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in performance. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether allowing subjects to self-select into … substantially lower than when the same payment scheme is imposed. Mainly based on risk aversion, sorting is efficiency …
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An important issue in personnel economics is the design of efficient job allocation rules. Firms often use promotions both to sort workers across jobs and to provide them with incentives. However, the Peter Principle states that employees' output tends to fall after a promotion. Lazear (2004)...
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experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that … the provision of incentives and their sorting effect. …
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to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …-subject variance is substantially lower than when the same payment scheme is imposed. Mainly based on risk aversion, sorting is …
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Variable pay links pay and performance but may also help firms in attracting more productive employees. Our experiment … investigates the impact of performance pay on both incentives and sorting and analyzes the influence of repeated interactions … and reputation influence both the provision of incentives and their sorting effect. …
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This paper adapts a framework à-la Hotelling to an urban context in order to study the impact of public housing on the level of segregation in a fixed-size city where consumers differ both in income and taste. In this city, the market allocation of the population is characterized by partial...
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, which occur in both compensation incentives and team composition. The results of a real task experiment conducted with … also suggest that the sorting effect of incentives in the previous companies impact cooperation and efficiency after the … merger. Replicating this experiment with students showed differences in strategy rather than in substance between the two …
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, which occur in both compensation incentives and team composition. The results of a real effort experiment conducted with … also suggest that the sorting effect of incentives in the previous companies impact cooperation and efficiency after the … merger. Replicating this experiment with students showed differences in strategy rather than in substance between the two …
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We run a series of experiments to compare the well known arbitration scheme FOA (Final Offer Arbitration) with a new arbitration scheme, non compulsory, we proposed in a companion paper (Tanimura and Thoron (2008)): ROC (Recursive Offer Conciliation). The two mechanisms are also compared with a...
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There might be various aims for the vertical separation in railways such as the one instituted by the European Commission. One aim might be to improve efficiency, another one might be to introduce competition, as a mean, precisely to improve efficiency. Vertical separation creates, by itself,...
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