wenkai Sun, Zhong Zhao

slightly revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 185, 168 - 190

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13591

The Changing Composition of Academic Majors and Wage Dynamics

Natalia Kyui, Natalia Radchenko

published as 'The changing composition of academic majors and wage dynamics: Beyond mean returns' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2021, 49 (2), 358-381

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13439

The Lockdown Impact on Unemployment for Heterogeneous Workers

Malak Kandoussi, François Langot

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13438

Uncertainty Shocks and Unemployment Dynamics

Malak Kandoussi, François Langot

published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 201, 110760

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13378

Inequality in Personality over the Life Cycle

Miriam Gensowski, Mette Gørtz, Stefanie Schurer

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 184, 46-77

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13215

Welfare Dynamics in India over a Quarter Century: Poverty, Vulnerability, and Mobility during 1987-2012

Hai-Anh H Dang, Peter F. Lanjouw

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13091

Macroeconomic Conditions and Health in Britain: Aggregation, Dynamics and Local Area Heterogeneity

Katharina Janke, Kevin Lee, Carol Propper, Kalvinder Shields, Michael A. Shields

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13043

The Important Role of Equivalence Scales: Household Size, Composition, and Poverty Dynamics in Russia

Kseniya Abanokova, Hai-Anh H Dang, Michael Lokshin

published as 'Do Adjustments for Equivalence Scales Affect Poverty Dynamics? Evidence from the Russian Federation during 1994-2017' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68 (S1), S167 - S192

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13014

The Effect of Immigration on Business Dynamics and Employment

Pia M. Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny, Alexander Abraham

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12896

Not Much Bounce in the Springboard: On the Mobility of Low Pay Workers

Gail Pacheco, Alexander T. Plum, Peter J. Sloane

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. 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. 12242

New Digital Technologies and Heterogeneous Employment and Wage Dynamics in the United States: Evidence from Individual-Level Data

Frank M. Fossen, Alina Sorgner

revised version published in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022, 175, 121381

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12170

Labor Market Dynamics in Urban China and the Role of the State Sector

Shuaizhang Feng, Naijia Guo

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2021, 49 (4), 918-932

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11840

Capital Income Risk and the Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution

Hoang Khieu, Klaus Wälde

published in: Economic Modelling , 2023, 122, 106243

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11745

Firm Dynamics with Frictional Product and Labor Markets

Leo Kaas, Bihemo Kimasa

published in: International Economic Review, 2021, 62 (3), 1281-1317

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11662

High-Growth Entrepreneurship

J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Mee Jung Kim, Kyung Min Lee

published as 'Start-Ups, Job Creation, and Founder Characteristics' in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2019, 28 (6), 1637–1672

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11584

Two Stories of Wage Dynamics in Latin America: Different Policies, Different Outcomes

Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza, Luis C. Carvajal-Osorio

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2020, 41, 128–168,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11484

How Valid Are Synthetic Panel Estimates of Poverty Dynamics?

Nicolas Herault, Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2019, 17 (1), 51 - 76

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11451

Exploring the Role of Fathers in Non-Cognitive Skill Development over the Lifecourse

Rosemary Elkins, Stefanie Schurer

published as 'Exploring the role of parental engagement in non-cognitive skill development over the lifecourse' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33, 957–1004

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11443

Labour Market Transitions, Shocks and Institutions in Turbulent Times: A Cross-Country Analysis

Ronald Bachmann, Rahel Felder

published in: Empirica, 2021, 48 (2), 329-352

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11402

Workers, Firms and Life-Cycle Wage Dynamics

Paul Bingley, Lorenzo Cappellari

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11397

The Temporal Dynamics of Neighborhood Disadvantage in Childhood and Subsequent Problem Behavior in Adolescence

Tom Kleinepier, Maarten van Ham

published in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2018, 47 (8), 1611–1628.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11313

Reallocation and the Role of Firm Composition Effects on Aggregate Wage Dynamics

Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Emmanuele Bobbio, Marta De Philippis, Federico Giorgi

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 8:3

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11276

Intertemporal Labor Supply: A Household Collective Approach

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11051

Wage Cyclicalities and Labor Market Dynamics at the Establishment Level: Theory and Evidence

Christian Merkl, Heiko Stüber

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 161, 104636

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10748

Crisis and Reorganization in Urban Dynamics: The Barcelona Case Study

Rafael de Balanzó, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Ecology & Society, 2017, 23 (4), Article 6

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10696

The Temporal Stability of Children's Neighborhood Experiences: A Follow-up from Birth to Age 15

Tom Kleinepier, Maarten van Ham

published in: Demographic Research, 2017, 36, 1813 - 1826

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10543

You Drink, You Drive, You Die? The Dynamics of Youth Risk Taking in Response to a Change in the Legal Drinking Age

Stefan Boes, Steven Stillman

published as 'Drink and drive? Understanding the dynamics of youth risk-taking' in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (10), 2381-2398

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10534

Estimating Labor Force Joiners and Leavers Using a Heterogeneity Augmented Two-Tier Stochastic Frontier

Tirthatanmoy Das, Solomon Polachek

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 199, 156-172.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10472

Technological Progress and (Un)employment Development

Uwe Blien, Oliver Ludewig

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10447

A Simple Method to Estimate Large Fixed Effects Models Applied to Wage Determinants and Matching

Nikolas Mittag

published as 'A Simple Method to Estimate Large Fixed Effects Models Applied to Wage Determinants' in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101766

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10341

Etiopathology of Europe's Sick Man: Worker Flows in Germany, 1959-2016

Benjamin Hartung, Philip Jung, Moritz Kuhn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10216

Trajectories of Neighborhood Change: Spatial Patterns of Increasing Ethnic Diversity

Merle Zwiers, Maarten van Ham, David Manley

published in: Population, Space and Place, 2018, 24 (2), e2094

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10034

Trade Competition, Technology and Labour Reallocation

Selva B. Baziki, Rita Ginja, Teodora Borota Milicevic

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9785

Time Aggregation and State Dependence in Welfare Receipt

Manudeep Bhuller, Christian Brinch, Sebastian Königs

published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (604), 1833-1873.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9783

Levelling the Playing Field: The Effects of Slovenia's 2013 Labour Market Reform

Matija Vodopivec, Suzana Laporsek, Milan Vodopivec

published in: Economic and Business Review, 2019, 21(1).

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9761

Racial Differences in Labor Market Transitions and the Great Recession

Kenneth A. Couch, Robert W. Fairlie, Huanan Xu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9660

When Do Gender Wage Differences Emerge? A Study of Azerbaijan's Labor Market

Francesco Pastore, Sarosh Sattar, Nistha Sinha, Erwin R. Tiongson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9367

Worker Mobility in a Search Model with Adverse Selection

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Leo Kaas

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2015, 160, 340 - 386.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9344

Earnings and Consumption Dynamics: A Nonlinear Panel Data Framework

Manuel Arellano, Richard Blundell, Stephane Bonhomme

published in: Econometrica, 2017, 85 (3), 693 - 734

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9256

Wage Risk and the Value of Job Mobility in Early Employment Careers

Kai Liu

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (1), 139 - 185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9197

Family Shocks and Academic Achievement

Marie C. Hull

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8935

Sexual Identity, Earnings, and Labour Market Dynamics: New Evidence from Longitudinal Data in Australia

Joseph J. Sabia, Mark Wooden

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2016, 83 (4), 903-931.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8797

Why Are There So Few Women in Executive Positions? An Analysis of Gender Differences in the Life-Cycle of Executive Employment

Anders Frederiksen, Timothy J. Halliday

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8774

Capital Account Policies, IMF Programs and Growth in Developing Regions

Zorobabel Bicaba, Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Mthuli Ncube

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8773

Determinants of Transitions across Formal / Informal Sectors in Egypt

Aysit Tansel, Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir

revised version published as 'Transitions across Labor Market States Including Formal/Informal Division in Egypt' in: Review of Development Economics, 2020, 23 (4), 1674-1695.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8627

Immigrants' Wage Growth and Selective Out-Migration

Govert Bijwaard, Jackline Wahba

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 81, 1065-1094

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8542

Does Public Education Expansion Lead to Trickle-Down Growth?

Sebastian Böhm, Volker Grossmann, Thomas M. Steger

published as 'Does Expansion of Higher Education Lead to Trickle-Down Growth?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 132, 79-94

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8349

Transitions in a West African Labour Market: The Role of Family Networks

Christophe Jalil Nordman, Laure Pasquier-Doumer

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2015, 54, 74-85