More effort with less pay: On information avoidance, optimistic beliefs, and performance
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Keywords
optimal expectations; belief design; performance; real effort task; coarse incentive structures; workplace incentives;JEL classification:
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- D84 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Expectations; Speculations
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- M52 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2017-12-03 (Cognitive & Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2017-12-03 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2017-12-03 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LMA-2017-12-03 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, & Wages)
- NEP-NEU-2017-12-03 (Neuroeconomics)
- NEP-UPT-2017-12-03 (Utility Models & Prospect Theory)
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