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Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay

Falk, Armin; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo Emilio; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise...

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Preferences for Consistency

Falk, Armin; Zimmermann, Florian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

strength. We then present three experiments that study main predictions and implications of the model. The first is a simple …

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Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples

Falk, Armin; Meier, Stephan; Zehnder, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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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Living in Two Neighborhoods: Social Interactions in the Lab

Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Field evidence suggests that people belonging to the same group often behave similarly, i.e., behaviour exhibits social interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field. Our novel design feature is that each subject simultaneously is a...

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Psychological Foundations of Incentives

Fehr, Ernst; Falk, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives, contracts and organisations. Yet, they constrained their attention to a very narrow and empirically questionable view of human motivation. The purpose of this paper is to show that this narrow view of...

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Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting: Productivity, Preferences and Gender

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first step we elicit subjects’ productivity levels. Subjects then face the choice between a fixed or a variable payment scheme. Depending on the treatment, the variable payment is...

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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...

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Pivotal Suppliers and Market Power in Experimental Supply Function Competition

Brandts, Jordi; Reynolds, Stanley S.; Schram, Arthur - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

(MUA) model. We find that pivotal suppliers do indeed exercise their market power in the experiments. We also find that …

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The Emergence of Social Structure: Employer Information Networks in an Experimental Labor Market

Gerxhani, Klarita; Brandts, Jordi; Schram, Arthur - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

We use laboratory experiments to investigate how employers develop social structures for sharing information about the … anonymously and voluntarily provided as a collective good for all employers to use. The other type is a 'reciprocity network …

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It's all about Connections: Evidence on Network Formation

Falk, Armin; Kosfeld, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

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 Goyal (2000). They distinguish between two scenarios...

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