Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first …) compared to the fixed payment scheme. Second, this difference is largely driven by productivity sorting. On average, the more … of multi-dimensional sorting, i.e., the tendency for different incentive schemes to systematically attract people with …