Arbeitspapier
Tournament incentives in the field: gender differences in the workplace
We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we introduced short-term sales competitions among subsets of stores. We find that sales competitions have a large effect on sales growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably, results are alike for sales competitions with and without monetary rewards, suggesting a high symbolic value of winning a tournament. Lastly, despite the substantial variation in team size, we find no evidence for free-riding.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4395
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Field Experiments
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Personnel Economics: Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
- Thema
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Field experiment
gender differences
competition
sales contests
awards
Extensives Spiel
Gruppenarbeit
Geschlecht
Arbeitsplatz
Feldforschung
Einzelhandel
Sonderverkauf
Niederlande
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Delfgaauw, Josse
Dur, Robert
Sol, Joeri
Verbeke, Willem
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2009
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-20091009969
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Delfgaauw, Josse
- Dur, Robert
- Sol, Joeri
- Verbeke, Willem
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2009