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as a wage determinant. We furthermore show that a promotion affects both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation significantly …, though in two different ways: An expected promotion increases extrinsic motivation whereas intrinsic motivation is highest … subsequent to a realized promotion. The relationship between extrinsic motivation and expected promotions implies that promotions …
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motivation, and characterise optimal incentive contracts for public sector workers under different informational assumptions …
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In many workplaces co-workers have the best information about each other's effort. Managers may attempt to exploit this information through peer evaluation. I study peer evaluation in a pure moral hazard model of production by two limitedly liable agents. Agents receive a signal about their...
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incentives have the potential to curtail the role of these factors in favor of performance -- in particular when the incentive … the effects of such team incentives on task assignment and performance. We introduce team incentives in a random subsets …
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motivation may undermine intrinsic motivation. The self-perception (SP) theory developed by Bem (1972) explains this finding. The …
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that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students …The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately …. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student …
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predict that the design and implementation of a performance measurement and compensation system affect the motivation of … compensation system and extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation is not affected by the design of monetary compensation, but by …
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There is increasing empirical and experimental evidence thatproviding financial incentives to agents to performcertain … financial incentives on the desire for socialapproval, using the example of blood donation.We show that in a society with …
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-minimizing public firm. Workers in the economy are heterogeneous in their intrinsic motivation to work in the sector. In line with …
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