IZA Discussion Papers

Revised version forthcoming as "More Dispersion, Higher Bonuses?-The Role of Differentiation in Subjective Performance Evaluations" in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6062

Testing the 'Residential Rootedness'-Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK

Darja Reuschke, Maarten van Ham

published in: [Environment and Planning A], 2013, 45 (5), 1219-1239

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6054

Speeding Up the Product Cycle: The Role of Host Country Reforms

Liugang Sheng, Dennis T. Yang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6034

Employment Concentration and Resource Allocation: One-Company Towns in Russia

Simon Commander, Zlatko Nikoloski, Alexander Plekhanov

forthcoming in: Economics of Transition, 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6004

A General Model of Technical Change with an Application to the OECD Countries

Almas Heshmati, Subal C. Kumbhakar

published in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2014, 23(1), 25-48.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6000

The Impact of Cultural Diversity on Innovation: Evidence from Dutch Firm-Level Data

Ceren Ozgen, Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot

published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2013, 2:18

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5900

Equilibrium Wage and Employment Dynamics in a Model of Wage Posting without Commitment

Melvyn Coles, Dale T. Mortensen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5881

On Input Market Frictions and Estimation of Factors Demand

Arnaud Dupuy, Todd A. Sorensen

Published as "On input market frictions and estimation of factors' demand" in Southern Economic Journal, 2014, 80 (3), 772-782. (Winner of 2015 Georgescu-Roegen Prize for best paper published in SEJ during the calendar year.)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5880

Evolution of the Industrial Wage Structure in China Since 1980

Ohyun Kwon, Belton M. Fleisher, Quheng Deng

substantially revised version, co-authored by Simon Chang published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2015, 20(1), 17–44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5818

A Multi-Method Approach to Identifying Norms and Normative Expectations within a Corporate Hierarchy: Evidence from the Financial Services Industry

Stephen V. Burks, Erin L. Krupka

revised version published in: Management Science, 2012, 1 (58), 203-217

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5737

Economies of Scale in the Tunisian Industries

Almas Heshmati, Ilham Haouas

published in: International Journal of Economics and Finance, 2013, 5(1), 48-64.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5711

Efficiency in Employee-Owned Enterprises: An Econometric Case Study of Mondragon

Saioa Arando, Monica Gago, Derek C. Jones, Takao Kato

resvised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(2), 398-425

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5618

Incentives and Cooperation in Firms: Field Evidence

Johannes Berger, Claus Herbertz, Dirk Sliwka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5579

Informal Sector and Corruption: An Empirical Investigation for India

Nabamita Dutta, Saibal Kar, Sanjukta Roy

published as 'Corruption and Persistent Informality: An Empirical Investigation for Indian States' in: International Review of Economics and Finance, 2013, 27, 357-373

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5511

Does Anti-Competitive Regulation Matter for Productivity? Evidence from European Firms

Jens Arnold, Giuseppe Nicoletti, Stefano Scarpetta

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5504

Institutions and Entry: A Cross-Regional Analysis in Russia

Randolph Luca Bruno, Maria Bytchkova, Saul Estrin

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (5), 1740-1749

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5501

Can Higher Bonuses Lead to Less Effort? Incentive Reversal in Teams

Esteban F. Klor, Sebastian Kube, Eyal Winter, Ro'i Zultan

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, 97, 72-83

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5481

Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?

Saul Estrin, Julia Korosteleva, Tomasz Mickiewicz

published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2013, 28 (4), 564–580

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5471

Good and Bad Institutions: Is the Debate Over? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence from the Textile Industry

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ralitza Dimova

published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2014, 38(1), 109-126

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5394

Relational Contracts and the Economic Well-Being of Nations

Bohdan Kukharskyy, Michael P. Pflüger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5391

Hierarchical Organization and Inequality in an Economy with an Implicit Market for Productive Time

Bertrand Candelon, Arnaud Dupuy

revised version published as 'Hierarchical Organization and Performance Inequality: Evidence from Professional Cycling' in: International Economic Review, 2015, 56 (4), 1207-1236

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5311

Rational Inattention and Employer Learning

Steffen Habermalz

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2014, 66 (2), 605-626

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5305

Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes

Christian Schwarz, Jens Suedekum

revised version published in: Journal of International Economics, 2014, 93 (1), 123-139, [Final version]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5264

Social Norms and Economic Incentives in Firms

Steffen Huck, Dorothea Kübler, Jörgen W. Weibull

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012, 83 (2), 173-185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5258

Estimating the Returns to Firm-Sponsored On-the-Job and Classroom Training

Benoit Dostie

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2013, 7 (2), 161-189

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5247

Institutions and Economic Performance: What Can Be Explained?

Simon Commander, Zlatko Nikoloski

published in: Review of Economics and Institutions, 2012

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5243

Corruption as a Barrier to Entry: Theory and Evidence

Nauro F. Campos, Saul Estrin, Eugenio Proto

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5176

Panel Data Estimates of the Production Function and Product and Labor Market Imperfections

Sabien Dobbelaere, Jacques Mairesse

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (1), 1-46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5151

International Trade and its Effects on Economic Growth in China

Peng Sun, Almas Heshmati

published in: China Economic Policy Review, 2012, 1(2), 35-60.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5147

Self-Selection into Export Markets by Business Services Firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Yama Temouri, Alexander Vogel, Joachim Wagner

published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2013, 25 (2), 146-158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5079

Information, Uncertainty, and Subjective Entitlements in Bargaining

Emin Karagozoglu, Arno Riedl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5058

Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motives: Standard and Behavioral Approaches to Agency and Labor Markets

James B. Rebitzer, Lowell J. Taylor

published in: O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 4A, Chapter 8, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5054

Employer Learning, Productivity and the Earnings Distribution: Evidence from Performance Measures

Lisa B. Kahn, Fabian Lange

Published in Review of Economic Studies, 2014, 81 (4), 1575-1613.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5053

Shadow Economy and Entrepreneurial Entry

Saul Estrin, Tomasz Mickiewicz

published in: Review of Development Economics, 2012, 16 (4), 559-578

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4997

The Importance of Skill Measurement for Growth Accounting

Øivind Anti Nilsen, Arvid Raknerud, Marina Rybalka, Terje Skjerpen

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2011, 57 (2), 293-305 [view]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4994

Public Employment and Political Pressure: The Case of French Hospitals

Andrew E. Clark, Carine Milcent

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (5), 1103-1112

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4981

The Investment in Job Training: Why Are SMEs Lagging So Much Behind?

Rita K. Almeida, Reyes Aterido

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4933

Rational Expectations and the Puzzling No-Effect of the Minimum Wage

Sara Pinoli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4909

Firm Ownership and Rent Sharing

Natália Pimenta Monteiro, Miguel Portela, Odd Rune Straume

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2011, 32 (3), 210 - 236

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4871

Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Different Perspectives

Sabien Dobbelaere, Jacques Mairesse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4852

Shutdown Contests in Multi-Plant Firms and Governmental Intervention

Matthias Kräkel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4784

Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth: The Case of Chinese Provinces

Almas Heshmati, Subal C. Kumbhakar

published in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2011, 78 (4), 575-590

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4612

Productivity, Welfare and Reallocation: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence

Susanto Basu, Luigi Pascali, Fabio Schiantarelli, Luis Serven

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4496

Heterogeneous Class Size Effects: New Evidence from a Panel of University Students

Oriana Bandiera, Valentino Larcinese, Imran Rasul

published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (549), 1365 - 1398

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4492

The Employment of Temporary Agency Workers in the UK: With or Against the Trade Unions?

René Böheim, Martina Zweimüller

published in: Economica, 2013, 80 (317), 65–95

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4486

SME Policy and Firms’ Productivity in Latin America

Pablo Ibarrarán, Alessandro Maffioli, Rodolfo Stucchi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4396

Better Means More: Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship

Saul Estrin, Julia Korosteleva, Tomasz Mickiewicz

substantially revised and rewritten version available as IZA DP No. 5481

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4199

A Sequential Malmquist-Luenberger Productivity Index

Donghyun Oh, Almas Heshmati

published as 'A sequential Malmquist–Luenberger productivity index: Environmentally sensitive productivity growth considering the progressive nature of technology ' in: Energy Economics, 2011, 32 (6), 1345 - 1355

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4130

Wages and Seniority When Coworkers Matter: Estimating a Joint Production Economy Using Norwegian Administrative Data

Christopher Ferrall, Kjell G. Salvanes, Erik Ø. Sørensen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4047

Literacy Traps: Society-wide Education and Individual Skill Premia

Vidya Atal, Kaushik Basu, John Gray, Travis Lee

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4028

Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity: Evidence from Micro Data

Jonathan Haskel, Raffaella Sadun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4018

Supply Theory sans Profit-Maximization

Indraneel Dasgupta

published in: B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics: Contributions to Theoretical Economics, 2009, 9 (1), Article 26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3959

Treating Equals Unequally: Incentives in Teams, Workers' Motivation and Production Technology

Sebastian J. Goerg, Sebastian Kube, Ro'i Zultan

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (4), 747 - 772

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3953

The Financial and Operating Performance of Privatized Firms in Sweden

Motasam Tatahi, Almas Heshmati

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3921

How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?

Jennifer Hunt, Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (2), 31-56

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3901

A Behavioral Account of the Labor Market: The Role of Fairness Concerns

Ernst Fehr, Lorenz Götte, Christian Zehnder

published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2009, 1, 355 - 384

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3895

On the Economics and Biology of Trust

Ernst Fehr

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 235-266

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3889

Contracts as Reference Points: Experimental Evidence

Ernst Fehr, Oliver Hart, Christian Zehnder

published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 493-525

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3865

A Nonparametric Examination of Capital-Skill Complementarity

Daniel J. Henderson

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 71 (4), 519 - 538

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3854

Higher Productivity in Importing German Manufacturing Firms: Self-Selection, Learning from Importing, or Both?

Alexander Vogel, Joachim Wagner

published in: Review of World Economics, 2009, 145 (4), 641-665

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3832

Do Temporary Contracts Affect TFP? Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Firms

Juan J. Dolado, Rodolfo Stucchi

published in: SERIEs Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 2016, 7, 421-459.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3807

Adding Rungs to the Exporting Ladder: Plant-Level Exporting Dynamics and Total Factor Productivity Growth

Alexandru Voicu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3798

Exports and Profitability: First Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms

Helmut Fryges, Joachim Wagner

published in: World Economy, 2010, 33 (3), 399-423

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3784

Competition and the Ratchet Effect

Gary Charness, Peter J. Kuhn, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (3), 513-547

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3758

Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Shwetlena Sabarwal, Katherine Terrell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3724

Institutional Determinants of New Firm Entry in Russia: A Cross Regional Analysis

Randolph Luca Bruno, Maria Bytchkova, Saul Estrin

substantially revised and rewritten version available as IZA DP No. 5504

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3688

Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization: Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Álmos Telegdy

published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120(545), 683-708

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3645

Management Economics in a Large Retail Organization

W. Stanley Siebert, Nick Zubanov

published in: Management Science, 2011, 56(8), 1398-1414

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3612

Organizational Redesign, Information Technologies and Workplace Productivity

Benoit Dostie, Rajshri Jayaraman

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy, 2012, 12.1, Article 4.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3572

Do High-Skill Immigrants Raise Productivity? Evidence from Israeli Manufacturing Firms, 1990-1999

M. Daniele Paserman

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2013, 2:6

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3550

Formality, Informality, and Social Welfare

John Bennett

published as 'Informal Production and Labour Market Segmentation' in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2011, 167 (4), 686-707

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3400

Risk-Taking Tournaments: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Petra Nieken, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31 (3), 254-268

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3368

Using Firm Optimization to Evaluate and Estimate Returns to Scale

Yuriy Gorodnichenko

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3359

Higher Wages in Exporting Firms: Self-Selection, Export Effect, or Both? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Thorsten Schank, Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner

published in: Review of World Economics, 2010, 146 (2), 303-322

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3312

A Microfoundation for Production Functions: Assignment of Heterogenous Workers to Heterogenous Jobs

Arnaud Dupuy

published in: Economica, 2012, 79 (315), 534-556.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3282

Are Oligarchs Productive? Theory and Evidence

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Yegor Grygorenko

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2008, 36 (1), 17-42

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3281

Transparency, Inequity Aversion, and the Dynamics of Peer Pressure in Teams: Theory and Evidence

Alwine Mohnen, Kathrin Pokorny, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 26 (4), 2008, 693 - 720

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3237

Credit Constraints as a Barrier to the Entry and Post-Entry Growth of Firms

Philippe Aghion, Thibault Fally, Stefano Scarpetta

published in: Economic Policy, 2007, 22, 731-779

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3210

Mentoring and Segregation: Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies

Ana Rute Cardoso, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 64 (1), 143-163

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3207

The NAFTA Tide: Lifting the Larger and Better Boats

Angel Calderón-Madrid, Alexandru Voicu

revised version published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2011, 20 (4), 467 - 505

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3179

Does It Pay Firms to Register for Taxes? The Impact of Formality on Firm Profitability

David McKenzie, Yaye Seynabou Sakho

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 91(1), 15-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3144

Temporary Agency Work in Portugal, 1995–2000

René Böheim, Ana Rute Cardoso

published as 'Temporary help services employment in Portugal, 1995-2000' in: David H. Autor (ed.), Studies of Labor Market Intermediation. Chicago: Chicago Univ. Press and NBER, 2009, 520-560

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3125

Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials Using LEED from Hungary, 1986–2003

John S. Earle, Álmos Telegdy

published in: Analysis of Firms and Employees - Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (F. Andersson, S. Bender, J. Lane, K. Shaw, and T. von Wachter, eds.), NBER and University of Chicago, 2008.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3117

Risk, Delegation, and Project Scope

Andreas Roider

revised version published as 'Delegation, Risk, and Project Scope ' in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2009, 165 (2), 193-209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3105

Market Characteristics, Intra-Firm Coordination, and the Choice of Human Resource Management Systems: Evidence from New Japanese Data

Takao Kato, Hideo Owan

published as 'Market characteristics, intra-firm coordination, and the choice of human resource management systems: Theory and evidence' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2011, 80 (3), 375-396 (lead article)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3053

An Empirical Assessment of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market

Rute Mendes, Gerard J. van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (6), 919-929

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3014

What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research

Mirjam C. van Praag, Peter H. Versloot

published in: Small Business Economics, 2007, 29 (4), 351-382

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2927

Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture

Michael Kosfeld, Ferdinand von Siemens

published in: RAND Journal of Economics, 2011, 42 (1), 23–43