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
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: 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
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