IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published as 'Contract Innovation in Germany: An Economic Evaluation of Pacts for Competitiveness' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55(3), 500-526.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9286

First-Place Loving and Last-Place Loathing: How Rank in the Distribution of Performance Affects Effort Provision

David Gill, Zdenka Kissová, Jaesun Lee, Victoria L. Prowse

published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (2), 494 - 507

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9286

First-Place Loving and Last-Place Loathing: How Rank in the Distribution of Performance Affects Effort Provision

David Gill, Zdenka Kissová, Jaesun Lee, Victoria L. Prowse

published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (2), 494 - 507

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. 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. 9276

The Introduction of Academy Schools to England's Education

Andrew Eyles, Stephen Machin

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17, 1107-46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9243

Performance Measurement and Incentive Intensity

Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez, Sara Martinez-de-Morentin

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2017, 38, 496–546

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9203

Performance Standards and Employee Effort: Evidence from Teacher Absences

Seth Gershenson

published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2016, 35(3), 615-638

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9184

Worker-level and Firm-level Effects of a Wage Subsidy Program for Highly Educated Labor: Evidence from Denmark

Ulrich Kaiser, Johan Moritz Kuhn

published in: Research Policy, 2016, 45 (9), 1939-1943

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9119

Peers' Composition Effects in the Short and in the Long Run: College Major, College Performance and Income

Massimo Anelli, Giovanni Peri

published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (618), 553-602

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9096

Does Worker Wellbeing Affect Workplace Performance?

Alex Bryson, John Forth, Lucy Stokes

published in: Human Relations, 2017, 70 (8), 1017-1037

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9089

Can Helping the Sick Hurt the Able? Incentives, Information and Disruption in a Disability-Related Welfare Reform

Nitika Bagaria, Barbara Petrongolo, John Van Reenen

published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (624), 3189-3218

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8995

Has Performance Pay Increased Wage Inequality in Britain?

Mark L. Bryan, Alex Bryson

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41, 149-161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8925

Educational Attainment and Labor Market Performance: An Analysis of Immigrants in France

Mehtap Akgüç, Ana Ferrer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8900

'High' Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance

Olivier Marie, Ulf Zölitz

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2017, 84 (3), 1210 - 1237

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8867

The Academic Impact of Natural Disasters: Evidence from L'Aquila Earthquake

Giorgio Di Pietro

revised version published in: Education Economics, 2018, 26 (1), 62-77

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8766

The Effects of Increasing the Standards of the High School Curriculum on School Dropout

Katja Görlitz, Christina Gravert

published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 48 (54), 5314-5328

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8762

Communication and Trust in Principal-Team Relationships: Experimental Evidence

Marco Kleine, Sebastian Kube

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8708

Who Performs Better under Time Pressure? Results from a Field Experiment

Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2016, 53, 37-53

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8697

Benefits of Education at the Intensive Margin: Childhood Academic Performance and Adult Outcomes among American Immigrants

Deniz Gevrek, Z. Eylem Gevrek, Cahit Guven

published in: Eastern Economic Journal, 2015, 41 (3), 298 – 328. (ABDC ranking: B)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8647

The Effect of Female Leadership on Establishment and Employee Outcomes: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Stefano Gagliarducci, M. Daniele Paserman

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2015, 41, 341-372

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8645

All-Star or Benchwarmer? Relative Age, Cohort Size and Career Success in the NHL

Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez, Tingting Zhang

published in: Frick, B. (ed.) Breaking the Ice: The Economics of Hockey, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer, 2017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8602

Do Female Executives Make a Difference? The Impact of Female Leadership on Gender Gaps and Firm Performance

Luca Flabbi, Mario Macis, Andrea Moro, Fabiano Schivardi

published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (622), 2390-2423

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8593

The Impact of the German Autobahn Net on Regional Labor Market Performance: A Study Using Historical Instrument Variables

Joachim Möller, Marcus Zierer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8563

Performance Pay, Competitiveness, and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from the United States

Andrew McGee, Peter McGee, Jessica Pan

published in: Economic Letters, 2015, 128, 35-38

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8477

Broken Gears: The Value Added of Higher Education on Teachers' Academic Achievement

Carlos Felipe Balcázar, Hugo R. Nopo

published in: Higher Education, 2016, 72 (3), 341–361

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8472

Does Diploma Type Matter for Subsequent Academic Achievement? A UAE Case Study

Samer Kherfi, George S Naufal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8462

Top Team Diversity and Business Performance: Latent Class Analysis for Firms and Cities

Max Nathan

Published in Environment and Planning A, 2016, 48 (12) 2462–2483

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8429

Does Relative Grading Help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom

Eszter Czibor, Sander Onderstal, Randolph Sloof, Mirjam C. van Praag

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 75, 101953

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8412

Grades and Rank: Impacts of Non-Financial Incentives on Test Performance

Nina Jalava, Juanna Schrøter Joensen, Elin Pellas

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 161-196

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8410

Migration, Economic Crisis and Adjustment in the UK

Ken Clark, Stephen Drinkwater, Catherine Robinson

revised version published in: M. Kahanec and K.F. Zimmermann (eds), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement and the Great Recession, Berlin: Springer, 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8360

The Performance Pay Premium: How Big Is It and Does It Affect Wage Dispersion?

Alex Bryson, John Forth, Lucy Stokes

published in: Manchester School, 2018, 86 (2), 139 - 154

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8343

Does Private Tutoring Increase Students' Academic Performance? Evidence from Turkey

Giray Berberoglu, Aysit Tansel

Published in: International Review of Education, 2015, 60 (5), 683-701.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8308

Do Personality Traits Affect Productivity? Evidence from the Lab

Maria Cubel, Ana Nuevo-Chiquero, Santiago Sanchez-Pages, Marian Vidal-Fernandez

published in: Economic Journal , 2016, 126 (592). 654–681

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8284

Employee Trust and Workplace Performance

Sarah Brown, Daniel Gray, Jolian McHardy, Karl Taylor

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 116, 361-378

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8237

Jacks-of-All-Trades? The Effect of Balanced Skills on Team Performance

Laura Rosendahl Huber, Randolph Sloof, Mirjam C. van Praag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8186

Entrepreneurial Couples

Michael S. Dahl, Mirjam C. van Praag, Peter Thompson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8105

Does the Home Advantage Depend on Crowd Support? Evidence from Same-Stadium Derbies

Michela Ponzo, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2018, 19 (4), 562-582

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8097

Trust-Based Work-Time and Product Improvements: Evidence from Firm Level Data

Olivier Godart, Holger Görg, Aoife Hanley

published in: Industrial & Labor Relations Review, 2017, 70(4), 894-918

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8085

FDI Impact on Firm Performance in Enlarged Europe: Evidence from a Meta-Regression Analysis

Randolph Luca Bruno, Maria Cipollina

published in: World Economy,, 2018, 41 (5), 1342-1377

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8056

Do School Budgets Matter? The Effect of Budget Referenda on Student Performance

Kyung-Gon Lee, Solomon Polachek

published in: Education Economics 2018, 26(2), 129-144.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7962

Performance Effects of Appointing Other Firms' Executive Directors to Corporate Boards: An Analysis of UK Firms

Alexander Muravyev, Oleksandr Talavera, Charlie Weir

published in: Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2016, 46(1), 25-45

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7953

The Power of (No) Recognition: Experimental Evidence from the University Classroom

Nicky Hoogveld, Nick Zubanov

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 67, 75-84

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7935

Job Satisfaction and Public Service Motivation

Lutz C. Kaiser

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7886

More Is Better! What Can Firm-Specific Estimates of the Impact of Institutional Quality on Performance Tell Us?

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ralitza Dimova, Subal C. Kumbhakar, Kai Sun

published as 'Is Tinkering with Institutional Quality a Panacea for Firm Performance? Insights from a Semiparametric Approach to Modeling Firm Performance' in: Review of Development Economics, 2018, 22 (1), 1-22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7851

The Effect of Credit Guarantees on R&D Investment of SMEs in Korea

Almas Heshmati

published in: Asian Journal of Technology Innovation, 2015, 23 (3), 407-421.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7682

What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being

Richard Layard, Andrew E. Clark, Francesca Cornaglia, Nattavudh Powdthavee, James Vernoit

published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (580), F720- F738

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7680

Strategic Parenting, Birth Order and School Performance

V. Joseph Hotz, Juan Pantano

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7676

Does the Precision and Stability of Value-Added Estimates of Teacher Performance Depend on the Types of Students They Serve?

Brian Stacy, Cassandra M. Guarino, Mark D. Reckase, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 50-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7652

Dynamic Incentive Effects of Relative Performance Pay: A Field Experiment

Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur, Arjan Non, Willem Verbeke

published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 28, 1-13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7613

Female-Led Firms: Performance and Risk Attitudes

Pierpaolo Parrotta, Nina Smith

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7519

Fatigue and Team Performance in Soccer: Evidence from the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship

Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2015, 16 (5) 482-507

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7458

Reexamining the Conditional Effect of Foreign Direct Investment

Randolph Luca Bruno, Nauro F. Campos

published in: Multinational Business Review, 2018, 26 (2), 126-144

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7363

Altruism and Relational Incentives in the Workplace

Robert Dur, Jan Tichem

published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2015, 24(3), 485-500

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7321

Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking

Roland Benabou, Jean Tirole

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 124 (2), 305–370

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7279

Top?Down vs. Bottom?Up: The Long?Term Impact of Government Ideology and Personal Experience on Values

Nicolas R. Ziebarth, Gert G. Wagner

published as 'Inevitable? Doping Attitudes among Berliners in 2011: The Role of Socialist State Socialisation and Athlete Experience' in: European Journal of Public Health, 2016, 26 (3), 520-522

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7206

Risk Tolerance and Entrepreneurship

Hans K. Hvide, Georgios A. Panos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7206

Risk Tolerance and Entrepreneurship

Hans K. Hvide, Georgios A. Panos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7146

Do Entrepreneurs Matter?

Sascha O. Becker, Hans K. Hvide

published as 'Entrepreneur Death and Startup Performance' in: Review of Finance, 2021, 26 (1), 163-185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7118

The Value of Earning for Learning: Performance Bonuses in Immigrant Language Training

Olof Aslund, Mattias Engdahl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7082

Evaluating the Effect of Ownership Status on Hospital Quality: The Key Role of Innovative Procedures

Laurent Gobillon, Carine Milcent

published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 121-122, 161-186

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7050

Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Christian Pfeifer, Joachim Wagner

published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2014, 47 (3), 223-231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7044

Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Sander M. Hoogendoorn, Simon C. Parker, Mirjam C. van Praag

published online in: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, 30 November 2017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7013

Employment Policies, Hiring Practices and Firm Performance

Sylvie Blasco, Barbara Pertold-Gebicka

published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 25, 12-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6750

Toward the Integration of Personality Theory and Decision Theory in the Explanation of Economic and Health Behavior

Aldo Rustichini, Colin G. DeYoung, Jon E. Anderson, Stephen V. Burks

revised version published as 'Toward the Integration of Personality Theory and Decision Theory in the Explanation of Economic Behavior' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2016, 64, 122-137

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6747

Team Structure and the Effectiveness of Collective Performance Pay

Marisa Ratto, Emma Tominey, Thibaud Vergé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6738

Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Government Agency

Simon Burgess, Carol Propper, Marisa Ratto, Emma Tominey

published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (605), F117 - F141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6731

Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Sander M. Hoogendoorn, Mirjam C. van Praag

revised version available here

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6715

Expert Leaders in a Fast-Moving Environment

Amanda H. Goodall, Ganna Pogrebna

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6683

Independent Schools and Long-Run Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Sweden's Large Scale Voucher Reform

Anders Böhlmark, Mikael Lindahl

published in: Economica, 2015, 82(327), 508-551

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6566

A Theory of Expert Leadership

Amanda H. Goodall

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6519

Does Corporate Governance Reform Necessarily Boost Firm Performance? Recent Evidence from Russia

Mihails Kuznecovs, Sarmistha Pal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6483

Claudio Lucifora, Federica Origo

published as 'Performance-Related Pay and Firm Productivity: Evidence from a Reform in the Structure of Collective Bargaining' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(3), 606-632

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6480

The Effects of Prize Spread and Noise in Elimination Tournaments: A Natural Field Experiment

Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur, Arjan Non, Willem Verbeke

revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33(3), 521-569

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. 6465

Benchmarking Regions: Estimating the Counterfactual Distribution of Labor Market Outcomes

Bernd Fitzenberger, Marina Furdas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6387

Run for Fun: Intrinsic Motivation and Physical Performance

Antonio Filippin, Jan C. van Ours

revised version published as 'Positive Assortative Matching: Evidence from Sports Data', in: Industrial Relations, 2015, 54 (3), 401-421

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6381

Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits: Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Christian Pfeifer, Joachim Wagner

published in: Contemporary Economics, 2014, 8 (1), 25-49

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6373

Subjective Performance Evaluations and Employee Careers

Anders Frederiksen, Fabian Lange, Ben Kriechel

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 134, 408-429

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6358

The Short-Term Effectiveness of a Remedial Mathematics Course: Evidence from a UK University

Giorgio Di Pietro

revised version published in: The Manchester School, 2014, 82 (3), 363-384

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6351

Does Institutional Quality Affect Firm Performance? Insights from a Semiparametric Approach

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ralitza Dimova, Subal C. Kumbhakar, Kai Sun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6322

Design and Implementation of Pay for Performance

Michael Gibbs

published in: C. R. Thomas and W. F. Shughart II (eds.), Oxford Handbook in Managerial Economics, Oxford University Press, 2013, 397-423

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6322

Design and Implementation of Pay for Performance

Michael Gibbs

published in: C. R. Thomas and W. F. Shughart II (eds.), Oxford Handbook in Managerial Economics, Oxford University Press, 2013, 397-423

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6164

The Role of Peers in Estimating Tenure-Performance Profiles: Evidence from Personnel Data

Andries de Grip, Jan Sauermann, Inge Sieben

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 126, 39-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6138

Educating Children of Immigrants: Closing the Gap in Norwegian Schools

Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed

published in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2012, 3 (1), 211-251.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6070

Differentiation and Performance: An Empirical Investigation on the Incentive Effects of Bonus Plans

Patrick Kampkötter, Dirk Sliwka

revised version published as 'More Dispersion, Higher Bonuses?-The Role of Differentiation in Subjective Performance Evaluations' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (2), 511–549

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5941

The Effect of Variable Pay Schemes on Workplace Absenteeism

Konstantinos Pouliakas, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 36, 109-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5916

International Trade and Firm Performance: A Survey of Empirical Studies since 2006

Joachim Wagner

published in: Review of World Economics, 2012, 148 (2), 235-267

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5899

HRM Practices and Performance of Family-Run Workplaces: Evidence from the 2004 WERS

W. Stanley Siebert, Fei Peng, Yasheng Maimaiti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5897