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412 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9146
The Employment Effects of State Hiring Credits
David Neumark, Diego Grijalva
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9130
Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States
Eric A. Hanushek, Jens Ruhose, Ludger Woessmann
published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2017, 9 (4), 184-224
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9081
Education and Growth with Learning by Doing
Gabriele Marconi, Andries de Grip
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9026
Do Natural Disasters Stimulate Individual Saving? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in a Highly Developed Country
Michael Berlemann, Max F. Steinhardt, Jascha Tutt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8996
Innovation, Inequality and a Golden Rule for Growth in an Economy with Cobb-Douglas Function and an R&D Sector
Paul J. J. Welfens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8975
Religion and Innovation
Roland Benabou, Davide Ticchi, Andrea Vindigni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8940
Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and Growth
Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado, Ngo Van Long, Markus Poschke
published in: Theoretical Economics, 2017, 12 (3), 1229-1266
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8914
The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-Being Data
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, George W. Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, Bert van Landeghem, Georgios Kavetsos, Michael I. Norton
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8868
Financial Development, Environmental Quality, Trade and Economic Growth: What Causes What in MENA Countries
Anis Omri, Saida Daly, Christophe Rault, Anissa Chaibi
published in: Energy Economics, 2015, 48, 242 - 252
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8790
Innovation and SMEs Patent Propensity in Korea
Junghee Han, Almas Heshmati
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8774
Capital Account Policies, IMF Programs and Growth in Developing Regions
Zorobabel Bicaba, Zuzana Brixiova, Mthuli Ncube
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8772
Institutions and Development in MENA Region: Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector
Mahmoud Arayssi, Ali Fakih
published in: International Journal of Social Economics, 2015, 42 (8), 717-732
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8771
The Inequality-Growth Plateau
Daniel J. Henderson, Junhui Qian, Le Wang
published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 128, 17-20
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8751
Growth and Poverty in Africa: Shifting Fortunes and New Perspectives
Abebe Shimeles
part of this paper forthcoming in: The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8719
Beer, Wood, and Welfare
Michael Grimm, Jörg Peters
published in: PLoS ONE, 2015, 10(8): e0132603, [Open Access]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8681
Immigration and Economic Growth in the OECD Countries, 1986-2006
Ekrame Boubtane, Jean-Christophe Dumont, Christophe Rault
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, 2016, 68 (2), 340 - 360
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8654
From Riches to Rags, and Back? Institutional Change, Financial Development and Economic Growth in Argentina since the 1890s
Nauro F. Campos, Menelaos G. Karanasos, Bin Tan
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2016, 52(2), 206 - 223
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8652
The Continued Search for the Solow Residual: The Role of National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Zoltan J. Acs, Saul Estrin, Tomasz Mickiewicz, László Szerb
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8627
Immigrants' Wage Growth and Selective Out-Migration
Govert Bijwaard, Jackline Wahba
forthcoming in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8592
Does Development Reduce Migration?
Michael A. Clemens
published in: Robert E.B. Lucas, ed. (2014), International Handbook on Migration and Economic Development. London: Edward Elgar, Chap. 6, pp. 152–185.
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. 8504
Growth and Inequality in Public Good Games
Simon Gächter, Friederike Mengel, Elias Tsakas, Alexander Vostroknutov
revised version published in Journal of Public Economics 150, June 2017, 1-13, doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2017.03.002
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8452
Do Criminal Representatives Hinder or Improve Constituency Outcomes? Evidence from India
Nishith Prakash, Marc Rockmore, Yogesh Uppal
published as 'Do criminally accused politicians affect economic outcomes? Evidence from India' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 141, 102370
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8433
The Biocultural Origins of Human Capital Formation
Oded Galor, Marc Klemp
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8430
The Extent and Cyclicality of Career Changes: Evidence for the U.K.
Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Bart Hobijn, Powen She, Ludo Visschers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8427
The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Oded Galor, Ömer Özak
published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (10), 3064-3103
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8421
Career Wage Profiles and the Minimum Wage
Kerry L. Papps
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8398
The Real Exchange Rate and Growth in Zimbabwe: Does the Currency Regime Matter?
Zuzana Brixiova, Mthuli Ncube
published as 'The Real Exchange Rate and Growth in Emerging Markets: The Case of Zimbabwe' in: Review of Development Economics, 2015, 19 (3), 564 - 576
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8397
Financial Development and Economic Growth: Evidence from Ten New EU Members
Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Christophe Rault, Robert Sova, Anamaria Sova
published in: International Journal of Finance and Economics, Volume 20, Issue 1, pp 48–60, 2015
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8296
Exploring the Causality Links between Energy and Employment in African Countries
Mohamed El Hedi Arouri, Adel Ben Youssef, Hatem M'henni, Christophe Rault
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8274
Knowledge Spillovers, ICT and Productivity Growth
Carol Corrado, Jonathan Haskel, Cecilia Jona-Lasinio
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8274
Knowledge Spillovers, ICT and Productivity Growth
Carol Corrado, Jonathan Haskel, Cecilia Jona-Lasinio
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8271
Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
William F. Maloney, Felipe Caicedo Valencia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8243
Inequality of Opportunity and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis
Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Christoph Lakner, Maria Ana Lugo, Berk Özler
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2018, 64 (4), 800-827
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8162
Economic Growth and Political Integration: Estimating the Benefits from Membership in the European Union Using the Synthetic Counterfactuals Method
Nauro F. Campos, Fabrizio Coricelli, Luigi Moretti
published as 'Institutional integration and economic growth in Europe' in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2019, 103, 88-104
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8161
Globalization and Local Profiles of Economic Growth and Industrial Change
Wolfgang Dauth, Jens Suedekum
published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2016, 16 (5), 1007-1034 [Final version]
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. 8120
Can Dreams Come True? Eliminating Extreme Poverty in Africa by 2030
Mthuli Ncube, Zuzana Brixiova, Zorobabel Bicaba
revised version published as 'Can Extreme Poverty be Eliminated in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030?' in: Journal of African Development, 2017, 19 (2), 93 - 110
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8119
A Survey of the Role of Fiscal Policy in Addressing Income Inequality, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
Almas Heshmati, Jungsuk Kim
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8082
The Power of Hydroelectric Dams: Agglomeration Spillovers
Edson R. Severnini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8054
Land Reforms, Status and Population Growth
Ulla Lehmijoki, Tapio K. Palokangas
revised version published as 'Landowning, Status and Population Growth' in: E. Moser et al. (eds.), Dynamic Optimization in Environmental Economics, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2014, 315 - 328; extended and more advanced version "Land Reforms and Population Growth" published in Portuguese Economic Journal, 2016, 15, 1-15; all versions co-authored with Ulla Lehmijoki
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8003
Can the UAE Avoid the Oil Curse by Economic Diversification?
Ilham Haouas, Almas Heshmati
forthcoming in: International Research Journal of Finance and Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8001
Euroskepticism in the Crisis: More Mood than Economy
Jo Ritzen, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Caroline Wehner
completely revised version published as 'Euroskepticism, Income Inequality and Financial Expectations' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2015, 16 (2), 539-576
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7999
A Validation Study of Transgenerational Effects of Childhood Conditions on the Third Generation Offspring's Economic and Health Outcomes Potentially Driven by Epigenetic Imprinting
Gerard J. van den Berg, Pia Pinger
revised version published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 23, 103-120
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7989
The Effect of Renewable Energy Development on Carbon Emission Reduction: An Empirical Analysis for the EU-15 Countries
Shahrouz Abolhosseini, Almas Heshmati, Jörn Altmann
published as 'Impact of Renewable Energy Development on Carbon Dioxide Emission Reduction' in: The Development of Renewable Energy Sources and its Significance for the Environment, 2015, pp. 119-146
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7928
Equilibrium Health Spending and Population Aging in a Model of Endogenous Growth: Will the GDP Share of Health Spending Keep Rising?
Isaac Ehrlich, Yong Yin
revised version published in: Journal of Human Capital, 7(4), 411-447
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7830
STEM Graduates, Human Capital Externalities, and Wages in the U.S.
John V. Winters
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2014, 48, 190-198
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7826
Volatility and Growth: Governments are Key
Michael Jetter
published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 36, 71-88
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7825
The US Labor Market in 2030: A Scenario Based on Current Trends in Supply and Demand
Rebecca Edwards, Fabian Lange
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7798
Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China
Belton M. Fleisher, William H. McGuire, Adam Nicholas Smith, Mi Zhou
published as 'Knowledge capital, innovation, and growth in China' in: Journal of Asian Economics, 2015, 39, 31-42.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7765
Stages of Diversification in a Neoclassical World
Catia Batista, Jacques Potin
published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 122 (2), 276–284
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7745
The Incidence and Persistence of Cyclical Job Loss in New Zealand
David C. Maré, Richard Fabling
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7733
Does Wealth Inequality Matter for Growth? The Effect of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, and Poverty
Sutirtha Bagchi, Jan Svejnar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7674
Minimum Wages and Aggregate Job Growth: Causal Effect or Statistical Artifact?
Arindrajit Dube
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7606
Growing out of the Crisis: Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy
Benedikt Herrmann, Alexander S. Kritikos
published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:14
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7563
The Economic Impact of Non-communicable Disease in China and India: Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons
David E. Bloom, Elizabeth T. Cafiero, Mark E. McGovern, Klaus Prettner, Anderson Stanciole, Jonathan Weiss, Samuel Bakkila, Larry Rosenberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7464
Trust, Growth and Well-being: New Evidence and Policy Implications
Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc
pubished in: S.N. Durlauf and P. Aghion (eds.) : Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol.2 , 2014, 49-120
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7459
Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth
Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti
published in: Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol. 2, 1-48, December 2013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7458
Reexamining the Conditional Effect of Foreign Direct Investment
Randolph Luca Bruno, Nauro F. Campos
published in: Multinational Business Review, 2018, 26 (2), 126-144
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7422
Income and Population Growth
Markus Brückner, Hannes Schwandt
Economic Journal, December 2015, Vol. 124 (589): 1653-1676
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7407
Post Schooling Human Capital Investments and the Life Cycle Variance of Earnings
Thierry Magnac, Nicolas Pistolesi, Sébastien Roux
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126(3), 1219-1249.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7391
Disease and Development Revisited
David E. Bloom, David Canning, Günther Fink
forthcoming in: Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 122 (6), 1355-1366
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7376
Family Ties
Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano
published in Philippe Aghion and Steven Durlauf (eds.), Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol. 2A, The Netherlands: North Holland, pp. 177-215, 2014
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7354
International Education and Economic Growth
Jan Bergerhoff, Lex Borghans, Philipp K. Seegers, Tom van Veen
published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:3
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7341
Cross Sections Are History
Richard A. Easterlin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7234
Happiness, Growth, and Public Policy
Richard A. Easterlin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7199
The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development
Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde
revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2015, 7 (3), 189-225
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7196
China's Life Satisfaction, 1990-2010
Richard A. Easterlin, Robson Morgan, Malgorzata Switek, Fei Wang
published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012, 109 (25), 9775-9780
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7141
Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Gary S. Fields
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7105
The New Stylized Facts about Income and Subjective Well-Being
Daniel W. Sacks, Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers
published in: Emotion, 2012, 12(6), 1181-1187 (lead article)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7104
Wage Growth through Job Hopping in China
Kenn Ariga, Fumio Ohtake, Masaru Sasaki, Zheren Wu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7022
Separating Introduction Effects from Selectivity Effects: The Differences in Employment Patterns of Co-Determined Firms
Rafael Gralla, Kornelius Kraft
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6966
Immigration, Growth and Unemployment: Panel VAR Evidence from OECD Countries
Ekrame Boubtane, Dramane Coulibaly, Christophe Rault
published in: Labour, 2013, 27 (4), 399-420
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6934
Are We There Yet? Time for Checks and Balances on New Institutionalism
Murat Iyigun
published in: Annual Proceedings of the Wealth & Well-Being of Nations, 2013, 5, 73-84
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6926
The Role of Sectoral Growth Patterns in Labor Market Development
Francisco Javier Arias-Vazquez, Jean Nahrae Lee, David Newhouse
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6873
Promotion and Wages in Mid-Career: Gender, Unionism, and Sector
John T. Addison, Orgul Demet Ozturk, Si Wang
revised version published as 'The Role of Gender in Promotion and Pay over a Career' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 8 (3), 280-317
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6866
Constrained Firms, Not Subsistence Activities: Evidence on Capital Returns and Accumulation in Peruvian Microenterprises
Kristin Göbel, Michael Grimm, Jann Lay
published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 33, 94-110
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6761
The Great Happiness Moderation
Andrew E. Clark, Sarah Flèche, Claudia Senik
published in: Andrew Clark and Claudia Senik (Eds.), Happiness and Economic Growth: Lessons from Developing Countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, 22-139
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6737
The Impact of Armed Conflict on Economic Performance: Evidence from Rwanda
Pieter Serneels, Marijke Verpoorten
published in: Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2015, 59 (4), 555-592
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6733
Intangible Capital and Growth in Advanced Economies: Measurement Methods and Comparative Results
Carol Corrado, Jonathan Haskel, Cecilia Jona-Lasinio, Massimiliano Iommi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6690
Immigration and Structural Change: Evidence from Post-War Germany
Sebastian Till Braun, Michael Kvasnicka
published in: Journal of International Economics, 2014, 93 (2), 253-269
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6671
How Are Firms Affected by the Crisis and How Do They React?
Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen, Ioana Neamtu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6625
The Unexpected Appearance of a New German Model
Werner Eichhorst
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2015, 53(1), 49-69
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6550
Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China
James J. Heckman, Junjian Yi
published in: S. Fan, R. Kanbur, S. Wei, and X. Zhang (eds)., The Oxford Companion to the Economics of China on Human Capital, Oxford: OUP, 2014
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6527
Declining Fertility and Economic Well-Being: Do Education and Health Ride to the Rescue?
Klaus Prettner, David E. Bloom, Holger Strulik
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6492
Changes in China's Wage Structure
Suqin Ge, Dennis T. Yang
published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2014, 12 (2), 300-336
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6468
An Empirical Growth Model for Major Oil Exporters
Hadi Salehi Esfahani, Kamiar Mohaddes, M. Hashem Pesaran
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6459
Globalization, Institutions, and the Ethnic Divide: Recent Longitudinal Evidence
Phanindra V. Wunnava, Aniruddha Mitra, Robert E. Prasch
published as 'Globalization and the Ethnic Divide: Recent Longitudinal Evidence' in: Social Science Quarterly, 2015, 96 (5), 1475-1492
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6412
Energy Consumption, Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions in Middle East and North African Countries
Mohamed El Hedi Arouri, Adel Ben Youssef, Hatem M'henni, Christophe Rault
published in: Energy Policy, 2012, 45, 342 - 349
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6334
The Demographic Transition: Causes and Consequences
Oded Galor
published in: Cliometrica, 6(1), 1-28
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6328
Inequality, Human Capital Formation and the Process of Development
Oded Galor
published in: Handbook of Economics of Education, North Holland. 2014.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6327
Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits
Oded Galor, Stelios Michalopoulos
published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2012, 147(2), 759-780
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6263
Development and Sources of Labor Productivity in Chinese Provinces
Biwei Su, Almas Heshmati
Published in: China Economic Policy Review, 2014, 2(2), 1-30.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6213
Economic History or History of Economics? A Review Essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
Orley Ashenfelter
published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2012, 50 (1), 96 - 102
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6171
Labor Productivity and Vocational Training: Evidence from Europe
Hector Sala, José I. Silva
published in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2013, 40 (1), 31-41
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6169
Migration, Openness and the Global Preconditions of 'Smart Development'
Arno Tausch, Almas Heshmati
published in: Boğaziçi Journal Review of Social, Economic and Administrative Studies, 2012, 26 (2), 27-89.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6167
Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Comparative Advantages, Compulsory Schooling, and Earnings
Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen, Xingfei Liu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6151
The Financial Crisis, Labor Market Transitions and Earnings: A Gendered Panel Data Analysis for Serbia
Niels-Hugo Blunch, Victor Sulla
published as 'World gone wrong: the financial crisis, labor market transitions and earnings in Serbia' in: Economic Change and Restructuring, 2014, 47(3), 187-226
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6135
Reforms, Growth and Persistence of Gender Gap: Recent Evidence from Private School Enrolment in India
Pushkar Maitra, Sarmistha Pal, Anurag Sharma
Revised version published as “Economic Reforms and Growth of Private School Enrolment in India: Is There a Cause for Concern?” in: Sonalde Desai, Pallavi Choudhuri, and Amaresh Dubey (eds.), “India’s Social and Economic Transformation in 21st Century”, Routledge (forthcoming)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6068
Can Higher Employment Levels Bring Lower Poverty in the EU? Regression Based Simulations of the Europe 2020 Target
Ive Marx, Pieter Vandenbroucke, Gerlinde Verbist
revised version published in: Journal of European Social Policy, 2012, 22 (5) 472– 486
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