on incentives and incomplete contracts (beginning with many contributions also from the 1950s) leads to a more nuanced … expectation. Specifically, an examination of the incentives faced by schools, parents, and students leads to predictions that are …

simple; in the other treatment it is highly complex. The payoff-maximizing effort level and the incentives around this … to ignore larger changes in incentives. Our results suggest that the effect of a newly introduced tax will be attenuated …

divisions to replace high incentive pay to the division heads by incentives based on private benefits of control. In that …

resource management and personnel economics and may also contribute to the debate about incentives and organizational …

We develop a new approach to quantify how patients respond to dynamic incentives in health insurance contracts with a … large Dutch health insurer we find that individuals are forward-looking. Changing dynamic incentives by increasing the … annual level. The response to dynamic incentives is an important part of the overall effect of cost-sharing schemes on …

to compute pension benefits. This provides dynamic incentives to report higher earnings in the final years of the career …. In this paper, we document the responses of self-employed and employed workers to these incentives, using social security …

that increase the incentives of relatively more able workers, heterogeneity is unlikely to be as detrimental as commonly … perceived for incentives in organizations with multiple hierarchy levels. Heterogeneity of the workforce may even be optimal … from the perspective of a firm that provides incentives using a multi-stage promotion contest …

Empirical studies of the principal-agent relationship find that extrinsic incentives work in many instances, linking … drive to work to master a skill or to improve one's self image, is thought to be the key to whether incentives work or not …. If the incentives crowd-out intrinsic motivation, and the effect is large enough, the net motivational effect on effort …

incentives offered by staffing agencies to hire individuals with one non-violent felony conviction. These incentives include: a …