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 …

work of the team. We find a positive and significant effect of female leadership on team performance. This effect is driven …. Students were randomly matched in teams of three and in each team we randomly chose a leader with the task of coordinating the … by the higher performance of team members in female led teams rather than due to an improvement in the leader …

, and increased communication with co-workers. Being involved in team work and job rotations as well as supporting human …

this paper, however, we demonstrate that this may not hold in team settings. In the context of sequential team production …

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 …