IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Productivity and Wage Effects of Firm-level Upstreamness: Evidence from Belgian Linked Panel Data' in: World Economy, 2022, 45 (7), 2222 - 2250

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12794

Working Conditions, Transparency, and Compliance in Global Value Chains: Evidence from Better Work Jordan

Raymond Robertson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12787

Climbing the Ladders of Job Satisfaction and Employees' Organizational Commitment: A Semi-Nonparametric Approach

José António Cabral Vieira

published as 'Climbing the ladders of job satisfaction and employee organizational commitment: cross-country evidence using a semi-nonparametric approach' in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2023, 26 (1), 2163581.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12786

Revisiting Union Wage and Job Loss Effects Using the Displaced Worker Surveys

Abhir Kulkarni, Barry Hirsch

published in: ILR Review, 2021, 74 (4), 948-976

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12776

Improving Employment and Earnings in 21st Century Labor Markets: An Introduction

Erica L. Groshen, Harry J. Holzer

published in: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2019, 5 (1), 1-19;

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12767

Owners, External Managers, and Industrial Relations in German Establishments

Arnd Kölling, Claus Schnabel

substantially revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2022, 60 (2), 424-443

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12714

The Institutional Adjustment Margin to Import Competition: Evidence from Italian Minimum Wages

Alessia Matano, Paolo Naticchioni, Francesco Vona

published as 'The institutional wage adjustment to import competition: evidence from the Italian collective bargaining system' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2023, 75 (3), 631 - 651

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12712

Workplace Unionism, Collective Bargaining and Skill Formation: New Results from Mixed Methods

Fabio Berton, Anna Carreri, Francesco Devicienti, Andrea Ricci

published as 'The collective voice of unions and workplace training in Italy: new insights from mixed methods' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2023, 61 (3), 595 - 622

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12670

Works Councils and Performance Appraisals

Christian Grund, Dirk Sliwka, Krystina Titz

published in: Journal of Participation & Employee Ownership, 2020, 3, 29-50

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12669

Local Labor Demand and Participation in Social Insurance Programs

Asbjørn Goul Andersen, Simen Markussen, Knut Røed

published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101767

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12651

The Decline of Overtime Working in Britain

David N.F. Bell, Robert A. Hart

revised version published as 'The Decline of Paid Overtime in Britain' in: Journal of Industrial Relations, 2023, 2, 235-258

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12611

Do Workers Discriminate against Female Bosses?

Martin Abel

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (2), 470 - 501

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12597

Personal Attitudes, Job Characteristics and Health

Lutz Bellmann, Olaf Hübler

published as 'Personality traits, working conditions and health: an empirical analysis based on the German Linked Personnel Panel, 2013 - 2017 ' in: Review of Managerial Science, 2022, 16, 283 - 318

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12546

Creative Destruction, Social Security Uptake and Union Networks

Harald Dale-Olsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12515

Unions and Firms' Investments: A Unified View

Fabio Berton, Stefano Dughera, Andrea Ricci

published as 'A simple model of holdup, union voice, and firm investments' in: S.W. Polachek, K. Tatsiramos, G. Russo and G. van Houten (eds.): Workplace productivity and management practices (Research in Labor Economics, 49), 2021, 67 - 84

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12482

Designing Good Labour Market Institutions: How to Reconcile Flexibility, Productivity and Security?

Werner Eichhorst, Arne Kalleberg, André Portela Souza, Jelle Visser

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12440

From Ultima Ratio to Mutual Consent: The Effects of Changing Employment Protection Doctrine

Cyprien Batut, Eric Maurin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12438

Dissonant Works Councils and Establishment Survivability

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Philipp Grunau, Lutz Bellmann

revised version published as 'Works Council "Disaffection" and Establishment Survivability" in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 70 (1), 38 - 67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12344

Works Councils and Organizational Gender Policies in Germany

Uwe Jirjahn, Jens Mohrenweiser

revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 59 (4), 1020-1048

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12330

The Economic Preferences of Cooperative Managers

Guillermo Alves, Pablo Blanchard, Gabriel Burdin, Mariana Chávez, Andres Dean

revised version published as 'Like principal, like agent? Managerial preferences in employee-owned firms' in: Journal of Institutional Economics, 2022, 18 (6), 877 - 899

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. 12258

Disability and the Unionized Workplace

Mason Ameri, Mohammad Ali, Lisa Schur, Douglas L. Kruse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12216

Trust and Workplace Performance

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira

revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (4), 874-903.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12169

Rent Sharing in China: Magnitude, Heterogeneity and Drivers

Wenjing Duan, Pedro S. Martins

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2022, 60(1), 176-219

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12113

Works Councils and Workplace Health Promotion in Germany

Uwe Jirjahn, Jens Mohrenweiser, Stephen C. Smith

revised version published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2022, 43 (3), 1059-1094

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12093

Wage Flexibility in a Unionized Economy with Stable Wage Dispersion

Mikael Carlsson, Iida Häkkinen Skans, Oskar Nordström Skans

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12089

Labor-Market Concentration and Labor Compensation

Yue Qiu, Aaron Sojourner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12013

Wage Differentials by Bargaining Regime in Spain (2002-2014): An Analysis Using Matched Employer-Employee Data

Raul Ramos, Esteban Sanromá, Hipólito Simón

published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2022, 44 (2), 375-395

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12008

Unions, Two-Tier Bargaining and Physical Capital Investment: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence from Italy

Gabriele Cardullo, Maurizio Conti, Giovanni Sulis

revised version published as 'A Model of Unions, Two-Tier Bargaining and Capital Investment' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 67, 101936

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11964

Unions and Wage Inequality: The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment

David Card, Thomas Lemieux, W. Craig Riddell

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2020, 53 (1), 140 - 173

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11894

Wages, Creative Destruction, and Union Networks

Harald Dale-Olsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11871

Works Councils, Training and Employee Satisfaction

Lutz Bellmann, Olaf Hübler, Ute Leber

revised version published as 'Works council and training effects on satisfaction' in: Applied Economics Letters, 2019, 26(14), 1177-1181

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11860

The

Michael Barry, Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez, Bruce E. Kaufman, Guenther Lomas, Adrian Wilkinson

published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2019, 2 (1), 60-90

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11828

Wage Floor Rigidity in Industry-Level Agreements: Evidence from France

Denis Fougère, Erwan Gautier, Sébastien Roux

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 55, 72-97

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11788

The Impact of Employment Protection on the Industrial Wage Structure

John S. Heywood, Mary O'Mahony, W. Stanley Siebert, Ana Rincon-Aznar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11723

Labour Immigration and Union Strength

Henning Finseraas, Marianne Roed, Pal Schone

published in: European Union Politics, 2020, 21 (1), 3-23.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11671

Does Employee Stock Ownership Work? Evidence from Publicly-Traded Firms in Japan

Takao Kato, Hideaki Miyajima, Hideo Owan

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. 11616

Do German Works Councils Counter or Foster the Implementation of Digital Technologies?

Sabrina Genz, Lutz Bellmann, Britta Matthes

published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2019, 239 (3), 523 - 564

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11615

State Substitution for the Trade Union Good: The Case of Paid Holiday Entitlements

John Forth, Alex Bryson

published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2019, 2 (1), 5 - 23

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. 11518

The One Constant: A Causal Effect of Collective Bargaining on Employment Growth?

Tobias Brändle, Laszlo Goerke

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economic, 2018, 65 (5), 445 - 478

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11506

What Do Workers Want? The Shortfall in Employee Participation at the European Workplace

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira

revised version published as 'What Do Workers Want? The Representation Gap at the EU Establishment as Perceived by Their Workplace Representatives' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2020, 49, 1-39

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11378

Worker Representation and Temporary Employment in Germany: The Deployment and Extent of Fixed-Term Contracts and Temporary Agency Work

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Philipp Grunau, Lutz Bellmann

revised version published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2019, 2 (1), 24-46.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11310

The Relationship between Union Membership and Net Fiscal Impact

Aaron Sojourner, José Pacas

published in: Industrial Relations, 2019, 58 (1), 86-107

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11309

Firm Wage Premia, Industrial Relations, and Rent Sharing in Germany

Boris Hirsch, Steffen Müller

revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2020, 73 (5), 1119-1146

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11229

The Motivation of Temporary Agency Workers: An Empirical Analysis

Christian Grund, Axel Minten, Nevena Toporova

revised version published as 'Motivation assessments of temporary agency workers - an empirical analysis based on appraisals compiled by hiring companies' in: management revue - Socio-Economic Studies, 2019, 30, 5-39

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11225

Labor Market Imperfections, Markups and Productivity in Multinationals and Exporters

Sabien Dobbelaere, Kozo Kiyota

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 53, 198-212

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11223

The Twin Track Model of Employee Voice: An Anglo-American Perspective on Union Decline and the Rise of Alternative Forms of Voice

Alex Bryson, Richard B. Freeman, Rafael Gomez, Paul Willman

published in: Holland, P., Teicher, J. and Donaghey, J. (eds.) Employee Voice at Work, Springer, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11156

Comparing Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Two Different Econometric Models

Sabien Dobbelaere, Jacques Mairesse

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 18-26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11154

Foreign Ownership and Intra-Firm Union Density in Germany

Uwe Jirjahn

revised version published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2021, 42 (4), 1052-1079

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11128

Measuring Indirect Effects of Unfair Employer Behavior on Worker Productivity: A Field Experiment

Matthias Heinz, Sabrina Jeworrek, Vanessa Mertins, Heiner Schumacher, Matthias Sutter

published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130(632), 2546-2568

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11122

Revisiting Interregional Wage Differentials: New Evidence from Spain with Matched Employer-Employee Data

Inés P. Murillo Huertas, Raul Ramos, Hipólito Simón

published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2020, 60 (2), 296-347

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11113

Collective Bargaining through the Magnifying Glass: A Comparison between the Netherlands and Portugal

Alexander Hijzen, Pedro S. Martins, Jante Parlevliet

published as 'Frontal assault versus incremental change: A comparison of collective bargaining in Portugal and the Netherlands' in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2019/0008

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11111

Union Density, Productivity and Wages

Erling Barth, Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen

published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (631), 1898 - 1936

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11066

Nonunion Employee Representation: Theory and the German Experience with Mandated Works Councils

Uwe Jirjahn, Stephen C. Smith

published in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2018, 89 (1), 201-234

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11064

The German Model of Industrial Relations: (Where) Does It Still Exist?

Michael Oberfichtner, Claus Schnabel

published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik), 2019, 239 (1), 5-37

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10964

Do Good Working Conditions Make You Work Longer? Evidence on Retirement Decisions Using Linked Survey and Register Data

Petri Böckerman, Pekka Ilmakunnas

published as 'Do Good Working Conditions Make You Work Longer? Analyzing Retirement Decisions Using Linked Survey and Register Data' in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2020, 17, 100192

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10899

Workplace Employee Representation and Industrial Relations Performance: New Evidence from the 2013 European Company Survey

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira

published in: Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik (Journal of Economics and Statistics), 2019, 239 (1), 111-154

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10763

Changes in the German Wage Structure: Unions, Internationalization, Tasks, Firms, and Worker Characteristics

Martin Biewen, Matthias Seckler

revised version published as 'Unions, Internationalization, Tasks, Firms, and Worker Characteristics: A Detailed Decomposition Analysis of Rising Wage Inequality in Germany' in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2019, 17, 461-498

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10750

The Role of Works Councils for Severance Payments

Christian Grund, Johannes Martin

published in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2021, 32, 871-892.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10723

How Asymmetrically Increasing Joint Strike Costs Need Not Lead to Fewer Strikes

Archontis L. Pantsios, Solomon Polachek

published in: Atlantic Economic Journal, 2017, 45 (2), 149-161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10669

Wage Rigidities in Colombia: Measurement, Causes, and Policy Implications

Sonia A. Agudelo, Hector Sala

published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2017, 39 (3), 547-567

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. 10575

Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Trust: Evidence from Cross-Country Data

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 159, 109-133.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10511

The Dog That Barks Doesn't Bite: Coverage and Compliance of Sectoral Minimum Wages in Italy

Andrea Garnero

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10510

Upward Nominal Wage Rigidity

Paulo Guimaraes, Fernando Martins, Pedro Portugal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10509

Regular versus Lump-Sum Payments in Union Contracts and Household Consumption

Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Roberta Zizza

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10468

Labor Market Regulation, International Trade and Footloose Capital

Tapio K. Palokangas

revised version "Public Policy, Footloose Capital, and Union Influence" published in: Review of International Economics, 2020, 28 (4), 976-991.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10446

The Effects of International Migration on Native Workers' Unionisation in Austria

José-Ignacio Antón, René Böheim, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published as 'The effect of migration on unionization in Austria' in: Empirical Economics, 2022, 63, 2693–2720

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10438

Men, Women and Unions

Getinet Astatike Haile

published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2021, 52 (3), 201 - 217

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10437

Employee Representation and Flexible Working Time

Gabriel Burdin, Virginie Pérotin

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101755

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10435

Gender Differences in the Union Wage Premium? A Comparative Case Study

Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen, Kristine Nergaard

published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 26 (2), 173 - 190

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10335

Sick Pay Reforms and Health Status in a Unionised Labour Market

Laszlo Goerke

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 64(2), 115-142

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10293

Collective Bargaining and the Evolution of Wage Inequality in Italy

Francesco Devicienti, Bernardo Fanfani, Agata Maida

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, 57 (2), 377-407

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10292

Technical Efficiency, Unions and Decentralized Labor Contracts

Francesco Devicienti, Alessandro Manello, Davide Vannoni

published in: European Journal of Operational Research, 2017, 260 (3), 1129 - 1141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10290

Understanding Wage Floor Setting in Industry-Level Agreements: Evidence from France

Denis Fougère, Erwan Gautier, Sébastien Roux

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10204

No Extension Without Representation? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Collective Bargaining

Alexander Hijzen, Pedro S. Martins

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2020, 9(5), 1-31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10153

How Do Labor Representatives Affect Incentive Orientation of Executive Compensation?

Katharina Dyballa, Kornelius Kraft

published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2020, 66 (1), 60 - 90

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10043

UK Trades Unions and the Problems of Collective Action

Paul Willman, Alex Bryson, John Forth

published as 'UK Unions, Collective Action and the Cost Disease' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (2), 447 - 470

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10026

Working Conditions and Factory Survival: Evidence from Better Factories Cambodia

Raymond Robertson, Drusilla Brown, Rajeev Dehejia

published in: Reivew of Development Economics, 2021, 15 (1), 228 - 254

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9963

Explaining Cross-National Variation in Workplace Employee Representation

John Forth, Alex Bryson, Anitha George

published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 23 (4), 415-433

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9876

Unions and the Economic Basis of Attitudes

Michael White, Alex Bryson

published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2016, 47 (4), 360-378

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9813

Does Less Wage Compression Lead to Less Training in Germany? An Expansion of Acemoglu and Pischke's Model of Training in Imperfect Labor Markets

Renate Neubäumer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9691

Gradual Collective Wage Bargaining

Sabien Dobbelaere, Roland Iwan Luttens

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 40, 37-42

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9610

Effects of Unionization on Workplace-Safety Enforcement: Regression-Discontinuity Evidence

Aaron Sojourner, Jooyoung Yang

published in: ILR Review, 2022, 75 (2), 373-401.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9587

Collective Bargaining Systems and Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Flexibility: The Quest for Appropriate Institutional Forms in Advanced Economies

John T. Addison

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2016, 5: 19

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9506

On the Impact of Quotas and Decision Rules in Ultimatum Collective Bargaining

Robert Feicht, Veronika Grimm, Holger A. Rau, Gesine Stephan

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 100, 175-192.

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