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Are Happier People Less Judgmental of Other People's Selfish Behaviors? Laboratory Evidence from Trust and Gift Exchange Games
Drouvelis, Michalis - 2013
What determines people's moral judgments of selfish behaviors? Here we study whether people's normative views in trust and gift exchange games, which underlie many situations of economic and social significance, are themselves functions of positive emotions. We used experimental survey methods...
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Gift Exchange in the Workplace : Money or Attention?
Dur, Robert - 2021
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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Reciprocal Climate Negotiators
Nyborg, Karine - 2015
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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Gift Exchange within a Firm:Evidence from a Field Experiment
Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
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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Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples
Falk, Armin - 2011
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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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity : Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?
Caliendo, Marco - 2010
-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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Negative Reciprocity and Retrenched Pension Rights
Montizaan, Raymond Michel - 2012
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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Testing a Forgotten Aspect of Akerlof's Gift Exchange Hypothesis : Relational Contracts with Individual and Uniform Wages
Kocher, Martin G. - 2012
, 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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The Sequencing of Gift Exchange : A Field Trial
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2017
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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Employee Recognition and Performance : A Field Experiment
Bradler, Christiane - 2014
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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