This paper investigates the impact of wage dispersion on firm productivity in different working environments. More …-shaped relationship between (conditional) wage dispersion and firm productivity. This result suggests that up to (beyond) a certain level …

. Compared to individual incentives, team incentives can affect productivity by changing both workers' effort and team … productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … average productivity by 14%, whereas introducing a tournament increases it by 24%. Both effects are heterogeneous: rank …

results provide evidence that for institutions where employee retention and productivity are a priority, maximizing or … offering dependent college tuition waiver may be a relatively low-cost benefit to increase intended retention and productivity … predictors of intended increased productivity and intent to stay employed at the current institution. Employee retention and …

preferences of our field participants and their productivity at work. We also find that the stock of social preferences evolves …

step we elicit subjects' productivity levels. Subjects then face the choice between a fixed or a variable payment scheme …) compared to the fixed payment scheme. Second, this difference is largely driven by productivity sorting. On average, the more …