-minimizing public firm. Workers in the economy are heterogeneous in their intrinsic motivation to work in the sector. In line with …

-minimising public firm. Workers in the economy are heterogeneous in their motivation to work in the sector. In line with empirical …

the principal can neither observe agents’ commitment to the job nor their intrinsic motivation. A steep wage …

rewards to performance increases effort, but that they can also backfire, reducing effort. Intrinsic motivation, the internal …. If the incentives crowd-out intrinsic motivation, and the effect is large enough, the net motivational effect on effort …, is one facet of intrinsic motivation, triggered by the combination of high-powered incentives and egoistic principal …

it becomes scarce. In the second, restraint serves to conceal the actor's intrinsic motivation. In both cases, not … engaging in the activity causes others to offer larger rewards. Our theory yields the testable prediction that such effects are …