It's Not You, it's Me: An Experimental Study of Employers' Wage Setting Behavior

Economics Bulletin, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 1156-1164

9 Pages Posted: 29 Aug 2013 Last revised: 7 Aug 2014

See all articles by Micaela Kulesz

Micaela Kulesz

Jacobs University Bremen; Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Date Written: June 1, 2014

Abstract

Using an intergenerational trilateral laboratory gift-exchange game, we investigate how employers' own performance in a real effort task impacts on the wage setting behavior of younger and older employers. We find that the employers' own performance strongly affects wage setting behavior, though we do not find significant differences concerning the employers' or employees' age.

Keywords: laboratory experiment, responsibility alleviation, warm-glow

JEL Classification: C91, J21, J31

Suggested Citation

Kulesz, Micaela and Dittrich, Dennis Alexis Valin, It's Not You, it's Me: An Experimental Study of Employers' Wage Setting Behavior (June 1, 2014). Economics Bulletin, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 1156-1164, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2317334 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2317334

Micaela Kulesz (Contact Author)

Jacobs University Bremen ( email )

Campus Ring 1
Bremen, 28759
Germany

Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology ( email )

Fahrenheitstr. 6
Bremen, 28359
Germany

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich

affiliation not provided to SSRN

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