We test the effectiveness of team incentives by running a natural field experiment in a retail chain of 193 shops and 1 … performance and relies on flexible task allocation among employees. On average, the team bonus increases sales and customer visits …

importance of individual, team, and company performance for compensation, we find a significant positive relation between the … intensity of team incentives and several survey measures of cooperation. Moreover, higher powered team incentives are associated …

negative effect if they are substitutes. The theory is tested using panel data on the performance of baseball players from 1970 … performance of his peers, but decreases with the quality of the team's pitching. Furthermore, a pitcher's performance increases … with the pitching quality of his teammates, but is unaffected by the batting output of the team. These results are …

Collective rationality is seldom if ever rejected in the literature, raising doubt about its falsifiability. We show …, collective rationality within monogamous households is not rejected. Using our proposed test procedure, collective rationality is … however rejected for monogamous households. Furthermore, our test also rejects collective rationality for bigamous households …

statutory minimum wage introduction in Germany in January 2015. A semi-structural estimation approach is employed based on a …