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Performance Appraisals and the Impact of Forced Distribution: An Experimental Investigation
Berger, Johannes; Harbring, Christine; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
A real effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008557231
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Are Teams Less Inequality Averse than Individuals?
He, Haoran; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884177
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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 … pronounced under team incentives than under individual piece-rates, which highlights a so far fairly neglected feature of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294841
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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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Who Benefits from Benefits? Empirical Research on Tangible Incentives
Hammermann, Andrea; Mohnen, Alwine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Although a broad field of literature on incentive theory exists, employer-provided tangible goods (hereafter called benefits) have so far been neglected by economic research. A remarkable exception is an empirical study by Oyer (2008). In our study, we test some of his findings by drawing on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646296
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Benchmarking Regions: Estimating the Counterfactual Distribution of Labor Market Outcomes
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Furdas, Marina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper develops and implements a new benchmarking approach for labor market regions. Based on panel data for regions, we use nonparametric matching techniques to account for observed labor market characteristics and for spatial proximity. As the benchmark, we estimate the counterfactual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279231
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The Effects of Prize Spread and Noise in Elimination Tournaments: A Natural Field Experiment
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Non, Arjan; Verbeke, Willem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We conduct a natural field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279320
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Design and Implementation of Pay for Performance
Gibbs, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
A large, mature and robust economic literature on pay for performance now exists, which provides a useful framework for thinking about pay for performance systems. I use the lessons of the literature to discuss how to design and implement pay for performance in practice.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646325
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Performance Measurement, Expectancy and Agency Theory: An Experimental Study
Praag, Mirjam van; Sloof, Randolph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
for noisier performance measures. We conduct a real effort laboratory experiment and find that effort levels are invariant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761969
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On the Sorting of Physicians across Medical Occupations
Courty, Pascal; Marschke, Gerald - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We model the sorting of medical students across medical occupations and identify a mechanism that explains the possibility of differential productivity across occupations. The model combines moral hazard and matching of physicians and occupations with pre-matching investments. In equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703622