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We present a field experiment to assess the effect of own and peer wage variations on actual work effort of employees … additional real-effort laboratory experiment we show that explicit cost and surplus information that enables to exactly calculate …
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We present a field experiment to assess the effect of own and peer wage variations on actual work effort of employees … additional real-effort laboratory experiment we show that explicit cost and surplus information that enables to exactly calculate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010365848
The population of most developed societies is graying. As life expectancy increases and the large baby-boom generation approaches retirement age, this has critical consequences for maintaining a high standard of living and the sustainability of pension systems. In the light of these labor-force...
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Gender differences in paid performance under competition have been found in many laboratory-based experiments, and it … environments. To explore this further, we conducted a laboratory experiment comprising 444 subjects, and measured gender … the subject competes with three other individuals and the winner takes all; (ii) an anonymized competition in which an …
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experiment, we show that men are more likely than women to start and keep competing after receiving positive feedback. In a third … experiment, we show that the gender difference in the reaction to losing is not present when winning and losing are random rather … than the outcome of competition. The fact that women are more likely to give up competing after a setback may help to …
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We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a …
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We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105828
experiment, we show that men are more likely than women to start and keep competing after receiving positive feedback. In a third … experiment, we show that the gender difference in the reaction to losing is not present when winning and losing are random rather … than the outcome of competition. The fact that women are more likely to give up competing after a setback may help to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979517
conducted a lab-in-the-field experiment in rural Bangladesh recruiting males from the ethnic majority (Bengali) and an … in preference for interethnic competition. …
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averse to competition than are men; women might, instead, be more inclined toward collaboration. Were these findings to … personnel management. We report on a field experiment in which 97,678 adults from a wide range of fields of training and career … competition. Thus, patterns in non-STEM fields conform to the usual claims of gender differences. However, among those in STEM …
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