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Other-Regarding Preferences and Performance Pay : An Experiment on Incentives and Sorting
Villeval, Marie-Claire; Eriksson, Tor - 2004
reciprocity and inequality aversion reduce the attraction of performance related pay. Other-regarding preferences influence both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261940
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Sabotage in tournaments: evidence from a laboratory experiment
Harbring, Christine; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2009
Although relative performance schemes are pervasive in organizations reliable empirical data on induced sabotage behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm one of the key insights from theory: effort and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268946
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Can Contracts Signal Social Norms? Experimental Evidence
Danilov, Anastasia; Sliwka, Dirk - 2013
mechanism's robustness is explored in further experiments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319469
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Can Contracts Signal Social Norms? Experimental Evidence
Danilov, Anastasia; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
mechanism's robustness is explored in further experiments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884174
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The Effect of Self-Awareness and Competition on Dishonesty
Çıbık, Ceren Bengü; Sgroi, Daniel - 2021
We provide the first investigation of the relationship between self-awareness and dis- honesty in a multi-wave pre-registered experiment with 1,260 subjects. In the first wave we vary the level of awareness of subjects' past dishonesty and explore the impact on behaviour in tasks that include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597402
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Incentives in Tournaments with Endogenous Prize Selection
Harbring, Christine; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2004
Tournament incentive schemes offer payments dependent on relative performance and thereby are intended to motivate agents to exert productive effort. Unfortunately, however, an agent may also be tempted to destroy the production of his competitors in order to improve the own relative position....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262080
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Do Co-Workers? Wages Matter? : Theory and Evidence on Wage Secrecy, Wage Compression and Effort
Charness, Gary; Kuhn, Peter - 2004
matters). Our laboratory experiments indicate that workers? effort choices are highly sensitive to their own wages, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262158
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Reciprocity and Payment Schemes: When Equality Is Unfair
Abeler, Johannes; Altmann, Steffen; Kube, Sebastian; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
A growing literature stresses the importance of reciprocity, especially for employment relations. In this paper, we … study the interaction of different payment modes with reciprocity. In particular, we analyze how equal wages affect … rather driven by the fact that reciprocity is violated far more frequently in the equal wage treatment. Agents suffering from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761926
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The Importance of Peers for Compliance with Norms of Fair Sharing
Gächter, Simon; Gerhards, Leonie; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2015
A burgeoning literature in economics has started examining the role of social norms in explaining economic behavior. Surprisingly, the vast majority of this literature has studied social norms in asocial decision settings, where individuals are observed to act in isolation from each other. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451190
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Money is more than memory
Bigoni, Maria; Camera, Gabriele; Casari, Marco - 2015
Impersonal exchange is the hallmark of an advanced society and money is one key institution that supports it. Economic theory regards money as a crude arrangement for monitoring counterparts' past conduct. If so, then a public record of past actions - memory - should supersede the function...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011714207