; productivity ; ability ; piece rates ; tournament ; revenue sharing ; risk preferences ; overconfidence ; gender ; experiment …This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first …. Depending on the treatment, the variable payment is either a piece rate, a tournament or a revenue-sharing scheme. We elicit …

-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 …

This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament …

This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament …

effort. In an experiment in which the rate of effort needed to achieve the standard was held constant, participants facing …

bonus is substantial. In this case, however, the data suggests that tournament competition crowds out voluntary cooperation …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first …. Depending on the treatment, the variable payment is either a piece rate, a tournament or a revenue-sharing scheme. We elicit … findings are as follows. First, output is much higher in the variable pay schemes (piece rate, tournament, and revenue sharing …

experiment reproduces this model in the laboratory by means of various treatments in which we alter the variance of the …