Awards at work

Labour Economics

Volumn 31, Issue , 2014, Pages 205-217

  Neckermann, Susanne ^a,d   Cueni, Reto ^b   Frey, Bruno S ^c,e  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ZEW ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d ZEPPELIN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e CREMA CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Employee awards; Insider econometrics; Non pecuniary rewards; Worker effort

Indexed keywords

EID: 84912027209     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2014.04.002     Document Type: Article

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