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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.
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