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299 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17985
Can Politics Tame the Market? Market Responses to Government Control of Fully and Partially Privatized Firms in China
Christos Mavrovitis (Mavis), Sarmistha Pal
forthcoming in: European Financial Management Journal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17904
Meaning at Work
Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, Virginia Minni, Luigi Zingales
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17812
Leaving Money on the Table
Mackenzie Alston, Tatyana Deryugina, Olga Shurchkov
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. 17606
Do Stronger Employer Responsibilities Enhance Workplace Accommodation for Sick-Listed Workers? Evidence from a Dutch Reform
Laura Jansen, Viola Angelini, Max Groneck, Raun van Ooijen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17519
Coordination Games Played by Children and Teenagers: On the Influence of Age, Group Size and Incentives
Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Matthias Sutter, Claudia Zoller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17287
One Size Fits All? The Interplay of Incentives, Effort Provision, and Personality
Zvonimir Bašić, Stefania Bortolotti, Daniel Salicath, Stefan Schmidt, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17267
Evaluating Yourself and Your Peers
Mingye Ma, Gerhard Riener, Youzong Xu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17224
Tax Incentives and Return Migration
Jacopo Bassetto, Giuseppe Ippedico
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17119
Making the Right Call: The Heterogeneous Effects of Individual Performance Pay on Productivity
Marco Clemens, Jan Sauermann
published in: Labour Economics, 2025, 94, 102694
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17109
Reducing the Child Penalty by Incentivizing Maternal Part-Time Work?
Laurenz Baertsch, Malte Sandner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17042
Informal Incentives and Labor Markets
Matthias Fahn, Takeshi Murooka
published in: Economic Journal, 2025, 135 (665), 144–179
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. 16872
Incentive Contracts Crowd Out Voluntary Cooperation: Evidence from Gift-Exchange Experiments
Simon Gächter, Esther Kaiser, Manfred Königstein
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16812
Multi-Rater Performance Evaluations and Incentives
Axel Ockenfels, Dirk Sliwka, Peter Werner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16652
How Negative Labor Supply Shocks Affect Training in Firms: Lessons from Opening the Swiss-German Border
Caroline Neuber-Pohl, Damiano Pregaldini, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Sandra Dummert, Harald Pfeifer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16470
Retirement Decision of Belgian Couples and the Impact of the Social Security System
Sefane Cetin, Alain Jousten
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16379
Non-monetary Interventions, Workforce Retention and Hospital Quality: Evidence from the English NHS
Giuseppe Moscelli, Melisa Sayli, Jo Blanden, Marco Mello, Henrique Castro-Pires, Chris Bojke
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16333
Outside Options and Worker Motivation
Alexander Ahammer, Matthias Fahn, Flora Stiftinger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16284
Incentive Complexity, Bounded Rationality and Effort Provision
Johannes Abeler, David B. Huffman, Collin Raymond
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16172
Does a Flexible Parental Leave System Stimulate Maternal Employment?
Lennart Ziegler, Omar Bamieh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16165
Patient versus Provider Incentives in Long-Term Care
Martin B. Hackmann, Vincent Pohl, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (3), 178–218
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16165
Patient versus Provider Incentives in Long-Term Care
Martin B. Hackmann, Vincent Pohl, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (3), 178–218
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16060
Provider Responses to the Expansion of Public Subsidies in Healthcare: The Case of Oral Chemotherapy Treatment in Australia
Maryam Naghsh Nejad, Serena Yu, Philip Haywood
published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2023, 330, 116041
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16028
Overexertion of Effort under Working Time Autonomy and Feedback Provision
Thomas Dohmen, Elena Shvartsman
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 212, 255-1266
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16025
Tournament Incentives Affect Perceived Stress and Hormonal Stress Responses
Thomas Dohmen, Ingrid M.T. Rohde, Tom Stolp
published in: Experimental Economics, 2023, 26 (4), 955–985.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15890
What Drives Paternity Leave: Financial Incentives or Flexibility?
Lennart Ziegler, Omar Bamieh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15881
Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment: Thirty Years On
W. Bentley MacLeod, James Malcomson
published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economicsi (JITE), 2023, 179 (3), 470 - 499
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15716
Revenue Drift, Incentives, and Effort Allocation in Social Enterprises
Theodor Vladasel, Simon C. Parker, Randolph Sloof, Mirjam C. van Praag
published in: Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2024, 33 (3), 630 - 651
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15668
Investment Tax Credits and the Response of Firms
Adrian Lerche
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15599
Mystery Shopping as a Strategic Management Practice in Multi-Site Firms
Sidney T. Block, Guido Friebel, Matthias Heinz, Nick Zubanov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15532
Gender, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Teaching
Francesca Barigozzi, Jaai Parasnis, Massimiliano Tani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15480
Do Non-monetary Interventions Improve Staff Retention? Evidence from English NHS Hospitals
Melisa Sayli, Giuseppe Moscelli, Jo Blanden, Chris Bojke, Marco Mello
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15195
In-Group Favoritism and Peer Effects in Wrongful Acquittals: NBA Referees as Judges
Naci Mocan, Eric Osborne-Christenson
published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2024, 67 (4), 731–766
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15173
Why Do Temporary Workers Have Higher Disability Insurance Risks Than Permanent Workers?
Pierre Koning, Paul Muller, Roger Prudon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15001
The Variability and Volatility of Sleep: An Archetypal Approach
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Gerard A. Pfann
published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2022, 47, 101175
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14779
The Right Person for the Right Job: Workers' Prosociality as a Screening Device
Maria Bigoni, Matteo Ploner, Thi-Thanh-Tam Vu
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 212, 53 - 73
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14683
Who Benefits from Tax Incentives? The Heterogeneous Wage Incidence of a Tax Credit
Clément Carbonnier, Clément Malgouyres, Loriane Py, Camille Urvoy
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 206, 104577
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14595
Incentives, Self-Selection, and Coordination of Motivated Agents for the Production of Social Goods
Kevin Bauer, Michael Kosfeld, Ferdinand von Siemens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14594
Estimating Coherency between Survey Data and Incentivized Experimental Data
Christian Belzil, Julie Pernaudet, François Poinas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14565
Return-to-Work Policies' Clawback Regime and Labor Supply in Disability Insurance Programs
Arezou Zaresani, Miguel Olivo-Villabrille
published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102215
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14503
The Long-Run Effects of Consequential School Accountability
Jonathan Mansfield, David Slichter
forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14285
Job Design, Learning & Intrinsic Motivation
Michael Gibbs
published in: Tor Eriksson (ed.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Labour Studies, Edward Elgar, 2023, 86–90
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14242
Incentives for Cooperation in Teams: Sociality Meets Decision Rights
Britta Butz, Pablo Guillen Alvarez, Christine Harbring
published in: Review of Managerial Science, 2024, 18, 2925 - 2951
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14199
Information Provision, Incentives, and Attention: A Field Experiment on Facilitating and Influencing Managers' Decisions
Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka, Timo Vogelsang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14125
Non-linear Incentives, Worker Productivity, and Firm Profits: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Richard B. Freeman, Wei Huang, Teng Li
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14111
Altruism or Money? Reducing Teacher Sorting Using Behavioral Strategies in Peru
Nicolas Ajzenman, Eleonora Bertoni, Gregory Elacqua, Luana Marotta, Carolina Méndez Vargas
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 1049–1091
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14014
The Distinct Impact of Information and Incentives on Cheating
Julien Benistant, Fabio Galeotti, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published as 'Competition, information, and the erosion of morals' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 204, 148-163,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13999
Improving Healthy Eating in Children: Experimental Evidence
Gary Charness, Ramón Cobo-Reyes, Erik Eyster, Gabriel Katz, Ángela Sánchez, Matthias Sutter
revised version publishedd as 'Improving children’s food choices: Experimental evidence from the field: in: European Economic Review, 2023, 159, 104562
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13898
Workplace Incentives and Organizational Learning
Francesco Amodio, Miguel A. Martinez-Carrasco
published in: Journal of Labor Economics 2023, 41 (2), 453-478
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