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- URN to cite this document:
- urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-453926
- DOI to cite this document:
- 10.5283/epub.45392
Abstract
I study the effect of task difficulty on workers’ effort. I find that task difficulty has an inverse-U effect on effort and that this effect is quantitatively large, especially when compared to the effect of conditional monetary rewards. Difficulty acts as a mediator of monetary rewards: conditional rewards are most effective at the intermediate or high levels of difficulty. The inverse-U pattern ...
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