IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published as 'The Role of Contract Types for Employees' Public Service Motivation' in: Schmalenbach Business Review, 2017, 18, 377-398

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9379

Work-Life Balance Practices, Performance-Related Pay, and Gender Equality in the Workplace: Evidence from Japan

Takao Kato, Naomi Kodama

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9363

Ten Facts You Need To Know About Hiring

Samuel Mühlemann, Mirjam Strupler Leiser

published as "Hiring costs and labor market tightness" in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 122-131.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9331

Women Have to Enter the Leadership Race to Win: Using Random Selection to Increase the Supply of Women into Senior Positions

Amanda H. Goodall, Margit Osterloh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9330

Strive to be First or Avoid Being Last: An Experiment on Relative Performance Incentives

E. Glenn Dutcher, Loukas Balafoutas, Florian Lindner, Dmitry Ryvkin, Matthias Sutter

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2015, 94, 39-56.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9316

Team Incentives and Performance: Evidence from a Retail Chain

Guido Friebel, Matthias Heinz, Miriam Krüger, Nick Zubanov

published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107(8), 2168-2203

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9296

Job Satisfaction and Employee Turnover: A Firm-Level Perspective

Anders Frederiksen

published in: German Journal of Human Resource Management, 2017, 31 (2), 132-161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9294

The Role of Establishments and the Concentration of Occupations in Wage Inequality

Elizabeth Handwerker, James R. Spletzer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9285

The Complementary Use of Experiments and Field Data to Evaluate Management Practices: The Case of Subjective Performance Evaluations

Patrick Kampkötter, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 2016, 172 (2), 364-389

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9251

Third-Party vs. Second-Party Control: Disentangling the Role of Autonomy and Reciprocity

Gabriel Burdin, Simon Halliday, Fabio Landini

revised version published as 'The hidden benefits of abstaining from control' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 147, 1-12.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9243

Performance Measurement and Incentive Intensity

Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez, Sara Martinez-de-Morentin

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2017, 38, 496–546

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9179

Worker Reciprocity and the Returns to Training: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Jan Sauermann

published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2023, 32 (3), 543-557

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9153

Labor Supply and Productivity Responses to Non-Salary Benefits: Do They Work? If So, at What Level Do They Work Best?

Marilyn Spencer, Deniz Gevrek, Valrie Chambers, Randall Bowden

published in: Personnel Review, 2016, 45 (5), 1047-1068

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9140

Employer Downsizing and Older Workers' Health

Italo A. Gutierrez, Pierre-Carl Michaud

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9110

Saving Face and Group Identity

Tor Eriksson, Lei Mao, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2017, 20 (3), 622-647

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9084

A Real-Effort Experiment on Gift Exchange with Temptation

Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger

revised version published as 'Gift Exchange, Control, and Cyberloafing: A Real-Effort Experiment" in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 131,409 - 426

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9007

Wage Returns to Mid-Career Investments in Job Training through Employer-Supported Course Enrollment: Evidence for Canada

Wen Ci, Jose C. Galdo, Marcel Voia, Christopher Worswick

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy. 2015, 4:9

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8990

The Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Returns to Voucher-Financed Training

Katja Görlitz, Marcus Tamm

substantially revised version published as 'The returns to voucher-financed training on wages, employment and job tasks' in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 51 - 62

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8950

Rank-Order Tournaments, Probability of Winning and Investing in Talent: Evidence from Champions League Qualifying Rules

Colin P. Green, Fernando A. Lozano, Rob Simmons

published in: NIESR Review: Special Issue of Sports Economics , 2015, 232 (1), R30 - R40

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8910

Not in My Community: Social Pressure and the Geography of Dismissals

Andrea Bassanini, Giorgio Brunello, Eve Caroli

revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (2), 429-483

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8909

Worker Morale and Effort: Is the Relationship Causal?

Wolter Hassink, Roberto M. Fernandez

published in: Manchester School, 2018, 86 (6), 816-839

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8859

Gender Differences in Attitudes Towards Competition: Evidence from the Italian Scientific Qualification

Maria De Paola, Michela Ponzo, Vincenzo Scoppa

published as 'Gender differences in the propensity to apply for promotion: evidence from the Italian Scientific Qualification' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69 (5), 986 - 1009.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8836

Rise of the Machines: The Effects of Labor-Saving Innovations on Jobs and Wages

Andy Feng, Georg Graetz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8775

Training Funds and the Incidence of Training: The Case of Mauritius

Oluyemisi Kuku, Peter F. Orazem, Sawkut Rojid, Milan Vodopivec

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8762

Communication and Trust in Principal-Team Relationships: Experimental Evidence

Marco Kleine, Sebastian Kube

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8761

Cooperation in Diverse Teams: The Role of Temporary Group Membership

Christian Grund, Christine Harbring, Kirsten Thommes

considerably shortened version published as 'Public Good Provision in Blended Groups of Partners and Strangers' in: Economics Letters, 2015, 134, 41-44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8725

Women Helping Women? Evidence from Private Sector Data on Workplace Hierarchies

Astrid Kunze, Amalia Miller

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99 (5), 769-775, 2017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8724

Share Capitalism and Worker Wellbeing

Alex Bryson, Andrew E. Clark, Richard B. Freeman, Colin P. Green

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 151-158

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. 8704

Strategic Incomplete Contracts: Theory and Experiments

Nisvan Erkal, Steven Y. Wu, Brian E. Roe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8647

The Effect of Female Leadership on Establishment and Employee Outcomes: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Stefano Gagliarducci, M. Daniele Paserman

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2015, 41, 341-372

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8602

Do Female Executives Make a Difference? The Impact of Female Leadership on Gender Gaps and Firm Performance

Luca Flabbi, Mario Macis, Andrea Moro, Fabiano Schivardi

published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (622), 2390-2423

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8559

Boss Competence and Worker Well-being

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

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2017, 70 (2), 419–450

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8538

Say Pays! Shareholder Voice and Firm Performance

Vicente Cuñat, Mireia Giné, Maria Guadalupe

published in: Review of Finance, 2016, 20 (5), 1799 - 1834

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8537

Employee Stock Purchase Plans: Gift or Incentive? Evidence from a Multinational Corporation

Alex Bryson, Richard B. Freeman

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, 57 (1), 86-106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8506

Innovation, Productivity, and Training

Benoit Dostie

published as 'The Impact of Training on Innovation' in: ILR Review, 2018, 71(1): 64-87.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8478

The Family Gap in Career Progression

Astrid Kunze

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2015, Volume 41, 115-142.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8469

Vacation Leave, Work Hours and Wages: New Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Ali Fakih

published in: Labour, 2014, 28 (4), 376-398

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8447

Do Employer Preferences Contribute to Sticky Floors?

Stijn Baert, Ann-Sophie De Pauw, Nick Deschacht

revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2016, 69 (3), 714 - 736.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8436

Temporal and Locational Flexibility of Work, Working-Time Fit, and Job Satisfaction

Daniel Possenriede, Janneke Plantenga

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8368

Dynamic Incentive Effects of Heterogeneity in Multi-Stage Promotion Contests

Rudi Stracke, Uwe Sunde

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8345

Publish or Perish? Incentives and Careers in Italian Academia

Daniele Checchi, Gianni De Fraja, Stefano Verzillo

published in Review of Economics and Statistics 2021, 103 (4), 786-802

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8311

Employee Recognition and Performance: A Field Experiment

Christiane Bradler, Robert Dur, Susanne Neckermann, Arjan Non

published in: Management Science, 2016, 62(11), 3085-3099

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8308

Do Personality Traits Affect Productivity? Evidence from the Lab

Maria Cubel, Ana Nuevo-Chiquero, Santiago Sanchez-Pages, Marian Vidal-Fernandez

published in: Economic Journal , 2016, 126 (592). 654–681

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8286

Screening for Honesty

Bradley Ruffle, Yossef Tobol

substantially revised version available as IZA DP No. 9860

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8239

Intrinsic Motivations of Public Sector Employees: Evidence for Germany

Robert Dur, Robin Zoutenbier

published in: German Economic Review, 2015, 16(3), 343-366

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8214

Measuring Ratchet Effects within a Firm: Evidence from a Field Experiment Varying Contractual Commitment

Charles Bellemare, Bruce S. Shearer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8177

What Happens When Employers are Free to Discriminate? Evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League

Alex Bryson, Arnaud Chevalier

published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 34, 51-63

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8174

Coworkers, Networks, and Job Search Outcomes

Perihan Saygin, Andrea Weber, Michèle Weynandt

published in: ILR Review, 2021, 74 (1), 95-130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8112

Gender Pay Gaps among Highly Educated Professionals: Compensation Components Do Matter

Christian Grund

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 34, 118-126

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8108

Playing 'Hard to Get': An Economic Rationale for Crowding Out of Intrinsically Motivated Behavior

Wendelin Schnedler, Christoph Vanberg

published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 68, 106–115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8098

Are Voluntary Agreements Better? Evidence from Baseball Arbitration

John W. Budd, Aaron Sojourner, Jaewoo Jung

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2017, 70 (4), 865 - 893

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8097

Trust-Based Work-Time and Product Improvements: Evidence from Firm Level Data

Olivier Godart, Holger Görg, Aoife Hanley

published in: Industrial & Labor Relations Review, 2017, 70(4), 894-918

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8096

A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas

Michael Gibbs, Susanne Neckermann, Christoph Siemroth

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99(4), 577-590

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8055

Knowing that You Matter, Matters! The Interplay of Meaning, Monetary Incentives, and Worker Recognition

Michael Kosfeld, Susanne Neckermann, Xiaolan Yang

published as 'The Effects of Financial and Recognition Incentives across Work contexts: The Rolel of Meaning' in: Economic Inquiry, 2017, 55 (1), 237 - 247

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7959

Social Attitudes on Gender Equality and Firms' Discriminatory Pay-Setting

Simon Janssen, Simone N. Tuor Sartore, Uschi Backes-Gellner

published as 'Discriminatory Social Attitudes and Varying Gender Pay Gaps within Firms'. in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2016, 96 (1), 253 - 279

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7953

The Power of (No) Recognition: Experimental Evidence from the University Classroom

Nicky Hoogveld, Nick Zubanov

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 67, 75-84

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7936

Family Employees and Absenteeism

Jörn Block, Laszlo Goerke, José María Millán, Concepción Román

published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 123 (1), 94-99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7903

Leadership and the Research Productivity of University Departments

Amanda H. Goodall, John M. McDowell, Larry D. Singell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7902

The Academic and Labor Market Returns of University Professors

Michela Braga, Marco Paccagnella, Michele Pellizzari

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34 (3), 781-822.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7854

Equality under Threat by the Talented: Evidence from Worker-Managed Firms

Gabriel Burdin

revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126(594), 1372-1403

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7836

Corporate Sports Activity and Work Morale: Evidence from a Japanese Automobile Maker

Masaru Sasaki, Fumio Ohtake

published in: Journal of Behavioral Economics and Finance, 2013, 6, 37-46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7800

Incentive Pay and Performance: Insider Econometrics in a Multi-Unit Firm

Hein Bogaard, Jan Svejnar

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 54, 100 - 115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7758

Subjective Evaluations: Discretionary Bonuses and Feedback Credibility

William Fuchs

published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2015, 7 (1), 99–108

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7660

The Consequences of a Piece Rate on Quantity and Quality: Evidence from a Field Experiment

John S. Heywood, W. Stanley Siebert, Xiangdong Wei

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7652

Dynamic Incentive Effects of Relative Performance Pay: A Field Experiment

Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur, Arjan Non, Willem Verbeke

published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 28, 1-13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7624

Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? Evidence from the Employers' Side

Hanna Brenzel, Hermann Gartner, Claus Schnabel

published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 29, 41-48

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7602

Motivating Agents: How Much Does the Mission Matter?

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Erick Gong

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 35 (1 Part 1), 211-236

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7534

Firm-Level Hiring Difficulties: Persistence, Business Cycle and Local Labour Market Influences

Richard Fabling, David C. Maré

published in: Journal of Labour Research, 2016, 37, 179 - 210

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7523

Peer Pressure and Productivity: The Role of Observing and Being Observed

Sotiris Georganas, Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 117, 223-232.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7521

Social Networks and Peer Effects at Work

Julie Beugnot, Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix, Marie Claire Villeval

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7499

Exploitation Aversion: When Financial Incentives Fail to Motivate Agents

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, David Dolifka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7435

Management Compensation and the Economic Crisis: Longitudinal Evidence from the German Chemical Sector

Christian Grund, Tanja Walter

published in: Review of Managerial Science, 2015, 9, 751-777

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7411

Can You Trust the Good Guys? Trust Within and Between Groups with Different Missions

Sebastian Fehrler, Michael Kosfeld

published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 121, 400-404

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7382

The Value of Hiring through Referrals

Stephen V. Burks, Bo Cowgill, Mitchell Hoffman, Michael Housman

revised version published as 'The Value of Hiring through Employee Referrals' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2015, 130(2), 805-839

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7363

Altruism and Relational Incentives in the Workplace

Robert Dur, Jan Tichem

published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2015, 24(3), 485-500

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7361

Works Councils, Quits and Dismissals in Germany

Christian Grund, Andreas Schmitt

revised version published in: German Journal of Human Resource Management, 2016, 30, 53-75, together with Johannes Martin as an additional co-author

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7097

Monetary Reference Points of Managers: An Empirical Investigation of Status Quo Preferences and Social Comparisons

Christian Grund, Johannes Martin

revised version published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 64, 70-84

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7096

Anonymous Job Applications in Europe

Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Ulf Rinne, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012, 1:5

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7091

Absenteeism, Unemployment and Employment Protection Legislation: Evidence from Italy

Vincenzo Scoppa, Daniela Vuri

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 3:3

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7088

Base Salaries, Bonus Payments, and Work Absence among Managers in a German Company

Christian Pfeifer

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 61 (5), 523-536

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7058

Working for a Good Cause

Robert Dur, Robin Zoutenbier

published in: Public Administration Review, 2014, 74(2), 144-155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7044

Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Sander M. Hoogendoorn, Simon C. Parker, Mirjam C. van Praag

published online in: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, 30 November 2017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7029

Use and Abuse of Authority: A Behavioral Foundation of the Employment Relation

Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, Klaus M. Schmidt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7022

Separating Introduction Effects from Selectivity Effects: The Differences in Employment Patterns of Co-Determined Firms

Rafael Gralla, Kornelius Kraft

published in: Labour, 2018, 32 (1), 93-111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6948

Promotion Determinants in Corporate Hierarchies: An Examination of Fast Tracks and Functional Area

Christian Belzil, Michael L. Bognanno, François Poinas

published in: Transitions through the Labor Market (Research in Labor Economics, 48), 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6896

Business Training and Female Enterprise Start-Up, Growth, and Dynamics: Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 106: 199-210

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6895

What Are We Learning from Business Training and Entrepreneurship Evaluations around the Developing World?

David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff

revised version published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2014, 29(1), 48-82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6821

The Role of Connections in Academic Promotions

Natalia Zinovyeva, Manuel Bagues

published in: American Economic Journals: Applied Economics, 2015, 7 (2), 264-292

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6818

"Employability-Miles" and Worker Employability Awareness

Ruud Gerards, Andries de Grip, Maaike Witlox

published in: Applied Economics, 2014, 46, 952-965

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6747

Team Structure and the Effectiveness of Collective Performance Pay

Marisa Ratto, Emma Tominey, Thibaud Vergé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6716

Social Incentives Matter: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment

Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos

substantially revised version published as 'Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment' in: Management Science, 2015, 61(8), 1795-1811

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6715

Expert Leaders in a Fast-Moving Environment

Amanda H. Goodall, Ganna Pogrebna

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6642

Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition: An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank

Thierry Madies, Marie Claire Villeval, Malgorzata Wasmer

revised version published as 'Intergenerational Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition' in: European Economic Review, 2013, 61, 153-168.

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