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Benchmarking regions: Estimating the counterfactual distribution of labor market outcomes
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Furdas, Marina - 2012
This paper develops and implements a new benchmarking approach for labor market regions. Based on panel data for regions, we use nonparametric matching techniques to account for observed labor market characteristics and for spatial proximity. As the benchmark, we estimate the counterfactual...
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Lying and team incentives
Conrads, Julian; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Rilke, Rainer Michael; … - 2011
We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on … pronounced under team incentives than under individual piece-rates, which highlights a so far fairly neglected feature of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280688
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Curbing cream-skimming: evidence on enrolment incentives
Courty, Pascal; Kim, Do Han; Marschke, Gerald - 2008
Can enrolment incentives reduce the incidence of cream-skimming in the delivery of public sector services (e.g. education, health, job training)? In the context of a large government job training program, we investigate whether the use of enrolment incentives that set different 'shadow prices'...
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Understanding social interactions: Evidence from the classroom
De Giorgi, Giacomo; Pellizzari, Michele - 2011
There is a large literature on social interactions and still little is known about the economic mechanisms leading to the high level of clustering in behavior that is so commonly observed in the data. In this paper we present a model in which agents are allowed to interact according to three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278385
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Heterogeneous productivity in voluntary public good provision: An experimental analysis
Fellner, Gerlinde; Iida, Yoshio; Kröger, Sabine; Seki, … - 2011
This article experimentally examines voluntary contributions when group members' marginal returns to the public good vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about the heterogeneity to identify the applied contribution...
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The emergence of male leadership in competitive environments
Reuben, Ernesto; Rey-Biel, Pedro; Sapienza, Paola; … - 2010
We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as leaders than is suggested by their individual past performance....
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Can higher bonuses lead to less effort? Incentive reversal in teams
Klor, Esteban F.; Kube, Sebastian; Winter, Eyal; … - 2011
this paper, however, we demonstrate that this may not hold in team settings. In the context of sequential team production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278589
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Inequality, inequity aversion, and the provision of public goods
Kölle, Felix; Sliwka, Dirk; Zhou, Nannan - 2011
We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are inequity averse and may differ in ability. We show that equality may lead to a reduction of public good provision below levels generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing...
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Social comparison in the workplace: Evidence from a field experiment
Cohn, Alain; Fehr, Ernst; Herrmann, Benedikt; … - 2011
received the same performance - independent hourly wage. Cutting both team members' wages caused a substantial decrease in … performance. When only one team member's wage was cut, the performance decrease for the workers who received the cut was more than … other team member's wage level. In contrast, workers whose wage was not cut but who witnessed their team member's pay being …
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Incentives and cooperation in firms: Field evidence
Berger, Johannes; Herbertz, Claus; Sliwka, Dirk - 2011
importance of individual, team, and company performance for compensation, we find a significant positive relation between the … intensity of team incentives and several survey measures of cooperation. Moreover, higher powered team incentives are associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278772