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How to Help Unemployed Find Jobs Quickly: Experimental Evidence from a Mandatory Activation Program

Graversen, Brian Krogh; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper investigates how a mandatory activation program in Denmark affects the job finding rate of unemployed workers. The activation program was introduced in an experimental setting where about half of the workers who became unemployed in the period from November 2005 to March 2006 were...

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Reference Points and Effort Provision

Abeler, Johannes; Falk, Armin; Goette, Lorenz; Huffman, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …

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Role Selection and Team Performance

Cooper, David J.; Sutter, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and a seller. Understanding optimal play is very...

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Lying and Team Incentives

Conrads, Julian; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Rilke, Rainer Michael; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on participants' inclination to lie, by adapting the experimental setup of Fischbacher and Heusi (2008). Lying turns out to be more pronounced under team incentives than under...

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Do Women Prefer a Co-operative Work Environment?

Kuhn, Peter J.; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme …

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Costless Discrimination and Unequal Achievements in a Labour Market Experiment

Filippin, Antonio; Guala, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We investigate the emergence of discrimination in an experiment where individuals affiliated to different groups …

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Efficient Coordination in Weakest-Link Games

Riedl, Arno; Rohde, Ingrid M.T.; Strobel, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Existing experimental research on behavior in weakest-link games shows overwhelmingly the inability of people to coordinate on the efficient equilibrium, especially in larger groups. We hypothesize that people are able to coordinate on efficient outcomes, provided they have sufficient freedom to...

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Testing Canonical Tournament Theory: On the Impact of Risk, Social Preferences and Utility Structure

Sheremeta, Roman M.; Wu, Steven Y. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We use experiments to test comparative statics predictions of canonical tournament theory. Both the roles of principal … tournament design. Consistent with theory, we observed an incentive effect from raising the winner's prize. However, we also … observed several empirical puzzles that appeared to contradict theory. Controlling for social preferences did not resolve the …

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Peer Effects in Pro-Social Behavior: Social Norms or Social Preferences?

Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

experiment. In the experiment a principal pays a wage to each of two agents, who then make effort choices sequentially. In our … preferences (Fehr-Schmidt, 1999). As we show from a norms-elicitation experiment, it is also consistent with social norms …

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Search, Effort, and Locus of Control

McGee, Andrew; McGee, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

affecting beliefs about the efficacy of search effort in a laboratory experiment. We find that reservation offers and effort are …

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