Becchetti, Leonardo; Castriota, Stefano; Tortia, Ermanno - In: Small Business Economics 41 (2013) 2, pp. 379-399
There is a long-standing debate in labour economics on the impact of workers’ intrinsic motivations on equilibrium … motivations are expected to increase worker productivity and, in turn, wages (the intrinsic motivation-productivity hypothesis …. Evidence supporting the donative-labour hypothesis is weaker, even though a generally positive connection between motivations …