IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 727

Benchmarking Structural Change in Transition

Martin Raiser, Mark E Schaffer, Johannes Schuchhardt

published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2004, 15 (1), 47-81

IZA Discussion Paper No. 683

Is Education Used as a Signaling Device for Productivity in Developing Countries? Evidence from Ghana

Eric Strobl

published as "Do employers use education as a signal for ability in developing countries? Evidence from Ghana" in: Applied Economics Letters, 2004, 11(4), 259-261

IZA Discussion Paper No. 670

From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History

Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2007, 5 (5), 885-926,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 668

Solow and Heterogeneous Labor: A Neoclassical Explanation of Wage Inequality

Jürgen Meckl, Stefan Zink

published in: Economic Journal, 2004, 114 (498), 835-854

IZA Discussion Paper No. 660

Do Large Employers Pay More in Developing Countries? The Case of Five African Countries

Eric Strobl, Robert Thornton

revised version published as "A Comparative Study of the Employer Size Wage Effect in Africa" in: Journal of Economic Development, 2004, 29 (1), 137-161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 659

Defining Unemployment in Developing Countries: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago

Eric Strobl, David Byrne

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2004, 73 (1), 465-476

IZA Discussion Paper No. 629

Caste, Ethnicity and Poverty in Rural India

Ira N. Gang, Kunal Sen, Myeong-Su Yun

revised version published as 'Poverty in Rural India: Caste and Tribe' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2008, 54 (1), 50-70

IZA Discussion Paper No. 601

What Drives the Speed of Job Reallocation During Episodes of Massive Adjustment?

Štepán Jurajda, Katherine Terrell

published as "Job Reallocation in Two Cases of Massive Adjustment in Eastern Europe" in: World Development, 2008, 36 (11), 2144-2169

IZA Discussion Paper No. 589

Job Growth in Early Transition: Comparing Two Paths

Štepán Jurajda, Katherine Terrell

published in: Economics of Transition, 2003, 11 (2), 291-320

IZA Discussion Paper No. 585

Human Capital Formation, Life Expectancy and the Process of Economic Development

Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde

revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2005, 95 (5), 1653-1672

IZA Discussion Paper No. 574

Understanding Interhousehold Transfers in a Transition Economy: Evidence from Russia

Randall Kuhn, Steven Stillman

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2004, 53 (1), 131-56

IZA Discussion Paper No. 514

The Size and Development of the Shadow Economies of 22 Transition and 21 OECD Countries

Friedrich Schneider

IZA Discussion Paper No. 472

Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts of Economic Growth

Reto Foellmi, Josef Zweimüller

published as 'Structural change, Engel's consumption cycles and Kaldor's facts of economic growth' in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2008, 55 (7), 1317-1328

IZA Discussion Paper No. 470

Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?

Alessandro Cigno, Furio C. Rosati, Lorenzo Guarcello

published in: World Development, 2002, 30 (9), 1579-1589

IZA Discussion Paper No. 448

Inequality, Transfers and Growth: New Evidence from the Economic Transition in Poland

Michael P. Keane, Eswar Prasad

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2002, 84 (2), 324-341

IZA Discussion Paper No. 441

Earnings Inequality and Transition: A Regional Analysis of Poland

Christopher W. Sibley, Patrick Paul Walsh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 411