Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33177 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1851
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
When working together, people engage in non-contractual and informal interactions that constitute the sociology of the group. We use behavioral models and a unique survey of medical groups to analyze how group sociology influences physician incentive pay and behavior. We conclude that informal interactions among group members influence pay practices and behaviors, but the relationship is complex. No single aspect of group sociology is entirely consistent with all the patterns in the data. Factors emphasized in the economic theory of agency, notably risk aversion, also shape pay policies but these factors cannot account for all the observed empirical relationships.
Subjects: 
incentives
social norms
physicians
JEL: 
D21
D22
J40
J41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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