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38 IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13547

Against All Odds: Tentative Steps Toward Efficient Information Sharing in Groups

Darius Schlangenotto, Wendelin Schnedler, Radovan Vadovic

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13259

Hit by the Silk Road: How Wage Coordination in Europe Mitigates the China Shock

Erling Barth, Henning Finseraas, Anders Kjelsrud, Karl Ove Moene

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13249

Social Stability Challenged: Pandemics, Inequality and Policy Responses

Cristiano Perugini, Marko Vladisavljević

forthcoming in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13242

Sleep Restriction Increases Coordination Failure

Marco Castillo, David L. Dickinson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12508

One Step at a Time: Does Gradualism Build Coordination?

Maoliang Ye, Jie Zheng, Plamen Nikolov, Samuel Asher

published in: Management Science, 2019, 66 (1), 113-129.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12321

Faces of Joblessness in Australia: An Anatomy of Employment Barriers Using Household Data

Herwig Immervoll, Daniele Pacifico, Marieke Vandeweyer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12062

Coordination of Hours within the Firm

Claudio Labanca, Dario Pozzoli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11803

Leader Identity and Coordination

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras, Lakshmi Iyer, Joseph Vecci

forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11768

Faces of Joblessness in Italy: A People-Centred Perspective on Employment Barriers and Policies

Daniele Pacifico, James Browne, Rodrigo Fernandez, Herwig Immervoll, Dirk Neumann, Céline Thévenot

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11583

Faces of Joblessness in Ireland: A People-Centred Perspective on Employment Barriers and Policies

James Browne, Herwig Immervoll, Rodrigo Fernandez, Dirk Neumann, Daniele Pacifico, Céline Thévenot

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11521

Using Social Connections and Financial Incentives to Solve Coordination Failure: A Quasi-Field Experiment in India's Manufacturing Sector

Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Sherry Xin Li, Swati Sharma

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 144, 102445

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10824

Revealing the Economic Consequences of Group Cohesion

Simon Gächter, Chris Starmer, Fabio Tufano

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10497

On the Effectiveness of Elected Male and Female Leaders and Team Coordination

Ernesto Reuben, Krisztina Timko

published in: Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2018, 4, 123-135

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9587

Collective Bargaining Systems and Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Flexibility: The Quest for Appropriate Institutional Forms in Advanced Economies

John T. Addison

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2016, 5: 19

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8953

Communication and Coordination in a Two-Stage Game

Tjaša Bjedov, Thierry Madies, Marie Claire Villeval

Revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (3), 1519–1540.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8304

Flexible Working and Couples' Coordination of Time Schedules

Mark L. Bryan, Almudena Sevilla

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8041

Can US Coordination Failure Explain Why Americans Work So Much More than Europeans?

Maurice Schiff

published in: World Economy, 2017, 40 (9), 1708-1717

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6734

Differential Welfare State Impacts for Frontier Working Age Families

Irina S. Burlacu, Cathal O'Donoghue

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6223

Efficient Coordination in Weakest-Link Games

Arno Riedl, Ingrid M.T. Rohde, Martin Strobel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5818

A Multi-Method Approach to Identifying Norms and Normative Expectations within a Corporate Hierarchy: Evidence from the Financial Services Industry

Stephen V. Burks, Erin L. Krupka

revised version published in: Management Science, 2012, 1 (58), 203-217

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4955

Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Interventions

Loukas Balafoutas, Matthias Sutter

shortened version published as 'Affirmative action policies promote women and do not harm efficiency in the lab' in: Science, 2012, 335 (6068), 579-582

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4768

The Effect of Children on Specialization and Coordination of Partners' Activities

Anh T. Le, Paul W. Miller

published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 108 (2), 237-241

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3741

Efficiency Gains from Team-Based Coordination: Large-Scale Experimental Evidence

Francesco Feri, Bernd Irlenbusch, Matthias Sutter

revised and extended version published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (4), 1892-1912

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3697

Variable Search Intensity in an Economy with Coordination Unemployment

Leo Kaas

published in: The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Contributions to Macroeconomics, 2010, 10 (1), Article 31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3105

Market Characteristics, Intra-Firm Coordination, and the Choice of Human Resource Management Systems: Evidence from New Japanese Data

Takao Kato, Hideo Owan

published as 'Market characteristics, intra-firm coordination, and the choice of human resource management systems: Theory and evidence' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2011, 80 (3), 375-396 (lead article)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2459

Are the French Happy with the 35-Hour Workweek?

Marcello Estevão, Filipa Sa

revised version published as 'The 35-hour workweek in France: Straightjacket or welfare improvement? ' in: Economic Policy, 2008, 23 (55), 417-463

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2249

Resource Allocation and Firm Scope

Guido Friebel, Michael Raith

published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2010, 2 (2), 1-33

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2056

Simultaneous Search with Heterogeneous Firms and Ex Post Competition

Pieter A. Gautier, Ronald P. Wolthoff

published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (3), 311-319

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1628

Can Endogenous Group Formation Prevent Coordination Failure? A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation

Philippe Raab

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1561

Career Choice, Marriage-Timing, and the Attraction of Unequals

Sylvain Dessy, Habiba Djebbari

published as 'High-powered careers and marriage: can women have it all?' in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 42

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1510

Inflation Adjustment and Labour Market Structures: Evidence from a Multi-Country Study

Luca Nunziata, Christopher Bowdler

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2007, 109 (3), 619-642

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1260

Strategic Wage Setting and Coordination Frictions with Multiple Applications

Pieter A. Gautier, José L. Moraga-González

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1230

Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Europe

Timothy J. Hatton, Jeffrey G. Williamson

published in: D. Snower (ed.) Labour Mobility and the World Economy, Kiel: Kiel Institute for World Economics, 2005

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1013