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Competing on the Holodeck: The Effect of Virtual Peers and Heterogeneity in Dynamic Tournaments
Graff, Frederik; Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine - 2018
tournament in VR, we are able to mitigate the reflection problem, which usually undermines research on dynamic interaction … output. We observe that the subjects' performance is highest in a homogeneous tournament, i.e., when they compete against an … peer effects rather than by tournament incentives. We extensively track the behavior of subjects and the particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984479
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Competing on the holodeck : the effect of virtual peers and heterogeneity in dynamic tournaments
Graff, Jan Frederik; Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine - 2018
tournament in VR, we are able to mitigate the reflection problem, which usually undermines research on dynamic interaction … output. We observe that the subjects' performance is highest in a homogeneous tournament, i.e., when they compete against an … peer effects rather than by tournament incentives. We extensively track the behavior of subjects and the particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946765
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Feedback and Incentives: Experimental Evidence
Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
-takes-all tournament. We find that, regardless of the pay scheme used, feedback does not improve performance. There are no significant peer … effects in the piece-rate pay scheme. In contrast, in the tournament scheme we find some evidence of positive peer effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703358
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Interdependency in Performance
Haraguchi, Kelii H. - 2007
We empirically model performance in the final round of a multiple-round tournament as a spatially autoregressive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776336
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Splitting Leagues
Kräkel, Matthias - University of Bonn, Germany - 2003
Splitting leagues or tournaments seems to be puzzling when agents are homogeneous and splitting leads to a negative competition effect. However, it can be shown that the principal can nevertheless benefit from splitting. First, splitting can be used as a divide-and-rule strategy by the principal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004968376
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?Atypical Work? and Compensation
Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher J. - 2005
Atypical work, or alternative work arrangements in U.S. parlance, has long been criticized for providing poorly-compensated employment. Although one group of atypical workers (contractors) seems to enjoy a wage premium, our cross-section results from the CPS and NLSY for the better-known...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262200
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Reward or Punishment? The Distribution of Life-Cycle Returns to Political Office
Dahlgaard, Jens Olav; Kristensen, Nicolai; Larsen, … - 2022
How political office is remunerated will affect who decides to engage in politics. Even if average returns to office are positive, as unilaterally found in the literature, some office holders' returns are likely zero or negative. The timing of returns to office are crucial too, as politicians...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351813
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How Late to Pay? Understanding Wage Arrears in Russia
Earle, John S.; Sabirianova, Klara Z. - 2002
We organize an empirical analysis of Russian wage arrears around hypotheses concerning factors that create incentives for firms to pay late and for workers to tolerate late payment, both reinforced by a prevalent environment of overdue wages. Our analysis draws upon nationally representative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763240
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Reward or punishment? : the distribution of life-cycle returns to political office
Dahlgaard, Jens Olav; Kristensen, Nicolai; Larsen, … - 2022
How political office is remunerated will affect who decides to engage in politics. Even if average returns to office are positive, as unilaterally found in the literature, some office holders' returns are likely zero or negative. The timing of returns to office are crucial too, as politicians...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191576
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'Atypical Work' and Compensation
Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher J. - 2021
Atypical work, or alternative work arrangements in U.S. parlance, has long been criticized for providing poorly-compensated employment. Although one group of atypical workers (contractors) seems to enjoy a wage premium, our cross-section results from the CPS and NLSY for the better-known...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318743