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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Published in:	Journal of Labor Research Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 205 - 226
Main Authors:	Cornelissen, Thomas, Heywood, John, Jirjahn, Uwe
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Jun2014
Subjects:	Reciprocity (Psychology) Free-rider problem Labor productivity Profit-sharing Inverse relationships (Mathematics)
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