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Fair Wages and Multiple Fairness Standards - A Lab Study of Co-Employment of Hired and Rented Hands

Alewell, Dorothea; Friedrich, Colette; Güth, Werner - 2007

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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Social Comparison and Performance : Experimental Evidence on the Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis

Gächter, Simon - 2010

We investigate the impact of wage comparisons for worker productivity. We present three studies which all use three-person gift-exchange experiments. Consistent with Akerlof and Yellen's (1990) fair wage-effort hypothesis we find that disadvantageous wage discrimination leads to lower efforts...

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Social comparison and performance : experimental evidence on the fair wage-effort hypothesis

Gächter, Simon; Thöni, Christian - 2010

fairness ; discrimination …

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Social comparison and performance : experimental evidence on the fair-wage effort hypothesis

Gächter, Simon; Thöni, Christian - 2009

fairness ; discrimination …

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Wage effects of labor market entry via temporary work agency employment : evidence for German apprenticeship graduates : conference paper

Buch, Tanja; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2013

In light of the remarkable number of young people who pass through a period of temp work at the beginning of their career the question arises whether labor market entry via temporary work agency (TWA) employment has any (persistent) effects on labor market outcomes. We investigate this issue...

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The wage effects of fixed-term contract employment revisited : an investigation based on social security records ; conference paper

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Paul, Marie; … - 2014 - Preliminary!, This version: 01.02.2014

Using data from social security records on Spanish males, we investigate the wage effects of working under a fixed-term contract. In a first step, we provide fixed-effects estimates of the wage effect of working under a fixed-term contract for low-skilled, medium-skilled, and high-skilled men...

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Precarious and less well paid? : wage differences between permanent and fixed-term contracts across the EU

Silva, António Dias da; Turrini, Alessandro - 2015

We analyse wage differences between permanent and fixed-term contracts across the EU using data from the European Structure of Earnings Survey. We find that, after controlling for individual and job characteristics, workers on permanent contracts earn on average about 15% more than workers on...

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How large is the wage penalty in the labour broker sector? : evidence for South Africa using administrative data

Cassim, Aalia; Casale, Daniela - 2018

Public debate on the temporary employment services, or labour broker, sector in South Africa has focused on temporary workers' wages and benefits. Empirical research is limited: temporary employment services cannot be accurately identified in recent labour force surveys. In 2015, South Africa...

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The wage of temporary agency workers

Bergeaud, Antonin; Cahuc, Pierre; Malgouyres, Clément; … - 2024

Using French administrative data we estimate the wage gap distribution between in-house and temporary agency workers working in the same establishment and the same occupation. The average wage gap is about 3%, but the gap is negative in more than 25% of establishment × occupation cells. We...

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Temporary foreign workers and firms : theory and Canadian evidence

Brochu, Pierre; Gross, Till; Worswick, Christopher - 2016

The goal of our paper is to better understand the economic implications of Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) programs as well as comprehend the underlying reasons for the rapid expansion of the number of TFWs hired by employers under the Canadian program brought to light in 2014. We present an...

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