IZA Discussion Papers

published in: Cynthia Estlund and Michael Wachter (eds.), Research Handbook on the Economics of Labor and Employment Law, Edward Elgar, 2012, pp. 107-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5243

Corruption as a Barrier to Entry: Theory and Evidence

Nauro F. Campos, Saul Estrin, Eugenio Proto

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5225

Heterogeneous Worker Ability and Team-Based Production: Evidence from Major League Baseball, 1920-2009

Kerry L. Papps, Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (3), 310-319

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5183

The Post-Entry Performance of Cohorts of Export Starters in German Manufacturing Industries

Joachim Wagner

published in: International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2012, 19 (2), 169-193

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5101

Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay

Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (3), 404-418

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5079

Information, Uncertainty, and Subjective Entitlements in Bargaining

Emin Karagozoglu, Arno Riedl

pubished as: 'Performance Information, Production Uncertainty, and Subjective Entitlements in Bargaining' in: Management Science, 2015, 61 (11), 2611 - 2626

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5054

Employer Learning, Productivity and the Earnings Distribution: Evidence from Performance Measures

Lisa B. Kahn, Fabian Lange

Published in Review of Economic Studies, 2014, 81 (4), 1575-1613.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5032

Performance Pay and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Spain

Sara de la Rica, Juan J. Dolado, Raquel Vegas

revised version published as 'Gender Gaps in Performance Pay: New Evidence from Spain' in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 117-118, 41-59

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5020

Performance Appraisals and the Impact of Forced Distribution: An Experimental Investigation

Johannes Berger, Christine Harbring, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Management Science, 2013, 59 (1), 54-68

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5009

School Shootings and Student Performance

Panu Poutvaara, Olli Ropponen

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 51, 93-106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4956

High Performance Work Practices and Employee Voice: A Comparison of Japanese and Korean Workers

Kiu-Sik Bae, Hiroyuki Chuma, Takao Kato, Dong-Bae Kim, Isao Ohashi

published in: Industrial Relations, 2011, 50 (1), 1-29

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4913

Social Ties and Subjective Performance Evaluations: An Empirical Investigation

Kathrin Breuer, Petra Nieken, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Review of Managerial Science, 2013, 7 (2), 141-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4863

Earnings Progression, Human Capital and Incentives: Theory and Evidence

Anders Frederiksen

published as 'Incentives and Earnings Growth' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 85 (1), 97-107

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4838

An Economic Model of the Evolution of the Gender Performance Ratio in Individual Sports

Arnaud Dupuy

published in: International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 2012, 12 (1), 222-245

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4821

Employee Training and Wage Dispersion: White and Blue Collar Workers in Britain

Filipe Almeida-Santos, Yekaterina Chzhen, Karen A. Mumford

published in: Research In Labor Economics, 2010, 30, 35-60

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4801

Cream-Skimming, Parking and Other Intended and Unintended Effects of Performance-Based Contracting in Social Welfare Services

Pierre Koning, Carolyn J. Heinrich

published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013, 32 (3), 461-483

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4795

Bonus Payments and Reference Point Violations

Axel Ockenfels, Dirk Sliwka, Peter Werner

published in: Management Science, 2015, 61 (7), 1496-1513

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4785

Trends in Economic Research: An International Perspective

Ana Rute Cardoso, Paulo Guimaraes, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Kyklos, 2010, 63 (4), 479-494; cited in The Economist, February 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4719

Valuing School Quality via a School Choice Reform

Stephen Machin, Kjell G. Salvanes

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118, 3-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4713

Pay Enough, Don't Pay Too Much or Don't Pay at All? The Impact of Bonus Intensity on Job Satisfaction

Konstantinos Pouliakas

published in: Kyklos, 2010, 63 (4), 597-626

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4710

Screening, Competition, and Job Design: Economic Origins of Good Jobs

Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, Klaus M. Schmidt

published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (2), 834-864

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4628

Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees

Mirjam C. van Praag, Arjen van Witteloostuijn, Justin van der Sluis

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. 4521

Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement: Evidence from a Placement Policy

Olof Aslund, Per-Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson, Hans Grönqvist

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011, 3 (2), 67-95

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4467

The Impact of Chernobyl on Health and Labour Market Performance in the Ukraine

Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth

revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (5), 843-857

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4443

Class Size and Class Heterogeneity

Giacomo De Giorgi, Michele Pellizzari, William Gui Woolston

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (4), 795 - 830

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4416

The Right Amount of Trust

Jeffrey V. Butler, Paola Giuliano, Luigi Guiso

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2016, 14 (6), 1155 - 1180

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4352

One-third Codetermination at Company Supervisory Boards and Firm Performance in German Manufacturing Industries: First Direct Evidence from a New Type of Enterprise Data

Joachim Wagner

published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften /Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2011, 131 (1), 91-106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4297

Trust and Control at the Workplace: Evidence from Representative Samples of Employees in Europe

Christian Grund, Christine Harbring

published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics - Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2013, 233(5+6), 619-637

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4205

Sabotage in Tournaments: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

Christine Harbring, Bernd Irlenbusch

revised and extended version published in: Management Science, 2011, 57, 611 - 627

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4137

Performance Pay and Within-Firm Wage Inequality

Erling Barth, Bernt Bratsberg, Torbjørn Haegeland, Oddbjørn Raaum

published as 'Performance Pay, Union Bargaining and Within-Firm Wage Inequality' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (3), 327 - 362

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4051

Individual Teacher Incentives, Student Achievement and Grade Inflation

Pedro S. Martins

revised version forthcoming in: Public Choice, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3953

The Financial and Operating Performance of Privatized Firms in Sweden

Motasam Tatahi, Almas Heshmati

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3938

Are Young and Old Workers Harmful for Firm Productivity?

Thierry Lallemand, François Rycx

published in: De Economist, 2009, 157 (3), 273-292

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3918

Worker Directors: A German Product that Didn't Export?

John T. Addison, Claus Schnabel

published in: Industrial Relations, 2011, 50 (2), 354-374

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3909

Curbing Cream-Skimming: Evidence on Enrolment Incentives

Pascal Courty, Do Han Kim, Gerald Marschke

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (5), 643-655

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3862

On the Sorting of Physicians across Medical Occupations

Pascal Courty, Gerald Marschke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3859

Peer Effects and Social Networks in Education

Antoni Calvó-Armengol, Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2009, 76, 1239-1267

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3858

On the Determinants of Pay of CEOs in UK Public Sector Higher Education Institutions

Ray Bachan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3847

Incentives and the Sorting of Altruistic Agents into Street-Level Bureaucracies

Margaretha Buurman, Robert Dur

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (4), 1318-1345

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3807

Adding Rungs to the Exporting Ladder: Plant-Level Exporting Dynamics and Total Factor Productivity Growth

Alexandru Voicu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3774

Analysis of Pay Inequality and its Impacts on Growth and Performance in the Korean Manufacturing Industry

Yunhee Kim, Jeong-Dong Lee, Almas Heshmati

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3749

Am I Missing Something? The Effects of Absence from Class on Student Performance

Wiji Arulampalam, Robin Naylor, Jeremy Smith

revised version publishd in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (4), 363-375

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3677

Training, Job Satisfaction and Workplace Performance in Britain: Evidence from WERS 2004

Melanie K. Jones, Richard J. Jones, Paul L. Latreille, Peter J. Sloane

published in: Labour, 2009, 23 (Special Issue), 139 - 175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3583

Why Do Leaders Matter? The Role of Expert Knowledge

Amanda H. Goodall, Lawrence M. Kahn, Andrew J. Oswald

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2011, 77(3), 265-284

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3470

What Have We Learned? Assessing Labor Market Institutions and Indicators

Werner Eichhorst, Michael Feil, Christoph Braun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3440

Feedback and Incentives: Experimental Evidence

Tor Eriksson, Anders Poulsen, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (6), 679-688

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3436

Union Decline in Britain

David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson

published in: Brown, W. et al. (eds.) - The Evolution of the Modern Workplace, Cambridge University Press, 2009

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3382

Subjective Performance Evaluation and Inequality Aversion

Christian Grund, Judith Przemeck

revised (consirably shortened) version published as 'Subjective performance appraisal and inequality aversion' in: Applied Economics, 2012, 44 (17), 2149 - 2155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3340

Performance Spillovers and Social Network in the Workplace: Evidence from Rural and Urban Weavers in a Chinese Textile Firm

Takao Kato, Pian Shu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3294

Unions, Training, and Firm Performance

John T. Addison, Clive R. Belfield

published in: Journal of Labor Market Research/Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung, 2007, 40 (4), 361-381

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3282

Are Oligarchs Productive? Theory and Evidence

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Yegor Grygorenko

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2008, 36 (1), 17-42

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3207

The NAFTA Tide: Lifting the Larger and Better Boats

Angel Calderón-Madrid, Alexandru Voicu

revised version published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2011, 20 (4), 467 - 505

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3122

Earnings-Tenure Profiles: Tests of Agency and Human Capital Theories Using Individual Performance Data

Xiao-Yuan Dong, Derek C. Jones, Takao Kato

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3112

Dismissals for Cause: The Difference That Just Eight Paragraphs Can Make

Pedro S. Martins

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 27(2), 257–279, 2009

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3065

The Determinants of Performance Appraisal Systems: A Note (Do Brown and Heywood’s Results for Australia Hold Up for Britain?)

John T. Addison, Clive R. Belfield

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2008, 46 (3), 521 - 531

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3065

The Determinants of Performance Appraisal Systems: A Note (Do Brown and Heywood’s Results for Australia Hold Up for Britain?)

John T. Addison, Clive R. Belfield

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2008, 46 (3), 521 - 531

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3064

Performance Measurement, Expectancy and Agency Theory: An Experimental Study

Randolph Sloof, Mirjam C. van Praag

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 67 (3-4), 794 - 809

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3031

Students' Academic Self-Perception

Arnaud Chevalier, Stephen Gibbons, Andy Thorpe, Martin Snell, Sherria Hoskins

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2009, 28 (6), 716-727

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3017

Individual and Job-Based Determinants of Performance Appraisal: Evidence from Germany

Christian Grund, Dirk Sliwka

published as "The Anatomy of Performance Appraisals in Germany" in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2009, 20 (10), 2049-2065

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3017

Individual and Job-Based Determinants of Performance Appraisal: Evidence from Germany

Christian Grund, Dirk Sliwka

published as "The Anatomy of Performance Appraisals in Germany" in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2009, 20 (10), 2049-2065

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2930

Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World: Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?

Barry Hirsch

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2008, 22 (1), 153-176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2880

Fundamental Determinants of School Efficiency and Equity: German States as a Microcosm for OECD Countries

Ludger Woessmann

published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik , 2010, 230 (2), 234-270

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2857

The Effect of Incentive Structure on Heuristic Decision Making: The Proportion Heuristic

Robert J. Oxoby

published in: Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 2009, 39 (1), 120 - 133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2850

Performance Pay and Wage Inequality

Thomas Lemieux, W. Bentley MacLeod, Daniel Parent

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, 124 (1), 1-49

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2834

Gender Differences in Performance in Competitive Environments: Evidence from Professional Tennis Players

M. Daniele Paserman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2791

China in Light of the Performance of Central and East European Economies

Jan Svejnar

published in: L. Brandt and T. Rawski (eds), China’s Great Economic Transformation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2673

The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)

Mirjam C. van Praag, Bernard M. S. van Praag

published in: Economica, 2008, 75 (300), 782-796

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2662

Principals as Agents? Investigating Accountability in the Compensation and Performance of School Principals

Sherrilyn M. Billger

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 61(1), 90-107

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2637

Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries

Simon Commander, Jan Svejnar

revised version published as 'Business Environment, Exports, Ownership, and Firm Performance' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (1), 309 - 337

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2574

Cooperation, Competition, and Risk Attitudes: An Intergenerational Field and Laboratory Experiment

Gary Charness, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (3), 956–978

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. 2475

Entrepreneurship and the Process of Firms’ Entry, Survival and Growth

Enrico Santarelli, Marco Vivarelli

published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2007, 16(3), 455-488

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2408

Globalization and the Provision of Incentives Inside the Firm: The Effect of Foreign Competition

Vicente Cuñat, Maria Guadalupe

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2009, 27 (2), 179-212

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2276

Employee Training, Wage Dispersion and Equality in Britain

Filipe Almeida-Santos, Karen A. Mumford

substantially rewritten - see 'Employee Training and Wage Dispersion: White and Blue Collar Workers in Britain', IZA DP No. 4821

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2253

Performance Pay and Earnings: Evidence from Personnel Records

Tuomas Pekkarinen, Chris Riddell

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008, 61 (3), 287 - 319

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2211

Performance Related Pay and Labor Productivity

Anne C. Gielen, Marcel Kerkhofs, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 291-301

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2203

Income Taxes and the Composition of Pay

Giorgio Brunello, Simona Lorena Comi, Daniela Sonedda

published as 'Income Taxes and the Composition of Pay: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 58 (3), 297 - 322

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2142

Who Pays for Performance?

Erling Barth, Bernt Bratsberg, Torbjørn Haegeland, Oddbjørn Raaum

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2008, 20 (1), 8-29

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2012

Performance Pay and Risk Aversion

Christian Grund, Dirk Sliwka

revised version published as "Evidence on Performance Pay and Risk Aversion" in: Economics Letters, 2010, 106 (1), 8-11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2012

Performance Pay and Risk Aversion

Christian Grund, Dirk Sliwka

revised version published as "Evidence on Performance Pay and Risk Aversion" in: Economics Letters, 2010, 106 (1), 8-11