Uwe Jirjahn

Research Fellow

University of Trier

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Research Interests

Uwe Jirjahn is Professor of Economics at the University of Trier. He researches labor market economics and personnel economics, with special interests in works councils, teamwork, performance pay, migration, older employees, single parents, discrimination, and the labor market consequences of foreign ownership.

Among other journals, he has published in Applied Economics, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Industrial and Corporate Change, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Economics Letters, Kyklos, Labour Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Social Science Quarterly, and Urban Studies.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in September 2016.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17709
Political Spillovers of Worker Representation: With or Without Workplace Democracy?
Uwe Jirjahn
revised version published in: Analyse und Kritik - Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory, 2025, 47 (1), 5-30
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17597
Unions and Collective Bargaining in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Insights from Quantitative Studies
Uwe Jirjahn
revised version forthcoming in: Industrielle Beziehungen - German Journal of Industrial Relations
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17234
Working from Home and Performance Pay: Individual or Collective Payment Schemes?
Uwe Jirjahn, Cinzia Rienzo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16727
Corporate Globalization and Worker Representation
Uwe Jirjahn
published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16361
Are Managers More Machiavellian than Other Employees?
Mehrzad B. Baktash, Uwe Jirjahn
revised version forthcoming in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16267
Variable Payment Schemes and Productivity: Do Individual-Based Schemes Really Have a Stronger Influence than Collective Ones?
Uwe Jirjahn, Jens Mohrenweiser
revised version forthcoming in: Kyklos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15879
Works Councils and Workers' Party Preferences in Germany
Uwe Jirjahn, Thi Xuan Thu Le
revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2024, 62 (4), 849 - 877
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15587
Immigrants and Trade Union Membership: Does Integration into Society and Workplace Play a Moderating Role?
Fenet Jima Bedaso, Uwe Jirjahn, Laszlo Goerke
revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2024, 62 (2), 262-292 (authored by Fenet Jima Bedaso and Uwe Jirjahn)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15444
Political Spillovers of Workplace Democracy in Germany
Uwe Jirjahn, Thi Xuan Thu Le
revised version published in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2024, 95 (1), 5-31
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14939
Worker Stress and Performance Pay: German Survey Evidence
Mehrzad B. Baktash, John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 201, 276-291
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