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More effort with less pay : on information avoidance, belief design and performance
Huck, Steffen; Szech, Nora; Wenner, Lukas M. - 2015
informed about their piece rate realization, they adapt their performance. One third of subjects nevertheless forego this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346303
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Worker satisfaction and worker representation : the jury is still out
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2022
This paper investigates the relationship between worker job satisfaction and workplace representation, to include works councils as well as local union agencies. The paper marks a clear shift away from the traditional focus on union membership per se because its sample of EU nations have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013473687
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The tradeoff between redistribution and effort : evidence from the field and from the lab
Buch, Claudia M.; Engel, Christoph - 2012
Building on a theoretical model we test the hypothesis that effort choices and preferences for redistribution are simultaneously determined. Using cross-country panel data from the World Value Survey, we find that it is important to model preferences for redistribution and effort choices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535110
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Combining "real effort" with induced effort costs : the ball-catching task
Gächter, Simon; Huang, Lingbo; Sefton, Martin - 2015
We introduce the "ball-catching task", a novel computerized real effort task, which combines "real" efforts with induced material cost of effort. The central feature of the ball-catching task is that it allows researchers to manipulate the cost of effort function as well as the production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010518803
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Signing distortions in optimal tax and other adverse selection problems with random participation
Jacquet, Laurence; Lehmann, Etienne; Van der Linden, Bruno - 2012
We develop a methodology to sign output distortions in the random participation framework. We apply our method to monopoly nonlinear pricing problem, to the regulatory monopoly problem and mainly to the optimal income tax problem. In the latter framework, individuals are heterogeneous across two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009514775
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Relative performance feedback to teams
Gjedrem, William Gilje; Kvaløy, Ola - 2018
performing relative to their benchmarks. In this paper we investigate experimentally how teams respond to relative performance … feedback (RPF) at team level. We find that when subjects work under team incentives, then RPF on team performance increases the … teams' average performance by almost 10 percent. The treatment effect is driven by higher top performance, as this is almost …
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Relative performance feedback and long-term tasks : experimental evidence from higher education
Brade, Raphael; Himmler, Oliver; Jäckle, Robert - 2023
We present first experimental evidence that relative performance feedback improves both the speed and quality with …-average performance, their outcomes improve - otherwise their outcomes deteriorate. Combined with survey evidence, this pattern of results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249919
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Nudging the nudger : a field experiment on the effect of performance feedback to service agents on increasing organ donor registrations
House, Julian; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mažar, Nina - 2022
government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affected … individual performance feedback three times over one year resulted in a 25% increase in daily signups, compared to otherwise … similar encouragement and reminders. Adding benchmark information that compared CSRs performance to average and top peer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013413486
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Improving incentives in unemployment insurance : a review of recent research
Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - 2003
This paper provides a review of the recent literature on how incentives in unemployment insurance (UI) can be improved. We are particularly concerned with three instruments, viz. the duration of benefit payments (or more generally the time sequencing of benefits), monitoring in conjunction with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507749
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The desire for impact
Dur, Robert A. J. (contributor); Glazer, Amihai (contributor) - 2005
This paper explores the meaning and implications of the desire by workers for impact. We find that this impact motive can make firms in a competitive labor market act as monopsonists, lead workers with the same characteristics but at different firms to earn different wages, may alleviate the...
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