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Optimal and fair prizing in sequential round-robin tournaments : experimental evidence

Lauber, Arne; March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2022

the prize structure aﬀects the intensity, fair-ness, and dynamic behavior in sequential round-robin tournaments with three …

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The structure of the permanent job wage premium : evidence from Europe

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2013

Using longitudinal data on individuals from the European Community Household Panel for thirteen countries during 1995-2001, I investigate the wage premium for permanent jobs relative to temporary jobs. For men, the wage premium for a permanent job is lower for older workers and native born...

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Reciprocity and emotions : arousal, self-reports, and expectations

Ben Shaḥar, Gershon; Bornstein, Gary; Hopfensitz, Astrid - 2004

Although reciprocity is a key concept in the social sciences, it is still unclear why people engage in costly reciprocation. In this study, physiological and self-report measures were employed to investigate the role of emotions, using the Power-to-Take Game. In this 2-person game, player 1 can...

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Long-term employment relations when agents are present biased

Englmaier, Florian; Fahn, Matthias; Schwarz, Marco - 2016

We analyze how agents' present bias affects optimal contracting in an infinite-horizon employment setting. The principal maximizes profits by offering a menu of contracts to naive agents: a virtual contract - which agents plan to choose in the future - and a real contract which they end up...

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The attention-information tradeoff

Serra-Garcia, Marta - 2025 - This version: March 2025

How does information transmission change when it requires attracting the attention of receivers? This paper combines an experiment that varies freelance professionals’ incentives to attract attention about scientific findings, with several online experiments that exogenously expose receivers...

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Gender differences in experimental wage negotiations

Dittrich, Marcus; Knabe, Andreas; Leipold, Kristina - 2012

We examine behavioral gender differences and gender pairing effects in a laboratory experiment with face-to-face alternating-offers wage bargaining. Our results suggest that male players are able to obtain better bargaining outcomes than female players. Male employees get higher wages than...

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Cheating in labour markets

Drouvelis, Michalis; Kocher, Martin - 2021

Our results from a laboratory experiment offer new evidence for the detrimental effects that cheating behaviour in the workplace may have on the degree of reciprocity between firms and workers. First, we replicate existing findings showing that in the absence of monitoring (cheating is possible)...

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Fairness properties of compensation schemes

Becker, Christoph; Fehr, Dietmar; Rau, Hannes; … - 2025

How do different characteristics of pay-for-performance schemes affect fairness perceptions? In two studies, we … tournament incentives. We find that pay inequality has a strong negative effect on perceived fairness. Controlling for pay …. Adding performance-dependent resource advantages or handicaps negatively influences perceived fairness. We find that …

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Getting lucky : the long-term consequences of exam luck

Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric; Willage, Barton; Willén, … - 2022

This paper studies the impact of exam luck on individuals’ education and labor market success. We leverage unique features of the Norwegian education system that produce random variation in the content of the exams taken by students at the end of high school. Lucky students take exams in...

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Incentives, self-selection, and coordination of motivated agents for the production of social goods

Bauer, Kevin; Kosfeld, Michael; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2021

We study, theoretically and empirically, the effects of incentives on the self-selection and coordination of motivated agents to produce a social good. Agents join teams where they allocate effort to either generate individual monetary rewards (selfish effort) or contribute to the production of...

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