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composition. We present evidence from a field experiment designed to evaluate the impact of rank incentives and tournaments on the … productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … incentives only reduce the productivity of teams at the bottom of the productivity distribution, and monetary prize tournaments …
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composition. We present evidence from a field experiment designed to evaluate the impact of rank incentives and tournaments on the … productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … incentives only reduce the productivity of teams at the bottom of the productivity distribution, and monetary prize tournaments …
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of workers faced with progressive taxation under tournaments and piece rates. Because of the difficulty identifying any …
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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 routine, well-defined procedures. This study presents...
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This study investigates whether excess effort to climb a career ladder justifies policy interventions. The answer depends on whether the government is able to levy a higher tax burden on career workers than on non-career workers. Both a tax on top income aimed at lowering the rewards of...
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Using panel data for all of China's public listed firms over the period 2001-2010 we examine how firms have recruited and rewarded their executives over a decade of huge growth and turbulence. CEO pay is sensitive to firm performance, although the elasticities are lower than for the United...
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empirically test this prediction using a large dataset from the German Hockey League. Our results show that indeed the intensity …
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through either tournaments or team-based incentives. Participants engaged in a subsequent trust game in which the sender had …
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recruitment is observable on nearly any hierarchy level. We explain these empirical puzzles by combining job-promotion tournaments …
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