Worker reciprocity and the returns to training: Evidence from a field experiment

Do reciprocal workers have higher returns to employer-sponsored training? Using a field experiment with random assignment training combined survey information on workers' inclinations, the results show that reciprocate employers' investments by posttraining performance. This result, which is robust controlling for observed personality traits and worker fixed effects, suggests individuals firm's human capital investment effort, in line theoretical models gift exchange workplace. finding provides an alternative rationale explain firm even risk of poaching.