Students, Temporary Workers and Co-Op Workers: An Experimental Investigation on Social Preferences

Davide Dragone, Fabio Galeotti and Raimondello Orsini ()
Additional contact information
Raimondello Orsini: UNIBO - Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna = University of Bologna

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: We conduct an artefactual field experiment to compare the individual preferences and propensity to cooperate of three pools of subjects: Undergraduate students, temporary workers and permanent workers. We find that students are more selfish and contribute less than workers. Temporary and permanent contract workers have similar other-regarding preferences and display analogous contribution patterns in an anonymous Public Good Game.

Keywords: temporary worker; decomposed game technique; dictator game; public good game; experiment JEL Classification: C72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01179118v1
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Published in Games, 2015, 6 (2), pp. 79-123. ⟨10.3390/g6020079⟩

Downloads: (external link)
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01179118v1/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Students, Temporary Workers and Co-Op Workers: An Experimental Investigation on Social Preferences (2015)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-01179118

DOI: 10.3390/g6020079

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().