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Competition and fatigue at work
Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2018
work, agents usually make their effort choice in response to competition and monetary incentives. At the same time, they … also allow for variations in incentives in one work period, in order to analyze spillover effects to the work periods … experimental data. A short-term increase in incentives in one period should lead to higher effort in that period, and, due to …
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Measuring the sorting and incentive effects of tournament prizes
Davies, Tim; Stoian, Adrian - In: The American economist : journal of Omnicron Delta … 59 (2014) 2, pp. 153-166
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283966
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Use and abuse of authority : a behavioral foundation of the employment relation
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2012
Employment contracts give a principal the authority to decide flexibly which task his agent should execute. However, there is a tradeoff, first pointed out by Simon (1951), between flexibility and employer moral hazard. An employment contract allows the principal to adjust the task quickly to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009743908
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Use and abuse of authority : a behavioral foundation of the employment relation
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2012
Employment contracts give a principal the authority to decide flexibly which task his agent should execute. However, there is a tradeoff, first pointed out by Simon (1951), between flexibility and employer moral hazard. An employment contract allows the principal to adjust the task quickly to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009720579
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Use and abuse of authority : a behavioral foundation of the employment relation
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2012
Employment contracts give a principal the authority to decide flexibly which task his agent should execute. However, there is a tradeoff, first pointed out by Simon (1951), between flexibility and employer moral hazard. An employment contract allows the principal to adjust the task quickly to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009672247
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Use and abuse of authority : a behavioral foundation of the employment relation
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2012
Employment contracts give a principal the authority to decide flexibly which task his agent should execute. However, there is a tradeoff, first pointed out by Simon (1951), between flexibility and employer moral hazard. An employment contract allows the principal to adjust the task quickly to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009685891
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Use and Abuse of Authority : A Behavioral Foundation of the Employment Relation
Bartling, Björn - 2012
Employment contracts give a principal the authority to decide flexibly which task his agent should execute. However, there is a tradeoff, first pointed out by Simon (1951), between flexibility and employer moral hazard. An employment contract allows the principal to adjust the task quickly to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096768
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A Theory and Experiment of How Competitive Bargaining Can Lead to Efficient Coordination
Baranski, Andrzej - 2017
Synergies in production are ubiquitous in shared production processes such as those involving individuals within a team, departments within a firm, or industries within a country. Using a weakest link game with ex post bargaining to redistribute the joint surplus, we study a situation in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955103
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Breaking Gender Barriers : Experimental Evidence on Men in Pink-Collar Jobs
Delfino, Alexia - 2021
messages to potential applicants to exogenously vary two key drivers of selection: perceived gender shares and expectations of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248071
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Breaking gender barriers: experimental evidence on men in pink-collar jobs
Delfino, Alexia - 2021
messages to potential applicants to exogenously vary two key drivers of selection: perceived gender shares and expectations of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431128