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Internal labor markets and worker rents
Kräkel, Matthias; Schöttner, Anja - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84 (2012) 2, pp. 491-509
We show that establishing an internal labor market by offering combined contracts across hierarchy levels strictly dominates external recruitment when workers are homogeneous. The reason is that only an internal labor market can exploit higher tier rents for incentive provision on lower tiers....
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Rank-Order Tournaments, Probability of Winning and Investing in Talent: Evidence from Champions League Qualifying Rules
Green, Colin P.; Lozano, Fernando A.; Simmons, Rob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We analyse how a change in the probability of winning a tournament affects an agent's effort using the qualification rules for entry into the group and playoff stages of the UEFA Champions' League. Our results suggest that increasing the number of slots that a national league gets in the...
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Job competition, employability and incentives for human capital formation
Campoamor, Adolfo Cristobal - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 1, pp. 550-560
This note describes the effects on human capital formation of rank-order tournaments offering identical prizes to a …
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Using "opposing responses" and relative performance to distinguish empirically among alternative models of promotions
DeVaro, Jed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
tournaments, market-based tournaments, and performance standards can be sharply distinguished when promotions induce worker effort …. I also show that market-based tournaments with effort choices can be sharply distinguished from those with human capital … propose a new approach – also requiring simultaneous equations – for empirically distinguishing between classic tournaments …
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A Survey of Experimental Research on Contests, All-Pay Auctions and Tournaments
Dechenaux, Emmanuel; Kovenock, Dan; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
-pay auctions and rank-order tournaments. This survey provides a comprehensive review of experimental research on these three …
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A Survey of Experimental Research on Contests, All-Pay Auctions and Tournaments
Dechenaux, Emmanuel; Kovenock, Dan; Sheremeta, Roman - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2012
-pay auctions and rank-order tournaments. This survey provides a review of experimental research on these three canonical contests …
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A survey of experimental research on contests, all-pay auctions and tournaments
Dechenaux, Emmanuel; Kovenock, Dan; Sheremeta, Roman M. - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2012
-pay auctions and rankorder tournaments. This survey provides a review of experimental research on these three canonical contests …
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Performance in Mixed-Sex and Single-Sex Tournaments: What We Can Learn from Speedboat Races in Japan
Booth, Alison L.; Yamamura, Eiji - 2016
In speedboat racing in Japan, women racers participate and compete in races under the same conditions as men, and all individuals are randomly assigned to mixed-gender or single-gender groups for each race. In this paper we use a sample of over 140,000 observations of individual-level racing...
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Emotions and Incentives
Kräkel, Matthias - 2004
analyzed by focusing on three incentive schemes that are frequently used in practice: tournaments, bonuses and piece rates. We …
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Splitting Leagues
Kräkel, Matthias - 2003
Splitting leagues or tournaments seems to be puzzling when agents are homogeneous and splitting leads to a negative … tournaments (i.e., tournaments that are intertemporally linked), which also enhances incentives. …
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