Identity, Distribution Rules and Productivity in Heterogeneous Teams: An experiment
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Teams; Heterogeneous skills; Social identity; Communication; Voting; Distributional preferences; Experiments.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- J33 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods
- M52 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2019-02-25 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-EXP-2019-02-25 (Experimental Economics)
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