We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on … pronounced under team incentives than under individual piece-rates, which highlights a so far fairly neglected feature of these …

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 reversal might occur: an increase in monetary incentives (either …

(SOPs) and Team Incentive Plans (TIPs). In do doing, we assemble important new panel data by merging data from a survey of …

of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all …'s behavior. Our finding contributes to the micro-foundation of psychological effects of incentives …

tournament. Lastly, despite the substantial variation in team size, we find no evidence for free-riding …

work individually without monetary incentives and are then assigned to teams of two where compensation is based on team …Optimal team composition has been the focus of exhaustive analysis, academic and otherwise. Yet, much of this analysis … has ignored possible dynamic effects: e.g., anticipating that team formation is based on prior performance will affect …

, team social cohesion, and team performance. Theory predicts that the effect of team incentives on team performance …We conduct a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain of 122 stores to study the interaction between team incentives … increases with the team's social cohesion, because social cohesion reduces free-riding behavior. In addition, team incentives …

We present evidence on social incentives in the workplace, namely on whether workers' behavior is affected by the … are paid piece rates based on individual productivity, social incentives can be quantified in monetary terms and are such … productivity by 10%. The distribution of worker ability is such that the net effect of social incentives on the firm's aggregate …

endogenized. We show that graduate taxes reduce work incentives but provide incentives to improve teaching quality. Yet if tax …