Data/hora: 11/06/2024 14:51:59

Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | NON-EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND THE EVOLUTION OF WORKER-EMPLOYER COOPERATION: EXPERIMENTS WITH REAL AND COMPUTATIONAL AGENTS
Autores: | Pingle,   Mark; Tesfatsion,   Leigh.
Data: | 2001-10-15
Ano: | 2001
Palavras-chave: | Labor and Human Capital.
Resumo: | Experiments with real and computational agents are used to examine the impact of changing the level of a non-employment payoff on the evolution of cooperation between workers and employers participating in a sequential employment game with incomplete contracts.  Workers either direct work offers to preferred employers or choose unemployment and receive the non-employment payoff.  Subject to capacity limitations, employers either accept work offers from preferred workers or remain vacant and receive the non-employment payoff.  Matched workers and employers participate in an employment relationship modeled as a prisoner's dilemma game.  In both types of experiments, increases in the non-employment payoff result in higher unemployment and vacancy rates while at the same time encouraging higher rates of cooperation among the workers and employers who do form matches.  However, the behaviors exhibited by the computational agents are coordinated to a higher degree than the behaviors of the human subjects.  This difference raises challenging questions for both human-subject and computational experimentalists.
Tipo: | Working or Discussion Paper
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

3790

http://purl.umn.edu/18190

Editor: | AgEcon Search

Relação:

Iowa State University&gt;Department of Economics&gt;Economic Reports

Economic Report Series 55

Formato:

53

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