We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we … growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …

incentives to resume work. With entitlement periods in the first phase of DI benefits varying across individuals, we use a …This study provides insight in the responsiveness of disabled workers to financial incentives, using administrative … residual work capacities that can be exploited. After the first phase of benefit entitlement, workers that do not use their …

they rate their co-worker relationships when they work under individual incentives, group incentives, or a combination of …Gender differences in preferences regarding social relationships and competitive environments are well documented in … in the Netherlands. We find correlational evidence that, in the absence of individual incentives, group incentives …

complementary to existing discrimination or rational bias theories used to explain persistent observed occupational disparities …

It has been documented that the gender pay gap strongly increases after the birth of the first child. We focus on … Denmark and show that gender differences regarding commuting play an important role in explaining this. We offer 3 pieces of … evidence. First, the gender pay and commuting gaps come into existence at the same moment: when the first child is born. Second …

Comparative payment schemes and tournament-style promotion mechanisms are ubiquitous in the work place. We test …

This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament … incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for …