Guido Friebel

Research Fellow

Goethe University Frankfurt

gfriebel@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de

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Guido Friebel holds the Chair of Human Resource Management at Goethe University Frankfurt. He graduated in economics from Bielefeld in 1992 and graduated in 1996 with a PhD from ULB, Brussels. Before joining Goethe University, he was employed at SITE, Stockholm School of Economics and at the EHESS, Toulouse School of Economics. His primary areas of research are organizations, incentives for teams and individuals, human capital and migration decisions.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in May 2003.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15599

Mystery Shopping as a Strategic Management Practice in Multi-Site Firms

Sidney T. Block, Guido Friebel, Matthias Heinz, Nick Zubanov

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11978

International Migration Intentions and Illegal Costs: Evidence from Africa-to-Europe Smuggling Routes

Guido Friebel, Miriam Manchin, Mariapia Mendola, Giovanni Prarolo

published in: Journal of International Economics, 2024, 148, 103878.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10410

Trust the Police? Self-Selection of Motivated Agents into the German Police Force

Guido Friebel, Michael Kosfeld, Gerd Thielmann

published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2019, 11 (4), 59-78

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9739

The Effect of Announced Downsizing on Workplace Performance: Evidence from a Retail Chain

Guido Friebel, Matthias Heinz, Nick Zubanov

published in: S.W. Polachek, K. Tatsiramos, G. Russo, and G. van Houten (Eds.) Workplace Productivity and Management Practices, Research in Labor Economics, 49, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, 2021, 79-205.

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. 6859

Media Slant Against Foreign Owners: Downsizing

Guido Friebel, Matthias Heinz

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 120 , 97-106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6350

Human Smuggling

Guido Friebel, Sergei Guriev

published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, pp. 121-133

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. 5920

Xenophobic Attacks, Migration Intentions and Networks: Evidence from the South of Africa

Guido Friebel, Juan Miguel Gallego, Mariapia Mendola

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 555-591

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5374

Resisting Moral Wiggle Room: How Robust is Reciprocity?

Joël van der Weele, Julija Kulisa, Michael Kosfeld, Guido Friebel

published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2014, 6 (3), 256-264