In search of workers' real effort reciprocity-a field and a laboratory experiment

Journal of the European Economic Association

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 817-837

  Hennig Schmidt, Heike ^a   Rockenbach, Bettina ^b   Sadrieh, Abdolkarim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT   (Germany)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 77953510219     PISSN: 15424766     EISSN: 15424774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jeea_a_00005     Document Type: Article

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