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Lecture on the first SFB/TR 15 meeting, Gummersbach, July, 18 - 20, 2004The existing literature on the comparison of tournaments and piece rates as alternative incentive schemes has focused on the case of unlimited liability. However, in practice real workers’ wealth is typically...
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We discuss two incentive schemes that are frequently used in practice¡Xtournaments and piece rates. The existing literature on the comparison of these two incentive schemes has focused on the case of unlimited liability. However, real workers' wealth is typically restricted. Therefore, this...
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This paper examines incentives and gaming behavior in a sales workforce using personnel records from one of Japan …
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This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first …
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individual prizes that satisfy a self-commitment condition and induce effcient incentives at the same time, thus solving a … rents and the adjustment of individual incentives, which will be important for the employer if he cannot rely on handicaps. …
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Several empirical findings have challenged the traditional trade-off between risk and incentives. By combining risk … risk and incentives can be explained. …
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everal empirical findings have challenged the traditional trade-off between risk and incentives. By combining risk … risk and incentives can be explained. …
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the performances of co-workers. Assuming heterogeneity among the workers the interplay of emotions and incentives is … identify certain conditions under which emotions lead to additional incentives and under which the employer benefits from …
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the performances of co-workers. Assuming heterogeneity among the workers the interplay of emotions and incentives is … identify certain conditions under which emotions lead to additional incentives and under which the employer benefits from …
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their own performances with those of co-workers. I analyze the interplay of emotions and incentives by focusing on a certain … emotions lead to additional incentives and under which the employer benefits from emotional workers, and I sketch the impact of … risk aversion on the interplay of emotions and incentives, and the influence of a worker’s success probability on the …
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