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Norm Enforcement in Social Dilemmas : An Experiment with Police Commissioners
Dickinson, David L. - 2014
Do individuals trained in law enforcement punish or reward differently from typical student subjects? We analyze norm enforcement behavior of newly appointed police commissioners in both a Voluntary Contribution Mechanism game and a Common Pool Resource game. Our experimental design includes...
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The Focusing and Informational Effects of Norms on Pro-Social Behavior
Krupka, Erin L.; Weber, Roberto A. - 2021
This paper reports an experiment examining the effect of social norms on pro-social behavior. We test two predictions derived from work in psychology regarding the influence of norms. The first is a 'focusing' influence, whereby norms only impact behavior when an individual's attention is drawn...
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Reciprocity and Incentive Pay in the Workplace
Dur, Robert - 2010
We study optimal incentive contracts for workers who are reciprocal to management attention. When neither worker's effort nor manager's attention can be contracted, a double moral-hazard problem arises, implying that reciprocal workers should be given weak financial incentives. In a...
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Pro-Social Missions and Worker Motivation : An Experimental Study
Fehrler, Sebastian - 2012
Do employees work harder if their job has the right mission? In a laboratory labor market experiment, we test whether subjects provide higher effort if they can choose the mission of their job. We observe that subjects do not provide higher effort than in a control treatment. Surprised by this...
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Social Comparison in the Workplace : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Cohn, Alain - 2011
We conducted a randomized field experiment to examine how workers respond to wage cuts, and whether their response depends on the wages paid to coworkers. Workers were assigned to teams of two, performed identical individual tasks, and received the same performance – independent hourly wage....
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Social Incentives in the Workplace
Bandiera, Oriana - 2011
We present evidence on social incentives in the workplace, namely on whether workers' behavior is affected by the …
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The Effect of Comprehensive Smoking Bans in European Workplaces
Origo, Federica - 2010
of smoking regulation on health, particularly within the workplace, is still very limited. In this paper, we use a Diff …
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Recessions Are Bad for Workplace Safety
Boone, Jan - 2011
Workplace accidents are an important economic phenomenon. Yet, the pro-cyclical fluctuations in workplace accidents are … not well understood. They could be related to fluctuations in effort and working hours, but workplace accidents may also … be affected by reporting behavior. Our paper uses unique data on workplace accidents from an Austrian matched worker …
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Cheating in the Workplace : An Experimental Study of the Impact of Bonuses and Productivity
Gill, David - 2012
workplace cheating. Firms often use bonus-based compensation plans, such as group bonuses and firm-wide profit sharing, that …
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Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of West German Wage Inequality
Card, David - 2013
We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments are fit in four sub-intervals spanning the period from 1985 to 2009. We show that these models provide a good...
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