This article examines how professional female tennis players react to (a) prize incentives and (b) heterogeneity in ex ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to increase effort, even when controlling for many tournament and player characteristics....

Les salariés d'une même entreprise ont tendance à comparer leurs salaires. L'ampleur de la dispersion salariale au sein d'une firme est susceptible par ailleurs d'avoir un impact sur le niveau d'effort fourni par chaque travailleur. La structure de rémunération au sein de la firme serait...

This paper examines the relationship between intra-firm wage dispersion and firm performance in large Belgian firms using a unique matched employer-employee data set. On the basis of the Winter-Ebmer and Zweimüller's (1999) methodology, we find a positive and significant relationship between...