Peer Pressure, Incentives, and Gender: An Experimental Analysis of Motivation in the Workplace
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- Bellemare, Charles & Lepage, Patrick & Shearer, Bruce, 2010. "Peer pressure, incentives, and gender: An experimental analysis of motivation in the workplace," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 17(1), pages 276-283, January.
- Charles Bellemare & Patrick Lepage & Bruce Shearer, 2009. "Peer Pressure, Incentives, and Gender: an Experimental Analysis of Motivation in the Workplace," Cahiers de recherche 0901, CIRPEE.
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piece rates; fixed wages; peer effects; gender;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- M52 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2009-01-31 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2009-01-31 (Labour Economics)
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