It's not you, it's me: an experimental study of employers' wage setting behavior

Using an intergenerational trilateral laboratory gift-exchange game, we investigate how employers' own performance in a real effort task impacts on the wage setting behavior of younger and older employers. We find that the employers' own past performance strongly affects wage setting behavior, though we do not find significant differences concerning the employers' or employees' age.

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Year of publication:	2014-10-06
Authors:	Kulesz, Micaela M. ; Dittrich, Dennis A. V.
Published in:	Economics Bulletin. - AccessEcon, ISSN 1545-2921. - Vol. 34.2014, 4, p. 2142-2150
Publisher:	AccessEcon
Subject:	responsibility alleviation \| warm-glow \| laboratory experiment

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Extent:	application/pdf
Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs ; C9 - Design of Experiments
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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