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65 IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17478

Sharing the Fame but Taking the Blame: When Declaring a Single Person Responsible Solves a Free Rider Problem

Xinyu Li, Wendelin Schnedler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15881

Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment: Thirty Years On

W. Bentley MacLeod, James Malcomson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15540

Working from Home Around the World

Cevat Giray Aksoy, José María Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Mathias Dolls, Pablo Zarate

published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2022, 281–330

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14986

Does Group-Based Incentive Pay Lead To Higher Productivity? Evidence from a Complex and Interdependent Industrial Production Process

Anders Frederiksen, Daniel Baltzer Schjødt Hansen, Colleen Flaherty Manchester

published as ' Group-based incentives and individual performance: Unpacking the effort response' in: ILR Review, 2024, 77 (2), 273-293.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14956

How Does the Position in Business Group Hierarchies Affect Workers' Wages?

Hartmut Egger, Elke J. Jahn, Stefan Kornitzky

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 194 (2), 244-263

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14255

The Impact of Robot Adoption on Global Sourcing

Akin A. Cilekoglu, Rosina Moreno, Raul Ramos

published in: Research Policy, 2024, 53 (3), 104953

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13717

Corporate Hierarchies under Employee Representation

Filippo Belloc, Gabriel Burdin, Fabio Landini

published as 'Corporate hierarchies and workplace voice' in: Journal of Institutional Economics, 2023, 19 (6), 729 - 746

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13491

Cognitive Performance in the Home Office - Evidence from Professional Chess

Steffen Künn, Christian Seel, Dainis Zegners

published in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (643), 1218 - 1232

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. 12970

Do Financial Constraints Affect the Composition of Workers in a Firm?

Robert Breunig, Diana Hourani, Sasan Bakhtiari, Elisabetta Magnani

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12267

Helping under a Combination of Team and Tournament Incentives

Anastasia Danilov, Bernd Irlenbusch, Christine Harbring

published in: in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 2019, 162, 120-135

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12252

Spillovers and Substitutability in Production

Kerry L. Papps, Alex Bryson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11965

HPWS in the Public Sector: Are There Mutual Gains?

Michael White, Alex Bryson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11500

Employment Protection and Firm Relocation: Theory and Evidence

Gerda Dewit, Holger Görg, Yama Temouri

published in: Economica, 2019, 86 (344), 663-688

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11387

Time Is on My Side: Relational Contracts and Aggregate Welfare

Bohdan Kukharskyy, Michael P. Pflüger

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, 71 (3), 709 - 732

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11365

The Impact of Self-Selection on Performance

Lukas Kiessling, Jonas Radbruch, Sebastian Schaube

substantially revised version published as ' Self-Selection of Peers and Performance' in Management Science, 2022, 68 (11), 7793 - 8514

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. 10737

HRM and Small-Firm Employee Motivation: Before and after the Recession

Alex Bryson, Michael White

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72, 3: 749-773

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10546

The Effectiveness of Incentive Schemes in the Presence of Implicit Effort Costs

Sebastian J. Goerg, Sebastian Kube, Jonas Radbruch

substantially revised version published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (9), 3949-4450.

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. 10033

Worker-Level Consequences of Import Shocks

Katariina Nilsson Hakkala, Kristiina Huttunen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9913

Temporary Agency Work and the Great Recession

Daniel Baumgarten, Michael Kvasnicka

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 136, 29-44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9473

A Theory of Intra-Firm Group Design

Semih Tumen

published in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2016, 45(1), 89-102

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9463

The Impact of Part-Time Work on Firm Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from Italy

Francesco Devicienti, Elena Grinza, Davide Vannoni

published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2018, 27 (2), 321 - 347

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9262

Intangible Investment and Technical Efficiency: The Case of Software-Intensive Manufacturing Firms in Turkey

Derya Findik, Aysit Tansel

published in: P.E. Thomas, M. Srihari and S. Kaur (eds.): Handbook of Research on Cultural and Economic Impacts of the Information Society, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 2015, Ch. 8

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9239

Does ICT Investment Spur or Hamper Offshoring? Empirical Evidence from Microdata

Luigi Benfratello, Tiziano Razzolini, Alessandro Sembenelli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8707

Helping in Teams

Anastasia Danilov, Christine Harbring, Bernd Irlenbusch

revised version published as 'Helping Under a Combination of Team and Tournament Incentives' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 162, 120-135.

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. 7426

Multitasking and Wages

Dennis J. Snower, Dennis Görlich

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7138

'Make-or-Buy' of Peripheral Services in Manufacturing: Evidence from Spanish Plant-Level Data

Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez, Ricard Gil

published as 'Outsourcing of Peripheral Services: Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Plant-Level Data' in: European Economic Review, 2015, 78, 328-344

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 published as 'Asymmetric spiders: Supplier heterogeneity and the organization of firms' in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2016, 49 (2), 663 - 684

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5794

Workforce Reorganization and the Worker

Ben Kriechel, Gerard A. Pfann

published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (13), 1719-1729

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5423

Is Part-Time Employment Beneficial for Firm Productivity?

Annemarie Künn-Nelen, Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (5), 1172-1191

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