scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based on teams and covered quantity and quality …

and incentives when the agent has a preference towards one of the two tasks. This is modelled by the assumption that the … have the same variance, the principal has to set different marginal incentives. This is because the agent tries to spread … optimal for the principal to set higher marginal incentives on the output measured with less precision. Hence the standard …

scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based on teams and covered five different targets …

evidence on its effects. We consider how optimal incentives for public sector workers may differ from those in the private … sector, and if so, what types of incentives are more appropriate for the public sector. We investigate the reasons for the … infrequent use of explicit incentives in the public sector. We summarise evidence of particular relevance to the public sector …

the USA. In the second part, I argue that understanding incentives is the key to understanding the behaviour of suppliers …

We use an experiment to study the impact of team-based incentives, exploiting rich data from personnel records and … task reallocation. We find that the provision of financial incentives did raise individual performance but that managers …