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evidence on their influence on quitting decisions. This paper presents results from an experiment in which participants receive … other. -- quits ; peer effects ; communication ; feedback ; experiment … a piece-rate wage to perform a real-effort task. After completing a compulsory work period, the participants have the …
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This paper extends the standard work effort model by allowing workers to interact through networks. We investigate …
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setting of a simple production task. In our experiment, participants in the role of workers engage in a team real-effort task …This paper reports the results of a lab experiment designed to study the role of observability for peer effects in the …-workers. Instead, our results imply that peer effects in our experiment are heterogeneous, with some workers reciprocating a high …
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We analyze how quits responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages using an unusual feature of a pay raise at a large U.S. retailer. The firm's use of discrete pay steps created discontinuities in raises, where workers earning within 1 cent of each other received new wages that...
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We study both endogenous and exogenous peer effects in worker productivity using an explicit network approach. We apply this method to data from an in-house call center of a multinational mobile network operator that include detailed information on individual performance. We find that a 10%...
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Should one expect a worker’s productivity, and thus wage, to depend on the productivity of his/her co-workers in the same workplace, even if the workers carry out completely independent tasks and do not engage in team work? This may well be the case because social interaction among co-workers...
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Utilizing comprehensive administrative data from Brazil, we investigate the impact of peer effects on wages, considering both within-gender and cross-gender dynamics. Since the average productivity of both individuals and their peers is unobservable, we estimate these values using worker fixed...
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