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Social comparison and performance : experimental evidence on the fair wage-effort hypothesis
Gächter, Simon; Thöni, Christian - 2010
We investigate the impact of wage comparisons for worker productivity. We present three studies which all use three-person gift-exchange experiments. Consistent with Akerlof and Yellen's (1990) fair wage-effort hypothesis we find that disadvantageous wage discrimination leads to lower efforts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003934053
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Competitive preferences and status as an incentive : experimental evidence
Charness, Gary; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2010
be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort experiment in which we permit individuals to … ; experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003985726
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Combining "real effort" with induced effort costs : the ball-catching task
Gächter, Simon; Huang, Lingbo; Sefton, Martin - 2015
an experiment with piece-rate incentives we find that the comparative static and the point predictions on effort …
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Helping under a combination of team and tournament incentives
Danilov, Anastasia; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Harbring, Christine - 2019
the theoretical benchmark with behavior observed in a one-shot experiment. …
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Sabotage in tournaments : evidence from a laboratory experiment
Harbring, Christine; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2009
behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm … ; relative performance scheme ; experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003859419
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Communication and trust in principal-team relationships : experimental evidence
Kleine, Marco; Kube, Sebastian - 2015
-assessments can be detrimental to workers' performance. In the controlled environment of a laboratory gift-exchange experiment, our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467800
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Gender differences in interpersonal and intrapersonal competitive behavior
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Frank, Rachel; Huet-Vaughn, Emiliano - 2017
themselves? In a laboratory experiment in which some subjects compete against others and some compete against themselves, we find …
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Exploitation aversion : when financial incentives fail to motivate agents
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Dolifka, David - 2013
intent, that can cause incentives to fail. Using an experiment that provides the material circumstances necessary for …
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Ceding control : an experimental analysis of participatory management
Mellizo, Philip; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2017
We use an experiment to evaluate the effects of participatory management on firm performance. Participants are randomly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613160
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Incentives, self-selection, and coordination of motivated agents for the production of social goods
Bauer, Kevin; Kosfeld, Michael; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2021
prediction in a lab experiment allowing us to cleanly separate the selection effect from other effects of low incentives. Results …
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