Gift exchange and workers' fairness concerns: When equality is unfair

Journal of the European Economic Association

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1299-1324

  Abeler, Johannes ^a   Altmann, Steffen ^b   Kube, Sebastian ^c   Wibral, Matthia ^c  

^a School of Economics   (United Kingdom)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

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EID: 78649709019     PISSN: 15424766     EISSN: 15424774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jeea_a_00026     Document Type: Article

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