Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/339239 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2026
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2026:3
Publisher: 
Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), Uppsala
Abstract: 
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 post-training 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 risk of poaching.
Subjects: 
on-the-job training
reciprocity
worker performance
field experiment
JEL: 
J24
M53
D03
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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