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This paper extends the standard work effort model by allowing workers to interact through networks. We investigate experimentally whether peer performances and peer contextual effects influence individual performances. Two types of network are considered. Participants in Recursive networks are...
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This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through the production period, and continuously updated...
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such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a …
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This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first …
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our experiment subjects conduct a task where they have the possibility to make use of illegitimate tools to better their …
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paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme …
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effect of observing a peer from that of being observed by a peer, by setting up a real effort experiment in which we …
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to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …
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experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that …
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experiment reproduces this model in the laboratory by means of various treatments in which we alter the variance of the …
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