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Competition and Educational Productivity : Incentives Writ Large
MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2012
to higher school productivity. We discuss the evidence in this area, concluding that the impact of competition has proven … market design might be necessary to ensure that competition enhances educational performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096438
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Lotteries vs. All-Pay Auctions in Fair and Biased Contests
Epstein, Gil S. - 2012
The form of contests for a single fixed prize can be determined by a designer who maximizes the contestants' efforts. This paper establishes that, under common knowledge of the two asymmetric contestants' prize valuations, a fair Tullock-type endogenously determined lottery is always superior to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096475
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Market Design for Altruistic Supply : Evidence from the Lab
Slonim, Robert - 2016
supply is altruistically provided. The mechanism, a registry, combines aggregate demand information with supplier …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001311
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Treating Equals Unequally : Incentives in Teams, Workers' Motivation and Production Technology
Goerg, Sebastian J. - 2015
The importance of fair and equal treatment of workers is at the heart of the debate in organizational management. In this regard, we study how reward mechanisms and production technologies affect effort provision in teams. Our experimental results demonstrate that unequal rewards can potentially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012749898
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Give Me Your Wired and Your Highly Skilled : Measuring the Impact of Immigration Policy on Employers and Shareholders
Lin, Carl - 2013
The paper links finance theory to labor economics and political economy in the context of migration and immigration policy. Most research treating the impact of immigration has focused on the consequences for employees as measured by wages, earnings, and employment. Less is known about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092819
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Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition : An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank
Madiès, Thierry - 2012
We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104678
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Gender and Competition
Booth, Alison L. - 2009
In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different returns and focus especially on those incorporating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158043
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Tournaments and Office Politics : Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2007
experiment in which effort, quality adjusted output and office politics are compared under piece rates and tournaments. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776121
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Competition, Hidden Information and Efficiency : An Experiment
Cabrales, Antonio - 2006
We devise an experiment to explore the effect of different degrees of competition on optimal contracts in a hidden-information … principals. We first show theoretically how these different degrees of competition affect outcomes and efficiency. Informational … relative number of agents because competition reduces the agents' informational monopoly power. However, this environment also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779356
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Competitive Preferences and Ethnicity : Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
Siddique, Abu - 2017
conducted a lab-in-the-field experiment in rural Bangladesh recruiting males from the ethnic majority (Bengali) and an … in preference for interethnic competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959035