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From public monopsony to competitive market : more efficiency but higher prices

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2003

-minimising public firm. Workers in the economy are heterogeneous in their motivation to work in the sector. In line with empirical …

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Paid to quit

Dur, Robert A. J.; Schmittdiel, Heiner - 2015

the principal can neither observe agents’ commitment to the job nor their intrinsic motivation. A steep wage …

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Reforming an institutional culture of corruption : a model of motivated agents and collective reputation

Valasek, Justin Mattias - 2015

from a low-reputation to a high-reputation steady state: Importantly, the effect of wages on motivation depend on the … initial reputation - starting from low-reputation, higher wages crowd in motivation, while starting from high …-reputation, higher wages crowd out motivation. Therefore, a non-monotonic wage path is required to achieve a transition to the low …

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Incentives, self-selection, and coordination of motivated agents for the production of social goods

Bauer, Kevin; Kosfeld, Michael; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2021

). Agents differ in their motivation to exert social effort. Our model predicts that lowering incentives for selfish effort in …

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Motivation crowding theory : a survey of empirical evidence

Frey, Bruno S.; Jegen, Reto - 2000

The motivation crowding effect suggests that an external intervention via monetary incentives or punishments may … undermine (and under different indentifiable conditions strengthen) intrinsic motivation. As of today, the theoretical \lang1033 …

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Omnimetrics and awards

Frey, Bruno S. - 2017

The digital revolution has led to a quantification of ever more areas of human life and society. At the same time, there is an explosion of the number of awards, which by their very nature are based on non-quantified performance. Will quantification take over completely, leading to...

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Paying for what kind of performance? : performance pay and multitasking in mission-oriented jobs

Jones, Daniel B.; Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018

How does pay-for-performance (P4P) impact productivity, multitasking, and the composition of workers in mission-oriented jobs? These are central issues in sectors like education or healthcare. We conduct a laboratory experiment, manipulating compensation and mission, to answer these questions....

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A note on motivated cognition and discriminatory beliefs

Stötzer, Lasse Simon; Zimmermann, Florian - 2022

In this note, we provide evidence that motivated reasoning can be a source of discriminatory beliefs. We employ a representative survey experiment where we exogenously manipulate the presence of a need for justification of anti-social behavior towards an out-group. We provide causal evidence...

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Motivated procrastination

Cordes, Charlotte A.; Friedrichsen, Jana; Schudy, Simeon - 2024

Procrastination is often attributed to time-inconsistent preferences but may also arise when individuals derive anticipatory utility from holding optimistic beliefs about their future effort costs. This study provides a rigorous empirical test for this notion of ‘motivated procrastination’....

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Cooperation, motivation and social balance

Bosworth, Steven; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives....

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