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Gift exchange and workers' fairness concerns: When equality is unfair
Abeler, Johannes; Altmann, Steffen; Kube, Sebastian; … - 2009
We study how different payment modes inuence the effectiveness of gift exchange as a contract enforcement device. In particular, we analyze how horizontal fairness concerns affect performance and efficiency in an environment characterized by contractual incompleteness. In our experiment, one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277484
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Gift exchange and workers' fairness concerns : when equality is unfair
Abeler, Johannes; Altmann, Steffen; Kube, Sebastian; … - 2009
. -- Wage setting ; wage equality ; equity ; gift exchange ; reciprocity ; incomplete contracts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003863658
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Gift exchange and workers' fairness concerns : when equality is unfair
Abeler, Johannes; Altmann, Steffen; Kube, Sebastian; … - 2009
. -- wage setting ; wage equality ; equity ; gift exchange ; reciprocity ; incomplete contracts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003854042
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Exploitation aversion : when financial incentives fail to motivate agents
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Dolifka, David - 2013
Empirical studies of the principal-agent relationship find that extrinsic incentives work in many instances, linking rewards to performance increases effort, but that they can also backfire, reducing effort. Intrinsic motivation, the internal drive to work to master a skill or to improve one's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771729
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Job mission as a substitute for monetary incentives : experimental evidence
Cassar, Lea - 2014
Are monetary and non-monetary incentives used as substitutes in motivating effort? I address this question in a laboratory experiment in which the choice of the job characteristics (i.e., the mission) is part of the compensation package that principals can use to influence the agents' effort....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010414760
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Gift Exchange and Workers' Fairness Concerns : When Equality is Unfair
Abeler, Johannes - 2009
We study how different payment modes influence the effectiveness of gift exchange as a contract enforcement device. In particular, we analyze how horizontal fairness concerns affect performance and efficiency in an environment characterized by contractual incompleteness. In our experiment, one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158119
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Exploitation Aversion : When Financial Incentives Fail to Motivate Agents
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2013
Empirical studies of the principal-agent relationship find that extrinsic incentives work in many instances, linking rewards to performance increases effort, but that they can also backfire, reducing effort. Intrinsic motivation, the internal drive to work to master a skill or to improve one's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078830
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Experimental Evidence on Inequity Aversion and Self-Selection between Incentive Contracts
Teyssier, Sabrina - 2008
This paper reports on the results of an experiment testing whether the agents selfselect between a competitive payment scheme and a revenue-sharing scheme depending on their inequity aversion. Average efficiency should be increased when these payment schemes are endogenously chosen by agents. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216314
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See no evil : information chains and reciprocity in teams
Steiger, Eva-Maria; Zultan, Ro'i - 2011
chains facilitate cooperation by balancing positive and negative reciprocity. -- team production ; public goods ; incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009303879
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Communication, cooperation and collusion in team tournaments : an experimental study
Sutter, Matthias; Strassmair, Christina - 2007
We study the effects of communication in an experimental tournament between teams. When teams, rather than individuals … communication in such situations may have ambiguous effects on effort choices. Communication within teams may promote higher efforts … by mitigating the internal free-rider problem. Communication between competing teams may lead to collusion, thereby …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951420