Dr. Mehrzad B. Baktash

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter / Postdoctoral Researcher and Teaching Assistant

Telefon 0651/201-2664
E-Mail baktash@uni-trier.de
Raum C424

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

Labor Economics, Personnel Economics, Education Economics, Family Economics and Happiness Economics.

Publications

Recent Working Papers

Performance Pay and Happiness: Work vs. Home? IZA Discussion Paper No. 18181 (with John S. Heywood and Uwe Jirjahn)

Articles in Refereed Journals

Overeducation, Performance Pay and Wages: Evidence from Germany. Education Economics, Forthcoming.

Are Managers More Machiavellian than Other Employees?, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Forthcoming (with Uwe Jirjahn).

Does Performance Pay Increase the Risk of Marital Instability?, Review of Economics of the Household, Forthcoming (with John S. Heywood and Uwe Jirjahn).

Older Workers, Training and Innovation: A Comparative Study of Germany and Great Britain, Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Forthcoming (with Uwe Jirjahn and Wen Wang).

Does Performance Pay Increase the Risk of Worker Loneliness?, Kyklos, Vol. 79, 2026, pp. 129-148.

Variable Pay and Work Hours: Does Performance Pay Reduce the Gender Time Gap? Economica, Vol. 92, 2025, pp. 1149-1167 (with John S. Heywood and Uwe Jirjahn).

Detach to Thrive: Psychological Detachment from Work and Employee Well-being, Journal of Happiness Studies, Vol. 26, 2025, pp. 1-31 (with Lisa Pütz).

Performance Pay and Alcohol Use in Germany, Industrial Relations, Vol. 61, 2022, pp. 353-383 (with John S. Heywood and Uwe Jirjahn).

Worker Stress and Performance Pay: German Survey Evidence, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 201, 2022, pp. 276-291 (with John S. Heywood and Uwe Jirjahn).

Presentations and Invited Seminars*

Royal Economic Society (RES) Annual Conference: Queen’s University Belfast (2024), University of Birmingham (2025).

International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS): Luxembourg (2025).

Global GLO-JOPE Annual Conference: Online (2024), Bonn (2025).

Public University of Navarre: Economics Department Seminar Series (2023)*, (2025)*.

RWTH Aachen University: Research Seminar in Management and Economics (2024)*.

German Economic Association (VfS) Annual Conference: Berlin (2024).

Warsaw International Economic Meeting (WIEM): University of Warsaw (2023), (2025).

European Health Economics Association (EuHEA): WU Vienna (2024).

Colloquium on Personnel Economics (COPE): Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2023), University of Zurich (2024).

International German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) User Conference: Berlin (2024).

Young Economists' Meeting (YEM): Masaryk University (2024).

GLO Virtual Young Scholar Meeting: Online (2024).

Canadian Law and Economics Association (CLEA): University of Toronto (2022), (2023).

Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE): Online (2021), University of Amsterdam (2022).

European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM): Workshop on Strategic Human Resources Management, Online (2021).

University of Bergamo: Empirical Labor Economics Seminar, Online (2021).*