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Information transparency, fairness and labor market efficiency

The paper studies the role of information transparency on fairness concerns, welfare and efficiency. When the firm's productivity and ultimately profits are revealed, wage offers induce relatively fair divisions of potential gains and workers respond with higher performance. Workers respond not only to wages but also to firms' intentions concerning fairness. Information transparency serves as a mechanism that promotes fairness and performance while the lack of transparency results in reduced earnings for workers and market inefficiency.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Working Paper ; No. 2013-03

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
Experiments
Incomplete Contracts
Fairness
Information Transparency
experimental economics
incomplete contracts
fairness
information transparency

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Isgin, Ebru
Sopher, Barry
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Rutgers University, Department of Economics
(where)
New Brunswick, NJ
(when)
2013

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Isgin, Ebru
  • Sopher, Barry
  • Rutgers University, Department of Economics

Time of origin

  • 2013

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