Temporary workers are not free-riders : an experimental investigation

Davide Dragone, Fabio Galeotti, Raimondello Orsini

We conduct an artefactual field experiment to study whether the individual preferences and propensity to cooperate of temporary workers differ from permanent contract workers. We find that temporary and permanent contract workers have different other-regarding preferences, but display similar contribution patterns in an anonymous Public Good Game. Students, instead, are more selfish and contribute less than temporary and permanent workers.

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Year of publication:	10 December 2013
Authors:	Dragone, Davide ; Galeotti, Fabio ; Orsini, Raimondello
Publisher:	Bologna, Italy : Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Department of Economics
Subject:	Temporary Worker \| Decomposed Prisoner Dilemma \| Dictator Game \| Public Good Game \| Field Experiment \| Experiment \| Öffentliche Güter \| Public goods \| Spieltheorie \| Game theory \| Gefangenendilemma \| Prisoner's dilemma \| Befristete Beschäftigung \| Temporary employment \| Feldforschung \| Field research \| Trittbrettfahrerverhalten \| Free rider problem \| Leiharbeit \| Temporary agency work

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