financial incentives in attracting a larger and more qualified pool of applicants, (ii) the elasticity of the labor supply …

This paper investigates the impact of financial incentives on early retirement behaviour for high and low wage earners … wage earners are, as predicted by the model, more sensitive to financial incentives. This implies that low wage earners …

multiple tasks. We first analyze a formal model showing that incentives are lower powered when supervisors have no access to … span of control is larger and incentives are distorted towards more profitable tasks. We then investigate a field …

that show, in a very general setting, that the choice between work effort and leisure under given linear incentives depends …

crowding out due to low-powered incentives. High-powered incentives in the workplace tend to increase output, but it is unknown … also extends to high-powered incentives, in a real work setting with paid workers. There is individual heterogeneity …

We study, theoretically and empirically, the effects of incentives on the self-selection and coordination of motivated …). Agents differ in their motivation to exert social effort. Our model predicts that lowering incentives for selfish effort in … prediction in a lab experiment allowing us to cleanly separate the selection effect from other effects of low incentives. Results …

enterprise performance and survival. We argue that financial incentives can address this problem by redirecting employee … varying incentive levels, monetary rewards succeed in directing worker effort to commercial tasks; high-powered incentives … attract less prosocial employees, but low-powered incentives do not alter workforce composition. Social enterprises combining …