Economic theory suggests that performance pay may serve as an effective screening device to attract productive agents …. The existing evidence on the self-selection of agents is largely limited to job tasks where performance is driven by …

Economic theory suggests that performance pay may serve as an effective screening device to attract productive agents …. The existing evidence on the self-selection of agents is largely limited to job tasks where performance is driven by …

recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample … subsequent performance substantially, and particularly so when recognition is exclusively provided to the best performers …. Remarkably, workers who did not receive recognition are mainly responsible for this performance increase. This result is …

recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample … subsequent performance substantially, and particularly so when recognition is exclusively provided to the best performers …. Remarkably, workers who did not receive recognition are mainly responsible for this performance increase. This result is …

unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task … recognition increases subsequent performance substantially, and particularly so when recognition is exclusively provided to the … best performers. Remarkably, workers who did not receive recognition are mainly responsible for this performance increase …