IZA Discussion Papers

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 [Online]

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 Loeffler, 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, DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2020.1779927

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, Volume 20, Issue 1, pp 48–60, 2015

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

forthcoming in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017

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 [Open Access]

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5588

Labor Market Adjustment: Is Russia Different?

Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov

published in: The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy, Oxford, OUP, 2013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5383

Why Are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Shi Li, Ludmila Nivorozhkina

published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2011, 35 (5), 897-920

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5365

Evolution of Employment Protection Legislation in the USSR, CIS and Baltic States, 1985-2009

Alexander Muravyev

revised version published in: Europe-Asia Studies, 2014, 66 (8), 1270-1294

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4919

Economic Reform, Education Expansion, and Earnings Inequality for Urban Males in China, 1988-2007

Xin Meng, Kailing Shen, Sen Xue

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2013, 41 (1), 227–244

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4872

Explaining Rising Returns to Education in Urban China in the 1990s

Xuejun Liu, Albert Park, Yaohui Zhao

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4673

How Important Are Labor Market Institutions for Labor Market Performance in Transition Countries?

Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev

revised version published in: Economics of Transition, 2012, 20 (2), 235-269

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4483

Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries

Ansgar H. Belke, Ingo Bordon, Inna Melnykovska, Rainer Schweickert

published in: Economics of Transition, 2011, 19 (4), 667-692

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4454

20 Years of German Unification: Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity

Tilman Brück, Heiko Peters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4277

The Responsiveness of Remittances to the Oil Price: The Case of the GCC

George S Naufal, Ali Termos

published in: OPEC Energy Review, 2009, 33 (3/4), 184-197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4257

Does Labor Supply Respond to a Flat Tax? Evidence from the Russian Tax Reform

Denvil Duncan, Klara Sabirianova Peter

revised version published as 'Does Labour Supply Respond to a Flat Tax?" in: Economics of Transition, 2010, 18 (2), 365 - 404

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4233

Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia: Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Klara Sabirianova Peter, Dmitriy Stolyarov

revised version published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2010, 13 (1), 209 - 237

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4224

Transition Fatigue? Cross-Country Evidence from Micro Data

Riccardo Rovelli, Anzelika Zaiceva

substantially revised version published as 'Did Support for Economic and Political Reforms Increase During the Post-Communist Transition, and If So, Why?' in: The Economics of Transition, 2013, 21 (2), 193-240.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4223

Income Tax Flattening: Does It Help to Reduce the Shadow Economy?

Klara Sabirianova Peter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4208

"It's not that I'm a racist, it's that they are Roma": Roma Discrimination and Returns to Education in South Eastern Europe

Niall O'Higgins

revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2010, 31(2) 163-187

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4204

Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China: 1982 - 2000

Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Rachel Connelly, Chen Lan, Lixin Tang

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2011, 46 (2), 261 - 294

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4148