IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15936

Advanced Digital Technologies and Investment in Employee Training: Complements or Substitutes?

Giorgio Brunello, Désirée Rückert, Christoph T. Weiss, Patricia Wruuck

forthcoming in: Journal of Human Capital, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15903

Globalization and Firm Performance

Luis A. V. Catão, Pedro de Faria, António Martins, Miguel Portela

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15881

Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment: Thirty Years On

W. Bentley MacLeod, James Malcomson

published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economicsi (JITE), 2023, 179 (3), 470 - 499

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. 15779

Investment Grants and Firms' Productivity: How Effective Is a Grant Booster Shot?

Fernando Alexandre, Miguel Chaves, Miguel Portela

published in: Small Business Economics, 2025, 64, 1601–1641

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15762

Creative Disruption: Technology Innovation, Labour Demand and the Pandemic

Erling Barth, Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen

forthcoming in: Economica

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15744

Internal Adjustment Costs of Firm-Specific Factors and the Neoclassical Theory of the Firm

V. K. Chetty, James J. Heckman

published in: Kumbhakar, S.C., Sickles, R.C., Wang, H.J. (eds), Advances in Applied Econometrics. Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics, Springer, Cham, 2024, 55, 239 - 258

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15716

Revenue Drift, Incentives, and Effort Allocation in Social Enterprises

Theodor Vladasel, Simon C. Parker, Randolph Sloof, Mirjam C. van Praag

published in: Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2024, 33 (3), 630 - 651

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15676

Management and Performance in the Public Sector: Evidence from German Municipalities

Florian Englmaier, Gerd Muehlheusser, Andreas Roider, Niklas Wallmeier

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15668

Investment Tax Credits and the Response of Firms

Adrian Lerche

published in: American Economic Review, 2025, 115 (8), 2781–2818

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15667

The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers: Evidence from a Randomized Lottery

Michael A. Clemens, Ethan Gatewood Lewis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15617

Employer Cooperation, Productivity, and Wages: New Evidence from Inter-Firm Formal Network Agreements

Francesco Devicienti, Elena Grinza, Alessandro Manello, Davide Vannoni

published in: Economica, 2025, 92 (365), 1 - 41

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15594

Opening the Black Box: Task and Skill Mix and Productivity Dispersion

G.Jacob Blackwood, Cindy Cunningham, Matt Dey, Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John C. Haltiwanger, Rachel Nesbit, Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, Jay Stewart, Cody Tuttle, Zoltan Wolf

published in: Susanto Basu, Lucy Eldridge, John Haltiwanger, and Erich Strassner (eds.), Technology, Productivity and Economic Growth, University of Chicago Press, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15576

It Hurts to Ask

Roland Benabou, Ania Jaroszewicz, George Loewenstein

published in: European Economic Review, 2025,171, 104911

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15543

Nautical Patrol and Illegal Fishing Practices

Stephen Kastoryano, Ben Vollaard

published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023 122, 102881.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15540

Working from Home Around the World

Cevat Giray Aksoy, José María Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Mathias Dolls, Pablo Zarate

published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2022, 281–330