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Incentives to Identify : A Comment
Antman, Francisca - 2019
Antman and Duncan (2014, 2015) document how racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. The main contribution of our work was to show that racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. A coding error was recently brought to our attention that resulted in 0.55% of...
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High-Powered Performance Pay and Crowding Out of Non-Monetary Motives
Huffman, David - 2018
A previous literature cautions that paying workers for performance might crowd out non-monetary motives to work hard. Empirical evidence from the field, however, has been based on between-subjects designs that are best suited for detecting crowding out due to low-powered incentives. High-powered...
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Differentiation and Performance : An Empirical Investigation on the Incentive Effects of Bonus Plans
Kampkötter, Patrick - 2011
It is often claimed that supervisors do not differentiate enough between high and low performing employees when evaluating performance. The purpose of this paper is to study the incentive effects of this behavior empirically. We first show in a simple model that the perceived degree of past...
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Exploitation Aversion : When Financial Incentives Fail to Motivate Agents
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2013
Empirical studies of the principal-agent relationship find that extrinsic incentives work in many instances, linking rewards to performance increases effort, but that they can also backfire, reducing effort. Intrinsic motivation, the internal drive to work to master a skill or to improve one's...
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Relative Performance Pay, Bonuses, and Job-Promotion Tournaments
Kräkel, Matthias; Schöttner, Anja - 2021
Several empirical studies have challenged tournament theory by pointing out that (1) there is considerable pay …
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Performance Pay, Sorting, and Outsourcing
Henneberger, Fred - 2009
Implementing performance pay requires that workers' output be measured. When measurement costs differ among firms, those with a measurement cost advantage choose to implement performance pay. They attract the best workers, and both the level and variability of compensation are higher at these...
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Team Incentives, Social Cohesion, and Performance : A Natural Field Experiment
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2020
, team social cohesion, and team performance. Theory predicts that the effect of team incentives on team performance … from zero. In line with theory, the estimated treatment effect increases with social cohesion as measured before the …
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The Timing of Discretionary Bonuses : Effort, Signals, and Reciprocity
Boosey, Luke - 2018
In a real-effort experiment, we investigate how the timing of discretionary bonuses affects the relationship between workers and managers. Average output is substantially higher if bonuses are paid in the middle rather than upfront or at the end, as workers increase first-period output to signal...
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Psychological Incentives, Financial Incentives, and Risk Attitudes in Tournaments : An Artefactual Field Experiment
Cadsby, Charles Bram - 2015
comparison group in China, we examine how both psychological and financial incentives, together with attitudes toward risk, may … in attitudes toward risk. Indeed, for both groups financial and psychological incentive effects are both inversely … related to individual levels of risk aversion, and are positive and significant both for workers and for students who are …
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Relative Rewards within Team-Based Compensation
Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2006
How to design compensation schemes to motivate team members appears to be one of the most challenging problems in the economic analysis of labour provision. We shed light on this issue by experimentally investigating team-based compensations with and without bonuses awarded to the highest...
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