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This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment … experiment we record agents' heart rate variability. Our findings provide evidence of a link between perceived unfairness and … health, and fairness of pay. …
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We present an economic experiment on network formation, in which subjects can decide to form links to one another …. Direct links are costly but being connected is valuable. The gametheoretic basis for our experiment is the model of Bala and …
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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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paper, we conduct laboratory experiments in which we explore the motivations for and the effects of group identity. We find …
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We conduct a laboratory experiment where third-party spectators can redistribute resources between two agents, thereby … inequalities, but many follow an interior allocation rule previously unaccounted for by the fairness views in the literature. These …
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Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most … they argue for or against mandatory participation? Should we have less redistribution and more actuarial fairness? How does …
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experiments designed to test the ways in which incentive mechanisms influence the use of a particular heuristic in decision …
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This paper reports results from a unique two-stage experiment designed to examine the spillover effects of optimism and …
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fishermen who exhibit a higher propensity for cooperation in a laboratory public goods experiment, and those who show more … patience in a laboratory time preference experiment, exploit the fishing grounds less in their daily lives. Moreover, because …
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promoting social norms. We show here, using experiments with human subjects, that public implementation of punishment can …
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