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Social incentives matter: Evidence from an online real effort experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2012
firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives … to financial incentives using an online real effort experiment. We find that social incentives lead to a 20% rise in … incentives half sacrifice some of their private compensation to increase social compensation, with women more likely than men …
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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...
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Tournament incentives affect perceived stress and hormonal stress responses
Dohmen, Thomas; Rohde, Ingrid; Stolp, Tom - 2023
incentives schemes is not a relevant criterion for sorting decisions in our experiment. Finally, we find that cortisol levels are … performance - in particular, tournament incentives - induce more stress than schemes that are independent of performance - fixed … self-reported feelings of stress and primary appraisals. We find that tournament incentives induce a stress response …
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Pay for (individual) performance : issues, claims, evidence and the role of sorting effects
Gerhart, Barry A.; Fang, Meiyu - In: Human resource management review 24 (2014) 1, pp. 41-52
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How creative are you? : an experimental study on self-selection in a competitive incentive scheme for creative performance
Bradler, Christiane - 2015
Economic theory suggests that performance pay may serve as an effective screening device to attract productive agents. The existing evidence on the self-selection of agents is largely limited to job tasks where performance is driven by routine, well-defined procedures. This study presents...
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Are non-contingent incentives more effective in motivating new behavior? : evidence from the field
Córdova, Angélica; Imas, Alex; Schwartz, Daniel - In: Games and economic behavior 130 (2021), pp. 602-615
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Tournament incentives affect perceived stress and hormonal stress responses
Dohmen, Thomas; Rohde, Ingrid; Stolp, Tom - 2023
performance - in particular, tournament incentives - induce more stress than schemes that are independent of performance - fixed … selfreported feelings of stress and primary appraisals. We find that tournament incentives induce a stress response whereas a fixed … subsequent choice between tournaments and fixed payment schemes, indicating that stress induced by incentives schemes is not a …
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Tournament incentives affect perceived stress and hormonal stress responses
Dohmen, Thomas; Rohde, Ingrid; Stolp, Tom - In: Experimental economics : a journal of the Economic … 26 (2023) 4, pp. 955-985
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Does Monitoring Decrease Work Effort? : The Complementarity Between Agency and Crowding-Out Theories
Dickinson, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2004
Agency theory assumes that tighter monitoring by the principal should motivate the agent to raise his effort level whereas the ?crowding-out? literature suggests that it may reduce the overall work effort. These two assertions are not necessarily contradictory provided that the nature of the...
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Gift exchange in the lab - it is not (only) how much you give ...
Englmaier, Florian; Leider, Steve - 2010
An important aspect in determining the effectiveness of gift exchange relations in labor markets is the ability of the worker to repay the gift to the employer. To test this hypothesis, we conduct a real effort laboratory experiment where we vary the wage and the effect of the worker's effort on...
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