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ECONOMIC JOURNAL
卷 130, 期 632, 页码 2546-2568出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueaa038
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) [EXC2126/1-390939966]
- AEA RCT Registry [AEARCTR-0001075]
We conduct a field experiment to study how worker productivity is affected if employers act adversely towards their co-workers. Our employees work for two shifts in a call centre. In our main treatment, we lay off some workers before the second shift. Compared to two control treatments, we find that the lay-off reduces the productivity of unaffected workers by 12%. We find suggestive evidence that this result is not driven by altered beliefs about the job or the management's competence, but caused by the workers' perception of unfair employer behaviour. The latter interpretation is confirmed in a prediction experiment with professional HR managers. Our results suggest that the price for adverse employer behaviour goes well beyond the potential tit for tat of directly affected workers.
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