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literature on tournaments within firms, which shows that competitive compensation schemes reduce cooperation in the short-run, we …
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through either tournaments or team-based incentives. Participants engaged in a subsequent trust game in which the sender had …We explore the extent to which the structure of incentives affects trust. We hypothesize that the degree to which …
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Theory and evidence are ambiguous about the effect of within-firm wage inequality on firm performance. This paper tests empirically this relationship drawing on detailed Brazilian matched employer-employee panel data, considering alternative measures of inequality and performance and different...
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minimization, we are able to show that premium incentives outperform fixed-prize tournaments as well as piece rates. Our …Tournaments represent an increasingly important component of organizational compensation systems. While prior research … focused on fixed-prize tournaments, i.e., on tournaments where the prize or prize sum to be awarded is set in advance, we …
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A vast body of empirical studies lends support to the incentive effects of rank-order tournaments. Evidence comes from … tournaments may bias these non-experimental studies, whereas short task duration or lack of distracters may limit the external … where students selected themselves into tournaments with different prizes. Within each tournament the best performing …
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We consider the cost of providing incentives through tournaments when workers are inequity averse and performance …
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Using the popular FOX TV reality show, American Idol, this paper makes a contribution to the literatures on the design of contests, the allocation of voting rights in committees, and the desirability of low-powered incentive schemes. In American Idol, the judges, who are presumably experts in...
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Existing tests of tournament theory have recently been criticized <p> for their failure to distinguish tournaments from …
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