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Worker reciprocity and the returns to training: Evidence from a field experiment
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI). Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), Sweden; Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Germany; Maastricht University, The Netherlands.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0550-0675
Number of Authors: 12023 (English)In: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, ISSN 1058-6407, E-ISSN 1530-9134, Vol. 32, no 3, p. 543-557Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Do reciprocal workers have higher returns to employer-sponsored training? Using a field experiment with random assignment to training combined with survey information on workers' reciprocal inclinations, the results show that reciprocal workers reciprocate employers' training investments by higher posttraining performance. This result, which is robust to controlling for observed personality traits and worker fixed effects, suggests that individuals reciprocate the firm's human capital investment with higher effort, in line with theoretical models on gift exchange in the workplace. This finding provides an alternative rationale to explain firm training investments even with the risk of poaching.

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2023. Vol. 32, no 3, p. 543-557
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-193226DOI: 10.1111/jems.12419ISI: 000626919200001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85102241957OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-193226DiVA, id: diva2:1555070
Available from: 2021-05-17 Created: 2021-05-17 Last updated: 2023-08-10Bibliographically approved

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