incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for …

incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for …

It is difficult to test the prediction that future career prospects create implicit effort incentives because …

It is difficult to test the prediction that future career prospects create implicit effort incentives because …

performance - in particular, tournament incentives - induce more stress than schemes that are independent of performance - fixed … self-reported feelings of stress and primary appraisals. We find that tournament incentives induce a stress response … incentives schemes is not a relevant criterion for sorting decisions in our experiment. Finally, we find that cortisol levels are …

that increase the incentives of relatively more able workers, heterogeneity is unlikely to be as detrimental as commonly … perceived for incentives in organizations with multiple hierarchy levels. Heterogeneity of the workforce may even be optimal … from the perspective of a firm that provides incentives using a multi-stage promotion contest …

This monograph presents existing and new research on three approaches to multiagent incentives: simpler mechanisms …

reduce the effort costs of a worker, and analyze the optimal combination of motivational effort and monetary incentives. We … conditions under which monetary incentives and motivational effort are substitutes or complements, and show that motivational …

that increase the incentives of relatively more able workers, heterogeneity is unlikely to be as detrimental as commonly … perceived for incentives in organizations with multiple hierarchy levels. Heterogeneity of the workforce may even be optimal … from the perspective of a firm that provides incentives using a multi-stage promotion contest. …