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
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4395

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Field Experiments
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Personnel Economics: Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
Thema
Field experiment
gender differences
competition
sales contests
awards
Extensives Spiel
Gruppenarbeit
Geschlecht
Arbeitsplatz
Feldforschung
Einzelhandel
Sonderverkauf
Niederlande

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Delfgaauw, Josse
Dur, Robert
Sol, Joeri
Verbeke, Willem
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2009

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-20091009969
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Delfgaauw, Josse
  • Dur, Robert
  • Sol, Joeri
  • Verbeke, Willem
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2009

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