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44 IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17934

The Inequality and Mobility of Exposure to European Soviet Communism

Joan Costa-Font, Anna Nicinska, Melcior Rossello Roig

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16833

Moving Out of the Comfort Zone: How Cultural Norms Affect Attitudes toward Immigration

Yvonne Giesing, Björn Kauder, Lukas Mergele, Niklas Potrafke, Panu Poutvaara

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16779

Can Voluntary Adult Education Reduce Unemployment? Causal Evidence from East Germany after Reunification

Li Kathrin Kaja Rupieper, Stephan L. Thomsen

published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2025, 59, 2 (2025)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16159

Religion, Ideology and Fertility

Kazuhiro Kumo, Cristiano Perugini

published online as 'Religion, Gender Norms and Fertility in Muslim Post-Communist Economies' in: Post-Communist Economies, 15 December 2024

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. 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. 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. 11332

Return Migration and Self-Employment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan

Tilman Brück, Clotilde Mahe, Wim Naudé

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 3484

The Emerging Aversion to Inequality: Evidence from Poland 1992–2005

Irena Grosfeld, Claudia Senik

published in: Economics of Transition, 2010, 18 (1), 1–26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3457

The Determinants of Female Labour Supply in Belarus

Francesco Pastore, Alina Verashchagina

published in: Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar (eds.), Labour Markets and Economic Development, London: Routledge, 2009

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3454

The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China’s Transition

Simon Appleton, John Knight, Lina Song, Qingjie Xia

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2009, 45, (2), 256-275

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3228

Determinants of Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine

Tilman Brück, Alexander M. Danzer, Alexander Muravyev, Natalia Danzer

revised version published as 'Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2010, 38 (2), 123-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2796

When Does Transition Increase the Gender Wage Gap? An Application to Belarus

Francesco Pastore, Alina Verashchagina

published in: Economics of Transition, 2011, 19 (2), 333-369

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2678

Earnings, Schooling and Economic Reform: Econometric Evidence from Hungary (1986-2004)

Nauro F. Campos, Dean Jolliffe

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2007, 21 (3), 509-526

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2344

Inequality and Growth in Rural China: Does Higher Inequality Impede Growth?

Dwayne Benjamin, Loren Brandt, John T. Giles

published as 'Did Higher Inequality Impede Growth in Rural China?' in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (557), 1281-1309

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1393

Do Markets Favor Women's Human Capital More than Planners?

Daniel Münich, Jan Svejnar, Katherine Terrell

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005, 33 (2), 278-298

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1201

Reforms and Productivity Dynamics in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Peter McGoldrick, Patrick Paul Walsh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1151

Russian Cities in Transition: The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s

Ira N. Gang, Robert C. Stuart

IZA Discussion Paper No. 971

Creative Destruction and Productivity Growth in an Emerging Economy: Evidence from Slovenian Manufacturing

Jan De Loecker, Jozef Konings

published as 'Job reallocation and productivity growth in a post-socialist economy: Evidence from Slovenian manufacturing' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2006, 22 (2), 388-408

IZA Discussion Paper No. 727

Benchmarking Structural Change in Transition

Martin Raiser, Mark E Schaffer, Johannes Schuchhardt

published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2004, 15 (1), 47-81

IZA Discussion Paper No. 600

Explaining Gender Differences in Unemployment with Micro Data on Flows in Post-Communist Economies

Jana Stefanová Lauerová, Katherine Terrell

published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2007, 49 (1), 128-155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 496

Changes in the Structure of Earnings During the Polish Transition

Michael P. Keane, Eswar Prasad

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2006, 80 (2), 389-427