-oriented jobs? These are central issues in sectors like education or healthcare. We conduct a laboratory experiment, manipulating …

-oriented jobs? These are central issues in sectors like education or healthcare. We conduct a laboratory experiment, manipulating …

Conventional wisdom suggests that an increase in monetary incentives should induce agents to exert higher effort. In … with positive externalities between agents, incentive reversal might occur: an increase in monetary incentives (either … and report on two experiments that provide supportive evidence. -- incentives ; incentive reversal ; team production …

limitless. The potential link between compensation and risk behavior is analyzed in this paper. A behavioral experiment with …

In this paper, I empirically investigate the impact of an organization's reliance on collaborative creativity on the … design of incentive systems. In creativity-reliant firms, i.e., firms for which the primary source of value creation lies in … the creativity of their core employees, incentive system design is particularly challenging, since the nature of creative …

incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for …This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament … complex tasks. Our findings provide a rationale for the frequent use of tournaments when seeking to motivate creative output. …

incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for …This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament … complex tasks. Our findings provide a rationale for the frequent use of tournaments when seeking to motivate creative output. …

to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …When exogenously imposed, rank-order tournaments have incentive properties but their overall efficiency is reduced by a … is attributable both to its incentive effect and to its selection effect among employees (Lazear, 2000), it is important …

experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that … the provision of incentives and their sorting effect. … the selection and incentive effects of pay schemes are so far thin on the ground. In addition, these effects may be …