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Reference dependent preferences and the impact of wage increases on job satisfaction: theory and evidence
Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2005
The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored theoretically and empirically. To do this, we apply a utility function that rises with the absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. It is shown that when employees can influence their wages by exerting effort, myopic utility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267564
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Reference dependent preferences and the impact of wage increases on job satisfaction : theory and evidence
Grund, Christian (contributor); Sliwka, Dirk (contributor) - 2005
The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored theoretically and empirically. To do this, we apply a utility function that rises with the absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. It is shown that when employees can influence their wages by exerting effort, myopic utility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003222507
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Reference Dependent Preferences and the Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction : Theory and Evidence
Grund, Christian - 2005
The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored theoretically and empirically. To do this, we apply a utility function that rises with the absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. It is shown that when employees can influence their wages by exerting effort, myopic utility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012784044
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Psychological incentives, financial incentives, and risk attitudes in tournaments : an artefactual field experiment
Cadsby, Bram; Engle-Warnick, Jim; Fang, Tony; Song, Fei - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407820
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The selection and causal effects of work incentives on labor productivity : evidence from a two-stage randomized controlled trial in Malawi
Kim, Hyuncheol Bryant; Kim, Seonghoon; Kim, Thomas T. - 2017
Incentives are essential to promote labor productivity. We implemented a two-stage field experiment to measure effects … of career and wage incentives on productivity through self-selection and causal effect channels. First, workers were … hired with either career or wage incentives. After employment, a random half of workers with career incentives received wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631551
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Women and competition in elimination tournaments: evidence from professional tennis data
Lallemand, Thierry; Plasman, Robert; Rycx, François - 2005
This paper examines how professional female tennisplayers react to: i) prize incentives and ii) heterogeneity in ex … players' incentives to adjust effort according to success chances. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267652
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Can higher bonuses lead to less effort? Incentive reversal in teams
Klor, Esteban F.; Kube, Sebastian; Winter, Eyal; … - 2011
Conventional wisdom suggests that an increase in monetary incentives should induce agents to exert higher effort. In … with positive externalities between agents, incentive reversal might occur: an increase in monetary incentives (either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278589
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Can higher bonuses lead to less effort? : incentive reversal in teams
Klor, Esteban F.; Kube, Sebastian; Winter, Eyal; … - 2011
Conventional wisdom suggests that an increase in monetary incentives should induce agents to exert higher effort. In … with positive externalities between agents, incentive reversal might occur: an increase in monetary incentives (either … and report on two experiments that provide supportive evidence. -- incentives ; incentive reversal ; team production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230143
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The incentive impact of the fixed wage : a real effort experiment
Manthei, Kathrin; Mohnen, Alwine - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung : ZfP 27 (2013) 4, pp. 331-353
Ein typisches Ergebnis einfacher Prinzipal-Agent-Modelle ist, dass die Arbeitsanstrengung des Agenten lediglich vom leistungsabhängigen Teil der Vergütung getrieben wird. In dieser Arbeit wird gezeigt, dass dies nicht notwendigerweise gilt, wenn Agenten referenzpunktabhängige Präferenzen und...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010386873
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Can Higher Bonuses Lead to Less Effort? Incentive Reversal in Teams
Klor, Esteban F. - 2011
Conventional wisdom suggests that an increase in monetary incentives should induce agents to exert higher effort. In … with positive externalities between agents, incentive reversal might occur: an increase in monetary incentives (either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129921