Measuring Indirect Effects of Unfair Employer Behavior on Worker Productivity – A Field Experiment
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Keywords
Gift exchange; Layoffs; Labor markets; Fairness; Field experiments;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- J50 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - General
- J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
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