employ an experimental design that first measures the level of effort exerted by student workers on a data entry task in an … environment that elicits purely selfish behavior and we compare it to effort exerted in an environment that also induces action …-oriented altruism. We then compare the latter to effort exerted in an environment where both types of altruistic preferences are …

Building on a theoretical model we test the hypothesis that effort choices and preferences for redistribution are … preferences for redistribution and effort choices simultaneously. While respondents with stronger preferences for redistribution … tend to have smaller incentives to engage in effort, the reverse does not hold true. Using a lab experiment, we show that …

multinational enterprise. We set up a stylized partial equilibrium model and, presuming that worker effort is a function of net … wages, assume that a higher employee-borne tax burden reduces effort. In turn, this raises a firm’s production costs and …’s profit by reducing manager effort. Furthermore, we compile data on personal income tax profiles for 49 economies and the year …

-monetary effort (like exercising). We first present the laissez-faire and the first best. Like Becker and Philipson (1998), we find … that the laissez-faire level of effort is too high compared with the first best, because individuals do not internalize the … impact of survival on the return of their savings. We also claim that because of its non-monetary form, effort is not …

In this paper we investigate the relationship between earnings and charitable giving. We set up a real effort …

managers between countries whereas in the second scenario relocation possibilities exist. Our findings show that the effort … towards more effort based pay. Moreover, the bonus tax negatively affects profits and dividends and thus the incidence falls …