This paper investigates the effects of managerial incentives on favoritism in promotion decisions. First, we … mitigated by pay-for-performance incentives for managers who decide upon promotion. Second, we analyze matched employer …

Conventional wisdom suggests that an increase in monetary incentives should induce agents to exert higher effort. In … with positive externalities between agents, incentive reversal might occur: an increase in monetary incentives (either …

We present evidence on social incentives in the workplace, namely on whether workers' behavior is affected by the … are paid piece rates based on individual productivity, social incentives can be quantified in monetary terms and are such … productivity by 10%. The distribution of worker ability is such that the net effect of social incentives on the firm's aggregate …

endogenized. We show that graduate taxes reduce work incentives but provide incentives to improve teaching quality. Yet if tax …

This paper studies the interplay between economic incentives and social norms in firms. We introduce a general … also show how social norms can induce multiplicity of equilibria and how steeper economic incentives can reduce effort …

There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in self …