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