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Despite the prevalence of non-routine analytical team tasks in modern economies, little is known about how incentives … bonus incentives on the probability of completion of such a task. Bonus incentives increase performance due to the reward … minor role. Incentives improve performance also in an additional sample of presumably less motivated workers. However …
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incentives. Collective enforcement allows the transparent organization to use strong employment relationships to "cross …
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reduce the effort costs of a worker, and analyze the optimal combination of motivational effort and monetary incentives. We … distinguish two cases. First, the firm owner chooses the intensity of motivation and bears the motivational costs. Second, another … conditions under which monetary incentives and motivational effort are substitutes or complements, and show that motivational …
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feasible alternatives to punishment exist, such as offering positive incentives or handing out awards for law abiding behavior … to a large extent law abiding, they are more motivated to observe the law. -- crime ; punishment ; incentives … ; motivation ; framing ; broken window theory …
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Half of the jobs in the U.S. feature pay-for-performance. We study nonlinear income taxation in a model where such contracts arise in private labor markets that are constrained by moral hazard frictions. We derive novel formulas for the incidence of arbitrarily nonlinear reforms of a given tax...
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feedback (RPF) at team level. We find that when subjects work under team incentives, then RPF on team performance increases the … experiment suggests that top performers are particularly motivated by the combination of team incentives and team RPF. In fact …, team incentives motivate significantly higher top performance than individual incentives when the team is exposed to RPF …
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in knowledge creation. This paper studies the effects of explicit and implicit, career concerns incentives common in … of German academics, I find that performance incentives attract more productive academics, and research quantity …
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This paper studies how imposing norms on contribution behavior affects individuals' intrinsic motivation. We consider … the church levy, which the Catholic Church in Germany collects as a charitable donation, despite the fact that the levy is …, communicating the legal norm results in a significant crowd-out of intrinsic motivation. In contrast, strongly intrinsically …
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&D cooperation. This paper explores this idea by analysing on the one hand the incentives for EU, Japan and Russia to adopt this … strategy, and on the other hand the incentives for the US to join a coalition which cooperates both on climate change control … and R&D) will be examined from the view point of countries profitability and free-riding incentives. Finally, after having …
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We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in "high" and "low …
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