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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...
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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 effiort. 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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Testing a forgotten aspect of Akerlof's gift exchange hypothesis: Relational contracts with individual and uniform wages
Kocher, Martin G.; Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Sutter, Matthias - 2012
Empirical work on Akerlof's theory of gift exchange in labor markets has concentrated on the fair wage-effort hypothesis. In fact, however, the theory also contains a social component that stipulates that homogenous agents that are employed for the same wage level will exert more effort,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294837
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Testing a forgotten aspect of Akerlof’s gift exchange hypothesis: Relational contracts with individual and uniform wages
Kocher, Martin G.; Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Sutter, Matthias - 2012
Empirical work on Akerlof’s theory of gift exchange in labor markets has concentrated on the fair wage-effort hypothesis. In fact, however, the theory also contains a social component that stipulates that homogenous agents that are employed for the same wage level will exert more effort,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427617
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Testing a forgotten aspect of Akerlof's gift exchange hypothesis: Relational contracts with individual and uniform wages
Kocher, Martin G.; Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Sutter, Matthias - 2012
Empirical work on Akerlof's theory of gift exchange in labor markets has concentrated on the fair wage-effort hypothesis. In fact, however, the theory also contains a social component that stipulates that homogenous agents that are employed for the same wage level will exert more effort,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282462
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Microfoundations of Social Capital
Thöni, Christian; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Wengström, Erik - 2010
about others' cooperation. Moreover, we show that the "fairness question", a recently proposed alternative to the standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310730
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Was ist fair? Echte und strategische Fairness in einem sequentiellen Ultimatum- und Diktatorspiel
Stoetzer, Matthias Wolfgang; Blass, Tom; Grimm, Anika; … - 2015
Ultimatumspiel hatte der Mitspieler ein Vetorecht, beim Diktatorspiel nicht. Ziel war es erstens zu ermitteln, inwieweit Fairness … Präferenz der Individuen für "Fairness". [...] …The present study examines the fairness behavior of students of various academic programs. For this purpose, 289 …
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On the malleability of fairness ideals: Order effects in partial and impartial allocation tasks
Dengler-Roscher, Kathrin; Montinari, Natalia; … - 2015
How malleable are people´s fairness ideals? Although fairness is an oft-invoked concept in allocation situations, it is … still unclear whether and to what extent people´s allocations reflect their fairness ideals. We investigate in a laboratory … experiment whether people´s fairness ideals vary with respect to changes in the order in which they undertake two allocation …
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Offizier und Gentleman? Eine experimentelle Untersuchung berufsbezogener Normen am Beispiel des Offiziers
Wiens, Marcus; Johannemann, Kirsten; Morasch, Karl; … - 2015
In dieser experimentellen Studie untersuchen wir das kooperative Verhalten von Offizieren (bzw. Offiziersanwärtern) der Bundeswehr. Dabei betrachten wir ihre Interaktionen sowohl untereinander als auch gegenüber zivilen Probanden. Unsere Kernhypothesen sind, dass sich die angehenden Offiziere...
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Participation and decision making: a three-person power-to-take experiment
Albert, Max; Mertins, Vanessa - 2008
It is often conjectured that participatory decision making may increase acceptance even of unfavorable decisions. The present paper tests this conjecture in a three-person power-to-take game. Two takers decide which fraction of the responder's endowment to transfer to themselves; the responder...
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