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548 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16456
Social Skills and the Individual Wage Growth of Less Educated Workers
Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, Richard Blundell, Rachel Griffith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16443
Divergent Thinking and Post-Launch Entrepreneurial Outcomes: Non-Linearities and the Moderating Role of Experience
Marco Caliendo, Daniel Rodriguez
published in: Small Business Economics, 2024, 62, 1523-1553
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16412
The Impacts of COVID-19 on Racial Inequality in Business Earnings
Robert W. Fairlie
published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2024, 43 (1), 258 - 288
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16408
Is Productive Entrepreneurship Getting Scarcer? A Reflection on the Contemporary Relevance of Baumol's Typology
Maria Minniti, Wim Naudé, Erik Stam
published in: W. Naudé and B. Power (eds.), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict, Elgar, 2024, 18 - 44
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16352
Bidding for Talent: A Test of Conduct in a High-Wage Labor Market
Nina Roussille, Benjamin Scuderi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16319
Air Pollution and Entrepreneurship
Liwen Guo, Zhiming Cheng, Massimiliano Tani, Sarah Cook, Jiaqi Zhao, Xi Chen
published in: China Economic Review, 2025, 89, 102327
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16283
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers
David B. Huffman, Collin Raymond, Julia Shvets
published in: American Economic Review, 2022, 112 (10), 3141–3175
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16271
Wage Employment, Unemployment and Self-Employment across Countries
Markus Poschke
published in: Journal of Monetary Economics. 2025, 149, 103684
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16259
The Births of New Private-Owned Enterprises in an Environment of State-Owned Enterprises
Zhong Zhao, Liang Zheng
published as 'The effect of the spatial distribution of state-owned enterprises on the location of private-owned enterprise births' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2024, 64 (1), 136-175.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16203
Managerial Practices and Student Performance: Evidence from Changes in School Principals
Adriana Di Liberto, Ludovica Giua, Fabiano Schivardi, Marco Sideri, Giovanni Sulis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16201
COVID-19 and Entrepreneurship
Alina Sorgner
published in: Zimmermann, K.F. (ed.) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham., 2023.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16160
Minimum Wages, Productivity, and Reallocation
Mirja Haelbig, Matthias Mertens, Steffen Müller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16146
Who Is to Suffer? Quantifying the Impact of Sanctions on German Firms
Holger Görg, Anna Jacobs, Saskia Meuchelböck
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 228, 106767
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16145
Prior Work Experience and Entrepreneurship: The Careers of Young Entrepreneurs
Nicolas Gendron-Carrier
forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16122
Labour Costs and the Decision to Hire the First Employee
Bart Cockx, Sam Desiere
published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 170, 104859
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16007
Political Connections, Business Groups and Innovation
Simon Commander, Saul Estrin, Thamashi De Silva
published in: Comperative Economic Studies, 2024, 66, 639–660
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15946
State-Based Conflict and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Evidence
Wim Naudé, Ernesto Amorós, Tilman Brück
published in: W. Naudé and B. Power, Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict, Edward Elgar, 2024, 106–140
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15941
On the Validity of Using Webpage Texts to Identify the Target Population of a Survey: An Application to Detect Online Platforms
Piet Daas, Wolter Hassink, Bart Klijs
published in: Journal of Official Statistics, 2024, 40 (1), 190-211
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15903
Globalization and Firm Performance
Luis A. V. Catão, Pedro de Faria, António Martins, Miguel Portela
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15881
Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment: Thirty Years On
W. Bentley MacLeod, James Malcomson
published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economicsi (JITE), 2023, 179 (3), 470 - 499
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