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Self-selection and the Efficiency of Tournaments

Eriksson, Tor; Teyssier, Sabrina; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2009

The literature has shown that the overall efficiency of exogenously imposed tournaments is reduced by a high variance in performance. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether allowing subjects to self-select into different payment schemes is reducing the variability of...

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Endogénéisation des règles sociales et évolutionnisme culturel chez Friedrich A. Hayek

Dang, Ai-Thu; Mangolte, Pierre-André - HAL - 2002

L'objectif de ce texte est, d'une part, de proposer une façon de lever la dualité ou contradiction mise en évidence par de nombreux commentateurs dans la théorie hayékienne de l'évolution et, d'autre part, de souligner les difficultés rencontrées par Hayek dans sa tentative...

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Determinacy in Linear Rational Expectations Models

Gauthier, Stéphane - HAL - 2004

The purpose of this paper is to assess the relevance of rational expectations solutions to the class of linear univariate models where both the number of leads in expectations and the number of lags in predetermined variables are arbitrary. It recommends to rule out all the solutions that would...

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Randomization vs. selection: How to choose in the absence of preference?

Danan, Eric - HAL - 2010

randomizing. Thus, randomization among noncomparable options is costly relative to deliberate selection. On the other hand …, randomization among indifferent options is costless relative to deliberate selection. …

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The Economics of Performance Appraisals

Diaye, Marc-Arthur; Greenan, Nathalie - HAL - 2012

, to theoretically quantify the selection e ects driven by the implementation of performance appraisals. …

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Intra-household Selection into Migration: Evidence from a Matched Sample of Migrants and Origin Households in Senegal

Chort, Isabelle; Senne, Jean-Noël - HAL - 2013

This paper fills the gap between individual selection models and collective approaches of migration. We build a … theoretical model in order to account for household-based migration decisions and derive its implications on migrant selection … the one among its members who is to migrate, migrant selection in this case may differ from what is predicted by a pure …

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Health, Work and Working Conditions: A Review of the European Economic Literature

Barnay, Thomas - HAL - 2014

Economists have traditionally been very cautious when studying the interaction between employment and health because of the two-way causal relationship between these two variables: health status influences the probability of being employed and, at the same time, working affects the health...

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Other-Regarding Preferences and Performance Pay – An Experiment on Incentives and Sorting

Eriksson, Tor; Villeval, Marie-Claire - HAL - 2004

the selection and incentive effects of pay schemes are so far thin on the ground. In addition, these effects may be …

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The Peter Principle: An Experiment

Dickinson, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - HAL - 2007

The Peter Principle states that, after a promotion, the observed output of promoted employees tends to fall. Lazear (2004) models this principle as resulting from a regression to the mean of the transitory component of ability. Our experiment reproduces this model in the laboratory by means of...

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Self-Selection and the Efficiency of Tournaments

Eriksson, Tor; Teyssier, Sabrina; Villeval, Marie-Claire - HAL - 2006

is attributable both to its incentive effect and to its selection effect among employees (Lazear, 2000), it is important …

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