IZA Discussion Papers

published in: Cynthia Estlund and Michael Wachter (eds.), Research Handbook on the Economics of Labor and Employment Law, Edward Elgar, 2012, pp. 107-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5320

The Impact of the Crisis on Employment and the Role of Labour Market Institutions

Werner Eichhorst, Veronica Escudero, Paul Marx, Steven Tobin

also available as: International Institute for Labour Studies Discussion Paper 202. Geneva.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5313

Analysis of Labor Tax Progression under Heterogeneous Domestic Labor Markets and Flexible Outsourcing

Erkki Koskela

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5293

The Direct Incidence of Corporate Income Tax on Wages

Wiji Arulampalam, Michael P. Devereux, Giorgia Maffini

published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (6), 1038-1054

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5283

Globalised Labour Markets? International Rent Sharing across 47 Countries

Pedro S. Martins, Yong Yang

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2015, 53(4), 664–691

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5256

What Do Unions Do to Pension Performance?

William E. Even, David A. Macpherson

revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2014, 52 (3), 1173-1189

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5231

Der Institutionalisierungsprozess des Lohnarbeitsverhältnisses vom Ersten bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg in Deutschland

Michael Jan Kendzia

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5228

Wage Cyclicality under Different Regimes of Industrial Relations

Hermann Gartner, Thorsten Schank, Claus Schnabel

published in: Industrial Relations, 2013, 52 (2), 516-540

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5222

Trade Union Membership and Dismissals

Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (6), 810-821

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5176

Panel Data Estimates of the Production Function and Product and Labor Market Imperfections

Sabien Dobbelaere, Jacques Mairesse

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (1), 1-46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5162

Minimum Wages, Labor Market Institutions, and Female Employment and Unemployment: A Cross-Country Analysis

John T. Addison, Orgul Demet Ozturk

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2012, 65 (4), 779-809

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5111

The Productivity Effects of Profit Sharing, Employee Ownership, Stock Option and Team Incentive Plans: Evidence from Korean Panel Data

Takao Kato, Ju Ho Lee, Jang-Soo Ryu

published in: Tor Eriksson (ed.), Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms Volume 11, Bingley: Emerald, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5107

Herausbildung erster Wesenszüge des Normalarbeitsverhältnisses in Deutschland

Michael Jan Kendzia

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5097

Outsourcing Cost and Tax Progression under Nash Wage Bargaining with Flexible Outsourcing

Erkki Koskela

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5078

Wages, Employment and Tenure of Temporarily Subsidized Workers: Does the Industry Matter?

Gesine Stephan

revised version published as 'Hétérogénéité sectorielle des effets d'un dispositif de subvention salariale sur les salaires et l'emploi en Allemagne' in: Travail et Emploi, 2014, 139, 61-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5045

Crisis, What Crisis? Patterns of Adaptation in European Labor Markets

Werner Eichhorst, Michael Feil, Paul Marx

published in: Applied Economics Quarterly Supplement, 2010, 56 (61), 29-64

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5044

The Gender Wage Gaps, 'Sticky Floors' and 'Glass Ceilings' of the European Union

Louis N. Christofides, Alexandros Polycarpou, Konstantinos Vrachimis

published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21, 86-102

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5035

Whatever Works: Dualisation and the Service Economy in Bismarckian Welfare States

Werner Eichhorst, Paul Marx

published in: P.Emmenegger et al. (eds.): The Age of Dualization, Oxford: 2012, 73-99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5033

Rational Choice and Voter Turnout: Evidence from Union Representation Elections

Henry S Farber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5030

The State of Collective Bargaining and Worker Representation in Germany: The Erosion Continues

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4962

Der vormoderne Allokationsprozess von Arbeit in Deutschland

Toni Pierenkemper, Michael Jan Kendzia

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4956

High Performance Work Practices and Employee Voice: A Comparison of Japanese and Korean Workers

Kiu-Sik Bae, Hiroyuki Chuma, Takao Kato, Dong-Bae Kim, Isao Ohashi

published in: Industrial Relations, 2011, 50 (1), 1-29

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4911

Rising Wage Inequality, the Decline of Collective Bargaining, and the Gender Wage Gap

Dirk Antonczyk, Bernd Fitzenberger, Katrin Sommerfeld

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (5), 835-847

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4871

Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Different Perspectives

Sabien Dobbelaere, Jacques Mairesse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4806

Anticipation, Free-Rider Problem, and Adaptation to Trade Union: Re-examining the Curious Case of Dissatisfied Union Members

Nattavudh Powdthavee

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64 (5), 1000-1019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4760

Slip Sliding Away: Further Union Decline in Germany and Britain

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

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 58 (4), 490-518

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4607

The Effects of a Sick Pay Reform on Absence and on Health-Related Outcomes

Patrick A. Puhani, Katja Sonderhof

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2010, 29 (2), 285-302

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4595

Institutional Arrangements, Employment Performance and the Quality of Work

Werner Eichhorst, Paul Marx, Verena Tobsch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4587

Adverse Workplace Conditions, High-Involvement Work Practices and Labor Turnover: Evidence from Danish Linked Employer-Employee Data

Elena Cottini, Takao Kato, Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (6), 872-880

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4554

What Do Unions Do to Temporary Employment?

Andrea Salvatori

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4544

Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly and Imperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Markets under Flexible Outsourcing

Erkki Koskela

published in: Thomas J. Sargent and Jouko Vilmunen (eds.): Macroeconomics at the Service of Public Policy, Oxford University Press, 2012, 186-214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4502

The Extent of Collective Bargaining and Workplace Representation: Transitions between States and their Determinants. A Comparative Analysis of Germany and Great Britain

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

revised version published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 60 (2), 182-209.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4488

The Institutional Context of an "Empirical Law": The Wage Curve under Different Regimes of Collective Bargaining

Uwe Blien, Wolfgang Dauth, Thorsten Schank, Claus Schnabel

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2013, 51 (1), 59-79

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4487

Co-determination and Innovation

Kornelius Kraft, Jörg Stank, Ralf Dewenter

published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2011, 35 (1), 145 - 172

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4484

Employment Protection Legislation in Russia: Regional Enforcement and Labour Market Outcomes

Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov, Anna Lukiyanova

published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2010, 52 (4), 611-636

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4352

One-third Codetermination at Company Supervisory Boards and Firm Performance in German Manufacturing Industries: First Direct Evidence from a New Type of Enterprise Data

Joachim Wagner

published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften /Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2011, 131 (1), 91-106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4273

Immigration to the Land of Redistribution

Tito Boeri

published in: Economica, 2010, 77 (308), 651-687

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4248

Workers Made Idle by Company Strikes and the 'British Disease'

Robert A. Hart

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4246

Unionization and the Evolution of the Wage Distribution in Sweden: 1968 to 2000

James Albrecht, Anders Björklund, Susan Vroman

revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64(5), 1039-1057

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4202

Wage Dispersion in a Partially Unionized Labor Force

John T. Addison, Ralph Bailey, W. Stanley Siebert

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4151

Policy, Institutional Factors and Earnings Mobility

Denisa Maria Sologon, Cathal O'Donoghue

published in: The European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2011, 8(2), pp. 175-202

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4138

Differences in Decline: Quantile Regression Analysis of Union Wage Differentials in the United Kingdom, 1991-2003

Alejandra A. Manquilef-Bächler, Wiji Arulampalam, Jennifer C. Smith

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4126

Works Councils and Separations: Voice, Monopoly, and Insurance Effects

Boris Hirsch, Thorsten Schank, Claus Schnabel

published in: Industrial Relations, 2010, 49 (4), 566-592

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4114

Understanding Inter-Industry Wage Structures in the Euro Area

Véronique Genre, Karsten Kohn, Daphne Momferatou

published in: Applied Economics, 2011, 43 (11), 1299 - 1313

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4100

Reforming German Labor Market Institutions: A Dual Path to Flexibility

Werner Eichhorst, Paul Marx

revised version published in: Journal of European Social Policy, 2011, 21(1), 73-87

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4096

Integration, Labor Market Regulation, Lobbying, and Technological Change

Tapio K. Palokangas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4091

Economic Growth with Political Lobbying and Wage Bargaining

Tapio K. Palokangas

revised version published in: IFAC Papers on Control Applications of Optimization 7 (2010)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4063

Can Profit Sharing Lower Flexible Outsourcing? A Note

Erkki Koskela, Jan König

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3984

Is There Scope for Gains from Revenue-Neutral Labor Tax Reforms with Flexible Outsourcing?

Erkki Koskela, Panu Poutvaara

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3918

Worker Directors: A German Product that Didn't Export?

John T. Addison, Claus Schnabel

published in: Industrial Relations, 2011, 50 (2), 354-374

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3876

The Role of Profit Sharing in a Dual Labour Market with Flexible Outsourcing

Erkki Koskela, Jan König

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3870

Welfare and Employment: A European Dilemma?

Werner Eichhorst, Anton Hemerijck

published in: Jens Alber and Neil Gilbert (eds.), United in Diversity? Comparing Social Models in Europe and America, Oxford: OUP, 2010, 201-236

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3867

Institutional Features of Wage Bargaining in 23 European Countries, the US and Japan

Philip Du Caju, Erwan Gautier, Daphne Momferatou, Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3842

Union Membership and Age: The Inverted U-Shape Hypothesis under Test

Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner

published as 'With or Without U? Testing the Hypothesis of an Inverted U-Shaped Union Membership-Age Relationship' in: Contemporary Economics, 2012, 6 (4), 28-34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3830

Wage Differentials across Sectors in Europe: An East-West Comparison

Iga Magda, François Rycx, Ilan Tojerow, Daphné Valsamis

published in: Economics of Transition, 2011, 19 (4), 749-769

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3820

The Effects of Maternity Leave Extension on Training for Young Women

Patrick A. Puhani, Katja Sonderhof

published as 'The Effects of Parental Leave on Training for Young Women' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (2), 731-760

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3786

Trade as a Wage Disciplining Device

Damiaan Persyn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3747

Union Membership Effect on Wage Premiums: Evidence from Organized Manufacturing Industries in India

Amit Kumar Bhandari

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3705

The Economics of Labor Market Intermediation: An Analytic Framework

David Autor

published in: David Autor (ed.), Studies of Labor Market Intermediation, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3699

Flexible Outsourcing and the Impacts of Labour Taxation in European Welfare States

Erkki Koskela, Panu Poutvaara

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3680

Can Policy Interact with Culture? Minimum Wage and the Quality of Labor Relations

Philippe Aghion, Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc

revised version published as 'Civil Society and the State: The Interplay Between Cooperation and Minimum Wage Regulation' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (1), 3 - 42

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3661

The Aging of the Unions in West Germany, 1980–2006

Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner

published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik , 2008, 228 (5-6), 497-511

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3660

How Successful Have Trade Unions Been? A Utility-Based Indicator of Union Well-Being

John H. Pencavel

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2009, 62 (2), 47-156.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3631

‘Living’ Wage, Class Conflict and Ethnic Strife

Indraneel Dasgupta

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 72 (2), 750-765

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3592

Centralized Wage Determination and Regional Unemployment Differences: The Case of Italy

Vincenzo Caponi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3566

Outsourcing of Unionized Firms and the Impact of Labor Market Policy Reforms

Erkki Koskela, Ronnie Schöb

published in: Review of International Economics, 2010, 18 (4), 682–695

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3522

Outsourcing and Labor Taxation in Dual Labor Markets

Erkki Koskela, Panu Poutvaara

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3501

The Effects of Labour Tax Progression under Nash Wage Bargaining and Flexible Outsourcing

Erkki Koskela

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3436

Union Decline in Britain

David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson

published in: Brown, W. et al. (eds.) - The Evolution of the Modern Workplace, Cambridge University Press, 2009

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3406

Rent-Sharing under Different Bargaining Regimes: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Michael Rusinek, François Rycx

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2013, 51 (1), 28-58

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3402

A Primer on the 35-Hour in France, 1997–2007

Philippe Askenazy

revised and updated version published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2013, 37 (2), 323-347

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3394

Are All Labor Regulations Equal? Evidence from Indian Manufacturing

Ahmad Ahsan, Carmen Pagés

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3375

Wage Gaps Large and Small

Barry Hirsch

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2008, 74 (4), 915-933

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3365

Preferences for Collective versus Individualised Wage Setting

Tito Boeri, Michael C. Burda

published in Economic Journal, 2009, 119, 1440-1463.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3356

Union Density and Varieties of Coverage: The Anatomy of Union Wage Effects in Germany

Bernd Fitzenberger, Karsten Kohn, Alexander C. Lembcke

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (1), 169-197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3351

Risk Aversion and Trade Union Membership

Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg

substantially revised version published as 'Risk Aversion, Collective Bargaining, and Wages in Germany' in: Labour, 2012, 26 (2), 156 - 173

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3307

Tenure, Wage Profiles and Monitoring

John G. Sessions, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3294

Unions, Training, and Firm Performance

John T. Addison, Clive R. Belfield

published in: Journal of Labor Market Research/Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung, 2007, 40 (4), 361-381

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3246

Stability and Dynamics in an Overlapping Generations Economy with Flexible Wage Negotiations

Erkki Koskela, Mikko Puhakka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3215

Training the Unemployed in France: How Does It Affect Unemployment Duration and Recurrence?

Bruno Crépon, Marc Ferracci, Denis Fougère

published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2012, 107-108, 175-199.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3141

Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts and Collective Wage Determination

Laszlo Goerke

published as 'The Effects of Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts in the Presence of Collective Bargaining Contracts' in: W. Franz, H.-J. Ramser, M. Stadler (Hrsg.), Arbeitsverträge – Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Seminar Ottobeuren, Tübingen, 2008, 37, 199-226

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3105

Market Characteristics, Intra-Firm Coordination, and the Choice of Human Resource Management Systems: Evidence from New Japanese Data

Takao Kato, Hideo Owan

published as 'Market characteristics, intra-firm coordination, and the choice of human resource management systems: Theory and evidence' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2011, 80 (3), 375-396

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3065

The Determinants of Performance Appraisal Systems: A Note (Do Brown and Heywood’s Results for Australia Hold Up for Britain?)

John T. Addison, Clive R. Belfield

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2008, 46 (3), 521 - 531

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3019

Performance Pay, Sorting, and Outsourcing

Fred Henneberger, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Alexandre Ziegler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3003

A Positive Theory of the Earnings Relationship of Unemployment Benefits

Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg, Heinrich W. Ursprung

published in: Public Choice, 2010, 145 (1-2), 137-163

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2962