contest and that competitiveness explains part of the behavior with the inverse proportional rule but not with the egalitarian …

is also pronounced when the employer pays unequal wages to the employees: in this case the co-worker's effort decision is … comparison information (information about how co-workers perform) in experimental firms composed of one employer and two … employees. Exposure to pay comparison information in isolation from effort comparison information does not appear to affect …

employees' reciprocity towards the employer. While our data show that social information in principle may either erode or … and how they are treated) affects reciprocal relationships. Using a three-person gift-exchange game we study how employees …' reciprocity towards an employer is affected by exposure to pay comparison information (what co-workers earn) and effort comparison …

We examine the effectiveness of bonuses and fines in an "inspection game" where an employer can learn the effort of a …