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published in:G. Meramveliotakis and M. Manioudis (eds). Sustainable Economic Development Perspectives from Political Economy and Economics Pluralism, London: Routledge, 2025, 237-264.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17260

Non-compete Agreements, Tacit Knowledge and Market Imperfections

Eric Bartelsman, Sabien Dobbelaere, Alessandro Zona Mattioli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16992

The Adoption of ChatGPT

Anders Humlum, Emilie Vestergaard

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16740

De-Routinization in the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Firm-Level Evidence

Melanie Arntz, Sabrina Genz, Terry Gregory, Florian Lehmer, Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16659

Technological Change and Returns to Training

Roman Klauser, Marcus Tamm

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. 16317

The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage and Political Participation

Tianyi Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16261

When Are Employers Interested in Electronic Performance Monitoring? Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment

Luisa Wieser, Martin Abraham, Claus Schnabel, Cornelia Niessen, Mauren Wolff

slightly revised version published as 'Employers’ Muted Interest in Electronic Performance Monitoring (EPM)' in: S. Pfeiffer et al. (eds.), Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelten, SpringerNature. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2024, 181-202

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16114

Socioeconomic Inequality in Low-Carbon Technology Adoption

Andrew Burlinson, Apostolos Davillas, Monica Giulietti

revised version published in: Energy Economics, 2025, 143, 108244

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16101

Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Catia Batista, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025, 107 (3), 835–844.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16076

Correcting Racial Injustice: Forensic DNA Technology and the Exoneration of the Wrongfully Convicted

Rocco d'Este, Noam Yuchtman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16043

Africa's Industrialization Prospects: A Fresh Look

Wim Naudé, Fiona Tregenna

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15997

Robots and Workers: Evidence from the Netherlands

Daron Acemoglu, Hans R.A. Koster, Ceren Ozgen

published as 'Robots and Workers' in Journal of Labor Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15925

Socioemotional Skills in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Maternal Psychosocial Intervention

Dilek Sevim, Victoria Baranov, Sonia R. Bhalotra, Joanna Maselko, Pietro Biroli

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (S), S365-S401

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15924

Extraterrestrial Artificial Intelligence: The Final Existential Risk?

Wim Naudé

published in: W. Naudé and T. Gries and N. Dimitri (eds.), Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives and Models, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15863

Effects of an Online Self-Assessment Tool on Teachers' Digital Competencies

Giovanni Abbiati, Davide Azzolini, Anja Balanskat, Katja Engelhart, Daniela Piazzalunga, Enrico Rettore, Patricia Wastiau

published online as 'Exploring the Potential of Self-Assessment for Teachers’ Development of ICT Competencies and Beliefs' in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 24 January 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15838

Estimating the Effects of Expanding Ultrasound Use on Sex Selection in India

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Daniel Rosenblum

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2023, 59 (4), 516-532

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15762

Creative Disruption: Technology Innovation, Labour Demand and the Pandemic

Erling Barth, Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen

published in: Economica, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.70025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15731

The Empirics of Technology, Employment and Occupations: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead

Fabio Montobbio, Jacopo Staccioli, Maria Enrica Virgillito, Marco Vivarelli

published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2024, 38 (5), 1622-1655

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15713

The Future Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Mythical Agents, a Singleton and the Dark Forest

Wim Naudé

published in: W. Naudé and T. Gries and N. Dimitri (eds.), Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives and Models, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15689

Does Updating Education Curricula Accelerate Technology Adoption in the Workplace? Evidence from Dual Vocational Education and Training Curricula in Switzerland

Tobias Schultheiss, Uschi Backes-Gellner

published in: Journal of Technology Transfer, 2024, 49, 191–235

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15607

The Ossified Economy: The Case of Germany, 1870-2020

Wim Naudé, Paula Nagler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15596

Lowering Barriers to Remote Education: Experimental Impacts on Parental Responses and Learning

Emily A. Beam, Priya Mukherjee, Laia Navarro-Sola

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. 15491

Information and Communication Technology, Hierarchy, and Job Design

Elisa Gerten, Michael Beckmann, Matthias Kräkel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15311

Types of Communications Technology and Civil Conflict

Tushar Bharati, Michael Jetter, Muhammad Nauman Malik

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 170, 103312

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15209

What COVID-19 May Leave Behind: Technology-Related Job Postings in Canada

Alejandra Bellatin, Gabriela Galassi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15160

Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War

Hale Utar

published online in: World Bank Economic Review, 11 September 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15015

Automation and Related Technologies: A Mapping of the New Knowledge Base

Enrico Santarelli, Jacopo Staccioli, Marco Vivarelli

published in: Journal of Technology Transfer, 2023, 48, 779-813

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14879

Labour-Saving Automation and Occupational Exposure: A Text-Similarity Measure

Fabio Montobbio, Jacopo Staccioli, Maria Enrica Virgillito, Marco Vivarelli

published as 'Labour-saving automation: a direct measure of occupational exposure' in: World Economy, 2024, 47, 332–361

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14623

Local Shocks and Internal Migration: The Disparate Effects of Robots and Chinese Imports in the US

Marius Faber, Andrés Sarto, Marco Tabellini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14341

The Race of Man and Machine: Implications of Technology When Abilities and Demand Constraints Matter

Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé

published in: W. Naudé and T. Gries and N. Dimitri (eds.), Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives and Models, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14307

Sooner Rather Than Later: Social Networks and Technology Adoption

Shyamal Chowdhury, Varun Satish, Munshi Sulaiman, Yi Sun

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 203, 466-482

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14154

The Rise and Fall of German Innovation

Wim Naudé, Paula Nagler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14092

Learning about Farming: Innovation and Social Networks in a Resettled Community in Brazil

Margherita Comola, Carla Inguaggiato, Mariapia Mendola

revised version published as 'Social Networks and Economic Transformation: Evidence from a Resettled Village in Brazil' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 221, 17-34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13926

Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing

Petri Böckerman, Liisa Laine, Mikko Nurminen, Tanja Saxell

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2025, 60 (3), 1054 - 1092

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13877

Gender Economics: An Assessment

Almudena Sevilla

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2020, 36 (4), 725–742,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13712

Gendering Technological Change: Evidence from Agricultural Mechanization

Farzana Afridi, Monisankar Bishnu, Kanika Mahajan

published as 'Gender and Mechanization: Evidence from Indian Agriculture' in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2023, 105 (1), 52 - 75

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13606

Artificial Intelligence, Income Distribution and Economic Growth

Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé

published in: W. Naudé and T. Gries and N. Dimitri (eds.), Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives and Models, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13590

Contract Structure, Time Preference, and Technology Adoption

Shyamal Chowdhury, Joeri Smits, Qigang Sun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13422

Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations

Girum Abebe, Margaret McMillan, Michel Serafinelli

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 158, 102926

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13400

Can Training Enhance Adoption, Knowledge and Perception of Organic Farming Practices? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Indonesia

Michael Grimm, Nathalie Luck

published as 'Experimenting with a green 'Green Revolution'. Evidence from a randomised controlled trial in Indonesia' in: Ecological Economics, 2023, 205, 107727

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13285

Management Practices, Worker Commitment, and Workplace Representation

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13142

Labor Demand in the Past, Present, and Future

Georg Graetz

published in: Journal of Public Economics Plus, 2021, 2, 00007

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13110

Artificial Intelligence against COVID-19: An Early Review

Wim Naudé

published in: AI & Society, 2020, 35 (3), 761-765

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12994

Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations

Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Hillel Rapoport

published in: Research Policy, 2020, 49 (9), 103947

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12967

Robots and the Origin of Their Labour-Saving Impact

Fabio Montobbio, Jacopo Staccioli, Maria Enrica Virgillito, Marco Vivarelli

published in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022, 174, 21122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12939

Vaccines at Work

Manuel Hoffmann, Roberto Mosquera, Adrian Chadi

forthcoming in: Management Science

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12934

Adopting Mobile Money: Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Africa

Catia Batista, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2020, 110, 594 - 598

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12760

The Wife's Protector: A Quantitative Theory Linking Contraceptive Technology with the Decline in Marriage

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Karen A. Kopecky

published in: A. Bison; F. Giovanni (eds.), Handbook of Historical Economics, Academic Press, 2021.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12716

People versus Machines in the UK: Minimum Wages, Labor Reallocation and Automatable Jobs

Grace Lordan

published in: PLoS, 2019, 14 (12), e0224789

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12678

Three Varieties of Africa’s Industrial Future

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12672

The Value of Information in Technology Adoption

Asadul Islam, Philip Ushchev, Yves Zenou, Xin Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12631

Does Light Touch Cluster Policy Work? Evaluating the Tech City Programme

Max Nathan

published in: Research Policy, 2022, 51 (9), 1104138

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12612

Testing the Employment Impact of Automation, Robots and AI: A Survey and Some Methodological Issues

Laura Barbieri, Chiara Mussida, Mariacristina Piva, Marco Vivarelli

published in: Zimmermann, K. (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, section: Technological Changes and the Labor Market, Springer, Cham, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12578

Working from Home and Commuting: Heterogeneity over Time, Space, and Occupations

Duco de Vos, Maarten van Ham, Evert J. Meijers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12542

Determinants of Productivity Gap in the European Union: A Multilevel Perspective

Randolph Luca Bruno, Elodie Douarin, Julia Korosteleva, Slavo Radosevic

published as 'The Two Disjointed Faces of R&D and the Productivity Gap in Europe' in: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2022, 60 (3), 580 - 603

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12476

Can Agricultural Extension and Input Support Be Discontinued? Evidence from a Randomized Phaseout in Uganda

Ram Fishman, Stephen C. Smith, Vida Bobic, Munshi Sulaiman

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (6), 1273–1288.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12433

Skill Complementarity in Production Technology: New Empirical Evidence and Implications

Andrey Stoyanov, Nick Zubanov

published in: German Economic Review, 2022, 23 (2), 233-274

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12382

Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations

Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Hillel Rapoport

published in: Research Policy, 2020, 49 (9), 103947

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12293

Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor

Daron Acemoglu, Pascual Restrepo

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2019, 33 (2), 3 - 30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12292

The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labor Demand

Daron Acemoglu, Pascual Restrepo

published in: Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2020, 13 (1), 25 - 35

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12275

Digital Waste? Unintended Consequences of Health Information Technology

Petri Böckerman, Mika Kortelainen, Liisa Laine, Mikko Nurminen, Tanja Saxell

published as 'Information Technology, Improved Access, and Use of Prescription Drugs' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2025, 23 (1), 396 - 430

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12218

The Race against the Robots and the Fallacy of the Giant Cheesecake: Immediate and Imagined Impacts of Artificial Intelligence

Wim Naudé

published as 'Artificial intelligence: neither Utopian nor apocalyptic impacts soon' in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2021, 30 (1), 1-23.

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. 12005

Artificial Intelligence, Jobs, Inequality and Productivity: Does Aggregate Demand Matter?

Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11941

Brilliant Technologies and Brave Entrepreneurs: A New Narrative for African Manufacturing

Wim Naudé

published in: Journal of International Affairs, 2019, 72 (1), 143 - 158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11937

Strategic Fertility Behaviour, Early Childhood Human Capital Investments and Gender Roles in Albania

Louise Grogan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11845

Information Provision and Streamlined Medical Service: Evidence from a Mobile Appointment App

Changcheng Song, Nan Yang, Junjian Yi, Ye Yuan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11829

Determinants of Automation Risk in the EU Labour Market: A Skills-Needs Approach

Konstantinos Pouliakas

published as 'Risks posed by automation to the European Labour Market ' in: Hogarth, T. (ed) Economy, employment and skills: European, regional and global perspectives in an age of uncertainty, Rome, 2018, 45 - 74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11801

Basic Information and Communication Technology Skills among Canadian Immigrants and Non-Immigrants

N. T. Khuong Truong, Arthur Sweetman

published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2018, 44 (S1), S91 - S112

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11737

The Race for an Artificial General Intelligence: Implications for Public Policy

Wim Naudé, Nicola Dimitri

published in: AI & Society, 2020, 35, 367–379

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11555

Do Digital Information Technologies Help Unemployed Job Seekers Find a Job? Evidence from the Broadband Internet Expansion in Germany

Nicole Gürtzgen, André Nolte, Laura Pohlan, Gerard J. van den Berg

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 132, 103657