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When Pressure Sinks Performance: Evidence from Diving Competitions
Garbi, Eleni; Genakos, Christos; Pagliero, Mario - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
incentives to perform well. …
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Do Salaries Improve Worker Performance?
Bryson, Alex; Buraimo, Babatunde; Simmons, Rob - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
We establish the effects of salaries on worker performance by exploiting a natural experiment in which some workers in a particular occupation (football referees) switch from short-term contracts to salaried contracts. Worker performance improves among those who move onto salaried contracts...
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Not all Incentives Wash out the Warm Glow: The Case of Blood Donation Revisited
Font, Joan Costa; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia; Yen, Steven T. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
) famously pointed out, providing monetary incentives to blood donors may crowd out blood supply as purely altruistic donors may … paper we examine how favouring different types of incentives are related to the likelihood of donating blood by exploiting a … and attitudes towards incentives. Our results show those who have donated are less likely to favour monetary rewards for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010612940
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Decision–Making and Implementation in Teams
Vidal, Jordi Blanes i; Möller, Marc - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
We use a mechanism-design approach to study a team whose members choose a joint project and exert individual efforts to execute it. Members have private information about the qualities of alternative projects. Information sharing is obstructed by a trade-off between adaptation and motivation. We...
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Employee Stock Purchase Plans - Gift or Incentive? Evidence from a Multinational Corporation
Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
Many large listed firms offer workers the opportunity to buy shares in the firm at discounted rates through employee stock purchase plans (ESPP). The discounted rate creates a gift exchange, where the firm hopes that workers who accept the gift reciprocate with greater loyalty and effort. But...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945142
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Can Helping the Sick Hurt the Able? Incentives, Information and Disruption in a Disability-Related Welfare Reform
Bagaria, Nitika; Petrongolo, Barbara; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
unemployment insurance (UI). This policy reform improved job information and sharpened bureaucratic incentives to find jobs for the … unemployment outflows. This is consistent with a model where information helps both groups, but bureaucrats were given incentives …
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Why Does Performance Pay De-Motivate: Financial Incentives versus Perfrormance Appraisal
French, Stephen; Kubo, Katsuyuki; Marsden, David - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2000
The sheer scale and speed of the shift of payment system from time-based salaries to performance-related pay, PRP, in the British public services provides a unique opportunity to test the effects of incentive pay schemes. This study is based on the first large scale survey designed to measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967705
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The Impact of Private Ownership, Incentives and Local Development Objectives on University Technology Transfer Performance
Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007
We study the impact of private ownership, incentive pay and local development objectives on university licensing performance. We develop and test a simple contracting model of technology licensing offices, using new survey information together with panel data on U.S. universities for 1995-99. We...
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Incentives in Competitive Search Equilibrium
Moen, Espen R.; Rosen, A - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007
This paper analyses the interaction between internal agency problems within firms and external search frictions when workers have private information. We show that the allocation of resources is determined by a modified Hosios Rule. We then analyze the effect of changes in the macro economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151017
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Does Performance Pay De-Motivate, and Does It Matter?
French, Stephen; Kubo, Katsuyuki; Marsden, David - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2001
The sheer scale and speed of the shift of payment system from time-based salaries to performance-related pay, PRP, in the British public services provides a unique opportunity to test the effects of incentive pay schemes. This study is based on the first large scale survey designed to measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016685