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Performance Pay, Group Selection andGroup Performance
Königstein, Manfred; Ruchala, Gabriele K. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Within a laboratory experiment we investigate a principal-agent game in which agents may,first, self-select into a group task (GT) or an individual task (IT) and, second, choose workeffort. In their choices of task and effort the agents have to consider pay contracts for bothtasks as offered by...
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Effects of Religiosity on Social Behaviour : Experimental Evidence from a Representative Sample of Spaniards
Brañas-Garza, Pablo - 2013
paradigmatic economic games: the dictator (DG), ultimatum (UG), and trust (TG) games. A large carefully designed sample of a …, bargaining behaviour and sense of fairness/equality, trust, and positive reciprocity. Three dimensions of religiosity are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073852
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Sleep Restriction and Time‐Of‐Day Impacts on Simple Social Interaction
Dickinson, David L. - 2016
classic simple bargaining games (ultimatum, dictator, and trust games). Specifically, we experimentally manipulate sleep …‐of‐day of the decisions. We find a robust result of increased greed, reduced trust, and reduced trustworthiness following sleep …Simple bargaining games are the foundation of more complex social interactions necessary for healthy relationships and …
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Legitimacy of Control
Schnedler, Wendelin - 2008
What is the motivational effect of imposing a minimum effort requirement? Agents may no longer exert voluntary effort but merely meet the requirement. Here, we examine how such hidden costs of control change when control is considered legitimate. We study a principal-agent model where control...
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The Rapid Evolution of Homo Economicus : Brief Exposure to Neoclassical Assumptions Increases Self-Interested Behavior
Ifcher, John - 2016
behavior in games often used to measure selfishness: the ultimatum game (UG), dictator game (DG), prisoner's dilemma (PD), and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983904
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Performance Pay, Group Selection and Group Performance
Königstein, Manfred; Lünser, Gabriele K. - 2021
agents with different productivities. In contrast, considerations of trust, reciprocity and cooperation - the social …
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Lab Labor : What can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab?
Charness, Gary - 2010
understanding of principal-agent interactions, social preferences, union-firm bargaining, arbitration, gender differentials …
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Heterogeneous Productivity in Voluntary Public Good Provision : An Experimental Analysis
Fellner-Röhling, Gerlinde - 2011
This article experimentally examines voluntary contributions when group members' marginal returns to the public good vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about the heterogeneity to identify the applied contribution...
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Resisting Moral Wiggle Room : How Robust is Reciprocity?
van der Weele, Joel J. - 2010
Several studies have shown that dictator-game giving declines substantially if the dictator can exploit situational …, an excuse which has previously been shown to strongly reduce giving in dictator games. We do not find that the … than dictator game generosity …
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Costless Discrimination and Unequal Achievements in a Labour Market Experiment
Filippin, Antonio - 2011
We investigate the emergence of discrimination in an experiment where individuals affiliated to different groups compete for a monetary prize, submitting independent bids to an auctioneer. The auctioneer receives perfect information about the bids (i.e. there is no statistical discrimination),...
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