IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9537

Women at the Top in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Khalid Sekkat, Ariane Szafarz, Ilan Tojerow

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9510

Firm Productivity Growth and Skill

David C. Maré, Dean Hyslop, Richard Fabling

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9391

The Japanese Labour Market during the Global Financial Crisis and the Role of Non-Standard Work: A Micro Perspective

Alexander Hijzen, Ryo Kambayashi, Hiroshi Teruyama, Yuji Genda

published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2015, 38, 260-281

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9330

Strive to be First or Avoid Being Last: An Experiment on Relative Performance Incentives

E. Glenn Dutcher, Loukas Balafoutas, Florian Lindner, Dmitry Ryvkin, Matthias Sutter

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2015, 94, 39-56.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9323

Pacts for Employment and Competitiveness as a Role Model? Their Effects on Firm Performance

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Katalin Evers, Lutz Bellmann

revised version published as 'Contract Innovation in Germany: An Economic Evaluation of Pacts for Competitiveness' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55(3), 500-526.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9294

The Role of Establishments and the Concentration of Occupations in Wage Inequality

Elizabeth Handwerker, James R. Spletzer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9293

Intra Firm Bargaining and Shapley Values

Björn Brügemann, Pieter A. Gautier, Guido Menzio

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9285

The Complementary Use of Experiments and Field Data to Evaluate Management Practices: The Case of Subjective Performance Evaluations

Patrick Kampkötter, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 2016, 172 (2), 364-389

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9263

Resources on the Stage: A Firm Level Analysis of the ICT Adoption in Turkey

Derya Findik, Aysit Tansel

published in: B. Christiansen and M. Erdogdu (eds.), Comparative Economics and Regional Development in Turkey, 2015, 106 - 126.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9261

Is Privatization Working in Ukraine? New Estimates from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Data, 1989-2013

J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Solomiya Shpak, Volodymyr Vakhitov

published as 'Is Privatization Working in Ukraine?' in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2019, 61 (1), 1 - 35

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9260

Reducing Risks in Wartime Through Capital-Labor Substitution: Evidence from World War II

Chris Rohlfs, Ryan Sullivan, Thomas J. Kniesner

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2016, 52 (2), 163-190.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9251

Third-Party vs. Second-Party Control: Disentangling the Role of Autonomy and Reciprocity

Gabriel Burdin, Simon Halliday, Fabio Landini

revised version published as 'The hidden benefits of abstaining from control' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 147, 1-12.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9222

Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan

David Atkin, Azam Chaudhry, Shamyla Chaudry, Amit K. Khandelwal, Eric Verhoogen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9209

Crime and Establishment Size: Evidence from South America

Umut Oguzoglu, Ashantha Ranasinghe

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2017, 17 (4)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9194

The Rise of Domestic Outsourcing and the Evolution of the German Wage Structure

Deborah Goldschmidt, Johannes F. Schmieder

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9188

The French Productivity Puzzle

Philippe Askenazy, Christine Erhel

published in: Ph. Askenazy et al. (eds), Productivity Puzzles Across Europe, Oxford: OUP, 2016.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9157

Why Do South Korean Firms Produce So Much More Output per Worker than Ghanaian Ones?

Simon Baptist, Francis J. Teal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9125

Micro-Evidence on Product and Labor Market Regime Differences between Chile and France

Sabien Dobbelaere, Rodolfo Lauterbach, Jacques Mairesse

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (2), 229 - 252

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9124

Comparing Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Three Different Approaches

Sabien Dobbelaere, Jacques Mairesse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9097

The UK's Productivity Puzzle

Alex Bryson, John Forth

published in: Askenazy, P., Bellmann, L., Bryson, A. and Moreno-Galbis, E. (eds.) The Productivity Puzzle across Europe: Oxford University Press, 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8974

Culture of Trust and Division of Labor

Stephan Meier, Matthew Stephenson

revised version published as 'Culture of Trust and Division of Labor in Non-Hierarchical Teams' in: Strategic Management Journal, 2019, 40 (8), 1171-1193 (with Patryk Perkowski)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8971

The Role of Bounded Rationality and Imperfect Information in Subgame Perfect Implementation: An Empirical Investigation

Philippe Aghion, Ernst Fehr, Richard Holden, Tom Wilkening

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8829

The Objective Measurement of World-Leading Research

Andrew J. Oswald

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8818

Why Did Self-Employment Increase so Strongly in Germany?

Michael Fritsch, Alexander S. Kritikos, Alina Sorgner

published in: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 2015, 67 (2), 307-333

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8790

Innovation and SMEs Patent Propensity in Korea

Junghee Han, Almas Heshmati

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8719

Beer, Wood, and Welfare

Michael Grimm, Jörg Peters

published in: PLoS ONE, 2015, 10(8): e0132603, [Open Access]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8699

A Theory of Wage Adjustment under Loss Aversion

Steffen Ahrens, Inske Pirschel, Dennis J. Snower

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8651

Do Entrepreneurs Really Earn Less?

Alina Sorgner, Michael Fritsch, Alexander S. Kritikos

revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 49 (2), 251–272

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8649

Dual Labour Markets and (Lack of) On-the-Job Training: PIAAC Evidence from Spain and Other EU Countries

Antonio Cabrales, Juan J. Dolado, Ricardo Mora

published in SERIEs Journal of the Spanish Economic Association (2017), 8, 345-371.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8647

The Effect of Female Leadership on Establishment and Employee Outcomes: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Stefano Gagliarducci, M. Daniele Paserman

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2015, 41, 341-372

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8582

"Making It Count": Evidence from a Field Study on Assessment Rules, Study Incentives and Student Performance

Arnaud Chevalier, Peter Dolton, Melanie Lührmann

Forthcoming in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8541

Earnings and Employment in Foreign-Owned Firms

David C. Maré, Lynda Sanderson, Richard Fabling

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8539

Workplace Democracy and Job Flows

Guillermo Alves, Gabriel Burdin, Andres Dean

revised version published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 44 (2), 258–271

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8525

Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited

Esther Gehrke, Michael Grimm

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2018, 66 (4): 673 - 707.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8463

Birthplace Diversity and Productivity Spill-overs in Firms

René Böheim, Thomas Horvath, Karin Mayr

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8416

Who Do Unions Target? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses

Emin Dinlersoz, Jeremy Greenwood, Henry R. Hyatt

published in: ILR Review, 2017, 70(3): 733-766

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8404

Handing Out Guns at a Knife Fight: Behavioral Limitations of Subgame-Perfect Implementation

Ernst Fehr, Michael Powell, Tom Wilkening

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8326

Skilled Immigrants' Contribution to Productive Efficiency

Daehoon Nahm, Massimiliano Tani

published in Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 2015, 20, 594–612

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8321

Legal Corruption, Politically Connected Corporate Governance and Firm Performance

Polona Domadenik, Janez Prašnikar, Jan Svejnar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8290

Skill Shortages in German Establishments

Lutz Bellmann, Olaf Hübler

published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 234 (6), 800-826

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8240

Impacts of Unionization on Quality and Productivity: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Nursing Homes

Aaron Sojourner, Brigham R. Frandsen, Robert J. Town, David C. Grabowski, Michelle M. Chen

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68 (4), 771 - 806 https://doi.org/10.1177/0019793915586380

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8193

Do Interventions Targeted at Micro-Entrepreneurs and Small and Medium-Sized Firms Create Jobs? A Systematic Review of the Evidence for Low and Middle Income Countries

Michael Grimm, Anna Luisa Paffhausen

published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 32, 67-85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8138

A Theory of Price Adjustment under Loss Aversion

Steffen Ahrens, Inske Pirschel, Dennis J. Snower

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8081

Production Risk, Energy Use Efficiency and Productivity of Korean Industries

Nabaz T. Khayyat, Almas Heshmati

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7925

The Value of Connections: Evidence from the Italian-American Mafia

Giovanni Mastrobuoni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7923

Ethnic Diversity and Firms' Export Behavior

Pierpaolo Parrotta, Dario Pozzoli, Davide Sala

published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 89, 248-263

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7887

Unionization and Productivity: Evidence from Charter Schools

Cassandra M. D. Hart, Aaron Sojourner

Published in: Industrial Relations. 2015. 55(4): 422-448

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7886

More Is Better! What Can Firm-Specific Estimates of the Impact of Institutional Quality on Performance Tell Us?

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ralitza Dimova, Subal C. Kumbhakar, Kai Sun

forthcoming as "Is Tinkering with Institutional Quality a Panacea for Firm Performance? Insights from a Semiparametric Approach to Modeling Firm Performance" in Review of Development Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7885

Do Business Groups Help or Hinder Technological Progress in Emerging Markets? Evidence from India

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ying Zhou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7784

Age and Opportunities for Promotion

C. Sofia Machado, Miguel Portela

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7751

Research and Teaching in Higher Education: Complements or Substitutes?

Gil S. Epstein, Joseph Menis

published in: International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Science, 2013, 3 (11), 614-632.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7702

Money on the Table? Firms' and Workers' Gains from Productivity Spillovers through Worker Mobility

Andrey Stoyanov, Nick Zubanov

revised version published as 'The Distribution of the Gains from Spillovers through Worker Mobility between Workers and Firms' in: European Economic Review, 2014, 70, 17-35

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7660

The Consequences of a Piece Rate on Quantity and Quality: Evidence from a Field Experiment

John S. Heywood, W. Stanley Siebert, Xiangdong Wei

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7611

Expanding Export Variety: The Role of Institutional Reforms in Developing Countries

Liugang Sheng, Dennis T. Yang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7572

Regional Determinants of Establishments' Innovation Activities: A Multi-Level Approach

Lutz Bellmann, Andreas Crimmann, Katalin Evers, Reinhard Hujer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7552

Econometric Mediation Analyses: Identifying the Sources of Treatment Effects from Experimentally Estimated Production Technologies with Unmeasured and Mismeasured Inputs

James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto

published in: Econometric Reviews, 2015, 34 (1-2), 6-31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7542

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

Daniel Fackler, Claus Schnabel

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7487

Determinants and Policy Simulation of Firms Cooperation in Innovation

Almas Heshmati, Flávio Lenz-Cesar

published in: Research Evaluation, 2015, 24(3), 293-311.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7442

Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes

Armin Falk, Nora Szech

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7439

Win Some Lose Some? Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco

Manuela Angelucci, Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman

substantially revised version published as "Microcredit Impacts: Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco" in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2015, 7 (1), 151-182

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7402

A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms

Gustavo Henrique de Andrade, Miriam Bruhn, David McKenzie

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2016, 30 (1), 24-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7363

Altruism and Relational Incentives in the Workplace

Robert Dur, Jan Tichem

published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2015, 24(3), 485-500

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7350

The Heterogeneous Effects of Workforce Diversity on Productivity, Wages and Profits

Andrea Garnero, Francois Rycx

published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2014, 53 (3), 430-477.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7322

Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets

Roland Benabou

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (2), 429-462

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7308

Management-Employee Relations, Firm Size and Job Satisfaction

Aysit Tansel, Saziye Gazioglu

Published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2014, 35(8): 1260-1275.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7277

Estimation of Productivity in Korean Electric Power Plants: A Semiparametric Smooth Coefficient Model

Almas Heshmati, Subal C. Kumbhakar, Kai Sun

published in: Energy Economics, 2014, 45, 491-500.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7272

Investment Crowding-Out and Labor Market Effects of Financialization in the U.S.

Ignacio González, Hector Sala

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 61 (5), 589-613

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7271

Authority and Incentives in Organizations

Matthias Kräkel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7253

Product and Labor Market Imperfections and Scale Economies: Micro-Evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands

Sabien Dobbelaere, Kozo Kiyota, Jacques Mairesse

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43(2): 290-322

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7235

Measurement of Environmentally Sensitive Productivity Growth in Korean Industries

Yeimin Chung, Almas Heshmati

published in: Journal of Cleaner Production, 2015, 104, 380-391.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7229

Does Forced Solidarity Hamper Investment in Small and Micro Enterprises?

Michael Grimm, Renate Hartwig, Jann Lay

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45 (4): 827-846.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7201

Regulation, Trust, and Cronyism in Middle Eastern Societies: The Simple Economics of 'Wasta'

Andy Barnett, Bruce Yandle, George S Naufal

published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2013, 44, 41-46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7195

Investment under Company-Level Pacts

Lutz Bellmann, Hans-Dieter Gerner, Olaf Hübler

published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2015, 36(3), 501-522

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7163

Competing with Asking Prices

Benjamin R. Lester, Ludo Visschers, Ronald P. Wolthoff

published in: Theoretical Economics, 2017, 12 (2), 731-770

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7159

Gender Wage-Productivity Differentials and Global Integration in China

Ana C. Dammert, Beyza Ural Marchand, Chi Wan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7147

Asymmetric Information between Employers

Lisa B. Kahn

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5 (4), 165-205

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7146

Do Entrepreneurs Matter?

Sascha O. Becker, Hans K. Hvide

forthcoming as 'Entrepreneur Death and Startup Performance' in: Review of Finance, 2021

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7129

Measuring Cultural Diversity and its Impact on Innovation: Longitudinal Evidence from Dutch Firms

Ceren Ozgen, Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot

published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2017, 96 (S1), S29-S50

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7081

Lingering Illness or Sudden Death? Pre-Exit Employment Developments in German Establishments

Daniel Fackler, Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner

published in: Industrial and Corporate Change 2014, 23 (4), 1121-1140

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7063

Competition and Educational Productivity: Incentives Writ Large

W. Bentley MacLeod, Miguel Urquiola

published in: Paul Glewwe (ed.), Education Policy in Developing Countries, Chapter 7, University of Chicago Press, 2013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7050

Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Christian Pfeifer, Joachim Wagner

published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2014, 47 (3), 223-231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7036

Worker Productivity and Wages: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Ana Sofia Lopes, Paulino Teixeira

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7030

The Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power

Ernst Fehr, Holger Herz, Tom Wilkening

published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (4), 1325-59

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7029

Use and Abuse of Authority: A Behavioral Foundation of the Employment Relation

Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, Klaus M. Schmidt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7023

Employer's Information and Promotion-Seeking Activities

Gil S. Epstein

published in: Economics and Business Letters, 2012, 1(4), 21-32

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6884

The Impact of Managerial Change on Performance: The Role of Team Heterogeneity

Sandra Hentschel, Gerd Muehlheusser, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Economic Inquiry 54(2), 1128-119, 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6738

Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Government Agency

Simon Burgess, Carol Propper, Marisa Ratto, Emma Tominey

forthcoming in: Economic Journal, 2016.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6715

Expert Leaders in a Fast-Moving Environment

Amanda H. Goodall, Ganna Pogrebna

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6671

How Are Firms Affected by the Crisis and How Do They React?

Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen, Ioana Neamtu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6635

Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management

Maria Guadalupe, Hongyi Li, Julie M. Wulf

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6632

Political Preferences and Public Sector Outsourcing

Mikael Elinder, Henrik Jordahl

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 30, 43-57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6594

Monitoring Costs, Credit Constraints and Entrepreneurship

Sanjay Banerji, Rajesh S.N. Raj, Kunal Sen

forthcoming in: Manchester School

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6564

On the Organizational Structure of Multinational Firms: Which Sourcing Mode for Which Input?

Jens Suedekum, Verena Nowak, Christian Schwarz

revised version forthcoming in: Canadian Journal of Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6502

The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities: Distinguishing Agglomeration from Firm Selection

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon, Diego Puga, Sébastien Roux

published in: Econometrica, 2012, 80 (6), 2543-2594

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6500

Comparing Real Wage Rates

Orley Ashenfelter

published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (2), 617 - 642

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6461

Productivity and the Welfare of Nations

Susanto Basu, Luigi Pascali, Fabio Schiantarelli, Luis Serven

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6442

The Demand for, and Consequences of, Formalization among Informal Firms in Sri Lanka

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5 (2), 122-50

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6415

Testing a Forgotten Aspect of Akerlof's Gift Exchange Hypothesis: Relational Contracts with Individual and Uniform Wages

Martin G. Kocher, Wolfgang J. Luhan, Matthias Sutter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6404

Public and Private Sector Jobs, Unreported Income and Consumption Gap in India: Evidence from Micro-Data

Saibal Kar, Poulomi Roy, Sarani Saha

published in: North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 2014, 29, 285-300

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6381

Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits: Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Christian Pfeifer, Joachim Wagner

published in: Contemporary Economics, 2014, 8 (1), 25-49

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