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Heterogeneous Contestants andEffort Provision in Tournaments - anEmpirical Investigation withProfessional Sports Data
Berger, Johannes; Nieken, Petra - Universität <Bonn> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher … - 2010
We empirically investigate if tournaments between heterogeneous contestants are less intensive. To test our hypotheses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354146
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Team Incentives: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
composition. We present evidence from a field experiment designed to evaluate the impact of rank incentives and tournaments on the … productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … incentives only reduce the productivity of teams at the bottom of the productivity distribution, and monetary prize tournaments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083724
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Team Incentives: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
composition. We present evidence from a field experiment designed to evaluate the impact of rank incentives and tournaments on the … productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … incentives only reduce the productivity of teams at the bottom of the productivity distribution, and monetary prize tournaments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422064
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Team incentives: Evidence from a firm level experiment
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - 2012
composition. We present evidence from a field experiment designed to evaluate the impact of rank incentives and tournaments on the … productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … incentives only reduce the productivity of teams at the bottom of the productivity distribution, and monetary prize tournaments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282519
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Social Connections and Incentives in the Workplace: Evidence from Personnel Data
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - London School of Economics and Political Science; … - 2006
We present evidence on the effect of social connections between workers and managerson productivity in the workplace. To evaluate whether the existence of social connections isbeneficial to the firm’s overall performance, we explore how the effects of social connectionsvary with the strength...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870992
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Incentives and Cooperation in Firms:Field Evidence
Berger, Johannes; Herbertz, Claus; Sliwka, Dirk - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We empirically investigate the impact of incentive scheme structure on the degree ofcooperation in firms using a unique and representative data set. Combining employee surveydata with detailed firm level information on the relative importance of individual, team, andcompany performance for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360533
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Design and Implementation of Pay for Performance
Gibbs, Michael - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
A large, mature and robust economic literature on pay for performance now exists, whichprovides a useful framework for thinking about pay for performance systems. I use thelessons of the literature to discuss how to design and implement pay for performance inpractice....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486962
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Performance Pay and Wage Inequality
Lemieux, Thomas; MacLeod, William Bentley; Parent, Daniel - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We document that an increasing fraction of jobs in the U.S. labor market explicitly payworkers for their performance using bonuses, commissions, or piece-rates. We find thatcompensation in performance-pay jobs is more closely tied to both observed (by theeconometrician) and unobserved productive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862774
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How creative are you? : an experimental study on self-selection in a competitive incentive scheme for creative performance
Bradler, Christiane - 2015
Economic theory suggests that performance pay may serve as an effective screening device to attract productive agents. The existing evidence on the self-selection of agents is largely limited to job tasks where performance is driven by routine, well-defined procedures. This study presents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498559
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Relative performance pay, bonuses, and job-promotion tournaments
Kräkel, Matthias; Schöttner, Anja - 2008
recruitment is observable on nearly any hierarchy level. We explain these empirical puzzles by combining job-promotion tournaments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343925