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257 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17220
Do Contract Remedies Affect Efficient Renegotiation? An Experiment
Maria Bigoni, Stefania Bortolotti, Francesco Parisi, Xin Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17117
Government Contracting and Living Wages > Minimum Wages
Nikhil Datta, Stephen Machin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17079
Why Wages Don't Fall in Jobs with Incomplete Contracts
Marco Fongoni, Daniel Schaefer, Carl Singleton
forthcoming in: Management Science, 2024.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16913
Overeducation, Overskilling and Job Satisfaction in Europe: The Moderating Role of Employment Contracts
Romina Giuliano, Benoît Mahy, François Rycx, Guillaume Vermeylen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16872
Incentive Contracts Crowd Out Voluntary Cooperation: Evidence from Gift-Exchange Experiments
Simon Gächter, Esther Kaiser, Manfred Königstein
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16787
Wage Cyclicality and Labour Market Institutions
João Pereira, Raul Ramos, Pedro S. Martins
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16481
Bonus Question: Does Flexible Incentive Pay Dampen Unemployment Dynamics?
Meghana Gaur, John Grigsby, Jonathon Hazell, Abdoulaye Ndiaye
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16427
Past and Future Developments in the Economics of Relational Contracts
Matthias Fahn, W. Bentley MacLeod, Gerd Muehlheusser
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16380
Do Teachers' Labor Contracts Matter?
Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll, Roberto Quaranta
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16333
Outside Options and Worker Motivation
Alexander Ahammer, Matthias Fahn, Flora Stiftinger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15893
Unions as Insurance: Employer–Worker Risk Sharing and Workers' Outcomes during COVID-19
Nils Braakmann, Boris Hirsch
published in: Industrial Relations, 2024, 63 (2), 152-171
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15881
Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment: Thirty Years On
W. Bentley MacLeod, James Malcomson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15794
The Perverse Effect of Flexible Work Arrangements on Informality
Edoardo di Porto, Pietro Garibaldi, Giovanni Mastrobuoni, Paolo Naticchioni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15760
Import Competition, Formalization, and the Role of Contract Labor
Pavel Chakraborty, Rahul Singh, Vidhya Soundararajan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15442
The Organizational Economics of School Chains
Lorenzo Neri, Elisabetta Pasini, Olmo Silva
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15407
Are Shorter Cumulative Temporary Contracts Worse Stepping Stones? Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
Jan Kabátek, Ying Liang, Kun Zheng
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15407
Are Shorter Cumulative Temporary Contracts Worse Stepping Stones? Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
Jan Kabátek, Ying Liang, Kun Zheng
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15367
Study More Tomorrow
Todd Pugatch, Elizabeth Schroeder, Nicholas Wilson
published online in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 08 January 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15246
Heterogeneous Paths to Stability
Edoardo di Porto, Cristina Tealdi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14979
Zero-Hours Contracts in a Frictional Labor Market
Juan J. Dolado, Etienne Lalé, Hélène Turon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14700
Adverse Working Conditions and Immigrants' Physical Health and Depression Outcomes: A Longitudinal Study in Greece
Nick Drydakis
published in: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2022, 95 (2), 539 - 556
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14581
Teacher Compensation and Structural Inequality: Evidence from Centralized Teacher School Choice in Perú
Matteo Bobba, Tim Ederer, Gianmarco Leon Ciliotta, Christopher A. Neilson, Marco Nieddu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14548
Too Family Friendly? The Consequences of Parent Part-Time Working Rights
Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Núria Rodríguez-Planas
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 197, 104407
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14395
Employers' Willingness to Invest in the Training of Temporary Workers: A Discrete Choice Experiment
Davey Poulissen, Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge, Annemarie Künn-Nelen
revised version published as 'Employers’ willingness to invest in the training of temporary versus permanent workers: A discrete choice experiment' in: Labour Economics, 2023, 84, 102430
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. 13858
Does Employment Protection Unprotect Workers? The Labor Market Effects of Job Reinstatements in Peru
Bruno Jiménez, Silvio Rendon
published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 80, 102286
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. 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. 13542
Wage Determination and the Bite of Collective Contracts in Italy and Spain: Evidence from the Metalworking Industry
Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Ernesto Villanueva
published as 'Wage determination and the bite of collective contracts in Italy and Spain' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 76, 102147
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13542
Wage Determination and the Bite of Collective Contracts in Italy and Spain: Evidence from the Metalworking Industry
Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Ernesto Villanueva
published as 'Wage determination and the bite of collective contracts in Italy and Spain' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 76, 102147
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13360
Lending to the Unbanked: Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks
Kevin Lang, Kaiwen Leong, Huailu Li, Haibo Xu
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
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. 12771
Labor Market Frictions and Lowest Low Fertility
Nezih Guner, Ezgi Kaya, Virginia Sánchez-Marcos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12609
Wage Fairness in a Subcontracted Labor Market
Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, Vidhya Soundararajan
forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12398
Business Culture: The Role of Personal and Impersonal Business Relationships on Market Efficiency
Manuel Munoz-Herrera, Ernesto Reuben
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12320
Incentivizing Learning-By-Doing: The Role of Compensation Schemes
Joshua Graff Zivin, Lisa B. Kahn, Matthew Neidell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12309
How Stable Is Labour Market Dualism? Reforms of Employment Protection in Nine European Countries
Werner Eichhorst, Paul Marx
published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 27 (1), 93-110
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. 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. 12269
The Third Theorem of Welfare Economics: Report from a Fictional Field Study
Karine Nyborg
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. 12262
Voluntary Job Separations and Traditional versus Flexible Workplace Saving Plans: Evidence from Canada
Tony Fang, Derek Messacar
published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2019, 45 (2), 239-261.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12146
Universal Childcare for the Youngest and the Maternal Labour Supply
Astrid Kunze, Xingfei Liu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12126
Dual Labour Markets Revisited
Samuel Bentolila, Juan J. Dolado, Juan F. Jimeno
published in: Oxford Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, Published online: 28 February 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11917
The Causal Effect of Trust
Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, David B. Huffman, Nick Netzer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11712
More than the Money: Payoff-Irrelevant Terms in Relational Contracts
Erich Cromwell, Sebastian J. Goerg, Monika Leszczynska
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11712
More than the Money: Payoff-Irrelevant Terms in Relational Contracts
Erich Cromwell, Sebastian J. Goerg, Monika Leszczynska
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11705
Unintended Consequences of China's New Labor Contract Law on Unemployment and Welfare Loss of the Workers
Randall K. Q. Akee, Liqiu Zhao, Zhong Zhao
published in: China Economic Review, 2019, 53, 87-105
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11579
Contract Employment as a Worker Discipline Device
Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, Vidhya Soundararajan
revised version forthcoming in: Journal of Development Economics
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