The desire for impact

Robert Dur and Amihai Glazer

Journal of Economic Psychology, 2008, vol. 29, issue 3, 285-300

Abstract: This paper explores the meaning and implications of the desire by workers for impact. We find that this impact motive can make a firm in a competitive labor market face an upward-sloping supply curve of labor, lead workers with the same characteristics but at different firms to earn different wages, may alleviate the hold-up problem in firm-specific investment, can make it profitable for an employer to give workers autonomy in effort or task choice, and can propagate shocks to unemployment.

Date: 2008
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