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This paper studies wage structure characteristics and their incentive effects within one firm. Based on personnel records and an employee survey, we provide evidence that wages are attached to jobs and that promotions play a dominant role as a wage determinant. We furthermore show that a...
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incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for …
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This paper examines the effect of incentives on the performance of darts players. We analyze four data sets comprising … higher incentives, but choke when the incentives are really high. Professional players similarly display better performance … under higher incentives, but appear less susceptible of choking. These results speak to a growing literature on the limits …
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Incentives based on esteem, honor and shame are increasingly popular and easy to use due to modern surveillance … Tirole (2011) to explore the effect of esteem-based incentives and their interaction with traditional monetary incentives. We … show that esteem-based incentives can indeed lead to a loss of control by generating multiple equilibria, some of which …
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incentives - motivate a worker by adopting leadership styles that differ in their non-monetary consequences for the worker's well …
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Temporary incentives are offered in anticipation of persistent effects, but these are seldom estimated. We use a … nationwide randomized experiment in the Philippines to estimate effects three years after the withdrawal of two incentives for …
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We investigate expectation formation in a controlled experimental en-vironment. Subjects are asked to predict the price in a standard asset pricingmodel. They do not have knowledge of the underlying market equilibrium equa-tions, but they know all past realized prices and their own predictions....
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not onlymutual trust, like simple exchange, but also a substantial degree of coordination. We examinewhether players are …
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In many real-life situations people face a simple decision whether to volunteer or not to provide some benefit for themselves and also for others. This research investigates the effects of the group size and the magnitude of the volunteering cost in a controlled large-scale laboratory...
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