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IZA Discussion Paper No. 9501

Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market

Alan Benson, Aaron Sojourner, Akhmed Umyarov

published in: Management Science, 2020, 66 (5), 1802-1825

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. 9470

Gender and the Effect of Working Hours on Firm-Sponsored Training

Matteo Picchio, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 125, 192-211

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9417

Gender Gaps in Performance: Evidence from Young Lawyers

Ghazala Azmat, Rosa Ferrer

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 125 (5), 1306-1355

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9392

Heterogeneity of Skill Needs and Job Complexity: Evidence from the OECD PIAAC Survey

Konstantinos Pouliakas, Giovanni Russo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9386

Procedures vs. Incentives: The Case of the University Promotion System in Italy

Carlo dal Maso, Enrico Rettore, Lorenzo Rocco

published in: Education Economics, 2018, 26 (3), 213 - 232

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9385

Disentangling the Role of Contract Types and Sector Disparities for Public Service Motivation

Christian Grund, Kirsten Thommes

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