Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46075 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5460
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
While intuition suggests that empowering workers to have some say in the control of the firm is likely to have beneficial incentive effects, empirical evidence of such an effect is hard to come by because of numerous confounding factors in the naturally occurring data. We report evidence from a real-effort experiment confirming that worker performance is sensitive to the process used to select the compensation contract. Groups of workers that voted to determine their compensation scheme provided significantly more effort than groups that had no say in how they would be compensated. This effect is robust to controls for the compensation scheme implemented and worker characteristics (i.e., ability and gender).
Subjects: 
real-effort experiment
workplace democracy
decision control rights
JEL: 
C92
J33
J54
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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