IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published as 'Complementarity in Employee Participation Systems' in: Zimmermann K. (ed.) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer Nature, 2022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14637

Internal Labor Markets: A Worker Flow Approach

Ingrid Huitfeld, Andreas Ravndal Kostøl, Jan Sebastian Nimczik, Andrea Weber

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2023, 233 (2), 661-688

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14622

Preference Signaling and Worker-Firm Matching: Evidence from Interview Auctions

Ron A. Laschever, Russell Weinstein

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14595

Incentives, Self-Selection, and Coordination of Motivated Agents for the Production of Social Goods

Kevin Bauer, Michael Kosfeld, Ferdinand von Siemens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14465

What Does Codetermination Do?

Simon Jäger, Shakked Noy, Benjamin Schoefer

published in: ILR Review, 2022, 75 (4), 857-890.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14455

Complex Job Design and Layers of Hierarchy

Giovanni Russo, Gijs Van Houten

published in: Polachek, S.W., Tatsiramos, K., Russo, G. and van Houten, G. (eds.), Workplace Productivity and Management Practices (Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 49), Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021, 85-106.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14437

An Optimal Split of School Classes

Oded Stark

published in: Economic Analysis and Policy, 2021, 69, 668-675

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14435

Outcome Mechanisms for Improved Employment and Earnings through Screened Job Training: Evidence from an RCT

Matthew Baird, John Engberg, Italo A. Gutierrez

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14432

Can You Teach an Old Dog New Tricks? New Evidence on the Impact of Tenure on Productivity

Nicola Gagliardi, Elena Grinza, François Rycx

published as 'Workers' Tenure and Firm Productivity: New Evidence from Matched Employer-employee Data' in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2023, 62 (1), 3-33

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14427

Can Information about Jobs Improve the Effectiveness of Vocational Training? Experimental Evidence from India

Bhaskar Chakravorty, Wiji Arulampalam, Apurav Yash Bhatiya, Clement Imbert, Roland Rathelot

This version: April 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14425

Immigration and the UK Economy after Brexit

Jonathan Portes

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2022, 38 (1), 82-96,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14409

Post-merger Restructuring of the Labor Force

Britta Gehrke, Ernst Maug, Stefan Obernberger, Christoph Schneider

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14336

Work from Home & Productivity: Evidence from Personnel & Analytics Data on IT Professionals

Michael Gibbs, Friederike Mengel, Christoph Siemroth

published in: Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics, 2023, 1 (1), 7 - 41

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14285

Job Design, Learning & Intrinsic Motivation

Michael Gibbs

published in: Tor Eriksson (ed.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Labour Studies, Edward Elgar, 2023, 86–90

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14284

Dodging a Draft: Gary Becker's Lost Paper on Conscription

Michael Gibbs, Tim Perri

published in: Willieam Taylor (ed.), The All-Volunteer Force: Fifty Years of History, University of Kansas Press, 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14242

Incentives for Cooperation in Teams: Sociality Meets Decision Rights

Britta Butz, Pablo Guillen Alvarez, Christine Harbring

published in: Review of Managerial Science, 2024, 18, 2925 - 2951

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14239

Do You Really Want to Share Everything? The Wellbeing of Work-Linked Couples

Juliane Hennecke, Clemens Hetschko

published online in: Oxford Economic Papers, 16 September 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14199

Information Provision, Incentives, and Attention: A Field Experiment on Facilitating and Influencing Managers' Decisions

Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka, Timo Vogelsang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14174

Gender and Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments

Alison L. Booth, Patrick J. Nolen

published in: Economica, 2022, 89 (S1), S71-S85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14153

Employee Training and Firm Performance: Evidence from ESF Grant Applications

Pedro S. Martins

published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 72, 102056

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14148

Culture as a Hiring Criterion: Systemic Discrimination in a Procedurally Fair Hiring Process

Dominique Meurs, Patrick A. Puhani

published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 87, 102482

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14125

Non-linear Incentives, Worker Productivity, and Firm Profits: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

Richard B. Freeman, Wei Huang, Teng Li

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14083

Breaking Gender Barriers: Experimental Evidence on Men in Pink-Collar Jobs

Alexia Delfino

published in: Amercian Economic Review, 2024, 114 (6), 1816 -1853

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14067

Who Benefits from Corporate Social Responsibility? Reciprocity in the Presence of Social Incentives and Self-Selection

Guglielmo Briscese, Nick Feltovich, Robert Slonim

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14050

Turning Relative Deprivation into a Performance Incentive Device

Oded Stark, Grzegorz Kosiorowski

published in: Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 2021, 45 (1), 22-36

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14040

Academic Careers and Fertility Decisions

Maria De Paola, Roberto Nistico, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: D. Checchi, T. Jappelli, A. Uricchio (eds.), Teaching, Research and Academic Careers, Springer, 2022, 135 -161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14029

Escaping Social Pressure: Fixed-Term Contracts in Multi-Establishment Firms

Andrea Bassanini, Eve Caroli, Francois Fontaine, Antoine Rebérioux

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 188, 697-715

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14024

Job Placement via Private vs. Public Employment Agencies: Investigating Selection Effects and Job Match Quality in Germany

Adam Ayaita, Christian Grund, Lisa Pütz

published in: Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research, 2022, 74 (2), 137-162

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14014

The Distinct Impact of Information and Incentives on Cheating

Julien Benistant, Fabio Galeotti, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'Competition, information, and the erosion of morals' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 204, 148-163,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13898

Workplace Incentives and Organizational Learning

Francesco Amodio, Miguel A. Martinez-Carrasco

published in: Journal of Labor Economics 2023, 41 (2), 453-478

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13860

Labor-Market Conditions and Leadership Styles

Robert Dur, Ola Kvaløy, Anja Schöttner

revised version published in: Management Science, 2022, 68 (4), 3150-3168

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13840

Don't Downsize This! Social Reactions to Mass Dismissals on Twitter

Andrea Bassanini, Eve Caroli, Bruno Chaves Ferreira, Antoine Rebérioux

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13809

Whoever You Want Me to Be: Personality and Incentives

Andrew McGee, Peter McGee

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2024, 64 (3), 1268 - 1291

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13789

Assessing Selection Bias in Non-Experimental Estimates of the Returns to Workplace Training

Jan Sauermann, Anders Stenberg

revised version available here

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13733

Do Recruiters Select Workers with Different Personality Traits for Different Tasks? A Discrete Choice Experiment

Caroline Wehner, Andries de Grip, Harald Pfeifer

published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102186

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13696

Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools

Clare Leaver, Owen Ozier, Pieter Serneels, Andrew Zeitlin

published in: American Economic Review 2021, 111 (7), 2213 - 2246

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13669

Teacher Allocation and School Performance in Italy

Alex Bryson, Lorenzo Corsini, Irene Martelli

published in: Labour, 2022, 36 (4), 409 - 423

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13624

Employee Identification and Wages: On the Economics of 'Affective Commitment'

Patrick Kampkötter, Lea Petters, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 188, 608-626

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13596

Competition and Career Advancement: The Hidden Costs of Paid Leave

Julian V. Johnsen, Hyejin Ku, Kjell G. Salvanes

latest version published online as 'Competition and Career Advancement' in: Review of Economic Studies, 13 October 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13595

Social Pressure in the Stadiums: Do Agents Change Behavior without Crowd Support?

Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2021, 82, 102344.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13583

Trustworthiness in the Financial Industry

Andrej Gill, Matthias Heinz, Heiner Schumacher, Matthias Sutter

revised version published as 'Social Preferences of Young Professionals and the Financial Industry' in: Management Science, 2023, 69 (7), 3905-3919.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13548

Are Estimates of Non-Standard Employment Wage Penalties Robust to Different Wage Measures? The Case of Zero Hours Contracts in the UK

Egidio Farina, Colin P. Green, Duncan McVicar

published in: Industrial Relations, 2021, 60 (3), 370 - 399

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13504

Job Satisfaction and Work-Life Balance: Differences between Homework and Work at the Workplace of the Company

Lutz Bellmann, Olaf Hübler

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2021, 42 (3), 424-441

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13498

Team Incentives, Social Cohesion, and Performance: A Natural Field Experiment

Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur, Oke Onemu, Joeri Sol

published in: Management Science, 2022, 68 (1), 230-256

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. 13369

Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers

Hyejin Ku

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (2), 325-359

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13368

The Effect of Business Cycle Expectations on the German Apprenticeship Market: Estimating the Impact of COVID-19

Samuel Mühlemann, Harald Pfeifer, Bernhard Wittek

published in: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2020, 12, Article 8 (2020)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13358

The Bonding Effect of Deferred Compensation: Worker Separations from a Large Firm in Early Transition Russia

Mikhail Ananyev, Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13285

Management Practices, Worker Commitment, and Workplace Representation

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13218

Innovation and Communication Media in Virtual Teams – An Experimental Study

Nicola Grözinger, Bernd Irlenbusch, Katharina Laske, Marina Schröder

revised & extended version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 180, 201-218

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13216

Gender-Specific Duration of Parental Leave and Current Earnings

Benedikt Gerst, Christian Grund

published in: Work, Employment & Society, 2023, 37, 215 - 235

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13201

Two Field Experiments on Self-Selection, Collaboration Intensity, and Team Performance

Mira Fischer, Rainer Michael Rilke, B. Burcin Yurtoglu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13174

Gender Differences in Professional Career Dynamics: New Evidence from a Global Law Firm

Ina Ganguli, Ricardo Hausmann, Martina Viarengo

published in: Economica, 2021, 88 (349), 104 - 128

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13154

Apprenticeship and Youth Unemployment

Pierre Cahuc, Jeremy Hervelin

published as 'The effect of workplace vs school-based vocational education on youth unemployment: Evidence from France' in: European Economic Review, 2024, 162, 104637

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13123

Macroeconomic Conditions When Young Shape Job Preferences for Life

Maria Cotofan, Lea Cassar, Robert Dur, Stephan Meier

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (2), 467–473

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13121

Teacher Preferences, Working Conditions, and Compensation Structure

Andrew C. Johnston

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13116

Is Precarious Employment Bad for Worker Health? The Case of Zero Hours Contracts in the UK

Egidio Farina, Colin P. Green, Duncan McVicar

published as 'Zero hours contracts and self-reported (mental) health in the UK' in: BJIR, 2024, 62 (1), 50-71

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13112

What Makes Work Meaningful and Why Economists Should Care about It

Milena Nikolova, Femke Cnossen

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101847

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13033

Does Working at a Start-Up Pay Off?

Daniel Fackler, Lisa Hölscher, Claus Schnabel, Antje Weyh

published in: Small Business Economics, 2022, 58 (4), 2211-2233

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12992

Working Too Much for Too Little: Stochastic Rewards Cause Work Addiction

Brice Corgnet, Simon Gächter, Roberto Hernán González

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12991

Fertility Decisions and Employment Protection: The Unintended Consequences of the Italian Jobs Act

Maria De Paola, Roberto Nistico, Vincenzo Scoppa

published as 'Employment protection and fertility decisions: the unintended consequences of the Italian Jobs Act' in: Economic Policy, 2021, 36 (108), 735 - 773

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12959

Do Women Shy Away from Public Speaking? A Field Experiment

Maria De Paola, Rosetta Lombardo, Valeria Pupo, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 70, 102001

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12912

The Effect of Unfair Chances and Gender Discrimination on Labor Supply

Nickolas Gagnon, Kristof Bosmans, Arno Riedl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12907

When Do Teachers Respond to Student Feedback? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Margaretha Buurman, Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur, Robin Zoutenbier

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101858

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12905

When Too Good Is Too Much: Social Incentives and Job Selection

Tommaso G. Reggiani, Rainer Michael Rilke

revised version online as 'Designing Donation Incentive Contracts for Online Gig Workers' in: Journal of Business Ethics, 2024, 190, 553 - 568

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12902

Gender Promotion Gaps: Career Aspirations and Workplace Discrimination

Ghazala Azmat, Vicente Cuñat, Emeric Henry

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12840

Inputs, Incentives, and Self-Selection at the Workplace

Francesco Amodio, Miguel A. Martinez-Carrasco

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. 12773

Employment Protection and Firm-Provided Training: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Labour Market Reform

Massimiliano Bratti, Maurizio Conti, Giovanni Sulis

revised version published as 'Employment Protection and Firm-provided Training in Dual Labour Markets' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 69, 101972

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12767

Owners, External Managers, and Industrial Relations in German Establishments

Arnd Kölling, Claus Schnabel

substantially revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2022, 60 (2), 424-443

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12762

Money for Something: Braided Funding and the Structure and Output of Research Groups

Russell J. Funk, Britta Glennon, Julia Lane, Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Matthew B. Ross

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12736

Visible Minorities and Job Mobility: Evidence from a Workplace Panel Survey

Mohsen Javdani

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2020, 18, 491–524

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12670

Works Councils and Performance Appraisals

Christian Grund, Dirk Sliwka, Krystina Titz

published in: Journal of Participation & Employee Ownership, 2020, 3, 29-50

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12667

Paying Gig Workers – Evidence from a Field Experiment

Sebastian Butschek, Roberto González Amor, Patrick Kampkötter, Dirk Sliwka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12657

Are Women Doing It For Themselves? Gender Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap

Nikolaos Theodoropoulos, John Forth, Alex Bryson

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 84 (6), 1329-1355

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12600

Teacher Performance Pay and Student Learning: Evidence from a Nationwide Program in Peru

Cristina Bellés Obrero, María Lombardi

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2022, 70 (4), 1631–1669

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12598

Does Employing Older Workers Affect Workplace Performance?

Alex Bryson, John Forth, Helen Gray, Lucy Stokes

published in: Industrial Relations, 2020, 59 (4), 532 - 562,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12587

Why Join a Team?

David J. Cooper, Krista Saral, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Management Science, 2021, 67 (11), 6980-6997

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12540

The Role of Leaders in Inducing and Maintaining Cooperation: The CC Strategy

Michael Kosfeld

published in: Leadership Quarterly, 2020, 31 (3), 101292

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12527

The Impact of High-Performance Work Systems on Employees: A Sectoral Comparison

Michael White, Alex Bryson

forthcoming in: Labour

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12517

High Performance Work Systems and Public Sector Workplace Performance in Britain

Michael White, Alex Bryson

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2021,73 (3), 1057-1076

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12513

Decisions on Extending Group Membership: Evidence from a Public Good Experiment

Christian Grund, Christine Harbring, Kirsten Thommes, Katja Rebecca Tilkes

published in: Games, 2020, 11 (4), 61

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12511

Immigrants and Workplace Training: Evidence from Canadian Linked Employer Employee Data

Benoit Dostie, Mohsen Javdani

published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy & Society, 2020, 59 (2), 275-315.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12497

Who Is a Passive Saver under Opt-In and Auto-Enrollment?

Gopi Shah Goda, Matthew R. Levy, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Aaron Sojourner, Joshua Tasoff

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 173, 301-321

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12479

Open Labor Markets and Firms’ Substitution between Training Apprentices and Hiring Workers

Manuel Aepli, Andreas Kuhn

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 70, 101979

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12447

Training, Soft Skills and Productivity: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Maria Prada, Graciana Rucci, Sergio Urzua

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12446

Talking about Performance or Paying for it? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka, Timo Vogelsang

published as 'Talking About Performance or Paying for It? A Field Experiment on Performance Reviews and Incentives' in: Management Science, 2023, 69 (4), 2198-2216

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12305

The Effect of Employment Protection on Firms' Worker Selection

Sebastian Butschek, Jan Sauermann

published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 09 May 2022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12291

Zero Hours Contracts and Their Growth

Egidio Farina, Colin P. Green, Duncan McVicar

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58(3), 507-531

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. 12264

Responding to Regulation: The Effects of Changes in Mandatory Retirement Laws on Firm-Provided Incentives

Anders Frederiksen, Colleen Flaherty Manchester

published as 'Personnel Practices and Regulation: How Firm-Provided Incentives Respond to Changes in Mandatory Retirement Law' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (4), 1011-1042

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12253

Advanced Counter-Biasing

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Kevin Benscheidt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12252

Spillovers and Substitutability in Production

Kerry L. Papps, Alex Bryson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12182

Girls' and Boys' Performance in Competitions: What We Can Learn from a Korean Quiz Show

Alison L. Booth, Jungmin Lee

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 187, 431-447.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12120

Unethical Behavior and Group Identity in Contests