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among a substantial share of the population into account. Theory shows and experiments confirm, that even if fairness … incompleteness and relational nature of most employment contracts and (ii) the existence of reference-dependent fairness concerns … concerns on economic outcomes. We also review evidence from laboratory and field experiments examining the role of wages and …
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foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is … potentially problematic as students participating in experiments may behave systematically different than non …-participating students or non-students. In this paper we empirically investigate whether laboratory experiments with student samples …
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The prevailing labor market models assume that minimum wages do not affect the labor supply schedule. We challenge this view in this paper by showing experimentally that minimum wages have significant and lasting effects on subjects’ reservation wages. The temporary introduction of a minimum...
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Previous experimental work provides encouraging support for some of the central assumptions underlying Hart and Moore (2008)’s theory of contractual reference points. However, existing studies ignore realistic aspects of trading relationships such as informal agreements and ex post...
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with established behavioral concepts, they cannot easily be explained by existing theories. The experiment appears to …
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