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We use an online real-effort experiment to investigate how bonus-based pay and worker productivity interact with … workplace cheating. Firms often use bonus-based compensation plans, such as group bonuses and firm-wide profit sharing, that … induce considerable uncertainty in how much workers are paid. Exposing workers to a compensation scheme based on random …
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they argue for or against mandatory participation? Should we have less redistribution and more actuarial fairness? How does …
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modern compensation theory, but has not been extended to organization theory. The perspective sheds new light on several … topics in the theory of the firm, like the boundaries of the firm, the importance of fairness concerns within firms, the …
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We conducted a randomized field experiment to examine how workers respond to wage cuts, and whether their response …
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We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students …
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We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality aversion than individual initial proposals in team...
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While previous research has shown that social preferences develop in childhood, we study whether this development is accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample of children aged between 7 and 14, we find...
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We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
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We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a … when earnings depend on relative performance. This difference persists after controlling for attitudes towards non …
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a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia that is modified to include multiplicity of reference groups. We estimate …
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