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Emotions and Incentives
Kräkel, Matthias - 2004
analyzed by focusing on three incentive schemes that are frequently used in practice: tournaments, bonuses and piece rates. We …
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Emotions and Incentives
Kräkel, Matthias - 2004
analysed by focusing on three incentive schemes that are frequently used in practice: tournaments, bonuses and piece rates. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263111
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Emotions and Incentives
Kräkel, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
analyzed by focusing on three incentive schemes that are frequently used in practice: tournaments, bonuses and piece rates. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703572
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Emotions and Incentives
Kräkel, Matthias - University of Bonn, Germany - 2004
analysed by focusing on three incentive schemes that are frequently used in practice: tournaments, bonuses and piece rates. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005001507
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Ökonomische Analyse von Incentive-Reisen
Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Pull, Kerstin - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008
Zur Motivation von Mitarbeitern werden in der Praxis oft sogenannte Incentive-Reisen eingesetzt. Die Teilnahmeberechtigung an einer Incentive-Reise wird dabei typischerweise im Rahmen eines Turniers vergeben, bei dem eine fest umgrenzte Zahl an Mitarbeitern um eine vorgegebene Anzahl an...
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Tournaments versus Piece Rates under Limited Liability
Kräkel, Matthias - 2004
tournaments and piece rates as alternative incentive schemes has focused on the case of unlimited liability. However, in practice … under piece rates than under tournaments. Moreover, if first-best implementation is not achieved and workers earn positive … rents, efforts and profits will be larger for piece rates than for tournaments given sufficiently convex costs. While …
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Competition and fatigue at work
Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2018
work periods as tournaments that are linked through fatigue spillovers, inducing a non-time-separable decision problem. We …
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Tournaments versus Piece Rates under Limited Liability
Kräkel, Matthias - 2004
The existing literature on the comparison of tournaments and piece rates as alternative incentive schemes has focused … suffciently convex, first-best effort will be more likely implemented under piece rates than under tournaments. Moreover, if first … tournaments given suffciently convex costs. While tournaments offer a partial insurance due to their fixed prizes, piece rates may …
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Incentives and anonymity principle : crowding out toward users
Crifo, Patricia; Rullière, Jean-Louis - 2004
In our model, an agent produces an outcome by a costly effort and then distributes it among heterogeneous users. The agent's payoff is the weighted sum of the users? shares and the coefficient reflecting their heterogeneity. When the agent neglects users? heterogeneity the game leads to an...
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Bonuses and performance evaluations
Sliwka, Dirk - In: IZA World of Labor (2020)
Economists have for a long time argued that performance-based bonuses raise performance. Indeed, many firms use bonuses tied to individual performance to motivate their employees. However, there has been heated debate among human resources professionals recently, and some firms have moved away...
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