IZA Discussion Papers

published in: Polachek, S.W. and Tatsiramos, K. (ed.) 50th Celebratory Volume (Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 50), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, 2023, 25-81

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14959

Sicilian Sulphur and Mafia: Resources, Working Conditions and the Practice of Violence

Carlo Ciccarelli, Alberto Dalmazzo, Tiziano Razzolini

substantially revised version published in Cliometrica, 2024,18, 531–565

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14919

Willingness to Pay for Workplace Safety

Massimo Anelli, Felix Koenig

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14732

Working Time Mismatch and Job Satisfaction - The Role of Employees' Time Autonomy and Gender

Christian Grund, Katja Rebecca Tilkes

published in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2023, 34, 4003-4025.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14706

Footsie, Yeah! Share Prices and Worker Wellbeing

Alex Bryson, Andrew E. Clark, Colin P. Green

published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2022, 4 (3), 197-211

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14481

The Effects of COVID-19 on Employment, Labour Markets and Gender Equality in Central America

Allan Webster, Sangeeta Khorana, Francesco Pastore

published in: IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2022, 13 (1), 1-43.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14366

How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affects Job Stress of Rural Teachers

Haizheng Li, Qinyi Liu, Mingyu Ma

published as 'How the COVID-19 pandemic affects job sentiments of rural teachers' in: China Economic Review, 2022, 72, 101759

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14322

"Fear Is the Path to the Dark Side". Electoral Results and the Workplace Safety of Immigrants

Anna D’Ambrosio, Roberto Leombruni, Tiziano Razzolini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14269

The Labour Market Impact of COVID-19: Early Evidence for a Sample of Enterprises from Southern Europe

Allan Webster, Sangeeta Khorana, Francesco Pastore

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2022, 43 (4), 1054 - 1082

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14179

The Demand for Mobility: Evidence from an Experiment with Uber Riders

Peter Christensen, Adam Osman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14137

Cognitive Load and Occupational Injuries

Eric Bonsang, Eve Caroli

published in: Industrial Relations, 2021, 60(2), 219-242.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14112

Wage Inequality and Labor Rights Violations

Ioana E. Marinescu, Yue Qiu, Aaron Sojourner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13818

Employment Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit: Taking the Long View

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Michael R. Strain

published in: Tax Policy and the Economy, 2021, 35, 87–129

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13757

Measuring Geographical Disparities in England at the Time of COVID-19: Results Using a Composite Indicator of Population Vulnerability

Catia Nicodemo, Samira Barzin, Daniel S. Lasserson, Francesco Moscone, Stuart Redding, Mujaheed Shaikh, Nicolò Cavalli

published in: BMJ open, 2020,10, e039749.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13632

The Forgotten Numbers: A Closer Look at COVID-19 Non-Fatal Valuations

Thomas J. Kniesner, Ryan Sullivan

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Special Issue: Valuation and Risk Perceptions of the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020, 61(2), 155-176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13602

The Relationship between Early-Life Conditions in the Home Country and Adult Outcomes among Child Immigrants in the United States

Deniz Gevrek, Z. Eylem Gevrek, Cahit Guven

published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2022, 45, 101069

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13544

Subsidizing Domestic Services as a Tool to Fight Unemployment: Effectiveness and Hidden Costs

Elisabeth Leduc, Ilan Tojerow

published as 'Home work: Exploring the labor market effects of subsidizing domestic services' in: Labour Economics, 2024, 90, 102595

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13532

The New Hazardous Jobs and Worker Reallocation

Gaetano Basso, Tito Boeri, Alessandro Caiumi, Marco Paccagnella

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13379

If Sick-Leave Becomes More Costly, Will I Go Back to Work? Could It Be Too Soon?

Olivier Marie, Judit Vall-Castello

published as 'Sick Leave Cuts and (Unhealthy) Returns to Work' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41, 923-956.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13281

EU Jobs at Highest Risk of COVID-19 Social Distancing: Will the Pandemic Exacerbate Labour Market Divide?

Konstantinos Pouliakas, Jiri Branka

also available as Cedefop working paper No. 6201, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13229

The COVID-19 Crisis and Telework: A Research Survey on Experiences, Expectations and Hopes

Stijn Baert, Louis Lippens, Eline Moens, Johannes Weytjens, Philippe Sterkens

revised version published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 23, 729 - 753

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13187

The Perceived Well-Being and Health Costs of Exiting Self-Employment

Milena Nikolova, Boris Nikolaev, Olga Popova

published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57(4), 1819-1836

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13132

Mandated Sick Pay: Coverage, Utilization, and Welfare Effects

J. Catherine Maclean, Stefan Pichler, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13015

Unions, Tripartite Competition and Innovation

Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2021, 49, 41-65

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12865

Does Loneliness Lurk in Temp Work? Exploring the Associations between Temporary Employment, Loneliness at Work and Job Satisfaction

Eline Moens, Stijn Baert, Elsy Verhofstadt, Luc Van Ootegem

revised version published in: Plos One, 2021, 16 (5), e0250664

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12821

Firms' Wage Structures, Workers' Fairness Perceptions, Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intentions: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Jens Mohrenweiser, Christian Pfeifer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12737

Job Satisfaction and Coworker Pay in Canadian Firms

Mohsen Javdani, Brian Krauth

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2020, 53 (1), 212-248

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12703

Explaining the Gender Gap in Job Satisfaction

Paul Redmond, Seamus McGuinness

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2020, 27 (17), 1415 - 1418

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12695

Trans People, Transitioning, Mental Health, Life and Job Satisfaction

Nick Drydakis

published in: K. F. Zimmermann (Ed.) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, New York: Springer, First Online: 04 March 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12510

Immigration and Work-Related Injuries: Evidence from Italian Administrative Data

Caterina Alacevich, Catia Nicodemo

published as 'The Effect of Immigration on Occupational Injuries: Evidence from Administrative Data' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 86 (2), 209-235

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12113

Works Councils and Workplace Health Promotion in Germany

Uwe Jirjahn, Jens Mohrenweiser, Stephen C. Smith

revised version published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2022, 43 (3), 1059-1094

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11993

Does Telework Stress Employees Out? A Study on Working at Home and Subjective Well-Being for Wage/Salary Workers

Younghwan Song, Jia Gao

published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2020, 21, 2649-2668

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11965

HPWS in the Public Sector: Are There Mutual Gains?

Michael White, Alex Bryson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11871

Works Councils, Training and Employee Satisfaction

Lutz Bellmann, Olaf Hübler, Ute Leber

revised version published as 'Works council and training effects on satisfaction' in: Applied Economics Letters, 2019, 26(14), 1177-1181

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11825

How Common Are Bad Bosses?

Benjamin Artz, Amanda H. Goodall, Andrew J. Oswald

published in: Industrial Relations, 2020, 59 (1), 3-39

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11785

Combat, Casualties, and Compensation: Evidence from Iraq and Afghanistan

Laura Armey, Thomas J. Kniesner, John D. Leeth, Ryan Sullivan

published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2022, 40 (1), 66-82.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11755

Child Sleep and Maternal Labour Market Outcomes

Joan Costa-Font, Sarah Flèche

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 69, 1022589

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11701

Has the Economic Crisis Worsened the Work-Related Stress and Mental Health of Temporary Workers in Spain?

Xavier Bartoll, Joan Gil, Raul Ramos

published in: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2019, 92 (7), 1047-1059.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11699

School-Age Bullying, Workplace Bullying and Job Satisfaction: Experiences of LGB People in Britain

Nick Drydakis

published in: Manchester School, 2019, 87 (4), 455-488

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11698

How Has the Two-Day Weekend Policy Affected Labour Supply and Household Work in China?

Tony Fang, Carl Lin, Xueli Tang

published as 'Where did the time go? The effects of China's two-day weekend policy on labor supply, household work, and wage' in: China Economic Review, 2024, 83, 102107.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11394

The Effect of Prenatal Maternity Leave on Short and Long-Term Child Outcomes

Alexander Ahammer, Martin Halla, Nicole Schneeweis

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 70, 102250

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11380

Job Satisfaction among Young Workers in Eastern and Southern Africa: A Comparative Analysis

Andy McKay, Andrew T. Newell, Cinzia Rienzo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11367

Incentives Can Reduce Bias in Online Reviews

Ioana E. Marinescu, Nadav Klein, Andrew Chamberlain, Morgan Smart

published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2021, 27 (2), 393–407.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11325

Overeducation Wage Penalty among Ph.D. Holders: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Analysis on Italian Data

Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta, Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera, Francesco Pastore

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2023, 44 (6), 1096-1117

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11318

Unfairness at Work: Well-Being and Quits

Conchita D'Ambrosio, Andrew E. Clark, Marta Barazzetta

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 307-316

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11222

Does Sick Pay Affect Workplace Absence?

Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2019, (47), 227-252

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11163

Generation Internship: The Impact of Internships on Early Labour Market Performance

Annette Cerulli-Harms

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11112

Mutual Gains? Is There a Role for Employee Engagement in the Modern Workplace?

Alex Bryson

published in: Bosio, G., Minola, T., Origio, F., and Tomelleri, S. (eds), Rethinking Entrepreneurial Human Capital, Springer, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11012

Temporary Employment Boom in Poland: A Job Quality vs. Quantity Trade-off?

Piotr Lewandowski, Marek Góra, Maciej Lis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10964

Do Good Working Conditions Make You Work Longer? Evidence on Retirement Decisions Using Linked Survey and Register Data

Petri Böckerman, Pekka Ilmakunnas

published as 'Do Good Working Conditions Make You Work Longer? Analyzing Retirement Decisions Using Linked Survey and Register Data' in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2020, 17, 100192

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10963

What Chinese Workers Value: An Analysis of Job Satisfaction, Job Expectations, and Labor Turnover in China

Peng Nie, Alfonso Sousa-Poza

published in: Prague Economic Papers, 2020, 29 (1), 85-104

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10845

Access to and Returns from Unpaid Graduate Internships

Angus J. Holford

published in: Labour, 2021, 35 (3), 348 - 377

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10698

Does a Satisfied Student Make a Satisfied Worker?

Adele Whelan, Seamus McGuinness

heavily revised version published as 'The determinants of degree programme satisfaction' in: Studies in Higher Education, 2021, 46 (1), 2262 - 2278

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10577

I Can't Get No Satisfaction: The Power of Perceived Differences in Employee Retention and Turnover

Deniz Gevrek, Marilyn Spencer, David Hudgins, Valrie Chambers

published in: Personnel Review, 2017, 46(5), 1019-1043.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10523

Native-Migrant Differences in Trading Off Wages and Workplace Safety

Anna D’Ambrosio, Roberto Leombruni, Tiziano Razzolini

substantially revised version published as 'Trading off wage for workplace safety? Gaps between immigrants and natives in Italy' in Economia Politica, 2022, 39, 903–960

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10486

Does Job Support Make Workers Happy?

Petri Böckerman, Alex Bryson, Antti Kauhanen, Mari Kangasniemi

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 67 (1), 31-52

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10435

Gender Differences in the Union Wage Premium? A Comparative Case Study

Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen, Kristine Nergaard

published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 26 (2), 173 - 190

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10107

An Evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act Adult Program in Minnesota: Lessons from the Financial Crisis

Ellen Bendewald, Nicholas Maryns, Raymond Robertson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10051