TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Berger, Johannes
AU  - Herbertz, Claus
AU  - Sliwka, Dirk
        TI  - Incentives and Cooperation in Firms: Field Evidence
        PY  - 2011/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5618
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5618
        AB  - We empirically investigate the impact of incentive scheme structure on the degree of cooperation in firms using a unique and representative data set. Combining employee survey data with detailed firm level information on the relative importance of individual, team, and company performance for compensation, we find a significant positive relation between the intensity of team incentives and several survey measures of cooperation. Moreover, higher powered team incentives are associated with lower degrees of absenteeism while this is not the case for individual incentives.
        KW  - incentives
KW  - cooperation
KW  - teams
KW  - helping effort
        ER  -