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Career prospects and effort incentives : evidence from professional soccer
Miklós-Thal, Jeanine; Ullrich, Hannes - 2014
It is difficult to test the prediction that future career prospects create implicit effort incentives because researchers cannot randomly “assign” career prospects to economic agents. To overcome this challenge, we use data from professional soccer, where employees of the same club face...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011808006
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Career prospects and effort incentives : evidence from professional soccer
Miklós-Thal, Jeanine; Ullrich, Hannes - 2014
It is difficult to test the prediction that future career prospects create implicit effort incentives because researchers cannot randomly “assign” career prospects to economic agents. To overcome this challenge, we use data from professional soccer, where employees of the same club face...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442390
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Motivating employees through career paths
Bar-Isaac, Heski; Levy, Raphaël - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012177985
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Wage structure and the incentive effect of promotions
Herpen, Marco van; Cools, Cornelis; Praag, Mirjam van - 2004
as a wage determinant. We furthermore show that a promotion affects both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation significantly …, though in two different ways: An expected promotion increases extrinsic motivation whereas intrinsic motivation is highest … subsequent to a realized promotion. The relationship between extrinsic motivation and expected promotions implies that promotions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337995
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Confidence and career choices : an experiment
Barron, Kai; Gravert, Christina - 2019
Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's abilities causally map into actions is, however, sparse. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the causal effect of an increase in confidence about one's own ability on two central...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064447
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Tournaments, individualized contracts and career concerns
Koch, Alexander K. (contributor);  … - 2005
Young professionals typically do not enter into life-long employment relations with a single firm. Therefore, future employers can learn about individuals' abilities from the observable facts regarding earlier work relations. We show that these informational spill-overs have profound...
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Awards are career catalysts for young talents in highly competitive job markets
Bünning, Florian; Chan, Ben; Schmidt, Sascha Leonard; … - 2021 - This version: January 01, 2021
Despite the potential importance of awards as a possible career catalyst, the theoretical and empirical research on awards is still in its infancy. Here, we address this notable shortcoming in the economic literature by exploring data from German youth football. Analyzing whether an early career...
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The selection and causal effects of work incentives on labor productivity : evidence from a two-stage randomized controlled trial in Malawi
Kim, Hyuncheol Bryant; Kim, Seonghoon; Kim, Thomas T. - 2017
Incentives are essential to promote labor productivity. We implemented a two-stage field experiment to measure effects of career and wage incentives on productivity through self-selection and causal effect channels. First, workers were hired with either career or wage incentives. After...
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Effort and selection effects of performance pay in knowledge creation
Ytsma, Erina - 2022
The effects of performance pay in routine, easy to measure tasks are well-documented, but they are much less understood in knowledge creation. This paper studies the effects of explicit and implicit, career concerns incentives common in knowledge work in a multitasking model, and estimates their...
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Performance pay and applicant screening
Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2015
Using German establishment data, we show that the relationship between performance pay and intensity of applicant screening depends on the nature of production. In establishments with increased multitasking, performance pay is associated with a greater intensity of applicant screening. In...
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