IZA - All published DPs

Logo
No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
10120 Matias Cortes
Andrea Salvatori
Delving into the Demand Side: Changes in Workplace Specialization and Job Polarization
This paper offers the first study of job polarization in Great Britain using workplace level data. We document widespread and increasing occupational specialization within establishments, along with ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 57, 164-176)
J21, J23
10119 Delphine Boutin
Migration Experience and Access to a First Job in Uganda
Does experiencing internal migration hasten the access to the labour market? This paper provides an answer by studying the gap in transition length to a first job between young people in Uganda that ...
(published in: International Labour Review, 2018, 157, 631 -650)
J15, J61, J64
10118 Jacobus Cilliers
Ibrahim Kasirye
Clare Leaver
Pieter Serneels
Andrew Zeitlin
Pay for Locally Monitored Performance? A Welfare Analysis for Teacher Attendance in Ugandan Primary Schools
Public sector organizations often rely on reports by local monitors that are costly to verify and that serve twin objectives: to incentivize agent performance, and to provide information for planning ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics 2018, 167, 69-90)
D61, H52, I25, I26
10116 Semih Tumen
Informality as a Stepping Stone: A Search-Theoretical Assessment of Informal Sector and Government Policy
This paper develops a model of sequential job search to understand the factors determining the effect of tax and enforcement policies on the size (i.e., employment share) of the informal sector. The ...
(published in: Central Bank Review, 2016, 16(3), 109-117)
E26, J24, J38, J64
10115 Resul Cesur
Erdal Tekin
Aydogan Ulker
Can Natural Gas Save Lives? Evidence from the Deployment of a Fuel Delivery System in a Developing Country
There has been a widespread displacement of coal by natural gas as space heating and cooking technology in Turkey in the last two decades, triggered by the deployment of natural gas networks. In this ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 59, 91 - 108)
I10, I15, I18, O10, O13, Q42, Q48, Q53
10114 Christian Dustmann
Uta Schönberg
Jan Stuhler
Labor Supply Shocks, Native Wages, and the Adjustment of Local Employment
By exploiting a commuting policy that led to a sharp and unexpected inflow of Czech workers to areas along the German-Czech border, we examine the impact of an exogenous immigration-induced labor ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2017, 132 (1), 435–483)
J21, J22, J61, R23
10113 Jan David Bakker
Christopher Parsons
Ferdinand Rauch
Migration and Urbanisation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Under apartheid, black South Africans were severely restricted in their choice of location and many were forced to live in homelands. Following the abolition of apartheid they were free to migrate. ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2020, 34 (2), 509 - 532)
R12, R23, N97, O18
10112 Christopher Parsons
Pierre-Louis Vézina
Migrant Networks and Trade: The Vietnamese Boat People as a Natural Experiment
We provide evidence for the causal pro-trade effect of migrants and in doing so establish an important link between migrant networks and long-run economic development. To this end, we exploit a ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (612), F210 - F234)
F14, F22
10111 Bastien Chabé-Ferret
Joël Machado
Jackline Wahba
Return Plans and Migrants' Behavior
This paper studies how return migration intentions affect immigrants' behavior. Using a unique French data set, we analyze the relationship between return plans and several immigrants' behavior in ...
(published as 'Remigration Intentions and Migrants' Behavior' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2018, 68, 56-72.)
F22, F24, D14
10110 John Gibson
David McKenzie
Halahingano Rohorua
Steven Stillman
The Long-Term Impact of International Migration on Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from a Migration Lottery and Lab-in-the-Field Experiments
We study how migration from a poor to a rich country affects key economic beliefs, preference parameters, and transnational household decision-making efficiency. Our setting is the migration of ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 138, 99-115)
O12, F22, D13, D81, P1
 12989Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers" 
(Previous 50 papers)  (Previous 10 papers)  | (Next 10 papers)  (Next 50 papers) 
 

© IZA  Impressum  Last updated: 2025-10-20  webmaster@iza.org    |   Bookmark this page    |   Print View