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Workers' participation in wage setting and opportnistic behaviour : evidence from a gift-exchange experiment

Franke, Jörg; Gurtoviy, Ruslan; Mertins, Vanessa - 2014

Our study analyzes the consequences of workers' participation in the wage setting process on effort exertion. The … is systematically varied among the workers. The experimental data reveals that workers' participation leads actually to a … decline in effort exertion which can be explained by negative reciprocity of the respective worker. These results put some …

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Sabotage in Tournaments:Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

Harbring, Christine; Irlenbusch, Bernd - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

Although relative performance schemes are pervasive in organizations reliable empirical dataon induced sabotage behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in acontrolled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm one of the key insights from theory:effort and sabotage...

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Sabotage in tournaments: evidence from a laboratory experiment

Harbring, Christine; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2009

Although relative performance schemes are pervasive in organizations reliable empirical data on induced sabotage behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm one of the key insights from theory: effort and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268946

Sabotage in Tournaments: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

Harbring, Christine; Irlenbusch, Bernd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Although relative performance schemes are pervasive in organizations reliable empirical data on induced sabotage behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm one of the key insights from theory: effort and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980267

Sabotage in Tournaments : Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

Harbring, Christine - 2009

Although relative performance schemes are pervasive in organizations reliable empirical data on induced sabotage behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm one of the key insights from theory: effort and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158876

Sabotage in tournaments : evidence from a laboratory experiment

Harbring, Christine; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2009

curbs sabotage due to agreements on flat prize structures and increased output. -- Sabotage ; tournament ; reciprocity …

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Workers' participation in wage setting : a gift-exchange experiment

Franke, Jörg; Gurtoviy, Ruslan; Mertins, Vanessa - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 56 (2016), pp. 151-162

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Workers participation in wage setting and opportunistic behavior : evidence from a gift-exchange experiment

Franke, Jörg; Gurtoviy, Ruslan; Mertins, Vanessa - 2014

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Performance pay and multi-dimensional sorting: productivity, preferences and gender

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - 2006

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first step we elicit subjects' productivity levels. Subjects then face the choice between a fixed or a variable payment scheme. Depending on the treatment, the variable payment is...

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Incentives in Tournaments with Endogenous Prize Selection

Harbring, Christine; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2004

Tournament incentive schemes offer payments dependent on relative performance and thereby are intended to motivate agents to exert productive effort. Unfortunately, however, an agent may also be tempted to destroy the production of his competitors in order to improve the own relative position....

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