Peer pressure, incentives, and gender: An experimental analysis of motivation in the workplace

Labour Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 276-283

  Bellemare, Charles ^a,b   Lepage, Patrick ^b   Shearer, Bruce ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b CIRPÉE ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Fixed wages; Gender; Peer effects; Piece rates

Indexed keywords

EID: 73549084768     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2009.07.004     Document Type: Article

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