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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...

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Institutions and contract enforcement

Falk, Armin (contributor); Huffman, David (contributor); … - 2008

; experiment …

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Performance pay, group selection and group performance

Königstein, Manfred (contributor); … - 2007

Within a laboratory experiment we investigate a principal-agent game in which agents may, first, self-select into a …

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Feedback and incentives : experimental evidence

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

pay ; tournament ; piece rate ; peer effects ; information ; feedback ; evaluation ; experiment …

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Performance appraisals and the impact of forced distribution : an experimental investigation

Berger, Johannes; Harbring, Christine; Sliwka, Dirk - 2010

A real effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in … distribution ; motivation ; experiment …

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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 …

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Can higher bonuses lead to less effort? : incentive reversal in teams

Klor, Esteban F.; Kube, Sebastian; Winter, Eyal; … - 2011

Conventional wisdom suggests that an increase in monetary incentives should induce agents to exert higher effort. In this paper, however, we demonstrate that this may not hold in team settings. In the context of sequential team production with positive externalities between agents, incentive...

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Pro-social missions and worker motivation : an experimental study

Fehrler, Sebastian; Kosfeld, Michael - 2012

Do employees work harder if their job has the right mission? In a laboratory labor market experiment, we test whether … effort than in a control treatment. Surprised by this finding, we run a second experiment in which subjects can choose …. -- motivation ; effort provision ; contract choice ; sorting ; lab experiment …

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First-place loving and last-place loathing : how rank in the distribution of performance affects effort provision

Gill, David; Kissová, Zdenka; Lee, Jaesun; Prowse, … - 2015

receive feedback about their rank. Using a real-effort experiment, we aim to discover whether workers respond to the specific …

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The complementary use of experiments and field data to evaluate management practices : the case of subjective performance evaluations

Kampkötter, Patrick; Sliwka, Dirk - 2015

Most firms rely on subjective evaluations by supervisors to assess their employees' performance. This article discusses the implementation of such appraisal processes, exploring the use of multiple research methods such as the analysis of personnel records, survey data, and lab and field...

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