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59 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18187
Working from Home and Mental Health: Giving Employees a Choice Does Make a Difference
Uwe Jirjahn, Cinzia Rienzo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18059
Management Practices, Workplace Health Promotion and Productivity
Uwe Jirjahn, Jens Mohrenweiser
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17877
Gender Differences in Performance Evaluations
Katja Görlitz, Tim Sels
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17778
On the Role of Legislation as a Driver of Incentive Management Practices in Europe
John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17724
The Relative Importance of the Establishment in the Determination of Job Quality
Alex Bryson, John Forth, Francis Green
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17614
Monopsony in the New Zealand Labour Market: First Estimates from Administrative Data
Corey Allan, David C. Maré, Dean R. Hyslop
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17245
Measuring Bias in Job Recommender Systems: Auditing the Algorithms
Shuo Zhang, Peter J. Kuhn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17234
Working from Home and Performance Pay: Individual or Collective Payment Schemes?
Uwe Jirjahn, Cinzia Rienzo
revised version forthcoming in: British Journal of Industrial Relations
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17182
Work Meaningfulness and Effort
Femke Cnossen, Milena Nikolova
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17061
Work Schedules
Jed DeVaro
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17005
The Demise of Works Councils in Germany
Susanne Kohaut, Claus Schnabel
forthcoming in: Industrielle Beziehungen (German Journal of Industrial Relations), 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16876
Complements or Substitutes? Examining the Relationship between Teamwork and Selection Intensity
Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez, Sara Martinez-de-Morentin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16656
Robots, Meaning, and Self-Determination
Milena Nikolova, Femke Cnossen, Boris Nikolaev
published in: Research Policy, 2024, 53 (5), 104987
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16610
Just Another Cog in the Machine? A Worker-Level View of Robotization and Tasks
Milena Nikolova, Anthony Lepinteur, Femke Cnossen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16267
Variable Payment Schemes and Productivity: Do Individual-Based Schemes Really Have a Stronger Influence than Collective Ones?
Uwe Jirjahn, Jens Mohrenweiser
revised version published online in: Kyklos, 25 May 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16261
When Are Employers Interested in Electronic Performance Monitoring? Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment
Luisa Wieser, Martin Abraham, Claus Schnabel, Cornelia Niessen, Mauren Wolff
slightly revised version published as 'Employers’ Muted Interest in Electronic Performance Monitoring (EPM)' in: S. Pfeiffer et al. (eds.), Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelten, SpringerNature. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2024, 181-202
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16147
Helping and Antisocial Behavior in the Workplace
Michael Haylock, Patrick Kampkötter, Michael Kosfeld, Ferdinand von Siemens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15455
The Impact of Absent Coworkers on Productivity in Teams
Sam Hoey, Thomas Peeters, Jan C. van Ours
published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 83, 102400
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15131
Peer Effects in the Workplace: A Network Approach
Matthew J. Lindquist, Jan Sauermann, Yves Zenou
revised version available here
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14831
Preferences, Selection, and the Structure of Teacher Pay
Andrew C. Johnston
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2025, 17 (3), 310–346
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 13121
Teacher Preferences, Working Conditions, and Compensation Structure
Andrew C. Johnston
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. 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. 11965
HPWS in the Public Sector: Are There Mutual Gains?
Michael White, Alex Bryson
published in: F. Origio and S. Tomelleri (eds.), Rethinking entrepreneurial human capital, Springer, 2018, 43-62
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11788
The Impact of Employment Protection on the Industrial Wage Structure
John S. Heywood, Mary O'Mahony, W. Stanley Siebert, Ana Rincon-Aznar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11095
Serving the Public Interest in Several Ways: Theory and Empirics
Robert Dur, Max van Lent
published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 13-24
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11066
Nonunion Employee Representation: Theory and the German Experience with Mandated Works Councils
Uwe Jirjahn, Stephen C. Smith
published in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2018, 89 (1), 201-234
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11040
The Role of Caseworkers in Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from Unplanned Absences
Amelie Schiprowski
substantially revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2020, 38 (4), 1189 - 1225
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. 10576
Ceding Control: An Experimental Analysis of Participatory Management
Philip Mellizo, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Peter Hans Matthews
published in: Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2017, 3, 62 - 74
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10128
Gender Differences in Cooperative Environments? Evidence from the U.S. Congress
Stefano Gagliarducci, M. Daniele Paserman
published in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132, 218 - 257
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10042
What Role Did Management Practices Play in SME Growth Post-Recession?
Alex Bryson, John Forth
published as 'Management Practices and SME Performance' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 66 (4), 527 - 558
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9690
When Does HRM 'Work' in Small British Enterprises?
Michael White, Alex Bryson
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72 (3), 749-773
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. 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. 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. 6254
How Unjust! An Experimental Investigation of Supervisors' Evaluation Errors and Agents' Incentives
Lucia Marchegiani, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Matteo Rizzolli
revised version published as 'Loss Averse Agents and Lenient Supervisors in Performance Appraisal' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 131, 183-197
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4863
Earnings Progression, Human Capital and Incentives: Theory and Evidence
Anders Frederiksen
published as 'Incentives and Earnings Growth' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 85 (1), 97-107
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4532
Social Interaction, Co-Worker Altruism, and Incentives
Robert Dur, Joeri Sol
published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2010, 69 (2), 293-301
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4065
Atypical Work and Employment Continuity
John T. Addison, Christopher J. Surfield
published in: Industrial Relations, 2009, 48 (4), 655-683
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3881
Worker Self-Selection and the Profits from Cooperation
Michael Kosfeld, Ferdinand von Siemens
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 573 - 582
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3839
Gift Exchange in the Workplace: Money or Attention?
Robert Dur
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 550 - 560
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3685
Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment
Paul Grout, Wendelin Schnedler
improved version is available here
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3132
Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure
Arghya Ghosh, Takao Kato, Hodaka Morita
revised version published as 'Incremental innovation and competitive pressure in the presence of discrete innovation' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 135, 1-14
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2834
Gender Differences in Performance in Competitive Environments: Evidence from Professional Tennis Players
M. Daniele Paserman
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