Burks, Stephen; Carpenter, Jeffrey; Goette, Lorenz - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 70 (2009) 3, pp. 458-469
We report the results of an artefactual field experiment with bicycle messengers in Switzerland and the United States. Messenger work is individualized enough that firms can choose to condition pay on it, but significant externalities in messenger behavior nonetheless give their on-the-job...