), material or other explicit incentives (laws) and social sanctions or rewards (norms). It first examines how honor, stigma and … social norms arise from individuals’ behaviors and inferences, and how they interact with material incentives. It then … also what shapes social judgements and moral sentiments. Setting law thus means both imposing material incentives and …

The potential distortions of job-search incentives caused by unemployment benefits and their financing are well known … (incentives) and equity (insurance). This implies that an increase in both benefits and the tax rate up to some point may increase …

talented workers leads to an escalating reliance on performance pay and other high-powered incentives, thereby shifting effort … incentives downward in order to extract rents. More generally, as declining market frictions lead employers to compete more …, while inequality tends to rise monotonically. Bonus caps and income taxes can help restore balance in agents' incentives and …

tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production setting where the principal has an interest … incentive system without changing the incentive system. The results indicate that salience of incentives itself is statistically … and economically important for performance. We find that higher salience of incentives for quantity increases quantity …

experiment are facing high-powered incentives to increase the risk on behalf of others through hedged compensation contracts or … with tournament incentives. Compared to a baseline condition without such incentives, we find that the decision makers … respond strongly to these incentives that result in an increased risk exposure of others. However, we find that the increase …