Does Pay Inequality Affect Worker Effort? Experimental Evidence

By Gary Charness, Peter Kuhn. Journal of Labor Economics, 2006

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research

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The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality (2016, unknown): “For example, it could help explain why wage compression—when wages vary less than the marginal product of labor—appears prevalent in both poor and rich countries (Dreze and Mukherjee 1989, Fang and Moscarini 2005, Charness and Kuhn 2007).”
Gift Exchange and Workers' Fairness Concerns: When Equality is Unfair (2010, unknown): “Most closely related to our paper is the work of Charness and Kuhn (2007).”
Inequality at Work: The Effect of Peer Salaries on Job Satisfaction (2012, unknown): “We use administrative salary data matched to the survey responses to compare the effects of the information treatment on individuals who were earning above or below the median pay in their unit and occupation, and estimate models that allow the response to treatment to depend on an individual’s sala”
Minding the Gap (2016, background): “Pay dispersion is operationalized as a theoretically prescribed ratio (Firebaugh & Gibbs, 1985), and this particular ratio has taken a prominent place in academic discussion (Bogle, 2008; Charness & Kuhn, 2007; Murphy & Zabojnik, 2004; Nichols & Subramaniam, 2001).”
Social comparison and effort provision: evidence from a field experiment (2014, methodology): “Journal of the European Economic Association Preprint prepared on 28 October 2013 using jeea.cls v1.”
Rank Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Workplace Experiment (2012, methodology): “To achieve balanced treatment groups across years, all salespeople were re-randomized to treatment groups at the beginning of year 2010 and 2011.”
Competition in the Workplace: An Experimental Investigation (2012, background): “Concerning employees' e ort choices, most papers do not report signi cant changes compared to the standard giftexchange game (e.g., Charness and Kuhn (2007) or Maximiano, Sloof and Sonnemans (2007)).”
A Behavioral Account of the Labor Market: The Role of Fairness Concerns (2008, background): “Several recent papers provide laboratory evidence on the role of horizontal social comparisons for workers’ effort choices in a gift exchange environment (Charness & Kuhn 2007; Clark et al 2006; Gächter & Thöni 2005).”
Effort and Comparison Income: Experimental and Survey Evidence (2010, background): “All employees have the same characteristics, in contrast to Güth et al. (2001) and Charness and Kuhn (2007).”