IZA Discussion Papers

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. 7886

More Is Better! What Can Firm-Specific Estimates of the Impact of Institutional Quality on Performance Tell Us?

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ralitza Dimova, Subal C. Kumbhakar, Kai Sun

published as 'Is Tinkering with Institutional Quality a Panacea for Firm Performance? Insights from a Semiparametric Approach to Modeling Firm Performance' in: Review of Development Economics, 2018, 22 (1), 1-22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7864

Institutionalized Inequality and Brain Drain: An Empirical Study of the Effects of Women's Rights on the Gender Gap in High-Skilled Migration

Maryam Naghsh Nejad

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. 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. 7733

Does Wealth Inequality Matter for Growth? The Effect of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, and Poverty

Sutirtha Bagchi, Jan Svejnar

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43 (3), 505-530

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7717

Is there a Trade-off between Employment and Productivity?

Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar

published as 'Macroeconomic and Sectoral Issues in Youth Employment Policy' in: O'Higgins, N., Ebell, M.; Junankar, P.N. (eds.), Rising to the Youth Employment Policy, Geneva, 2017, Ch.2

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7673

Industry-Wide Work Rules and Productivity: Evidence from Argentine Union Contract Data

Carlos Lamarche

published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2013, 2:11

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. 7603

Is There Convergence of Russia's Regions? Exploring the Empirical Evidence: 1995–2010

Hartmut Lehmann, Maria Giulia Silvagni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7568

Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity

Alberto Alesina, Johann Harnoss, Hillel Rapoport

published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2016, 21 (2), 101-138

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

published as 'The macroeconomic impact of non-communicable diseases in China and India: Estimates, projections, and comparisons' in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2014, 4, 100-111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7543

Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis

Wim Naudé, Adam Szirmai, Alejandro Lavopa

published as 'Industrialisation and Technological Change in the BRICS: The Role of Foreign and Domestic Investment' in: W. Naudé, A. Szirmai, and N. Haraguch (eds.), Structural Change and Industrial Development in the BRICS, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7507

Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7464

Trust, Growth and Well-being: New Evidence and Policy Implications

Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc

published 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. 7391