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147 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15255
Regional Consumption Responses and the Aggregate Fiscal Multiplier
Bill Dupor, Marios Karabarbounis, Marianna Kudlyak, M. Saif Mehkari
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15210
Are the East African Community's Countries Ready for a Common Currency?
Thomas Kigabo-Rusuhuzwa, Almas Heshmati
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15199
Explaining Regional Disparities in Housing Prices across German Districts
Lars Brausewetter, Stephan L. Thomsen, Johannes Trunzer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15060
Spatial Wage Curves for Formal and Informal Workers in Turkey
Badi H. Baltagi, Yusuf Soner Baskaya
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14926
Did the Minimum Wage Reduce the Gender Wage Gap in Germany?
Marco Caliendo, Linda Wittbrodt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14748
The Causal Effects of Place on Health and Longevity
Tatyana Deryugina, David Molitor
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14669
COVID-19 Spread in Germany from a Regional Perspective
Olaf Hübler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14521
Looking for a Star: Evaluating the Effect of the Cohesion Policy on Regional Well-Being
Giuseppe Albanese, Vincenzo Carrieri, Maria Maddalena Speziali
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14204
Optimal Regional Labor Market Policies
Philip Jung, Philipp Korfmann, Edgar Preugschat
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14063
Does the Rise of China Lead to the Fall of European Welfare States?
Erling Barth, Henning Finseraas, Anders Kjelsrud, Karl Ove Moene
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13993
Can Placement of Governmental Sector Jobs Spur Private Sector Employment and Performance?
Harald Dale-Olsen, Pal Schone
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13975
Does Robotization Affect Job Quality? Evidence from European Regional Labour Markets
José-Ignacio Antón, Enrique Fernández-Macías, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13964
Interregional Contact and National Identity
Manuel Bagues, Christopher Roth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13883
Demographic Change and Regional Labour Markets
Michael Johannes Böhm, Terry Gregory, Pamela Qendrai, Christian Siegel
published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2021, 7 (1), 113 - 131
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13831
Winter Weather and Work Hours: Heterogeneous Effects and Regional Adaptation
Bo Liu, Barry Hirsch
published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2021, 39 (4), 867-881
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13811
Who Married, (to) Whom, and Where? Trends in Marriage in the United States, 1850-1940
Claudia Olivetti, M. Daniele Paserman, Laura Salisbury, E. Anna Weber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13735
Expanding the Measurement of Culture with a Sample of Two Billion Humans
Nick Obradovich, Ömer Özak, Ignacio Martín, Edmond Awad, Manuel Cebrián, Rubén Cuevas, Klaus Desmet, Iyad Rahwan, Ángel Cuevas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13679
Trade and Economic Growth: Theories and Evidence from the Southern African Development Community
Matias Jaime Farahane, Almas Heshmati
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13579
Regional Variations in the Brexit Vote: Causes and Potential Consequences
David H. Blackaby, Stephen Drinkwater, Catherine Robinson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13437
Spatial and Social Mobility in England and Wales: Moving Out to Move On?
Franz Buscha, Emma Gorman, Patrick Sturgis
forthcoming as 'Spatial and social mobility in England and Wales: a sub-national analysis of differences and trends over time' in: British Journal of Sociology
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13181
Elementary Facts about Immigration in Italy: What Do We Know about Immigration and Its Impact?
Rama Dasi Mariani, Alessandra Pasquini, Furio C. Rosati
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13074
Provincial Trade, Financial Friction and Misallocation in China
Ohyun Kwon, Belton M. Fleisher, William H. McGuire, Min Qiang Zhao
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13039
Regional Convergence in Russia: Estimating a Neoclassical Growth Model
Hartmut Lehmann, Aleksey Oshchepkov, Maria Giulia Silvagni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12861
The Strength of Gender Norms and Gender-Stereotypical Occupational Aspirations among Adolescents
Andreas Kuhn, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12741
Settlement Location Shapes Refugee Integration: Evidence from Post-War Germany
Sebastian Till Braun, Nadja Dwenger
published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2020, 77, 101330
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12619
Do Workers Benefit from Resource Booms in Their Home State? Evidence from the Fracking Era
John V. Winters, Zhengyu Cai, Karen Maguire, Shruti Sengupta
published as 'Causal Effects of the Fracking Boom on Long-Term Resident Workers' in: Journal of Region Science, First published: 20 November 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12462
Does College Location Affect the Location Choice of New College Graduates? Evidence from China
Mian Huang, Chunbing Xing, Xiaoyong Cui
forthcoming in: China & World Economy
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12229
Refugees Welcome? Understanding the Regional Heterogeneity of Anti-Foreigner Hate Crimes in Germany
Horst Entorf, Martin Lange
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12224
Human Capital and the Economic Convergence Mechanism: Evidence from China
Xiaobei Zhang, Haizheng Li, Xiaojun Wang, Belton M. Fleisher
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12222
Implications of the Polish 1999 Administrative Reform for Regional Socio-Economic Development
Michal Myck, Mateusz Najsztub
published in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2020, 28(4), 559–579
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12031
On the Origin and Composition of the German East-West Population Gap
Christoph Eder, Martin Halla
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12031
On the Origin and Composition of the German East-West Population Gap
Christoph Eder, Martin Halla
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11932
Varying Youth Cohort Effects on Regional Labour Market Outcomes in Germany
Thomas de Graaff, Ceren Ozgen, Duncan Roth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11850
The Social Cost of Unemployment: The Spanish Labour Market from a Social Welfare Approach
Lucía Gorjón, Sara de la Rica, Antonio Villar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11587
A Time-Space Dynamic Panel Data Model with Spatial Moving Average Errors
Badi H. Baltagi, Bernard Fingleton, Alain Pirotte
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 76, 13-31
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11190
The Short-Run Employment Effects of the German Minimum Wage Reform
Marco Caliendo, Alexandra Fedorets, Malte Preuß, Carsten Schröder, Linda Wittbrodt
published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 53, 46-62
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11122
Revisiting Interregional Wage Differentials: New Evidence from Spain with Matched Employer-Employee Data
Inés P. Murillo Huertas, Raul Ramos, Hipólito Simón
published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2020, 60 (2), 296-347
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11077
Local Labor Markets and the Persistence of Population Shocks
Sebastian Till Braun, Anica Kramer, Michael Kvasnicka
forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11045
The Gender Wage Gap among College Graduates in Italy
Daniela Piazzalunga
published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2018, 4 (1), 33-90
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10731
The Impact of Social Pensions on Intergenerational Relationships: Comparative Evidence from China
Xi Chen, Karen Eggleston, Ang Sun
forthcoming in: the Journal of the Economics of Ageing
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10250
Determinants of Regional Differences in Rates of Overeducation in Europe
Maria A. Davia, Seamus McGuinness, Philip J. O'Connell
published in: Social Science Research, 2017, 67-80
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10081
Research Funding and Regional Economies
Nathan Goldschlag, Stefano Bianchini, Julia Lane, Joseba SanMartin Sola, Bruce A. Weinberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9892
Spatial Income Inequality in India, 1993-2011: A District Level Decomposition
Mehtabul Azam, Vipul Bhatt
published in Social Indicators Research
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9631
The Puzzling Fixity of Multiple Job Holding across Regions and Labor Markets
Barry Hirsch, Muhammad M. Husain, John V. Winters
published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2017, 84 (1), 26-51
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9577
Local and Spatial Cointegration in the Wage Curve: A Spatial Panel Analysis for German Regions
Reinhold Kosfeld, Christian Dreger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9441
Tertiary Education and Prosperity: Catholic Missionaries to Luminosity in India
Amparo Castelló-Climent, Latika Chaudhary, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay
published as 'Higher Education and Prosperity: From Catholic Missionaries to Luminosity in India' in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128, 3039-3075
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9429
Broadband Diffusion and Firm Performance in Rural Areas: Quasi-Experimental Evidence
Giulia Canzian, Samuele Poy, Simone Schüller
revised version published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 77, 87–103. [Abstract & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9257
An Analysis of Wage Differentials between Full- and Part-Time Workers in Spain
Raul Ramos, Esteban Sanromá, Hipólito Simón
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2017, 38 (3), 449-469
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9205
Can Intra-Regional Trade Act as a Global Shock Absorber in Africa?
Zuzana Brixiova, Qingwei Meng, Mthuli Ncube
published in: World Economics, 2015, 16 (3), 141 - 162
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9205
Can Intra-Regional Trade Act as a Global Shock Absorber in Africa?
Zuzana Brixiova, Qingwei Meng, Mthuli Ncube
published in: World Economics, 2015, 16 (3), 141 - 162
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9098
Norwegian Rhapsody? The Political Economy Benefits of Regional Integration
Nauro F. Campos, Fabrizio Coricelli, Luigi Moretti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8931
Regional Variation of the Minimum Wages in China
Chunbing Xing, Jianwei Xu
published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2016, 5:8
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8841
The Impact of Refugee Crises on Host Labor Markets: The Case of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Turkey
Yusuf Emre Akgündüz, Marcel van den Berg, Wolter Hassink
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8780
Job Loss and Regional Mobility
Kristiina Huttunen, Jarle Moen, Kjell G. Salvanes
revised version forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8593
The Impact of the German Autobahn Net on Regional Labor Market Performance: A Study Using Historical Instrument Variables
Joachim Möller, Marcus Zierer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8511
Public Employment Policies and Regional Unemployment Differences
Vincenzo Caponi
(revised version forthcoming in: Regional Science and Urban Economics)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8468
The Brazilian Wage Curve: New Evidence from the National Household Survey
Badi H. Baltagi, Bartlomiej Rokicki, Kênia Barreiro de Souza
published in: Empirical Economics, 2017, 53 (1), 267–286.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8373
"Phantom of the Opera" or "Sex and the City"? Historical Amenities as Sources of Exogenous Variation
Thomas K. Bauer, Philipp Breidenbach, Christoph M. Schmidt
published in: Labour Economics 37 2015, 93-98
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7812
The Polish Wage Curve: Micro Panel Data Analysis Based on the Polish Labor Force Survey
Badi H. Baltagi, Bartlomiej Rokicki
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2014,49, 36-47.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7763
Regional Equilibrium Unemployment Theory at the Age of the Internet
Vanessa Lutgen, Bruno Van der Linden
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2015, 53, 50-67
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7746
Labour Market Dynamics in Spanish Regions: Evaluating Asymmetries in Troublesome Times
Hector Sala, Pedro Trivín
published in: SERIEs, 2014, 5(2), 197-221
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7647
Regional Variations in Attitudes Towards Refugees: Evidence from Great Britain
Heaven Crawley, Stephen Drinkwater, Rukhsana Kauser
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7614
Do Firms Benefit from Active Labour Market Policies?
Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch, Patrycja Scioch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7603
Is There Convergence of Russia's Regions? Exploring the Empirical Evidence: 1995–2010
Hartmut Lehmann, Maria Giulia Silvagni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7603
Is There Convergence of Russia's Regions? Exploring the Empirical Evidence: 1995–2010
Hartmut Lehmann, Maria Giulia Silvagni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7572
Regional Determinants of Establishments' Innovation Activities: A Multi-Level Approach
Lutz Bellmann, Andreas Crimmann, Katalin Evers, Reinhard Hujer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7489
The Legacy of Conflict: Regional Deprivation and School Performance in Northern Ireland
Neil T.N. Ferguson, Maren M. Michaelsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7460
Regional Effect Heterogeneity of Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed
Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn
published in Regional Studies, 2014, 48 (6), 1108-1134
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7198
Note on Lilien and Modified Lilien Index
Muhammad Rashid Ansari, Chiara Mussida, Francesco Pastore
published in: Stata Journal, 2014, 14 (2), 398-406
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7126
Primum vivere… Industrial Change, Job Destruction and the Geographical Distribution of Unemployment
Francesco Pastore
published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012, 1:7
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7074
Labour Turnover and the Spatial Distribution of Unemployment: A Panel Data Analysis Using Employment Registry Data
Francesco Pastore, Joanna Tyrowicz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7043
Regional Unemployment, Gender and Time Allocation of the Unemployed
J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 12 (1), 105-127
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6954
Is There a Southern-Sclerosis? Worker Reallocation and Regional Unemployment in Italy
Chiara Mussida, Francesco Pastore
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6836
How Different Are the Wage Curves for Formal and Informal Workers? Evidence from Turkey
Badi H. Baltagi, Yusuf Soner Baskaya, Timur Hulagu
published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2013, 92, 271-283.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6767
Identifying Regional Labor Demand Shocks Using Sign Restrictions
Falko Juessen, Ludger Linnemann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6465
Benchmarking Regions: Estimating the Counterfactual Distribution of Labor Market Outcomes
Bernd Fitzenberger, Marina Furdas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6449
The Regional Distribution of Public Employment: Theory and Evidence
Sebastian G. Kessing, Chiara Strozzi
revised and updated version published in: Regional Studies, 2017, 51 (7), 1100-1114
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6357
Do Unemployed Workers Benefit from Enterprise Zones? The French Experience
Laurent Gobillon, Thierry Magnac, Harris Selod
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (9), 881 - 892
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6323
The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy
Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry Overman, John Van Reenen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6289
Economic and Spatial Determinants of Interregional Migration in Kazakhstan
Alisher Aldashev, Barbara Dietz
published in: Economic Systems, 2014, 38 (3) 379-396
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6153
Revealing Taste-Based Discrimination in Hiring: A Correspondence Testing Experiment with Geographic Variation
Magnus Carlsson, Dan-Olof Rooth
published in: Applied Economic Letters, 2012, 19 (18), 1861-1864
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5838
The NRU and the Evolution of Regional Disparities in Spanish Unemployment
Roberto Bande, Marika Karanassou
published online before print in: Urban Studies, 2013, February 25, 2013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5726
High-Technology Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley
Robert W. Fairlie, Aaron K. Chatterji
published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2013, 22 (2), 365-389
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5683
Europe Agreements and Trade Balance: Evidence form Four New EU Members
Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Christophe Rault, Robert Sova, Anamaria Sova
published in: The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development,Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 21(6), pages 839-863, January 2012
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5257
Determinants of Employer-Provided Further Training: A Multi-Level Approach
Lutz Bellmann, Christian Hohendanner, Reinhard Hujer
published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch, 2011, 131 (4), 581-598
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5065
The Phantom of the Opera: Cultural Amenities, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth
Oliver Falck, Michael Fritsch, Stephan Heblich
published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (6), 755-766
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5012
Spanish Regional Unemployment Revisited: The Role of Capital Accumulation
Roberto Bande, Marika Karanassou
published in: Regional Studies, 2013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4938
Small State Regional Cooperation, South-South and South-North Migration, and International Trade
Maurice Schiff
published as 'Small States, Micro States, and their International Negotiation and Migration' in: Journal of Economic Integration, 2014, 29 (3), 430-449
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4906
Property Value Assessment Growth Limits, Tax Base Erosion and Regional In-Migration
Mark Skidmore, Mehmet S. Tosun
published in: Public Finance Review, 2011, 39 (2), 256-287
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4682
Are Hispanic Immigrant Families Reviving the Economies of America's Small Towns?
Dennis Coates, T. H. Gindling
published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2013, 31 (4), 649-668
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4648
Modelling the Effects of Immigration on Regional Economic Performance and the Wage Distribution: A CGE Analysis of Three EU Regions
Konstantinos Pouliakas, Deborah Roberts, Eudokia Balamou, Demetrios Psaltopoulos
published in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48(2), 318-338
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4619
Cultural Diversity and Local Labour Markets
Jens Suedekum, Katja Wolf, Uwe Blien
published in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48 (1), 173-191
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4579
Human Capital Spillovers, Productivity and Regional Convergence in Spain
Raul Ramos, Jordi Surinach, Manuel Artís
published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2010, 89 (2), 435-447
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4573
Some Evidence on the Nature of Urbanization Economies
Douglas J. Krupka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4522
The Effect of Migration on Income Growth and Convergence: Meta-Analytic Evidence
Ceren Ozgen, Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot
published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2010, 89 (3), 537-561
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4484
Employment Protection Legislation in Russia: Regional Enforcement and Labour Market Outcomes
Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov, Anna Lukiyanova
published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2010, 52 (4), 611-636
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4453
Regional Economic Growth and Human Capital: The Role of Overeducation
Raul Ramos, Jordi Surinach, Manuel Artís
published in: Regional Studies, 2012, 46 (10), 1389-1400
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4283
Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben
Beatrix Brügger, Rafael Lalive, Josef Zweimüller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4177
A Distribution Dynamics Approach to Regional GDP Convergence in Unified Germany
Falko Juessen
published in: Empirical Economics, 2009, 37 (3), 627 - 652
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