Working papers

On this page you will find POP related working papers published in the UNU-MERIT Working Papers series;.  For the full series, please visit the Working Papers series on the UNU-MERIT website.


2024

2024-006 Migration and Consumption
Roberta Misuraca & Klaus F. Zimmermann
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2024-004 Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants: Lessons from Sweden
Christopher F Baum, Hans Lööf, Andreas Stephan & Klaus F. Zimmermann
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2023

2023-021 Innovation and the labor market: Theory, evidence and challenges
Nicoletta Corrocher, Daniele Moschella, Jacopo Staccioli & Marco Vivarelli
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2023-019 Ethnic spatial dispersion and immigrant identity
Amelie Constant, Simone Schüller & Klaus F. Zimmermann
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2022

2022-037 The empirics of technology, employment and occupations: Lessons learned and challenges ahead
Fabio Montobbio, Jacopo Staccioli, Maria Enrica Virgillito & Marco Vivarelli
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2022-032 Informal institution meets child development: Clan culture and child labor in China
Can Tang & Zhong Zhao
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2022-031 Multitasking
Angelica Zaiceva
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2022-004 The old-age pension household replacement rate in Belgium
Alessio J. G. Brown & Anne-Lore Fraikin
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2022-003 Automation and related technologies: A mapping of the new knowledge base
Enrico Santarelli, Jacopo Staccioli & Marco Vivarelli
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2021

2021-046 How education and GDP drive the COVID-19 vaccination campaign
Vu M. Ngo, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Phuc V. Nguyen, Toan L.D. Huynh & Huan H. Nguyen
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2021-044 Labour-saving automation and occupational exposure: A text-similarity measure
Fabio Montobbio, Jacopo Staccioli, Maria Enrica Virgillito & Marco Vivarelli
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2021-035 Longing for which home: Evidence from global aspirations to stay, return or migrate onwards
Els Bekaert, Amelie Constant, Killian Foubert & Ilse Ruyssen
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2021-027 Religiosity, smoking and other addictive behaviours
Monica Roman, Klaus F. Zimmermann & Aurelian-Petruș Plopeanu
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2021-016 Will the AI revolution be labour-friendly? Some micro evidence from the supply side
Giacomo Damioli, Vincent Van Roy, Daniel Vertesy & Marco Vivarelli
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2021-004 Democracy and COVID-19 Outcomes
Gokhan Karabulut, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin & Asli Cansin Doker
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2020

2020-052 Parental gender stereotypes and student wellbeing in China
Shuai Chu, Xiangquan Zeng & Klaus F. Zimmermann
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2020-051 Social assimilation and labour market outcomes of migrants in China
Shu Cai & Klaus F. Zimmermann
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2020-038 The role of innovation in industrial dynamics and productivity growth: a survey of the literature
Mehmet Ugur & Marco Vivarelli
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2020-037 Self-selection in physical and mental health among older intra-European migrants
Amelie Constant & Nadja Milewski
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2020-030 Economic preferences across generations and family clusters: A large-scale experiment
Shyamal Chowdhury, Matthias Sutter & Klaus F. Zimmermann
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2020-025 Economic gender gap in the Global South: how institutional quality matters
Elena Bárcena-Martín, Samuel Medina-Claros & Salvador Pérez-Moreno
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2020-023 Occupational sorting and wage gaps of refugees
Christopher F Baum, Hans Lööf, Andreas Stephan & Klaus F. Zimmermann
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2020-018 Inter-country Distancing, Globalisation and the Coronavirus Pandemic
Klaus F. Zimmermann, Gokhan Karabulut, Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin & Asli Cansin Doker
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2020-011 The productivity impact of business visits across industries
Mariacristina Piva, Massimiliano Tani & Marco Vivarelli
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2020-004 Time-space dynamics of return and circular migration: Theories and evidence
Amelie Constant
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2019

2019-040 Return, circular, and onward migration decisions in a knowledge society
Amelie Constant
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2019-032 Testing the employment and skill impact of new technologies: A survey and some methodological issues
Laura Barbieri, Chiara Mussida, Mariacristina Piva & Marco Vivarelli
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2018

2018-037 Globalisation, structural change and innovation in emerging economies: The impact on employment and skills
Marco Vivarelli
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2018-024 R&D, embodied technological change and employment: Evidence from Spain
Gabriele Pellegrino, Mariacristina Piva & Marco Vivarelli
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2018-019 Drivers of growth in Tunisia: Young firms vs incumbents
Hassan Arouri, Adel Ben Youssef, Francesco Quatraro & Marco Vivarelli
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2018-018 Towards a European full employment policy
Jo Ritzen & Klaus F. Zimmermann
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2018-008 Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences: A large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh
Shyamal Chowdhury, Matthias Sutter & Klaus F. Zimmermann
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2017

2017-035 Is the demand-pull driver equally crucial for product vs process innovation?
Herbert Dawid, Gabriele Pellegrino & Marco Vivarelli
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2017-018 Challenged by migration: Europe's options
Amelie Constant & Klaus F. Zimmermann
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2017-013 Is innovation destroying jobs? Firm-level evidence from the EU
Mariacristina Piva & Marco Vivarelli
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2017-004 Labour mobility through business visits as a way to foster productivity
Mariacristina Piva, Massimiliano Tani & Marco Vivarelli
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2017-003 Impact of the Great Recession on industry unemployment: a 1976-2011 comparison
Yelena Takhtamanova & Eva Sierminska
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2017-001 The economic impact of East-West migration on the European Union
Martin Kahanec & Mariola Pytliková
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2016

2016-069 Glass ceiling effect in urban China: Wage inequality of rural-urban migrants during 2002-2007
Zhaopeng Qu & Zhong Zhao
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2016-066 Post-Enlargement Migration and the Great Recession in the E(M)U: Lessons and policy implications
Martin Kahanec & Klaus F. Zimmermann
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2016-062 Towards a new European refugee policy that works
Amelie Constant & Klaus F. Zimmermann
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2016-055 Three decades of publishing research in population economics
Alessio J. G. Brown & Klaus F. Zimmermann
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2016-054 Trade liberalisation and child labour in China
Liqiu Zhao, Fei Wang & Zhong Zhao
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2016-051 A 'healthy immigrant effect' or a 'sick immigrant effect'? Selection and policies matter
Amelie Constant, Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman & Tzahi Neuman
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2016-050 Reservation wages of first- and second-generation migrants
Amelie Constant, Annabelle Krause, Ulf Rinne & Klaus F. Zimmermann
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2016-049 Demographic dynamics and long-run development: Insights for the secular stagnation debate
Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde & Klaus F. Zimmermann
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2016-042 Diaspora economics: New perspectives
Amelie Constant & Klaus F. Zimmermann
Published in International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 37, No. 7, pp. 1110-1135.
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2016-041 The chips are down: The influence of family on children's trust formation
Corrado Giulietti, Enrico Rettore & Sara Tonini
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2016-040 Natural disasters and human mobility
Linguère Mously Mbaye & Klaus F. Zimmermann
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2016-038 Home sweet home? Macroeconomic conditions in home countries and the well-being of migrants
Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain & Klaus F. Zimmermann
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2016-037 Arsenic contamination of drinking water and mental health
Shyamal Chowdhury, Annabelle Krause & Klaus F. Zimmermann
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2016-036 Child labour in China
Can Tang, Liqiu Zhao & Zhong Zhao
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2016-032 The effects of productivity and benefits on unemployment: Breaking the link
Alessio J. G. Brown, Britta Kohlbrecher, Christian Merkl & Dennis J. Snower
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2016-026 Globalisation, technology and the labour market: A microeconometric analysis for Turkey
Elena Meschi, Erol Taymaz & Marco Vivarelli
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2016-025 Fading hope and the rise in inequality in the United States
Jo Ritzen & Klaus F. Zimmermann
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