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Many occupations and industries are highly segregated with respect to gender. This segregation could be due to perceived job-specific productivity differences between men and women. It could also result from the belief that single-gender teams perform better. We investigate the two explanations...
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provision are remarkably accurate. We also present experimental findings from three classic experiments, namely, team production …
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Collective contests are examined permitting heterogeneity of stakes within every competing group. Our first concern is whether unequal distribution of stakes in a group can enhance its win probability. Our second concern is whether a large stake in a group can be individually disadvantageous. We...
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observable. A team incentive scheme, where each agent is paid a bonus for aggregate output above a threshold, is optimal in case … (a). The team's efficiency may increase considerably with size if outputs are negatively correlated. Under (b) a … performance. The two cases reveal that it may be optimal to organize production as a team where only aggregate output is …
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tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production setting where the principal has an interest …, reduces quality, and increases in-pocket income of team managers. -- incentives ; attention ; salience ; communication ; field …
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this incentive mechanism is reinvigorated after a management change - but only when the team is sufficiently homogenous …. Indeed, we find substantial evidence that coach replacements enhance team performance (only) in homogenous teams. Moreover …
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Between and within firms, work teams compete against each other and receive feedback on how well their team is … 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 …
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We study how restrictive immigration policies and the unexpected loss of peers affect the performance of skilled migrants, exploiting the unexpected increased denials of H-1B visa extensions in the United States beginning in 2017. We find that employees who lost peers of the same ethnic...
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We study two dimensions of complexity that may interfere with individual choice. The first one is object complexity, which corresponds to the difficulty in evaluating any given alternative in a choice set. The second dimension is composition complexity, which increases when suboptimal...
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We provide experimental evidence that core intertemporal choice anomalies - including extreme short-run impatience, structural estimates of present bias, hyperbolicity and transitivity violations - are driven by complexity rather than time or risk preferences. First, all anomalies also arise in...
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