rewards to performance increases effort, but that they can also backfire, reducing effort. Intrinsic motivation, the internal …. If the incentives crowd-out intrinsic motivation, and the effect is large enough, the net motivational effect on effort …, is one facet of intrinsic motivation, triggered by the combination of high-powered incentives and egoistic principal …

agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees …

We look at the effect of transparency on the incidence of costly back-scratching in a laboratory setting by … transparency. A plausible story that fits our results is that there may be two countervailing forces at play. First, more rapid … policy makers about the limits of transparency in curtailing "grey" types of corruption …

labor market information. The subsequent sections discuss complications regarding labor market transparency in the context … of international migration and public policy and policy implications regarding labor market transparency. A final section …

We study the relationship between outside options and workers' motivation to exert effort. We evaluate changes in …

). These results are consistent with models of conformism and self-motivation …

We are investigating the relationship between individual and job-related characteristics and the motivation of …,000 temporary agency workers, a subjective motivation appraisal is provided by the respective direct manager within the hiring … motivation of temporary agency workers. Women in temporary agency work demonstrate a higher degree of motivation than men …