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| Title: | | Worker self-selection and the profits from cooperation  |
| Authors: | | Kosfeld, Michael von Siemens, Ferdinand |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA discussion papers 3881 |
| Abstract: | | We investigate a competitive labor market with team production. Workers differ in their motivation to exert team effort and types are private information. We show that there can exist a separating equilibrium in which workers self-select into different firms and firms employing cooperative workers make strictly positive profits. Profit differences across firms persist because cooperation strictly increases output and worker separation requires firms employing cooperative workers to pay out weakly lower wages. |
| Subjects: | | Team work self-selection |
| JEL: | | D82 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20081217231 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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