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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

published in: American Economic Review 2021, 111 (7), 2213 - 2246

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13624

Employee Identification and Wages: On the Economics of 'Affective Commitment'

Patrick Kampkötter, Lea Petters, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 188, 608-626

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 online as 'Designing Donation Incentive Contracts for Online Gig Workers' in: Journal of Business Ethics, 2024, 190, 553 - 568

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

published as "Motivating gig workers - evidence from a field experiment" in Labour Economics, 2022

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

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2022, 70 (4), 1631–1669

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12253

Advanced Counter-Biasing

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Kevin Benscheidt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12252

Spillovers and Substitutability in Production

Kerry L. Papps, Alex Bryson

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2026 https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fecin.70038

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11919

Competing on the Holodeck: The Effect of Virtual Peers and Heterogeneity in Dynamic Tournaments

Frederik Graff, Christian Grund, Christine Harbring

published in: Journal of Behavioral & Experimental Economics 2021, 90, 101596

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11859

Performance Pay and Prior Learning: Evidence from a Retail Chain

Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka, Timo Vogelsang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11789

Prosocial Managers, Employee Motivation, and the Creation of Shareholder Value

Agne Kajackaite, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 172, 217-235

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11674

Paying for What Kind of Performance? Performance Pay and Multitasking in Mission-Oriented Jobs

Daniel Jones, Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos

substantially revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2023, 142, 480-507

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. 11581

Multitasking and Subjective Performance Evaluations: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in a Bank

Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (12), 5449-5956

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. 11399

The Impact of Management Practices on SME Performance

John Forth, Alex Bryson

published as 'Management practices and SME performance' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 66 (4), 527 - 558

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11228

Team Incentives, Task Assignment, and Performance: A Field Experiment

Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur, Michiel Souverijn

published in: The Leadership Quarterly, 2020, 31 (3), 101241

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11203

Intentions for Doing Good Matter for Doing Well: The (Negative) Signaling Value of Prosocial Incentives

Lea Cassar, Stephan Meier

published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131(637), 1988-2017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10755

Do Tournaments with Superstars Encourage or Discourage Competition?

Michael Babington, Sebastian J. Goerg, Carl Kitchens

published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2020, 21 (1), 44-63.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10713

Career Interruptions and Current Earnings: The Role of Interruption Type, Compensation Component, and Gender

Benedikt Gerst, Christian Grund

published in: International Journal of Manpower 2019, 40 , 850–878

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10644

The Selection and Causal Effects of Work Incentives on Labor Productivity: Evidence from a Two-Stage Randomized Controlled Trial in Malawi

Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Seonghoon Kim, Thomas T. Kim

published as ' The Role of Career and Wage Incentives in Labor Productivity: Evidence from a Two-Stage Field Experiment in Malawi ' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (5), 839-851

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10643

Performance Pay and Applicant Screening

Uwe Jirjahn, Jens Mohrenweiser

revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, 57(3), 540-575

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10642

The Dispersion of Bonus Payments within and between Firms

Christian Grund, Tanja Hofmann

published in: Journal of Business Economics, 2019, 89 (4), 417-445

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10626

Gender Differences in Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Competitive Behavior

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Rachel Frank, Emiliano Huet-Vaughn

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 77, 170 - 176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10588

Gender and Peer Effects in Social Networks

Julie Beugnot, Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 113, 207-224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10577

I Can't Get No Satisfaction: The Power of Perceived Differences in Employee Retention and Turnover

Deniz Gevrek, Marilyn Spencer, David Hudgins, Valrie Chambers

published in: Personnel Review, 2017, 46(5), 1019-1043.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10546

The Effectiveness of Incentive Schemes in the Presence of Implicit Effort Costs

Sebastian J. Goerg, Sebastian Kube, Jonas Radbruch

substantially revised version published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (9), 3949-4450.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10542

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Nick Zubanov, Bram Cadsby, Fei Song

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2019, 57 (4), 1997 - 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10394

The Spillover Effects of Affirmative Action on Competitiveness and Unethical Behavior

Ritwik Banerjee, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 101, 567-604

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10289

The Diversity of Personnel Practices and Firm Performance

Pedro S. Martins

published in: S. W. Polachek, K. Tatsiramos, G. Russo, G. van Houten (eds.), Workplace Productivity and Management Practices', (Research in Labour Economics 49), 2021

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10288

Locus of Control and Performance Appraisal

John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn, Cornelia Chadi

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 142, 205-225

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10084

Performance Pay and Malnutrition

Prakarsh Singh, Sandip Mitra

published as 'Incentives, Information and Malnutrition: Evidence from an experiment in India' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 93, 24-46.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10041

Competitive Strategy, Performance Appraisal and Firm Results

Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez, Sara Martinez-de-Morentin

published as: 'Business Strategy, Performance Appraisal and Firm Performance' in: Personnel Review, 2021, 50 (2), 515-534.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10038

Social Comparisons of Wage Increases and Job Satisfaction

Christian Grund, Maike Rubin

published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49, 1345-1350

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9946

Profit Sharing and Peer Reporting

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Andrea Robbett, Prottoy Akbar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9612

Women Do Not Play Their Aces: The Consequences of Shying Away

Jörg Claussen, Eszter Czibor, Mirjam C. van Praag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9473

A Theory of Intra-Firm Group Design

Semih Tumen

published in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2016, 45(1), 89-102

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9417

Gender Gaps in Performance: Evidence from Young Lawyers

Ghazala Azmat, Rosa Ferrer

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 125 (5), 1306-1355

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9330

Strive to be First or Avoid Being Last: An Experiment on Relative Performance Incentives

E. Glenn Dutcher, Loukas Balafoutas, Florian Lindner, Dmitry Ryvkin, Matthias Sutter

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2015, 94, 39-56.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9285

The Complementary Use of Experiments and Field Data to Evaluate Management Practices: The Case of Subjective Performance Evaluations

Patrick Kampkötter, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 2016, 172 (2), 364-389

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9243

Performance Measurement and Incentive Intensity

Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez, Sara Martinez-de-Morentin

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2017, 38, 496–546

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9153

Labor Supply and Productivity Responses to Non-Salary Benefits: Do They Work? If So, at What Level Do They Work Best?

Marilyn Spencer, Deniz Gevrek, Valrie Chambers, Randall Bowden

published in: Personnel Review, 2016, 45 (5), 1047-1068

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9110

Saving Face and Group Identity

Tor Eriksson, Lei Mao, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2017, 20 (3), 622-647

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9084

A Real-Effort Experiment on Gift Exchange with Temptation

Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger

revised version published as 'Gift Exchange, Control, and Cyberloafing: A Real-Effort Experiment" in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 131,409 - 426

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8909

Worker Morale and Effort: Is the Relationship Causal?

Wolter Hassink, Roberto M. Fernandez

published in: Manchester School, 2018, 86 (6), 816-839

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8762

Communication and Trust in Principal-Team Relationships: Experimental Evidence

Marco Kleine, Sebastian Kube

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. 8707

Helping in Teams

Anastasia Danilov, Christine Harbring, Bernd Irlenbusch

revised version published as 'Helping Under a Combination of Team and Tournament Incentives' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 162, 120-135.

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