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We study the relevance of fairness norms in an experimental scenario in which hired and rented hands are co …-employed and stochastic influences and multiple reference points for fairness further increase complexity. Co-employment of hired … and rented hands is an example out of a broader class of situations with multiple fairness standards. Co-employment has …
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The impact of transparency on the extent of reciprocal behavior is investigated in a simple repeated gift exchange experiment, where principals set wages and agents respond by choosing effort levels. In addition to the efforts the principals' payoffs are determined by a random component. It is...
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extent of their fairness concerns. Fairness is modelled as inequity aversion, where fair-minded workers suffer if their … colleagues get more income net of production costs. Screening workers with equal productivity but different fairness concerns is … the fraction of fair-minded workers. As a result, fairness might influence the employment contracts of all workers …
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extent of their fairness concerns. Fairness is modelled as inequity aversion, where fair-minded workers suffer if their … colleagues get more income net of production costs. Screening workers with equal productivity but different fairness concerns is … the fraction of fair-minded workers. As a result, fairness might infuence the employment contracts of all workers although …
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We study worker behavior in an efficiency-wage environment where co-workers' wages can influence a worker's effort. Theoretically, we show that an increase in workers' responsiveness to co-workers' wages should lead profit-maximizing firms to compress wages. Our laboratory experiments, on the...
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How malleable are peopleś fairness ideals? Although fairness is an oft-invoked concept in allocation situations, it is … still unclear whether and to what extent peopleś allocations reflect their fairness ideals. We investigate in a laboratory … experiment whether peopleś fairness ideals vary with respect to changes in the order in which they undertake two allocation tasks …
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; (3) perceptions of fairness are prone to the so-called self-serving bias. (4) expectations are often not consistent with …
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Price discrimination has raised numerous public concerns and many regulatory agencies have enacted fairness regulations … of consumers and firms. However, inappropriate fairness regulation may stifle product quality improvement or induce high … heterogeneous market sizes, pursuing price fairness enlarges their profit inequality, and sometimes even leads to the unintended …
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This paper considers the e effcts of a two-period interaction on the decision of a principal to delegate authority to a potentially biased but better informed agent. Compared to the (repeated) one-period case, the agent's first period actions may also signal his type which in turn impacts wages...
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We report on an experiment using video technology to manipulate pre-play communication protocols in the lab and to study purely social effects of communication on donations and discrimination between potential receivers. The experimental design eliminates strategic factors by allowing two...
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