IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published as 'Contract Innovation in Germany: An Economic Evaluation of Pacts for Competitiveness' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55(3), 500-526.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9295

Dismissal Laws in Australia: Reforms and Enforcement by Labour Courts

Benoit Pierre Freyens, Xiaodong Gong

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9278

Skill Gaps in the Workplace: Measurement, Determinants and Impacts

Seamus McGuinness, Luis Ortiz

published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2016, 47 (3), 253-278

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9254

Wage Compression within the Firm

Marco Leonardi, Michele Pellizzari, Domenico Tabasso

published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129, 3256-3291.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9221

Sources of the Union Wage Gap: Results from High-Dimensional Fixed Effects Regression Models

John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal, Hugo Vilares

revised version published as 'Union Membership Density and Wages: The Role of Worker, Firm, and Job-Title Heterogeneity' in: Journal of Econometrics. 2023, 233 (2), 612-632.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9125

Micro-Evidence on Product and Labor Market Regime Differences between Chile and France

Sabien Dobbelaere, Rodolfo Lauterbach, Jacques Mairesse

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (2), 229 - 252

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9124

Comparing Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Three Different Approaches

Sabien Dobbelaere, Jacques Mairesse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9016

On the Potential Interaction Between Labour Market Institutions and Immigration Policies

Claudia Cigagna, Giovanni Sulis

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36(4), 441 - 468

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8989

Is There a Link Between Employer-Provided Health Insurance and Job Mobility? Evidence from Recent Micro Data

Benjamin W. Chute, Phanindra V. Wunnava

published in: Open Journal of Human Resource Management, 2018, 1 (1), 38 - 52

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8943

Unions and Collective Bargaining in the Wake of the Great Recession

John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal, Hugo Vilares

revised version published as 'Unions and Collective Bargaining in the Wake of the Great Recession: Evidence from Portugal' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55(3), 551-576.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8919

United, Yet Apart? A Note on Persistent Labour Market Differences between Western and Eastern Germany

Claus Schnabel

published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik), 2016, 236 (2), 157-180

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8894

Trade, Wages, and Collective Bargaining: Evidence from France

Juan Carluccio, Denis Fougère, Erwan Gautier

published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (584), 803-837

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8891

The Spanish Productivity Puzzle in the Great Recession

Laura Hospido, Eva Moreno-Galbis

published in: P. Askenazy, L. Bellmann, A. Bryson, and E. Moreno Galbis (eds.), Productivity Puzzles Across Europe, Oxford University Press, 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8863

Shirking, Standards and the Probability of Detection

John G. Sessions, John D. Skåtun

published in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2018, 70 (2), 103-118

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8802

The Impact of Temporary Agency Work on Trade Union Wage Setting: A Theoretical Analysis

Thomas Beissinger, Philipp Baudy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8750

Job Quality in Segmented Labor Markets: The Israeli Case

Shoshana Neuman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8724

Share Capitalism and Worker Wellbeing

Alex Bryson, Andrew E. Clark, Richard B. Freeman, Colin P. Green

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 151-158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8561

The Labor Supply of Self-Employed Workers: The Choice of Working Hours in Worker Co-ops

John H. Pencavel

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43 (3), 677-689

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8540

30,000 Minimum Wages: The Economic Effects of Collective Bargaining Extensions

Pedro S. Martins

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 59(2), 335–369

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8539

Workplace Democracy and Job Flows

Guillermo Alves, Gabriel Burdin, Andres Dean

revised version published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 44 (2), 258–271

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8537

Employee Stock Purchase Plans: Gift or Incentive? Evidence from a Multinational Corporation

Alex Bryson, Richard B. Freeman

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, 57 (1), 86-106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8516

Hiring Discrimination against Pro-Union Applicants: The Role of Union Density and Firm Size

Stijn Baert, Eddy Omey

revised version published in: De Economist, 2015, 163, 263 - 280

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8465

Unconditional and Conditional Wage Polarization in Europe

Paolo Naticchioni, Giuseppe Ragusa, Riccardo Massari

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8441

Examining the Relationship between Employee Resistance to Changes in Job Conditions and Wider Organisational Change: Evidence from Ireland

Hugh Cronin, Seamus McGuinness

published in: Evidence Based HRM, 2015, 4 (1), 30 - 48

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8419

Minimum Wage Systems and Earnings Inequalities: Does Institutional Diversity Matter?

Andrea Garnero, Stephan Kampelmann, François Rycx

published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2015, 21 (2), 115-130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8416

Who Do Unions Target? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses

Emin Dinlersoz, Jeremy Greenwood, Henry R. Hyatt

published in: ILR Review, 2017, 70(3): 733-766

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8361

Spillover Effects of Unionisation on Non-members' Well-being

Getinet Astatike Haile, Alex Bryson, Michael White

published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 35, 108-122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8359

Changes in Bargaining Status and Intra-Plant Wage Dispersion in Germany: A Case of (Almost) Plus Ça Change?

John T. Addison, Arnd Kölling, Paulino Teixeira

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8358

Two-Tier Bargaining

Tito Boeri

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8284

Employee Trust and Workplace Performance

Sarah Brown, Daniel Gray, Jolian McHardy, Karl Taylor

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 116, 361-378

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8259

Nurse Unions and Patient Outcomes

Arindrajit Dube, Ethan Kaplan, Owen Thompson

published in: ILR Review, 2016, 69 (4), 803 - 833

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8257

Union Decline and the Coverage Wage Gap in Germany

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Jens Stephani, Lutz Bellmann

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2015, 36 (3), 301-317.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8242

Centralized vs. Decentralized Wage Formation: The Role of Firms' Production Technology

Boris Hirsch, Christian Merkl, Steffen Müller, Claus Schnabel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8240

Impacts of Unionization on Quality and Productivity: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Nursing Homes

Aaron Sojourner, Brigham R. Frandsen, Robert J. Town, David C. Grabowski, Michelle M. Chen

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68 (4), 771 - 806

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8220

Labour-Market Institutions and the Dispersion of Wage Earnings

Wiemer Salverda, Daniele Checchi

published in: A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds.): Handbook of Income Distribution, 2, 2015, 1535–1727

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8147

The Political Economy of Labor Market Regulation with R&D

Tapio K. Palokangas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8125

Labour Demand Research: Towards a Better Match between Better Theory and Better Data

John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal, José Varejão

published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 4-11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8098

Are Voluntary Agreements Better? Evidence from Baseball Arbitration

John W. Budd, Aaron Sojourner, Jaewoo Jung

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2017, 70 (4), 865 - 893

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8034

Wage Determination and Imperfect Competition

Alison L. Booth

published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 53-58

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7964

Union Organizing Decisions in a Deteriorating Environment: The Composition of Representation Elections and the Decline in Turnout

Henry S Farber

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(5), 1126-1156

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7887

Unionization and Productivity: Evidence from Charter Schools

Cassandra M. D. Hart, Aaron Sojourner

published in: Industrial Relations, 2015. 55 (4), 422-448

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7871

Collective Bargaining and Innovation in Germany: Cooperative Industrial Relations?

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Katalin Evers, Lutz Bellmann

revised version published as 'Collective Bargaining and Innovation in Germany: A Case of Cooperative Industrial Relations?' in: Industrial Relations, 2017, 56(1), 73-121.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7870

Chinese Unions and Enterprises Performance

Tony Fang, Ying Ge

published in: Asian Business & Management, 2019,18, 281–300.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7869

Profit Sharing and Workplace Productivity: Does Teamwork Play a Role?

Richard J. Long, Tony Fang

published in: Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations, 2021, 76 (1), 90-114

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7854

Equality under Threat by the Talented: Evidence from Worker-Managed Firms

Gabriel Burdin

revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126(594), 1372-1403

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7803

Looking After Number Two? Competition, Cooperation and Workplace Interaction

Tim Barmby, John G. Sessions, Alexandros Zangelidis

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 131 (Part A), 166-182

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7673

Industry-Wide Work Rules and Productivity: Evidence from Argentine Union Contract Data

Carlos Lamarche

published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2013, 2:11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7616

Labor Market Institutions and the Response of Inflation to Macro Shocks in the EU: A Two-Sector Analysis

Gaetano D'Adamo, Riccardo Rovelli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7609

Has Atypical Work Become Typical in Germany?

Werner Eichhorst, Verena Tobsch

also available as: ILO Employment Working Paper 145 and DIW SOEP Paper 596

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7555

China's 2008 Labor Contract Law: Implementation and Implications for China's Workers

Mary Gallagher, John T. Giles, Albert Park, Meiyan Wang

revised version published in: Human Relations, 2015, 68 (2), 197-235

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7541

The Economics of First-Contract Mediation

Sabien Dobbelaere, Roland Iwan Luttens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7502

Minimum Wage and the Average Wage in France: A Circular Relationship?

Gilbert Cette, Valérie Chouard, Gregory Verdugo

published in: Economics Bulletin, 2013, 33 (3), 1832-1839

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7498

Mit Neo-Korporatismus durch die Krise? Die Rolle des Sozialen Dialogs in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz

Werner Eichhorst, J. Timo Weishaupt

published in: Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, 2013, 59 (3), 313-335

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7474

Indicative and Updated Estimates of the Collective Bargaining Premium in Germany

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Katalin Evers, Lutz Bellmann

published in: Industrial Relations, 2014, 53 (1), 125-157.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7471

Relative Consumption, Working Time, and Trade Unions

Laszlo Goerke, Inga Hillesheim

published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 170-179

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7351

Sharp Teeth or Empty Mouths? Revisiting the Minimum Wage Bite with Sectoral Data

Andrea Garnero, Stephan Kampelmann, François Rycx

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2015, 53(4), 760–788

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7313

An Anatomy of Public Sector Unions

Barry Hirsch

published in: Michael Green and Samuel Estreicher (eds.), The Challenge for Collective Bargaining: Proceedings of the NYU 65th Annual Conference on Labor, LexisNexis, 2013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7308

Management-Employee Relations, Firm Size and Job Satisfaction

Aysit Tansel, Saziye Gazioglu

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2014, 35 (8), 1260-1275.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7253

Product and Labor Market Imperfections and Scale Economies: Micro-Evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands

Sabien Dobbelaere, Kozo Kiyota, Jacques Mairesse

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43(2): 290-322

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7245

Lawyers as Agents of the Devil in a Prisoner's Dilemma Game: Evidence from Long Run Play

Orley Ashenfelter, David E. Bloom, Gordon B. Dahl

published in: Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 2013, 10 (3), 399-423

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7232

The Changing Size Distribution of U.S. Trade Unions and Its Description by Pareto's Distribution

John H. Pencavel

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67 (1), 138-170

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7195

Investment under Company-Level Pacts

Lutz Bellmann, Hans-Dieter Gerner, Olaf Hübler

published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2015, 36(3), 501-522

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7138

'Make-or-Buy' of Peripheral Services in Manufacturing: Evidence from Spanish Plant-Level Data

Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez, Ricard Gil

published as 'Outsourcing of Peripheral Services: Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Plant-Level Data' in: European Economic Review, 2015, 78, 328-344

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7075

Heterogeneity in Union Status and Employee Well-Being

Getinet Astatike Haile, Alex Bryson, Michael White

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7022

Separating Introduction Effects from Selectivity Effects: The Differences in Employment Patterns of Co-Determined Firms

Rafael Gralla, Kornelius Kraft

published in: Labour, 2018, 32 (1), 93-111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7021

Higher Wages, Overstaffing or Both? The Employer's Assessment of Problems Regarding Wage Costs and Staff Level in Co-Determined Establishments

Rafael Gralla, Kornelius Kraft

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6984

High-Performance Management Practices and Employee Outcomes in Denmark

Annalisa Cristini, Tor Eriksson, Dario Pozzoli

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 60 (3), 232-266

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6932

Worker Cooperatives and Democratic Governance

John H. Pencavel

published in: Anna Grandori (ed.), Handbook of Economic Organization, Edward Elgar, 2013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6873

Promotion and Wages in Mid-Career: Gender, Unionism, and Sector

John T. Addison, Orgul Demet Ozturk, Si Wang

revised version published as 'The Role of Gender in Promotion and Pay over a Career' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 8 (3), 280-317

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6799

Fairness Considerations in Labor Union Wage Setting: A Theoretical Analysis

Matthias Strifler, Thomas Beissinger

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 63 (3), 303-330

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6792

Union Membership and Density: Some (Not So) Stylized Facts and Challenges

Claus Schnabel

published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2013, 19 (3), 255-272

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6779

Recent Longitudinal Evidence of Size and Union Threat Effects across Genders

Phanindra V. Wunnava

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6777

Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform

Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 33, 13–25

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6757

Unions, Wage Gaps, and Wage Dispersion: New Evidence from the Americas

Fernando Rios-Avila, Barry Hirsch

published in: Industrial Relations, 2014, 53 (1), 1-27.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6658

Is the Erosion Thesis Overblown? Evidence from the Orientation of Uncovered Employers

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Katalin Evers, Lutz Bellmann

revised version published as 'Is the Erosion Thesis Overblown? Alignment from Without in Germany' in: Industrial Relations, 2016, 55, 415-443

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6625

The Unexpected Appearance of a New German Model

Werner Eichhorst

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2015, 53(1), 49-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6536

Union Decline in Britain: Is Chauvinism Also to Blame?

Getinet Astatike Haile

published as 'Union decline in Britain: does gender have anything to do with it?' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 64 (1), 25 - 49

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6534

The Determinants of Earnings Inequalities: Panel Data Evidence from South Africa

Andrew Kerr, Francis J. Teal

published as 'The Determinants of Earnings Inequalities: Panel Data Evidence from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa' in: Journal of African Economics, 2015, 24 (4), 530- 558

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6497

Works Councils, Collective Bargaining and Apprenticeship Training

Ben Kriechel, Samuel Mühlemann, Harald Pfeifer, Miriam Schuette

published in: Industrial Relations, 2014, 66 (5), 1095-1112

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6484

Minimum Wages as a Barrier to Entry: Evidence from Germany

Ronald Bachmann, Thomas K. Bauer, Hanna Kroeger

published in: Labour, 2014, 28 (3), 338-357

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6483

Claudio Lucifora, Federica Origo

published as 'Performance-Related Pay and Firm Productivity: Evidence from a Reform in the Structure of Collective Bargaining' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(3), 606-632

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6479

Do Unions Promote Members' Electoral Office Holding? Evidence from Correlates of State Legislatures' Occupational Shares

Aaron Sojourner

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (2), 467–486

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6415

Testing a Forgotten Aspect of Akerlof's Gift Exchange Hypothesis: Relational Contracts with Individual and Uniform Wages

Martin G. Kocher, Wolfgang J. Luhan, Matthias Sutter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6254

How Unjust! An Experimental Investigation of Supervisors' Evaluation Errors and Agents' Incentives

Lucia Marchegiani, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Matteo Rizzolli

revised version published as 'Loss Averse Agents and Lenient Supervisors in Performance Appraisal' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 131, 183-197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6176

Wage Dispersion and Decentralization of Wage Bargaining

Christian M. Dahl, Daniel le Maire, Jakob R. Munch

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (3), 501-533

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6137

The Use of Flexible Measures to Cope with Economic Crises in Germany and Brazil

Werner Eichhorst, Paul Marx, José Pastore

also available in Portuguese

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6010

Does Institutional Diversity Account for Pay Rules in Germany and Belgium?

Stephan Kampelmann, François Rycx

published in: Socio-Economic Review, 2013, 11 (1), 131-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5987

The Structure of Collective Bargaining and Worker Representation: Change and Persistence in the German Model

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Alex Bryson, André Pahnke

revised version published as 'Collective Agreement Status and Survivability: Change and Persistence in the German Model' in: Labour, 2013, 27 (3), 288-309

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5978

Firm Heterogeneity, Informal Wage and Good Governance

Saibal Kar, Sugata Marjit

published in: Review of Development Economics, 2012, 16 (4), 527-539

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5875

Let's Take Bargaining Models Seriously: The Decline in Union Power in Germany, 1992-2009

Boris Hirsch, Claus Schnabel

substantially revised version published as 'What Can We Learn from Bargaining Models about Union Power? The Decline in Union Power in Germany, 1992-2009' in: Manchester School, 2014, 82 (3), 347-362

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5872

What Explains Prevalence of Informal Employment in European Countries: The Role of Labor Institutions, Governance, Immigrants, and Growth

Mihails Hazans

published as: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5917, 2011/12

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5868

And I Will Try to Fix You: A Study of Heterogeneity in Job Satisfaction with Implications for Flexible Employment Contracts

Aekapol Chongvilaivan, Nattavudh Powdthavee

published as 'Do Different Work Characteristics Have Different Distributional Impacts on Job Satisfaction? A Study of Slope Heterogeneity in Workers’ Well-Being' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2014, 52 (3), 426-444

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5835

Wage Rigidity, Collective Bargaining and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from French Agreement Data

Sanvi Avouyi-Dovi, Denis Fougère, Erwan Gautier

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (4), 1337-1351

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5798

The Role of Profit Sharing in Dual Labour Markets with Flexible Outsourcing

Erkki Koskela, Jan König

published in: Labour, 2013, 27 (4), 351-370

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5711

Efficiency in Employee-Owned Enterprises: An Econometric Case Study of Mondragon

Saioa Arando, Monica Gago, Derek C. Jones, Takao Kato

resvised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(2), 398-425