Fehr, Ernst; Goette, Lorenz; Cohn, Alain - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2013
-time job. We show that workers who perceive being underpaid at the base wage increase their performance if the hourly wage …, while workers who lack positive reciprocity in the lab do not respond to the wage increase even if they feel underpaid at … response to a wage increase. They are the first direct evidence of the fair-wage effort hypothesis in the field and also help …