observed increase productivity at least initially when compensation is team based, while we find that subjects observing react …. We consider both a piece rate compensation scheme, where pay depends solely on own performance, and a team compensation … scheme, where pay also depends on the performance of other team members. Overall, we find some evidence that subjects who are …

observed increase productivity at least initially when compensation is team based, while we find that subjects observing react …. We consider both a piece rate compensation scheme, where pay depends solely on own performance, and a team compensation … scheme, where pay also depends on the performance of other team members. Overall, we find some evidence that subjects who are …

worker performance and stress. Letting individuals choose whom to compare to increases productivity to the same extent as a …

worker performance and stress. Letting individuals choose whom to compare to increases productivity to the same extent as a …

setting of a simple production task. In our experiment, participants in the role of workers engage in a team real-effort task … field, we find no evidence that low-productivity workers perform better when they are observed by high-productivity co …-workers. Instead, our results imply that peer effects in our experiment are heterogeneous, with some workers reciprocating a high-productivity …

Should one expect a worker’s productivity, and thus wage, to depend on the productivity of his/her co-workers in the … same workplace, even if the workers carry out completely independent tasks and do not engage in team work? This may well be … the case because social interaction among co-workers can lead to productivity spillover through knowledge spillover or …