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The adverse consequences of tournaments : evidence from a field experiment
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2016
We run a field experiment to investigate whether competing in rank-order tournaments with different prize spreads affects individual performance. Our experiment involved students from an Italian University who took an intermediate exam in which one part was awarded on the basis of their relative...
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Income support systems, labor market policies and labor supply : the German experience
Caliendo, Marco - 2009
. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and … speed and depth of the reforms are remarkable, mainly aimed at activating people by increasing their incentives to take up …
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The impact of income taxation on the ratio between reservation and market wages and the incentives for labour supply
Caliendo, Marco (contributor); Gambaro, Ludovica (contributor) - 2007
reservation/market wage ratio. Relative to single filers, this leads to strong negative labour supply incentives for secondary … earners and to positive incentives for first earners in married couples. …
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Selection and incentives under time pressure: the importance of framing
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Pupo, Valeria - 2020
In this paper we investigate whether the framing of the incentives used to foster participation into contexts …/punishment framing of incentives. We find that individuals characterized by a high degree of risk aversion perform worse under time …
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