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the theoretical benchmark with behavior observed in a one-shot experiment. …
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-effort experiment we vary two determinants of pay regimes: discrimination and justification of payments by performance. In our … Discrimination treatment half of the workforce is randomly selected and promoted and participate in a tournament (high-income workers … performance. When all payments are justified, that is in our Competition treatment where all workers participate in a tournament …
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. Our experiment investigates the impact of performance pay on both incentives and sorting and analyzes the influence of …
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(1981) tournament model. In a second experiment, we investigate the effectiveness of corporate value statements to encourage … benchmark is tested in an experiment. Furthermore, we provide the first clean one-shot experimental test of the Lazear and Rosen …
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The tendency to underestimate others’ relative performance compared to one’s own is widespread among individuals in all work environments. We examine the relationship between, and the driving forces behind, individual overconfidence and voluntary cooperation in team production. Our...
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experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that …
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We demonstrate that effectiveness of performance-contingent incentives is inversely related to individual risk-aversion levels through two mechanisms: 1) rational optimizing decisions about the amount of effort to supply when effort is positively correlated with risk exposure and 2) the possibly...
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experiment reproduces this model in the laboratory by means of various treatments in which we alter the variance of the …
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real effort experiment with participants who work directly for organizations with clear missions. Weeks before the … experiment, we survey potential participants for their organizational preferences. At the experiment, we randomly assign workers …
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experiment reproduces this model in the laboratory by means of various treatments in which we alter the variance of the …
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