TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Jones, Daniel
AU  - Tonin, Mirco
AU  - Vlassopoulos, Michael
        TI  - Paying for What Kind of Performance? Performance Pay and Multitasking in Mission-Oriented Jobs
        PY  - 2018/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11674
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp11674
        AB  - How does pay-for-performance (P4P) impact productivity, multitasking, and the composition of workers in mission-oriented jobs? These are central issues in sectors like education or healthcare. We conduct a laboratory experiment, manipulating compensation and mission, to answer these questions. We find that P4P has positive effects on productivity on the incentivized dimension of effort and negative effects on the non-incentivized dimension for workers in non-mission-oriented treatments. In mission-oriented treatments, P4P generates minimal change on either dimension. Participants in the non-mission sector – but not in the mission-oriented treatments – sort on ability, with lower ability workers opting out of the P4P scheme.
        KW  - multitasking
KW  - performance pay
KW  - prosocial motivation
KW  - sorting
        ER  -