; productivity ; ability ; piece rates ; tournament ; revenue sharing ; risk preferences ; overconfidence ; gender ; experiment …This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first … preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first … preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main … into tournaments. Sixth, variable pay schemes attract men more than women, a difference that is partly explained by gender …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. Subjects …. In addition personal attitudes such as willingness to take risks and relative self-assessment as well as gender affect …

experiment. Implementing a real-effort design and a principal who is paid based on the agent s output, we find that males and … significantly more sabotage leading to an on average higher winning probability but not to higher profits. If the gender of the … is female. The gender gap in sabotage is persistent. We discuss possible explanations for our findings and their …