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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944228
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Co-employment of permanently and temporarily employed agents
Güth, Werner; Kocher, Martin G.; Popova, Vera - 2010
One-shot interaction and repeated interaction often co-exist in the real world. We study possible behavioral effects of this co-existence in a principal-agent setting, in which a principal simultaneously employs a permanent and a temporary agent. Our experimental results indicate that there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267128
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Co-employment of permanently and temporarily employed agents
Angelova, Vera; Güth, Werner; Kocher, Martin G. - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 1, pp. 48-58
One-shot interaction and repeated interaction often co-exist in the real world. We study possible behavioral effects of this co-existence in a principal–agent setting, in which a principal simultaneously employs a permanent and a temporary agent. Our experimental results indicate that there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011051698
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Co-employment of permanently and temporarily employed agents
Güth, Werner; Kocher, Martin G.; Popova, Vera - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
One-shot interaction and repeated interaction often co-exist in the real world. We study possible behavioral effects of this co-existence in a principal-agent setting, in which a principal simultaneously employs a permanent and a temporary agent. Our experimental results indicate that there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008494223
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Downsizing the Labor Force by Low and High Profit Firms– An Experimental Analysis
Güth, Werner; Paul, Christian - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2008
One may hope to capture the behavioral and emotional eects of downsizingthe labor force in rather abstract settings as an ultimatum game (see Fischeret al. (2008)), or try to explore downsizing in its more natural principalagentscenario with a labor market background. We pursue the latter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866438
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Downsizing the labor force by low and high profit firms : an experimental analysis
Güth, Werner; Paul, Christian - 2008
One may hope to capture the behavioral and emotional effects of downsizing the laborforce in rather abstract settings as an ultimatum game (see Fischer et al. (2008)), or try to explore downsizing in its more natural principalagent scenario with a labor market background. We pursue the latter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796325
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014053091
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Co-employment of permanently and temporarily employed agents
Güth, Werner; Kocher, Martin G.; Popova, Vera - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
One-shot interaction and repeated interaction often co-exist in the real world. We study possible behavioral effects of this co-existence in a principal-agent setting, in which a principal simultaneously employs a permanent and a temporary agent. Our experimental results indicate that there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019644
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Co-employment of permanently and temporarily employed agents
Angelova, Vera; Güth, Werner; Kocher, Martin G. - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 19 (2012) 1, pp. 48-58
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009518381
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Social communication and discrimination : a video experiment
Greiner, Ben; Güth, Werner; Zultan, Ro'i - 2010
We report on an experiment using video technology to manipulate pre-play communication protocols in the lab and to study purely social effects of communication on donations and discrimination between potential receivers. The experimental design eliminates strategic factors by allowing two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003980503