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Incentives and Group Identity
Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252294
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Performance Pay, Group Selection and Group Performance
Königstein, Manfred; Ruchala, Gabriele K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Within a laboratory experiment we investigate a principal-agent game in which agents may, first, self-select into a … in work groups. The selection effect is larger than the motivation effect. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822552
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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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Seemingly Irrelevant Events Affect Economic Perceptions and Expectations: The FIFA World Cup 2006 as a Natural Experiment
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
a natural experiment. We provide direct evidence that seemingly irrelevant events (the outcomes of soccer matches) can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703189
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Pro-Social Missions and Worker Motivation: An Experimental Study
Fehrler, Sebastian; Kosfeld, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Do employees work harder if their job has the right mission? In a laboratory labor market experiment, we test whether … effort than in a control treatment. Surprised by this finding, we run a second experiment in which subjects can choose … mission-oriented organizations is important to explain empirical findings of lower wages and high motivation in the latter. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279260
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Laws and Norms
Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646323
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Incentives and Prosocial Behavior
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. Rewards or punishments (whether material or image-related) create doubt about the true motive for which good deeds are performed and this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703171
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High Performance Workplaces and Family Friendly Practices: Promises Made and Promises Kept
Heywood, John S.; Siebert, W.S.; Wei, Xiangdong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
High performance workplaces elicit greater involvement and productivity from employees but past theory and evidence remain divided on whether or not such workplaces are compatible with family friendly work practices. We present new evidence on the association using perceptions of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763460
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Why Do Individuals Choose Self-Employment?
Dawson, Christopher; Henley, Andrew; Latreille, Paul L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763629
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Does Monitoring Decrease Work Effort? The Complementarity Between Agency and Crowding-Out Theories
Dickinson, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
realtask laboratory experiment, our results show that principals are not trustful enough to refrain from monitoring the agents … motivation is crowded out when monitoring is above a certain threshold. We identify that both interpersonal principal/agent links …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763769