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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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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks
Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2021
Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but … also render teams’ identity and social-image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a …
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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks
Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2023
Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but … also render teams' identity and image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a non …
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Relative performance pay, bonuses, and job-promotion tournaments
Kräkel, Matthias; Schöttner, Anja - 2008
recruitment is observable on nearly any hierarchy level. We explain these empirical puzzles by combining job-promotion tournaments …
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Incentives to lose revisited : the NHL and its tournament incentives
Fornwagner, Helena - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 75 (2019) 2, pp. 1-12
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Task difficulty, performance measure characteristics, and the trade-off between insurance and well-allocated effort
Schnedler, Wendelin (contributor) - 2006
When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insurance and a "good" allocation of effort across various tasks is often identified with a trade-off between the responsiveness (sensitivity, precision, signal-noise ratio) of the performance measure and its similarity (congruity,...
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Who pays for performance?
Barth, Erling; Bratsberg, Bernt; Haegeland, Torbjørn; … - 2006
Using Norwegian establishment surveys from 1997 and 2003, we show that performance-related pay is more prevalent in firms where workers of the main occupation have a high degree of autonomy in how to organize their work. This observation supports an interpretation of incentive pay as motivated...
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Performance pay and earnings : evidence from personnel records
Pekkarinen, Tuomas (contributor); Riddell, Chris (contributor) - 2006
This paper examines the effects of performance pay on earnings using linked employee-employer panel data from Finland. These payroll data contain information on the exact share of earnings obtained and hours worked on a performance pay contract. Using these data, we estimate the effects of...
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Self-selection and the efficiency of tournaments
Eriksson, Tor (contributor); Teyssier, Sabrina (contributor) - 2006
When exogenously imposed, rank-order tournaments have incentive properties but their overall efficiency is reduced by a … to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether … allowing subjects to self-select into different payment schemes helps in reducing the variability of performance in tournaments …
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Women and competition in elimination tournaments : evidence from professional tennis data
Lallemand, Thierry (contributor);  … - 2005
players' incentives to adjust effort according to success chances. -- sports economics ; tournaments ; incentives …
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