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Career prospects and effort incentives : evidence from professional soccer

Miklós-Thal, Jeanine; Ullrich, Hannes - 2014

It is difficult to test the prediction that future career prospects create implicit effort incentives because researchers cannot randomly “assign” career prospects to economic agents. To overcome this challenge, we use data from professional soccer, where employees of the same club face...

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Career prospects and effort incentives : evidence from professional soccer

Miklós-Thal, Jeanine; Ullrich, Hannes - 2014

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Performance Pay and Multidimensional Sorting - Productivity, Preferences and Gender

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - 2011

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. Subjects face the choice between a fixed and a variable payment scheme. Depending on the treatment, the variable payment is a piece rate, a tournament or a revenue-sharing scheme. We find...

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Performance Pay and Multidimensional Sorting - Productivity, Preferences and Gender

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

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Performance pay and multidimensional sorting : productivity, preferences and gender

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - 2011

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When higher prizes lead to lower efforts—The impact of favoritism in tournaments

Herbertz, Claus; Sliwka, Dirk - In: Economics Letters 120 (2013) 2, pp. 188-191

We investigate the relationship between tournament prices and effort choices in the presence of favoritism. High tournament prizes can decrease agents’ effort supply when the choice of the winner is not perfectly objective but affected to some extent by personal preferences of an evaluator.

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Incentives Versus Sorting in Tournaments: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sonnemans, Joep; van … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

A vast body of empirical studies lends support to the incentive effects of rank-order tournaments. Evidence comes from … tournaments may bias these non-experimental studies, whereas short task duration or lack of distracters may limit the external … where students selected themselves into tournaments with different prizes. Within each tournament the best performing …

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Person-organization fit and incentives : a causal test

Andersson, Ola; Huysentruyt, Marieke; Miettinen, Topi; … - 2014

find that prosocial (proself) orientated subjects exert more (less) effort in team contests in the primed prosocial …

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How creative are you? : an experimental study on self-selection in a competitive incentive scheme for creative performance

Bradler, Christiane - 2015

Economic theory suggests that performance pay may serve as an effective screening device to attract productive agents. The existing evidence on the self-selection of agents is largely limited to job tasks where performance is driven by routine, well-defined procedures. This study presents...

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Incentives to lose revisited : the NHL and its tournament incentives

Fornwagner, Helena - 2017

This paper analyzes data from a tournament, namely the National Hockey League regular scheduled season of games, which provides incentives to increase effort in order to reach the playoffs and incentives to decrease effort once a team has been eliminated from playoff considerations because of...

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