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Uwe Jirjahn
Uwe Jirjahn
Research Fellow
University of Trier
jirjahn@uni-trier.de External Homepage CV

Uwe Jirjahn is Professor of Economics at the University of Trier. He researches labor market economics and personnel economics, with special interests in works councils, teamwork, performance pay, migration, older employees, single parents, discrimination, and the labor market consequences of foreign ownership.

Among other journals, he has published in Applied Economics, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Industrial and Corporate Change, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Economics Letters, Kyklos, Labour Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Social Science Quarterly, and Urban Studies.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in September 2016.

IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18323
The Impact of Personality Traits on Sexual Satisfaction and Frequency of Sex: Does It Differ Between Single and Partnered Individuals?
Uwe Jirjahn, Martha Ottenbacher
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18187
Working from Home and Mental Health: Giving Employees a Choice Does Make a Difference
Uwe Jirjahn, Cinzia Rienzo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18181
Performance Pay and Happiness: Work vs. Home?
Mehrzad B. Baktash, John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18059
Management Practices, Workplace Health Promotion and Productivity
Uwe Jirjahn, Jens Mohrenweiser
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17709
Political Spillovers of Worker Representation: With or Without Workplace Democracy?
Uwe Jirjahn
revised version published in: Analyse und Kritik - Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory, 2025, 47 (1), 5-30
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17597
Unions and Collective Bargaining in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Insights from Quantitative Studies
Uwe Jirjahn
revised version forthcoming in: Industrielle Beziehungen - German Journal of Industrial Relations
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. 16727
Corporate Globalization and Worker Representation
Uwe Jirjahn
published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16361
Are Managers More Machiavellian than Other Employees?
Mehrzad B. Baktash, Uwe Jirjahn
revised version forthcoming in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review
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
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