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The labor economics literature has shown that the "efficient bargaining" model, in which wage and employment are negotiated simultaneously, is less frequently used on unionized markets than the less efficient "right-to-manage" model, in which wage is determined via bargaining and employment...
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This paper presents the results of a laboratory experiment in which workers perform a real-effort task and supervisors report the workers’ performance to the experimenter. The report is non verifiable and determines the earnings of both the supervisor and the worker. We find that not all the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009318147
In a series of experiments conducted in Belgium (Wallonia and Flanders), France and the Netherlands, we compare …
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This paper presents the results of a laboratory experiment in which workers perform a real-effort task and supervisors report the workers' performance to the experimenter. The report is non verifiable and determines the earnings of both the supervisor and the worker. We find that not all the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278326
This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort, combining experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game with the analysis of multi-country ISSP survey data. We find a consistent negative effect of others’ incomes on individual effort in both datasets. The...
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Based on a non cooperative model with asymmetric information tested by means of a laboratory experiment, this paper examines the influence of a negotiation outcome on the demand behavior in subsequent negotiations. While the assumption of inflationary wage claims is rejected by the data, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011187186
The labor economics literature has shown that the "efficient bargaining" model, in which wage and employment are negotiated simultaneously, is less frequently used on unionized markets than the less efficient "right-to-manage" model, in which wage is determined via bargaining and employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008789506
behavior of juniors (under 30) and seniors (over 50) in both experiments conducted onsite with the employees of two large firms … external validity of conventional laboratory experiments. In general we do not find strong differences in behavior between … workers and non-workers, indicating that laboratory experiments may not be such a bad approximation for the field environment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793278
The labor economics literature has shown that the efficient bargaining model, in which wage and employment are negotiated simultaneously, is less frequently used on unionized markets than the less efficient right-to-manage model, in which wage is determined via bargaining and employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267680
The economic models of tax compliance predict that individuals should evade taxes when the expected benefit of cheating is greater than its expected cost. When this condition is fulfilled, the high compliance however observed remains a puzzle. In this paper, we investigate the role of emotions...
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