responds to incentives. Our first finding, like some previous studies, lends little support to the view that incentives … data aggregated to the day. Our data allow us to look within the workday. We find that workers do respond to incentives …

behavior through incentives. We study the impact of these two roles of information on profits by implementing a field … experiment in a large retail chain. In a 2 × 2 factorial design, we vary: (i) whether store managers obtain access to decision …

There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in self …

theory, substantiated by the new empirical evidence, suggests that it is not large firms, per se, but firms that hire better …

peer group pressure to participate in training courses and raises incentives to help co-workers. In order to eliminate …

positive reaction. This finding is consistent with Queuing theory …

employers' decision to invest in employee training. We combine survey data on investment activities with administrative data on …

We analyze workers' risk preferences and training investments. Our conceptual frame- work differentiates between the … investment risk and insurance mechanisms underpin- ning training decisions. Investment risk leads risk-averse workers to train …) to demonstrate that risk affinity is associated with more training, implying that, on average, investment risks dominate …