. We consider both a piece rate compensation scheme, where pay depends solely on own performance, and a team compensation … scheme, where pay also depends on the performance of other team members. Overall, we find some evidence that subjects who are … observed increase productivity at least initially when compensation is team based, while we find that subjects observing react …

This paper tests social identity theory with respect to individuals' self-identification behavior. We report results … from a laboratory experiment in which subjects choose their group membership, which is interpreted as decision to identify … with the predictions from social identity theory: Subjects have a higher valuation for identifying with groups with a …