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177 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17472
Small-Scale Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Information: A Comparison of Individual Purchase Decisions with Contributions to a Club Good
Michael Grimm, Nathalie Luck, Alia Bihrajihant Raya, Udit Sawhney
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17329
The New Wave? The Role of Human Capital and STEM Skills in Technology Adoption in the UK
Mirko Draca, Max Nathan, Viet Nguyen-Tien, Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Anna Rosso, Anna Valero
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17325
Is Distance from Innovation a Barrier to the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence?
Jennifer Hunt, Iain Cockburn, James Bessen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17275
Reducing the Gender Digital Divide Amongst Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Nick Drydakis
forthcoming 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, pp. 181-202
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16114
Socioeconomic Inequality in Low-Carbon Technology Adoption
Andrew Burlinson, Apostolos Davillas, Monica Giulietti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16101
Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Catia Batista, Pedro C. Vicente
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 May 2023
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
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
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
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
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 online in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 11 December 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15713
The Future Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Mythical Agents, a Singleton and the Dark Forest
Wim Naudé
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
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
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
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 online in: Journal of Human Resources, 7 December 2022
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
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
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
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