IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1191

Other-Regarding Preferences and Performance Pay – An Experiment on Incentives and Sorting

revised version published as 'Performance-pay, sorting and social motivation ' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 68 (2), 412-421.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1146

The Effect of High Stakes High School Achievement Awards: Evidence from a School-Centered Randomized Trial

Joshua Angrist, Victor Lavy

published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (4), 1384-1414

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1143

High Compensation Creates a Ratchet Effect

Hans Gersbach, Amihai Glazer

published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (539), 1208 - 1224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1057

Redesigning Teams and Incentives in a Merger: An Experiment with Managers and Students

Claude Montmarquette, Jean-Louis Rullière, Marie Claire Villeval, Romain Zeiliger

revised version published in: Management Science, 2004, 50 (10), 1379-1389.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 947

Potential, Prizes and Performance: Testing Tournament Theory with Professional Tennis Data

Uwe Sunde

substantially revised version published as 'Heterogeneity and Performance in Tournaments: A Test for Incentive Effect using Professional Tennis Data' in: Applied Economics, 2010, 41 (25), 3199-3208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 856

Management Incentives, Signaling Effects and the Costs of Vertical Integration

Dirk Sliwka

published in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 2004, 74 (1), 27-52

IZA Discussion Paper No. 855

Career Concerns in a Simple Experimental Labour Market

Bernd Irlenbusch, Dirk Sliwka

published in: European Economic Review, 2006, 50 (1), 147-170

IZA Discussion Paper No. 844

On the Hidden Costs of Incentive Schemes

Dirk Sliwka

revised version published as IZA DP 2293 and in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (3), 999 - 1012

IZA Discussion Paper No. 780

Temporary Contracts and Employee Effort

Axel Engellandt, Regina T. Riphahn

published in: Labour Economics, 2005, 12 (3), 281-299

IZA Discussion Paper No. 761

Output-Based Pay: Incentives, Retention or Sorting?

Edward Lazear

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2004, 23, 1-25

IZA Discussion Paper No. 735

Micro-Simulation of Social Security Reforms in Belgium

Raphaël Desmet, Alain Jousten, Sergio Perelman, Pierre Pestieau

published in: J. Gruber and D. Wise, (eds.), “Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: Fiscal Implications of Reform”, 2007, University of Chicago Press and NBER

IZA Discussion Paper No. 732

Clean Evidence on Peer Pressure

Armin Falk, Andrea Ichino

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, 24 (1), 39-57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 718

Consistency in Organization

Ekkehart Schlicht

final version published in: Journal of Theoretical and Institutional Economics, 2008, 164(4), 612–623

IZA Discussion Paper No. 694

What Determines the Reservation Wages of Unemployed Workers? New Evidence from German Micro Data

Eswar Prasad

published in: Gabriel Fagan, Francesco Mongelli and Julian Morgan (eds.), Institutions and Wage Formation in the New Europe: Proceedings of the ECB's Annual Labor Market Workshop, London: Edward Elgar, 2004

IZA Discussion Paper No. 666

Frühverrentung in Deutschland: Ökonomische Anreize und institutionelle Strukturen

Pascal Arnds, Holger Bonin

published in: M. Herfurth, M. Kohli and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), Arbeit in einer alternden Gesellschaft (Labor in an Aging Society), Leverkusen: Leske+Budrich, 2003, 65-91

IZA Discussion Paper No. 665

Fancy a Stay at the 'Hotel California'? Foreign Direct Investment, Taxation and Firing Costs

Holger Görg

revised version published as 'Fancy a stay at the 'Hotel California'? in: Kyklos, 2005, 58 (4), 519-535

IZA Discussion Paper No. 507

Psychological Foundations of Incentives

Ernst Fehr, Armin Falk

published in: European Economic Review, 2002, 46 (4-5), 687-724

IZA Discussion Paper No. 423

Transfer Fee Regulations in European Football

Eberhard Feess, Gerd Muehlheusser

published in: European Economic Review, 2003, 47(4), 645-668