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-agent model where the opposite signalling effect is hypothesised: a higher price is taken as an indication for a lower value. …
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-agent model where the opposite signalling effect is hypothesised: a higher price is taken as an indication for a lower value. …
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There is a longstanding concern that material rewards might undermine pro-social motivations, thereby leading to a decrease in blood donations. This paper provides an empirical test of how material rewards affect blood donations in a three-month large-scale field experiment and a fifteen-month...
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The paper studies the impact of altruism on Agent's motivation in career concerns model. The paper shows the new … channel of interaction between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation: while the literature usually argues that intrinsic … motivation can be crowded out by the extrinsic incentives, I show that crowding-out effect can go in the opposite direction …
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this article, we investigate whether intrinsic motivation affects the sorting of employees between the private and the … public sectors, paying particular attention to whether extrinsic rewards crowd out intrinsic motivation. Using British … that the sector offers. We also find evidence supporting the intrinsic motivation crowding out hypothesis, in that, higher …
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informed about her ability and her motivation. Firms differ both in their production technology and in the mission they pursue …. When the difference is not very high, then agent types sort themselves by motivation: the mission-oriented firm hires … worker is paid less by the mission-oriented firm. Such an earnings penalty is driven entirely by motivation, is increasing in …
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productive ability nor the intrinsic motivation of the job applicant. We completely characterize the set of optimal contracts … according to whether motivation or ability is the main determinant of the worker's performance. We show that it is always in the …, when motivation is very high, incentives force the firm to pay higher informational rents, to increase effort distorsions …
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Suppose an altruistic person, A, is willing to transfer resources to a second person, B, if B comes upon hard times. If B anticipates that A will act in this manner, B will save too little from both agents' point of view. This is the Samaritan's dilemma. The logic of the dilemma has been...
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Suppose an altruistic person, A, is willing to transfer resources to a second person, B, if B comes upon hard times. If B anticipates that A will act in this manner, B will save too little from both agents' point of view. This is the Samaritan's dilemma. The logic of the dilemma has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014075005