IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published as 'Sharing the gains of transition: evaluating changes in income inequality and redistribution in Poland using combined survey and tax return data' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 73, 102121

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12658

Transition from Plan to Market, Height and Well-Being

Alicia Adsera, Francesca Dalla Pozza, Sergei Guriev, Lukas Kleine-Rueschkamp, Elena Nikolova

published as 'Height and well-being during the transition from plan to market' in: Economic Policy, 2021, 36 (105), 77 - 120

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12345

Catching up with the West: Chinese Pathways to the Global Middle Class

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Xiuna Yang, Terry Sicular

published in: China Journal, 2020, 84, 102-127

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12222

Implications of the Polish 1999 Administrative Reform for Regional Socio-Economic Development

Michal Myck, Mateusz Najsztub

published in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2020, 28 (4), 559–579

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12220

Policy in the Pipeline: Identifying Regional Public Investment Priorities Using a Natural Experiment

Michal Myck, Mateusz Najsztub

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11594

Former Communist Party Membership and Bribery in the Post-Socialist Countries

Artjoms Ivlevs, Timothy Hinks

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (4), 1411-1422

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11532

Math, Girls and Socialism

Quentin Lippmann, Claudia Senik

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (3), 874-888.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11342

Shocked by Therapy? Unemployment in the First Years of the Socio-Economic Transition in Poland and its Long-Term Consequences

Michal Myck, Monika Oczkowska

published in: Economics of Transition, 2018, 26 (4), 695-724

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11250

Wage Inequality and Structural Change

Joanna Tyrowicz, Magdalena Smyk

published in Social Indicators Research, 2019, 141(2), 503-538

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10445

International Migration, Return Migration, and their Effects: A Comprehensive Review on the Romanian Case

Remus Gabriel Anghel, Alina Botezat, Anatolie Coșciug, Ioana Manafi, Monica Roman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10364

Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete: The Role of Culture and Institutions

Alison L. Booth, Elliott Fan, Xin Meng, Dandan Zhang

published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (618), 734 - 764

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10277

Spatial Segregation and Socio-Economic Mobility in European Cities

Maarten van Ham, Tiit Tammaru, Elise de Vuijst, Merle Zwiers

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. 9713

The Economics of Healthy Ageing in China

Almas Heshmati

published as 'The Social and Economics of Healthy Ageing in China' in: World Health Design, 2016, 64-70

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9678

Long-Lasting Effects of Socialist Education

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Paolo Masella

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9660

When Do Gender Wage Differences Emerge? A Study of Azerbaijan's Labor Market

Francesco Pastore, Sarosh Sattar, Nistha Sinha, Erwin R. Tiongson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9641

Leader Networks and Transaction Costs: A Chinese Experiment in Interjurisdictional Contracting

Nancy H. Chau, Yu Qin, Weiwen Zhang

published as 'Leader Networks and Interjurisdictional Contracting in Land Conversion Quotas' in: Land Economics, 2024, 100 (3), 568-587

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9540

Left Behind but Doing Good? Civic Engagement in Two Post-Socialist Countries

Milena Nikolova, Monica Roman, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45 (3), 658 - 684

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. 9373

Lifting the Iron Curtain: School-Age Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions

Oliver Falck, Robert Gold, Stephan Heblich

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2017, 17 (5), 1111–1148,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9261

Is Privatization Working in Ukraine? New Estimates from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Data, 1989-2013

J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Solomiya Shpak, Volodymyr Vakhitov

published as 'Is Privatization Working in Ukraine?' in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2019, 61 (1), 1 - 35

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9055

Life Satisfaction in Germany after Reunification: Additional Insights on the Pattern of Convergence

Christian Pfeifer, Inna Petrunyk

published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 2016, 236 (2), 217-239

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8895

The Effect of Public Pension Wealth on Saving and Expenditure

Marta Lachowska, Michal Myck

revised version published in: American Economic Journal - Economic Policy, 2018, 10 (3), 284-308

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8842

Do Negative Native-Place Stereotypes Lead to Discriminatory Wage Penalties in China's Migrant Labor Markets?

Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Rachel Connelly, Ngoc-Han Thi Tran

published in Handbook on Migration, Identity and Well-Being in China, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8735

College Expansion and the Marginal Returns to Education: Evidence from Russia

Olga Belskaya, Klara Sabirianova Peter, Christian Posso

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8652

The Continued Search for the Solow Residual: The Role of National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Zoltan J. Acs, Saul Estrin, Tomasz Mickiewicz, László Szerb

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8595

Mapping and Understanding Ethnic Disparities in Length of Schooling: The Case of Ningxia Autonomous Region, China

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Ding Sai

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2015, 124 (2), 517-535.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8354

New Evidence on the Relationship between Risk Attitudes and Self-Employment

Olga Skriabikova, Thomas Dohmen, Ben Kriechel

published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 176-184

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8244

Data for Studying Earnings, the Distribution of Household Income and Poverty in China

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Shi Li, Hiroshi Sato

published in China Economic Review, 2014, 30, 419-431

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7860

The RUMiC Longitudinal Survey: Fostering Research on Labor Markets in China

Mehtap Akgüç, Corrado Giulietti, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3:5,

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. 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. 7636

Corruption, Networking and Foreign Ownership: Recent Evidence from CEE Countries

Sarmistha Pal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7461

Gender Differences in Earnings and Labor Supply in Early Career: Evidence from Kosovo's School-to-Work Transition Survey

Francesco Pastore, Sarosh Sattar, Erwin R. Tiongson

published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2013, 2:5

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7370

Showing Off to the New Neighbors? Income, Socioeconomic Status and Consumption Patterns of Internal Migrants

Alexander M. Danzer, Barbara Dietz, Kseniia Gatskova, Achim Schmillen

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42(1), 230-245

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7318

Post-Socialist Transition and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education in Kyrgyzstan

Tilman Brück, Damir Esenaliev

published in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2018, 26 (1), 61 - 89

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7196

China's Life Satisfaction, 1990-2010

Richard A. Easterlin, Robson Morgan, Maggie Switek, Fei Wang

published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012, 109 (25), 9775-9780

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6907

Intergenerational Income Persistency in Urban China

Deng Quheng, Björn Anders Gustafsson, Shi Li

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2013, 59 (3), 416-436

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6783

The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis

Jay Bhattacharya, Christina Gathmann, Grant Miller

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5 (2), 232-60

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6487

"I Wish I Had 100 Dollars a Month …" - The Intergenerational Transfer of Poverty in Mongolia

Francesco Pastore

substantially revised version published as 'I wish I had 100 dollars a month…: The Determinants of Poverty in Mongolia' in: European Journal of Development Research, 2016, 28 (5), 934-956

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6417

Social Identity and Inequality: The Impact of China's Hukou System

Farzana Afridi, Sherry Xin Li, Yufei Ren

published in Journal of Public Economics,Vol. 123, March 2015: 17-29

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6289

Economic and Spatial Determinants of Interregional Migration in Kazakhstan

Alisher Aldashev, Barbara Dietz

published in: Economic Systems, 2014, 38 (3) 379-396

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. 5610

Can Economic Crises Be Good for Your Diet?

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5509

Too Low to Be True: The Use of Minimum Thresholds to Fight Tax Evasion

Mirco Tonin

published in: Clemens Fuest and George R. Zodrow (eds.), Critical Issues in Taxation and Development, Cambridge (MA), MIT press, 2013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5504

Institutions and Entry: A Cross-Regional Analysis in Russia

Randolph Luca Bruno, Maria Bytchkova, Saul Estrin

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (5), 1740-1749

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5499

Labor Supply and Consumption Smoothing When Income Shocks Are Non-Insurable

Alexander M. Danzer

revised version published as 'Can Secondary Jobs Smooth Consumption? Evidence from Unanticipated Wage Arrears' in: Economic Development and Cultural Changes, 2019, 67 (3), 571-594.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5194

The Lasting Impact of Mothers' Fetal Malnutrition on Their Offspring: Evidence from the China Great Leap Forward Famine

Seonghoon Kim, Deng Quheng, Belton M. Fleisher, Shi Li

published in: Word Development, 2014, 54, 232-242

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5052

Size Matters: Entrepreneurial Entry and Government

Ruta Aidis, Saul Estrin, Tomasz Mickiewicz

published in: Small Business Economics, 2012, 39 (1), 119-139

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. 4888

Children's Schooling and Parental Migration: Empirical Evidence on the

Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Lucia Mangiavacchi

published in: Labour, 2010, 24 (s1), 76 - 92

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4668

Land Rights Insecurity and Temporary Migration in Rural China

Maëlys de la Rupelle, Deng Quheng, Shi Li, Thomas Vendryes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4572

Public Infrastructure, Location of Private Schools and Primary School Attainment in an Emerging Economy

Sarmistha Pal

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (5), 783-794

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. 4480

The Gender Gap in Early Career in Mongolia

Francesco Pastore

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2010, 31 (2), 188-207

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4381

Impact of Paternal Temporary Absence on Children Left Behind

Alison L. Booth, Yuji Tamura

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. 4123

Entrepreneurial Entry: Which Institutions Matter?

Ruta Aidis, Saul Estrin, Tomasz Mickiewicz

published in: Grzegorz Kolodko and Jacek Tomkiewicz (eds.), 20 Years of Transformation: Achievements, Problems and Perspectives, New York: Nova, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3979

Cream-Skimmer or Underdog? Labor Type Selectivity, Pre-Program Wage, and Rural Labor Training Program Outcome

Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3958

Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness

J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Scott Gehlbach

published in: American Political Science Review, 2009, 103(2), 264-283

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3863

Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes: Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the BEEPS Surveys in Transition Economies

Pradeep Mitra, Alexander Muravyev, Mark E Schaffer

substantially revised version published as 'Labor reallocation and firm growth: benchmarking transition countries against mature market economies' in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3:13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3843

Rank, Income and Income Inequality in Urban China

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Ding Sai

published in: China Economic Review, 2009, 20 (3), 497-507

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3730

Tournaments and Managerial Incentives in China's Listed Firms: New Evidence

Takao Kato, Cheryl Long

published in: China Economic Review, 2011, 22 (1), 1-10 (lead article)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3724

Institutional Determinants of New Firm Entry in Russia: A Cross Regional Analysis

Randolph Luca Bruno, Maria Bytchkova, Saul Estrin

substantially revised and rewritten version available as IZA DP No. 5504