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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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103 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18131
Walking the Talk? Bank Climate Commitments and Green Lending in Emerging Markets
Mariana Bernad, Ralph De Haas, Juan Pablo Rud
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18047
Does High Involvement Management Drive Affective Commitment? Causal Tests on System Coherence and Complementarity
Michael Beckmann, Philipp Grunau, Tobias Kretschmer, Elena Shvartsman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18047
Does High Involvement Management Drive Affective Commitment? Causal Tests on System Coherence and Complementarity
Michael Beckmann, Philipp Grunau, Tobias Kretschmer, Elena Shvartsman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17919
Inflation, Expectations and Monetary Policy: What Have We Learned and to What End?
Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17810
Do Top Executive’s Immigration Status and Management Perception of Multiculturalism Matter?
Tony Fang, Morley Gunderson, John Hartley
forthcoming in: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 2025.
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. 17778
On the Role of Legislation as a Driver of Incentive Management Practices in Europe
John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17757
Quest for Talents: Attraction and Retention of Highly-Skilled Overseas Chinese in the United States and Canada
Tony Fang, Lilac Ge, John Hartley, Hui Ming
published in: Asian Economic Papers, 2025, 24 (1), 182–213
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17727
Managing Skills in Organizations - Evidence from a Field Experiment
Leonhard Grabe, Dirk Sliwka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17700
From Retributive to Restorative: An Alternative Approach to Justice in Schools
Anjali Adukia, Benjamin Feigenberg, Fatemeh Momeni
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. 17668
Work from Home, Management, and Technology
Ryo Kambayashi, Atsushi Ohyama
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17653
Families’ Career Investments and Firms’ Promotion Decisions
Frederik Almar, Benjamin Friedrich, Ana Reynoso, Bastian Schulz, Rune Majlund Vejlin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17508
Sorting It Out: Contribution-Action Gap in Waste Segregation in Urban India
Ahana Basistha, Nishith Prakash, Raisa Sherif
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17468
Trusted from Home: Managerial Beliefs and Workers' Spatial Autonomy
Adam Gill, Oskar Nordström Skans
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17433
Firm Ownership Control and Management Practices, with an Update on Sub-Saharan Africa
Andrew Dabalen, Saumik Paul
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17350
Employee Performance and Mental Well-Being: The Mitigating Effects of Transformational Leadership During Crisis
Kristina Czura, Florian Englmaier, Hoa Ho, Lisa Spantig
published online in: Management Science, 6 Aug 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17304
Internal Promotion or External Hire? Staffing Management Positions When Employees Have a Seat in the Boardroom
Aleksandra Gregoric, Takao Kato, Casper B.L. Larsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17061
Work Schedules
Jed DeVaro
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16827
Does High Involvement Management Make You Work Longer? Insights from Linked Survey and Register Data
Petri Böckerman, Alex Bryson, Ilari Ilmakunnas, Pekka Ilmakunnas
published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2025, 30, 100549
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16715
Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change: Economic Impacts and Adaptation Policies
Susana Ferreira
published in: Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2024, 16, 207-231
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16362
Contested Transparency: Digital Monitoring Technologies and Worker Voice
Filippo Belloc, Gabriel Burdin, Stefano Dughera, Fabio Landini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16323
Women in Management and the Gender Pay Gap
Virginia Sondergeld, Katharina Wrohlich
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. 16252
Improving School Management in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review
Gautam Anand, Aishwarya Atluri, Lee Crawfurd, Todd Pugatch, Ketki Sheth
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 97, 102464
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16203
Managerial Practices and Student Performance: Evidence from Changes in School Principals
Adriana Di Liberto, Ludovica Giua, Fabiano Schivardi, Marco Sideri, Giovanni Sulis
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. 15834
Market Facilitation Program Payments, Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Coverage and Off-Farm Employment
Ashok K. Mishra, Alexis H. Villacis, Cristina D. M. Miller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15676
Management and Performance in the Public Sector: Evidence from German Municipalities
Florian Englmaier, Gerd Muehlheusser, Andreas Roider, Niklas Wallmeier
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15676
Management and Performance in the Public Sector: Evidence from German Municipalities
Florian Englmaier, Gerd Muehlheusser, Andreas Roider, Niklas Wallmeier
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15484
Did the Nation-Wide Implementation of e-FMS in MGNREGS Result in Reduced Expenditures? A Re-Examination of the Evidence
Deepti Goel, J. V. Meenakshi, Zaeen De Souza
published as 'Did the nationwide implementation of electronic fund management in the Indian employment guarantee scheme result in reduced expenditures? A re-examination of the evidence' in: Review of Development Economics, 2024, 28 (4), 1994-2013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15471
Long-Term Services and Supports and Disease Management among Older Chinese Adults in Different Stages of Cognitive Impairment
Zhuoer Lin, Xi Chen
published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2022, 23, 100405.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15399
COVID-19 Private Pension Withdrawals and Unemployment Tenures
Tristram Sainsbury, Robert Breunig, Timothy Watson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15262
Health Insurance Coverage, Government Payments, and Labor Allocation
Cristina D. M. Miller, Ashok K. Mishra
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15262
Health Insurance Coverage, Government Payments, and Labor Allocation
Cristina D. M. Miller, Ashok K. Mishra
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15213
Do Management Practices Matter in Further Education?
Sandra McNally, Luis Schmidt, Anna Valero
published in: Economica, 2024, 91 (363), 740-769
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15024
Which Former Professional Football Players Become Successful Professional Head Coaches?
Matteo Balliauw, Marco Verheuge, Stijn Baert
revised version published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2022, 30 (12), 1692–1695
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14875
The Impact of a New Quality Management Practice on Firm Performance: Evidence from Pakistan
Mahvish Faran, Karl Taylor
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2025, 73 (3), 1365-1408
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14781
Closing the Gender Profit Gap?
Catia Batista, Sandra Sequeira, Pedro C. Vicente
published in: Management Science, 2022, 68 (12), 8515 - 9218,
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. 14146
World Management Survey at 18: Lessons and the Way Forward
Daniela Scur, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen, Renata Lemos, Nicholas Bloom
published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2021, 37 (2),231 - 258
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14146
World Management Survey at 18: Lessons and the Way Forward
Daniela Scur, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen, Renata Lemos, Nicholas Bloom
published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2021, 37 (2),231 - 258
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14114
Fiscal Policy and Households' Inflation Expectations: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial
Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Michael Weber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13973
Gender Differences in College Applications: Aspiration and Risk Management
Judith M. Delaney, Paul J. Devereux
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 80, 102077
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13543
Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform: Evidence from Birth Outcomes of Aboriginal Australians
Mary-Alice Doyle, Stefanie Schurer, Sven Silburn
updated version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 84, 102618
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13285
Management Practices, Worker Commitment, and Workplace Representation
John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13285
Management Practices, Worker Commitment, and Workplace Representation
John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13256
Hospital Resources: Persistent Reallocation under Price Changes
Florian Wozny
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13145
Local Governance Quality and the Environmental Cost of Forced Migration
Cevat Giray Aksoy, Semih Tumen
revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 149, 102603
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12979
Forward Guidance and Household Expectations
Olivier Coibion, Dimitris Georgarakos, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Michael Weber
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (5), 2131–217
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12726
Female Workers, Male Managers: Gender, Leadership, and Risk-Taking
Ulf Rinne, Hendrik Sonnabend
published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2022, 88 (3), 906 - 930
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12572
Learning Management through Matching: A Field Experiment Using Mechanism Design
Girum Abebe, Marcel Fafchamps, Michael Koelle, Simon Quinn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12446
Talking about Performance or Paying for it? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka, Timo Vogelsang
published as 'Talking About Performance or Paying for It? A Field Experiment on Performance Reviews and Incentives' in: Management Science, 2023, 69 (4), 2198-2216
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12412
Migration and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Effect of Returning Refugees on Export Performance in the Former Yugoslavia
Dany Bahar, Cem Özgüzel, Andreas Hauptmann, Hillel Rapoport
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106, 2, 287-304
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11969
Is Pupil Attainment Higher in Well-Managed Schools?
Alex Bryson, Lucy Stokes, David Wilkinson
published in: Education Economics, 2023, 31 (1), 129 - 144
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11927
Socially Useless Jobs
Robert Dur, Max van Lent
published in: Industrial Relations, 2019, 58 (1), 3-16
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11889
Employee Absence: An Organizational Perspective
Jacob Kjær Eskildsen, Anders Frederiksen, Ann-Kristina Løkke
published as 'Employee Absence in Public and Private Organizations' in: Applied Economics, 2021, 53 (21), 2416-2432
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11675
Working Hours and Top Management Appointments: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Anders Frederiksen, Takao Kato, Nina Smith
revised version published online as 'Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11514
The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Nathan Kettlewell, Stefanie Schurer, Sven Silburn
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (6), 2072-2110
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11456
Are Schools Different? Wellbeing and Commitment among Staff in Schools and Elsewhere
Alex Bryson, Lucy Stokes, David Wilkinson
published as 'Who is better off? Wellbeing and commitment among staff in schools and elsewhere' in: Education Economics , 2019, 27 (5), 488 - 506
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11399
The Impact of Management Practices on SME Performance
John Forth, Alex Bryson
published as 'Management practices and SME performance' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 66 (4), 527 - 558
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11373
Do Private Schools Manage Better?
Alex Bryson, Francis Green
published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2018, 243, R17-R26
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11348
Can HRM Improve Schools' Performance?
Alex Bryson, Lucy Stokes, David Wilkinson
published in: Labour, 2020, 34 (4), 427 - 440
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11112
Mutual Gains? Is There a Role for Employee Engagement in the Modern Workplace?
Alex Bryson
published in: Bosio, G., Minola, T., Origio, F., and Tomelleri, S. (eds), Rethinking Entrepreneurial Human Capital, Springer, 2018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10967
Management, Supervision, and Health Care: A Field Experiment
Felipe A. Dunsch, David K. Evans, Ezinne Eze-Ajoku, Mario Macis
published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2023, 32 (3), 583-606
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10964
Do Good Working Conditions Make You Work Longer? Evidence on Retirement Decisions Using Linked Survey and Register Data
Petri Böckerman, Pekka Ilmakunnas
published as 'Do Good Working Conditions Make You Work Longer? Analyzing Retirement Decisions Using Linked Survey and Register Data' in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2020, 17, 100192
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10788
Women in the Workplace and Management Practices: Theory and Evidence
Takao Kato, Naomi Kodama
published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, New York: OUP, 2018
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. 10725
Supervisors and Performance Management Systems
Anders Frederiksen, Lisa B. Kahn, Fabian Lange
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (6), 2123-2187
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10724
What Drives Differences in Management?
Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron Jarmin, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten, John Van Reenen
published in: American Economic Review, 2019, 109 (5), 1648 - 1683
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10658
Firms' Global Engagement and Management Practices
Holger Görg, Aoife Hanley
published in: Economics Letters, 2017, 155, 80–83
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. 10370
Management Practices and Productivity in Germany
Sandra Broszeit, Ursula Fritsch, Holger Görg, Marie-Christine Laible
published in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20 (4), e663-e688
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9987
Management as a Technology?
Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen
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. 9586
Managers and Productivity Differences
Nezih Guner, Andrii Parkhomenko, Gustavo Ventura
published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2018, 29, 256-282.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9316
Team Incentives and Performance: Evidence from a Retail Chain
Guido Friebel, Matthias Heinz, Miriam Krüger, Nick Zubanov
published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107(8), 2168-2203
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9285
The Complementary Use of Experiments and Field Data to Evaluate Management Practices: The Case of Subjective Performance Evaluations
Patrick Kampkötter, Dirk Sliwka
published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 2016, 172 (2), 364-389
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9272
Distributional Effects of Monetary Policy in Emerging Market Economies
Eswar Prasad, Boyang Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8620
Does Management Matter in Schools?
Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen
published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (584), 647-674
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8580
Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
Simon Gächter, Elke Renner
revised version published as 'Leaders as role models and 'belief managers' in social dilemmas' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 154, 321-334
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8475
Managerial Practices and Students' Performance
Adriana Di Liberto, Fabiano Schivardi, Giovanni Sulis
published in: Economic Policy, 2015, 30 (84), 683-728
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8272
Convergence to the Managerial Frontier
William F. Maloney, Mauricio Sarrias
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8112
Gender Pay Gaps among Highly Educated Professionals: Compensation Components Do Matter
Christian Grund
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 34, 118-126
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7935
Job Satisfaction and Public Service Motivation
Lutz C. Kaiser
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7435
Management Compensation and the Economic Crisis: Longitudinal Evidence from the German Chemical Sector
Christian Grund, Tanja Walter
published in: Review of Managerial Science, 2015, 9, 751-777
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6635
Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management
Maria Guadalupe, Hongyi Li, Julie M. Wulf
published in: Management Science, 2014, 60 (4), 824–844
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6474
Link between Pay for Performance Incentives and Physician Payment Mechanisms: Evidence from the Diabetes Management Incentive in Ontario
Jasmin Kantarevic, Boris Kralj
published in: Health Economics, 2013, 22(12), 1417–1439
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5764
Human Capital and Career Success: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Anders Frederiksen, Takao Kato
published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (613), 1952-1982
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5116
Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and out of Management Positions
Eileen Trzcinski, Elke Holst
published in: Social Indicators Research, 2012, 107 (3), 449-463
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5116
Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and out of Management Positions
Eileen Trzcinski, Elke Holst
published in: Social Indicators Research, 2012, 107 (3), 449-463
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4766
Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management
Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (9-10), 654-660
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4729
Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce: How Services Facilitate Firms' International Sourcing
Peter Debaere, Holger Görg, Horst Raff
published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2013, 46 (1), 78-102
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4587
Adverse Workplace Conditions, High-Involvement Work Practices and Labor Turnover: Evidence from Danish Linked Employer-Employee Data
Elena Cottini, Takao Kato, Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen
published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (6), 872-880
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3645
Management Economics in a Large Retail Organization
W. Stanley Siebert, Nick Zubanov
published in: Management Science, 2011, 56(8), 1398-1414
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3227
Steering towards the High Road: A Study of Human Resource Management in Two Indian Garment Factories
Henrietta Lake
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3054
The Value Relevance of Top Executive Departures: Evidence from the Netherlands
Kees Cools, Mirjam C. van Praag
published in: Journal of Corporate Finance 13(5), 721-742
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3005
Public Employment Services and Employers: How Important Are Networks with Firms?
Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner
published in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 2008, 1, 151-178
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2483
Does Manager Turnover Improve Firm Performance? New Evidence Using Information from Dutch Soccer, 1986-2004
Bas ter Weel
published in: De Economist, 2011, 159 (3), 279-303
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2115
Female Labor Market Transitions in Europe
Lutz C. Kaiser
published German version: Arbeitsmarktflexibilität, Arbeitsmarktübergänge und Familie: Die Europäische Perspektive, in: Szydlik, Marc (Ed.) (2008), Flexibilisierung – Folgen für Arbeit und Familie. Springer VS, pp. 295-313
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