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Who benefits from benefits? Empirical research on tangible incentives

Hammermann, Andrea; Mohnen, Alwine - 2012

Although a broad field of literature on incentive theory exists, employer-provided tangible goods (hereafter called benefits) have so far been neglected by economic research. A remarkable exception is an empirical study by Oyer (2008). In our study, we test some of his findings by drawing on a...

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Police and crime: Evidence from dictated delays in centralized police hiring

Buonanno, Paolo; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2012

This paper exploits dictated delays in local police hiring by a centralized national authority to break the … simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which … requested police officers are recruited and become operational. We show that this endogeneity vanishes once, controlling for …

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Behavioral Effects of Probation Periods: An Analysis of Worker Absenteeism

Riphahn, Regina T.; Thalmaier, Anja - 1999

The theoretical probation literature shows that individuals have incentives to mimick "good workers" during periods of employment probation. This study empirically tests at the example of absence behavior, whether such behavioral responses to the incentives of probation periods exist. We find...

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Reference dependent preferences and the impact of wage increases on job satisfaction: theory and evidence

Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2005

The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored theoretically and empirically. To do this, we apply a utility function that rises with the absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. It is shown that when employees can influence their wages by exerting effort, myopic utility...

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Does Monitoring Decrease Work Effort? : The Complementarity Between Agency and Crowding-Out Theories

Dickinson, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2004

motivation is crowded out when monitoring is above a certain threshold. We identify that both interpersonal principal/agent links …

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Incentives and prosocial behavior

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2005

We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. Rewards or punishments (whether material or image-related) create doubt about the true motive for which good deeds are performed and this...

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Self-regulation through goal setting

Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2008

Goals are an important source of motivation. But little is known about why and how people set them. We address these …

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Performance appraisals and the impact of forced distribution: An experimental investigation

Berger, Johannes; Harbring, Christine; Sliwka, Dirk - 2010

A real effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in turn receive a bonus payment based on these ratings. We compare a baseline treatment in which supervisors were not restricted in their rating behavior to a forced distribution...

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Pro-social missions and worker motivation: An experimental study

Fehrler, Sebastian; Kosfeld, Michael - 2012

mission-oriented organizations is important to explain empirical findings of lower wages and high motivation in the latter. …

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Run for fun: Intrinsic motivation and physical performance

Filippin, Antonio; van Ours, Jan C. - 2012

We use data from the 24-hours Belluno run which has the unique characteristic that participants are affiliated with teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also to study group dynamics in terms of accessions to and...

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