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Social ties at work and effort choice: experimental evidence from Tanzania
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SYSNO ASEP 0577822 Document Type V - Research Report R&D Document Type O - Ostatní Title Social ties at work and effort choice: experimental evidence from Tanzania Author(s) Chegere, M. (TZ)
Falco, P. (US)
Menzel, Andreas (NHU-N) ORCIDIssue data Prague: CERGE-EI, 2023 ISSN 2788-0443 Series CERGE-EI Working Paper Series Series number 763 Number of pages 35 s. Publication form Online - E Language eng - English Country CZ - Czech Republic Keywords firms ; hiring ; productivity Subject RIV AH - Economics OECD category Applied Economics, Econometrics Institutional support NHU-N - RVO:67985998 Annotation Many firms hire workers via social networks. Whether workers who are socially connected to their employers exert more effort on the job is an unsettled debate. We address this question through a novel experiment with small-business owners in Tanzania. Participants are paired with a worker who conducts a real-effort task, and receive a payoff that depends on the worker’s effort. Some business owners are randomly paired with workers they are socially connected with, while others are paired with strangers. With a design that is sufficiently powered to detect economically meaningful effects, we find that being socially connected to one’s employer does not affect workers’ effort.
Workplace Economics Institute Contact Tomáš Pavela, pavela@cerge-ei.cz, Tel.: 224 005 122 Year of Publishing 2024 Electronic address https://cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp763.pdf
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