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Economic model demonstrates employee concealment of peer shirking under inelastic labor demand, suggesting structural incentives drive workplace codes of silence.
We present a model showing that when the demand for labor services is inelastic and individual behavior is imperfectly monitored, a firm's employees may prefer to protect its shirkers and conceal information about peers' performance from the firm.
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