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Peer pressure, incentives, and gender: an experimental analysis of motivation in the workplace
Bellemare, Charles; Lepage, Patrick; Shearer, Bruce S. - 2009
We present results from a real-effort experiment, simulating actual work-place conditions, comparing the productivity of workers under fixed wages and piece rates. Workers, who were paid to enter data, were exposed to different degrees of peer pressure under both payment systems. The peer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276697
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Measuring Ratchet Effects within a Firm: Evidence from a Field Experiment Varying Contractual Commitment
Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce S. - 2014
We present results from a field experiment designed to measure the importance of managerial commitment to a contract within a firm that pays its workers piece rates. In the tree planting industry the piece rate paid to workers is determined as a function of the difficulty of the terrain to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377306
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Peer Pressure, Incentives, and Gender: An Experimental Analysis of Motivation in the Workplace
Bellemare, Charles; Lepage, Patrick; Shearer, Bruce S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We present results from a real-effort experiment, simulating actual work-place conditions, comparing the productivity of workers under fixed wages and piece rates. Workers, who were paid to enter data, were exposed to different degrees of peer pressure under both payment systems. The peer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011910
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Measuring Ratchet Effects within a Firm: Evidence from a Field Experiment Varying Contractual Commitment
Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We present results from a field experiment designed to measure the importance of managerial commitment to a contract within a firm that pays its workers piece rates. In the tree planting industry the piece rate paid to workers is determined as a function of the difficulty of the terrain to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010779438
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Team incentives: Evidence from a firm level experiment
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - 2012
composition. We present evidence from a field experiment designed to evaluate the impact of rank incentives and tournaments on the … productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … incentives only reduce the productivity of teams at the bottom of the productivity distribution, and monetary prize tournaments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282519
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Team Incentives: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
composition. We present evidence from a field experiment designed to evaluate the impact of rank incentives and tournaments on the … productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … incentives only reduce the productivity of teams at the bottom of the productivity distribution, and monetary prize tournaments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422064
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Incentives for managers and inequality among workers: evidence from a firm level experiment
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - 2006
We present evidence from a firm level experiment in which we engineered an exogenous change in managerial compensation from fixed wages to performance pay based on the average productivity of lower-tier workers. Theory suggests that managerial incentives affect both the mean and dispersion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267490
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Sorting, incentives and risk preferences: evidence from a field experiment
Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce S. - 2006
The, often observed, positive correlation between incentive intensity and risk has been explained in two ways: the presence of transaction costs as determinants of contracts and the sorting of risk-tolerant individuals into firms using high-intensity incentive contracts. The empirical importance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267864
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Social connections and incentives in the workplace: evidence from personnel data
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - 2008
We present evidence on the effect of social connections between workers and managers on productivity in the workplace. To evaluate whether the existence of social connections is beneficial to the firm's overall performance, we explore how the effects of social connections vary with the strength...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269058
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On the relevance and composition of gifts within the firm: evidence from field experiments
Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce S. - 2009
We investigate the economic relevance and the composition of gifts within a firm where output is contractible. We develop a structural econometric model that identifies workers' optimal reaction to monetary gifts received from their employer. We estimate the model using data from two separate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276706