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enterprise performance and survival. We argue that financial incentives can address this problem by redirecting employee … attention to commercial tasks and attracting workers less inclined to fixate on social tasks. In an online experiment with … varying incentive levels, monetary rewards succeed in directing worker effort to commercial tasks; high-powered incentives …
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In teamwork settings, providing effective leadership can be challenging for team leaders due to multitasking and the …, which can ultimately impede the productivity of the team. To address this problem, we conduct a field experiment at a …
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We conducted a field experiment to identify the causal effects of extrinsic incentive cues on the sorting and … performance of nascent social entrepreneurs. The experiment, carried out with one of the United Kingdom's largest support agencies … randomly assigned to one of three groups: one group received a standard mailing that emphasized the intrinsic incentives of the …
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and financial incentives affect productivity in tasks that require coordination among workers. We simulate assembly line … production in a lab-in-the-field experiment in which workers exert real effort in a minimum-effort game in teams whose members … the findings of existing research, increasing the power of group-based financial incentives does not reduce the positive …
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and financial incentives affect productivity in tasks that require coordination among workers. We simulate assembly line … production in a lab-in-the-field experiment in which workers exert real effort in a minimum-effort game in teams whose members … the findings of existing research, increasing the power of group-based financial incentives does not reduce the positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011859500
We measure the response of physicians to monetary incentives using matched administrative and time-use data on … these data to a multitasking model of physician labour supply, measuring two distinct responses. The first is the labour … services. Our results confirm that physicians respond to incentives in predictable ways. The own-price substitution effects of …
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This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at … and managers shape the response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. …
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We study the design of provider incentives in the post-acute care setting - a high-stakes but under-studied segment of … threshold, with the marginal discharged patient in relatively better health. Despite the large financial incentives and … in LTCH profits has potential out-of-sample consequences. Our results highlight how improved financial incentives may be …
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Whether monetary incentives to change behavior work and how they should be structured are fundamental economic … questions. We overcome typical data limitations in a large-scale field experiment on vaccination (N = 5, 324) with a unique combi …-nation of administrative and survey data. We find that guaranteed incentives of $20 increase uptake by 13 percentage points in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015074579
Whether monetary incentives to change behavior work and how they should be structured are fundamental economic … questions. We overcome typical data limitations in a large-scale field experiment on vaccination (N = 5, 324) with a unique … combination of administrative and survey data. We find that guaranteed incentives of $20 increase uptake by 13 percentage points …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015075054