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How a mandatory activation program reduces unemployment durations: the effects of distance

Krogh Graversen, Brian; van Ours, Jan C. - 2009

In an experimental setting some Danish unemployed workers were assigned to an activation program while others were not. Unemployed who were assigned to the activation program found a job more quickly. We show that the activation effect increases with the distance between the place of residence...

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How financial incentives induce disability insurance recipients to return to work

Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - 2012

Disability Insurance (DI) programs have long been criticized by economists for apparent work disincentives. Some countries have recently modified their programs such that DI recipients are allowed to keep some of their benefits if they return to work, and other countries are considering similar...

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Deception and incentives: how dishonesty undermines effort provision

Ederer, Florian; Fehr, Ernst - 2007

In this paper we show that subtle forms of deceit undermine the effectiveness of incentives. We design an experiment in which the principal has an interest in underreporting the true performance difference between the agents in a dynamic tournament. According to the standard approach, rational...

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Performance appraisals and the impact of forced distribution: An experimental investigation

Berger, Johannes; Harbring, Christine; Sliwka, Dirk - 2010

A real effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in turn receive a bonus payment based on these ratings. We compare a baseline treatment in which supervisors were not restricted in their rating behavior to a forced distribution...

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Quitting and peer effects at work

Rosaz, Julie; Slonim, Robert; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2012

While peer effects have been shown to affect worker's productivity when workers are paid a fixed wage, there is little evidence on their influence on quitting decisions. This paper presents results from an experiment in which participants receive a piece-rate wage to perform a real-effort task....

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Strategic ignorance in bargaining

Conrads, Julian; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2011

In his classic article An Essay on Bargaining Schelling (1956) argues that ignorance might actually be strength rather than weakness. We test and confirm Schelling's conjecture in a simple take-it-or-leave bargaining experiment where the proposer can choose between two possible offers. Option A...

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Search, effort, and locus of control

McGee, Andrew; McGee, Peter - 2011

affecting beliefs about the efficacy of search effort in a laboratory experiment. We find that reservation offers and effort are … the generation of offers but are unrelated to locus of control beliefs when subjects are informed about the relationship … conclude that locus of control influences search through beliefs about the efficacy of search effort. Our findings provide …

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The lure of authority: Motivation and incentive effects of power

Fehr, Ernst; Herz, Holger; Wilkening, Tom - 2012

Authority and power permeate political, social, and economic life, but empirical knowledge about the motivational origins and consequences of authority is limited. We study the motivation and incentive effects of authority experimentally in an authority-delegation game. Individuals often retain...

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Information and beliefs in a repeated normal-form game

Fehr, Dietmar; Kübler, Dorothea; Danz, David - 2008

We study beliefs and choices in a repeated normal-form game. In addition to a baseline treatment with common knowledge … beliefs as well as for the accuracy of their beliefs (relative to the opponent's true choice). In the baseline treatment we … observe more sophisticated play as well as more accurate beliefs and more best responses to beliefs over time. We isolate …

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Strategic sophistication of individuals and teams in experimental normal-form games

Sutter, Matthias; Czermak, Simon; Feri, Francesco - 2010

. Besides making choices, decision makers have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that teams play the Nash … strategy significantly more often, and their choices are more often consistent by being a best reply to first order beliefs. We …

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