Agents' decisions to exert effort depends on the provided incentives as well as the potential costs for doing so. So …

. 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 …

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. …

Conventional wisdom suggests that an increase in monetary incentives should induce agents to exert higher effort. In … with positive externalities between agents, incentive reversal might occur: an increase in monetary incentives (either … and report on two experiments that provide supportive evidence. -- incentives ; incentive reversal ; team production …

. This is not caused by monetary incentives per se since under both wage schemes it is profit-maximizing for agents to exert …