“...Most firms rely on subjective evaluations by supervisors to assess their employees' performance. This article discusses the implementation of such appraisal...”

“...It has been argued that guilt aversion (the aversion to violate others’ expectations) and the compliance to descriptive social norms (the aversion to act...”

“...An explanation for motivation crowding-out phenomena is developed in a social preferences framework. Besides selfish and fair or altruistic types, a third type...”

“...We study the performance effects of payment schemes for freelancers offering services on an online platform in an RCT. Under the initial scheme, the firm pays...”

“...We derive a natural definition of responsibility in a formal model in which employees care for their career prospects: A superior holds a subordinate...”

“...We study the compensation of gig workers in a natural field experiment. To derive testable predictions, this paper presents a formal model capturing a central...”

“...We discuss a principal-agent model in which the principal has the opportunity to include a noncompete agreement in the employment contract. We show that not...”

“...We examine the benefits of objective performance measurement in a field experiment conducted in a retail bank. At the outset objective performance measures of...”

“...It is often claimed that supervisors do not differentiate enough between high and low performing employees when evaluating performance. The purpose of this...”