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Feedback in Tournaments under Commitment Problems: The-ory and Experimental Evidence
Gürtler, Oliver; Harbring, Christine - 2007
assuming the principal to be unable to commit to a certain policy at the beginning of the tournament. Our analysis shows that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333966
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Performance Pay and Multidimensional Sorting - Productivity, Preferences and Gender
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - 2011
This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. Subjects … rate, a tournament or a revenue-sharing scheme. We find that output is higher in the variable pay schemes (piece rate …, tournament, and revenue sharing) compared to the fixed payment scheme. This difference is largely driven by productivity sorting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334140
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Competition and fatigue at work
Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2018
We study theoretically and experimentally the role of fatigue and recovery within a competitive work environment. At work, agents usually make their effort choice in response to competition and monetary incentives. At the same time, they have to take into account fatigue, which accumulates over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985278
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Male and female competitive behavior: experimental evidence
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, … - 2005
such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a … tournament and a piece-rate pay scheme before performing a real task. Men choose the tournament significantly more often than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267595
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Self-selection and the efficiency of tournaments
Eriksson, Tor; Teyssier, Sabrina; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2006
to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …. We show that when the subjects choose to enter a tournament, the average effort is higher and the between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267611
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Performance pay and multi-dimensional sorting: productivity, preferences and gender
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - 2006
This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first …. Depending on the treatment, the variable payment is either a piece rate, a tournament or a revenue-sharing scheme. We elicit … findings are as follows. First, output is much higher in the variable pay schemes (piece rate, tournament, and revenue sharing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267618
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Sabotage in tournaments: evidence from a laboratory experiment
Harbring, Christine; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2009
behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm … the presence of tournament incentives, agents react reciprocally to higher wages, which mitigates the sabotage problem …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268946
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Gender and Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - 2021
environments. To explore this further, we conducted a laboratory experiment comprising 444 subjects, and measured gender … differences in performance in four distinct competitive situations. These were as follows: (i) the standard tournament game where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012498075
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Performance pay and multidimensional sorting : productivity, preferences and gender
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - 2011
This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. Subjects … rate, a tournament or a revenue-sharing scheme. We find that output is higher in the variable pay schemes (piece rate …, tournament, and revenue sharing) compared to the fixed payment scheme. This difference is largely driven by productivity sorting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009012616
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Gender differences in interpersonal and intrapersonal competitive behavior
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Frank, Rachel; Huet-Vaughn, Emiliano - 2017
themselves? In a laboratory experiment in which some subjects compete against others and some compete against themselves, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631427