Reciprocity and Profit Sharing: Is There an Inverse U-shaped Relationship?

Free-riding potentially limits the effectiveness of profit sharing in motivating workers. While reciprocity can mitigate this problem, it need not be uniformly productive. We show that the probability of receiving profit sharing takes an inverse U-shape as detailed individual survey measures of reci...

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Publicado en:Journal of Labor Research Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 205 - 226
Autores principales: Cornelissen, Thomas, Heywood, John, Jirjahn, Uwe
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Jun2014
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          Department of Economics, University College London, London UK
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