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react negatively by withholding effort. -- principal-agent problem ; permanent and temporary employment ; fairness ; wage …
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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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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...
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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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The impact of transparency on the extent of reciprocal behavior is investigated in a simple repeated gift exchange experiment, where principals set wages and agents respond by choosing effort levels. In addition to the efforts the principals' payoffs are determined by a random component. It is...
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extent of their fairness concerns. Fairness is modelled as inequity aversion, where fair-minded workers suffer if their … colleagues get more income net of production costs. Screening workers with equal productivity but different fairness concerns is … the fraction of fair-minded workers. As a result, fairness might influence the employment contracts of all workers …
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extent of their fairness concerns. Fairness is modelled as inequity aversion, where fair-minded workers suffer if their … colleagues get more income net of production costs. Screening workers with equal productivity but different fairness concerns is … the fraction of fair-minded workers. As a result, fairness might infuence the employment contracts of all workers although …
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This paper considers the e effcts of a two-period interaction on the decision of a principal to delegate authority to a potentially biased but better informed agent. Compared to the (repeated) one-period case, the agent's first period actions may also signal his type which in turn impacts wages...
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Several experimental studies have demonstrated the importance of non-monetary preferences in determining agents' response to control and delegation when monetary incentives between agents and principals are not aligned, but little is known about how such preferences influence the principle agent...
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