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Self-Selection and the Efficiency of Tournaments

Eriksson, Tor; Teyssier, Sabrina; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2006

to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …

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Effort and Comparison Income : Survey and Experimental Evidence

Clark, Andrew; Masclet, Davis; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2006

This paper combines ISSP survey data and experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game to determine the effect of status or relative income on work effort. We find a strong effect of others’ incomes on individual effort decisions in both datasets. The individual’s rank in the income...

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

Villeval, Marie-Claire; Eriksson, Tor - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2004

experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that …

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Respect as an Incentive

Eriksson, Tor; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2010

-exchange experiment, the employer can express respect by giving the employee costly symbolic rewards after observing his level of effort …. This experiment sheds light on the extent to which symbolic rewards are used, how they affect employees’ further effort …

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