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Co-employment of permanently and temporarily employed agents

Güth, Werner; Kocher, Martin; Angelova, Vera - 2010

react negatively by withholding effort. -- principal-agent problem ; permanent and temporary employment ; fairness ; wage …

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Exploring the effects of unequal and secretive pay

Fischer, Sven; Steiger, Eva-Maria - 2009

We experimentally test whether intentional and observable discriminatory pay of symmetric agents in the Winter (2004) game causes low paid agents to reduce effort. We control for intentionality of wages by either allowing a principal to determine wages or by implementing a random process. Our...

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An Experimental Investigation of Gender Differences in Wage Negotiations

Rigdon, Mary L. - 2012

There is a consensus that there is a gap between male and female wages. This paper investigates whether this is due to a negotiation gap, and what mechanisms can alleviate it, by examining whether females ask for less in a controlled bargaining setting that accurately models relevant aspects of...

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Fair Wages and Multiple Fairness Standards - A Lab Study of Co-Employment of Hired and Rented Hands

Alewell, Dorothea; Friedrich, Colette; Güth, Werner - 2007

We study the relevance of fairness norms in an experimental scenario in which hired and rented hands are co …-employed and stochastic influences and multiple reference points for fairness further increase complexity. Co-employment of hired … and rented hands is an example out of a broader class of situations with multiple fairness standards. Co-employment has …

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Co-employment of permanently and temporarily employed agents

Angelova, Vera; Güth, Werner; Kocher, Martin - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 19 (2012) 1, pp. 48-58

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Does Pay Inequality Affect Worker Effort? Experimental Evidence

Charness, Gary; Kuhn, Peter Joseph - 2007

We study worker behavior in an efficiency-wage environment where co-workers' wages can influence a worker's effort. Theoretically, we show that an increase in workers' responsiveness to co-workers' wages should lead profit-maximizing firms to compress wages. Our laboratory experiments, on the...

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Do temporary workers receive risk-premiums? : assessing the wage effects of fixed-term contracts in West-Germany by matching estimators compared with parametric apporaches

Hagen, Tobias - 2001

The wage effects of fixed-term contracts (FTCs) are analysed with the GSOEP for West Germany. Different estimators which take into account selection bias are used. It is shown that propensity score matching estimators which are usually applied for the evaluation of active labour market...

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Offshoring, Wages and Job Security of Temporary Workers

Görg, Holger - 2012

We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular attention to the question of whether workers on temporary contracts are affected differently than workers on permanent contracts. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic...

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The Structure of the Permanent Job Wage Premium : Evidence from Europe

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2013

Using longitudinal data on individuals from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for thirteen countries during 1995-2001, I investigate the wage premium for permanent jobs relative to temporary jobs. The countries are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland,...

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The Structure of the Permanent Job Wage Premium : Evidence from Europe

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2014

Using longitudinal data on individuals from the European Community Household Panel for thirteen countries during 1995-2001, I investigate the wage premium for permanent jobs relative to temporary jobs. For men, the wage premium for a permanent job is lower for older workers and native born...

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