Benndorf, Volker; Rau, Holger A.; Sölch, Christian - 2017
This paper studies motivational crowding-out effects after financial incentives are lowered. In a real-effort setting …, workers receive a piece rate before financial incentives are substituted by a one-time payment. Under the fixed payment …, effort is significantly lower only when preceded by piece-rate incentives. The decrease is driven by a fraction of men who …