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Cheating in the Workplace: An Experimental Study of the Impact of Bonuses and Productivity
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L.; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We use an online real-effort experiment to investigate how bonus-based pay and worker productivity interact with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887072
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How Unjust! An Experimental Investigation of Supervisors' Evaluation Errors and Agents' Incentives
Marchegiani, Lucia; Reggiani, Tommaso; Rizzolli, Matteo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
predicts both errors to be equally detrimental to performance, this prediction fails with a lab experiment. In fact, failing to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416946
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The Impact of Tax Knowledge and Budget Spending Influence on Tax Compliance
Djawadi, Behnud Mir; Fahr, René - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We investigate the impact of trust in authorities on tax compliance within a controlled laboratory setting. Embedded in two hypothetical tax systems with high and low power of authorities respectively, we gradually increase trust in authorities in form of tax knowledge about public expenditures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010630726
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Transparency, Inequity Aversion, and the Dynamics of Peer Pressure in Teams: Theory and Evidence
Mohnen, Alwine; Pokorny, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
confirmed in a real effort experiment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762201
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Tournaments and Office Politics: Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey; Matthews, Peter Hans; Schirm, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
experiment in which effort, quality adjusted output and office politics are compared under piece rates and tournaments. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703722
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Compensating Differentials in Experimental Labor Markets
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Robbett, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
The theory of compensating differentials has proven difficult to test with observational data: the consequences of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163479