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304 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18181
Performance Pay and Happiness: Work vs. Home?
Mehrzad B. Baktash, John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18023
Employee Ownership and Promotive Voice: The Roles of Psychological Ownership and Perceived Alignment of Interests
Dylan A. Cooper, Tony Fang, Vincent Wan
published online in: Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, 24 June 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17959
The Rises and Falls of Piecework-Timework Pay Differentials. UK Engineering and Metal Working Industries, 1926–1965.
Robert A. Hart, J. Elizabeth Roberts
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17791
Does Performance Pay Deter Job Quits?
Benjamin Artz, John S. Heywood
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. 17750
Preferences for Gender Diversity in High-Profile Jobs
Celina Högn, Lea Mayer, Johannes Rincke, Erwin Winkler
published in: Labour Economics 99:102857 (2026)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17644
Variable Pay and Risk Sharing Between Firms and Workers
Jason Sockin, Michael Sockin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17449
Optimal Compensation in Competitive Labor Markets with Heterogeneous Employers and Workers
Samuel Häfner, Niklas Haeusle, Winfried Koeniger, Alexander Braun
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17440
Compensation Peer Group Effects: Evidence from NFL Professional Football
Quinn Keefer, Thomas J. Kniesner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17234
Working from Home and Performance Pay: Individual or Collective Payment Schemes?
Uwe Jirjahn, Cinzia Rienzo
revised version forthcoming in: British Journal of Industrial Relations
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17119
Making the Right Call: The Heterogeneous Effects of Individual Performance Pay on Productivity
Marco Clemens, Jan Sauermann
published in: Labour Economics, 2025, 94, 102694
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16886
Does How You Get Paid at Work Affect Your Time off Work? The Relationship between Performance-Related Employment Contracts and Leisure Activities
Nicole Andelic, Julia Allan, Keith A. Bender, Daniel Powell, Ioannis Theodossiou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16836
Strategic Behaviours in a Labour Market with Mobility-Restricting Contractual Provisions: Evidence from the National Hockey League
Luca Fumarco, Neil Longley, Alberto Palermo, Giambattista Rossi
revised version published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2024, 76 (4), 1189–1203
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16812
Multi-Rater Performance Evaluations and Incentives
Axel Ockenfels, Dirk Sliwka, Peter Werner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16576
Demand for Personality Traits, Tasks, and Sorting
Vera Brenčič, Andrew McGee
published in: Elsner, B. and Polachek, S.W. (eds.), Big Data Applications in Labor Economics, Part A (Research in Labor Economics, 52A), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, 2024, 161-211
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16493
National Wage Setting
Jonathon Hazell, Christina Patterson, Heather Sarsons, Bledi Taska
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16283
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers
David B. Huffman, Collin Raymond, Julia Shvets
published in: American Economic Review, 2022, 112 (10), 3141–3175
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 in: Kyklos, 2025, 78, 1316-1332
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16123
Incentivizing Team Leaders: A Firm-Level Experiment on Subjective Performance Evaluation of Leadership Skills
Thomas Gall, Xiaocheng Hu, Michael Vlassopoulos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16083
Employers' Demand for Personality Traits
Vera Brenčič, Andrew McGee
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