We review the evidence on social incentives, namely on how social interactions with
colleagues, subordinates, bosses, customers, and others shape agents' effort choices in …

This chapter surveys the contributions of laboratory experiments to labor economics. We
begin with a discussion of methodological issues: when (and why) is a lab experiment the …

Game theory, the formalized study of strategy, began in the 1940s by asking how
emotionless geniuses should play games, but ignored until recently how average people …

This paper provides an overview of the existing theoretical and empirical work on the
provision of incentives. It reviews the costs and benefits of many types of pay-for …

In this novel introduction to modern microeconomic theory, Samuel Bowles returns to the
classical economists' interest in the wealth and poverty of nations and people, the workings …

We study peer effects in the workplace. Specifically, we investigate whether, how, and why
the productivity of a worker depends on the productivity of coworkers in the same team …

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, affected the US airline industry more than
almost any other industry. Certain airlines emerged successful and demonstrated …

In this chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM)
and productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many non …

This paper identifies and evaluates rationales for team participation and for the effects of
team composition on productivity using novel data from a garment plant that shifted from …

This paper reports on a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of
women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate …