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97 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17196
The Effect of Export Market Access on Labor Market Power: Firm-Level Evidence from Vietnam
Trang Hoang, Devashish Mitra, Hoang Pham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17116
Offshoring and the Decline of Unions
Jakob R. Munch, William W. Olney
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16873
An Optimal Allocation of Asylum Seekers
Oded Stark, Grzegorz Kosiorowski
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024, 220, 1 - 11
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16863
Still Waters Run Deep: Groundwater Contamination and Education Outcomes in India
Khushboo Aggarwal, Rashmi Barua, Marian Vidal-Fernandez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16841
What Mattered Most in the Brexit Vote? Evidence from Detailed Regression and Decomposition Analysis
Stephen Drinkwater, David H. Blackaby, Catherine Robinson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16825
Altruism, Human Capital and Environmental Preservation in a Globalized Economy
Stéphane Bouché, Leonor Modesto
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16727
Corporate Globalization and Worker Representation
Uwe Jirjahn
forthcoming in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer Nature
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16510
The Role of Global Value Chains for Worker Tasks and Wage Inequality
Piotr Lewandowski, Karol Madoń, Deborah Winkler
published online in: World Economy, 26 August 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16502
The Effects of Exposure to Refugees on Crime: Evidence from the Greek Islands
Rigissa Megalokonomou, Chrysovalantis Vasilakis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16434
Gains from Variety: Refugee-Host Interactions in Uganda
Rama Dasi Mariani, Furio C. Rosati, Pasquale Scaramozzino, Marco D'Errico
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16381
International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker Level
Wolfgang Keller, Hale Utar
published in: Journal of International Economics, 2023, 145, 103810.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16363
Globalization and Inequality in Latin America
Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Brian K. Kovak
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16243
Medical Brain Drain – Assessing the Role of Job Attributes and Individual Traits
Marco Bertoni, Debdeep Chattopadhyay, Yuanyuan Gu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16231
Skill-Biased Imports, Skill Acquisition, and Migration
Jingting Fan, Lei Li
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16094
The Effects of FDI Liberalization on Structural Transformation and Demographic Change: Evidence from China
Bilge Erten, Jessica Leight, Lianming Zhu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16032
Household Responses to Trade Shocks
Aitor Irastorza-Fadrique, Peter Levell, Matthias Parey
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16010
Globalization, Productivity Growth, and Labor Compensation
Christian Dreger, Marius Fourné, Oliver Holtemöller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15999
Spillover Effects of Energy Transition Metals in Chile
Pablo Agnese, Francisco Rios
published in: Energy Economics, 2024, 134, 107589
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15914
Decomposition of the Changes in Household Disposable Income Distribution in China
Chen Gong, Denisa Maria Sologon, Zina Nimeh, Cathal O'Donoghue
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15782
On Trade Policy Preference and Offshoring Ties
Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, Devashish Mitra
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15760
Import Competition, Formalization, and the Role of Contract Labor
Pavel Chakraborty, Rahul Singh, Vidhya Soundararajan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15432
Reaping the Rewards Later: How Education Improves Old-Age Cognition in South Africa
Plamen Nikolov, Steve Yeh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15317
The Economic and Fiscal Effects on the United States from Reduced Numbers of Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Michael A. Clemens
published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2022, 38 (3), 449-486.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15301
Migration and University Education: An Empirical (Macro) Link
Sule Akkoyunlu, Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15286
Trade Liberalization and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Indian Census
Mehtabul Azam
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15243
Enhanced Intergenerational Occupational Mobility through Trade Expansion: Evidence from Vietnam
Devashish Mitra, Hoang Pham, Beyza Ural Marchand
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15218
Importing Air Pollution? Evidence from China's Plastic Waste Imports
Kerstin Unfried, Feicheng Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15123
Place-Based Policies and Agglomeration Economies: Firm-Level Evidence from Special Economic Zones in India
Holger Görg, Alina Mulyukova
published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 165, 104752
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14783
Membership in Employers' Associations and Collective Bargaining Coverage in Germany
Uwe Jirjahn
revised version published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2023, 44 (3), 798-826
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14720
Mobile Broadband Internet, Poverty and Labor Outcomes in Tanzania
Kalvin Bahia, Pau Castells, Genaro Cruz, Takaaki Masaki, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Viviane Sanfelice
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14650
Import Competition and Informal Employment: Empirical Evidence from China
Feicheng Wang, Zhe Liang, Hartmut Lehmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14589
The Brexit Referendum and Three Types of Regret
Stephen Drinkwater, Colin Jennings
published in: Public Choice, 2022, 193, 275-291
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14533
Import Competition and Public Attitudes Towards Trade
Alex Davenport, David Dorn, Peter Levell
published as: IFS Report no. 176, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14460
A Political Economy and Voicing Model of the Institutional Impact of Brain Drain, Human Capital, Inequality and Country Size
Frédéric Docquier, Maurice Schiff
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. 14055
Women's Employment and Natural Shocks
Eugenia Canessa, Gianna Claudia Giannelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13957
Globalization and Female Empowerment: Evidence from Myanmar
Teresa Molina, Mari Tanaka
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2023, 71 (2), 519-565
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13877
Gender Economics: An Assessment
Almudena Sevilla
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13861
Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure
David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Kaveh Majlesi
published in: American Economic Review, 2020, 110(10), 3139-3189
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13658
Broadband Internet and Household Welfare in Senegal
Takaaki Masaki, Rogelio Granguillhome Ochoa, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13626
Trade Liberalization and the Gender Employment Gap in China
Feicheng Wang, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Minghai Zhou
published online as 'Import Competition and the Gender Employment Gap in China' in: Journal of Human Resources,11 July 2022
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. 13267
Automation, Globalization and Vanishing Jobs: A Labor Market Sorting View
Ester Faia, Sébastien Laffitte, Maximilian Mayer, Gianmarco Ottaviano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13259
Hit by the Silk Road: How Wage Coordination in Europe Mitigates the China Shock
Erling Barth, Henning Finseraas, Anders Kjelsrud, Karl Ove Moene
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13219
The Welfare Effects of Mobile Broadband Internet: Evidence from Nigeria
Kalvin Bahia, Pau Castells, Genaro Cruz, Takaaki Masaki, Xavier Pedrós, Tobias Pfutze, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Hernan Winkler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13194
The Importance of Cognitive Domains and the Returns to Schooling in South Africa: Evidence from Two Labor Surveys
Plamen Nikolov, Nusrat Abedin Jimi
published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101849.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13095
Pioneering a New Approach to Improving Working Conditions in Developing Countries: Better Factories Cambodia
Raymond Robertson
forthcoming in: HANDBOOK ON GLOBALISATION AND LABOUR STANDARDS
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12998
Recoupling Economic and Social Prosperity
Katharina Lima de Miranda, Dennis J. Snower
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12984
Does Emigration Affect Pro-Environmental Behaviour Back Home? A Long-Term, Local-Level Perspective
Artjoms Ivlevs
published in: Kyklos, 2021, 74(1): 48-76
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12949
Unintended Consequences: Can the Rise of the Educated Class Explain the Revival of Protectionism?
Paolo E. Giordani, Fabio Mariani
published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2022, 200, 105385.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12795
Productivity, Wages and Profits: Does Firms' Position in the Value Chain Matter?
Benoît Mahy, François Rycx, Guillaume Vermeylen, Mélanie Volral
published as 'Productivity and Wage Effects of Firm-level Upstreamness: Evidence from Belgian Linked Panel Data' in: World Economy, 2022, 45 (7), 2222 - 2250
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12677
Weight Gains from Trade in Foods: Evidence from Mexico
Osea Giuntella, Matthias Rieger, Lorenzo Rotunno
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12593
Offshoring and Skill-Biased Technical Change in the Context of US Protectionism
Pablo Agnese, Jana Hromcová
published as 'Offshoring, welfare, and flexibility in the context of US Protectionism' in: International Economic Journal, 2021, 35 (4), 391 - 410
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12449
Upstreamness, Wages and Gender: Equal Benefits for All?
Nicola Gagliardi, Benoît Mahy, François Rycx
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 59 (1), 52-83
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12380
Trade and Worker Deskilling
Rui Costa, Swati Dhingra, Stephen Machin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12327
Workers in the Crowd: The Labour Market Impact of the Online Platform Economy
Michele Cantarella, Chiara Strozzi
revised and updated version published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2021, 30 (6), 1429 - 1458
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12246
Access to Imported Intermediates and Intra-Firm Wage Inequality
Ying Ge, Tony Fang, Yeheng Jiang
published in: World Economy, 2019, 42 (8), 2364-2384.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11885
Capital Market Integration and Gender Inequality
Mizuki Komura, Hikaru Ogawa
published in: Review of Development Economics, 2019, 23(3), 1387-1413.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11821
Globalisation and the Gender Earnings Gap: Evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia 1992-2015
Raymond Robertson, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Yevgeniya Savchenko
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11817
Diabetes, Employment and Behavioural Risk Factors in China: Marginal Structural Models versus Fixed Effects Models
Till Seuring, Pieter Serneels, Marc Suhrcke, Max Bachmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11790
Collateral Damage? Labour Market Effects of Competing with China – at Home and Abroad
Sónia Cabral, Pedro S. Martins, João Pereira dos Santos, Mariana Tavares
published in: Economica, 2021, 88 (350), 570-600
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11480
The Impact of Immigration on Firm-Level Offshoring
William W. Olney, Dario Pozzoli
revised version published as 'The Impact of Immigration on Firm-Level Offshoring' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103 (1), 177 - 195
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11279
China's "Great Migration": The Impact of the Reduction in Trade Policy Uncertainty
Giovanni Facchini, Maggie Y. Liu, Anna Maria Mayda, Minghai Zhou
published in: Journal of International Economics, 2019, 120, 126-144
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11154
Foreign Ownership and Intra-Firm Union Density in Germany
Uwe Jirjahn
revised version published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2021, 42 (4), 1052-1079
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10898
The Effects of Globalization and Technology on the Elasticity of Substitution
Hector Sala, Pedro Trivín
published in: Review of World Economics, 2018, 154 (3), 617-647
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10602
On the Implications of Immigration Policy Restricting Citizenship: Evidence from the Dominican Republic
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Carlos Gratereaux Hernández, Susan Pozo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10559
The Effect of Fertility on Mothers' Labor Supply over the Last Two Centuries
Daniel Aaronson, Rajeev Dehejia, Andrew Jordan, Cristian Pop-Eleches, Cyrus Samii, Karl Schulze
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10468
Labor Market Regulation, International Trade and Footloose Capital
Tapio K. Palokangas
revised version "Public Policy, Footloose Capital, and Union Influence" published in: Review of International Economics, 2020, 28 (4), 976-991.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10299
Offshoring, Endogenous Skill Decision, and Labor Market Outcomes
Pablo Agnese, Jana Hromcová
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10156
Tracking Wage Inequality Trends with Prices and Different Trade Models: Evidence from Mexico
Timothy J. Halliday, Daniel Lederman, Raymond Robertson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10109
Migration and Globalization: What's in it for Developing Countries?
Hillel Rapoport
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (7), 1209-1226
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10097
The End of Cheap Labour: Are Foreign Investors Leaving China?
Julian Donaubauer, Christian Dreger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10036
No Pain, No Gain: The Effects of Exports on Effort, Injury, and Illness
David Hummels, Jakob R. Munch, Chong Xiang
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 May 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10025
Laws, Costs, Norms, and Learning: Improving Working Conditions in Developing Countries
Drusilla Brown, Rajeev Dehejia, Raymond Robertson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9973
Disentangling the Wage Impacts of Offshoring on a Developing Country: Theory and Policy
Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, Devashish Mitra
revised version published as 'Consequences of Offshoring to Developing Nations: Labor-Market Outcomes, Welfare and Corrective Interventions' in: Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58 (1), 209 -224
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9952
Euro, Crisis and Unemployment: Youth Patterns, Youth Policies?
Atanu Ghoshray, Javier Ordóñez, Hector Sala
published in: Economic Modelling, 2016, 58, 442-453.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9788
Migration, Knowledge Diffusion and the Comparative Advantage of Nations
Dany Bahar, Hillel Rapoport
Published in: The Economic Journal, Vol 128 (612), 2018: F273-305
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9764
Competition and the Racial Wage Gap: Testing Becker's Model of Employer Discrimination
Guilherme Hirata, Rodrigo R. Soares
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 146, Article 102519
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9724
Integrated Macroeconomic Production Function for Open Economies: A New Schumpeterian Solow Model for Globalization
Paul J. J. Welfens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9672
Islamism and Gender Relations in the Muslim World as Reflected in Recent World Values Survey Data
Arno Tausch, Almas Heshmati
published in: Society and Economy, 2016, 38 (4), 427–453
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9611
A Review of the Circular Economy and its Implementation
Almas Heshmati
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9422
Human Resources and Innovation: Total Factor Productivity and Foreign Human Capital
Claudio Fassio, Sona Kalantaryan, Alessandra Venturini
published as 'Foreign Human Capital and Total Factor Productivity: A Sectoral Approach' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2020, 66 (3), 613 - 646
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9421
Female Migration and Native Marital Stability: Insights from Italy
Daniele Vignoli, Alessandra Venturini, Elena Pirani
published in :Journal of Family and Economic, 2017, 38 (5), 118-128, (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10834-016-9493-4)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9300
From Local to Global: External Validity in a Fertility Natural Experiment
Rajeev Dehejia, Cristian Pop-Eleches, Cyrus Samii
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9037
Top Incomes in Canada: Evidence from the Census
Thomas Lemieux, W. Craig Riddell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8881
International Migration Opportunities and Occupational Choice: A Case Study of Philippine Nurses 2002 to 2014
Mary P. Arends-Kuenning, Alvaro Calara, Stella Go
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8789
Why is Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing Declining? The Roles of Trade, Regulation, Productivity, and Preferences
Joseph S. Shapiro, Reed Walker
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8743
Migration and the Demographic Shift
Anzelika Zaiceva, Klaus F. Zimmermann
substantially revised version published in: Piggott, J. and A. Woodland (Eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, Elsevier, North Holland, 2016, Vol. 1A, Ch. 3, 119-177.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8328
Migration in Italy is Backing the Old Age Welfare
Daniela Del Boca, Alessandra Venturini
published in: M. Kahanec and K.F. Zimmermann (eds.), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, 2016
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8326
Skilled Immigrants' Contribution to Productive Efficiency
Daehoon Nahm, Massimiliano Tani
published in Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 2015, 20, 594–612
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8258
Real Unit Labour Costs in Eurozone Countries: Drivers and Clusters
Javier Ordóñez, Hector Sala, José I. Silva
published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2015, 4:15, 1-19
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8164
Low-Skill Offshoring: Labor Market Policies and Welfare Effects
Pablo Agnese, Jana Hromcová
published as 'Low-skill offshoring and welfare compensation policies' in: Economic Modelling, 2016, 52, part B, 408 - 426
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8125
Labour Demand Research: Towards a Better Match between Better Theory and Better Data
John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal, José Varejão
published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 4-11
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7822
The Real Exchange Rate and External Competitiveness in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia
Zuzana Brixiova, Balázs Égert, Thouraya Hadj Amor Essid
published in: Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 2014, 10 (1), 25 - 51
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7494
Exporting and Labor Demand: Micro-Level Evidence from Germany
Andreas Lichter, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch
revised version published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2017, 50 (4), 1161-1189
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7159
Gender Wage-Productivity Differentials and Global Integration in China
Ana C. Dammert, Beyza Ural Marchand, Chi Wan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7095
FDI and Wages: Evidence from Firm-Level and Linked Employer-Employee Data in Hungary, 1986-2008
John S. Earle, Álmos Telegdy, Gábor Antal
published as 'Foreign Ownership and Wages: Evidence from Hungary, 1986 -2008 ' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2017, 71 (2), 458 - 491
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