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Micaela M. Kulesz and Dennis A. V. Dittrich
 
''It's not you, it's me: an experimental study of employers' wage setting behavior''
( 2014, Vol. 34 No.4 )
 
 
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 past performance strongly affects wage setting behavior, though we do not find significant differences concerning the employers' or employees' age.
 
 
Keywords: responsibility alleviation, warm-glow, laboratory experiment
JEL: J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General
C9 - Design of Experiments: General
 
Manuscript Received : Oct 24 2014 Manuscript Accepted : Oct 24 2014

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