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- Jena Economics Rese...
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- Co-employment of pe...
Co-employment of permanently and temporarily employed agents
- Autor(in)
- Erschienen
- 16. März 2010
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2010-016
- Schlagwort(e)
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fairness
permanent and temporary employment
principal-agent problem
wage discrimination
- Zusammenfsg.
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One-shot interaction and repeated interaction often co-exist in the real world. We study possible behavioral effects of this co-existence in a principal-agent setting, in which a principal simultaneously employs a permanent and a temporary agent. Our experimental results indicate that there is “discrimination” between the two agents and that the available information for agents determines the extent of this discrimination, even though the theoretical solution of the game implies equal treatment of agents. Discrimination is, thus, a consequence of reciprocity. Agents that are discriminated against react negatively by withholding effort.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- JEL-Classification for JER
- C72 - Noncooperative Games ; C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; D21 - Firm Behavior ; J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- URN
- urn:nbn:de:urmel-51bf9058-460f-4cdf-a7c3-d5df690cd7de5-00185517-12