Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 6 (2006) 2
We document the establishment and evolution of a cooperative norm among workers using evidence from a natural field experiment on a leading UK farm. Workers are paid according to a relative incentive scheme under which increasing individual effort raises a worker's own pay but imposes a negative...