"The Vocational and Career Psychology Service (BPS) of the German National Employment Agency has developed four new services for competence assessment. They can be used by job placement officers and case workers to better identify soft skills of their customers and use the results for job search...

"Längerfristige Beschäftigungsbeziehungen und betriebsinterne Teilarbeitsmärkte erfahren in diesem Beitrag zunächst eine vertragtheoretische Deutung: Explizite Arbeitsverträge werden ex ante in allgemeiner Form abgeschlossen, bevor ex post individuelle Arbeitsbeziehungen gestaltet werden....

"Längerfristige Beschäftigungsbeziehungen und betriebsinterne Teilarbeitsmärkte erfahren in diesem Beitrag zunächst eine vertragtheoretische Deutung: Explizite Arbeitsverträge werden ex ante in allgemeiner Form abgeschlossen, bevor ex post individuelle Arbeitsbeziehungen gestaltet werden....

Previous research has suggested that communication and especially promises increase cooperation in laboratory experiments. This has been taken as evidence for internal motivations such as guilt aversion or preference for promise keeping. The goal of this paper was to examine messages under a...

This paper reports an experimental investigation of a trust game using either cash or class credit as incentives to participants. We recruit from two auditorium classes. In one class, each token has cash value; in the other, each token is worth extra-credit points added to the students’ overall...

We examine the influence of social distance on levels of trust and reciprocity in China. Social distance, reflected in the indigenous concept of guanxi, is of central importance to Chinese culture. In Study 1, some participants participated in two financially salient trust games to measure...

In this paper we introduce an alternative version of the trust game by Dasgupta (1988) and Kreps (1990) that allows for asymmetric information. We use this version to study the effect of checking on the trustee’s behaviour, checking is a control option the trustor can decide to use and...