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Simple and Complex Gift Exchange in the Laboratory

Heijden, Eline C.M. van der; Nelissen, Jan H.M.; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2001

We examine an experimental gift exchange game in which the players can improve upon the unique no-gifts equilibrium through cooperative gift giving. The main feature of the study is that there are two different types of gift exchange, which we call simple and complex exchange, respectively....

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Tax Liability Side Equivalence in Gift-Exchange Labor Markets

Riedl, Arno; Tyran, Jean-Robert - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

Tax Liability Side Equivalence (tax LSE) claims that the statutory incidence of a tax is irrelevant for its economic incidence. In gift-exchange labor markets, firms provide a gift to workers by paying high wages, and workers reciprocate by providing high efforts. Tax LSE is theoretically...

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Gift Exchange and the Separation of Ownership and Control

Maximiano, Sandra; Sloof, Randolph; Sonnemans, Joep - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

Numerous gift exchange experiments have found a positive relationship between employers' wage offers and workers' effort levels. In (almost) all these experiments the employer both owns and controls the firm. Yet in reality many firms are characterized by the separation of ownership and control....

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Gift Exchange in the Workplace

Dur, Robert - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention....

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Gift Exchange in a Multi-worker Firm

Maximiano, Sandra; Sloof, Randolph; Sonnemans, Joep - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

One of the main findings of a large body of gift exchange experiments is that in an incomplete contracts environment workers on average do not shirk and usually provide more than the minimum enforceable effort level. In general, 40 to 60 percent of the workers reward higher wages with higher...

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Stone Age Equilibrium

Houba, Harold; Weikard, Hans-Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

exchange is either coercive or voluntary, and relative strength governs power relations in coercive exchange. We stress the … importance of free disposal of goods which allows for excess holdings larger than consumption, thereby modelling the power to …

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A K-sample Homogeneity Test based on the Quantification of the p-p Plot

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Wagenvoort, Rien; Marrewijk, Charles van - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

can have better power than alternative Empirical Distribution Function tests. …

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Positional Power in Hierarchies

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organisations. In this paper we consider positional power in … hierarchies. One of the problems with the extant literature on positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to … the analysis of power in terms of the bare positions of the actors. While such an analysis informs us about the authority …

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Measuring Power And Satisfaction in Societies with Opinion Leaders: Dictator and Opinion Leader Properties

Brink, René van den; Rusinowska, Agnieszka; Steffen, Frank - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

one of the actions. By definition opinion leaders have some power over their followers, and they exercise this power by … satisfaction and power scores which allow us to analyze the actors' satisfaction and power with respect to the collective choice …

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Axiomatizations of a Positional Power Score and Measure for Hierarchies

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organizations. One of the problems with the extant literature on … positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to the analysis of power in terms of the bare positions of the …-established approaches for the analysis of power in non-hierarchical organizations such as the Banzhaf measure; and thus they are all based …

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