IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7543

Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis

Wim Naudé, Adam Szirmai, Alejandro Lavopa

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7542

Survival of Spinoffs and Other Startups: First Evidence for the Private Sector in Germany, 1976-2008

substantially revised version published as 'Spinoffs in Germany: Characteristics, Survival, and the Role of their Parents', in: Small Business Economics, 2016, 46 (1), 93-114 ( co-authored by Alexandra Schmucker,)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7540

Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Eric Bartelsman, Sabien Dobbelaere, Bettina Peters

published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2015, 24(5), 875-949

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7539

Surviving the Genocide: The Impact of the Rwandan Genocide on Child Mortality

Federico Ciani, Gianna Claudia Giannelli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7538

Health and Health Behaviors during the Worst of Times: Evidence from the Great Recession

Erdal Tekin, Chandler McClellan, Karen Jean Minyard

published as 'Health and health behaviors during the great recession: a note on drinking, smoking, obesity, and physical activity' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 16, 1017 - 1026

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7534

Firm-Level Hiring Difficulties: Persistence, Business Cycle and Local Labour Market Influences

Richard Fabling, David C. Maré

published in: Journal of Labour Research, 2016, 37, 179 - 210

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7532

Poverty and Transitions in Health

Maja Adena, Michal Myck

revised version published as 'Poverty and Transitions in Health in Later Life' in: Social Science and Medicine, 2014, 116, 202–210

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7531

If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands: How Do Mothers and Fathers Really Feel about Child Caregiving?

Rachel Connelly, Jean Kimmel

published in: Feminist Economics, 2015, 21 (1), 1-34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7530

Terrorism and Integration of Muslim Immigrants

Ahmed Elsayed, Andries de Grip

revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (1), 45 - 67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7529

The Effect of Sexual Activity on Wages

Nick Drydakis

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36 (2), 192-215

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7526

Neighbourhood Selection of Non-Western Ethnic Minorities: Testing the Own-Group Preference Hypothesis Using a Conditional Logit Model

Sanne Boschman, Maarten van Ham

published as 'Neighbourhood Selection of Non-Western Ethnic Minorities: Testing the Own-Group Effects Hypothesis Using a Conditional Logit Model' in: Environment and Planning A, 2015, 47(5), 1155-1174

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7525

New Directions for Residential Mobility Research: Linking Lives through Time and Space

Rory Coulter, Maarten van Ham, Allan M. Findlay

published as 'Re-thinking residential mobility: Linking lives through time and space' in: Progress in Human Geography, 2016, 40 (3), 352-374

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7524

The Effect of Public Wages on Corporate Compensation in Hungary

Álmos Telegdy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7523

Peer Pressure and Productivity: The Role of Observing and Being Observed

Sotiris Georganas, Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 117, 223-232.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7521