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The IZA Discussion Paper Series (ISSN: 2365-9793) disseminates high-quality research by IZA network members to the scientific community and the interested public worldwide before they are later published in academic journals. Comprising more than 17,000 papers, IZA's publication flagship is the most influential working paper series in labor economics.

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134 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18310
How to Attract Talent? Field-Experimental Evidence on Emphasizing Flexibility and Career Opportunities in Job Advertisements
Larissa Fuchs, Matthias Heinz, Pia Pinger, Max Thon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18127
Workplace Peer Effects in Fertility Decisions
Maria De Paola, Roberto Nistico, Vincenzo Scoppa
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17921
The Managerial Labor Market and Gender Gaps in Beliefs About Own Ability
Tor Eriksson, Nina Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17848
From Followers to Leaders: The Career Impact of High-Quality Managers
Yuyu Chen, Lukas Hensel, Xinjue Yao
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17737
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Examining Efficiency and Equity in Designing Summer Youth Employment Programs
Alicia Sasser Modestino, Mindy Marks, Hanna Hoover, Hitanshu Pandit
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17721
Too Much of a Good Thing? Telework Intensity and Workplace Experiences
Eline Moens, Louis Lippens, Kathleen Vangronsvelt, Ans De Vos, Stijn Baert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17693
Assessing the Value of Incomplete University Degrees: Experimental Evidence from HR Recruiters
Andrea Diem, Christian Gschwendt, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17673
Unpacking the Child Penalty Using Personnel Data: How Promotion Practices Widen the Gender Pay Gap
Yoko Okuyama, Takeshi Murooka, Shintaro Yamaguchi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17532
Hope, Noise, and the Efficiency of Perfect Meritocracy
Luca Beltrametti, Gabriele Cardullo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17480
Designing Gender Equity: Evidence from Hiring Practices
Tatiana Mocanu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17401
Do Women on Boards Matter? Network and Spillover Effects on Gender Gaps within Firms
Emma von Essen, Nina Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17240
Gendered Language in Academic Evaluations: Evidence from the Italian University System
Matilde Casamonti, Natalia Zinovyeva
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17082
The Impact of Peer Performance and Relative Rank on Managerial Career Attainment: Evidence from College Students
Rafael Perez Ribas, Breno Sampaio, Giuseppe Trevisan
pubished in: Management Science, 2025, 71 (5), 4510–4531
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17077
Decoding Gender Bias: The Role of Personal Interaction
Abdelrahman Amer, Ashley C Craig, Clémentine Van Effenterre
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17065
The Gender Disclosure Gap: Salary History Bans Unravel When Men Volunteer Their Income
Bo Cowgill, Amanda Agan, Laura Katherine Gee
published in: Organization Science, 2024, 35 (5), 1571–1588
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17004
Delegation in Hiring: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit
Bo Cowgill, Patryk Perkowski
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. 16845
Do Recruiters Penalize Men Who Prefer Low Hours? Evidence from Online Labor Market Data
Daniel Kopp
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16840
Competitive Job Seekers: When Sharing Less Leaves Firms at a Loss
Gaurav Chiplunkar, Erin Kelley, Gregory Lane
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16748
Heavy Is the Crown: CEOs' Social Interactions and Layoff Decisions
Andrea Bassanini, Eve Caroli, Kevin Geay, Antoine Rebérioux
published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2024, 33 (5), 1253–1270
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16682
Occupational Job Ladders within and between Firms
Eliza Forsythe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16643
Human Values and Selection into Supervisory Positions: Evidence from Nine European Countries
Mihails Hazans, Jaan Masso, Per Botolf Maurseth
revised version published online in International Journal of Manpower, 9 September 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16576
Demand for Personality Traits, Tasks, and Sorting
Vera Brenčič, Andrew McGee
published in: Elsner, B. and Polachek, S.W. (eds.), Big Data Applications in Labor Economics, Part A (Research in Labor Economics, 52A), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, 2024, 161-211
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16560
So, Dear Applicant, Do You Mean Working from Home or Shirking from Home?
Eline Moens, Elsy Verhofstadt, Luc Van Ootegem, Stijn Baert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16443
Divergent Thinking and Post-Launch Entrepreneurial Outcomes: Non-Linearities and the Moderating Role of Experience
Marco Caliendo, Daniel Rodriguez
published in: Small Business Economics, 2024, 62, 1523-1553
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16424
The Micro-Foundations of Employment Systems: An Empirical Case Study of Britain and France
Thomas Amossé, Alex Bryson, John Forth, Héloïse Petit
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2025, 63 (1), 3 - 29
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16361
Are Managers More Machiavellian than Other Employees?
Mehrzad B. Baktash, Uwe Jirjahn
revised version forthcoming in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16083
Employers' Demand for Personality Traits
Vera Brenčič, Andrew McGee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15724
Firm Consolidation and Labor Market Outcomes
Sabien Dobbelaere, Grace McCormack, Daniel Prinz, Sandor Sovago
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, 235, 107036
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15521
International Assortative Matching in the European Labor Market
Thomas Peeters, Jan C. van Ours
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14873
Personnel Adjustments during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Did Co-Determination Make a Difference?
Daniel Fackler, Claus Schnabel, Jens Stegmaier
published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2024, 58, 4 (2024)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14799
Interview Sequences and the Formation of Subjective Assessments
Jonas Radbruch, Amelie Schiprowski
substantially revised version published online in: Review of Economic Studies, 10 April 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14622
Preference Signaling and Worker-Firm Matching: Evidence from Interview Auctions
Ron A. Laschever, Russell Weinstein
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. 14409
Post-merger Restructuring of the Labor Force
Britta Gehrke, Ernst Maug, Stefan Obernberger, Christoph Schneider
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14239
Do You Really Want to Share Everything? The Wellbeing of Work-Linked Couples
Juliane Hennecke, Clemens Hetschko
revised version published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2025, 77 (2), 516–536
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 12902
Gender Promotion Gaps: Career Aspirations and Workplace Discrimination
Ghazala Azmat, Vicente Cuñat, Emeric Henry
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. 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,
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