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Incentives and compensation schemes: An experimental study
Agranov, Marina; Tergiman, Chloe - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 31 (2013) 3, pp. 238-247
that study this question have produced mixed results. Using a controlled laboratory experiment, we shed light on the …
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Career prospects and effort incentives : evidence from professional soccer
Miklós-Thal, Jeanine; Ullrich, Hannes - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 62 (2016) 6, pp. 1645-1667
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Career concerns and belief precision about talent
Loss, Frédéric; Renucci, Antoine - In: Annals of economics and statistics 139 (2020), pp. 87-103
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Does players’ identification affect trust and reciprocity in the lab?
Dubois, D.; Willinger, M.; Blayac, T. - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 1, pp. 303-317
design an experiment for isolating the direct component of the reputation system and studying its effect on the level of … trust and reciprocity in a population where agents play both roles (trustor and trustee). Our experiment consists on three … a direct reputation for both roles. We find that trustees’ direct reputation has a positive effect on reciprocity, but …
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Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? : experimental evidence from markets for expert services
Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 154 (2018), pp. 362-378
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Delegated Job Design
Hvide, Hans K; Kaplan, Todd - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Why do firms delegate job design decisions to workers, and what are the implications of such delegation? We develop a private-information based theory of delegation, where delegation enables high-ability workers to signal their ability by choosing difficult tasks. Such signalling provides a more...
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Team Incentives and Lower Ability Workers : An Experimental Study on Real-Effort Tasks
Freeman, Richard B.; Pan, Xiaofei; Yang, Xiaolan; Ye, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Team incentives are important in many compensation systems that pay workers according to the output of their team as … contrast the performance of lower ability participants and higher ability participants in an experiment with three distribution …
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Exploring the capability to backward induct : an experimental study with children and young adults
Brosig-Koch, Jeanette; Heinrich, Timo; Helbach, Christoph - 2012
We investigate learning and the development of the capability to backward induct in children and young adults aged 6 to 23 under controlled laboratory conditions. The experimental design employs a modified version of the race game. As in the original game (see Burks et al., 2009, Dufwenberg et...
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Gift exchange and the separation of ownership and control
Maximiano, Sandra; Sloof, Randolph; Sonnemans, Joep - In: Games and Economic Behavior 77 (2013) 1, pp. 41-60
Numerous gift-exchange experiments have found a positive wage–effort relationship. In (almost) all these experiments the employer both owns and controls the firm. This paper explores to what extent the separation of ownership and control affects the wage–effort relationship. We compare the...
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Cheating in the workplace: An experimental study of the impact of bonuses and productivity
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria; Vlassopoulos, Michael - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 96 (2013) C, pp. 120-134
We use an online real-effort experiment to investigate how bonus-based pay and worker productivity interact with …
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