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We present results from a field experiment testing the gift-exchange hypothesis inside a treeplantingfirm paying its workforce incentive contracts. Firm managers told a crew of treeplanters they would receive a pay raise for one day as a result of a surplus not attributable topast planting...
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Social preference research has received considerable attention among economists in recent years. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is potentially problematic as students...
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-Economic Panel and recently introduced questions about trust, positive reciprocity, and negative reciprocity to examine the extent … willingness to trust other people influences the probability of starting a business; ii) trust, positive reciprocity, and negative … reciprocity influence the exit probability of entrepreneurs; and iii) willingness to trust and to act reciprocally influences the …
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We document the importance of negatively reciprocal inclinations in labor relationships by showing that a retrenchment of pension rights, which is perceived as unfair, causes a larger reduction in job motivation the stronger workers' negatively reciprocal inclinations are. We exploit unique...
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, it is not the consequence of a stronger level of reciprocity by agents, but of the retrenchment of sanctioning options on …
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There is now an extensive literature on "gift exchange" showing that when principals and agents can trade "gifts" (rewards that should not emerge in a competitive equilibrium), exchange becomes more efficient. However, it is not obvious how gift exchange should be organized if the principal's...
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This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample of work groups, workers...
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Modern welfare policies are increasingly based on notions of reciprocity. Citizens on welfare benefits have to do … from labour market re-integration policies to a mandatory reciprocity approach is viewed by long-term unemployed women who …
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temptation aspect dominates depends on the worker's reciprocity: for highly reciprocal workers the control aspect dominates; for …
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reciprocity – a preference to repay meanness by meanness and kindness by kindness – their willingness to abate will be conditional … countries have relatively strong reciprocity preferences. No coalition participation is always stable. In addition, a stable …
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