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| Title: | | Social comparison and performance: experimental evidence on the fair wage-effort hypothesis  |
| Authors: | | Gächter, Simon Thöni, Christian |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 4687 |
| Abstract: | | We investigate the impact of wage comparisons for worker productivity. We present three studies which all use three-person gift-exchange experiments. Consistent with Akerlof and Yellen's (1990) fair wage-effort hypothesis we find that disadvantageous wage discrimination leads to lower efforts while advantageous wage discrimination does not increase efforts on average. Two studies allow us to measure wage comparison effects at the individual level. We observe strongly heterogeneous wage comparison effects. We also find that reactions to wage discrimination can be attributed to the underlying intentions of discrimination rather than to payoff consequences |
| Subjects: | | Fair wage-effort hypothesis wage comparison gift exchange horizontal fairness discrimination |
| JEL: | | J31 J71 C91 C92 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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