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Feedback and incentives : experimental evidence

Eriksson, Tor (contributor); Poulsen, Anders (contributor); … - 2008

This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on … employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through … off. Moreover, in both pay schemes information feedback reduces the quality of the low performers' work. -- Performance …

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Self-selection and the efficiency of tournaments

Eriksson, Tor (contributor); Teyssier, Sabrina (contributor) - 2006

When exogenously imposed, rank-order tournaments have incentive properties but their overall efficiency is reduced by a high variance in performance (Bull, Schotter, and Weigelt 1987). However, since the efficiency of performance-related pay is attributable both to its incentive effect and to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003283430

Working to get fired? : regression discontinuity effects of unemployment benefit eligibility on prior employment duration

Martins, Pedro S. - 2016

In most countries, the unemployed are entitled to unemployment benefits only if they have previously worked a minimum period of time. This institutional feature creates a sharp change at eligibility in the disutility from unemployment and may distort the duration of jobs. In this paper, we...

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Effort and comparison income : experimental and survey evidence

Clark, Andrew E. (contributor); Masclet, David (contributor) - 2006

This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort combining experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game with ISSP survey data. We find a consistent negative effect of others' incomes on individual effort in both datasets. The individual's rank in the income...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003333113

Lies and biased evaluation : a real-effort experiment

Rosaz, Julie; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2011

This paper presents the results of a laboratory experiment in which workers perform a real-effort task and supervisors report the workers' performance to the experimenter. The report is non verifiable and determines the earnings of both the supervisor and the worker. We find that not all the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009311502

Male and female competitive behavior : experimental evidence

Gupta, Nabanita Datta (contributor); … - 2005

Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a tournament and a piece-rate pay scheme before performing a real...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003280790

Exports, imports and wages : evidence from matched firm-worker-product panels

Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - 2009

The analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which are also typically treated as a composite good. However, we show in this paper that firm-level imports can actually be a wage determinant as important as exports. Furthermore,...

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Measuring what employers really do about entry wages over the business cycle

Martins, Pedro S.; Solon, Gary; Thomas, Jonathan P. - 2010

In models recently published by several influential macroeconomic theorists, rigidity in the real wages that firms pay newly hired workers plays a crucial role in generating realistically large cyclical fluctuations in unemployment. There is remarkably little evidence, however, on whether...

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Intermittent reinforcement and the persistence of behavior : experimental evidence

Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2010

Whereas economists have made extensive studies of the impact of levels of incentives on behavior, they have paid little attention to the effects of regularity and frequency of incentives. We contrasted three ways of rewarding participants in a real-effort experiment in which individuals had to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008780451

Competitive preferences and status as an incentive : experimental evidence

Charness, Gary; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2010

In this paper, we investigate individuals' investment in status in an environment where no monetary return can possibly be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort experiment in which we permit individuals to learn and potentially improve their status (rank). We...

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