, but have an ambiguous effect on the efficiency of service provision. We test these predictions using a difference in … not subject to the same CPA regime. To do this, we construct original indices of service quality and efficiency, using … efficiency indices. There is evidence of heterogeneous effects of CPA on efficiency, with some evidence that CPA impacted more on …

public sector in most EU countries, the paper looks for policy reforms that can improve work incentives, and hence enhance … productive efficiency, in the public sector. We focus on reforms aiming to establish parity between work conditions in the public …

each other. The contract may contain two types of incentives for the agent to work hard: a bonus and a threat of dismissal …

a number-adding task) with the same treatments. In all tasks we find that incentives seem to have very small effects and …

an experiment with piece-rate incentives we find that the comparative static and the point predictions on effort …

feasible alternatives to punishment exist, such as offering positive incentives or handing out awards for law abiding behavior …

tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production setting where the principal has an interest … incentive system without changing the incentive system. The results indicate that salience of incentives itself is statistically … and economically important for performance. We find that higher salience of incentives for quantity increases quantity …

) famously pointed out, providing monetary incentives to blood donors may crowd out blood supply as purely altruistic donors may … types of incentives are related to the likelihood of donating blood by exploiting a large sample representative of 15 …