IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5776

Mandated Severance Pay and Firing Cost Distortions: A Critical Review of the Evidence

Donald O. Parsons

published in: Robert Holzmann and Milan Vodopivec (eds.), Reforming Severance Pay: An International Perspective, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2012, 121-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5755

Incentives vs. Selection in Promotion Tournaments: Can a Designer Kill Two Birds with One Stone?

Wolfgang Höchtl, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Rudi Stracke, Uwe Sunde

revised version published in: Managerial and Decision Economics, 2015, 36(5), 275–285

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5731

Severance Pay Programs around the World: History, Rationale, Status, and Reforms

Robert Holzmann, Yann Pouget, Milan Vodopivec, Michael Weber

published in: Robert Holzmann and Milan Vodopivec (eds), Reforming Severance Pay: An International Perspective,Washington, D.C.: The World Bank., 2012

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5727

Equity and Efficiency in Multi-Worker Firms: Insights from Experimental Economics

Johannes Abeler, Steffen Altmann, Sebastian J. Goerg, Sebastian Kube, Matthias Wibral

published in: Analyse & Kritik, 2011, 33(1), 325-347

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5719

Wage Adjustment and Productivity Shocks

Mikael Carlsson, Julián Messina, Oskar Nordström Skans

substantially revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (595), 1739–1773

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5656

Total Reward in the UK in the Public and Private Sectors

Alexander M. Danzer, Peter Dolton

published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (4), 584-594

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5619

Paid to Perform? Compensation Profiles under Pure Wage and Performance Related Pay Arrangements

John G. Sessions, John D. Skåtun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5618

Incentives and Cooperation in Firms: Field Evidence

Johannes Berger, Claus Herbertz, Dirk Sliwka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5550

Social Comparison in the Workplace: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Alain Cohn, Ernst Fehr, Benedikt Herrmann, Frédéric Schneider

revised version published as 'Social Comparison an Effort Provision' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, 12 (4), 877-898

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5543

Managerial Incentives and Favoritism in Promotion Decisions: Theory and Field Evidence

Johannes Berger, Claus Herbertz, Dirk Sliwka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5501

Can Higher Bonuses Lead to Less Effort? Incentive Reversal in Teams

Esteban F. Klor, Sebastian Kube, Eyal Winter, Ro'i Zultan

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, 97, 72-83

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5499

Labor Supply and Consumption Smoothing When Income Shocks Are Non-Insurable

Alexander M. Danzer

revised version published as 'Can Secondary Jobs Smooth Consumption? Evidence from Unanticipated Wage Arrears' in: Economic Development and Cultural Changes, 2019, 67 (3), 571-594.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5460

Workplace Democracy in the Lab

Philip Mellizo, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Peter Hans Matthews

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5357

Great Expectations: Law, Employment Contracts, and Labor Market Performance

W. Bentley MacLeod

published in: O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 4B, Chapter 18, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5352

Contracts between Legal Persons

Lewis A. Kornhauser, W. Bentley MacLeod

published in: Robert Gibbons and John Roberts (eds.) Handbook of Organizational Economics, Princeton University Press, 2012

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5325