IZA Discussion Papers

published in: Zimmermann, K. (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, section: Technological Changes and the Labor Market, Springer, Cham.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12541

Skills-Displacing Technological Change and Its Impact on Jobs: Challenging Technological Alarmism?

Seamus McGuinness, Konstantinos Pouliakas, Paul Redmond

published online in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 07 May 2021

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12339

Technology, Skills, and Globalization: Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data

Piotr Lewandowski, Albert Park, Wojciech Hardy, Yang Du

published in: The World Bank Economic Review, 2022, 36(3), 687-708

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12327

Workers in the Crowd: The Labour Market Impact of the Online Platform Economy

Michele Cantarella, Chiara Strozzi

revised and updated version published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2021, 30 (6), 1429 - 1458

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12293

Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor

Daron Acemoglu, Pascual Restrepo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12292

The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labor Demand

Daron Acemoglu, Pascual Restrepo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12259

From Ghana to America: The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development

Salvatore Lo Bello, Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta, Hernan Winkler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12063

Racing With or Against the Machine? Evidence from Europe

Terry Gregory, Anna Salomons, Ulrich Zierahn

published as 'Racing With or Against the Machine? Evidence on the Role of Trade in Europe" in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (2), 869 - 906

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12006

The Task Content of Occupations

Luca Bittarello, Francis Kramarz, Alexis Maitre

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12006

The Task Content of Occupations

Luca Bittarello, Francis Kramarz, Alexis Maitre

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12006

The Task Content of Occupations

Luca Bittarello, Francis Kramarz, Alexis Maitre

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12006

The Task Content of Occupations

Luca Bittarello, Francis Kramarz, Alexis Maitre

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11787

Training and Changes in Job Tasks

Marcus Tamm

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 67, 137-147

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11696

Flexible Work Organization and Employer Provided Training: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Annika Campaner, John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn

revised version published in: Kyklos, 2022, 75 (1), 3-29

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11640

The Distribution of the Gender Wage Gap

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Manuel Fernandez Sierra

revised & resubmitted: Journal of Political Economy ( substantially revised version)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11581

Multitasking and Subjective Performance Evaluations: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in a Bank

Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka

forthcoming in: Management Science, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11570

Long-Run Patterns of Labour Market Polarisation: Evidence from German Micro Data

Ronald Bachmann, Merve Cim, Colin P. Green

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, 57 (2), 350-376

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11565

Measuring Physicians' Response to Incentives: Evidence on Hours Worked and Multitasking

Bruce S. Shearer, Nibene Habib Somé, Bernard Fortin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11411

Measuring Costly Effort Using the Slider Task

David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2019, 21, 1-9

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11298

The Effect of Computer Use on Job Quality: Evidence from Europe

Seetha Menon, Andrea Salvatori, Wouter Zwysen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11228

Team Incentives, Task Assignment, and Performance: A Field Experiment

Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur, Michiel Souverijn

published in: The Leadership Quarterly, 2020, 31 (3), 101241

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11220

The Price of Polarization: Estimating Task Prices under Routine-Biased Technical Change

Michael Johannes Böhm

revised version published in: Quantitative Economics, 2020, 11, 761-799.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11016

Does the Adoption of Complex Software Impact Employment Composition and the Skill Content of Occupations? Evidence from Chilean Firms

Rita K. Almeida, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Mariana Viollaz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10732

Routine and Ageing? The Intergenerational Divide in the Deroutinisation of Jobs in Europe

Piotr Lewandowski, Roma Keister, Wojciech Hardy, Szymon Górka

published as 'Ageing of routine jobs in Europe' in: Economic Systems, 2020, 100816.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10643

Performance Pay and Applicant Screening

Uwe Jirjahn, Jens Mohrenweiser

revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, 57(3), 540-575

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10283

Using Goals to Motivate College Students: Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments

Damon Clark, David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse, Mark Rush

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (4), 648-663

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10080

Researchers' Career Transitions over the Life Cycle

Daiji Kawaguchi, Ayako Kondo, Keiji Saito

published in: Scientometrics, Vol. 190, No. 3, pp. 1435-1454.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9981

Testing for the Ratchet Effect: Evidence from a Real-Effort Work Task

Eric Cardella, Briggs Depew

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9878

Rising Work Complexity but Decreasing Returns

Anna Katharina Pikos, Stephan L. Thomsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9768

Homo Moralis: Personal Characteristics, Institutions, and Moral Decision-Making

Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Nora Szech

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9392

Heterogeneity of Skill Needs and Job Complexity: Evidence from the OECD PIAAC Survey

Konstantinos Pouliakas, Giovanni Russo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9126

Children's Media Use and Homework Time

Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia

published in: Charlene M. Kalenkoski and Gigi Foster (eds.): The Economics of Multitasking, 2015, New York, 91-107

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9041

Combining "Real Effort" with Induced Effort Costs: The Ball-Catching Task

Simon Gächter, Lingbo Huang, Martin Sefton

revised version published in: Experimental Economics 19(4), December 2016, 287-712; doi: 10.1007/s10683-015-9465-9

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8465

Unconditional and Conditional Wage Polarization in Europe

Paolo Naticchioni, Giuseppe Ragusa, Riccardo Massari

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8069

Job Tasks, Computer Use, and the Decreasing Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in the UK

Ahmed Elsayed, Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge

Revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55 (1), 58-82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8053

Cities, Tasks and Skills

Suzanne Kok, Bas ter Weel

published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2014, 54 (5), 856-892

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7816

Employment Polarization in Spain along the Cycle 1997-2012

Brindusa Anghel, Sara de la Rica, Aitor Lacuesta

published as "The Impact of the Great Recession on Employment Polarization in Spain" in: SERIEs, 2014, 5 (2-3), 143-171 [Online Access]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7762

The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet

Anders Akerman, Ingvil Gaarder, Magne Mogstad

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7740

Structural Empirical Evaluation of Job Search Monitoring

Gerard J. van den Berg, Bas van der Klaauw

published in: International Economic Review, 2019, 60 (2), 879-903

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7426

Multitasking and Wages

Dennis J. Snower, Dennis Goerlich

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7426

Multitasking and Wages

Dennis J. Snower, Dennis Goerlich

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7329

Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labor Markets

David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson

published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125(584), 621–646

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7321

Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking

Roland Benabou, Jean Tirole

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7303

The Assignment of Workers to Tasks with Endogenous Supply of Skills

Arnaud Dupuy

published in: Economica, 2015, 82 (325), 24-45.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7178

The "Task Approach" to Labor Markets: An Overview

David Autor

published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2013, 46 (3), 185-199

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7068

The Growth of Low Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market

David Autor, David Dorn

published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (5), 1553-1597

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6725

Cheating in the Workplace: An Experimental Study of the Impact of Bonuses and Productivity

David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse, Michael Vlassopoulos

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 96 (December), 120-134

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6486

Horizontal Transfer and Promotion: New Evidence and an Interpretation from the Perspective of Task-Specific Human Capital

Masaru Sasaki, Katsuya Takii, Junmin Wan

forthcoming in Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6410

The Multi-Dimensional Effects of Reciprocity on Worker Effort: Evidence from a Hybrid Field-Laboratory Labor Market Experiment

Min-Taec Kim, Robert Slonim

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6278

Revisiting the Complementarity between Education and Training: The Role of Personality, Working Tasks and Firm Effects

Katja Görlitz, Marcus Tamm

revised version published as 'Revisiting the Complementarity between Education and Training: The Role of Job Tasks and Firm Effects' in: Education Economics, 2016, 24(3), 261-279

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5801

A Novel Computerized Real Effort Task Based on Sliders

David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5801

A Novel Computerized Real Effort Task Based on Sliders

David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5666

Measuring and Interpreting Trends in the Division of Labour in the Netherlands

I. Semih Akçomak, Lex Borghans, Bas ter Weel

published in: De Economist, 2011, 159 (4), 435-482

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5542

Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure

Sergio Firpo, Nicole M. Fortin, Thomas Lemieux

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5470

Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration: The Case of Occupations

Stephan Kampelmann, François Rycx

published as 'The Dynamics of Task-biased Technological Change: The Case of Occupations' in: Brussels Economic Review, 2013, 56 (2)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5325

Hidden Action, Identification, and Organization Design

Wendelin Schnedler

improved version is available here

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5105

Teams Make You Smarter: Learning and Knowledge Transfer in Auctions and Markets by Teams and Individuals

Boris Maciejovsky, Matthias Sutter, David V. Budescu, Patrick Bernau

revised version published as 'Teams make you smarter: How exposure to teams improves individual decisions in probability and reasoning tasks' in: Management Science, 2013, 59 (6), 1255-1270

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5104

Does Intermarriage Pay Off? A Panel Data Analysis

Olga Nottmeyer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4910

Do Ethnic Minorities "Stretch" Their Time? Evidence from the UK Time Use Survey

Anzelika Zaiceva, Klaus F. Zimmermann

revised version published as "Do Ethnic Minorities 'Stretch' Their Time? UK Household Evidence on Multitasking" in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (2), 181-206

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4845

The Multitasking of Household Production

Charlene M. Kalenkoski, Gigi Foster

published in: C. Kalenkoski and G. Foster (eds): The Economics of Multitasking, Palgrave MacMillan, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4828

Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern

Daniel Baumgarten, Ingo Geishecker, Holger Görg

published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 61 (1), 132-152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4536

A Structural Analysis of Disappointment Aversion in a Real Effort Competition

David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse

published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (1), 469-503