IZA Discussion Papers

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15775

Piecework and Job Search in the Platform Economy

Michele Cantarella, Chiara Strozzi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15716

Revenue Drift, Incentives, and Effort Allocation in Social Enterprises

Theodor Vladasel, Simon C. Parker, Randolph Sloof, Mirjam C. van Praag

published in: Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2024, 33 (3), 630 - 651

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15665

Business Cycles and Police Hires

Fernando Saltiel, Cody Tuttle

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15649

Costs and Benefits of an Individual Learning Account (ILA): A Simulation Analysis for the Netherlands

Henri Bussink, Bas ter Weel

published in: Economic Modelling, 2023, 118, 106085

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15552

Collective Bargaining for Women: How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs

Viola Corradini, Lorenzo Lagos, Garima Sharma

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2025, 140 (3), 2053–2105

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15496

Social Preferences and Rating Biases in Subjective Performance Evaluations

David Kusterer, Dirk Sliwka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15474

Does Performance Pay Influence Hours of Work?

Colin P. Green, John S. Heywood

published as 'Performance pay, work hours and employee health in the UK' in: Labour Economics, 2023, 84, 102387

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15412

Performance Pay and Work Hours: US Survey Evidence

Benjamin Artz, John S. Heywood

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15340

Minimum Wages in Developing Countries

Tony Fang, Viet Hoang Ha

published in: Klaus F. Zimmermannn (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15333

Evolution of Union Wages and Determinants

Tony Fang, John Hartley

published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15274

Reward or Punishment? The Distribution of Life-Cycle Returns to Political Office

Jens Olav Dahlgaard, Nicolai Kristensen, Frederik Kjøller Larsen

published online in: Political Science Research and Methods, 06 January 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15000

Performance-Related Pay and Objective Measures of Health after Correcting for Sample Selection

Nicole Andelic, Julia Allan, Keith A. Bender, Daniel Powell, Ioannis Theodossiou

published as 'Performance-related Pay, Mental and Physiological Health' in: Industrial Relations, 2024, 63 (1), 3-25.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14992

Hours Constraints and Wage Differentials across Firms

Claudio Labanca, Dario Pozzoli

published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 07 November 2023,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14986

Does Group-Based Incentive Pay Lead To Higher Productivity? Evidence from a Complex and Interdependent Industrial Production Process

Anders Frederiksen, Daniel Baltzer Schjødt Hansen, Colleen Flaherty Manchester

published as ' Group-based incentives and individual performance: Unpacking the effort response' in: ILR Review, 2024, 77 (2), 273-293.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14985

Adverse Selection in the Group Life Insurance Market

Timothy F. Harris, Aaron Yelowitz, Jeffery Talbert, Alison Davis

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2023, 61 (5), 911-941

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14939

Worker Stress and Performance Pay: German Survey Evidence

Mehrzad B. Baktash, John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 201, 276-291

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14706

Footsie, Yeah! Share Prices and Worker Wellbeing

Alex Bryson, Andrew E. Clark, Colin P. Green

published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2022, 4 (3), 197-211

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14474

Does Compliance with Financial Fair Play Rules Improve the Football Clubs' Sport Performance and Their Chances to Reach UEFA Competitions?

Pedro Garcia-del-Barrio, Pablo Agnese

published as 'To comply or not to comply? How a UEFA wage-to-revenue requirement might affect the sport and managerial performance of soccer clubs' in: Managerial and Decision Economics, 2023, 44 (2), 767 - 786

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14382

Drivers of Working Hours and Household Income Dynamics during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of the Netherlands

Christian Zimpelmann, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Radost Holler, Lena Janys, Bettina M. Siflinger

published as 'Hours and income dynamics during the Covid-19 pandemic: The case of the Netherlands' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 73, 102055

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14325

The Return to Hours Worked within and across Occupations: Implications for the Gender Wage Gap

Jeffrey T. Denning, Brian A. Jacob, Lars Lefgren, Christian vom Lehn

published in: ILR Review, 2022, 75 (5), 1321 - 1347

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14242

Incentives for Cooperation in Teams: Sociality Meets Decision Rights

Britta Butz, Pablo Guillen Alvarez, Christine Harbring

published in: Review of Managerial Science, 2024, 18, 2925 - 2951

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14205

Performance Pay and Alcohol Use in Germany

Mehrzad B. Baktash, John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn

revised version published in: Industrial Relations, 2022, 61, 353-383

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14199

Information Provision, Incentives, and Attention: A Field Experiment on Facilitating and Influencing Managers' Decisions

Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka, Timo Vogelsang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14174

Gender and Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments

Alison L. Booth, Patrick J. Nolen

published in: Economica, 2022, 89 (S1), S71-S85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14131

Passthrough of Firm Performance to Income and Employment Stability

Jonas Maibom, Rune Majlund Vejlin

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 214, 30 - 43

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14125

Non-linear Incentives, Worker Productivity, and Firm Profits: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

Richard B. Freeman, Wei Huang, Teng Li

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14115

Kinks as Goals: Accelerating Commissions and the Performance of Sales Teams

Peter J. Kuhn, Lizi Yu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14112

Wage Inequality and Labor Rights Violations

Ioana E. Marinescu, Yue Qiu, Aaron Sojourner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13898

Workplace Incentives and Organizational Learning

Francesco Amodio, Miguel A. Martinez-Carrasco

published in: Journal of Labor Economics 2023, 41 (2), 453-478

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13825

How Does Working-Time Flexibility Affect Workers' Productivity in a Routine Job? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Marie Boltz, Bart Cockx, Ana Maria Diaz, Luz Salas

published in in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2023, 61 (1), 159 - 187

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13794

Judge Bias in Labor Courts and Firm Performance

Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo, Bérengère Patault, Flavien Moreau

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024, 22 (3), 1319 - 1366

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13500

The Gendered Division of Paid and Domestic Work under Lockdown

Alison Andrew, Sarah Cattan, Monica Costa Dias, Christine Farquharson, Lucy Kraftman, Sonya Krutikova, Angus Phimister, Almudena Sevilla

published in: Fiscal Studies, 2022, 43 (4), 325 - 340

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13474

Selection and Incentives under Time Pressure: The Importance of Framing

Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia, Valeria Pupo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13302

Baby Steps: The Gender Division of Childcare during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Almudena Sevilla, Sarah Smith

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2020, 36 (S1), S169–S186,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13183

Inequality in the Impact of the Coronavirus Shock: Evidence from Real Time Surveys

Abi Adams-Prassl, Teodora Boneva, Marta Golin, Christopher Rauh

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 189, 104245

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12840

Inputs, Incentives, and Self-Selection at the Workplace

Francesco Amodio, Miguel A. Martinez-Carrasco

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12766

A New Strategy to Identify Causal Relationships: Estimating a Binding Average Treatment Effect

Tirthatanmoy Das, Solomon Polachek

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12731

How Do Low-Income Enrollees in the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces Respond to Cost-Sharing?

Kurt Lavetti, Thomas DeLeire, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

revised version published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2023, 90 (1), 155 - 183

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12667

Paying Gig Workers – Evidence from a Field Experiment

Sebastian Butschek, Roberto González Amor, Patrick Kampkötter, Dirk Sliwka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12592

Deregulating Teacher Labor Markets

Simon Burgess, Ellen Greaves, Richard J. Murphy

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 88, 102253

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12586

Performance Pay and Productivity in Health Care: Evidence from Community Health Centers

Brian C. Cadena, Austin C. Smith

published in Journal of Public Economics 206

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12322

The Effects of Work-Life Benefits on Employment Outcomes in Canada: A Multivariate Analysis

Tony Fang, Byron Lee, Andrew R. Timming, Di Fan

published in: Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations, 2019, 74(2), 323-351.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12320

Incentivizing Learning-By-Doing: The Role of Compensation Schemes

Joshua Graff Zivin, Lisa B. Kahn, Matthew Neidell

published in: S. W. Polachek, K. Tatsiramos, G. Russo, G. van Houten (eds.): Workplace Productivity and Management Practices, Research in Labor Economics 49, 2021, 139 - 178

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12303

Do Employee Share Owners Face Too Much Financial Risk?

Douglas L. Kruse, Joseph Blasi, Dan Weltmann, Saehee Kang, Jung Ook Kim, William Castellano

published in: ILR Review, 2022, 75 (3), 716 - 740

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12267

Helping under a Combination of Team and Tournament Incentives

Anastasia Danilov, Bernd Irlenbusch, Christine Harbring

published in: in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 2019, 162, 120-135

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12250

The Pied Piper: Prizes, Incentives, and Motivation Crowding-In

Luigino Bruni, Vittorio Pelligra, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Matteo Rizzolli

revised version published in: Journal of Business Ethics, 2020, 166(3), 643-658

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12237

Education and Risk Compensation in Wages: A Quantile Regression Approach

José António Cabral Vieira, Carolina Constância, João Teixeira

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2020, 27 (3), 194 - 198.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11920

High-Powered Performance Pay and Crowding out of Non-Monetary Motives

David B. Huffman, Michael L. Bognanno

published in: Management Science, 2018, 64 (10), 4669-4680.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11919

Competing on the Holodeck: The Effect of Virtual Peers and Heterogeneity in Dynamic Tournaments

Frederik Graff, Christian Grund, Christine Harbring

published in: Journal of Behavioral & Experimental Economics 2021, 90, 101596

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11859

Performance Pay and Prior Learning: Evidence from a Retail Chain

Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka, Timo Vogelsang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11789

Prosocial Managers, Employee Motivation, and the Creation of Shareholder Value

Agne Kajackaite, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 172, 217-235

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11713

Foreign Competition and Executive Compensation in the Manufacturing Industry: A Comparison between Germany and the U.S.

Katharina Dyballa, Kornelius Kraft

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11617

Where Does Profit Sharing Work Best? A Meta-Analysis on the Role of Unions, Culture, and Values

Chris Doucouliagos, Patrice Laroche, Douglas L. Kruse, T. D. Stanley

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11581

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

Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (12), 5449-5956

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. 11523

Performance Pay and Enterprise Productivity: The Details Matter

Takao Kato, Antti Kauhanen

published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2018, 1 (1), 61-73

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11521

Using Social Connections and Financial Incentives to Solve Coordination Failure: A Quasi-Field Experiment in India's Manufacturing Sector

Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Sherry Xin Li, Swati Sharma

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 144, 102445

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11289

Empowerment and the Dark Side of Delegation

Matthias Kräkel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11266

Why Are Professors "Poorly Paid"?

Daniel S. Hamermesh

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 66, 137-41

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11114

Occupational Match Quality and Gender over Two Cohorts

John T. Addison, Liwen Chen, Orgul Demet Ozturk

revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2020, 73(3), 730-767.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11068

Employer-Provided Severance Pay: The Emergence of Job Displacement Insurance, 1930–1954

Donald O. Parsons

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11067

Voluntary Employer-Provided Severance Pay

Donald O. Parsons

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10923

Does It Matter How and How Much Politicians Are Paid?

Duha T. Altindag, S. Elif Filiz, Erdal Tekin

published in: Economica, 2020, 87 (348), 1105 - 1132

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10893

The Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base Mystery

Donald O. Parsons

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10817

Active Ingredients: Exploring the Key Factors Affecting the Rising Cost of Developing New Drugs

Sarah J. Fossett, Phanindra V. Wunnava

published in: International Journal o Health Sciences, 2019, 7 (3), 1 - 18

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10713

Career Interruptions and Current Earnings: The Role of Interruption Type, Compensation Component, and Gender

Benedikt Gerst, Christian Grund

published in: International Journal of Manpower 2019, 40 , 850–878

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. 10642

The Dispersion of Bonus Payments within and between Firms

Christian Grund, Tanja Hofmann

published in: Journal of Business Economics, 2019, 89 (4), 417-445

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10621

Benefit Generosity and Injury Duration: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Regression Kinks

Benjamin Hansen, Tuan Nguyen, Glen R. Waddell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10576

Ceding Control: An Experimental Analysis of Participatory Management

Philip Mellizo, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Peter Hans Matthews

published in: Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2017, 3, 62 - 74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10547

Promotion Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from Chinese Schools

Naureen Karachiwalla, Albert Park

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 109-128

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10546

The Effectiveness of Incentive Schemes in the Presence of Implicit Effort Costs

Sebastian J. Goerg, Sebastian Kube, Jonas Radbruch

substantially revised version published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (9), 3949-4450.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10288

Locus of Control and Performance Appraisal

John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn, Cornelia Chadi

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 142, 205-225

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10257

Free-Riding and Knowledge Spillovers in Teams: The Role of Social Ties

Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 112, 74-90.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9953

From Dual to Unified Employment Protection: Transition and Steady State

Juan J. Dolado, Etienne Lalé, Nawid Siassi

published in: Quantitative Economics, 2021, 12 (2), 547-585.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9865

Job Displacement Insurance: A Policy Typology

Donald O. Parsons

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9854

The Adverse Consequences of Tournaments: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 151, 1-18

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9824

Moral-Hazard-Free First-Best Unemployment Insurance

Donald O. Parsons

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9823

The Simple Analytics of Job Displacement Insurance

Donald O. Parsons

published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2019, 86 (2), 351 - 380

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9565

Psychological Incentives, Financial Incentives, and Risk Attitudes in Tournaments: An Artefactual Field Experiment

Bram Cadsby, Jim Engle-Warnick, Tony Fang, Fei Song

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2019, 72, 64-79

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