Career mobility theory suggests that given a certain occupation, schooling improves upward mobility in terms of … promotion and wage growth. We are the first to test the implications of this theory for over- and under-education by means of …. Altogether, these findings strongly support the career mobility theory. Furthermore, by differentiating between internal and …

This paper tests two hypotheses from the theory of elimination tournaments: (i) that uneven tournaments, where the … contestants are ex ante heterogeneous, entail lower effort exertion; this is a prediction from agency theory that has not been … underlies any agency theory about elimination tournaments, and has been empirically tested in other contexts. The evidence …

supply using a real effort experiment. Two results stand out. First, no one theory seems to fit the pooled data. On average …. Given recent interest in theories of reciprocity and intrinsic motivation and their implications for effort provision, the … neoclassical prediction seems less obvious today. To better understand the motivation of these workers, I estimate their labor …

, however, with a minority of workers report crowding in of motivation. Thus, the impact of performance pay might depend on the …

data regression are used to analyze an empirical model based on the theory of hedonic labour market outcomes. These …

data regression are used to analyze an empirical model based on the theory of hedonic labour market outcomes. These …