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differences in responsiveness to a homo economicus prime in a gift-exchange experiment with 113 participants. We observed gender …
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This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament … incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for … crowding out of intrinsic motivation. By comparison, wage gifts are ineffective. Additional treatments show that it is the …
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This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament … incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for … crowding out of intrinsic motivation. By comparison, wage gifts are ineffective. Additional treatments show that it is the …
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One of the main findings of a large body of gift exchange experiments is that in an incomplete contracts environment workers on average do not shirk and usually provide more than the minimum enforceable effort level. In general, 40 to 60 percent of the workers reward higher wages with higher...
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Numerous gift exchange experiments have found a positive relationship between employers' wage offers and workers' effort levels. In (almost) all these experiments the employer both owns and controls the firm. Yet in reality many firms are characterized by the separation of ownership and control....
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