IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published as 'Barriers to social inclusion and levels of urbanisation: Does it matter where you live?' in: Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2024, 17 (1), 59 - 74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16017

Effects of Early Childhood Climate on Cognitive Development and Home Environment

Wenjie Wu, Yang Zhe, Jun Hyung Kim, Ai Yue

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15606

A Glimpse of Freedom: Allied Occupation and Political Resistance in East Germany

Luis R. Martinez, Jonas Jessen, Guo Xu

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, 15 (1), 68-106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15526

COVID-19 and Entrepreneurship Entry and Exit: Opportunity Amidst Adversity

Vladimir Otrachshenko, Olga Popova, Milena Nikolova, Elena Tyurina

published in: Technology in Society, 2022, 71, 102093

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. 14924

The EU Anchor Thesis: Transition from Socialism, the Institutional Vacuum and Membership in the European Union

Nauro F. Campos

published in: Elodie Douarin and Oleh Havrylyshyn (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative Economics, Springer, 2021, 353–368

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14712

Double-Edged Sword: Persistent Effects of Communism on Life Satisfaction

Vladimir Otrachshenko, Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova

revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36(3), 1139–1185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14554

The Political Economy of Kazakhstan: A Case of Good Economics, Bad Politics?

Simon Commander, Ruta Prieskienyte

published in: Russian Journal of Economics, 2022, 8 (2), 122 - 158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14458

Calling Baumol: What Telephones Can Tell Us about the Allocation of Entrepreneurial Talent in the Face of Radical Institutional Changes

Alina Sorgner, Michael Wyrwich

revised version published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2022, 37(5), 106246

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14149

Temporary Overpessimism: Job Loss Expectations Following a Large Negative Employment Shock

Julian Emmler, Bernd Fitzenberger

published in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2022, 30 (3), 621 - 661

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13760

The Crisis and Job Guarantees in Urban India

Swati Dhingra, Stephen Machin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13740

The Role of Unemployment and Job Change When Estimating the Returns to Migration

Julian Emmler, Bernd Fitzenberger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13358

The Bonding Effect of Deferred Compensation: Worker Separations from a Large Firm in Early Transition Russia

Mikhail Ananyev, Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13103

Political Networks across the Globe

Simon Commander, Stavros Poupakis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13039

Regional Convergence in Russia: Estimating a Neoclassical Growth Model

Hartmut Lehmann, Aleksey Oshchepkov, Maria Giulia Silvagni

revised version published as 'Regional Convergence in Russia: Estimating an Augmented Solow Model' in: Economic Systems, 2023, 47 (4), 101128

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13032

The Separation and Reunification of Germany: Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism

Sascha O. Becker, Lukas Mergele, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2020, 34 (2), 143-171

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. 12874

The Wage Premium of Communist Party Membership: Evidence from China

Hongjian Wang, Plamen Nikolov, Kevin Acker

published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2020, 25 (3), 309 - 338

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12818

The Employment Effects of Ethnic Politics

Francesco Amodio, Giorgio Chiovelli, Sebastian Hohmann

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (2), 456–491

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12761

Former Communist Party Membership and Present-Day Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe

Artjoms Ivlevs, Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova

published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57 (4), 1783-1800

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12234

Out-Of-Partnership Births in East and West Germany

Uwe Jirjahn, Cornelia Struewing

revised version by Uwe Jirjahn and Cornelia Chadi published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, 18 (3), 853-881

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12170

Labor Market Dynamics in Urban China and the Role of the State Sector

Shuaizhang Feng, Naijia Guo

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2021, 49 (4), 918-932

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12141

The Past and Future of Manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe: Ready for Industry 4.0?

Wim Naudé, Aleksander Surdej, Martin Cameron

published as 'Ready for Industry 4.0? The Case of Central and Eastern Europe' in: Mohammad Dastbaz, Peter Cochrane (eds.), Industry 4.0 and Engineering for the Future, Springer International, 2019, 153-175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12046

The Race between Demand and Supply: Tinbergen's Pioneering Studies of Earnings Inequality

James J. Heckman

published in: De economist, 2019, 167, 243–258

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11883

Inequality, Reordering and Divergent Growth: Processes of Neighbourhood Change in Dutch Cities

Tal Modai-Snir, Maarten van Ham

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11498

Political Connections and Firms: Network Dimensions

Maurizio Bussolo, Simon Commander, Stavros Poupakis

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2023, 75 (1), 256–280,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11332

Return Migration and Self-Employment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan

Tilman Brück, Clotilde Mahe, Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11301

Job Market Outcomes of IDPs: The Case of Georgia

Karine Torosyan, Norberto Pignatti, Maksym Obrizan

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (3), 800-820

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11256

Informal Employment Relationships and the Labor Market: Is There Segmentation in Ukraine?

Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics 2018, 46 (3), 838-857

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11249

Labor Reallocation and Demographics

Joanna Tyrowicz, Lucas Van der Velde

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (1), 381-412

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11219

The Roles of Increasing Inequality and Divergent Urban Development in Understanding Spatial Polarization in Tel-Aviv

Tal Modai-Snir, Maarten van Ham

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11133

Adverse Welfare Shocks and Pro-Environmental Behaviour: Evidence from the Global Economic Crisis

Artjoms Ivlevs

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65(2), 293-311

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11076

Income Increase and Moving to a Better Neighbourhood: An Enquiry into Ethnic Differences in Finland

Maria Vaalavuo, Maarten van Ham, Timo M. Kauppinen

published in: European Sociological Review, 2019, 35 (4), 538 - 551

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11058

Informal Search, Bad Search? The Effects of Job Search Method on Wages among Rural Migrants in Urban China

Yuanyuan Chen, Le Wang, Min Zhang

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (3), 837-876

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11056

Employment Discrimination in a Former Soviet Union Republic: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Muhammad Asali, Norberto Pignatti, Sophiko Skhirtladze

revised version published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (4), 1294-1309.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10980

Inequalities and Segregation across the Long-Term Economic Cycle: An Analysis of South and North European Cities

Tiit Tammaru, Szymon Marcińczak, Raivo Aunap, Maarten van Ham

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10816

Industrial Espionage and Productivity

Albrecht Glitz, Erik Meyersson

published in: American Economic Review, 2020, 110 (4), 1055-1103

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10697

The Effects of Physical Restructuring on the Socioeconomic Status of Neighborhoods: Selective Migration and Upgrading

Merle Zwiers, Maarten van Ham, Reinout Kleinhans

published in: Urban Studies, 2019, 56 (8), 1647 - 1663

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10695

Structural and Exchange Components in Processes of Neighbourhood Change: A Social Mobility Approach

Tal Modai-Snir, Maarten van Ham

published in: Applied spatial analysis and policy, 2019, 12 (2), 423 - 443

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10440

Toothless Reforms? The Remarkable Stability of Female Labor Force Participation in a Top-Reforming Country

Norberto Pignatti, Karine Torosyan, Maka Chitanava

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10230

Earnings among Nine Ethnic Minorities and the Han Majority in China's Cities

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Xiuna Yang

published in Journal of Asia Pacific Economy, 2017, 22 (3), 525-546

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10160

Population Decline in Lithuania: Who Lives in Declining Regions and Who Leaves?

Rūta Ubarevičienė, Maarten van Ham

published in: Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2017, 4 (1), 57 - 79

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10139

Informal Employment in China: Trends, Patterns and Determinants of Entry

Zhe Liang, Simon Appleton, Lina Song

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10130

The Lasting Effect of Sex Ratio Imbalance on Marriage and Family: Evidence from World War II in Russia

Elizabeth Brainerd

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99 (2), 229–242.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9890

Regulation and Firm Value: Curious Case of Transparency and Disclosure Laws in Russia

Suman Banerjee, Ronald Masulis, Sarmistha Pal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9636

Does Joining the EU Make You Happy? Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania

Milena Nikolova, Boris Nikolaev

published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2017, 18, 1593 - 1623

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9603

Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities: Increasing Separation between Poor and Rich

Sako Musterd, Szymon Marcińczak, Maarten van Ham, Tiit Tammaru

published in: Urban Geography, 2017, 38 (7), 1062-1083

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9588

Worker Flows and Labour Market Adjustment during the Great Recession: Evidence from a Large Shock

Hartmut Lehmann, Tiziano Razzolini, Anzelika Zaiceva

thoroughly revised version published as 'The Great Recession and Labor Market Adjustment: Evidence from Latvia' in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2020, 62 (1), 149 - 181.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9484

Minding the Happiness Gap: Political Institutions and Perceived Quality of Life in Transition

Milena Nikolova

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 45 (Suppl.), 129 - 148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9466

What Do Unions Do in Times of Economic Crisis? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe

Artjoms Ivlevs, Michail Veliziotis

published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 23 (1), 81-96

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9259

Does Foreign Entry Spur Innovation?

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jan Svejnar, Katherine Terrell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9245

The Economic Costs of Mass Surveillance: Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany

Andreas Lichter, Max Löffler, Sebastian Siegloch

substantially revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (2), 741 - 789

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9018

Are China's Ethnic Minorities Less Likely to Move?

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Xiuna Yang

published in: Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2015, 56 (1), 44-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9017

Happy Moves? Assessing the Link Between Life Satisfaction and Emigration Intentions

Artjoms Ivlevs

published in: Kyklos, 2015, 68(3), 335-356.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8919

United, Yet Apart? A Note on Persistent Labour Market Differences between Western and Eastern Germany

Claus Schnabel

published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik), 2016, 236 (2), 157-180

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8882

Divided Cities: Increasing Socio-Spatial Polarization within Large Cities in the Netherlands

Merle Zwiers, Reinout Kleinhans, Maarten van Ham

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. 8687

Informal Employment in Transition Countries: Empirical Evidence and Research Challenges

Hartmut Lehmann

published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2015, 57 (1), 1-30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8631

In Search of Opportunities? The Barriers to More Efficient Internal Labor Mobility in Ukraine

Johannes Koettl, Olga Kupets, Anna Olefir, Indhira Santos

published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2014, 3:21

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8624

Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction

Alisher Aldashev, Alexander M. Danzer

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2020, 56 (12), 2308-2326

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8510

The Productivity Consequences of Political Turnover: Firm-Level Evidence from Ukraine's Orange Revolution

John S. Earle, Scott Gehlbach

published in: American Journal of Political Science, 2015, 59(3), 708-723

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, 2015, 20 (1), 48–60

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8279

Between Light and Shadow: Informality in the Russian Labour Market

Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov

published in: S.Oxenstierna (ed.), The Challenges for Russia's Politicized Economic System: Routledge, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8241

Yuan and Roubles: Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Shi Li, Ludmila Nivorozhkina, Haiyuan Wan

published in: China Economic Review, 2015, 35, 248-265

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8068

The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China

Rachel Connelly, Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Dandan Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8026

Shrinking Regions in a Shrinking Country: The Geography of Population Decline in Lithuania 2001-2011

Rūta Ubarevičienė, Maarten van Ham, Donatas Burneika

published in: Urban Studies Research, 2106, Article 5395379 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5395379)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7844

Re-defining Informal Employment and Measuring its Determinants: Evidence from Russia

Hartmut Lehmann, Anzelika Zaiceva

published in: Journal of International Development, 2015, 27 (4), 464 - 488

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7824

When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jan Svejnar, Katherine Terrell

published in : Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42(4), 954-969

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7821

Asset Stripping, Rule of Law and Firm Survival: The Hoff-Stiglitz Model and Mass Privatization in Montenegro

Matjaž Koman, Milan Lakičević, Janez Prašnikar, Jan Svejnar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7643

Party Membership and State Jobs in Urban China

Yuanyuan Ma, Patrick Paul Walsh

published in: Asian Economic Papers, 2017, 16(2), 167-184

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. 7567

Do Institutions Affect Social Preferences? Evidence from Divided Korea

Byung-Yeon Kim, Syngjoo Choi, Jungmin Lee, Sokbae Lee, Kyunghui Choi

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45 (4), 865 - 888

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7336

Job Search Channels, Neighborhood Effects and Wages Inequality in Developing Countries: The Colombian Case

Gustavo Adolfo Garcia, Catia Nicodemo

published in: Developing Economies, 2015, 53 (2), 75 - 99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7212

Women Political Leaders, Corruption and Learning: Evidence from a Large Public Program in India

Farzana Afridi, Vegard Iversen, M.R. Sharan

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2017, 66(1): 1-30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7142

The Effects of the State Sector on Wage Inequality in Urban China: 1988–2007

Qingjie Xia, Lina Song, Shi Li, Simon Appleton

published in: Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2014, 12(1), 29-45

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. 7101

Understanding Urban Wage Inequality in China 1988-2008: Evidence from Quantile Analysis

Simon Appleton, Lina Song, Qingjie Xia

published in: World Development, 2014, 62, 1-13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7090

The Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey: Towards a Better Understanding of Labor Markets in Transition

Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2012, 1, Article 9

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. 7035

Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries

Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev

published in: Froelich, M., Kaplan, D., Pages, C., Rigolini, J. and D. Robalino (Eds.): Social Insurance ad Labor Markets: How to Protect Workers while Creating Good Jobs, Oxford University Press, 2014, 375-410.

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. 6903

Ethnic Discrimination in China's Internet Job Board Labor Market

Margaret Maurer-Fazio

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1:12

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6887

A Control Function Approach to Estimating Dynamic Probit Models with Endogenous Regressors, with an Application to the Study of Poverty Persistence in China

John T. Giles, Irina Murtazashvili

published as 'A Control Function Approach to Estimating Dynamic Probit Models with Endogenous Regressors' in: Journal of Econometric Methods, 2013, 2 (1), 69-87

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6653

Does It Pay to Be a Cadre? Estimating the Returns to Being a Local Official in Rural China

Jian Zhang, John T. Giles, Scott Rozelle

Journal of Comparative Economics, 2012, 40 (3), 337-356

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6519

Does Corporate Governance Reform Necessarily Boost Firm Performance? Recent Evidence from Russia

Mihails Kuznecovs, Sarmistha Pal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6236

Migration as a Substitute for Informal Activities: Evidence from Tajikistan

Ilhom Abdulloev, Ira N. Gang, John Landon-Lane

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 34, 205-227

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5905

Labor Markets and Labor Market Institutions in Transition Economies

Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev

published in: Paul Hare and Gerard Turley (eds.): The Handbook of the Economics and Political Economy of Transition, Routledge, 2013, pp. 350-362

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5836

Did Growth and Reforms Increase Citizens' Support for the Transition?

Roberto Golinelli, Riccardo Rovelli

revised version published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 30, 112-137

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5738

The Value of Business Networks in Emerging Economies: An Analysis of Firms' External Financing Opportunities

Oluwarotimi Owolabi, Sarmistha Pal

published as 'Does business networking boost firms' external financing opportunities? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe' in: Applied Financial Economics, 2013, 23 (5), 415-432

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5610

Can Economic Crises Be Good for Your Diet?

Ralitza Dimova, Ira N. Gang, Monnet Benoit Patrick Gbakou, Daniel Hoffman

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