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Gesiarz, Filip; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Sharot, Tali - 2019

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Homo moralis: personal characteristics, institutions, and moral decision-making

Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Szech, Nora - 2016

institutions compared to situations of individual decision-making. Intelligence, female gender, and the existence of siblings …

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Institutions and the management of human resources : incentive pay systems in France and Great Britain

Marsden, David (contributor); Belfield, Richard (contributor) - 2009

Using data from large-scale establishment surveys in Britain and France, we show that incentive pay for non-managers is …

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Reciprocity in dynamic employment relationships

Fahn, Matthias - 2019

This paper explores the optimal provision of dynamic incentives for employees with reciprocal preferences. Building on the presumption that a relational contract can establish a norm of reciprocity, I show that generous upfront wages that activate an employee’s reciprocal preferences are more...

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Managerial payoff and gift-exchange in the field

Englmaier, Florian; Leider, Stephen - 2019

We conduct a field experiment where we vary both the presence of a gift-exchange wage and the effect of the worker's effort on the manager's payoff. Results indicate a strong complementarity between the initial wage-gift and the agent's ability to "repay the gift". We control for differences in...

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Taxes and pay without performance : evidence from executives

Arnemann, Laura - 2025

impact of tax policy changes on pay without performance. Using data on executive compensation in the United States, I compare … the sensitivity of executive compensation to performance shocks beyond the executives control before and after a change in …, state tax hikes increase the sensitivity of executive compensation to performance shocks exogenous to executive effort …

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Relative performance contracts versus group contracts with hidden savings

Archawa Paweenawat - 2022

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More effort with less pay : on information avoidance, belief design and performance

Huck, Steffen; Szech, Nora; Wenner, Lukas M. - 2015 - June 2015, revised September 2015

In a tedious real effort task, subjects know that their piece rate is either low or ten times higher. When subjects are informed about their piece rate realization, they adapt their performance. One third of subjects nevertheless forego this instrumental information when given the choice - and...

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More effort with less pay : on information avoidance, optimistic beliefs, and performance

Huck, Steffen; Szech, Nora; Wenner, Lukas M. - 2017

Recent behavioral models argue in favor of avoidance of instrumental information. We explore the role of information avoidance in a real-effort setting. Our experiment offers three main results. First, we confirm that preferences for avoidance of instrumental information exist, studying...

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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks

Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2023

Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but also render teams' identity and image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a non-routine task and identify the importance of these...

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