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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...

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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...

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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...

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How far and for how much? : Evidence on wages and potential travel-to-work distances from a survey of the economically inactive

Latreille, Paul L.; Blackaby, David; Murphy, Philip D.; … - 2006

The U.K. government has recently committed itself to an ambitious 80 per cent employment rate target. Recognising that achieving this aspiration will require significant numbers of the economically inactive to (re-)engage with the labour market, the government has enacted various policy reforms...

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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...

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An analysis of reservation wages for the economically inactive

Blackaby, David; Latreille, Paul L.; Murphy, Philip D.; … - 2006

This paper uses unique data for the economically inactive to calculate elasticity estimates of the reservation wage and exit probability with respect to state benefits and the arrival rate of job offers, and finds that the inactive react in similar ways to benefit increases as the unemployed. --...

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Disability and skill mismatch

Jones, Melanie K.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2009

This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). It finds that the disabled are significantly more likely to be mismatched in the labour market, to suffer from a pay penalty and to have lower job...

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Job mismatches and labour market outcomes : panel evidence on australian university graduates

Mavromaras, Kostas G.; McGuinness, Séamus; O'Leary, Nigel - 2010

. This paper uses annual panel information on both educational and skills mismatches uniquely found in the HILDA survey to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779138

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...

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