collect data from a field experiment where incentives are exogenously imposed, performance is monitored and individual …, this is true only for men, while women do not seem to react to non-monetary incentives. …

talented workers leads to an escalating reliance on performance pay and other high-powered incentives, thereby shifting effort … distorts incentives downward in order to extract rents. More generally, as declining market frictions lead employers to compete …, while inequality tends to rise monotonically. Bonus caps and income taxes can help restore balance in agents' incentives and …

intensity of team incentives and several survey measures of cooperation. Moreover, higher powered team incentives are associated … with lower degrees of absenteeism while this is not the case for individual incentives. …

This paper studies the interplay between economic incentives and social norms in firms. We introduce a general … also show how social norms can induce multiplicity of equilibria and how steeper economic incentives can reduce effort. …

During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives, contracts and organisations … effects of incentives. Economists may fail to understand the levels and the changes in behaviour if they neglect motives like … the desire to reciprocate or the desire to avoid social disapproval. We show that monetary incentives may backfire and …

conflicting incentives to free-ride across and within subteams. Moreover, the relative size of subteams can be a powerful means to … deliver incentives when funds for performance rewards are limited. Using data for one of the incentive schemes piloted in the …