The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of competitive compensation between a manager and a worker in the laboratory. To this end, we impose a simple agency relationship between two groups of subjects termed managers and workers. The manager chooses a compensation scheme for the...

Previous experimental evidence has documented that competition may enhance the performance of male subjects relative to female subjects in some tasks. In these studies competition in wages is imposed exogenously by the experimenter. This note describes data for a task where a simple agency...