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89 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14111
Altruism or Money? Reducing Teacher Sorting Using Behavioral Strategies in Peru
Nicolas Ajzenman, Eleonora Bertoni, Gregory Elacqua, Luana Marotta, Carolina Méndez Vargas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13907
What Is the Role of Firm-Specific Pay Policies on the Gender Earnings Gap in Canada?
Jiang Li, Benoit Dostie, Gaëlle Simard-Duplain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13655
The Price of Indoor Air Pollution: Evidence from Radon Maps and the Housing Market
Edward W. Pinchbeck, Sefi Roth, Nikodem Szumilo, Enrico Vanino
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13471
Dream Jobs
Giordano Mion, Luca David Opromolla, Gianmarco Ottaviano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13300
The Effect of the Hartz Labor Market Reforms on Post-unemployment Wages, Sorting, and Matching
Simon D. Woodcock
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12443
Publication, Compensation, and the Public Affairs Discount: Does Gender Play a Role?
Lori L. Taylor, Kalena E. Cortes, Travis C. Hearn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12070
Inequality of Opportunity in Education: Accounting for the Contributions of Sibs, Schools and Sorting across East Africa
Paul Anand, Jere R. Behrman, Hai-Anh Dang, Sam Jones
forthcoming in: World Bank Economic Review
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11845
Information Provision and Streamlined Medical Service: Evidence from a Mobile Appointment App
Changcheng Song, Nan Yang, Junjian Yi, Ye Yuan
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11630
Childhood Health Shocks, Comparative Advantage, and Long-Term Outcomes: Evidence from the Last Danish Polio Epidemic
Miriam Gensowski, Torben Heien Nielsen, Nete Munk Nielsen, Maya Rossin-Slater, Miriam Wüst
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 66, 27 - 36
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11586
Wages and Employment: The Role of Occupational Skills
Esther Mirjam Girsberger, Miriam Rinawi, Matthias Krapf
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11329
Migration in China: To Work or to Wed?
Arnaud Dupuy
forthcoming in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11178
Sorting out Neighbourhood Effects Using Sibling Data
Lina Hedman, David Manley, Maarten van Ham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11080
Early Tracking, Academic vs. Vocational Training and the Value of 'Second Chance' Options
Martin Biewen, Madalina Tapalaga
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10975
What Drives the Gender Wage Gap? Examining the Roles of Sorting, Productivity Differences, and Discrimination
Isabelle Sin, Steven Stillman, Richard Fabling
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10914
The Rising Return to Non-Cognitive Skill
Per-Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson, Martin Nybom, Björn Öckert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10789
The Labor Market Gender Gap in Denmark: Sorting Out the Past 30 Years
Yana Gallen, Rune V. Lesner, Rune Majlund Vejlin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10694
Incorporating Neighbourhood Choice in a Model of Neighbourhood Effects on Income
Maarten van Ham, Sanne Boschman, Matt Vogel
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. 10334
The Changing Situation of Labor Market Entrants in Germany: A Long-Run Analysis of Wages and Occupational Patterns
Mario Reinhold, Stephan L. Thomsen
published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2017, 50 (1), 161–174
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 (October), 205-225
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9693
Who Works for Whom? Worker Sorting in a Model of Entrepreneurship with Heterogeneous Labor Markets
Emin Dinlersoz, Henry R. Hyatt, Hubert P. Janicki
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9649
Does It Pay to Care? Prosocial Engagement and Employment Opportunities
Stijn Baert, Suncica Vujic
revised version published as 'Does it Pay to Care? Volunteering and Employment Opportunities' in: Journal of Population Economics [Online Access]
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. 9148
Dismissal Disputes and Endogenous Sorting
Pietro Garibaldi, Gerard A. Pfann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9122
The Information Value of Central School Exams
Guido Schwerdt, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 56, 65-79
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8820
Compensating Differentials in Experimental Labor Markets
Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Peter Hans Matthews, Andrea Robbett
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8526
Evaluating the Effect of Beauty on Labor Market Outcomes: A Review of the Literature
Xing (Michelle) Liu, Eva Sierminska
published in: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed., 2015, Vol. 6
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8508
The Empirics of Agglomeration Economies
Pierre-Philippe Combes, Laurent Gobillon
published in: Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, volume 5A, Gilles Duranton, Vernon Henderson and Will Strange (eds.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 247-348
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8482
Beyond Inequality Accounting: Marital Sorting and Couple Labor Supply
Nico Pestel
published as 'Marital Sorting, Inequality and the Role of Female Labour Supply: Evidence from East and West Germany' in: Economica, 2017, 84 (333), 104-127 [Online]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8439
Sorting Between and Within Industries: A Testable Model of Assortative Matching
John M. Abowd, Francis Kramarz, Sébastien Pérez-Duarte, Ian M. Schmutte
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8382
Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity
Coen Teulings, Ioulia V. Ossokina, Henri L.F. de Groot
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8370
Same-Occupation Spouses: Preferences and Search Costs
Hani Mansour, Terra McKinnish
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8355
Occupational Sorting of School Graduates: The Role of Economic Preferences
Didier Fouarge, Ben Kriechel, Thomas Dohmen
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 106, 335-351
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8255
Reaching High: Occupational Sorting and Higher Education Wage Inequality in the UK
Jan Kleibrink, Maren M. Michaelsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8239
Intrinsic Motivations of Public Sector Employees: Evidence for Germany
Robert Dur, Robin Zoutenbier
published in: German Economic Review, 2015, 16(3), 343-366
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7811
What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage Distribution
Alessia Matano, Paolo Naticchioni
published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2016, 56 (2), 191 - 209
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7516
Giving and Sorting among Friends: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment
Christine Binzel, Dietmar Fehr
published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 121(2), 214-217
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7058
Working for a Good Cause
Robert Dur, Robin Zoutenbier
published in: Public Administration Review, 2014, 74(2), 144-155
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6943
Personality Traits and the Marriage Market
Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 122 (6), 1271-1319.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6849
Separations, Sorting and Cyclical Unemployment
Andreas I. Mueller
published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107 (7), 2081-2107
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6716
Social Incentives Matter: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment
Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos
substantially revised version published as 'Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment' in: Management Science, 2015, 61(8), 1795-1811
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6533
Becker Meets Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Social and Cognitive Skills
Robert J. McCann, Xianwen Shi, Aloysius Siow, Ronald P. Wolthoff
published in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2015, 31 (4), 690-720
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6501
Sorting and Local Wage and Skill Distributions in France
Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon, Sébastien Roux
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42 (6), 913-930
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6460
Pro-Social Missions and Worker Motivation: An Experimental Study
Sebastian Fehrler, Michael Kosfeld
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 100, 99-110
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6447
Robust Estimation of Wage Dispersion with Censored Data: An Application to Occupational Earnings Risk and Risk Attitudes
Daniel Pollmann, Thomas Dohmen, Franz C. Palm
forthcoming in: De Economist, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6379
The Dynamics of Marriage and Divorce
Gustaf Bruze, Michael Svarer, Yoram Weiss
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33(1), 123-170
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6343
The Firm as the Locus of Social Comparisons: Internal Labor Markets versus Up-or-Out
Emmanuelle Auriol, Guido Friebel, Frauke Lammers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6182
Decomposing the Sources of Earnings Inequality: Assessing the Role of Reallocation
Fredrik Andersson, Elizabeth E. Davis, Matthew L. Freedman, Julia Lane, Brian P. McCall, L. Kristin Sandusky
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5936
Wage Dispersion and Labor Turnover with Adverse Selection
Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Leo Kaas
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