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worker effort
Description:
The labor input or work intensity supplied by employees, studied in labor economics and organizational research.
Primary topic:
Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (28%)
Related topics:
Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (28%),
Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (26%)
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Labor Contracts as Partial Gift Exchange
1982
·
George A. Akerlof
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics
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3,207
Peers at Work
2009
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Alexandre Mas
, Enrico Moretti
·
American Economic Review
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1,274
Putting Behavioral Economics to Work: Testing for Gift Exchange in Labor Markets Using Field Experiments
2006
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Uri Gneezy
, John A List
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Econometrica
·
699
PDF
A Theory of Dual Labor Markets with Application to Industrial Policy, Discrimination and Keynesian Unemployment
1985
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Jeremy Bulow
, Lawrence Summers
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National Bureau of Economic Research
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664
PDF
Gift Exchange and Efficiency-Wage Theory: Four Views
1984
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George A. Akerlof
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American Economic Review
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629
The labor economics of paid crowdsourcing
2010
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John Joseph Horton
, Lydia B. Chilton
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ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC)
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615
PDF
Wage Rigidity in a Competitive Incomplete Contract Market
1999
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Ernst Fehr
, Armin Falk
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Journal of Political Economy
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533
Efficiency Wage Theories: A Partial Evaluation
1986
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Lawrence F. Katz
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NBER Macroeconomics Annual
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480
A Theory of Dual Labor Markets with Application to Industrial Policy, Discrimination, and Keynesian Unemployment
1986
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Jeremy I. Bulow
, Lawrence H. Summers
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Journal of Labor Economics
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465
When Social Norms Overpower Competition: Gift Exchange in Experimental Labor Markets
1998
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Ernst Fehr
, Erich Kirchler
, et al.
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Journal of Labor Economics
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437
Productivity Under Group Incentives: An Experimental Study
1994
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Haig R. Nalbantian
, Andrew Schotter
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RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
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414
The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort: Absenteeism during and after Probation
2005
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Andrea Ichino
, Regina T. Riphahn
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Journal of the European Economic Association
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399
Breaking monotony with meaning: Motivation in crowdsourcing markets
2013
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Dana Chandler
, Adam Kapelner
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
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398
PDF
Quitters Never Win: The (Adverse) Incentive Effects of Competing with Superstars
2011
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Jennifer Brown
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Journal of Political Economy
·
380
Incentives for Helping on the Job: Theory and Evidence
1998
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Robert Drago
, Gerald T. Garvey
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Journal of Labor Economics
·
345
A theory of `yes men'
1993
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Canice Prendergast
·
American Economic Review
·
309
Designing fair AI for managing employees in organizations: a review, critique, and design agenda
2020
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Lionel P. Robert
, Casey Pierce
, et al.
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Human-Computer Interaction
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268
PDF
The Economics of Labor Coercion
2011
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Daron Acemoglu
, Alexander Wolitzky
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Econometrica
·
255
Does Pay Inequality Affect Worker Effort? Experimental Evidence
2007
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Gary Charness
, Peter Kuhn
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Journal of Labor Economics
·
246
Nominal Wage Rigidity in Village Labor Markets
2019
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Supreet Kaur
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American Economic Review
·
220
PDF
Responsibility and Effort in an Experimental Labor Market*
2016
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216
Compensation and Incentives in the Workplace
2018
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Edward P. Lazear
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The Journal of Economic Perspectives
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214
Efficiency Wage Theories: A Partial Evaluation
1986
·
Lawrence F. Katz
·
NBER Macroeconomics Annual
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214
PDF
Piece-Rate Incentive Schemes
1987
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Robert Gibbons
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Journal of Labor Economics
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200
A Test for Moral Hazard in the Labor Market: Contractual Arrangements, Effort, and Health
1994
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Andrew D. Foster
, Mark R. Rosenzweig
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The Review of Economics and Statistics
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197
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