Despite the prevalence of non-routine analytical team tasks in modern economies, little is known about how incentives influence performance in these tasks. In a field experiment with more than 3000 participants, we document a positive effect of bonus incentives on the probability of completion...

Filing income tax returns or insurance claims often requires that individuals comply with complex rules to meet their obligations. We present evidence from a laboratory tax experiment suggesting that the effects of complexity on compliance are intrinsically linked to distributive fairness. We...

We conduct a field experiment where we vary both the presence of a gift-exchange wage and the effect of the worker's effort on the manager's payoff. Results indicate a strong complementarity between the initial wage-gift and the agent's ability to "repay the gift". We control for differences in...

Filing income tax returns or insurance claims often requires that individuals comply with complex rules to meet their obligations. We present evidence from a laboratory tax experiment suggesting that the effects of complexity on compliance are intrinsically linked to distributive fairness. We...

Homeoffice war und ist ein wichtiges Instrument in der Corona-bedingten Krise und wird voraussichtlich auch den Arbeitsalltag der Zukunft stark prägen. Dieser Beitrag stellt die Ergebnisse einer Umfrage unter Manager*innen und Personalverantwortlichen deutscher Unternehmen zur Auswirkung von...

Das ifo Institut befragte Manager*innen und Personalverantwortliche deutscher Unternehmen zu den getroffenen Maßnahmen während der Krise und Erwartungen hinsichtlich zukünftiger Veränderungen der Arbeitswelt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen den Anstieg digitaler Lösungen als Reaktion auf die...

The Microfinance industry has been severely affected by Covid-19. We provide detailed insights into how loan officers, the key personnel linking the lender to its borrowers, are affected in their performance and adapt their work to the pandemic. We use administrative records of an Indian...

Der ifo Geschäftsklimaindex wird häufig als repräsentative Umfrage herangezogen, die u.a. den Digitalisierungsfortschritt deutscher Unternehmen erfasst. Die erhobenen Daten finden in Deutschland eine große mediale Aufmerksamkeit. Im Gegensatz dazu haben die Metadaten dieser Umfrage, die...

Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but also render teams' identity and social-image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a non-routine task and identify the importance of these...