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This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. Subjects …, tournament, and revenue sharing) compared to the fixed payment scheme. This difference is largely driven by productivity sorting … the sorting decision in a systematic way. Moreover, self-reported effort is significantly higher in all variable pay …
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This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. Subjects …, tournament, and revenue sharing) compared to the fixed payment scheme. This difference is largely driven by productivity sorting … the sorting decision in a systematic way. Moreover, self-reported effort is significantly higher in all variable pay …
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This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. Subjects …, tournament, and revenue sharing) compared to the fixed payment scheme. This difference is largely driven by productivity sorting … the sorting decision in a systematic way. Moreover, self-reported effort is significantly higher in all variable pay …
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This article analyzes top-level basketball competitions and measures the effect of superstar presence on effort provision in rank-order tournaments. I extend the previous literature to team competitions for male and female teams, as well as different institutional settings over a long period of...
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inclinations on workers' sorting into codetermined firms. Employees with strong negative reciprocal inclinations are more likely to …
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The third paper investigates the role of beliefs on job choice in the labor market, and we find in an experiment that … productivity beliefs as the source of this detrimental sorting, and we also find that this effect translates to the Danish labor …
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We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in "high" and "low …
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