This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on … employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through … off. Moreover, in both pay schemes information feedback reduces the quality of the low performers' work. …

prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities …

This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on … employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through … off. Moreover, in both pay schemes information feedback reduces the quality of the low performers’ work. …

We conducted a randomized field experiment to examine how workers respond to wage cuts, and whether their response …

predicts both errors to be equally detrimental to performance, this prediction fails with a lab experiment. In fact, failing to …

-laboratory labor market experiment. We recruited participants to enter survey data for a well-known charitable organization. Workers …

the naturally occurring data. We report evidence from a real-effort experiment confirming that worker performance is …