This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at … input quality and worker type. Firm profits increase differentially from high productivity workers, but absenteeism and … and managers shape the response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. …

and financial incentives affect productivity in tasks that require coordination among workers. We simulate assembly line … the findings of existing research, increasing the power of group-based financial incentives does not reduce the positive … effect of social connections. Our results are driven by men whose average productivity is significantly lower than that of …

trading. Such measures can reduce emissions cost-effectively and create incentives for technological development. There is … been too low to create the incentives necessary to stimulate technological development. This paper empirically analyzes how … the Swedish carbon dioxide tax and the EU ETS have affected productivity development in the Swedish pulp and paper …

and financial incentives affect productivity in tasks that require coordination among workers. We simulate assembly line … the findings of existing research, increasing the power of group-based financial incentives does not reduce the positive … effect of social connections. Our results are driven by men whose average productivity is significantly lower than that of …

This paper studies learning within organizations when incentives change. We use a simple principal-agent model to show …

We document the evolution of productivity in a steel mini mill with fixed capital, producing an unchanged product with … productivity gains to investment and an incentive plan, we are left with a large unexplained component. Learning by experimentation …, or tweaking, seems to be behind the continual and gradual process of productivity growth. The findings suggest that …

comparison group in China, we examine how both psychological and financial incentives, together with attitudes toward risk, may … rank-based financial incentives. Our results show that performance-ranking information had a significant motivational … effect on average performance for students, but not for that of workers. Adding financial incentives based on rank provided …

functions. He reverses earlier findings in that owners give managers incentives to act in an accommodating way. That is, optimal …

the author finds that owners give managers incentives to act in an accommodating way. As a result, optimal delegation …