IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Did the nationwide implementation of electronic fund management in the Indian employment guarantee scheme result in reduced expenditures? A re-examination of the evidence' in: Review of Development Economics, 2024, 28 (4), 1994-2013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15471

Long-Term Services and Supports and Disease Management among Older Chinese Adults in Different Stages of Cognitive Impairment

Zhuoer Lin, Xi Chen

published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2022, 23, 100405.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15399

COVID-19 Private Pension Withdrawals and Unemployment Tenures

Tristram Sainsbury, Robert Breunig, Timothy Watson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15262

Health Insurance Coverage, Government Payments, and Labor Allocation

Cristina D. M. Miller, Ashok K. Mishra

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15262

Health Insurance Coverage, Government Payments, and Labor Allocation

Cristina D. M. Miller, Ashok K. Mishra

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15213

Do Management Practices Matter in Further Education?

Sandra McNally, Luis Schmidt, Anna Valero

published in: Economica, 2024, 91 (363), 740-769

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15024

Which Former Professional Football Players Become Successful Professional Head Coaches?

Matteo Balliauw, Marco Verheuge, Stijn Baert

revised version published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2022, 30 (12), 1692–1695

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14875

The Impact of a New Quality Management Practice on Firm Performance: Evidence from Pakistan

Mahvish Faran, Karl Taylor

forthcoming in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14781

Closing the Gender Profit Gap?

Catia Batista, Sandra Sequeira, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: Management Science, 2022, 68 (12), 8515 - 9218,

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. 14146

World Management Survey at 18: Lessons and the Way Forward

Daniela Scur, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen, Renata Lemos, Nicholas Bloom

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2021, 37 (2),231 - 258

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14146

World Management Survey at 18: Lessons and the Way Forward

Daniela Scur, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen, Renata Lemos, Nicholas Bloom

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2021, 37 (2),231 - 258

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14114

Fiscal Policy and Households' Inflation Expectations: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Michael Weber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13973

Gender Differences in College Applications: Aspiration and Risk Management

Judith M. Delaney, Paul J. Devereux

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 80, 102077

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13543

Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform: Evidence from Birth Outcomes of Aboriginal Australians

Mary-Alice Doyle, Stefanie Schurer, Sven Silburn

updated version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 84, 102618

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13285

Management Practices, Worker Commitment, and Workplace Representation

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13285

Management Practices, Worker Commitment, and Workplace Representation

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13256

Hospital Resources: Persistent Reallocation under Price Changes

Florian Wozny

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13145

Local Governance Quality and the Environmental Cost of Forced Migration

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Semih Tumen

revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 149, 102603

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12979

Forward Guidance and Household Expectations

Olivier Coibion, Dimitris Georgarakos, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Michael Weber

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (5), 2131–217

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. 12572

Learning Management through Matching: A Field Experiment Using Mechanism Design

Girum Abebe, Marcel Fafchamps, Michael Koelle, Simon Quinn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12446

Talking about Performance or Paying for it? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka, Timo Vogelsang

published as 'Talking About Performance or Paying for It? A Field Experiment on Performance Reviews and Incentives' in: Management Science, 2023, 69 (4), 2198-2216

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12412

Migration and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Effect of Returning Refugees on Export Performance in the Former Yugoslavia

Dany Bahar, Cem Özgüzel, Andreas Hauptmann, Hillel Rapoport

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106, 2, 287-304

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11969

Is Pupil Attainment Higher in Well-Managed Schools?

Alex Bryson, Lucy Stokes, David Wilkinson

published in: Education Economics, 2023, 31 (1), 129 - 144

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11927

Socially Useless Jobs

Robert Dur, Max van Lent

published in: Industrial Relations, 2019, 58 (1), 3-16

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11889

Employee Absence: An Organizational Perspective

Jacob Kjær Eskildsen, Anders Frederiksen, Ann-Kristina Løkke

published as 'Employee Absence in Public and Private Organizations' in: Applied Economics, 2021, 53 (21), 2416-2432

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11675

Working Hours and Top Management Appointments: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Anders Frederiksen, Takao Kato, Nina Smith

revised version published online as 'Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11514

The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Nathan Kettlewell, Stefanie Schurer, Sven Silburn

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (6), 2072-2110

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11456

Are Schools Different? Wellbeing and Commitment among Staff in Schools and Elsewhere

Alex Bryson, Lucy Stokes, David Wilkinson

published as 'Who is better off? Wellbeing and commitment among staff in schools and elsewhere' in: Education Economics , 2019, 27 (5), 488 - 506

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. 11373

Do Private Schools Manage Better?

Alex Bryson, Francis Green

published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2018, 243, R17-R26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11348

Can HRM Improve Schools' Performance?

Alex Bryson, Lucy Stokes, David Wilkinson

published in: Labour, 2020, 34 (4), 427 - 440

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11112

Mutual Gains? Is There a Role for Employee Engagement in the Modern Workplace?

Alex Bryson

published in: Bosio, G., Minola, T., Origio, F., and Tomelleri, S. (eds), Rethinking Entrepreneurial Human Capital, Springer, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10967

Management, Supervision, and Health Care: A Field Experiment

Felipe A. Dunsch, David K. Evans, Ezinne Eze-Ajoku, Mario Macis

published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2023, 32 (3), 583-606

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10964

Do Good Working Conditions Make You Work Longer? Evidence on Retirement Decisions Using Linked Survey and Register Data

Petri Böckerman, Pekka Ilmakunnas

published as 'Do Good Working Conditions Make You Work Longer? Analyzing Retirement Decisions Using Linked Survey and Register Data' in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2020, 17, 100192

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10788

Women in the Workplace and Management Practices: Theory and Evidence

Takao Kato, Naomi Kodama

published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, New York: OUP, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10737

HRM and Small-Firm Employee Motivation: Before and after the Recession

Alex Bryson, Michael White

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72, 3: 749-773

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10725

Supervisors and Performance Management Systems

Anders Frederiksen, Lisa B. Kahn, Fabian Lange

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (6), 2123-2187

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10724

What Drives Differences in Management?

Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron Jarmin, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten, John Van Reenen

published in: American Economic Review, 2019, 109 (5), 1648 - 1683

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10658

Firms' Global Engagement and Management Practices

Holger Görg, Aoife Hanley

published in: Economics Letters, 2017, 155, 80–83

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10576

Ceding Control: An Experimental Analysis of Participatory Management

Philip Mellizo, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Peter Hans Matthews

published in: Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2017, 3, 62 - 74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10370

Management Practices and Productivity in Germany

Sandra Broszeit, Ursula Fritsch, Holger Görg, Marie-Christine Laible

published in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20 (4), e663-e688

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9987

Management as a Technology?

Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9690

When Does HRM 'Work' in Small British Enterprises?

Michael White, Alex Bryson

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72 (3), 749-773

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9586

Managers and Productivity Differences

Nezih Guner, Andrii Parkhomenko, Gustavo Ventura

published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2018, 29, 256-282.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9316

Team Incentives and Performance: Evidence from a Retail Chain

Guido Friebel, Matthias Heinz, Miriam Krüger, Nick Zubanov

published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107(8), 2168-2203

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. 9272

Distributional Effects of Monetary Policy in Emerging Market Economies

Eswar Prasad, Boyang Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8620

Does Management Matter in Schools?

Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen

published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (584), 647-674

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. 8475

Managerial Practices and Students' Performance

Adriana Di Liberto, Fabiano Schivardi, Giovanni Sulis

published in: Economic Policy, 2015, 30 (84), 683-728

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8272

Convergence to the Managerial Frontier

William F. Maloney, Mauricio Sarrias

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8112

Gender Pay Gaps among Highly Educated Professionals: Compensation Components Do Matter

Christian Grund

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 34, 118-126

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7935

Job Satisfaction and Public Service Motivation

Lutz C. Kaiser

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7435

Management Compensation and the Economic Crisis: Longitudinal Evidence from the German Chemical Sector

Christian Grund, Tanja Walter

published in: Review of Managerial Science, 2015, 9, 751-777

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6635

Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management

Maria Guadalupe, Hongyi Li, Julie M. Wulf

published in: Management Science, 2014, 60 (4), 824–844

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6474

Link between Pay for Performance Incentives and Physician Payment Mechanisms: Evidence from the Diabetes Management Incentive in Ontario

Jasmin Kantarevic, Boris Kralj

published in: Health Economics, 2013, 22(12), 1417–1439

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5764

Human Capital and Career Success: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Anders Frederiksen, Takao Kato

published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (613), 1952-1982

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5116

Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and out of Management Positions

Eileen Trzcinski, Elke Holst

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2012, 107 (3), 449-463

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5116

Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and out of Management Positions

Eileen Trzcinski, Elke Holst

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2012, 107 (3), 449-463

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4766

Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management

Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (9-10), 654-660

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4729

Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce: How Services Facilitate Firms' International Sourcing

Peter Debaere, Holger Görg, Horst Raff

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2013, 46 (1), 78-102

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. 3645

Management Economics in a Large Retail Organization

W. Stanley Siebert, Nick Zubanov

published in: Management Science, 2011, 56(8), 1398-1414

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3227

Steering towards the High Road: A Study of Human Resource Management in Two Indian Garment Factories

Henrietta Lake

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3054

The Value Relevance of Top Executive Departures: Evidence from the Netherlands

Kees Cools, Mirjam C. van Praag

published in: Journal of Corporate Finance 13(5), 721-742

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3005

Public Employment Services and Employers: How Important Are Networks with Firms?

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner

published in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 2008, 1, 151-178

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2483

Does Manager Turnover Improve Firm Performance? New Evidence Using Information from Dutch Soccer, 1986-2004

Bas ter Weel

published in: De Economist, 2011, 159 (3), 279-303

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2115

Female Labor Market Transitions in Europe

Lutz C. Kaiser

published German version: Arbeitsmarktflexibilität, Arbeitsmarktübergänge und Familie: Die Europäische Perspektive, in: Szydlik, Marc (Ed.) (2008), Flexibilisierung – Folgen für Arbeit und Familie. Springer VS, pp. 295-313

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1474

Effort-Based Career Opportunities and Working Time

Massimiliano Bratti, Stefano Staffolani

revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2007, 28 (6), 489-512

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1321

Is Seniority-Based Pay Used as a Motivation Device? Evidence from Plant Level Data

Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez, Maia Güell

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2010, 30, 155-187

IZA Discussion Paper No. 867

Monkey Bars and Ladders: The Importance of Lateral and Vertical Job Mobility in Internal Labor Market Careers

Thomas Dohmen, Ben Kriechel, Gerard A. Pfann

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2004, 17 (2), 193-228

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