situations in which social interactions are important, from teamwork to class formation in education and co-authorship in …

winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …

How to design compensation schemes to motivate team members appears to be one of the most challenging problems in the … economic analysis of labour provision. We shed light on this issue by experimentally investigating team-based compensations … with and without bonuses awarded to the highest contributors in teams. A purely team-based compensation scheme induces …

We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on … pronounced under team incentives than under individual piece-rates, which highlights a so far fairly neglected feature of these …

In organizations, some team members are assigned to a team for a predefined short period of time, e.g., as they have a … temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a laboratory experiment we analyze the cooperation … levels resulting from diverse teams, where some team members remain with a team and others are switching teams. Our results …

designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …

Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might …