More effort with less pay: On information avoidance, belief design and performance
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- Szech, Nora & Huck, Steffen & Wenner, Lukas, 2016. "More Effort with Less Pay: On Information Avoidance, Belief Design, and Performance," VfS Annual Conference 2016 (Augsburg): Demographic Change 145644, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
- Steffen Huck & Nora Szech & Lukas M. Wenner, 2015. "More Effort with Less Pay: On Information Avoidance, Belief Design and Performance," CESifo Working Paper Series 5542, CESifo.
- Huck, Steffen & Szech, Nora & Wenner, Lukas M., 2015. "More effort with less pay: On information avoidance, belief design and performance," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change SP II 2015-304r, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
- Huck, Steffen & Szech, Nora & Wenner, Lukas M., 2015. "More effort with less pay: On information avoidance, belief design and performance," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change SP II 2015-304, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
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Keywords
Optimal Expectations; Belief Desing; Performance; Real Effort Task; Coarse Incentive Structures; Workplace Incentives;All these keywords.
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
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2015-10-17 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2015-10-17 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2015-10-17 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LMA-2015-10-17 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-NEU-2015-10-17 (Neuroeconomics)
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