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We present results from a field experiment testing the gift-exchange hypothesis inside a treeplantingfirm paying its …
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but decreases substantially, if the bonus is not paid. This is consistent with negative reciprocity by workers who …
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In this paper we study the economic effects of risk attitudes, time preferences, trust and reciprocity while we compare … the two groups mainly in terms of risk attitudes and positive reciprocity. Second generation migrants have a significantly … higher willingness to take risks and they are less likely to have a low amount of positive reciprocity when compared to …
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behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are permanently facing exchange processes in the interplay with investors, sellers, and … buyers, as well as needing to trust others and reciprocate with their network. We base our analysis on the German Socio …-Economic Panel and recently introduced questions about trust, positive reciprocity, and negative reciprocity to examine the extent …
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of the U.S. population, oversampling immigrants, to study trust, positive, and negative reciprocity between first …
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-buying can be sustained by an internalized norm of reciprocity. Receiving money engenders feelings of obligation. Combining … survey data on vote-buying with an experiment-based measure of reciprocity, we show that politicians target reciprocal …
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which includes reciprocity (Dufwenberg and Kirchsteiger, 2004) and guilt aversion (Battigalli and Dufwenberg, 2007) as … effect of reciprocity in the games we consider. Our bounds suggest the model of reciprocity we consider is not a significant …
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We document the importance of negatively reciprocal inclinations in labor relationships by showing that a retrenchment of pension rights, which is perceived as unfair, causes a larger reduction in job motivation the stronger workers' negatively reciprocal inclinations are. We exploit unique...
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Empirical work on Akerlof's theory of gift exchange in labor markets has concentrated on the fair wage …, it is not the consequence of a stronger level of reciprocity by agents, but of the retrenchment of sanctioning options on …
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-person gift-exchange experiments. Consistent with Akerlof and Yellen's (1990) fair wage-effort hypothesis we find that …
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