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225 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17260
Non-compete Agreements, Tacit Knowledge and Market Imperfections
Eric Bartelsman, Sabien Dobbelaere, Alessandro Zona Mattioli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17234
Working from Home and Performance Pay: Individual or Collective Payment Schemes?
Uwe Jirjahn, Cinzia Rienzo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17119
Making the Right Call: The Heterogeneous Effects of Individual Performance Pay on Productivity
Marco Clemens, Jan Sauermann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17093
Do Gig Workers Prefer Money to Flexibility? Insights from a Discrete-Choice Experiment in Malaysia
Yashodhan Ghorpade, Alyssa Jasmin, Amanina Abdur Rahman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17061
Work Schedules
Jed DeVaro
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17000
Monitoring and Prudence
Luca Beltrametti, Gabriele Cardullo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16836
Strategic Behaviours in a Labour Market with Mobility-Restricting Contractual Provisions: Evidence from the National Hockey League
Luca Fumarco, Neil Longley, Alberto Palermo, Giambattista Rossi
revised version published online in: Oxford Economic Papers, 27 March 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16812
Multi-Rater Performance Evaluations and Incentives
Axel Ockenfels, Dirk Sliwka, Peter Werner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16623
The Hidden Costs of Choice in the Labor Market
Pak Hung Au, King King Li, Qing Zhang, Rong Zhu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16333
Outside Options and Worker Motivation
Alexander Ahammer, Matthias Fahn, Flora Stiftinger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16283
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers
David B. Huffman, Collin Raymond, Julia Shvets
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16278
Closing the Gender Gap in Salary Increases: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Promoting Pay Equity
Jakob Alfitian, Marvin Deversi, Dirk Sliwka
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
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. 16025
Tournament Incentives Affect Perceived Stress and Hormonal Stress Responses
Thomas Dohmen, Ingrid M.T. Rohde, Tom Stolp
published in: Experimental Economics, 2023, 26 (4), 955–985.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15599
Mystery Shopping as a Strategic Management Practice in Multi-Site Firms
Sidney T. Block, Guido Friebel, Matthias Heinz, Nick Zubanov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15532
Gender, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Teaching
Francesca Barigozzi, Jaai Parasnis, Massimiliano Tani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15496
Social Preferences and Rating Biases in Subjective Performance Evaluations
David Kusterer, Dirk Sliwka
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. 14836
Mission of the Company, Prosocial Attitudes and Job Preferences: A Discrete Choice Experiment
Arjan Non, Ingrid M.T. Rohde, Andries de Grip, Thomas Dohmen
published in: Labour Economics, 74, 2022, 102087
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14835
Reference Points and the Tradeoff between Risk and Incentives
Thomas Dohmen, Arjan Non, Tom Stolp
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 192, 813–831
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. 14697
The Role of the Workplace in Ethnic Wage Differentials
John Forth, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos, Alex Bryson
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2023, 61 (2), 259-290
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14595
Incentives, Self-Selection, and Coordination of Motivated Agents for the Production of Social Goods
Kevin Bauer, Michael Kosfeld, Ferdinand von Siemens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14437
An Optimal Split of School Classes
Oded Stark
published in: Economic Analysis and Policy, 2021, 69, 668-675
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14242
Incentives for Cooperation in Teams: Sociality Meets Decision Rights
Britta Butz, Pablo Guillen Alvarez, Christine Harbring
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 Centenary Volume, 2022, 89 (S1), S71-S85
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. 14067
Who Benefits from Corporate Social Responsibility? Reciprocity in the Presence of Social Incentives and Self-Selection
Guglielmo Briscese, Nick Feltovich, Robert Slonim
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14050
Turning Relative Deprivation into a Performance Incentive Device
Oded Stark, Grzegorz Kosiorowski
published in: Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 2021, 45 (1), 22-36
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14014
The Distinct Impact of Information and Incentives on Cheating
Julien Benistant, Fabio Galeotti, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published as 'Competition, information, and the erosion of morals' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 204, 148-163,
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. 13696
Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools
Clare Leaver, Owen Ozier, Pieter Serneels, Andrew Zeitlin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13624
Employee Identification and Wages: On the Economics of "Affective Commitment"
Patrick Kampkötter, Lea Petters, Dirk Sliwka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13596
Competition and Career Advancement: The Hidden Costs of Paid Leave
Julian V. Johnsen, Hyejin Ku, Kjell G. Salvanes
latest version published online as 'Competition and Career Advancement' in: Review of Economic Studies, 13 October 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13498
Team Incentives, Social Cohesion, and Performance: A Natural Field Experiment
Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur, Oke Onemu, Joeri Sol
published in: Management Science, 2022, 68 (1), 230-256
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13358
The Bonding Effect of Deferred Compensation: Worker Separations from a Large Firm in Early Transition Russia
Mikhail Ananyev, Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13218
Innovation and Communication Media in Virtual Teams – An Experimental Study
Nicola Grözinger, Bernd Irlenbusch, Katharina Laske, Marina Schröder
revised & extended version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 180, 201-218
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13216
Gender-Specific Duration of Parental Leave and Current Earnings
Benedikt Gerst, Christian Grund
published in: Work, Employment & Society, 2023, 37, 215 - 235
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12905
When Too Good Is Too Much: Social Incentives and Job Selection
Tommaso G. Reggiani, Rainer Michael Rilke
revised version published online as 'Designing Donation Incentive Contracts for Online Gig Workers' in: Journal of Business Ethics, 15 May 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12840
Inputs, Incentives, and Self-Selection at the Workplace
Francesco Amodio, Miguel A. Martinez-Carrasco
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12821
Firms' Wage Structures, Workers' Fairness Perceptions, Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intentions: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Jens Mohrenweiser, Christian Pfeifer
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. 12657
Are Women Doing It For Themselves? Gender Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap
Nikolaos Theodoropoulos, John Forth, Alex Bryson
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 84 (6), 1329-1355
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12600
Teacher Performance Pay and Student Learning: Evidence from a Nationwide Program in Peru
Cristina Bellés Obrero, María Lombardi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12587
Why Join a Team?
David J. Cooper, Krista Saral, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: Management Science, 2021, 67 (11), 6980-6997
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12497
Who Is a Passive Saver under Opt-In and Auto-Enrollment?
Gopi Shah Goda, Matthew R. Levy, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Aaron Sojourner, Joshua Tasoff
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 173, 301-321
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. 12264
Responding to Regulation: The Effects of Changes in Mandatory Retirement Laws on Firm-Provided Incentives
Anders Frederiksen, Colleen Flaherty Manchester
published as 'Personnel Practices and Regulation: How Firm-Provided Incentives Respond to Changes in Mandatory Retirement Law' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (4), 1011-1042
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