Dr. Mehrzad B. Baktash

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter / Research 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

Does Performance Pay Increase the Risk of Worker Loneliness? GLO DP, No. 1524

Variable Pay and Work Hours: Does Performance Pay Reduce the Gender Time Gap? GLO DP, No. 1450, 2024 (with U. Jirjahn and John S. Heywood)

Overeducation, Performance Pay and Wages: Evidence from Germany. GLO DP, No. 1327, 2023.

Are Managers More Machiavellian than Other Employees? IZA DP, No. 16361, 2023 (with Uwe Jirjahn).

Articles in Refereed Journals

Detach to Thrive: Psychological Detachment from Work and Employee Well-being, Journal of Happiness Studies, Forthcoming (with Lisa Pütz).

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

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 Uwe Jirjahn and John S. Heywood).

Presentations and Invited Seminars*

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

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

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

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

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