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incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for …
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incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011459389
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250173
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. …
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Incentives often distort behavior: they induce agents to exert effort but this effort is not employed optimally. This … paper proposes a theory of incentive design allowing for such distorted behavior. At the heart of the theory is a trade …-off between getting the agent to exert effort and ensuring that this effort is used well. The theory covers various moral …
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choose between (low-powered) team incentives and (high-powered) individual incentives. We observe that subjects exhibiting … high trust or reciprocity in the trust game are more likely to choose team incentives. When exposed to individual … incentives, workers who chose team incentives perform worse if both the unobservable interdependency between workers and their …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057261
It is difficult to test the prediction that future career prospects create implicit effort incentives because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442390
To test and replicate the superstar effect reported by Brown (2011) we empirically study contests where a single entrant has an endogenously higher probability of winning. Unlike the previous literature, we test for the presence of the superstar effect in several different contexts. Ultimately,...
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It is difficult to test the prediction that future career prospects create implicit effort incentives because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011808006