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IZA Discussion Paper No. 17895

An Overworked Leave? Health Care Workforce Effects of Brexit

Joan Costa-Font, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17812

Leaving Money on the Table

Mackenzie Alston, Tatyana Deryugina, Olga Shurchkov

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17182

Work Meaningfulness and Effort

Femke Cnossen, Milena Nikolova

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15793

The Influence of Start-up Motivation on Entrepreneurial Performance

Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos, Claudia Stier

published in: Small Business Economics, 2023, 61, 869-889.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15183

Can Meaning Make Cents? Making the Meaning of Work Salient for US Manufacturing Workers

Alberto Salamone, Grace Lordan

published in: PLoS ONE, 2022, 17 (7), 302655

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14668

Academics' Attitudes toward Engaging in Public Discussions - Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Engagement Conditions

Vitus Püttmann, Jens Ruhose, Stephan L. Thomsen

published online in: Research in Higher Education, 5 December 2022

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. 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. 14142

Motivational Goal Bracketing with Non-rational Goals

Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2021, 94, 101740

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13872

Own Motivation, Peer Motivation, and Educational Success

Jan Bietenbeck

revised version published online as 'Do Motivated Classmates Matter for Educational Success?' in: Economic Journal, 27 June 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13860

Labor-Market Conditions and Leadership Styles

Robert Dur, Ola Kvaløy, Anja Schöttner

revised version published in: Management Science, 2022, 68 (4), 3150-3168

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13112

What Makes Work Meaningful and Why Economists Should Care about It

Milena Nikolova, Femke Cnossen

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101847

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12782

Incorporating Conditional Morality into Economic Decisions

David Masclet, David L. Dickinson

published online in: Theory and Decision, 28 August 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12758

Immigrant Examination Behavior

Gil S. Epstein, Shahar Sansani

published in: Education Economics, 2019, 28 (2), 136–155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12667

Paying Gig Workers – Evidence from a Field Experiment

Sebastian Butschek, Roberto González Amor, Patrick Kampkötter, Dirk Sliwka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12338

Math Scores in High Stakes Grades

Giorgio Brunello, David Kiss

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 82, 102219

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12250

The Pied Piper: Prizes, Incentives, and Motivation Crowding-In

Luigino Bruni, Vittorio Pelligra, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Matteo Rizzolli

revised version published in: Journal of Business Ethics, 2020, 166(3), 643-658

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11970

Effects of Timing and Reference Frame of Feedback: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Mira Fischer, Valentin Wagner

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. 11920

High-Powered Performance Pay and Crowding out of Non-Monetary Motives

David B. Huffman, Michael L. Bognanno

published in: Management Science, 2018, 64 (10), 4669-4680.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11789

Prosocial Managers, Employee Motivation, and the Creation of Shareholder Value

Agne Kajackaite, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 172, 217-235

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11774

Thinking of Incentivizing Care? The Effect of Demand Subsidies on Informal Caregiving and Intergenerational Transfers

Joan Costa-Font, Sergi Jimenez-Martin, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto

revised version published as 'Do Public Caregiving Subsidies and Supports affect the Provision of Care and Transfers?' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 84,102639

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11714

Tax Morale and the Role of Social Norms and Reciprocity: Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment

Philipp Doerrenberg, Andreas Peichl

published in: FinanzArchiv (FA), 2022, 78 (1), 44-86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11678

Motivated to Succeed? Attitudes to Education among Native and Immigrant Pupils in England

Simon Burgess, Gabriel Heller-Sahlgren

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11674

Paying for What Kind of Performance? Performance Pay and Multitasking in Mission-Oriented Jobs

Daniel Jones, Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos

substantially revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2023, 142, 480-507

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11395

Parental Occupation and Children's School Outcomes in Math

Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Chiara Rapallini

published in: Research in Economics, 2019, 73 (4), 293-303

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11327

Confidence in Knowledge or Confidence in the Ability to Learn: An Experiment on the Causal Effects of Beliefs on Motivation

Mira Fischer, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2018, 111, 122-142.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11229

The Motivation of Temporary Agency Workers: An Empirical Analysis

Christian Grund, Axel Minten, Nevena Toporova

revised version published as 'Motivation assessments of temporary agency workers - an empirical analysis based on appraisals compiled by hiring companies' in: management revue - Socio-Economic Studies, 2019, 30, 5-39

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11095

Serving the Public Interest in Several Ways: Theory and Empirics

Robert Dur, Max van Lent

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 13-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11038

Dual Practice by Health Workers: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia

Paula Gonzalez, Gabriel V. Montes-Rojas, Sarmistha Pal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10899

Workplace Employee Representation and Industrial Relations Performance: New Evidence from the 2013 European Company Survey

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira

published in: Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik (Journal of Economics and Statistics), 2019, 239 (1), 111-154

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. 10671

Past, Present and Future Compensation Research: Economist Perspectives

Michael Gibbs

published in: Compensation & Benefits Review, 2017, 48 (1-2), 3-16

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. 10410

Trust the Police? Self-Selection of Motivated Agents into the German Police Force

Guido Friebel, Michael Kosfeld, Gerd Thielmann

published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2019, 11 (4), 59-78

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10288

Locus of Control and Performance Appraisal

John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn, Cornelia Chadi

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 142, 205-225

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9778

The Labor Supply of Fixed-Wage Workers: Estimates from a Real Effort Experiment

Jeffrey P. Carpenter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9705

Identity-driven Cooperation versus Competition

Dennis J. Snower, Steven J. Bosworth

published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (5), 420–424

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9703

Cooperation, Motivation and Social Balance

Steven J. Bosworth, Tania Singer, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 126 (Part B), 72-94

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9701

Bread and Bullets

George A. Akerlof, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 126 (Part B), 58-71

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9385

Disentangling the Role of Contract Types and Sector Disparities for Public Service Motivation

Christian Grund, Kirsten Thommes

revised version published as 'The Role of Contract Types for Employees' Public Service Motivation' in: Schmalenbach Business Review, 2017, 18, 377-398

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8853

Behavioral Economics of Education: Progress and Possibilities

Adam M. Lavecchia, Heidi Liu, Philip Oreopoulos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8738

Spillovers of Prosocial Motivation: Evidence from an Intervention Study on Blood Donors

Adrian Bruhin, Lorenz Götte, Simon Haenni, Lingqing Jiang

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 70, 102244.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8448

Tax Morale

Erzo F.P. Luttmer, Monica Singhal

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2014, 28 (4), 149–168

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8412