Berger, Johannes; Harbring, Christine; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
restricted in their rating behavior to a forced distribution system in which they had to assign differentiated grades. We find … that productivity was significantly higher under a forced distribution by about 8%. But also in the absence of forced … distribution, deliberate differentiation positively affected output in subsequent work periods. …
