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The IZA Discussion Paper Series (ISSN: 2365-9793) disseminates high-quality research by IZA network members to the scientific community and the interested public worldwide before they are later published in academic journals. Comprising more than 17,000 papers, IZA's publication flagship is the most influential working paper series in labor economics.

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45 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17709
Political Spillovers of Worker Representation: With or Without Workplace Democracy?
Uwe Jirjahn
revised version forthcoming in: Analyse und Kritik - Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17709
Political Spillovers of Worker Representation: With or Without Workplace Democracy?
Uwe Jirjahn
revised version forthcoming in: Analyse und Kritik - Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17648
Let's (Not) Escalate This! Leadership and Communication in a Group Contest
Florian Heine, Arno Riedl
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17350
Employee Performance and Mental Well-Being: The Mitigating Effects of Transformational Leadership During Crisis
Kristina Czura, Florian Englmaier, Hoa Ho, Lisa Spantig
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17295
50 Years of Breakthroughs and Barriers: Women in Economics, Policy, and Leadership
Francine D. Blau, Lisa M. Lynch
published as 'Fifty Years of Breakthroughs and Barriers: Women in Economics, Policy, and Leadership' in: ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2024, 711 (1), 225-244
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17082
The Impact of Peer Performance and Relative Rank on Managerial Career Attainment: Evidence from College Students
Rafael Perez Ribas, Breno Sampaio, Giuseppe Trevisan
pubished online in: Management Science, 13 Sep 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16755
What Skills Pay More? The Changing Demand and Return to Skills for Professional Workers
Cecily Josten, Helen Krause, Grace Lordan, Brian Yeung
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16383
Female Leadership and Workplace Climate
Sule Alan, Gozde Corekcioglu, Mustafa Kaba, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16230
New Evidence on the Underrepresentation of Asian Americans in Leadership Positions
Maria Zhu
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 227, 106679
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16224
The Anatomy of Competitiveness
Thomas Buser, Hessel Oosterbeek
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16147
Helping and Antisocial Behavior in the Workplace
Michael Haylock, Patrick Kampkötter, Michael Kosfeld, Ferdinand von Siemens
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. 15585
Expansions in Paid Parental Leave and Mothers' Economic Progress
Gozde Corekcioglu, Marco Francesconi, Astrid Kunze
published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 169, 104845
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15554
Organisational Leadership: How Much Does It Matter?
Getinet Astatike Haile
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2023, 61 (3), 653 - 673
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14726
Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention
Sule Alan, Gozde Corekcioglu, Matthias Sutter
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023, 138 (1), 151-203
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14229
More than Words: Leaders' Speech and Risky Behavior During a Pandemic
Nicolas Ajzenman, Tiago Cavalcanti, Daniel Da Mata
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, 15 (3), 351–371
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13860
Labor-Market Conditions and Leadership Styles
Robert Dur, Ola Kvaløy, Anja Schöttner
revised version published in: Management Science, 2022, 68 (4), 3150-3168
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12959
Do Women Shy Away from Public Speaking? A Field Experiment
Maria De Paola, Rosetta Lombardo, Valeria Pupo, Vincenzo Scoppa
published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 70, 102001
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12726
Female Workers, Male Managers: Gender, Leadership, and Risk-Taking
Ulf Rinne, Hendrik Sonnabend
published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2022, 88 (3), 906 - 930
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. 12580
What Does Leadership Look like in Schools and Does It Matter for School Performance?
Lucy Stokes, Alex Bryson, David Wilkinson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12580
What Does Leadership Look like in Schools and Does It Matter for School Performance?
Lucy Stokes, Alex Bryson, David Wilkinson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12540
The Role of Leaders in Inducing and Maintaining Cooperation: The CC Strategy
Michael Kosfeld
published in: Leadership Quarterly, 2020, 31 (3), 101292
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11861
Teamwork, Leadership and Gender
Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia, Vincenzo Scoppa
published as 'Female leadership: effectiveness and perception' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 201, 134-162.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11825
How Common Are Bad Bosses?
Benjamin Artz, Amanda H. Goodall, Andrew J. Oswald
published in: Industrial Relations, 2020, 59 (1), 3-39
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10497
On the Effectiveness of Elected Male and Female Leaders and Team Coordination
Ernesto Reuben, Krisztina Timko
published in: Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2018, 4, 123-135
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10104
The "Entrepreneurial Boss" Effect on Employees' Future Entrepreneurship Choices: A Role Model Story?
Vera Rocha, Mirjam C. van Praag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9737
What If Your Boss Is a Woman? Work Organization, Work-Life Balance and Gender Discrimination at the Workplace
Claudio Lucifora, Daria Vigani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9537
Women at the Top in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Data
Khalid Sekkat, Ariane Szafarz, Ilan Tojerow
published as 'Female corporate owners and female CEOs' in: Economics Letters, 2023, 232, 111285
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9331
Women Have to Enter the Leadership Race to Win: Using Random Selection to Increase the Supply of Women into Senior Positions
Amanda H. Goodall, Margit Osterloh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8725
Women Helping Women? Evidence from Private Sector Data on Workplace Hierarchies
Astrid Kunze, Amalia Miller
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99 (5), 769-775, 2017
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8580
Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
Simon Gächter, Elke Renner
revised version published as 'Leaders as role models and 'belief managers' in social dilemmas' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 154, 321-334
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8559
Boss Competence and Worker Well-being
Benjamin Artz, Amanda H. Goodall, Andrew J. Oswald
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2017, 70 (2), 419–450
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8219
Necessity Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy
Jörn Block, Karsten Kohn, Danny Miller, Katrin Ullrich
published in: Small Business Economics, 2015, 44 (1), 37-54
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7949
How School Principals Influence Student Learning
Elizabeth Dhuey, Justin Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6715
Expert Leaders in a Fast-Moving Environment
Amanda H. Goodall, Ganna Pogrebna
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5300
The Emergence of Male Leadership in Competitive Environments
Ernesto Reuben, Pedro Rey-Biel, Paola Sapienza, Luigi Zingales
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 83 (1), 111-117
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5110
Germany's Next Top Manager: Does Personality Explain the Gender Career Gap?
Simon Fietze, Elke Holst, Verena Tobsch
published in: management revue - The international Review of Management Studies, 2011, 22 (3), 240-273
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4589
Substitution between Managers and Subordinates: Evidence from British Football
Sue Bridgewater, Lawrence M. Kahn, Amanda H. Goodall
published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18(3), 275-286
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4080
Other-Regarding Preferences and Leadership Styles
Martin G. Kocher, Ganna Pogrebna, Matthias Sutter
revised and extended version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 88, 109-132
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3914
Who Makes a Good Leader? Social Preferences and Leading-by-Example
Simon Gächter, Daniele Nosenzo, Elke Renner, Martin Sefton
published in: Economic Inquiry, 2012, 50 (4), 867–879; 10.1111/j.1465-7295.2010.00295.x
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3583
Why Do Leaders Matter? The Role of Expert Knowledge
Amanda H. Goodall, Lawrence M. Kahn, Andrew J. Oswald
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2011, 77(3), 265-284
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2732
Endogenous Leadership: Selection and Influence
Emrah Arbak, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published as 'Voluntary leadership: motivation and influence' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2013, 40 (3), 635-662.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 491
On the Production of Victory: Empirical Determinants of Battlefield Success in Modern War
Ralph Rotte, Christoph M. Schmidt
published in: Defence and Peace Economics, 2003, 14 (3), 175-192
IZA Discussion Paper No. 482
Leadership Skills and Wages
Peter J. Kuhn, Catherine Weinberger
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2005, 23 (3), 395-436
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