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On the role of social wage comparisons in gift-exchange experiments

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  • Siang, Ch'ng Kean
  • Requate, Till
  • Waichman, Israel

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This study extends a bilateral gift exchange experiment by Clark et al. (2010) who investigate how feedback of information about wages paid in the market affects both employers' wage setting and workers' performance. We provide either quantitative or qualitative information on the average wage paid in all worker-employer-relationships, and we also study repeated relationships (fixedmatching). We find that information on the average wage reduces (increases) both wage offers and effort levels in one-shot (repeated) relationships. --

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Paper provided by Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Department of Economics in its series Economics Working Papers with number 2010,11.

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Date of creation: 2010
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Handle: RePEc:zbw:cauewp:201011

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Keywords: gift-exchange; reciprocity; wage difference; economic experiment;

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  1. Casoria, Fortuna & Riedl, Arno, 2012. "Experimental Labor Markets and Policy Considerations: Incomplete Contracts and Macroeconomic Aspects," IZA Discussion Papers 7102, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).

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