in both parts of Germany. Surprisingly, intrinsic motivation in the absence of control is very similar among East and …Do politico-economic systems influence how control affects motivation? We hypothesize that control aversion, meaning … crowding-out of intrinsic motivation due to enforcement, has evolved less under the coercive regime of East Germany than under …

We conduct a real-effort experiment to test whether workers reciprocate generous wages by managers when workers are … the workers' motivation. We observe that the temptation of the internet hampers workers' willingness to reciprocate fair … wages. Yet, when the manager makes an active choice not to deny internet access, workers perceive the "freedom from control …

This paper reports an experiment designed to assess the influence of workplace arrangements on the reactions to (the … absence of) control. We compare behavior in an Internet and a laboratory principal-agent game where the principal can control … laboratory, and there is a larger physically-oriented social distance between them. Control is significantly more effective …

decisions. We show that West German workers with an internal locus of control sort into jobs with performance appraisals …. Appraisals provide workers who believe they control their environment a tool to demonstrate their value and achieve their goals … influence of the locus of control and risk tolerance should not be additive. We demonstrate this by estimating a routinely large …

decisions. We show that West German workers with an internal locus of control sort into jobs with performance appraisals …. Appraisals provide workers who believe they control their environment a tool to demonstrate their value and achieve their goals … influence of the locus of control and risk tolerance should not be additive. We demonstrate this by estimating a routinely large …

By conducting a natural field experiment, we test whether a managerial policy of allowing employees to self …

We implement a laboratory experiment in which a principal has to decide on monitoring intensity and pay to investigate … be complements. The between-treatment variation in our experiment is qualitatively in line with the normative prediction …

rewards to performance increases effort, but that they can also backfire, reducing effort. Intrinsic motivation, the internal …. If the incentives crowd-out intrinsic motivation, and the effect is large enough, the net motivational effect on effort …, is one facet of intrinsic motivation, triggered by the combination of high-powered incentives and egoistic principal …