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This article presents and explores a rich new data source to analyse the determinants of pay and job rank amongst academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be important determinants of the relative wage and...
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How does effort respond to being graded and ranked? This paper examines the effects of non-financial incentives on test performance. We conduct a randomized field experiment on more than a thousand sixth graders in Swedish primary schools. Extrinsic non-financial incentives play an important...
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dynamic model of multi-tasking and an accompanying experiment with financial professionals, we identify hidden ranking costs … when performance in one task is incentivized and ranked while another prosocial task is not: (i) a ranking influences … ranked task; (ii) those ahead in the ranking spend less total effort and lower relative effort in the ranked task …
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The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...
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