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This study provides insight in the responsiveness of disabled workers to financial incentives, using administrative … incentives to resume work. With entitlement periods in the first phase of DI benefits varying across individuals, we use a …
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This study exploits a new dataset in order to quantify the effect of financial incentives on retirement choices. This … Wise (2004), we find that financial incentives have an effect on retirement. The effect goes in the expected direction …; when employees become eligible for pension benefits the change in financial incentives they experience is so high that …
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We estimate the impact of health and financial incentives on the retirement transitions of older workers in Spain … retirement. Unlike previous literature, we find that (i) financial incentives, when measured adequately, exert a greater impact … in determining retirement decisions. We also perform simulations of a recently enacted reform of pension incentives and …
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We consider repeated trust game experiments to study the interplay between explicit and relational incentives. After … these two variants to play. Theory predicts that subjects will choose the payoff dominated game (representing a bad explicit … contract), because this game better sustains (implicit) relational incentives backed by either reputational or reciprocity …
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We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we introduced short-term sales competitions among subsets of stores. We find that sales competitions have a large effect on sales growth, but only in stores where the store's manager...
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There is a growing interest, notably in development economics, in extending project evaluation methods to the evaluation of multiple interventions (“programs”). In program evaluations one is interested in the aggregate impact of a program rather than the effect on individual beneficiaries....
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Non-monetary incentives such as praise are common-place, but their effects on workers performing cognitively …
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, team social cohesion, and team performance. Theory predicts that the effect of team incentives on team performance depends …We conduct a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain with 122 stores to study the interaction between team incentives …. Conversely, team incentives may lead to more co-worker support or to higher peer pressure and thereby can affect the team …
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problems or disability. An important component of the Dutch reforms was to enhance employer incentives, which was done by … employer incentives may stimulate preventive and reintegration activities by firms, thereby improving the employment …
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of the same ethnic group within firms. This paper presents empirical proof of the phenomenon and analyses the incentives …
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