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Who benefits from benefits? Empirical research on tangible incentives
Hammermann, Andrea; Mohnen, Alwine - 2012
employers' concern for their employees and recognition of their performance. …
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Can higher bonuses lead to less effort? Incentive reversal in teams
Klor, Esteban F.; Kube, Sebastian; Winter, Eyal; … - 2011
Conventional wisdom suggests that an increase in monetary incentives should induce agents to exert higher effort. In this paper, however, we demonstrate that this may not hold in team settings. In the context of sequential team production with positive externalities between agents, incentive...
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Pro-social missions and worker motivation: An experimental study
Fehrler, Sebastian; Kosfeld, Michael - 2012
Do employees work harder if their job has the right mission? In a laboratory labor market experiment, we test whether subjects provide higher effort if they can choose the mission of their job. We observe that subjects do not provide higher effort than in a control treatment. Surprised by this...
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Workplace democracy in the lab
Mellizo, Philip; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2011
the naturally occurring data. We report evidence from a real-effort experiment confirming that worker performance is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285521
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Socially Useless Jobs
Dur, Robert; van Lent, Max - 2018
It has been claimed that many workers in modern economies think that their job is socially useless, i.e. that it makes no or a negative contribution to society. However, the evidence so far is mainly anecdotal. We use a representative dataset comprising 100,000 workers from 47 countries at four...
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Who Benefits from Benefits? Empirical Research on Tangible Incentives
Hammermann, Andrea; Mohnen, Alwine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
employers' concern for their employees and recognition of their performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646296
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Women and competition in elimination tournaments: evidence from professional tennis data
Lallemand, Thierry; Plasman, Robert; Rycx, François - 2005
games and underdogs to be less performing. They also show that the performance differential between players increases with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267652
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Run for fun: Intrinsic motivation and physical performance
Filippin, Antonio; van Ours, Jan C. - 2012
teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also … performance goes down with age, although the speed-age gradient is rather flat. Group performance goes down with age as well, but … interestingly a counterbalancing force emerges, namely team dynamics that are driven by performance of runners who enter and leave. …
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Incentives in the public sector: Evidence from a government agency
Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Ratto, Marisa; Tominey, Emma - 2012
This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency's performance management system and personnel … records plus matched labour market data. We focus on three main issues: whether performance pay matters for public service …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287691
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Autonomous Schools and Strategic Pupil Exclusion
Machin, Stephen; Sandi, Matteo - 2018
This paper studies whether pupil performance gains in autonomous schools in England can be attributed to the strategic … reflects the rigorous discipline enforced by the pre-2010 academies. …
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