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develop an agency model of police behavior that emphasizes intrinsic motivation and self-selection. Drawing on experimental … that intrinsic motivation and self-selection provide a possible explanation for the bifurcated structure of criminal law …
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’ intrinsic motivation for optimal monetary incentive schemes. We show that motivated workers work harder and, for a given level … of e.ort, are willing to work for a lower wage. When people di.er in their motivation to work at a particular firm, the … whether or not the firm can observe the motivation of the applicants. If applicants can credibly signal their motivation, a …
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extrinsic motivation is reinforced. Based on the common pool approach to the firm, institutions are proposed which serve to …
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. Yet, they constrained their attention to a very narrow and empirically questionable view of human motivation. The purpose … of this paper is to show that this narrow view of human motivation may severely limit understanding the determinants and …
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-minimising public firm. Workers in the economy are heterogeneous in their motivation to work in the sector. In line with empirical …
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The motivation crowding effect suggests that an external intervention via monetary incentives or punishments may … undermine (and under different indentifiable conditions strengthen) intrinsic motivation. As of today, the theoretical \lang1033 …
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We compare performance in a word based creativity task under three incentive schemes: a flat fee, a linear payment and …
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It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out …
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This paper argues that the “Economics of Crime” concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to fight crime, which is unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several feasible alternatives to punishment exist, such as...
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Behavioral economics documents the importance of status and self-image concerns in the workplace, but is largely silent about how to instrumentalize them to induce effort. Awards - widespread in the corporate sector and elsewhere - are motivators that derive their value from such social...
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