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Performance pay and the erosion of worker cooperation: field experimental evidence

Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Goette, Lorenz - 2006

Switzerland and that entering messengers must work in performance pay firms in the U.S. We find that the erosion of cooperation …

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Performance Pay and the Erosion of Worker Cooperation: Field Experimental Evidence

Burks, Stephen; Carpenter, Jeffrey; Goette, Lorenz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Switzerland and that entering messengers must work in performance pay firms in the U.S. We find that the erosion of cooperation …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703260

It Hurts to Ask

Benabou, Roland; Jaroszewicz, Ania; Loewenstein, George - 2022

We analyze the offering, asking, and granting of help or other benefits as a three-stage game with bilateral private information between a person in need of help and a potential help-giver. Asking entails the risk of rejection, which can be painful: since unawareness of the need can no longer be...

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In-Group Cooperation in a Hostile Environment: An Economic Perspective on Some Aspects of Jewish Life in (Pre-Modern) Diaspora

Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - 2002

incentives to switch affiliation and/or location in a dual environment, where potential gains from in-group cooperation for the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262769

In-Group Cooperation in a Hostile Environment: An Economic Perspective on Some Aspects of Jewish Life in (Pre-Modern) Diaspora

Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

incentives to switch affiliation and/or location in a dual environment, where potential gains from in-group cooperation for the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762433

Incentive Contracts Crowd Out Voluntary Cooperation: Evidence from Gift-Exchange Experiments

Gächter, Simon; Kaiser, Esther; Königstein, Manfred - 2024

Explicit and implicit incentives and opportunities for mutually beneficial voluntary cooperation co-exist in many … crowding out of voluntary cooperation even after incentives have been abolished. This crowding out occurs also in repeated … voluntary cooperation while exposed to incentives. Overall, our findings show that the behavioral consequences of explicit …

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A Vague Theory of Choice over Time

Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - 2004

We propose a novel approach to modelling time preferences, based on a cognitive shortcoming of human decision makers: the perception of future events becomes increasingly ?blurred? as the events are pushed further in time. We axiomatise a class of preference representations which can be...

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Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation? On the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Altruism

Fehr, Ernst; Henrich, Joseph - 2003

. Strong reciprocity means that people willingly repay gifts and punish the violation of cooperation and fairness norms even in … that ultimate theories of kin selection, reciprocal altruism, costly signalling and indirect reciprocity do not provide …

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Male and female competitive behavior: experimental evidence

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, … - 2005

Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a tournament and a piece-rate pay scheme before performing a real...

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Career consequences of hyperbolic time preferences

Drago, Francesco - 2006

In this paper I address theoretically and assess empirically the effect of impatience on workers' on-the-job behavior. Theoretically, short-run impatience explains several empirical regularities concerning job mobility and account for different on-the-job behaviors. On-the-job search on one hand...

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