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Are Public Sector Workers Different? Cross-European Evidence from Elderly Workers and Retirees

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2015

also investigate other dimensions and find no differences in terms of trust, while there is evidence of some differences in …

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The Dynamic Interplay of Inequality and Trust - An Experimental Study

Greiner, Ben - 2008

We study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic game, in which trust increases efficiency and thus allows … higher growth of the experimental economy in the future. We find that trust is initially high in a treatment starting with … equal endowments, but decreases over time. In a treatment with unequal endowments, trust is initially lower yet remains …

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Timing of Kindness - Evidence from a Field Experiment

Ockenfels, Axel - 2014

We conduct a field experiment in a naturally occurring labor environment and track whether the performance of workers responds to unexpected wage increases. Specifically, we investigate how the timing of wage increases affects efforts. We find that workers' performance is about 11% higher for...

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Pay-What-You-Want to Support Independent Information - A Field Experiment on Motivation

Casarico, Alessandra - 2018

Pay-what-you-want schemes can be a useful tool to finance high quality and independent news media without restricting readership, therefore guaranteeing maximum diffusion. We conduct a field experiment with the Italian information site lavoce.info to explore how to structure a campaign in a way...

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Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity : Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment

Tonin, Mirco - 2015

Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Philanthropy or other Corporate Social Responsibility policies. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives -- that take the form...

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Sharing One's Fortune? An Experimental Study on Earned Income and Giving

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2021

In this paper we investigate the relationship between earnings and charitable giving. We set up a real effort experiment, in which subjects enter data in four one-hour occasions and are paid a piece rate. From the second occasion onwards, we randomly assign half of the subjects to a treatment...

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Disentangling the Sources of Pro-Social Behavior in the Workplace : A Field Experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2021

This paper presents evidence from a field experiment, which aims to identify the two sources of workers’ pro-social motivation that have been considered in the literature: action-oriented altruism and output-oriented altruism. To this end we employ an experimental design that first measures...

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Timing of Kindness - Evidence from a Field Experiment

Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - CESifo - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877759

Disentangling the Sources of Pro-social Behavior in the Workplace: A Field Experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2009

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013946

Are Public Sector Workers Different? Cross-European Evidence from Elderly Workers and Retirees

Tonin, Mirco - 2015

also investigate other dimensions and find no differences in terms of trust, while there is evidence of some differences in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029502