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Group contests with complementarities in efforts

Kolmar, Martin; Rommeswinkel, Hendrik - 2010

Usually, groups increase their productivity by the specialization of their group members. In these cases, group output is no longer simply a sum of individual outputs. We analyze contests with group-specific public goods that allow for different degrees of complementarity between group members'...

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Managers as knowledge carriers : explaining Firms' internationalization success with manager mobility

Meinen, Philipp; Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Sala, Davide; … - 2018

How does "what managers know" affect firm performance on international markets? This question is of considerable importance in the international economic literature. Answering it will be key for comprehending the way firms’ varying performance on international markets is shaped by the human...

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Combining "real effort" with induced effort costs : the ball-catching task

Gächter, Simon; Huang, Lingbo; Sefton, Martin - 2015

provision are remarkably accurate. We also present experimental findings from three classic experiments, namely, team production …

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Relative performance feedback to teams

Gjedrem, William Gilje; Kvaløy, Ola - 2018

Between and within firms, work teams compete against each other and receive feedback on how well their team is … feedback (RPF) at team level. We find that when subjects work under team incentives, then RPF on team performance increases the … experiment suggests that top performers are particularly motivated by the combination of team incentives and team RPF. In fact …

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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks

Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2021

also render teams’ identity and social-image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a …,700 participants), we vary the salience of team identity, social-image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased … salience of team identity does not improve performance. Social-image motivates mainly the top-performing teams. Additional …

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Which peer group to choose? : The effects of relative performance information on employee self-selection and performance

Nieken, Petra; Ressi, Anna - 2022

This paper reports results of two controlled experiments on the behavioural effects of relative performance information (RPI) in different organizational structures. Our baseline study 1 focuses on a centralized organizational structure where employees are exogenously assigned to either a...

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Effort and selection effects of performance pay in knowledge creation

Ytsma, Erina - 2022

The effects of performance pay in routine, easy to measure tasks are well-documented, but they are much less understood in knowledge creation. This paper studies the effects of explicit and implicit, career concerns incentives common in knowledge work in a multitasking model, and estimates their...

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Incentives to work and performance in the public sector

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; … - 2015

This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model with three distinct social groups, capitalists, private workers and public employees. After solving for the status quo equilibrium, which can mimic the advantages of employment in the public sector in most EU countries, the paper looks for...

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Sibling spillovers

Black, Sandra E.; Breining, Sanni Nørgaard; Figlio, … - 2017

It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family, because of the common shocks and reflection problems. We make use of a novel identification strategy and unique data in order to gain some purchase on this problem. We employ data from the universe of children born in...

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Loss of peers and individual worker performance : evidence from H-1B visa denials

Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Doran, Kirk B.; Marinoni, Astrid; … - 2022

We study how restrictive immigration policies and the unexpected loss of peers affect the performance of skilled migrants, exploiting the unexpected increased denials of H-1B visa extensions in the United States beginning in 2017. We find that employees who lost peers of the same ethnic...

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