. The existing evidence on the self-selection of agents is largely limited to job tasks where performance is driven by … tournament-based scheme vs. a fixed pay scheme. The experiment allows for the measurement of creative productivity, risk … productivity, but only according to their risk attitudes and self-assessments. The reason for the absence of a selection of the …

experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that … the provision of incentives and their sorting effect. … the selection and incentive effects of pay schemes are so far thin on the ground. In addition, these effects may be …

to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …When exogenously imposed, rank-order tournaments have incentive properties but their overall efficiency is reduced by a … is attributable both to its incentive effect and to its selection effect among employees (Lazear, 2000), it is important …

experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that … the provision of incentives and their sorting effect. … the selection and incentive effects of pay schemes are so far thin on the ground. In addition, these effects may be …

to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …When exogenously imposed, rank-order tournaments have incentive properties but their overall efficiency is reduced by a … is attributable both to its incentive effect and to its selection effect among employees (Lazear, 2000), it is important …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first … overconfidence affect worker self-selection, in particular into tournaments. Fourth, risk averse workers prefer fixed payments and …) compared to the fixed payment scheme. Second, this difference is largely driven by productivity sorting. On average, the more …

We demonstrate that effectiveness of performance-contingent incentives is inversely related to individual risk …

experiment reproduces this model in the laboratory by means of various treatments in which we alter the variance of the …

experiment reproduces this model in the laboratory by means of various treatments in which we alter the variance of the …