Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We present evidence on social incentives in the workplace, namely on whether workers’ behavior is affected by the … are paid piece rates based on individual productivity, social incentives can be quantified in monetary terms and are such … productivity by 10%. The distribution of worker ability is such that the net effect of social incentives on the firm’s aggregate …