Responsibility-Alleviation and Other-Regarding Preferences with Peer Workers in Labor Markets: An Experimental Investigation

被引：5

作者：

Owens, Mark F. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Middle Tennessee State Univ, Dept Econ & Finance, Murfreesboro, TN 37132 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF LABOR RESEARCH | 2012年 / 33卷 / 03期

关键词：

Peer effects; Responsibility-alleviation; Other-regarding behavior; Gift exchange; Experiment; GIFT EXCHANGE; FAIRNESS; RECIPROCITY;

D O I：

10.1007/s12122-012-9138-9

中图分类号：

F24 [劳动经济];

学科分类号：

020106 ; 020207 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;

摘要：

A peer worker is introduced in a controlled labor market experiment characterized by unobservable effort and incomplete contracts. Workers make decisions independently and without knowledge of each other's actions in a modified gift exchange experiment. Introducing a peer worker into an ongoing market has a negative and significant effect on effort. This decrease in effort is consistent with responsibility-alleviation on the part of employees and not with other-regarding equity concerns for the manager's payoffs.

引用

页码：353 / 369

页数：17

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