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 …

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are …

less exposed to moral hazard risk, face more powerful performance incentives, and are more productive. Under-consumption of …

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 …

justifies the application of a matching estimator but also allows to take account of threefold heterogeneity. The recently … heterogeneity. The results show considerable differences with respect to these sources of heterogeneity, but the overall finding is …